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More troubling for Sharpe and co is the slopes of those lines from 52 weeks to 134 weeks (the post-treatment phase of the trial). Over that period the slopes for the APT & SMC arms are better on both primary outcome measures than for the CBT & GET arms. Meaning the rate of improvement in the...

A warning sign for snake-oil is its almost miraculous claim to cure a wide range of unrelated conditions. Like the Lightning Process, for example. I agree. It seems more an end result or outward expression of those two interacting factors. Might be useful as some kind of diagnostic marker, but...

Too much eucalyptus juice? :emoji_wine_glass: :emoji_upside_down:

Yeah, colour me sceptical until they have proven otherwise. If their approach is anything like the BPS cult then patients and views allowed to be expressed will be carefully vetted, respectfully listened to, and then largely ignored.

Yep, it is a game of 10 steps forward, 9 steps back. Don't see much prospect of that changing any time soon, unless and until we get a solid biomarker. Even then they will try to spin it. They ain't giving up their privileged positions without a serious and dirty fight. As they have made...

You gotta hand it to these guys, they know how to play the political game superbly. They understand the real power lies in being able to influence ICD definitions and government policy. If only they played the scientific and ethical games that well too, imagine how far we could have come in the...

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Demarcation dispute. That is my job. :p Always seemed to me that psychiatry is built upon the assumption that the psychiatrist has a grand sweeping insight into and understanding of the entire human experience and condition, into reality, that no other profession or group of humans has. How...

I agree that research has to be done properly, and that we are starting from a very low base. But lack of research funding is a major factor in that low base. Provide the funds, and the researchers will come.

Sorry, @Alvin. Wasn't mad at you. Just getting very frustrated that nearly 3 years after the IOM report we are still being fobbed off with peanuts, and some of even that small change is still being spent of fucking psychobabble 'research'. Not interested in excuses any more. Where is the hard...

Don't care. Don't want to hear any more excuses. Find more money for us. Tell every other NIH centre and department and unit that they are going to have to shave a quarter of a percent off their budget to fund our waaaaaaaaaaay overdue needs. Sorry, but I really don't care about other...

There are, as Einstein suggested, two things that seem infinite. The universe, and human stupidity. He was not sure about the former.

I am inclined to agree that it is not the best opportunity for PACE critiques, and he is not the best person to be pursuing about them. Ask about the money, and where it is going.

Sir Simon ? Just a bit too cosy and clubby, isn't it? Where is the journalistic objectivity and detachment? Dare I say it, the appropriate skepticism? Not to mention persistent systemic misattribution and misdiagnosis. Is noble Sir Simon going to be discussing his own cases of sectioning...

Gets up my nose.

Happy for you that you made it through your special day, and it all went well. Best wishes for your future together. :hug:

Not my first choice of anatomical sites to apply a vibrating object to produce a happy ending. :whistle:

Part two done. :thumbup:

Aren't we peasants so lucky to be blessed with the wonders of modern psychiatry. :bag:

Seems po-mo is back in fashion. Old wine in new bottles all over again.