Can psychiatry make medicine better? Michael Sharpe, 29 Nov 2022

[Sly Saint]

Medicine struggles to care effectively for patients with certain types of problems. These include physical symptoms unexplained by disease, depression in the medically ill and complex multimorbidity in the elderly. Does adding bespoke psychiatric interventions help? in this talk I will share some highlights from many years researching this question and discuss what we have learned and what challenges remain.

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• Date: 29 November 2022, 9:30 (Tuesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2022)
• Venue: Seminar Room
• Speaker: Professor Michael Sharpe (University of Oxford)
• Organising department: Department of Psychiatry
• Organiser contact email address: rania.elgarf@psych.ox.ac.uk
• Host: Professor Belinda Lennox (Associate Professor and Clinical Senior Lecturer, University Department of Psychiatry, Oxford)
• Part of: Psychiatry Seminar Series
• Booking required?: Not required
• Audience: Members of the University only

https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/c63f76b7-615c-4a60-9f38-5ab81941952a/

anyone at Oxford who could record this?

 

[Wonko]

Psychiatry has sod all to do with medicine, in the same way as whale songs have sod all to do with accountancy.

So my answer would be 'No'.

 

[EzzieD]

I will share some highlights from many years researching this question and discuss what we have learned

As what they have learned in all that time = 'nothing', it will only take a few seconds to cover those 'highlights'. Could be the shortest lecture ever??

 

[rvallee]

We know the answer to that. It could, but not as long as people like Sharpe are in it, the poster child for everything wrong with medicine.

 

[Mithriel]

Medicine struggles to care effectively for patients with certain types of problems. These include physical symptoms unexplained by disease, depression in the medically ill and complex multimorbidity in the elderly. Does adding bespoke psychiatric interventions help?

There has been research since the 1990s. If there is still a question mark the answer must be "no".

 

[Cheshire]

Psychiatry could do a lot: get rid of bad science in its field.

 

[Joan Crawford]

https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/c63f76b7-615c-4a60-9f38-5ab81941952a/

anyone at Oxford who could record this?

I notice:

"Audience: Members of the University only"

Why?

Wot's he scared of? A few searching questions?

 

[BrightCandle]

The correct answer at this point is not just NO, the consideration of it as medicine at all has completely destroyed the entire medical profession and its bringing down the entire system.

 

[RedFox]

I'm sure psychiatry could make medicine better, if you pointed it in the right directions, and researched with high standards. But as someone else quipped, people like Simon Wessely aren't going to take us there.

 

[Caroline Struthers]

I notice:

"Audience: Members of the University only"

Why?

Wot's he scared of? A few searching questions?

I am sure I could record, or make a transcript or whatever, It's in my diary!

 

[alex3619]

I would argue yes, it can. However I would also argue that it wont. Poor scientific methods are deeply entrenched into too much of psychiatry. Some of it has grown up, but some of it is still stuck in 19th century scientific methods.

 

[Sean]

Can psychiatry make medicine better?

Not in its current incarnation.

 

[Solstice]

Can psychiatry make medicine better?

Not in its current incarnation.

They could pack it in though, that would make it better...

 

[Grigor]

"Make medicine great again".

 

[Sly Saint]

I am sure I could record, or make a transcript or whatever, It's in my diary!

anything to report? (don't blame you if you don't).

 

[Sly Saint]

not sure if this has been posted elsewhere
18th Jan 2023

Michael Sharpe receives Adolf Meyer Award for lifetime achievement

The award is given by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) for lifetime achievement in psychiatric research

As part of winning the award, Dr Sharpe, Emeritus Professor of Psychological Medicine in the Oxford Department of Psychiatry, will present the Adolf Meyer Award Lecture at the American Psychiatric Association conference in San Francisco in May.

In the lecture, entitled ‘Can psychiatry make medicine better: a tale of three trials’, he will summarise several decades of research he has led into the contribution psychiatry can make to medical care including three major clinical trials.

Dr Sharpe said:



"I am honoured to receive this highly prestigious research award. I hope it will help to raises the profile of research done in the Oxford University Department of Psychiatry in the USA. I am also especially pleased that the award is named after a persons whose work was an inspiration to our Department’s founding chair, Michael Gelder."

The award, established in 1957, is named after a Swiss-born American psychiatrist who rose to prominence as the first psychiatrist-in-chief of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was one of psychiatry’s most influential figures in the first half of the twentieth century. Meyer’s legacy includes his idea of psychobiology, an approach to psychiatry which integrates the psychological and biological study of human beings, and his empirical non-dogmatic approach.

Previous winners of this award include Aaron T Beck, Robin Murray, Michael Rutter, David Goldberg and Daniel Weinberger.

https://www.psych.ox.ac.uk/news/michael-sharpe-receives-adolf-meyer-award-for-lifetime-achievement

 

[Trish]

Oh these people do just love giving each other awards. What a travesty.

 

[Charles B.]

not sure if this has been posted elsewhere
18th Jan 2023

Michael Sharpe receives Adolf Meyer Award for lifetime achievement

https://www.psych.ox.ac.uk/news/michael-sharpe-receives-adolf-meyer-award-for-lifetime-achievement

This is just terribly disheartening. I hope American charities are informed of this and challenge any problematic claims that might arise out of the lecture.

 

[Charles B.]

Does anyone have contacts at the American charities? I feel like they could craft a response/organize something meaningful?

 

[rvallee]

not sure if this has been posted elsewhere
18th Jan 2023

Michael Sharpe receives Adolf Meyer Award for lifetime achievement

https://www.psych.ox.ac.uk/news/michael-sharpe-receives-adolf-meyer-award-for-lifetime-achievement

They can't even name a single actual achievement? Just "he ran 3 trials" is good enough to be awarded? You give them an award. In turn they will vote to give you an award. Perpetual motion within humanity's grasp!

I assume one of those trials is PACE. A debunked fraudulent trial that caused harm. It's actually fitting to reward this in psychiatry. Doing harm is A-OK for many.

He was or has been running another very large trial about "liaison psychiatry". IIRC this project published a single paper that found that it's not useful. Basically seemed to be awarded for sucking up a lot of money. Very similar to handing out ambassadorships to political fundraisers.

Participation trophy. The thing about people who whine about kids being handed participation trophies, and I was in that generation, is that we didn't care about them. They pretty much all ended in the trash. Because participation trophies are hollow. Fitting for a hollow flim-flam man.