Mental Illness

A Drunken Party

June 30, 2009

Who do you trust? John Belushi got it right. Most academics get it wrong. Everyone in academia knows just what a symposium is. At least they think they know. Have you read Plato’s Dialogues? One was named Symposium. Yes, the Greeks had a word for it: a drunken party. I could have heard much more [...]

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Pharma’s Market

October 23, 2008

Drug companies claim they test their products. Sometimes that may be true. For psychopharmaceuticals it is a baldfaced lie. You want to paint your living room. You can’t decide between beige and blue. One way to make up your mind would be to apply a few strokes of beige on one wall and a few [...]

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Insanity

June 27, 2008

Warning! This is a long one. I have been so busy putting this site together and getting ready for a trip, that I cheated. Wanting to put up something worth your time, I took an except from my book and adapted it. It is 6-7 pages long in that format. Ask every physician you know [...]

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Starting The Mental Illness Category

June 23, 2008

My own manic-depression fuels my interest in this subject. It led to many years of work in the field and resulted in a book, Why Are You Mad? email2friend

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