Red Flags - Behaviour

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Makes News

Fri, 21 Apr 2006 21:39:58 -0400

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has been in the news recently. (It used to be called just ADD, but the hyperactive H has moved in to stay.) The National Institute of Mental Health says that two million children in the United States have this condition. New Scientist reports that nearly 4 million Americans, most of them children and young adults, are being prescribed drugs to treat ADHD. And up to a million more may be taking the drugs illegally.

Retrograde Times

Fri, 02 Sep 2005 04:00:00 -0400

I am appalled to see such sensationalist media scaremongering casting the world still farther adrift from the truth about the origins of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease. It centres on the same old scientific unintelligentsia and their tale of how a few odd human bones from the Indian outback leaked into U.K. cattle feed, thereby causing BSE. Yet, there is no scientific data to support this hypothesis. The one-time astute BBC science reporter, Susan Watts, who launched this latest scandal, should be ashamed of herself.

The Media’s Misunderstanding Of Psychiatric Treatment

Mon, 29 Nov 2004 04:00:00 -0500

The major media, especially the New York Times, have long misunderstood, and therefore misrepresented, the nature of "talking treatments" in psychiatry. That’s because they define the psychoanalytically-based insistence on seeking the alleged childhood roots of current problems as the best, if not the only, such "talking treatment," and therefore ignore non-psychoanalytic psychotherapy, which focuses on current psychosocial causes of patients’ difficulties.

After The Storm

Thu, 23 Jan 2003 12:31:31 -0500

The Experience Of Having An Epileptic Seizure

Coming Back.

That’s probably the most accurate answer.
You have to remember that I’m not there to take notes. In fact, I’m not present in any useful form.
Never have been. Never will be.