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...theories are truly as oozy as his critics maintain, then what is to keep all the therapies indebted to them from slowly sinking into oblivion as well? Hypothetically, nothing, though few expect or want that event to occur. Surprisingly, Peter Kramer, author of the current best seller Listening to Prozac, comes to the defense of talking cures and their founder: "Even Freudian analysts don't hold themselves 100% to Freud. Psychotherapy is like one of those branching trees, where each of the branches legitimately claims a common ancestry, namely Freud, but none of the branches are sitting at the root...
...cashiers. If you've ever wondered where all the patients went after "de-institutionalization," look no further than ABP: the seating area looks like the set of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Along with the bins of milk, cream and sugar, they should put out capsules of Prozac. Getting a seat is quite a battle; there are more fights in here (some of them featuring chairs wielded as weapons) than in the Caesar's Palace. The whole place has a vaguely dirty air--I stopped going when UHS ran out of tine tests...
...CHILDBEARING age are treated for depression, no one is sure if it is safe for them to take their needed medication during pregnancy. A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association provides a mixed answer. Researchers followed women who became pregnant while receiving therapy -- either with Prozac, a relatively new and extremely popular drug, or tricyclic antidepressants, an older class of medication. Women in both groups bore the same small risk of having children with serious birth defects -- which was no higher than it is for women in the general population. But both groups of women...
...their study, published in Archives of General Psychiatry, one group of patients was treated by scientists with the drug Prozac while those in the second group met regularly with a therapist who worked on helping them acquire control over their senseless fears and urges through deconditioning exercises. In 10 weeks, about two-thirds of the patients in both groups had improved. Brain scans of responsive patients showed a decrease in metabolic activity in the brain's right caudate nucleus...
...effectiveness of Prozac, which is the world's top-selling antidepressant, has led some researchers to speculate that serotonin is the key regulator of mood, and that depression is essentially a shortfall of serotonin. But the theory has some serious flaws. If serotonin is so important, why do the tricyclics (which affect both norepinephrine and serotonin) work slightly better than the drugs that act on serotonin alone? And why, since these drugs act quickly to change the serotonin levels in the brain, does it take up to a month for their effects to be felt? Finally, some scientists wonder...