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Nearly a decade ago, psychiatrist Peter Kramer made a big splash with his controversial “Listening to Prozac.” Through descriptions of specific case studies, Kramer displayed to his readers—and there were many—the potential of the popular drug Prozac as an anti-depressant. But, to put it mildly, there is no consensus among psychiatrists—or, for that matter, anyone else—on the efficacy, safety, or propriety of Prozac and other Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI’s) as medication for various forms of depression...
...problematic a critique of contemporary society’s love affair with psychiatric medication as that offered by Dr. Elio Frattaroli in his new book “Healing the Soul in the Age of the Brain: Becoming Conscious in an Unconscious World.” Frattaroli, a practicing psychiatrist and assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, took his A.B. from Harvard in English Literature before going to medical school. On Tuesday, February 19, Frattaroli was in Cambridge and delivered a discussion of his new work in a talk sponsored by the Harvard Book Store...
Returning to his roots as a psychiatrist, Provost Steven E. Hyman today kicks off this year’s effort by the University to improve students’ mental health...
When his mother mistook him for an SS officer, Moti Mark knew something had to be done. Mark, then Israel's chief government psychiatrist, had taken time out from army reserve duty to visit his mother at Gea Hospital...
...first media examinations of Holocaust survivors' plight. The film, Last Journey Into Silence, directed by Shosh Shlam, has saddened and shocked audiences, but it is contributing to a growing debate about the problem. "It's the last chapter in the Holocaust," says Henry Szor, a psychiatrist who treats survivors at Abarbanel Mental Health Center in Bat Yam, Israel's biggest mental facility. "The conspiracy of silence is being broken...