The Banana Peel Project

Yesterday, I briefly commented on Jennifer Egan’s piece for The New York Times Magazine (now out in today’s print edition), “The Bipolar Puzzle,” in which Egan attempts to lay bare the current controversy surrounding pediatric bipolar disorder (it can be found here, although you may need a subscription; otherwise, it may be worth it to […]

Philip Dawdy over at Furious Seasons is furious, although perhaps not as furious as he should be.  Jennifer Egan has just written an incendiary piece for The New York Times Magazine all about the latest mania for pediatric bipolar disorder (which can be found here, although you might need a subscription).  In “The Bipolar Puzzle,” […]

According to research published in the latest issue of the American Medical Association’s Archives of General Psychiatry (65[8], August 2008), the past ten years have seen a tremendous decline in applied psychotherapy, a change which the authors attribute directly to “a corresponding increase in those [psychiatrists] specializing in pharmacotherapy–changes that were likely motivated by financial […]