Articles on Depression

Don’t Go Gentle into Depression - A. B. Curtiss

The Fellowship of the Depressed, by Janis Owens

THE ECONOMICS OF SZASZ: PREFERENCES, CONSTRAINTS AND MENTAL ILLNESS. Authors: Caplan, Bryan1 Source: Rationality & Society; Aug2006,

A Rush to Medicate Young Minds  By Elizabeth J. Roberts, October 8, 2006

How Can Mental Illness be a Preference - THE ECONOMICS OF SZASZ: PREFERENCES, CONSTRAINTS AND MENTAL ILLNESS. Authors: Caplan, Bryan1

Hypnosis gaining a foothold in mainstream medicine - By Benedict Carey
Los Angeles Times - Hypnosis transports some people beyond serenity and absorption to a state of pure silliness. A solemn voice whispering to relax, breathe deeply and imagine

Bawling Alone - By William R. Mattox Jr. An epidemic of clinical depression in the midst of material prosperity is related to the breakdown of family and the decline of civic virtue.....

How Psychiatry Lost Its Way - Commentary December 1999 By Paul R. McHugh Psychiatrist-in-Chief Johns Hopkins University.

A History of Failure - Author and psychologist Bruce Levine pummels psychiatry, psychotropic drugs and the role both may have played in the case of Andrea Yates.

Doctors, Drug Co. Links Studied -- A survey of doctors who wrote treatment guidelines for common diseases such as diabetes, depression and arthritis found that most had ties to drug..

Cultivating Positive Emotions to Optimize Health and Well-Being - This article develops the hypothesis that intervention strategies that cultivate positive emotions are particularly suited for preventing and treating problems rooted...

MULTITASKING MORE EFFICIENT? IS MULTITASKING MORE EFFICIENT? SHIFTING MENTAL GEARS COSTS TIME, ESPECIALLY WHEN SHIFTING TO LESS FAMILIAR TASKS ...

Personality styles may predict susceptibility to depression - People who are hostile and aggressive, have low levels of dependency on other people or report lower levels of satisfaction from recreational ...

People With Depression Tend To Seek Negative Feedback - Someone who is "down in the dumps" or feeling "blue" might welcome and be cheered by a kind word. Someone with clinical depression, however, not only might not...

Against Depression, a Sugar Pill Is Hard to Beat - After thousands of studies, hundreds of millions of prescriptions and tens of billions of dollars in sales, two things are certain about pills that treat depression:

• Comment to article above - What Drug Companies Want Us to Believe.

Psychiatrists become drug firms' targets - As a reward for attending the American Psychiatric Association's annual meeting, she had received a small egg-shaped clock from the makers of the antidepressant Prozac; a sleek thermos from Paxil, also an antidepressant; and an engraved ...

Money and Madness - A child who doesn't like doing math homework may be diagnosed with the mental illness developmental-arithmetic disorder (No.315.4). A child who argues with her parents may...

Psychiatrists shift the mood on antidepressants - The professional body for psychiatrists has conceded that antidepressant pills such as Prozac may only have a 50% success rate ...

Dark clouds over Toronto psychiatry research - The University of Toronto (UT) and its affiliated hospitals have become embroiled in another controversy regarding their attitude to corporate donors ...

New England Journal Relaxes Conflict Rules - The New England Journal of Medicine is relaxing its conflict-of-interest rules for authors of certain articles because it cannot find enough experts without ...

Mental Health: 'You could say I am a mad psychologist' - You could say I am a mad psychologist. At the age of 18 I escaped a depressing reality into my own sleep-deprived fantasy world, living at the center of a maelstrom...

Reply to Dr. Larry S. Goldman's Medscape General Medicine Review of Robert Whitaker's Mad in America:...

The Drug Treatment Of Depression Is One Of The Greatest Fallacies In The History Of Medicine - The current drug treatment for depression represents one of the greatest fallacies in the history of medicine.

Judge Bans Some Anti-Depressant Ads - A federal judge ordered the maker of the popular anti-depressant Paxil to halt all television commercials nationwide that claim the drug is not habit-forming ...

Doctors Considering Diagnosis for "Sick" Relationships - ome of the nation's top psychiatrists are advocating the creation of an entirely new category of mental illness that could profoundly ...

Finding Happiness: Cajole Your Brain to Lean to the Left - All too many years ago, while I was still a psychology graduate student, I ran an experiment to assess how well meditation might work ...

Inside the Teenage Brain - Good news! During the past year or so, science has shared some welcome information ­ your brain is growing! ...

Creating Mental Illness - Creating Mental Illness, by sociologist, Allan V. Horwitz, is a fascinating and scholarly critique of our classification of mental disorders. Horwitz begins by...

Doctor Heal Thyself - During the past four years I have worked as a full time doctor. I have completed a one year diploma course, trained in two new specialties, and presently have three different clinical roles. I have listened...

Politics of Biology - Nearly every week there is a report of a new gene for one trait or another. Novelty seeking, religiosity, shyness, the tendency to divorce, and even happiness...

Happiness Explained - There's an ancient tale of happiness that appears in many cultures, and it goes something like this: Once there was a prince who was terribly unhappy. The king dispatched messengers ...

Psychiatrist dissolves 35 year association with American Psychiatric Association - After nearly three decades as a member it is with a mixture of pleasure and disappointment that I submit this letter of resignation from the American Psychiatric ...

Relationship Disease By Shankar Vedantam Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, September 1, 2002; Page A01. - Some of the nation's top psychiatrists are advocating the creation of an entirely new category of mental illness that could profoundly alter ...

New Cure for Depression By Barbara Kiser - We live in mad times. The World Health Organization predicts depression will soon rank second in the global disease burden, suicide rates are rising, and the trauma caused by war, conflict or domestic abuse is everywhere...

Childhood Divorce Fuels Fire of New Rock - Steve Beard - October 4, 2002 - A new generation of rock 'n' roll songwriters have become the chroniclers of an old problem: the effects of divorce and parental...

He Found his Own Path Back to Good Health - By Marc Siegel - L. A. Times, June 28, 2004 - Mr. "Enrand" came to me with depression, weight gain, high cholesterol and elevated blood pressure. Each of these abnormalities was mild, but they were likely to get worse if left untreated.

Some parents just say 'whoa' to school-required medications - By Kelly Hearn - Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor - When Patricia Weathers's son Michael had problems in his first-grade class, a school psychologist told the New York mother he had attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD ...

New Cure for Depression By Barbara Kiser - New Scientist Magazine, United Kingdom - We live in mad times. The World Health Organization predicts depression will soon rank second in the global disease burden, suicide rates are rising,

Think Sick, Get Sick: The Power of the 'Nocebo' - By MICHAEL WOODS - The Toledo Blade March 10, 2004 - Researchers told college students to expect a headache after an experiment in which a mild electric current passed through their heads. The experiment was fake, with no electricity. Two out of 3 students got a headache...

Thought Therapy - Small changes in thinking and behavior can be as effective as antidepressants. - By Benedict Carey L. A. Times Staff Writer - It's a treatment that can relieve depression, calm anxiety, improve sleep quality and reduce chronic pain. It can also ease symptoms of bulimia, bipolar disorder, chronic fatigue syndrome and schizophrenia...