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MIXED UP ABOUT MIXED STATES?

Vol 2 #10 Alan Eppel The introduction  of a category for “Depression with Mixed Features” in DSM 5 has opened a Pandora’s box of confusion. This new category threatens to undermine Leonard’s original division of manic-..

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BORDERLINE PERSONALITY, PHARMACOTHERAPY AND GABA

Vol 2 #12   Alan Eppel MB, FRCPC Many clinicians find that the outcomes of pharmacological treatment in borderline personality disorder are very disappointing. Antidepressants, particularly SSRIs, are prescribed by a preponderance if not ..

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DOCTORS IN DENIAL Book Review

  Vol 2 #12 BOOK REVIEW Doctors in Denial: Why Big Pharma and the Canadian Medical Profession are too close for comfort by Joel Lexchin MD James Lorimer & Company Publishers, Toronto 2017. Pages 344. This is a hard hitting book that n..

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Psychiatry: Where to Now?

Vol 3 #1,  January 2018 Alan Eppel MB, FRCPC   Welcome to Volume 3 of the Journal of Psychiatry Reform! As we enter the third year of publication it is useful to review our core purpose, values and activities.   CORE PURPOSE To prom..

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Does Generalized Anxiety Disorder Exist?

Vol 3 #4 Alan Eppel MB, FRCPC “The diagnosis of generalised anxiety disorder is a distraction of no value. It is highly unreliable, co-occuring with many other disorders of firmer diagnostic status……..classification would be ..

It’s Not Always Depression: Sometimes It’s Shame

Vol 3 #5 By Hilary Jacobs Hendel (Originally published in the New York Times on March 10, 2015. Published in this Journal with the author’s permission). How can it be that a seemingly depressed person, one who shows clinical symptoms, do..

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