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Truth and Consequences in Psychiatry

No scientific theoretical model is completely divorced from the values of the society and power of its time and place. Nassir Ghaemi and I have been asked by Psychology Today's editors to begin a Cross-Talk blog. I was willing to begin by following up on something Nassir wrote about "truth" in psychiatry (the quote is added by me) in a previous post of his on conflict of interest issues in psychiatry Read More

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Lawrence Diller, M.D., practices behavioral developmental pediatrics and is on the faculty at UCSF Medical School. His books included Running on Ritalin and The Last Normal Child.

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