Breaking protocol

Though brain related content is generally forsworn upon these bandwidths, today deserves an exception.

Besides, Jen doesn’t update much here anyhow!

1boringoldman.com is an exceptional blog I follow, written by a Georgian psychiatrist, an academic at Emory when the Charles Nemeroff era incepted. His disseminations of Nemeroff’s reign of corruption and, to me, more fascinating, the historical journey the mental health industry (specifically psychiatry) has followed from the rejection of Freudianism (he was a psychiatrist, you know.. Though, so is Aaron Beck..)the complicit schism created by the licensing of non-medically trained counselors (psychologists), Robert Spitzer’s vision for the DSM III (and ensuing versions), embrace of evidence based medicine (needed, but still waiting), psychiatry’s ugly step child of medicine complex and the compulsive urgency of the compass to delineate from psychology by hanging any derivation of extreme normalcy on the biologic ala Kraeplin/Alzheimer but, of course, without the absolute testament, are exceptional, despite the eye-bleeding graphics.

Not to mention his abrogation of study 329, Star*D, TMAP, etc… He speaks to my biases…

I’ll not link to all that because I’m lazy… Check him out since the beginning of the year, should you have any interest in the topic.

This week, he began to sink his verbiage into Joe Biederman, leader of the Harvard cabal that has promulgated, first, the ADHD, and more recently the childhood bi-polar paradigms that have permeated USA society, specifically in the schools (more specifically in public schools) and with the poor (read, Medicaid).

The diagnosis of childhood bi-polar disorder by the FDA was based on a single, anecdotal retrospective “study” by J.B.

Story + “hey, remember..”

Two decades back I had instructors that railed against Biederman… Psychology and Neuroscience, of course.. Back then, they spoke largely against what was becoming ADHD, the lack of good science, evidence, the broadening, incorporating what they believed within the range of “normal” behavior in children.

It didn’t mean a whole lot to me then. But it stuck with me.

Biederman, Keller, Nemeroff, Torrey, Wozniak, Wilens, Schatzberg, etc…

I’ve come to detest them over the years. There are real people – children – with adhd, autism, maybe childhood bipolar. But the extent to which these and their ilk broadened the definitions is fraudulent and abusive.

I think of Biederman as a sociopath. I know too many children subjected to his marketing on amphetamines, neuroleptics and their add ons to counter the manifold “side effects.”

See, Soulful Sepulcher and Rebecca Riley (the psychiatrist wasn't prosecuted, saying, hey, just following Biederman protocol) for the worst these paradigms incur.

Today, Harvard finally took some action against Biederman. To most of us of like mind, it wasn’t nearly severe enough, but it’s finally something, a small chink in the façade of a major key opinion leader in psychiatry. Bang.

Thanks significantly to Senator Charles Grassley who hopefully soon recovers from his scared of the Tea Party chicken dance and returns to doing uncommon good for this country.