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Beck could then plausibly claim
: Rush et al., “Comparative Efficacy,” 25.
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researchers replicated
: See, for instance, Blackburn, “The Efficacy of Cognitive Therapy in Depression”; Blackburn, Eunson, and Bishop, “A Two-Year Naturalistic Follow-up”; Dobson, “A Meta-analysis”; Robinson, Berman, and Neimeyer, “Psychotherapy for the Treatment of Depression”; D. Shapiro et al., “Effects of Treatment Duration”; and D. Shapiro, “Meta-analysis of Comparative Therapy Outcome Studies.”
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“the most scientifically tested”
: Spiegel, “More and More, Favored Psychotherapy Lets Bygones Be Bygones.”
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“the best-documented effectiveness”
: American Psychiatric Association, “Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Patients with Major Depressive Disorder,” 11.
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“the most widely practiced approach”
: Spiegel, “More and More.”
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Critics complain
: Westen and Morrison, “A Multidimensional Meta-analysis of Treatments for Depression.”
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“Psychotherapy is essentially”
: Holmes, “All You Need Is Cognitive Behaviour Therapy?” 290.
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they also assert
: Westen and Morrison, “A Multidimensional Meta-analysis,” 878.
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“empirically supported therapies”
: Hollon, Thase, and Markowitz, “Treatment and Prevention of Depression,” 39.
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what happens when researchers try
: Wampold, “Methodological Problems in Identifying Efficacious Psychotherapies,” 27.
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“unconditional support”
: Foa et al., “Treatment of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Rape Victims,” 721.
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“that something intended”
: Westen and Bradley, “Empirically Supported Complexity,” 267; see also Parker and Fletcher, “Treating Depression with the Evidence-Based Psychotherapies,” 354.
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Allegiances do matter
: Robinson, Berman, and Neimeyer, “Psychotherapy for the Treatment of Depression”; see also Wampold,
The Great Psychotherapy Debate,
and Smith et al.,
The Benefits of Psychotherapy.
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two independent groups
: Wampold et al., “A Meta-analysis of Outcome Studies Comparing Bona Fide Psychotherapies,” and Depression Guideline Panel,
Treatment of Major Depression.
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Westen and Morrison acknowledge
: Westen and Morrison, “A Multidimensional Meta-analysis,” 886–87.
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all the critics
: See, for instance, Parker and Fletcher, “Treating Depression with the Evidence-Based Psychotherapies”; Wampold et al., “A Meta-analysis”; and Seligman, “The Effectiveness of Psychotherapy.”
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a group of loyal cognitive therapists
: Jacobson et al., “A Component Analysis of Cognitive-Behavior Treatment for Depression.”
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according to the meta-analysts
: See Parker and Fletcher, “Treating Depression with the Evidence-Based Psychotherapies,” for a review of this research.
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“
How
therapy is conducted”
: Wampold, “Establishing Specificity in Psychotherapy Scientifically,” 197.
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“A person fails to live”
: Peale,
The Power of Positive Thinking
, 173.
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“The world in which you live”
: Ibid.; quotes, in order, from 166, 166, 173, 167.
CHAPTER 14
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“The DSM-IV . . . has 100 percent reliability”
: Amen,
Healing the Hardware of the Soul,
xx-xxi. Amen says he transcribed this passage from a recording of Insel’s speech. The recording is not available. Insel told me that he did not keep a copy of this speech, but did not dispute the content of the quote.
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Brain imaging in clinical practice
: Ibid., 20.
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“the basic pathophysiology”
: Insel and Quirion, “Psychiatry as a Clinical Neuroscience Discipline,” 2223.
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“I was suspicious”
: Amen,
Healing the Hardware
, 8–9.
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“One is often”
: Ibid., 13.
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Johann Spurzheim, who had redrawn
: Davies,
Phrenology
, 5–9.
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Orson Squire Fowler
: Martin, “Saints, Sinners, and Reformers,”
www.crookedlakereview.com/books/saints_sinners/martin12.html
.
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“
what they
are
”
: Davies,
Phrenology
, 38.
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“Would you become great mentally”
: Fowler and Fowler,
The Self Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology,
” 11.
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a therapeutic empire
: Martin, “Saints, Sinners.”
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President James Garfield
: Martin, “Saints, Sinners.” Davies has his own list in
Phrenology
, 38.
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Horace Greeley published
: Davies,
Phrenology
, 50.
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“the greatest discovery”
: Martin, “Saints, Sinners.”
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“Phrenology…has assumed”
: Davies,
Phrenology
, 121.
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“Phrenology, it must be confessed”
: Mackey, “Phrenological Whitman,”
www.conjunctions.com/archives/c29-nm.htm
.
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The relationship between Whitman and the Fowlers
: Davies,
Phrenology
, 123–25.
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I made a small test
: Quoted in Martin, “Saints, Sinners.”
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“The equilibrium or balance”
: Quoted in Finger,
Minds behind the Brain
, 166–67.
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he didn’t report the fact
: Barker, “Phineas among the Phrenologists.”
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Broca’s area
: Finger,
Minds
, 137–54.
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Wernicke’s area
: Finger,
Minds
, 150; Shorter,
History of Psychiatry
, 80–81.
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David Ferrier
: Finger,
Minds
, 155–75.
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At least that’s the story
: See for example Finger,
Minds
, 135–36; Barker, “Phineas among the Phrenologists”; and Simpson, “Phrenology and the Neurosciences.”
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racial prejudice
: Richeson et al., “An fMRI Investigation of the Impact of Interracial Contact on Executive Function.”
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sexual orientation
: Fitzgerald, “A Neurotransmitter System Theory of Sexual Orientation”; LeVay,
Queer Science.
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the October 16, 2008, issue of
Nature: Krishnan and Nestler, “The Molecular Neurobiology of Depression.”
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a team of French doctors reported
: Bejjani et al., “Transient Acute Depression Induced by High-Frequency Brain Stimulation.”
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subjectivity is a forbidden topic
: For a discussion of the religious proportions of the banishment of subjectivity from talk about consciousness, see Wallace,
The Taboo of Subjectivity.
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“the mind is a set of operations”
: Kandel, “The New Science of Mind,” 69.
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Empirical reductionism
: Woese, “A New Biology for a New Century,” 174.
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With the progress
: Popper and Eccles,
The Mind and Its Brain,
97.
CHAPTER 15
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Various critics of the current diagnostic system
: Regier, “State-of-the-Art Psychiatric Diagnosis,” 26.
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“clinical significance”
: American Psychiatric Association,
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
, 4th ed., text revision, xxxi.
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Despite the prominence of clinical significance
: Narrow et al., “Revised Prevalence Estimates of Mental Disorders in the United States,” 118.
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the prevalence of depression is cut nearly in half
: Narrow et al., “Revised Prevalence Estimates,” 120.
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the current categorical approach
: See, for example, Goldberg, “A Dimensional Model for Common Mental Disorders”; also Kessler et al., “Prevalence, Correlates, and Course of Minor Depression and Major Depression in the National Comorbidity Survey.”
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These doctors have already struck back
: Kessler et al., “Mild Disorders Should Not Be Eliminated From the DSM-V.”
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“should be addressed”
: Ibid., 1121.
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The major problem for mental disorders
: Kupfer, First, and Regier,
A Research Agenda for
DSM-V, 208.
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the pathophysiologically based classification system
: See Kupfer, First, and Regier,
Research Agenda
, chapter 1.
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Fink thinks
: Taylor and Fink, “Restoring Melancholia in the Classification of Mood Disorders,” and Fink, “The Medical Evidence-Based Model for Psychiatric Syndromes.”
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“that what is now considered”
: Taylor and Fink, “Restoring Melancholia,” 4.
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a highly effective treatment for melancholia
: See Shorter and Healy,
Shock Therapy
, especially 83–102 and 164–80.
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“on, or shortly after, penetration”
: American Psychiatric Association,
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual,
4th ed., text revision, 552.
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repeated studies
: For a review, see Waldinger, “Premature Ejaculation.”
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“focusing on the ejaculation-delaying effects”
: Ibid., 553.
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the package insert for Paxil
: GlaxoSmithKline, “Prescribing Information,”
http://us.gsk.com/products/assets/us_paxil.pdf
.
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researchers gave Viagra
: Nurnberg, “Sildenafil Treatment of Women.”
