The Latest . . . The B.S. SSRi's are being touted as more effective than the old tricyclic anti-depressants. Indeed, the older drugs may not only be equally but actually more effective than the new designer anti-depressants. One the one hand, they criticize the pharmaceutical industry for price-gouging while on lining their campaign war chests with drug company money. Recently, the White House hosted the White House Conference on Mental Health.
Reports indicate, however, that it was mostly an advertisement for the pharmaceutical industry.
There was little discussed about the exciting research on the outcomes of psychotherapy. Therapists don't have mega-bucks to donate to political opportunists and the 60's generation has always sought salvation through a pill. White House Conference an Important 'First Step. APA Monitor , 11. Oh, how psychiatry dislikes the findings of Dr. Irving Kirsch.