On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
> Carrol:
> > SSRIs can _bring on_ manic episodes. That's how some bipolar patients
> > first learn they are bipolar; they are prescribed an SSRI and it sends
> > them into a loop. In fact it is difficult to treat bipolar 'lows'
> > without setting off bipolar 'highs.'
>
> So what's your suggestion? Revert to witchcraft and psychoanalysis?
>
I don't understand Woj's antipathy to psychotherapy. Even Szasz and the "anti-psychiatry" crowd aren't this dismissive of psychological interventions (Szasz in fact conducted therapy with clients, even though he rejected the "mental illness" model). There are literally thousands of studies that clearly demonstrate the efficacy of psychological interventions for a wide array of problems from depression to phobias to attention deficit disorder. Why Woj ignores these data is strange to me.
Miles