Category: Psychiatry
-
Dopamine and Desperation
This past weekend, I attended a seminar on how to write a bestseller. Unsurprisingly, the focus of the event was mostly upon publicity and marketing. (If nuanced insights and a scintillating prose style were all that were required to sell books…well, I can dream.) One of the speakers had a lot of energy. At first,…
-
The Myth of the Chemical Imbalance
by Sujatha Ramakrishna, M.D. It’s been over a decade now since the pharmaceutical industry started exposing the American public to advertisements such as this one: In that time I’ve encountered many patients who simply state, “I have a chemical imbalance,” when I ask them what brings them into the office. They don’t want to discuss their…