By: Rossa Forbes
Dr. Lieberman is not alone amongst his peers in his hope for lucre. Dr. Joseph Biederman is the poster child of self-promotion for self-enrichment. The schizophrenia market is very small, but it drives...
View ArticleBy: Corinna West
One of the issues making drug development hard is that there aren’t clear endpoints for clinical improvement. How do you define “better?” If you look up that sentence on You-Tube you’ll find a powerful...
View ArticleBy: John Hoggett
Yes indeed, it’s the organised greed of Capitalism Gone Mad verses friendship, support, talking things through, preventing child sexual assault, family violence, racism, homophobia and poverty. Dr....
View ArticleBy: Stanley Holmes
Unfortunately, Lieberman is just embracing an idea that is mainstream and currently accepted as fact by a part of American culture: that the common good arises out of the fair competition between...
View ArticleBy: single
Building on Stanley’s points: It’s important to point out that the financial savings from Open Dialogue, if they exist in the form of reduced hospitalization and medication costs, would accrue to state...
View ArticleBy: Sandra Steingard, M.D.
Open Dialogue may be cost effective but it does not create a market. I am no economist and others can probably address this better than I, but there is a powerful force when a market gets created for a...
View ArticleBy: Steve
This speaks to the larger social issue of our current form of government-by-marketing. As long as political campaigns can be funded and supported by corporate marketing interests, market benefits will...
View ArticleBy: Stephen Gilbert
“There is no lucrative market for Open Dialogue. There is no lucrative market for recovery.” Thank you for hitting the nail directly on its head and for pointing out this very important fact. And as...
View ArticleBy: Ted Chabasinski
Thank you for bringing this bald statement of greed by such a powerful psychiatrist to our attention. Others in this thread have said this also, but the practice of corporate welfare to folks like the...
View ArticleBy: Stanley Holmes
The world of health insurance, or disability insurance is a market where recovery and quality research of outcomes could be lucrative. From a free-market perspective, since our society chose to harness...
View ArticleBy: Discover and Recover
Lucrative Market? There’s no money in what works. Never has been. Never will be. Because it can be succesfully done with non-professionals, peers, safe environments, good food, exercise, meditation,...
View ArticleBy: Discover and Recover
Ted, There is *plenty* of research – in nutrition, neurofeedback, regenerative medicine… lots of areas. Boston Universty and Temple University both have good recovery research – past and present. More...
View ArticleBy: John Hoggett
Your quite right Ted, outcome research for psycho-social approaches are really useful when taking on the psychiatric community (service providers, commissioners and politicians). They are the other...
View ArticleBy: mjk
“I think I have an answer. There is no lucrative market for Open Dialogue. There is no lucrative market for recovery.” Correct. 666 – “sickness & sex sells”. People freely express their disdain for...
View ArticleBy: David Ross, M.Ed., LPCC
“Can anyone guess what comes after polygamy?” Marriage with flora and fauna? Interrelations between Phylum and Division? I love roses, I mean I really love them?
View ArticleBy: yobluemama
The line “so for those who stay the course and persevere, there will be very lucrative rewards” reads sounds like a recruitment effort aimed at psychiatrists and other prescribers who are or may be...
View ArticleBy: yobluemama
I forgot to thank you Dr. Steingard; I appreciate your blog posts more than I can say.
View ArticleBy: Olga Runciman
Hi Sandra as a fellow blogger on MiA I have at times been skeptical about some of the professionals writing here. For though they have not been the true incarnate believers of the biogenetic psychiatry...
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