(Especially to non-prescribing Marriage and Family Counselors) ▫ You may have had years of experience.▫ You may believe your skills are sufficient for every (or almost every) case.▫ You may or may not be a believer in psychotropic drug therapies.▫ You may feel you keep up-to-date with advancements in your professional field.▫ You may have […]
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(Re-viewing psychotropic drugs) Washout 4. (informal) 1. a total failure or disaster 2. an incompetent person (http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/wash-out) 3. dose tapering of medication to more safely discontinue its use or to (ostensibly) eliminate its effects before commencing a different treatment regime (source: industry idiom1) But perhaps we should expand the meaning of “washout” as we consider:
On this date—December 14—215 years ago, General George Washington died under the watchful eye of three physicians. They were using the then standard-of-practice of bloodletting,1 but after four bouts of it, Washington’s fate was assured. Perhaps we could say, he was bled to death. And perhaps we are in the midst of a latter déjà
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This year marks the 65th anniversary of the publication of George Orwell’s novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four,1 which, in the contortions and déjà vus of history, may bring us to Henry Kissinger and his latest book, published September 2014. Kissinger’s name, presiding over the bold and simple title, World Order, presents upon a pristine, white cover. This year
At some future day, say even 100 years hence, will observers look back upon the age of baby-boomers and their offspring as a bizarre time of dizzying technology AND stupefying intransigence? Will someone begin to quote Charles Dickens,1 lamenting: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age
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Quotes from the BBC documentary, Psychopath1: ▪ “There are few more emotive words in the English language than psychopath—a clinical word for a condition that has only recently begun to be properly defined.” ▪ “[There are] tens of thousands of other people out there who are psychopaths but are not serial killers.” ▪ “And by far the
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If you were a writer and wanted to hype your income (and had the means), a sure-fire way to do it would be to buy tons of your own books and store them in some warehouse. Then after a short period of time, you could put them back on the market—with a price increase, of