Dr. Daniel Carlot just got the book and he rips into it. He called it "…(A)n advertisement for Paxil.
Not obvious, not blatant. But artfully crafted, subtle, smooth…
You open the book, and the first thing that slaps your retina is a chapter on anxiety disorders. I’ve read a lot of psychiatry textbooks, probably over a hundred, and I can confidently report to you that I have never seen a textbook on general psychiatry (whether written for psychiatrists or PCPs) that begins with a big honking chapter on anxiety disorders. Most begin with tips on diagnosis, basic principles of psychopharmacology, mood disorders, or other topics. But they never begin with anxiety disorders.
For more on Carlot — who blogs, writes and sees patients in Newburyport, Mass., see his blog and his book Unhinged.
According the Project On Government Oversight (POGO) report, the book’s authors are
..department chairs who were then at Stanford and Emory University signed their names to a textbook used by primary care physicians to prescribe pharmaceuticals for patients with psychiatric problems. (Drugmaker) GSK paid a marketing firm to write the physician textbook and was allowed to approve the drafts and final page proofs.
FOr more background see the NY Times story
For more on Carlot — who blogs, writes and sees patients in Newburyport, Mass., see his blog and his book Unhinged.