New Book Release: Guiding Clients in Recovery from Psychological Trauma Doug Bremner February 21, 2018 Childhood Abuse, Depression, Mental Health, Psychiatry, Psychology, Suicide, Trauma Most mental health clients have a history of significant psychological past from their childhood or adult lives. Clients can be given a tool set and a road map for their recovery from psychological trauma that...
Live Blogging from the XXXVth IALMH Meeting in Prague: Panel on the Amanda Knox & Raffaele Sollecito CaseExonerated: Ten Years and Many Insights Later Doug Bremner July 13, 2017 Amanda Knox, Mental Health, Psychiatry, Psychology, Trauma 2 Comments We presented this week at the XXXVth International Congress on Law and Mental Health, the bi-annual meeting of the International Academy of Law and Mental Health (IALMH), at Charles University in Prague, Czech...
‘The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg’ Now on audiobook Doug Bremner September 18, 2016 Accutane, Depression, Film, Pharmaceutical Industry, Posts in English, Psychology, Suicide The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg: Accutane, the truth that had to be told, the best-selling narrative nonfiction book by Doug Bremner MD that is soon to be made into a film, is now available on audiobook...
Time to Die! (Oops! I Mean Time to Quit!) Doug Bremner August 2, 2016 Depression, Pharmaceutical Industry, Psychology I was sitting in my car dealership today waiting to get service on my car and working on my laptop while the television was droning on in front of me. I mean this is one of the rare times when I watch TV...
News You Won’t Find in the NY Times Doug Bremner July 31, 2016 Accutane, Depression, Pharmaceutical Industry, Posts in English, Psychology, Suicide Here's a forgotten chapter from pharmaceutical history. The acne drug, Accutane (isotretinoin), manufactured by Roche Pharmaceuticals, in addition to being associated with (as I wrote in prior posts) suicide,...
Can You Please Put Some Sugar on This Crap? Doug Bremner July 30, 2016 Accutane, Depression, Pharmaceutical Industry, Psychology I was reading the NY Times this weekend when I saw a story about a celebrity dermatologist who had a SWAT team descend on her office and arrest her for illegal use of narcotics (Percocet). Seems she had...
If They Don’t Kill Us They Will Drive Us Crazy Doug Bremner July 25, 2016 Antidepressants, Depression, Pharmaceutical Industry, Psychology 1 Comment Merck joins the rosters of pharmaceutical companies like Hoffmann La Roche that make drugs that, if they don't kill you, at least will drive you crazy. Roche has specialized for years in making drugs with...
Do Antidepressants Make You Suicidal? Doug Bremner July 3, 2016 Antidepressants, Pharmaceutical Industry, Psychology During my residency days Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) like fluoxetine (Prozac, Sarafem), paroxetine (Paxil), fluvoxamine (Luvox), citalopram (Celexa), and sertraline (Zoloft), were pushed as...
“Guiding Clients in Recovery From Psychological Trauma” Sept 12-13 Seminar Doug Bremner August 12, 2015 Childhood Abuse, Psychology, Trauma Guiding Clients to Recovery From Psychological Trauma Do you work with clients who are stuck in the past? Do their friends and family say: • Move on • Get over it • Just snap out of...
START NOW Seminar for Recovery from Psychological Trauma May 30-31 Doug Bremner May 9, 2015 Psychology, Trauma START-NOW Seminar Self-Healing from Psychological Trauma: The START-NOW Program Atlanta Marriott Century Center/Emory Area Hotel, May 30-31, 2015 Psychological trauma can put a stranglehold on your...