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The Sceptical Psychiatrist
Jon Jureidini, MB, BS, FRANZCP, PhD, Child Psychiatrist, is head of the Department of Psychological Medicine, Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide where he works in Consultation-Liaison psychiatry. He has academic status as Senior Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Flinders University and as Associate Professor in the Disciplines of Psychiatry and Paediatrics, University of Adelaide.

He was recently visiting scientist as the Therapeutics Initiative at the University of British Columbia. He is the Chair, Healthy Skepticism Inc, an organisation devoted to countering misleading drug promotion. He is also a member of the Women's and Children's Hospital Patient Care Ethics Committee, and a chair of the board of Siblings Australia, an organisation which advocates for the needs of individuals with ill and disabled siblings.

Publications in the last 2 years have addressed prescribing for children, immigration detention, suicide, and child abuse.

In the context of the sad suicides of a number of young people in Geelong, the well known psychologist, Dr Michael Carr-Gregg, has exaggerated the relationship between depression and suicide.

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It is hard to find an example of post-graduate continuing medical education that doesn't have some drug company involvement. Healthy Skepticism has recently called on all medical colleges and medical schools to implement an immediate ban on pharmaceutical company involvement in medical education.

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Drawing a genogram collects and collates essential data and helps to engage the family. It often enables challenging or embarrassing data to be elicited more readily than through direct history taking...

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Alasdair Millar (MJA 2009; 190: 446-450) exposes the role of Sanofi-Aventis in the genesis of the expert panel guidelines, “Prevention of venous thromboembolism: best practice guidelines for Australia and New Zealand, fourth edition”.

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On a trip to explore what an Australian child psychiatrist might have to offer children in the West bank, I am taken to Ramallah by a taxi driver, who is enraged by the wall. “This is separating Palestinians from Palestinians” he says. Those (like him) with yellow number plates can drive on the Israeli side; those with white cannot. “I have no objection to a wall, put it along the green line, and I will help build it”...

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Least favoured adjective: behavioural. The term is most commonly used in inpatient psychiatric and emergency department settings...

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I think being a good psychiatrist involves a healthy dose of anti-psychiatry.  We psychiatrists have enormous power over people’s lives and we have to be on the lookout for the damage that can be done... 

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