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    • Jay D. Amsterdam and Leemon B. McHenry: The Paroxetine 352 Bipolar Study Revisited: Deconstruction of Corporate and Academic Misconduct.
    • Thomas A. Ban: Conflict of interest in neuropsychopharmacology
    • Thomas A. Ban: Development of our Vocabulary
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    • Barry Blackwell: The lithium controversy: A historical autopsy
      • Comment by Paul Grof and Jules Angst
      • Comment by Samuel Gershon (current)
        • Reply to Gershon by Blackwell
        • Response to Blackwell’s reply to Gershon by Paul Grof
        • Gordon Johnson's comment on Barry Blackwell’s reply to Samuel Gershon's comment
        • Reply to Grof’s and Johnson’s comment on Barry Blackwell’s Reply to Samuel Gershon’s comment
        • Reply to Gordon Johnson’s comment on Barry Blackwell’s reply to Samuel Gershon's comment by Gershon
        • Gordon Johnson’s response to Samuel Gershon’s reply to Johnson’s comment on Balackwell’s reply to Gershon
        • Barry Blackwell’s reply to Gordon Johnson’s comment on Blackwell’s reply to Samuel Gershon
        • Thomas A. Ban’s question re Trautner from Samuel Gershon
        • Samuel Gershon’s reply to Thomas A.Ban’s question re Trautner
        • Thomas A. Ban’s question (re: flame photometer) to Samuel Gershon
        • Samuel Gershon’s answer to Thomas A Ban’s question (re: flame photometer)
        • Thomas A. Ban’s question to Samuel Gershon (re: Charles Noack)
        • Samuel Gershon’s reply to Thomas A. Ban (re:Charles Noack)
      • Comment (Blackwell, Grof, Angst, Gershon, Blckwell) by Martin M. Katz
      • Barry Blackwell’s comment on the interaction between Samuel Gershon and Gordon Johnsson
      • Comment by Malcolm Lader
      • Janusz Rybakowski’s comment
      • Barry Blackwell’s reply to Janusz Rybakowski’s comment
      • Samuel Gershon’s reply to Janusz Rybakowki’s comment
      • Thomas A. Ban’s comment on John Cade
      • Gordon Johnson’s reply ro Barry Blackwell re Cade
      • Barry Blackwell’s response to Gordon Johnson’s reply re Cade
      • Comment by Hector Warnes
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      • Hector Warnes' response to Barry Blackwell's reply - 3
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      • Hector Warnes’ response to Barry Blackwell’s response - 4
      • Barry Blackwell’s reply to Hector Warnes’ response - 5
      • Samuel Gershon’s question to Hector Warnes
      • Hector Warnes' reply to Samuel Gershon's question
      • Samuel Gershon's response to Hector Warnes' reply
    • Barry Blackwell review, Bessel Van Der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma. New York, New York: Viking, 2014; 464 pages.
    • Pierre Baumann and Francois Ferrero: An official inqury of the clinical research activities (1946-1972) of Roland Kuhn (1912-2005)
    • John Court: A note on the history of Anorexia Nervosa
    • James Coyne: Is Moncrieff’s Chemical Imbalance Paper a Decent Systematic Umbrella Review?
    • Loss, Grief, and Betrayal: Psychiatric Survivors Reflect on the Impact of New Serotonin Study, James Coyne
    • Paul Devenyi: Addictions are not treatable diseases
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    • Camille Drach Hojaij: Stein and Empathic Fulfilment.
    • François Ferrero: Inquiry of the Geneva 1980s’ Psychiatry Crisis
    • Max Fink: Reconceptualization of Catatonia.
    • Ernst J. Franzek: From the dichotomy to a three-part grouping of endogenous psychoses
    • Samuel Gershon: Brintellix - votioxetine
    • Samuel Gershon: Device for naltrexone delivery
    • Samuel Gershon: Ketamine, the “new” breakthrough in the treatment of depression
    • Samuel Gershon: The emergence of “new” drugs in recent years.
    • Samuel Gershon: The Tacrine paradigm.
    • Samuel Gershon: The trazodone cntrovery and its potential fatal consequences
    • Ken Gillman: Medical science publishing: A slow-motion train wreck
    • David Healy: Do Randomized Controlled Trials Add to or Subtract from Clinical Knowledge?
    • David Healy: The shipwreck of the singular
    • Hanfried Helmchen: The role of psychopharmacotherapy in the early development of social psychiatry in Germany
    • Carlos R. Hojaij: A Psychopathological Marker For Biological Psychiatry: The Point of No Return and the “Something New" *
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    • Carlos R. Hojaij: Psychiatry and Medicine
    • Carlos R. Hojaij: Towards a Psychiatric Biology
    • David Janowsky: Cholinergic muscarinic mechanisms in depression and mania
    • Daniel Kanofsky and Mary E. Woesner: A Fresh Air Approach to COVID-19.
    • Coyne project, by Mark Kramer.
    • Martin M. Katz: Component-Specific vs. Diagnosis-Specific Clinical Trial in Depression
    • Martin M. Katz: Multivantaged vs. conventional assessment method
    • Martin M. Katz: Onset of clinical action of antidepressants
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    • Donald F. Klein, Max Fink, Edward Shorter and Thomas A. Ban: Comment exchange on Flagrant Catatonic Behavior.
    • Joseph Knoll: Controversies on selegiline/(-)-deprenyl’s pharmacological spectrum after more than 50 years of its development
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    • Gin S. Malhi: A critical analysis of concepts in psychiatry
    • Antonio E. Nardi, Richard Balon, Guy Chouinard, Fiammetta Cosci, Steven Dubovsky, Giovanni A. Fava, Rafael C. Freire, David J. Greenblatt, John H. Krystal, Karl Rickels, Thomas Roth, Carl Salzman, Richard I. Shader, Edward K. Silberman, Nicoletta Sonino,
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