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By Dr David Laing Dawson
I’m sitting in the magnificent Queen Victoria Building in Sydney, Australia, watching the steady flow of shoppers and sightseers while sipping a flat white on the mezzanine by the Palace Tea Room. Young, old, white, Asian, the occasional Sikh family, a Muslim or two. A girl with Down’s Syndrome is dancing and gesticulating. Her younger broth...
By Marvin Ross
Voice mail has to be the greatest communication advance of modern times dating back to the late 1970’s. Prior to that time, if the person you were calling was not in, you had to keep trying or send a letter. Voicemail was a godsend and if you were really lucky, you could just leave a difficult message and not waste time talking to som...
By Dr. David Laing Dawson
Note: This was written before Venezuela.
As we age, with luck or God’s grace, we gain perspective, perspective on our lives, our accomplishments and failures, our abilities and our inabilities, and on the lives of others, those like ourselves and those unlike ourselves, and maybe we achieve some equanimity, especially when we look...
By Marvin Ross
Quite frequently, there are demands from families that the prescribing of clozapine should be more readily made and that the required blood monitoring as a condition of taking it should end. These are based on the belief that clozapine is more effective than anything else and that the side effect is rare. That side effect destroys all white blood cell...
By Dr. David Laing Dawson
I remember in my early days studying psychology, medicine, and then psychiatry, I wondered how one could tell the difference between a crazy thought, a religious belief, and psychotic thinking. This was the 1960’s of course, and we had people like Alan Watts telling us that the mentally ill were just individuals on a different flight path f...
