What Guidelines? Never Saw Them!

What Guidelines? Never Saw Them!

Richard Hockey Because of the nature of the analysis used in this study [1], no conclusion is possible. There are plenty of examples in the literature demonstrating the “ecological fallacy”. Studies such as this have very little utility other than to generate hypotheses. I tend to think that this association is a marker for greater recognition and treatment for depression. However, it’s a brave...

The most memorable patient I never saw.

Soon after midnight, after a busy day on the inpatient psych unit, I slipped into a deep sleep. Then the phone rang in the residents’ on-call room. “Dr. Lazarus?” the voice on the other end inquired. “Yes,” I replied, half asleep. “This is Dr. Hendricks (not her real name) in the ER. Are you the on-call psych resident tonight?” “I am,” I answered drowsily. Every physician knows that nightly awa...

I went; I saw: I was never the same!

Children's thinking: what never develops?

Typically, investigators of cognitive development have adopted a perspective opposite to my title (e.g., Siegrer, 1978). Differences between children and adults are explored and descriptions are put forth of how knowledge structures and processes of one age group differ from those of another. There has been surprisingly little attention to those properties that remain invariant across developme...

Rediscovering what is never lost.