Charlie Rose

ppfletch  12/11/2011 03:42 PM Report

If Freud's theories ever had validity, it's not what is being practiced in mental health today. Psychiatry has proffered many of their own theories, none of which has scientific validity, which has brought nothing but confusion throughout the mental health and indeed, the medical world.

Paul Fletcher LLB (Hons)

Director | CCHR London

www.cchr-london.org

Steve Radcliffe, Spokane, WA  10/25/2008 12:31 PM Report

Very interesting

Jeanne Milbauer  12/13/2007 08:12 PM Report

Mr. Rose: I watch your program regularly. I am sending a copy an e-mail I sent to a reporter on Channel 11. My childhood, youth and marriage was very painful. All of that led to drinking. I believe our society does not link addiction with mental illness early to better help people. My e-mail: Rick: Thank you for your focus on the mental health crisis in Minnesota, in the Nation. I heard that many who I know have been watching the news report.

I sent in a long e-mail yesterday regarding some of my story. I had a suicide attempt at age 40. I was alcoholic--there is a long story, but I was diagnozed with bi-polar 2 years later. I am almost 67 years old. I have been sober all that time and I have been able to manage bi-polar illness due to wonderful insurance, psychiatrists and counselors--and, of course, various medications.

I am concerned you are not connecting addiction to mental illness. I have friends that have lost those close to them that people medicate their mental illness with alcohol and/or drugs. I have always been recommending that the society treats the whole person. Those illnesses cannot be separated--for them-for the families--for society.

Let me know if I can be of help in any way addressing recovery.

Jeanne Milbauer

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Apple Valley, MN 55124

952.432.5370

leyla  09/30/2007 04:06 PM Report

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Ben  06/01/2007 02:41 AM Report

Perhaps in the future you can have Drs dicussing mental illness and treatment in the Prison systems.i.e. 60 mins had a segment recently of a young inmate who was mentally ill and died while in custody and in restraints. Thanks.

Dr. Greenstein  05/30/2007 10:55 PM Report

Mr. Rose,

Grateful for your efforts to place neuroscience on your priority list for topical discussions. The epsiode on the Freudian legacy was fascinating though disappointing. For Kandel and his colleagues to argue for the revisionist return of Freud to the practice of psychiatry reveals the large blindspot in their thinking.

Clearly there are other "theory of mind" paradigms that have proven more relevant to the field of neuroscience and challenge the dualistic structure on which the Freudian paradigm is built. Please consider broadening your circle of neuroscientists to include those who recognize the value of Freud but have moved on to consider, for instance, non-dualistic paradigms of the brain, e.g., the work of Davidson and his work with the Dalai Lama. (Check out the recent text that details the MIT lectures on Buddhism and the Brain.) Or Ramachandran at U.C. San Diego author of Phantoms in the Brain.

Respectfully yours,

Dr. G.

Micha  05/29/2007 05:04 PM Report

Wonderful discussion, and it would be even better if the "male legacy" could open a little bit the space for female participants.

David Harris  05/28/2007 10:22 AM Report

I wish the input of some patients could be included. Some of us might be able to give feedback/corrections to some of the statements made by the professionals, as having observed some of these matters at close hand.

jr  05/25/2007 12:06 PM Report

very interesting interview, thanks Charlie!

Judy Dubin  05/24/2007 03:54 AM Report

This was a fasinating and wonderful discussion on the legacy of Freud's work - on what has been discarded and what gems can be extended using the new neurobiological research. These men all had wonderful insights and senses of humor. It's too bad that the show couldn't manage to find a woman who is working in this area. I'm sure there are women doing work in these fields, as well.

J. S. Cook  05/24/2007 01:07 AM Report

Absolutely brilliant panel discussion that made obscure concepts crystal clear. The psychiatrists were so easy to understand, and I particularly enjoyed the refreshing way that they presented their unique points of view, while at the same time supporting each other. Their mutual respect was palpable. As always, Charlie Rose is the perfect moderator.........without peer. Thank you for presenting such an important subject with such clarity and candor.

eric  05/24/2007 01:04 AM Report

absolutly excellent. i have used kandel's books in neurophysiology classes. i have spent 6 years in psychoanalysis. i am a psychopharmacologist with major depressive disorder. absolutly spellbinding. five geniuses

talking, listening, thinking, revealing.

Ian George Thomson  05/24/2007 12:23 AM Report

This, as always, from Charlie is just amazing.

The most intelligentsia interviewer on the planet.

Joe  05/24/2007 12:18 AM Report

Thank you for gathering psychoanalysts and neurobiologists to discuss the past, current, and future models of synergistic progress toward the goal of better helping people with illnesses of the brain, the most important organ of being human.

As a person with a mental illness and a strong left brain (i.e., scientific and analytical) and a right brain I'm learning much more about, I was very glad to hear answers to questions I have asked for many years. The answers also provide hope for even better, future treatments that will emerge from such synergies.

People with mental illnesses who experience the physical changes of the mind with proper, ongoing cognitive-behavioral therapy concurrently with medication can also articulate interesting insights of the inner workings of their malfunctioning brains, i.e., it takes one, to know one.

Some of the most innovative and sometimes successful ideas from the human brain have come from people with mental illnesses. Differences and diversity among us humans are to be respected, acknowledged, and appreciated.