. The late AnthonyStorr suggested (picture) that Churchill’s achievements would not have been possible had he not so suffered, a phenomenon that George Pickering had already called “creative malady”. But for those of us who do not aspire to lead the country, perhaps what we need for the treatment of depression is an atrabilis receptor antagonist.Churchill’s Black Dog and Other Phenomena of the Human Mind by AnthonyStorr (Collins, 1989)Jeffrey Aronson is a clinical pharmacologist, working in the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine in Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences. He is also president emeritus of the British Pharmacological Society.Competing interests: None declared.Jeff Aronson's WordsPost navigationBarry Main et al: Time to make research findings CRYSTAL clear?The BMJ Today
their points. What this post also demonstrates is how readily some people are inclined to believe the latest (or any) Guru. You can give them AnthonyStorr’s “Feet of Clay” to read and they still won’t recognize it as applying to their special guru. And it is _always_ evil intent by “Big Pharma” that makes all criticisms of science valid. Loading...Reply 38. 39. markMarch 5, 2020 at 6:11