Dangerous “spin”: the probability myth of evidence-based prescribing – a Merleau-Pontyian approach

REFERENCES

• Merleau-Ponty M. Phenomenology of Perception. New York: Routledge Classics, 2002; 513–514.
   Google Scholar
• Morstyn R. Code of ethics: the time-bomb of clause 3.13. Australasian Psychiatry 2011; 19: 86.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Richardson A, Uebel T. The Cambridge Companion to Logical Empiricism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007; 2.
   Google Scholar
• Hyman SE. The diagnosis of mental disorders: the problem of reification. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology 2010; 6: 155–179.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Andreasen NC. DSM and the death of phenomenology in America: an example of unintended consequences. Schizophrenia Bulletin 2007; 33: 108–112.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Steinmetz G. The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences: Positivism and its Epistemological Others. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005; 13.
   Google Scholar
• Morstyn R. How the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty can help us understand the gulf between clinical experience and the doctrine of evidence-based psychotherapy. Australasian Psychiatry 2010; 18: 221–225.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Morstyn R. Merleau-Ponty and me: some phenomenological reflections upon my recent bone marrow transplant. Australasian Psychiatry 2009; 17: 237–239.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Weatherford R. Philosophical Foundations of Probability Theory. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982.
   Google Scholar
• Hacking I. The Taming of Chance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990; 180.
   Google Scholar
• Teal J. Nothing personal: an empirical phenomenological study of the experience of “being-on-an-SSRI”. Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 2009; 40: 19–50.
   Google Scholar
• Davidson JO, Layder D. Methods, Sex and Madness. London: Routledge, 1994.
   Google Scholar
• De Beauvoir S. The Ethics of Ambiguity. New York: Kensington, 1976.
   Google Scholar
• Seife C. Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception. New York: Viking, 2010; 62.
   Google Scholar
• Huff D. How to Lie with Statistics. New York: Norton, 1954 and 1993; 122.
   Google Scholar
• Desrosières A. The Politics of Large Numbers: A History of Statistical Reasoning. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998; 11–12.
   Google Scholar
• Gould SJ. The Mismeasure of Man. London: Penguin, 1992.
   Google Scholar
• Kirkengen AL. The Lived Experience of Violation: How Abused Children Become Unhealthy Adults. Bucharest: Zeta, 2010; 64.
   Google Scholar
• Gibson RF, ed. Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press (Harvard University Press), 2004.
   Google Scholar
• Whitehead AN. Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology, Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Edinburgh During the Season 1927–28 (Corrected Edition). New York: Free Press, 1978.
   Google Scholar
• Shook JR. Dewey's Empirical Theory of Knowledge and Reality. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2000.
   Google Scholar
• Bergson H. Creative Evolution. Mineola, NY: Dover, 1998.
   Google Scholar
• Husserl E. The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1970.
   Google Scholar
• Gier NF. Wittgenstein and Phenomenology: A Comparative Study of the Later Wittgenstein, Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1981.
   Google Scholar
• Heidegger M. Being and Time. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1962.
   Google Scholar
• Fletcher JF. Situation Ethics: The New Morality. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1966.
   Google Scholar
• Toadvine T, Lawlor L. The Merleau-Ponty Reader. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2007; 290, 96, 100, 97, 286.
   Google Scholar
• Earman J. Bayes or Bust? A Critical Examination of Bayesian Confirmation Theory. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992.
   Google Scholar
• American Psychiatric Association. DSM-5: The Future of Psychiatric Diagnosis http://www.dsm5.org/Pages/Default.aspx
   Google Scholar
• Edie JM. Introduction. Merleau-Ponty M, The Primacy of Perception and Other Essays on Phenomenological Psychology, the Philosophy of Art, History and Politics. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1964; xvi.
   Google Scholar
• Merleau-Ponty M. The Visible and the Invisible:followed by working notes. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1968; 3.
   Google Scholar
• Robotham J. Change in counting method halves life lost to depression. Sydney Morning Herald 17 December 2010. http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/lifematters/change-in-counting-method-halves-life-lost-to-depression-20101216-18zqx.html
   Google Scholar
• Corderoy A. Failure of GPs to screen for bipolar is “deadly”. Sydney Morning Herald 11 December 2010. http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/lifematters/failure-of-gps-to-screen-for-bipolar-is-deadly-20101210-18sx3.html
   Google Scholar