Handouts

 

Depression Depression: A Guide for Patients and their Families Major Depression (Wikipedia article) Notes on the Sequenced Treatment Alternatives to Relieve Depression (STAR*D) Study The STAR*D study: Treating depression in the real world Twelve antidepressants compared SSRI antidepressants compared Questions about anti-depressants Treatment of Depression During Pregnancy Light therapy device for Seasonal Affective Disorder MAOI Diet Bipolar disorder A Story of Bipolar Disorder Bipolar Disorder Black Dog Institute guidelines Lamictal Anxiety and Panic Disorder CRUfAD Panic Manual (91 pages) Wikipedia on Panic Disorder Anxiety Online Benzodiazepines Benzodiazepine withdrawal (The Ashton Manual) Sleep Insomnia Alcohol Standard drinks Standard drink chart Australian Guidelines to reduce health risks from drinking alcohol (179 pages). ADHD ADHD: Parents Medication Guide (27 pages) Medicines prescribed for ADHD 'not linked to drug abuse in later life' Relationships Whitewater separating: A guide for surviving the end of a relationship Relationship Skills The Peter Pan and Wendy Syndrome: A Marital dynamic, by Carolyn Quadrio The Division of Matrimonial Property in Australia Boundaries Boundaries and Pronouns Giftedness Predictable Crises of the Gifted Student Childhood trauma The Phoenix Club: A Programme for Adults Who Were Traumatized in Childhood Self Don't Forget Me! Psychological Self-Help Free self-help book BMJ - Guardian links Alternative Medicine Herbal and Dietary Supplements for Treatment of Anxiety Disorders Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the Treatment of Anxiety and Depression Tests The Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10) Health of the Nation Outcome Scale (HoNOS)

Papers and Articles by Dr David Straton

• The Genetic Engineering Debate.
  The Ecologist. 7 (10) : 381-388. (1977).

• Attitudes for Survival: can doom prophesy inhibit change?
  In 'Surviving the Twentieth Century'. Centre for Continuing Education,
  University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. (1977).
• Towards an Integrated Model of Schizophrenia
  Presented to the 17th Annual Congress of the R.A.N.Z.C.P. Sydney, 14 October, 1980
• The Straton Family Trip from NZ to London (1982).
  By Liz Straton
• Catharsis Reconsidered
  Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. 24:543-551 (1990)
• The History of Values and the Persecution of Clinton.
  Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society. 3,2: 165-166. (1998).
• The Trouble with PTSD.
  Traumatology(e). Vol 5, 1: (1999)
• The Thalidomide of Genetic Engineering.
  http://www.connectotel.com/gmfood/trypto.html
• Whitewater separating: A guide for surviving the end of a relationship.
  Self-published.
  
• Psychological Issues in Designing a Republic: Can Australia avoid the U.S. mistake?
  Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society. 4, 1: 155-156. (1999).
• The Phoenix Club: A Programme for Adults Who Were Traumatized in Childhood
  Traumatology(e). Vol 6, 4: (2000).
• Guilt and PTSD
  Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 38 (4), 269-270.(2004)
• Iatrogenic Dependency Disorder (slightly modified for web)
  Australasian Psychiatry Vol 12, No 1, 69 - 71 (March 2004)
  PDF version (as published).
• Proof of GM safety an illusion
  'Rapid Response' letter to BMJ; 328:602. (2004)
  23 March 2004
• A guide to the Internet for psychiatrists.
  Australasian Psychiatry Vol 12, No 3, 283-287 (September 2004)
  PDF version (as published).

• Depression: A Guide for Patients and their Families
  Self-published January 2005
• Postcards from Psyberspace
  Australasian Psychiatry Vol. 13, Issue 3, Page 307-08 (September 2005)
  PDF version (as published).
• Submission to the Senate Select Committee on Mental Health. (22 February 2006)
• Postcards from Psyberspace
  Australasian Psychiatry Vol. 14, No 2, Page 216-17 (June 2006)
  PDF version (as published).
• Postcards from Psyberspace
  Australasian Psychiatry, 16:2, 133 - 135 (April 2008)
  PDF version (as published).
• Choosing a second generation antidepressant for treatment of major depressive disorder
  BMJ Rapid Response letter, 12th March 2012
• Is fluvoxamine a winner or a loser?
  BMJ 2012; 344 doi: 10.1136/bmj.e2299 (Published 27 March 2012)
  Supplementary graphics.
• Uncertainty and meta-analyses
  Letter to Annals of Internal Medicine. 16th April 2012
  

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Contributions to email lists

• Trauma Bond and Post-arousal cathexis
  Traumatic Stress list.
• Psycholinguistics of Pronouns
  Cognitive Linguistics List. 2 March 2001
• Iraq War 1
  Auspsyc list. 12 February 2003
• Iraq War 2
  Auspsyc list. 1 March 2003
• Richard III, PTSD, and guilt
  Auspsyc list. 23 September 2003
• The Presidential Poll
  Auspsyc list. 23 September 2003
• Democracy, IDD, analysis, Popper and Illich
  Auspsyc list. 12 October 2003
• Online College
  Auspsyc list. 3 November 2003
• Psychoanalysing the Health System
  Auspsyc list. 14 December 2003
• Boundary Violations (Types 1, 2 and 3)
  Auspsyc list. 14th January 2004
• Faith, EMDR, sheep and kissing-gates
  Auspsyc list. 13th February 2004
• The Psychosis Debate
  Auspsyc list. 14th March 2004
• Galileo, Darwin, and the Australian Health System
  Auspsyc list. 17th July 2004
• The Unimportance of Transference
  Auspsyc list. 24th September 2004
• Discrimination, inflation, and soft thinking
  Auspsyc list. 13th February 2005
• Notes on STAR*D
  Sequenced Treatment Alternatives to Relieve Depression (STAR*D) Study
  Auspsyc list. 3rd September 2006
• Introducing Auspsyc Live!
  RANZCP Congress. Gold Coast 30th April 2007

• Prisons and hospitals
  Auspsyc list. 4th May 2008
• The Politics of Health and Education
  Auspsyc list. 7th June 2008
• The End of Luvox?
  Auspsyc list. 29th November 2009
• Strange epidemics
  Auspsyc list. 24th April 2009
• The Care and Maintenance of a Fragile Coalition
  Auspsyc list. 10th August, 2012
• Debate on augmentation of antidepressants (edited).
  ResearchGate October 2012
• College Election emails
  Auspsyc list. March-April 2013
• Open Memo to the Membership Engagement Committee
  Auspsyc list. 14th June 2013
• Detention centres
  Auspsyc list. 20th February 2016
• Metaphors for meta-analyses
  Auspsyc list 28th February 2018 (revised)