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)