"Baby boomers" dealing with death - especially death "definitely on the calendar" - feel free to choose from an array of "hymns" beyond "Amazing Grace," and have been tending to look especially to one music group - "Queen" - as a source of funeral songs. The focus of "When Death Is NOT Theoretical ...," including theological overtones, is on three aspects: (1) the apparently seven-year period, from mid 1984 to late 1991, when Freddie Mercury (1946-1991), the extraordinarily talented frontman of the versatile music group "Queen," actively dealt with dying while performing, (2) the...

"Insofar as Frederic W. H. Myers' conceptions of paranoia ... were spread by the ... 'American Institute for Scientific Research' (1904-1934), they probably did more to help than to hinder American acceptance of psychodynamic psychotherapy. Certainly, the alternative, primarily neuroanatomic, explanations were less elegant, less comprehensive, and not necessarily more scientific." Similarly, "Insofar as ... Myers' conceptions of the 'subliminal' were spread by the ... 'Emmanuel movement' for medically supervised religious psychotherapy (fl.1906-1910), the movement probably did more to help...

Pentoxifylline once was labeled as a treatment for "leg cramps" - "intermittent claudication." That original view has become almost irrelevant. The anti-inflammatory, immune modulating, and steroid-sparing effects of "pentox" stretch far beyond its vascular effects. Pentox is now known to treat - "off label" - kidney, liver, heart, & lung disorders - bone, joint, brain, & pain disorders - fibrotic, skin, & radiation-induced disorders - blood cell, pancreatic, & intestinal disorders - muscle, cancerous, & infectious disorders. Off-label use of pentox is both widespread and growing - with most...

Iron Deficiency (especially in men), Pyridoxine (B-6) Deficiency, Zinc Deficiency, Severe Vitamin D Deficiency, Definite Hypercalcemia, Definite Magnesium Deficiency, Cobalamin (B-12) Deficiency Definite Hypocalcemia - all of these can present as self-diagnosed "anxiety," "depression," and "irritability." This investigation began by accident. Initially Dr. Powell was just collecting 'teaching cases' for use with medical students - cases of non-psychiatric illness masquerading as psychiatric illness. It turned out that 1 out of every 3 new patients seen had a hitherto undiagnosed...

This investigation analyzes exactly five answers to exactly five questions asked across the decades of about 5,000 new patients. When someone claims feeling 'anxious, ' 'depressed, ' 'angry, ' or 'afraid, ' on what grounds should it be supposed that both of you are 'using the same language'? At the end of reading this essay it is hoped that a clinician - and even a non-clinician - never again will consider phrases such as "I'm anxious," "I'm depressed," "I'm angry," and "I'm afraid" to be self-explanatory.