When did you meet Mickey?
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Memory of Mickey
I greatly respected Mickey Nardo’s approach to psychiatry, which animated his blog and gave it heart. He proved that thoughtful criticism can arise from careful analysis flavored with wisdom and experience, and that it can be presented respectfully, without polemics and theatrics. Mickey had a knack for slamming the hypocritical and self-serving without slamming the profession he clearly loved. I was particularly impressed by his close reading of the literature, and by his ability to attend to minute details of research design and presentation. Mickey was, in all these ways, a colleague I looked up to and admired.
There are plenty of defenders of today’s mainstream psychiatry, and many critics as well. And there are countless others who don’t care one way or the other. But there was only one Dr. Nardo, who lent both his heart and brain to improving our field. I’m glad to have known him, if only online.