Facilitating Objectivity When Orchestrating the Interaction Between Pharmacotherapy and Psychotherapy

Comments on the article by Antonuccio, Danton, and McClanahan (see record 2003-10099-003) and states that, the only way we as psychologists can be freed of the charge that we are merely looking out for our professional, financial interests is if we have prescription privileges without financial ties to the companies selling drugs. We need to be objective and, further, to arrange the circumstances in which objectivity is easy to achieve. I contend that the way to preserve our objectivity is for psychologists to have prescription privileges and to conduct research in which the outcomes do not benefit or harm the daily practice of psychology as a whole or the research enterprise. Further, psychologists must adhere to the ideal of practicing what our science--our objective science--prescribes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)