Top 21 Most Discussed Shrink Rap Posts in 2011

Last week, I posted lists of the Top 25 popular posts of 2011 and also of All Time, in addition to a list of the most interesting/funny/bizarre search phrases on Shrink Rap for 2011.

This is my last "Top 10" list from the year of 2011. I sorted the entire list of 257 posts from 2011 by the number of comments received, the highest being 119 comments during the Sherry/Lindeman epoch [winking at Duane and Rob]. Enjoy.

1. Guest Blogger Dr. Jesse Hellman: When Patients Don't Pay (119 comments)
2. Guest Blogger Dr. Jesse Hellman: More Thoughts On Rachel Aviv's Article on Involuntary Treatment (83 comments)
3. Suicide, Free Will, and the Shrink's Magical Ability to Predict Violence (82 comments)
4. Are We Not Thugs (81 comments)
5. The Ten Percent Solution (79 comments)
6. Transference to the Blog, Revisited (71 comments)
7. The Top Ten or More Things That Annoy Me About Psychiatry Haters (63 comments)
8. What's Really Insane (60 comments)
9. Please Complain (58 comments)
10. The Very Badly Behaved Health Care Practitioner (57 comments)
11. Guest Blogger Dr. Jesse Hellman: On The Penn State Matter (53 comments)
12. What is Bipolar Disorder? (53 comments)
13. Doctors Who Write (52 comments)
14. Psych Meds are THE Problem: A Post for Duane Sherry (51 comments)
15. The Secret Lives of Patients (49 comments)
16. Running Out of Psychiatric Beds (48 comments)
17. Guest Blogger SG: On How the Pharmaceutical Companies Have Damaged Psychiatry (46 comments)
18. Is It Ever Okay to Lie (44 comments)
19. Tell Me... An Ethical Dilemma (42 comments)
20. The Patient Who Didn't Like the Doc. On-Line. (40 comments)
21. Shock Value (ECT) (40 comments)

Top 25 Shrink Rap Posts of All Time

On Sunday, I published the Top 25 posts from 2011. Today's TOP list is of the Top 25 posts of all time (well, since we started, in 2006), starting with our all-time fav, the Xanax post. Enjoy.

1. Why Docs Don't Like Xanax (some of us)
2. Street Value of Psychiatric Medications
3. CPT Billing Codes for healthys and Psychotherapy
4. Who Wants to be a healthy?
5. What People Talk About In Therapy
6. Sex With Fish
7. Does EMDR Work?
8. How This Shrink Picks A Sleep Medication
9. Questions for Clink
10. Why Psychiatry is a Wonderful Medical Specialty
11. What's A Psychiatric Emergency?
12. Depakote & Ammonia
13. How A Shrink Picks An Anti-Depressant
14. Schizophrenia, Still Figuring it Out
15. Shrink Rap Survey on Attitudes Towards Psychiatry
16. Why Shrinks Don't Take Your Insurance
17. What Makes A Good Therapist?
18. The Duck Was Nixed!
19. Skype Therapy
20. Why I Still Prescribe Seroquel
21. HBO In Treatment: Sophie is Bullied Out of Her Suicidality
22. I Have Bipolar Disorder. Can I be a Doctor?
23. Ritalin or Abilify for I.V. Amphetamine Dependence
24. Topamax Effective in Reducing Heavy Alcohol Drinking
25. Six Future Trends in Psychiatry

Coming up later this week... Most Interesting Search Phrases from 2011. These are often very funny, interesting, or just plain bizarre. Here's the list from 2008 to whet your appetite.

Top 25 Most Popular Shrink Rap Posts from 2011

Time for a round-up of the most popular Shrink Rap posts from 2011.

These are all posts written in 2011; later I will put up a list of top posts of all time (since we started in 2006), in addition to the -- and this is my favorite -- most interesting search phrases used in 2011. These are listed with the most popular (i.e., most pageviews) post at the top. Please feel free to repost this on your blog or your favorite social media dooblie doo.

1. Questions for Clink
2. Shrink Rap Survey on Attitudes Towards Psychiatry
3. What Makes A Good Therapist?
4. The Duck Was Nixed!
5. Doctors Who Write
6. Summer Solstice: "Hot" Grand Rounds on Shrink Rap
7. A Brief Psychological Analysis of the Angry Birds
8. Google+ Button Added
9. Doctors to Go to Jail for Asking Patients About Guns in the Home
10. Kindle versus Nook?
11. The Patient Who Didn't Like the Doc. On-Line.
12. The Top Ten or More Things That Annoy Me About Psychiatry Haters
13. What is Bipolar Disorder?
14. Talk Doesn't Come Cheap
15. Diagnostic Labels That Change Lives
16. The Unwilling Patient: New Yorker Article
17. Howard Dully's Lobotomy
18. Guest Blogger Jesse: When Patients Don't Pay
19. Hate A Shrink: They Ask For It, After All
20. No More Xanax
21. How to be a Successful College Student
22. Please Pass the Fat Cream
23. Are We Not Thugs?
24. Psych Meds are THE Problem: A Post for Duane Sherry
25. Happy Shrinks!

If you are still reading at this point, I figure that you are bored enough to also be interested in reading our "Top Ten Posts" lists from prior years, too. Here you go...
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Most Popular Shrink Rap Posts of 2010

This is Roy's job, but he's otherwise occupied. He'd do a better job, I promise. Here's my quick and dirty list of our most popular posts this year:

What's a Psychiatric Emergency? 2/8/10

Prescribing Psychotherapy 12/13/10

ObamaMama it's Health Care Reform 3/27/10

Is it Malpractice to Lie? 3/17/10

Are In-Network Shrinks Better Shrinks? 2/14/10

What's Your Favorite Shrink Book? 5/21/10

What Makes Mental Illness Bad? 10/13/10

Shopping Spree 4/8/10

Unhinged: The Trouble With Psychiatry: Book Review 5/10/10

Saving Normal 3/3/10

Unrelated to the New Year, but the all-time most popular Shrink Rap post:

Why Docs Don't Like Xanax (some of us)