World leading pyschiartrist writes that Australia is pursuing a reckless experiment in early intervention for psychosis.

Martin Whitely, MLA from Western Australia has forwarded a link to a blog written by a world leading psychiatrist, Dr Allen Frances M.D, who challenges the Australian governments decision to implement Professor Patrick McGorry's model of early intervention for psychosis. Whitely says his attack on Australia's blind acceptance of this model comes from the very heart of heart of the psychiatric profession and can't be ignored!

In the attached article, he quotes Frances's blog including the following:

McGorry’s goal is certainly great. But its current achievement is simply mpossible and Australia’s plans are patently premature. Early intervention to prevent psychosis requires first that there be an accurate tool to identify who will later become psychotic and who will not. Unfortunately, no such accurate tool exists. The false positive rate in selecting prepsychosis is at least about 60-70% in the very best of hands and may be as high as 90% in general practice. That’s right, folks, nine misidentified non patients for one accurately identified truly prepsychotic patient. Those are totally unacceptable odds. Read more