Welcome to the Madden America podcast, your source for science, psychiatry and social justice.

Hello, this is James and welcome to the podcast. And this week we turn our attention to conflicts of interest and new research

from the British Medical Journal. Mad in America has previously examined the problem with conflicts

of interest in research, but this time we extend that to look at the potential effect of COIs on

diagnostic tools such as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

Joining me today are Lisa Cosgrove and Brian Piper, two of the authors of a paper which appeared in the

BMJ. The paper is entitled Undisclosed Financial Conflicts of Interest in the DSM-5 TR cross-sectional

analysis and it was published in January 2024.

Lisa Cosgrove is a clinical psychologist and professor at the University of Massachusetts, Boston,

where she teaches courses on psychiatric diagnosis and psychopharmacology.

A former research fellow at the Edmund J. Safra Centre for Ethics, Harvard University,

her research addresses the ethical and medical legal issues that arise in organised psychiatry

because of academic industry relationships. She is co-author with Robert Whitaker of

Psychiatry Under the Influence, Institutional Corruption, Social, social injury and prescriptions for reform.

Brian Piper is an associate professor of neuroscience at Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine

and Scranton PA and an associate professor of neuroscience. He maintains an active program

of research in the pharmacoe epidemiology of controlled substances,

including opioids, cannabinoids and other controlled substances, behavioral neurology methods development,

and quantitative medical ethics.

Lisa and Brian, welcome both of you.

Thank you so much for joining me for the Madden America podcast. I'm

delighted to have you on to get to talk a little bit about your work. Thank you. We're delighted

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