The Failure of Diagnostic Psychiatry and Some Prospects of Scientific...
A brief overview is provided of sociological and historical critiques of Western psychiatry before focusing on pre-empirical, non-empirical and empirical aspects of psychiatric diagnosis. These are...
View ArticleTrauma Nation?
Medicine is where hope is alive and well in America. During the past fifty years, due to rapid advances in microbiology, many persons who once might have died prematurely, or suffered from debilitating...
View ArticleOpen Paradigm Project
The Open Paradigm Project is a social media campaign that features personal accounts of those who were diagnosed with a mental illness through the DSM system, but rejected their labels and found ways...
View ArticleThe S-Word: Shame as a Key to Modern Societies
This study seeks to reclaim the many fields of study of shame that so far have used alternate terms, such as honor, stigma, fear of rejection, disrespect, and so on. Although there is a literature on...
View ArticleLead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way! (A Layman Perspective on Change)
The worthwhile discussions of DxSummit may be rendered meaningless if not accompanied by a plan of action reflecting the insights generated here. This article proposes a plan of action for comment and...
View ArticleThe “Mental Illness” Paradigm: Itself an “Illness” that is Out of Control
For those of you who haven’t read this story in the New York Times, I highly recommend it. It is essentially a woman’s (Linda Logan’s) rich and moving autobiographical account of her struggle with...
View ArticleSafeguarding a Generation of Children from Over-diagnosis and Prescription of...
Our children are our collective messengers to a future that we will neither see nor inhabit. What messages do we, as a progressive society, want to transmit to future generations about the way we have...
View ArticleObjections Invited to the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10-CM)
Deadline: November 15 In what follows here, I am forced to dip my toe into a very complex process that involves a lot of details. I beg pardon for any confusions this may create. My purpose is to...
View ArticleFar from Rotten in the State of Denmark
Psychotropic Drugs and their Use as Agents of Social Control and Alternative Philosophies in some Western Societies Many international surveys, such as the one done by the World Health Organisation in...
View ArticleMental Health or Mental Illness: A Policy Concern
In December of 2013, Congressman Timothy Murphy proposed the “Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act” (HR 3717). The bill proposes an inherent distinction between “mental health” and “mental...
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