I have recently read a very interesting book by Irving Kirsch, PhD. It’s called The Emperor’s New Drugs, and the central theme of the work is that antidepressants are only very slightly more effective than placebos (i.e. sugar pills), and that the difference is not clinically significant. The logic is cogent and the research is… Continue Reading
Sexual Disorders are Not Illnesses (Part 2)
In my last post I described frotteurism, which the APA lists as one of their mental disorders/illnesses. The central theme of this blog is that there are no mental illnesses – that mental illnesses are essentially psychiatrists’ ways of conceptualizing ordinary human problems for the purposes of consolidating turf and legitimizing the use of drugs… Continue Reading
Sexual Disorders Are Not Illnesses
The central theme of this blog is that almost all the so-called mental illnesses listed in the APA’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual are nothing more than the ordinary everyday challenges of human existence. The psychiatric profession has “elevated” these problems to the status of disorders and illnesses to justify and legitimize their involvement in these… Continue Reading
Update
Sorry I’ve been “off the air.” My wife, Nancy, fell and broke her thigh bone a couple of weeks ago. She is out of the hospital and recuperating well, but my days are filled with the minutiae of personal care and domestic management. Stay tuned. I still have lots to say concerning the spurious nature… Continue Reading
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