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About Phil Hickey Ph.D

I am a licensed psychologist, presently retired. I have worked in clinical and managerial positions in the mental health, corrections, and addictions fields in the United States and England. My wife Nancy and I have been married since 1970 and have four grown children.

The Grieving Mother

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There’s a must-read article on Leonie’s Blog: The grieving mother is at it again! Leonie lost a son to suicide four years ago.  The suicide occurred 17 days after he started citalopram, an SSRI, marketed as Celexa. Leonie heard a ‘science expert’ on the radio this week attributing depression to low serotonin levels in the… Continue Reading

Neuroleptics and Brain Shrinkage

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Joanna Moncrieff, MD, has an article up on Mad in America.  It’s called Antipsychotics and Brain Shrinkage: An Update, and is dated June 19.  Joanna Moncrieff is the author of The Myth of the Chemical Cure, a widely-read book which challenges the entire concept of mental illness.  In the book Dr. Moncrieff also makes the… Continue Reading

The Need for Social Change

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There’s a recent post, The role of the psychologist in social change, on Peter Kinderman’s blog that is well worth reading. Peter begins with Martin Luther King’s 1967 statement: “…there are some things in our society, some things in our world, to which we … must always be maladjusted if we are to be people of… Continue Reading

DSM-5: How to Salvage a Shipwreck

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DSM-5 was published on May 18, 2013, amidst great criticism.  The fundamental criticism was, and is, that the problems listed in the manual are not illnesses in any ordinary sense of the term.  Other critics focused on the pathologizing of normality, the expansion of the diagnostic net by the lowering of thresholds, and the lack… Continue Reading