There’s an interesting article by Sonja Grover, PhD, CPsych, of Lakehead University, Ontario, Canada. It’s titled: Reification of psychiatric diagnoses as defamatory: Implications for ethical clinical practice. Thanks to Becky on Twitter for the link. It’s an old article (2005), but definitely deserves another look. It was published in the journal Ethical Human Psychology and… Continue Reading
More Lame Excuses from Dr. Lieberman
It’s that time of the month, and Dr. Lieberman has written another post, Change, Challenge and Opportunity: Psychiatry in Age of Reform and Enlightenment, on the APA’s website, Psychiatric News. He tells us that these are changing times, and that he, for one, is choosing to see these changes as positive. He leads with a… Continue Reading
ECT – Benefits Are Short-lived
Last Monday (August 26), Lauren Spiro published a post on Mad in America. The post is titled The Today Show and ECT: The Full Story & Informed Consent. Here’s the gist of Lauren’s article. On August 20, the Today Show ran a segment on ECT (electric shock “treatment”). Lauren contends that the coverage was not… Continue Reading
Poverty and Cognitive Performance
There’s an interesting article, Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function, by Anandi Mani et al in the current issue of Science. Here’s the abstract: “The poor often behave in less capable ways, which can further perpetuate poverty. We hypothesize that poverty directly impedes cognitive function and present two studies that test this hypothesis. First, we experimentally induced… Continue Reading
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