BACKGROUND There has been some discussion in recent weeks concerning the role of childhood abuse in the etiology of the condition known as schizophrenia. It is particularly difficult to address this problem because the condition known as schizophrenia is not a unified phenomenon. Rather, it is an assortment of loosely clustered behaviors which has been… Continue Reading
Pharma Dollars Behind Mental Health Websites
There’s an interesting article on MINNPOST, Many mental-illness websites show drug-company bias, study finds, dated May 16. The article is by Susan Perry, and presents the results of a Web survey of mental health websites conducted by John Read and A. Cain from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. The original study was published in… Continue Reading
The Psychiatric Side-shuffle Continues
Joel Paris, MD, is an eminent psychiatrist, and is also a Professor of Psychiatry at McGill University in Montréal. He has recently written a very timely book titled: The Intelligent Clinician’s Guide to the DSM-5, published by Oxford University Press. I have placed an order for this book through our local inter-library loan system, and… Continue Reading
A Glimmer of Light
This is an anti-psychiatry website. I say this with no apology. I am opposed to psychiatry because: Its concepts are pathetically spurious, and have no explanatory value. Its practices are harmful, disempowering and stigmatizing. It is routinely deceptive towards it clients and towards the general public. It has avidly sustained a corrupt and corrupting relationship… Continue Reading
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