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 with pharma.
But every once in a while I come across a psychiatrist who is different.  Recently I came across a post written by 1 Boring Old Man.  The post - titled no further comment - is dated February 20 2012.

Here are two quotes:

"I think it’s time for the body of Psychiatry to look back on the last thirty years, particularly the last twenty, and acknowledge that there has been a lot of just outright wrong: producing and accepting lousy science; signing on to lousy science produced by others; colluding with the Pharmaceutical Industry in recommendations and prescriptions; corruption involving ghost-writing, guest authoring, conflicts of interest, direct drug promotion, downplaying or ignoring adverse effects."

"I was a Silent Witness to something pretty rotten, and I didn’t take the time or put in the effort to scope it out. So I share in the shame. Like a lot of us, I quit the APA instead of going to the meetings and offering an opposing and questioning voice. I am truly sorry about that. No further comment to follow…

Writing something like that takes a lot of courage.