On March 5, 2013, a bipartisan panel of leading mental health experts and parents of children with “mental disorders” held a conversation (that’s newspeak for meeting) in Washington D.C. on the topic: Violence and Severe Mental Illness. The invited panelists were: Thomas Insel, MD, Director of NIMH Harold Koplewicz, MD, President of Child Mind Institute… Continue Reading
Schizophrenia – Two Short Stories
First story In the early 70’s I worked in Grendon Prison in England. The facility was run on the lines of a therapeutic community – lots of meetings, groups, etc… One of the prisoners – let’s call him William – was serving time for burglary. He was about 24 years old, and during his intake… Continue Reading
Preconceived Ideas
When we think we know something, we cease to explore. We cease to be curious. And we find abundant “evidence” to support our preconceived notions. If I believe, for instance, that all Irishmen are heavy drinkers, I can find “evidence” for this in any bar in Dublin, neglecting the obvious fact that non-heavy-drinking Irishmen are… Continue Reading
Mental Health and the Law
The central theme of this website is that there are no mental illnesses, and that the widespread medicalization of ordinary human problems is spurious and destructive. These concepts have been around for decades, but in the last four or five years have “taken off,” and are finding a good deal of acceptance among practitioners, academics,… Continue Reading
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