David Cohen – A New Vision for Mental Health

Mad Science: Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis, and Drugs

Author: Editorial 31st July 2019 0 Comments

This book has been written by Stuart Kirk, Tomi Gomory and David Cohen. The publishers say: “Mad Science argues that the fundamental claims of modern American psychiatry are based on misconceived, flawed, and distorted science. The authors address multiple paradoxes in American…
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a coherent system

books, coercion, David Cohen, diagnosis, DSM, history of psychiatry, mad science, pharmaceutical drugs, Psychiatric Drugs, psychiatry, Stuart Kirk, Tomi Gomory

Critical New Perspectives on ADHD

Author: Editorial 26th April 2019 0 Comments

This book has been edited by Gwynedd Lloyd, Joan Stead and David Cohen. The publishers say : “Experts from all over the world take a critical, highly international and often controversial perspective on the ADHD phenomenon – a condition that has…
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a wellbeing society

ADHD, Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, books, children and adolescents, Culture & Society, David Cohen, Education, Gwynedd Lloyd, Joan Stead, schools

Randomized controlled trials of antidepressants: clinically and scientifically irrelevant

Author: Editorial 21st March 2019 0 Comments

The abstract of this article (written by David Cohen and David Jacobs, published in Debates in Neuroscience ) says: “This contribution to the ‘antidepressant debate’ focuses on the validity of randomized controlled trials (RCTs). We argue that: (a) made-up psychiatric diagnostic categories destroy the…
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collaborative practice

adverse drug reactions, David Cohen, David Jacobs, Debates in Neuroscience, diagnosis, disease model, pharmaceutical industry, placebo response, psychoactive drugs, Randomised Control Trials (RCTs), Research

It’s the Coercion, Stupid!

Author: Editorial 20th April 2018 0 Comments

In 2011, the Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of the Psychiatric Times, Ronald Pies, stated, “In truth, the ‘chemical imbalance’ notion was always a kind of urban legend—never a theory seriously propounded by well-informed psychiatrists”. So how have mental health professionals retained their…
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collaborative practice

coercive psychiatry, David Cohen, pseudo-science, psychiatry

Transforming Mad Science and Re-imaging Mental Health Care

Author: admin 28th June 2017 0 Comments

The video below comes from the 17th Annual Conference of the International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry, held November 14-17, 2014 in Los Angeles, California. Each of the invited speakers was asked to present his or her proposal to…
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collaborative practice

David Cohen, New Approaches, pharmaceutical drugs, prescription privileges, self-medication, videos