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Drop the Disorder! Challenging the culture of psychiatric diagnosis
D For Diagnosis – What’s in a Name?
In this 30 minute BBC radio broadcast , Claudia Hammond investigates the constantly shifting nature of diagnostic labels. The programme’s introductory text says: “Ever since the 17th Century philosopher Rene Descartes introduced the concept of dualism; the idea that our psyche or minds…
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Dear Doctor
Toronto-born hip hop emcee/rapper and psychotherapist MC FÜBB – pronounced “emcee foob”; aka Daniel Farb – has released a new music track (and accompanying video) called Dear Doctor. The introduction to the 4 minute music video says: “Speaking from the perspective…
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Psychiatric diagnosis ‘scientifically meaningless’
As reported in ScienceDaily : “A new study, published in Psychiatry Research, has concluded that psychiatric diagnoses are scientifically worthless as tools to identify discrete mental health disorders. The study, led by researchers from the University of Liverpool, involved a detailed…
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On Psychiatric Diagnostic Categories from the Point of View of Humanistic-Experiential Psychotherapy
Robert Elliott, Professor of Counselling (University of Strathclyde), reflects on psychiatric diagnostic categories in a blog post from his Robert’s EFT Scotland-California Blog: “… I taught in a clinical psychology doctoral course for almost 30 years, and also taught Abnormal Psychology on many occasions,…
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Diagnosis is not destiny
“Diagnosis is not destiny – It’s not the best of me – It’s not the tiniest part of the remainder of the rest o’ me! So quit thinking I’m unstable just ’cause some shrink gave me a label!” The above…
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Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease
No One Cares About Crazy People
Actually, that’s not true. Ron Powers, the author of the book with the above title , very much cares about “crazy people”. It took him 10 years to write this book, a highly personal, well thought out, historically accurate and depressing book about madness in America….
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