They Say You’re Crazy: How The World’s Most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Who’s Normal
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Psychological Formulation as an Alternative to Psychiatric Diagnosis
“… we might be in the very strange position of admitting, as one psychiatrist has pointed out, that psychiatry is ‘something very hard to justify or defend—a medical specialty that does not treat medical illnesses’ …”Dr. Peter Breggin, 1993, p….
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The Future of Mental Health: Deconstructing the Mental Disorder Paradigm
Why is neurodiversity classified as a mental illness?
Neurodiversity refers to the different ways that the mind can work and interpret information. Some people naturally think about things differently. We all have different interests and motivations, and are naturally better at some things and poorer at others. Most…
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Allen Frances: Overdiagnosis
Mad Science: Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis, and Drugs
Psychiatry’s cause for anxiety
Focus on people, not technology or the DSM, to treat mental illness … Dr. Tom Burns talks to Matthew Reisz in this interview-article from 2013 as posted on the Times Higher Education website: “A leading psychiatrist has criticised ‘ultra-scientific’ approaches to…
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Shyness: How Normal Behaviour Became a Sickness
The publishers of this book (by Christopher Lane, published 2009) say: “In the 1970s, a small group of leading psychiatrists met behind closed doors and literally rewrote the book on their profession. Revising and greatly expanding ‘The Diagnostic and Statistical…
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Cultural Diversity, Mental Health and Psychiatry: The Struggle Against Racism
