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Is Anti-Psychiatry Harmful?

January 13, 2021 By Phil Hickey |

INTRODUCTION On September 9, 2020, Jonathan Stea, PhD, Tyler Black, MD, and Joseph Pierre, MD, published a piece on MedPage Today.  The article is titled Why Anti-Psychiatry Now Fails and Harms. Dr. Stea is a clinical psychologist and adjunct assistant professor at the University of Calgary. Dr. Black is the psychiatric medical director of British… Continue Reading

Celebrating the Anti-Psychiatry Movement

December 31, 2020 By Phil Hickey |

Say not the struggle nought availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been, they remain.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [But] not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light,… Continue Reading

Dr. Pies:  Still Going Wrong

December 15, 2020 By Phil Hickey |

“For e’en tho’ vanquished, he could argue still;” From The Deserted Village (1770) by Oliver Goldsmith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . On June 23, 2020, Awais Aftab, MD, psychiatrist, published an interview with Ronald Pies, MD, also a psychiatrist, in Psychiatric Times.  The interview… Continue Reading

A Psychiatrist Critiques Psychiatry, And Does A Great Job!

November 24, 2020 By Phil Hickey |

Overland describes itself as Australia’s only radical literary magazine.  It was founded in 1954, and publishes a quarterly print journal (essays, stories, and poetry) and an online magazine (cultural commentary). In the current issue, Winter 2020, there is an excellent article by Samuel Lieblich, a consultant psychiatrist working in the Greater Melbourne Area.  The essay… Continue Reading

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