Behaviorism and Mental Health

Alternative perspective on psychiatry's so-called mental disorders | PHILIP HICKEY, PH.D.

In DSM-5, A-D-H-D Still Spells Misbehavior

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It is a central theme of this website that there are no mental illnesses/disorders, and that the psychiatric medicalization of ordinary human problems is arbitrary, spurious, and destructive. The widespread acceptance of ADHD as a mental illness/chemical imbalance has no scientific underpinning, but rather is based on marketing and promotion.  The ADHD “diagnosis” is particularly… Continue Reading

Defining Mental Illness

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There’s a take-no-prisoners article by Paula Caplan on Psychology Today.  You can see Paula’s article here.  (Thanks to @yobluemama2 on Twitter for the link.) Here are some quotes: “…the now well-established facts that psychiatric diagnosis is unscientific, does not reduce human suffering, and causes many kinds of serious harm.” “…the chances even that two therapists… Continue Reading

Freudian Psychoanalysis is Better than Drugs

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Today I received a short comment from Ruth Elliot on my post Psychiatric “Diagnoses” for Children.  Ruth linked to an article by Claudia Gold, MD.  Claudia is a Freudian psychoanalyst. My ideological orientation is behavioral, and if you were to ask people in this business:  what is the opposite of a behaviorist? you would probably… Continue Reading

More Conflicts of Interest in Psychiatry

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I’ve come across an article by Lisa Cosgrove et al entitled Conflicts of interest and the quality of recommendations in clinical guidelines.  It was published in the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice in December of last year. As everyone knows, the APA publishes the DSM, but they also publish “Clinical Practice Guidelines” for various “diagnoses,”… Continue Reading