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The Illness Theory Is Everywhere

August 26, 2013 By Phil Hickey |

A few days ago, there was an interesting item in the Dear Abby column of our local newspaper.  Dear Abby is a general advice column written by Jeanne Phillips, and is widely read. The letter in question was written by “Sibling Standing By,” who described his/her 63 year old sister as someone who “…takes no… Continue Reading

Shock Treatment In Israel

August 25, 2013 By Phil Hickey |

I’ve recently come across (courtesy of Tallaght Trialogue on Twitter) an article titled: The Court: Electroshock treatments should not be forced on psychiatric patients.  The original was in Israel Hayom, an Israeli newspaper, and was written by Edna Adato.  The English version above was on occupypsychiatry.net, and was translated by Janna Weiss. The article is… Continue Reading

Another School Shooting: Unanswered Questions

August 24, 2013 By Phil Hickey |

Earlier this week (August 21), a 20-year-old gunman entered a school in Atlanta, apparently intending to kill people, but was talked down by a school bookkeeper. As everyone knows, we’ve had a great many incidents of this sort in the past fifteen years, most of which ended more tragically than this one. The reporting of… Continue Reading

Never Mind The Facts; Just Sell More Pills

August 23, 2013 By Phil Hickey |

There’s an interesting article, recently published in Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, on Springer Link.  It’s titled Shooting the Messenger: The Case of ADHD,  and it was written by Gretchen LeFever Watson, PhD, et al. Apparently some of the authors had noted in 1995 a marked increase in the “diagnosis” and “treatment” of the condition known… Continue Reading

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The phrase "mental health" as used in the name of this website is simply a term of convenience. It specifically does not imply that the human problems embraced by this term are illnesses, or that their absence constitutes health. Indeed, the fundamental tenet of this site is that there are no mental illnesses, and that conceptualizing human problems in this way is spurious, destructive, disempowering, and stigmatizing.

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