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Pharma Dollars Behind Mental Health Websites

May 25, 2013 By Phil Hickey |

There’s an interesting article on MINNPOST, Many mental-illness websites show drug-company bias, study finds, dated May 16.  The article is by Susan Perry, and presents the results of a Web survey of mental health websites conducted by John Read and A. Cain from the University of Auckland, New Zealand.  The original study was published in… Continue Reading

The Psychiatric Side-shuffle Continues

May 24, 2013 By Phil Hickey |

Joel Paris, MD, is an eminent psychiatrist, and is also a Professor of Psychiatry at McGill University in Montréal.  He has recently written a very timely book titled: The Intelligent Clinician’s Guide to the DSM-5, published by Oxford University Press. I have placed an order for this book through our local inter-library loan system, and… Continue Reading

A Glimmer of Light

May 23, 2013 By Phil Hickey |

This is an anti-psychiatry website.  I say this with no apology.  I am opposed to psychiatry because: Its concepts are pathetically spurious, and have no explanatory value. Its practices are harmful, disempowering and stigmatizing. It is routinely deceptive towards it clients and towards the general public. It has avidly sustained a corrupt and corrupting relationship… Continue Reading

The Empire Still Fighting Back: Dr. Lieberman

May 22, 2013 By Phil Hickey |

Jeffrey Lieberman, MD, is president-elect of the APA, and is scheduled to take over the reins from Dr. Dilip Jeste this month.  Never in its history has the APA been subject to such scrutiny or criticism from such diverse sources, and one might reasonably have expected Dr. Lieberman to open on a conciliatory note, promising… 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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