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It’s a Great Day for Humanity

May 13, 2013 By Phil Hickey |

Today, after two years of deliberation, the Division of Clinical Psychology (which is part of the British Psychological Society)  issued a Position Statement on the Classification of Behavior and Experience in Relation to Functional Psychiatric Diagnosis.   It is subtitled “Time for a Paradigm Shift.” The DCP summarizes its paper as follows: “The DCP is of the… Continue Reading

The Empire Strikes Back: APA Responds to NIMH

May 13, 2013 By Phil Hickey |

BACKGROUND On May 3, 2013, David Kupfer MD (DSM-5 Task Force Chair) responded to Thomas Insel’s April 29th unequivocal attack on the validity and usefulness of DSM.  You can see Dr. Kupfer’s response here.  Essentially Dr. Insel said that the categories set out in the DSM did not correspond to anything in the real world,… Continue Reading

SSRI’s During Pregnancy and APGAR Scores

May 12, 2013 By Phil Hickey |

There’s an interesting article on this topic by Hans Jensen et al, in the February 21, 2013 issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry.  You can see an abstract here. The authors conducted a register study on all pregnant women in Denmark from 1996 to 2006, linking data from the Medical Birth Register, the Psychiatric… Continue Reading

“You must take these pills for life.” Or is it for death?

May 12, 2013 By Phil Hickey |

There’s an important article (here) on Monica Cassani’s website BeyondMeds in which she tackles the myth that once a person has been assigned a “diagnosis” of schizophrenia, he/she must take neuroleptics for life. Here’s a quote: “Unfortunately, at this juncture in history many people who get labeled with psychiatric illness these days do not have… 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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