Psychiatry’s hour of crisis: new diagnostic manual triggers infighting, boycotts, resignations
200 years after psychiatry was recognized as a medical discipline, a stark question persists: Is psychiatry credible?
Marketing Crazy—manual doctors use to diagnose mental illness has critics fearing a bonanza of over-medication
“Pretty soon everyone’s going to have a mental disorder or two or three…”
Rise in Military Suicides—Look to the quadrupling of drugs prescribed that cause suicide
Once again the military and mainstream press are searching for all the reasons for troop suicides except for the quadrupling of drugs being prescribed that cause suicide.
Shrink wrapping—A single book has come to dominate psychiatry. That is dangerous
No other major branch of medicine has such a single text, with so much power over people’s lives. And that is worrying. Because in no other branch of medicine is the scientific reality underpinning the pronouncements of doctors so uncertain.
Health Canada—Growing Reports of Deaths For Kids Prescribed Antipsychotics
Health Canada is receiving growing numbers of reports of serious complications in children taking powerful antipsychotics, including deaths.
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