The Schizophrenia Genetics Illusion—A Century of Failure and Hype
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The Biases of Western Medicine | Gabor Maté, MD
This transcript of a talk by Dr. Gabor Maté has been published by Sustainable Human . It begins: “In the realm of child development, I just wish we’d actually look at the evidence. But we don’t. I worked in family practice for…
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Leading Psychiatrists Unwittingly Acknowledge Psychiatry Is a Religion, Not a Science
This article by Dr. Bruce Levine has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “Since the seventeenth century, Enlightenment thinkers have distinguished science from religion, and by at least one critical distinction, leading psychiatrists have unwittingly acknowledged that major constructs…
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It’s Been Utility All Along: An Alternate Understanding of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and The Depressive Realism Hypothesis
“I will challenge CBT’s understanding of mental illness and its therapeutic approach by evaluating the following interrelated claims made by CBT: 1) Individuals with mental illnesses have epistemic issues with their thoughts and that 2) CBT can rectify these epistemic…
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A cure to all mental illnesses?
The Faulty Reasoning That Turned ADHD Into a Disease
How “Mental Disorders” are Diagnosed
Published by the Inner Compass Initiative, this article “examines how diagnoses of ‘mental disorders’ differ from medical diagnoses, and reviews the reliability of mental health screening tests and other clinical methods for diagnosing mental disorders.” It begins: “Are there biological tests…
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Schizophrenia and Genetics: The End of An Illusion
This book comes from Jay Joseph. The publishers say: “Schizophrenia is a widely investigated psychiatric condition, and though there have been claims of gene ”associations,’ decades of molecular genetic studies have failed to produce confirmed causative genes. In this book, Joseph…
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On the Heels of Ignorance: Psychiatry and the Politics of Not Knowing
Sheffield: Call to tackle ‘systemic racism’ in mental health care
