Your Consent Is Not Required: The Rise in Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment, and Abusive Guardianships
psychiatry
Hermeneutic Labor in Medicine and Psychiatry
This article by Dr. Awais Aftab has been published on his blog-site Psychiatry at the Margins. It begins: “Ellie Anderson has discussed the notion of ‘hermeneutic labor’”’ in the context of feminist scholarship in a wonderful paper, ‘ Hermeneutic Labor: The Gendered Burden of Interpretation in Intimate Relationships Between Women and Men ,’ forthcoming in Hypatia….
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The Schizophrenia Genetics Illusion—A Century of Failure and Hype
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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Delusion and Reason: An Argument for a Phenomenological Model for Understanding Schizophrenic Delusion
This article by Gert Jensen, published in the Schizophrenia Bulletin, includes a very illuminating first-hand account of the subjective, lived experience of what is called ‘schizophrenia’. The article begins: “The nature of some schizophrenic delusions seems distinct from delusions present in…
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A Revolution Wobbles: Will Norway’s “Medication-Free” Hospital Survive?
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
Not doomed: sociology and psychiatry, and ignorance and expertise
