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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
Take Your Pills: Xanax
“Take Your Pills: Xanax” – directed by Emmy winner Blair Foster – is the title of a documentary on Netflix that looks at this widely prescribed anti-anxiety medication. Here is a trailer: You can only watch the entire documentary if you…
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Diagnosis as Self-Understanding & Self-Alienation: what you need to know about your diagnosis
The helpful delusion: Evidence is growing that mental illness is more than dysfunction, with enormous implications for treatment
Doctor knows best, poisoned chalices, and beings on drugs: Young people’s accounts of getting the diagnosis of bipolar disorder
Calling someone ‘anti-psychiatry’ is not an argument – and for many it feels abusive