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Tag Archives: DSM-5
the combo – psychiatric soup
[…continued from Reducing the pool of normal] The Big Book of Woe, soup-in-a-can, psychiatrists as car mechanics and dreaming of white lavender scented sheets… DSM and inclusion For all the fuss, at least DSM5 is, unlike its predecessors, inclusive – since its … Continue reading
reducing the pool of normal
Has the biomedical myth : the one that has so completely dominated psychiatry and so, by extension, all “mental health” services , either by design or accident, succeeded in reducing our idea of normal human experience to the point that … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas, The Mad Ones
Tagged APA, British Empire, DSM, DSM-5, Mental disorder, mental health
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mind games – Kwame McKenzie
Wonderful article by Kwame McKenzie in Walrus Magazine, March 2013. In Mind Games, Kwame McKenzie takes us on a brief tour through the history of attempts to regularize and standardize diagnosis in psychiatry, encoded in three major systems of diagnosis – … Continue reading
Posted in stress, The Mad Ones, work
Tagged American Psychiatric Association, DSM-5, Kwame McKenzie, Mad Pride, mental health, Psychiatry, Rosenhan experiment
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DSM5 – mad, bad, or just plain daft ?
Only days to go in the countdown to the publication of the worlds most expensive doorstop DSM5. If you really do need a doorstop try your local dollar store – mine has two for $1.29 and they work perfectly well. … Continue reading
A disease called “childhood”
An opinion piece by Dr Allen Frances in New York Post pointing out how difficult it is to diagnose mental illness in teens, and all young people, and how the current practices lead to high levels of overdiagnosis, which in … Continue reading
Posted in medication madness, mental diversity, what's going on?
Tagged ADHD, ALLEN FRANCES, Big Pharma, childhood, DSM-5, magical thinking
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DSM-5 – Animal Pharm?
As DSM5 goes to press midst lots of criticism, a different perspective… Is DSM5 a spectacularly sinister and stoooopid project designed to put us all in nice little boxes – like the ones for sale at those fetishistic organising emporia … Continue reading
Posted in what's going on?
Tagged American Psychiatric Association, Animal Farm, APA, DSM-5, George Orwell, mental health
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is marriage a leading cause of serious “mental illness” ?
Still think people hear voices because they have a broken brain/ serious “mental illness”? Maybe they’re just married and their spouse has died. Try this… From research … Almost half of married people experience some form of seeing, hearing or … Continue reading
Posted in family, hearing voices, The Mad Ones
Tagged DSM-5, Hearing Voices Movement, mental health, schizophrenia, Stanley Cup, Wales
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diagnosis for dummies
The increasing usefulness of DSM with every revision is clearly illustrated here in this ‘ere photo. DSM-III clearly represented a great leap forward over previous versions… – it can hold open a much bigger, heavier door on a bright, breezy spring day. This … Continue reading
Posted in The Mad Ones, what's going on?
Tagged APA, DSM, DSM-5, mental health
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occupy APA
Psychiatrists the world over await with enough symptoms to draw the attention of a prescription pad- toting colleague to find out which of their favourite diagnoses have made it through the final voting stages to get into the new version of their Diagnostic “handbook” … Continue reading
Posted in advocacy and rights, Event, what's going on?
Tagged APA, DSM-5, James Gottstein, MindFreedom International, occupy
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Open Letter to DSM 5
Online open letter / petition to the DSM 5 committee from the Society for Humanistic Psychology, Division 32 of the American Psychological Association. Co-signatories include many organisations from around the world. The DSM – Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Psychiatric Disorders, … Continue reading
Posted in advocacy and rights, Emancipate yourself..., mental diversity
Tagged DSM, DSM-5, mental health
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