Tag Archives: DSM

I’m the Map!

Posted on April 7, 2016 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

If there’s a place you gotta get… I’m the map. -The Map Maps are useful – they can help us making sense of our world and for navigating our way round. A map is not the territory it represents. … Continue reading →

Posted in anatomy of an epidemic, Emancipate yourself..., making sense of "mental illlness" | Tagged Big Pinata, DSM, I'm The Map, Map | Comments Off

Psychiatry: the Drug Pushers – Will Self

Posted on August 21, 2013 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Writer Will Self knows a thing or two about drugs – he was once [in]famously sacked for admitting he had snorted heroine on the [UK] Prime Minister’s plane – so he likely also knows how to spot a drug pusher: … Continue reading →

Posted in anatomy of an epidemic, medication madness, Psychiatry, The Mad Ones | Tagged drugs, DSM, mental health, Psychiatric medication, Psychiatry | Comments Off

DSM-5 and The Crisis in Psychiatry – Philip Thomas

Posted on August 5, 2013 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

We are delighted today to be able to share the text and slides from the talk given by Phil Thomas at Now We’re all Crazy- What’s Next? on Mon 8th July as part of Mad Pride Toronto 2013. Phil Thomas … Continue reading →

Posted in making sense of "mental illlness" | Tagged DSM, Madness, MadPride, Psychiatry | 9 Comments

Rosenhan – On Being Sane in Insane Places. pt 3

Posted on July 18, 2013 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

In this brief video David Rosenhan talks about the experiment, the experiences of the pseudo patients and observations on the environment inside psychiatric hospital – as warehouses for people whom society has given up on and lost sympathy for. Below the video is Rosenhan’s Paper published … Continue reading →

Posted in Ideas, The Mad Ones | Tagged David Rosenhan, DSM, Psychiatry, Rosenhan experiment | 2 Comments

The Backlash – On Being Sane In Insane Places pt2

Posted on July 17, 2013 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

The response to David Rosenhan’s experiment [see part 1 here] from the private members club the American Psychiatric Assciation was far from being a happy one. [see right] It was after all their game, their club and their ball and they’ll cry if they … Continue reading →

Posted in anatomy of an epidemic, making sense of "mental illlness", myths about mental illness, The Mad Ones, what's going on? | Tagged Anti-psychiatry, APA, David Rosenhan, DSM, Nelly, Sigmund Freud | 4 Comments

reducing the pool of normal

Posted on July 11, 2013 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

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 | 6 Comments

De Doo Doo Doo Dah Dah Dah Dah Disorder

Posted on May 21, 2013 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Doo-doo-doo-doo Doo-dah-dah-dah Disorder This one did not make it past all the committees and golf games into the new and, we predict, the very last edition of the big book of mental disorders out this week. A secret source informs … Continue reading →

Posted in The Mad Ones | Tagged disorder, Doo Doo Doo Doo, DSM, mental health, sting, voices | 1 Comment

DSM5 – mad, bad, or just plain daft ?

Posted on May 13, 2013 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

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 →

Posted in making sense of "mental illlness", medication madness, mental diversity, The Mad Ones | Tagged daft diagnosis, diagnosis, DSM, DSM-5, Grimm, mad fer it, Mental disorder, Texas, Titter, titter ye not | 11 Comments

Mama we’er all crazee now

Posted on April 25, 2013 by dave umbongo

Dateline 1972 The Slade: Don Powell, Jim Lea, Dave Hill, and Noddy Holder . Two score plus one more years ago these fine gentlemen from The Black Country like, TOTALLY predicted the contents of DSM5 and, unwittingly, also gave the American Pyschiatric Association their strategy … Continue reading →

Posted in The Mad Ones | Tagged Black Country, Dave Hill, Don Powell, DSM, Jim Lea, Noddy Holder, Psychiatry, Slade | Comments Off

HUAD – Head Up Ass Disorder

Posted on February 18, 2013 by dave umbongo

Head Up Ass Disorder A condition which typically affects members of professional bodies and representatives of large corporations that are built on claims of dodgy science and marketing untruths. Members of APA were found to be over represented in epidemiology … Continue reading →