Links in “Psychiatry and the APA”
- Assessing and Enhancing the Effectiveness of Antidepressants – Posted Psychiatric Times 6.13.14
- Is the New ‘Bible of Psychiatry’ a Weapon For The Courts?
“While the DSM’s text is introduced with a caveat that it’s only to be used for clinical, educational, and research purposes, the book has another key application: It’s often used as a way to make decisions within governing bodies, in court, and in the criminal justice system.”
- Psychiatry’s New Guide Falls Short Experts Say
Psychiatry’s guide out of touch with science.
- America’s Epidemic of Psychiatric Over-Diagnosis
“The next time you’re in a crowded room, look around. A scary percentage of the people in the room with you are suffering from a mental disorder. Or at least that’s what we’ve been led to believe, …………….”
- A Mental Health Declaration of Independence
A psychologist Bruce Levine discusses the insidious state of affairs between government, medicine, and big pharma – the “psychiatric-pharmaceutical industrial complex” and states the practices involved need to be abolished by law.
- Bi-Polar Writer Comments on Debate Over Crisis in Psychiatry
Conflicting personal feelings discussed by prominent SA writer about psychiatry and its current issues.
- Overselling Psychiatry
“Allen Frances, former head of the Duke University School of Medicine’s psychiatry department and a man The New York Times once called “perhaps the most powerful psychiatrist in America,” was chair of the APA task force for DSM-IV (issued in 1994). Frances has become the loudest and most influential public voice questioning the DSM’s latest revamp.”
- Seismic Shift in Psychiatry Will Happen Slowly
NIMH seriously skeptical of DSM-5. Seeking other alternatives. Driven by huge disappointments in psychiatric research over the last two decades.