The way psychiatry treats those who deviate from the norm is akin to the outdated and unhelpful way that industry used to understand the assembly line—something that manufacturing started moving away from by the mid-20th century.
Tag: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
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Gender and Psychiatry: Pathologized Emotions
As Phyllis Chesler warned us in 1974, gender bias has accompanied psychiatric power throughout its history. Years later, in 2005, in the last annotated edition of Women and Madness , the author insisted on the persistence of this bias, which even today, 50 years later, seems to remain unchanged. Authors such as Ussher, Caplan, Margot Pujal and many others were situated in that same space. With their differences and nuances, they all converge on the same point: gender problems and discomforts produce deep suffering. This suffering leaves marks on our bodies and our behavior.
Top Neurologist Blows Whistle: ‘ADHD Does Not Exist, It Was Invented To Hook Kids on Drugs’
Republicans Pump Brakes on KOSA After Realizing It Could Censor Them Too 🤭
from the always-think-of-how-your-worst-enemy-will-use-this-law dept
For a while, we’ve been pointing out how terrible KOSA (the Kids Online Safety Act) is. Our main concern is that the bill would fundamentally lead to the suppression of all kinds of speech. That’s because the “duty of care” provision, while limited, would allow officials (mostly at the FTC, which can get partisan) to argue that certain types of results were due to a design failure, and companies would seek to suppress content, rather than face the potential liability.
Republicans Pump Brakes on KOSA After Realizing It Could Censor Them Too
Marx, Spinoza, and the Political Implications of Contemporary Psychiatry
Simple logic tells us that those atop a societal hierarchy will provide rewards for professionals—be they clergy or psychiatrists—who promote an ideology that maintains the status quo, and that the ruling class will do everything possible to manipulate the public to believe that the social-economic-political status quo is natural.
Marx, Spinoza, and the Political Implications of Contemporary Psychiatry
Millions of Dollars of Pharma Money Went to the DSM-5-TR Authors
About 60% of the authors had financial ties to industry, which are not disclosed in the DSM. Studies show that conflicts of interest lead to pro-industry decision-making.
Millions of Dollars of Pharma Money Went to the DSM-5-TR Authors
H/T: Unorthodox Truth
Previously:
Scientific Misconduct and Fraud: The Final Nail in Psychiatry’s Antidepressant Coffin
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