Do Critics of Biological Psychiatry Have an Alternative to a Life of “Whack-A-Mole”?

March 18, 2025March 18, 2025 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Economic Manuscripts: Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy

stablishment psychiatry has recently switched the biological cause of mental illness from a “chemical imbalance” to a “brain circuitry defect.” There is no more important institution in establishment psychiatry than the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), and in 2022, psychiatrist Thomas Insel, NIMH director from 2002-2015, stated in his book Healing, “The idea of mental illness as a ‘chemical imbalance’ has now given way to mental illnesses as ‘connectional’ or brain circuit disorders.”

Do Critics of Biological Psychiatry Have an Alternative to a Life of “Whack-A-Mole”?

Managing Nonconformity: Lessons from Quality

March 1, 2025March 1, 2025 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The way psychiatry treats those who deviate from the norm is akin to the outdated and unhelpful way that industry used to understand the assembly line—something that manufacturing started moving away from by the mid-20th century.

Managing Nonconformity: Lessons from Quality

Speak Up Before VA Health Care Is Gutted #Project2025

February 22, 2025February 22, 2025 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

While controversy swirls around last week’s mass firing of 1,000 Department of Veterans Affairs’ employees, a far greater threat to veterans’ health care is going completely unnoticed. Powerful leaders in Congress have quietly unveiled their plan to gut VA-delivered care, wrapped in the misleadingly titled “Veterans’ ACCESS Act.” If veterans don’t act fast, they will lose the VA health care system they know and depend on.

The bill appears innocuous enough, with aspirations of accountability. But don’t be fooled. Hidden in its depths like a ticking time bomb is a provision intended to dismantle the integrated VA health care system faster than you can say “privatization.”

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Follow the money, which will hemorrhage from the VA to the private sector. The likely outcome is that the VA will close its inpatient services and instead become a sprawling assortment of outpatient clinics. If that sounds familiar, it is the plan laid out in the Project 2025 playbook. Veterans are being hoodwinked that the VA facilities they rely on won’t be impacted. Don’t buy it for a second.

Speak Up Before VA Health Care Is Gutted

Previously:

What’s in Store for VA Disability Benefits with New Office of Management and Budget Chief?

‘I Want You’—How Uncle Sam helped invent public relations

February 22, 2025February 22, 2025 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

While it only lasted for a year and half, the Committee on Public Information was the first official propaganda machine in the United States. The CPI sold and financed a war, framed the Spanish flu pandemic, and helped birth the field of modern public relations.

‘I Want You’—How Uncle Sam helped invent public relations

Protected: Personal: Benzodiazepine-Induced Neurological Dysfunction

February 6, 2025February 14, 2025 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

How Henry R. Luce and Clare Boothe Luce helped turn America on to LSD + Some Notes

December 17, 2024December 25, 2024 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The Time and Life Acid Trip: How Henry R. Luce and Clare Boothe Luce helped turn America on to LSD. (archived)

I accidentally came across this when I was looking into Henry Luce, some more. It doesn’t mention Luce’s ties to the CIA, i.e. Operation Mockingbird. The notes are from another project that I’ve been slowly working on. That one I won’t be publicizing until I’m finished with it.

Protected: Personal: Yikes! ⚠️

December 3, 2024December 11, 2024 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Reading 11-17-2024

November 17, 2024 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.

I downloaded a couple of books by Eva Illouz to read. She was quoted in this article that I posted, earlier, and I was curious what she had to say. So far, it’s going slow because I keep getting distracted.

**A couple of other books that I downloaded to read next.**

Gender and Psychiatry: Pathologized Emotions

November 9, 2024November 9, 2024 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)2 Comments

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.

Gender and Psychiatry: Pathologized Emotions