Psychiatry

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When medicine reaches a dead end

Theron Bowers | 23 April 2010 |

tags: DSM-5, psychiatry, sex crimes

Psychiatrists are thinking of classifying habitual rapists as victims of Paraphilic Coercive Disorder. This doesn't even help the criminals. 

Who can heal a guilty conscience?

Aaron Kheriaty | 25 March 2010 |

tags: conscience, psychiatry, sin

Despite efforts to reduce conscience to conditioning, guilt persists, and science is powerless before it.

Crazy controversy

Phillip Elias | 23 March 2010 |

tags: DSM-5, psychiatry

We need psychiatrists to tell us whether we are bad, sad, or mad. But how do they know? They look it up in the DSM. And who writes the DSM?

A textbook diagnosis

Mary Santangelo | 23 March 2010 |

tags: DSM-5, parenting, psychiatry

Worried parents should think first before exposing otherwise healthy adolescents to potent medications.

Death at Fort Hood

Theron Bowers | 19 November 2009 |

tags: evil, Fort Hood, psychiatry, tragedies

Every element in the media's template for multiple shootings by sick and stressed killers is wrong. Have they forgotten about Evil?

The expanding universe of mental illness

Theron Bowers | 30 July 2009 |

tags: mental illness, psychiatry

Will the new psychiatric bible be a victory for science, or politics?

Mind and soul

Aaron Kheriaty | 29 November 2007 |

tags: California, psychiatry, spirituality

Psychiatry has typically shunned religion, but a unique forum at one university has them talking to each other - for the sake of the patient.