Psychiatry

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We’re all mad here

Allen Frances | 21 May 2013 |

tags: DSM-5, psychiatry

That's the message of the new edition of the bible for American psychiatrists, DSM-5. Diagnostic inflation is about to become hyperinflation.

Thomas Szasz: man versus myth

Theron Bowers | 23 October 2012 |

tags: mental health, psychiatry

An unconventional psychiatrist reminds us that the zeal to help is easily corrupted by a need for control.

Norway’s theatre of the absurd

Theron Bowers | 25 June 2012 |

tags: Anders Behring Breivik, justice, Norway, psychiatry

The psychiatrists and prosecutors are crazier than the man who killed 77 innocent people last year.

Frail and aged, a giant apologizes

Gerard van den Aardweg | 31 May 2012 |

tags: homosexuality, psychiatry, same-sex marriage

A leading figure in the study of homosexuality recently recanted his belief that some gays can change. There was no need to apologize, says a Dutch psychologist.

The barbarian inside the gates

Phillip Elias | 25 April 2012 |

tags: Breivik, Norway, psychiatry

How can we know whether Breivik is sane or insane, responsible or not responsible?

Shutting down the debate

Pravin Thevathasan | 03 April 2012 |

tags: abortion, psychiatry

An international conference of psychiatrists is ignoring the clamorous debate over the psychological consequences of abortion.

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.