Why Many Doctors Are Authoritarians – and Harmful
For several years, I have thought it important to illuminate the authoritarian nature of mental health professionals—especially those who have not rebelled in any way against their professional...
View ArticleRight-Wing Psychiatry, Love-Me Liberals and the Anti-Authoritarian Left
“In every American community you have varying shades of political opinion. One of the shadiest of these is the liberals. An outspoken group on many subjects, ten degrees to the left of center in good...
View ArticleWhy “Middle-Grounders” May Be as Dangerous as APA Presidents
I just can’t take seriously anyone who presumes that the middle ground is always the voice of reason and the path to truth and justice. Thus, for quite some time, I’ve thought it not worth my time to...
View ArticleLou Reed: That Which Does Not Kill Us Can Radicalize Us
While not as well-known as “Walk on the Wild Side” and “Perfect Day,” and not one of the classics he wrote for the Velvet Underground (such as “Heroin” and “I’ll Be Your Mirror”), Lou Reed’s “Kill Your...
View ArticleTom Paine, Christianity, and Modern Psychiatry
Beyond Common Sense, most Americans know little about Thomas Paine (1737-1809). Few know that at the end of Paine’s life, he had become a pariah in U.S. society, and for many years after his death, he...
View ArticleU.S. Politicians Now “Trauma Informed”—Should We Be Hopeful?
In the late 1990s, the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study revealed a powerful relationship between childhood trauma and later adult emotional difficulties and physical health problems...
View Article10 Reasons Why Psychiatry Lives On—Obvious, Dark, and Darkest
No matter how clearly the scientific case is made that psychiatry is a pseudoscientific institution meriting no scientific authority, do you have that sinking feeling that psychiatry will continue to...
View Article“Sublime Madness”: Anarchists, Psychiatric Survivors, Emma Goldman & Harriet...
When the state becomes chillingly evil—enacting a Fugitive Slave Act to criminalize those helping to free slaves, or financing prisons and wars for the benefit of sociopathic profiteers—and when...
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In a PBS documentary, ECT Is Bad for “Curing” Homosexuality, but Great for...
When I heard that a documentary was in the works which was fiercely critical of the diseasing of homosexuality by the American Psychiatric Association (APA), I was curious how the filmmakers were able...
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Anti-Psychiatry, Szasz, Torrey, Biederman & the Death of Freethinking
In contemporary U.S. society, financial conflicts of interest, flip-flopping, belittling, and arrogance are no drawbacks to becoming a powerful authority—this is true today not only for national...
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Former NIMH Director’s New Book: Why, With More Treatment, Have Suicides and...
The National Institute of Mental Health is the lead U.S. government institution that funds research on mental illness and, according to Thomas Insel, NIMH director from 2002-2015, “NIMH is the world’s...
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Psychiatry’s Medical Model: How It Traumatizes, Retraumatizes & Perverts Healing
Before describing how psychiatry’s medical model traumatizes and retraumatizes—both overtly and insidiously—and before distinguishing genuine healing from psychiatry’s perversion of this term, I will...
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Psychiatry’s Failure Crisis: Are You Moderately or Radically Enlightened?
Psychiatry has historically promoted dogma—not science—and dogma tends to be boring for freethinkers who can smell its odor even before they can deconstruct it. The challenge then is this: How can...
View ArticlePsychiatry’s Nightmarish 2022 & Its Hysterical Defense Against Criticism
This year has been an especially nightmarish one for psychiatry defenders. Receiving widespread attention in the mainstream media was the July 2022 article “The Serotonin Theory of Depression: A...
View ArticleLeading Psychiatrists Unwittingly Acknowledge Psychiatry Is a Religion, Not a...
Since the seventeenth century, Enlightenment thinkers have distinguished science from religion, and by at least one critical distinction, leading psychiatrists have unwittingly acknowledged that major...
View ArticleFrom Peer Support to Psychedelics: Psychiatry’s Co-Optation & De-Radicalization
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then if they can’t kill you, they co-opt you. Co-optation here refers to the process by which a powerful institution attempts to preserve its control by...
View ArticleThe APA’s Apology for Racism Omits Psychiatry’s Essential Bigotry
In 2021, the American Psychiatric Association (APA), the guild of U.S. psychiatrists, acknowledged its history of racism. However, it is difficult to imagine how psychiatry will ever acknowledge that...
View ArticlePsychiatry’s Control-Freak Medical Model Versus Healing and Healers
In 2021, New York Times reporter Benedict Carey, after covering psychiatry for twenty years, concluded that psychiatry had done “little to improve the lives of the millions of people living with...
View ArticleWhy Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, &...
How can psychiatry maintain its authority and influence despite its repeated scientific failures and lack of progress—now even acknowledged by key members of the psychiatric establishment and the...
View ArticleDepression: Psychiatry’s Discredited Theories and Drugs Versus a Sane Model...
Psychiatry’s serotonin-imbalance theory of depression, long discarded by researchers, was finally flushed down the toilet by psychiatry and the mainstream media in 2022. And psychiatrists’ primary...
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