Tag: Joseph Biederman
Anti-Psychiatry, Szasz, Torrey, Biederman & the Death of Freethinking
Americans appear to be increasingly terrified by the possibility of ostracism, including for failing to conform to psychiatry dogma. This prevents critical thinking.
Leading Psychiatrists Follow Top-Dog Bankersâ Guide to Career Advancement
A career update for members of the âPsychiatry Hall of Shame,â including the group excoriated in the 2008 Congressional investigations, and another psychiatrist who conducted studies aimed at inducing psychosisâexperiments that appeared to run counter to the Nuremberg Code of research ethics.
Diagnosisgate: A Major Media Blackout Mystery
Remember âColonel Mustard in the kitchen with the candlestickâ? From the game called âClueâ in which you tried to solve a murder mystery? Thereâs a current, all-too-true and serious mystery involving devastating consequences â even death â for uncounted but vast numbers of people, but in this one the culprits are known to a very few, while their motives remain mysterious. The story starts in 1995, when the man widely considered the worldâs most important psychiatrist split a payoff of nearly one million dollars with two colleagues in exchange for doing two patently unethical and illegal things that created the groundwork for a major drug company to market falsely one of the most dangerous psychoactive drugs.