Tag: mental illness and free will
Institutionalization: An Unacknowledged Cause of Psychiatric Outpatientsā Deterioration
Psychiatry didnātĀ reallyĀ stop institutionalizing people; it just found new ways to do it. Institutionalization, rather than drug toxicity, best explains patientsā downhill course and their
worsening after coming off meds, as they have lost the skills needed to cope with lifeās challenges due to disuse.
From Phrenology to Brain Scans: How Shaky Neuroscience has Influenced Courts
In āWhen Phrenology Was Used in Court,ā Geoffrey S. Holtzman writes for Slate about the spurious use of brain science in legal cases. In the 1800ās the āscience of phrenologyā promised to reveal criminal psychological traits by measuring the skull and today defense teams still employ neurogenetic explanations for their clientās violent behavior.
