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