Tag: rethinking psychiatric diagnoses
The Secret to Psychiatryâs âSuccess,â as Revealed by a Psychiatrist
Pills canât be the main source of psychiatryâs sustained success, since theyâre mostly placebos and people who take them usually worsen over time. Could psychiatryâs newly invented diseases themselves be the hot items that people are being manipulated into buying? Yes â I saw from within my field how it happened.
Yale Neuroscientists Debunked the Idea That Anyone is “Normal”
From Quartz: A new study by Yale neuroscientists proves that there is no universal, unconditionally optimal profile of brain functioning. This means that differences often categorized...
Rethinking the Validity of Schizophrenia on World Mental Health Day
An open letter launched on World Mental Health Day, supported by people with lived experience, friends, family members, workers and researchers, calls on Rethink Mental Illness, one of the major English mental health charities, to co-create a new conversation about the diagnosis âschizophrenia.â
Large-Scale Study Reveals Arbitrariness of DSM Depression Diagnosis
A new study on the depression symptoms of over three-thousand patients challenges the criteria used for diagnosing major depression with the latest Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-5). Current diagnostic systems are based on an assumption that the symptoms of depression point to a common underlying âillness," but research suggests that this framework may be outdated and oversimplified.