The incarceration of John: Free John, Psychiatric Prisoner. He has family who love him and have many resources to help him. There is quite a bit of back story here on this blog Today Grainne's hard work campaigning for her partner has resulted in the story reaching the front page of the international paper in Ireland.... Continue Reading →
Throwing the baby out with the bathwater -- Holistic Recovery -- I actually noticed this New York Times article Accepting that Good Parents Can Plant Bad Seeds but avoided posting it because it was problematic in my mind and not something I was currently able to take on with commentary. I'm very glad that Rossa... Continue Reading →
Here is a summary of the hair-raising things Carlat said. Some pertain directly to his own beliefs and practices, while some pertain to the state of the profession, though clearly there is no exact line between the two, as he is a fundamentally uncritical practitioner of his profession: He diagnoses people in the course of very short sessions basing his judgment solely on the DSM; to Carlat, the patient represents, not a complex human reality, but a cluster of symptoms. His job is to match these symptoms directly to those listed in the DSM in order to come up with a diagnosis. This diagnosis is, to him, a fact about the patient. Check out the following statements:
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