Bruce Levine
Psychiatry’s Latest Insane Magic-Bullet Treatment for Depression: Why Ketamine?
Clinics offering ketamine infusions and injections for “treatment-resistant depression” are today claiming 24-48 hours remission, and ketamine is also being marketed for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), obsessive-compulsive disorder, bipolar disorder, and anxiety disorder. “Between 500 and 750 ketamine clinics have cropped up across the United States,” NPR reported early in 2024 (“The Ketamine Economy: New […]
Psychiatry’s Latest Insane Magic-Bullet Treatment for Depression: Why Ketamine?
Clinics offering ketamine infusions and injections for “treatment-resistant depression” are today claiming 24-48 hours remission, and ketamine is also being marketed for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), obsessive-compulsive disorder, bipolar disorder, and anxiety disorder. “Between 500 and 750 ketamine clinics have cropped up across the United States,” NPR reported early in 2024 (“The Ketamine Economy: New […]
Curiously Podcast: Has Mainstream Psychiatry Gone Insane?
The Core Error of Psychiatrists and Psychologists: Certainty about “Consensus Reality”
Consensus reality is the agreed upon reality by a society and community. Genuine scientists and other critical thinkers recognize that consensus reality is not synonymous with reality, and that pursuing truth and reducing unnecessary suffering means a willingness to challenge certainties and the consensus.
The Core Error of Psychiatrists and Psychologists: Certainty about “Consensus Reality”
Consensus reality is the agreed upon reality by a society and community. Genuine scientists and other critical thinkers recognize that consensus reality is not synonymous with reality, and that pursuing truth and reducing unnecessary suffering means a willingness to challenge certainties and the consensus.
The U.S. Disconnecting & Numbing Epidemic: The Culprit and Our Options
In the U.S. in 2022, 49,476 people died by suicide, and there were approximately 1.6 million suicide attempts. Not included in suicide statistics is the even more common U.S. “death of despair” of drug overdose death, numbering 107,941 in 2022. While most of us are not attempting to kill our pain in a manner that […]
The U.S. Disconnecting & Numbing Epidemic: The Culprit and Our Options
In the U.S. in 2022, 49,476 people died by suicide, and there were approximately 1.6 million suicide attempts. Not included in suicide statistics is the even more common U.S. “death of despair” of drug overdose death, numbering 107,941 in 2022. While most of us are not attempting to kill our pain in a manner that […]
The Clinical, Social, and Cultural Harm of an Iatrogenic Psychiatry
The harm caused by the medical profession is called iatrogenesis, and in 1975, Ivan Illich (1926-2002) published Medical Nemesis (republished titled Limits to Medicine) in which he discussed the clinical, social, and cultural iatrogenesis of modern medicine. Illich was a philosopher and social critic of monopolistic institutions and bureaucracies in Western society that undermine self-sufficiency, […]
The Clinical, Social, and Cultural Harm of an Iatrogenic Psychiatry
The harm caused by the medical profession is called iatrogenesis, and in 1975, Ivan Illich (1926-2002) published Medical Nemesis (republished titled Limits to Medicine) in which he discussed the clinical, social, and cultural iatrogenesis of modern medicine. Illich was a philosopher and social critic of monopolistic institutions and bureaucracies in Western society that undermine self-sufficiency, […]
How to Explain Top Psychiatrists’ “Dr. Strangelove Exuberance” Unchecked by Reality
Exuberant individuals who disregard societal consensus reality are routinely diagnosed by psychiatrists with bipolar disorder; however, among psychiatrists themselves, exuberance about psychiatry regardless of the reality of psychiatry’s repeated scientific failures makes one a leading psychiatrist. While one explanation for top psychiatrists’ exuberance unchecked by reality is their financial conflicts of interest with Big Pharma, […]
