How “Garbage-In-Garbage-Out” Academic Psychiatry Research Has Become Even More Ridiculous, and How Taking It Seriously Impoverishes Critical Thinkers
This deterioration from bad science to no science has created a dilemma for critical thinkers. On the one hand, society today takes psychiatry’s claims more seriously than ever, and thus many critical thinkers may feel a social obligation to debunk its claims. However, given the obvious nonscientific nature of these claims, critical thinkers who become consumed by these claims and by the social obligation to debunk them can find themselves intellectually impoverished.
Psychiatry Criticism Politics: When the Enemy of Your Enemy is Not Your Friend
Many people from very different groups do not like establishment psychiatry. Some of them are my friends, however, some of them belong to authoritarian groups that I dislike as much as I dislike establishment psychiatry. Who are enemies of establishment psychiatry that are not my friends? What kind of dealings—if any—does it make sense to […]
Criticisms That Establishment Psychiatry Can and Cannot Tolerate
For the institutions comprising establishment psychiatry, self-preservation means maintaining legitimacy as a branch of medicine. Thus, any criticism of establishment psychiatry—no matter how harsh—that can also be applied to medicine in general does not threaten its existential legitimacy. However, criticism that uniquely applies to establishment psychiatry but not to medicine in general does threaten its […]
Unshrunk: A Memoir That Upsets the NYT and Which Freethinkers Will Love
Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance, the newly published book by Laura Delano, is scaring the hell out of establishment psychiatry and its Big Pharma partners, who in recent years could count on the mainstream media to ignore books and films that cost them status and business. However, the mainstream media, including the New […]
Do Critics of Biological Psychiatry Have an Alternative to a Life of “Whack-A-Mole”?
“Challenging the biological model of depression feels like a game of whack-a-mole: as soon as you put one theory to bed, another one sprouts up.”—Joanna Moncrieff, Chemically Imbalanced
New Book by Courageous Psychiatrist about Her Profession’s Most Damaging Falsehood
While it is debatable as to exactly which of the many war-mongering lies told by politicians has resulted in the most disastrous outcome, when it comes to falsehoods declared by the psychiatry establishment and their Big Pharma partners, it would be difficult to find one that has created more damage than the chemical imbalance theory of depression—harming not only individual patients but society. This is the subject of psychiatrist Joanna Moncrieff’s recently published Chemically Imbalanced: The Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth.
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 […]
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 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, […]
