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Grief As Mental Illness? Some Hard Questions About PGD Diagnosis

Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD) has officially been recognized as a mental health disorder. The decision could do more harm than good.

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Why the Rise of Mental Illness? Pathologizing Normal, Adverse Drug Effects, and a Peculiar Rebellion

In just two decades, pointing out the pseudoscience of the DSM has gone from being an “extremist slur of radical anti-psychiatrists” to a mainstream proposition from the former chairs of both the DSM-3 and DSM-4 taskforces and the director of NIMH. In addition to the pathologizing of normal behaviors, another explanation for the epidemic the adverse effects of psychiatric medications is also evolving from radical to mainstream, thanks primarily to the efforts of Robert Whitaker and his book Anatomy of an Epidemic. While diagnostic expansionism and Big Pharma certainly deserve a large share of the blame for this epidemic, there is another reason.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Three)

Psychiatry forcefully maintains its delusions, even when the most reliable science has shown that their beliefs are wrong.

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New study investigates whether we think about anxiety and depression differently now

New study investigates whether we think about anxiety and depression differently now
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Sometimes a little bit of faith can go a long, long way : The dark religious vision of Nick Cave

The songs of Nick Cave articulate a religious vision that is not concerned with comfort or certainty, but rather is willing to inhabit the turbid and fecund place of terror when death draws near to life.

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