This blog covers mental health, drugs and psychotherapy with an emphasis on the role of family dysfunction in behavioral problems. It discusses how family systems issues have been denigrated in psychiatry in favor of a disease model for everything by a combination of greedy pharmaceutical and managed care insurance companies, naïve and corrupt experts, twisted science, and desperate parents who want to believe that their children have a brain disease to avoid an overwhelming sense of guilt.
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Friday, April 2, 2010
Debating the Downside of Psychiatric Diagnosis
There was an excellent debate on PBS about psychiatric diagnosis and the DSM-V between DSM-IV editor Allen Francis and APA president Alan Schatzberg. You can see it at: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/health/jan-june10/mentalillness_02-10.html. I have respect for Alan Schatzberg, but his comments about ADHD indicate that he REALLY needs to read my upcoming book.
I call Dr. Schatzberg the Zelig of psychiatry malfeasance -- he always seems to show up where the pharma money is.
ReplyDeleteWhy not send him a copy of your book as a gift, Dr. Allen?