Ethical Considerations Involved in Accepting Health Insurance
For some of us, completing insurance forms and providing carriers with a treatment plan means the complete falsification of who we are and how we really work. Continue reading →The post Ethical...
View ArticleWill Power, Self Control and Self Discipline
The widespread acceptance of diagnostic labels corresponding to discrete forms of mental illness, akin to recognizable physical syndromes and ailments, deprives our emotional life of its meaning and...
View ArticleAutism Symptoms Get a Second Look
The upcoming revision to the APA's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual will purportedly eliminate Asperger's Syndrome as a diagnosis, once again calling into question the scientific precision and...
View ArticleADHD Symptoms and Their Treatment: Drugs Don’t Work
Recent studies have shown that there is no evidence to support the "inborn defect" theory of attention deficit disorder, and that drugs such as Ritalin and Adderall have no lasting effect on ADHD...
View ArticleADHD Symptoms Revisited
A reconsideration of Alan Sroufe's article in the New York Times about ADHD symptoms, as well as the rebuttals and reactions from Harold S. Koplewicz and Judth Warner. Continue reading →The post ADHD...
View ArticleChildhood ADHD: Over-Diagnosed or Under-Treated?
I was planning to write an overview of the recent controversy in this area concerning frequency of childhood ADHD diagnosis and treatment with stimulant medication. This very lively exchange of expert...
View ArticleAntisocial Personality Disorder: The Sociopath Next Door
I’ve been reading The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout — an excellent and yet frustrating book about antisocial personality disorder. Stout’s engaging style and in-depth clinical experience with...
View ArticleThe Shame in Mental Illness
My recent posts got me to thinking about the term mental illness and how stigma-laden it remains to this day. As a society, we’ve come a long way from the bad old days when most people were too ashamed...
View ArticleBenzodiazepines and Dementia
I haven’t written about my opposition to the widespread use of psychiatric medications in quite some time, mostly because I feel I’ve already said most of what I have to say on this issue. (See the...
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