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Rash of suicides alarm Pa. prison officials
CorrectionsOne PHILADELPHIA — Three suicides and one attempted suicide by Philadelphia prison inmates since Wednesday has prompted the corrections system to take stepped-up preventive measures, officials said. A 25-year-old man was found hanging from an air ... Prisons step up preventive efforts amid rash of suicidesPhiladelphia Inquirer LET'S TACKLE PRISONS WOESThe Citizen Daily all 7 news articles » |
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Lost boys of Bagram in prison's shadow
The News International "Sometimes I feel like I'm still in prison," said Khan, who, like all foreign prisoners at Bagram, was never charged with a crime. "They put me in jail for six years. No proof, nothing. I spent my youth behind bars," he said, adding that he and other ... Lost boys of Bagram still live in prison's shadowTerra.com all 17 news articles » |
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Mid East and World News. Worldwide News Syndication. Homepage ... Dubai: Police Wednesday announced that a new forensic science and criminology department will be set up within two years, which will feature specialised areas related to chemistry, biology and nuclear science. Speaking at a ... There will also be a new section at the department to investigate traffic accidents, as well as psychiatrists to evaluate the mental state of suspects,” said Lt Gen Dahi.
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While that ethics rule applies only to psychiatrists, the American Psychological Association has a very similar one. ... Consider this commentary by high-profile forensic psychiatrist Michael Welner on a Washington Post blog: ... One could even argue that we as professionals have an affirmative duty to help offset the inane speculation that pours in to fill any vacuum in the cutthroat world of daily journalism: Portrayals of Holmes as a "recluse" and a "loner" because he ...
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Nigerians, who were recently repatriated from the crises-torn Libya relay their ordeal after they were caught in-between two feuding camps. Their appearances tell the story of the ordeals they went through in their host country.
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President Joyce Banda has said prisons should not be “hell on earth” but places where inmates may be rehabilitated and reformed to become productive and useful citizens. She was speaking on Sunday after attending ...
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Rash of suicides alarm Pa. prison officials
CorrectionsOne "All inmates housed in the affected areas are being seen by behavioral health staff to assess their current mental state," Giorla said. He also said a regularly scheduled review by an independent prisons monitor of behavioral health services, set to ... and more » |
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One of Cuba's best-known dissidents, Oswaldo Paya, leader of the Christian Liberation Movement, died on Sunday in a car crash, religious and dissident sources said.
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Breivik failed to change Norway: PM
Sydney Morning Herald Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg says right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik, who massacred 77 people a year ago, has failed in his attempt to change Norwegian society. "The bomb and bullets were aimed at changing Norway. The Norwegian people ... |
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Norway remembers victims on massacre anniversary
CBS News Anders Behring Breivik, a 33-year-old far-right fanatic, has admitted to the July 22, 2011, attacks: a bombing of the government district in Oslo, killing eight, and a shooting rampage that left 69 dead at the left-wing Labor Party's youth camp on ... |
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Families, educators and medical professionals need to be aware of the behavior that might signal psychotic breaks of the kind that tormented Loughner. In the case of Breivik, simple evil seems to suffice as an explanation. (See Sohrab Ahmari's account of his trial nearby.) A civilized modern society is paradoxically more vulnerable to an act of individual malevolence than it is to a terror plot that at least its law enforcers are watching for. There may be no real defense ...
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Law enforcement is taking to social media because criminals are changing their behavior and using social media to facilitate crime. In response, law enforcement officials are using it to track down criminals and as a predictive ...
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Norway marks year since Breivik massacred 77 in Oslo, Utoeya island
The Australian NORWEGIANS have marked a year since right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik massacred 77 people, at a poignant memorial ceremony on the island of Utoeya where most of his mainly teenage victims fell. "Let us honour the dead by celebrating life," ... |
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Norway marks anniversary of Breivik massacre
Hindustan Times Some 50000 people attended a concert in Oslo on Sunday evening to mark the first anniversary of the gun and bomb rampage by Norwegian right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik, which claimed 77 lives. Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg had earlier led ... |
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Norway commemorates anniversary of Breivik bloodbath
The News International UTOEYA, Norway: Norwegians on Sunday marked a year since right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik massacred 77 people with a poignant memorial ceremony on the island of Utoeya where most of his mainly teenage victims fell. “Even though we ... |
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A year after Breivik's massacre, Norway tightens antiterror laws
Christian Science Monitor The proposed laws would have made Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian man behind the July 22 attacks that claimed 77 lives, criminally responsible in the planning phase had he been caught with his home-made bombs and arsenal of weapons meant ... |
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Norway remembers the 77 people killed by Anders Behring Breivik
The Guardian Thousands of Norwegians gathered on Sunday at sombre memorials to the 77 people killed a year ago by Anders Behring Breivik to show his rampage had done nothing to alter their belief in an open society. Norway's prime minister, Jens Stoltenberg, told ... |
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It is piloting a new collaborative approach for clinicians and service users to use when developing care and treatment options for patients in forensic mental health settings. Dr MacInnes said: “We are delighted that our project ...
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Tackle prison congestion problem
The Times Group (blog) One of government's top obligations is to maintain law and order among its citizens. This is achieved through the promulgation and strict enforcement of laws, which are formulated to protect people and their property. The government, through the ... JB says Malawi prisons should not be 'hell on earth'Nyasa Times Reverend's imprisonment was a blessing in disguiseallvoices all 6 news articles » |
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Lost boys of Bagram still live in prison's shadow
The Express Tribune KARACHI: During some sleepless nights when his stark bedroom walls remind him too much of his old prison cell in Afghanistan, Jan Sher Khan scans Internet dating sites he'd heard about from U.S. soldiers who once guarded him. The 24-year-old Pakistani ... Lost boys of Bagram in prison's shadowThe News International all 19 news articles » |
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Two prominent Canadian doctors have joined an international campaign calling on world leaders to stop the spread of AIDS by ending the so called war on drugs.
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takes into account the expectations of stakeholders; • is in compliance with applicable law and consistent with international norms of behavior; and • is integrated throughout the organization and practiced in its relationships.” ...
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After I had mentioned that he verbally threatened to do harm to both of these DJ's, they finally relented and said that yes he could exhibit violent behavior without medication. However, both the doctors and law enforcement ...
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Norwegians reaffirm tolerance as they commemorate Breivik victims
Irish Times NORWEGIANS BY the thousands gathered yesterday at sombre memorials to the 77 people killed a year ago by far-right gunman Anders Behring Breivik to show his bloody rampage had done nothing to change their dedication to an open society. “The bomb ... |
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An addiction is horrible; it is like dragging a lead weight around that you cannot be rid of. Even if you want to be rid of your addiction, you find that you are drawn right back to it again. Often though, people are addicted to things ...
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12 Steps to Victory over Sexual Addiction Based on the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous Step 1: Admitted I am powerless over my compulsiveness and.
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Occasioned by two comments he left on my blog, we last time discussed Chad Holtz's recent return from Pure Life Ministries, where he had gone to live for seven.
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New gateways to addiction
The Westerly Sun Astrid Meijer, a paid campaigner against nicotine addiction, faces some stiff competition in the battle for the hearts, minds and lungs of today's teenager. It comes in the form of products and marketing that package nicotine in candies, gum, and ... |
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The Situation was supposed to be the face of some anti-fat cream, but instead he ended up in rehab and never did a thing ... so says the company who hired…
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Smokeless treatment centers make recovery difficult for addicts
ksl.com Benavidez, who is in her first attempt of overcoming a longtime addiction to "booze, pills and meth," said she hopes that the additional challenge of giving up smoking does not become too onerous. "I understand we have to climb a mountain to get clean. |
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I've been clean from any kind of narcotics for over a year now, but here recently I've found myself at the local bar more often than I probaly should.
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Heroin use growing nationwide
Evansville Courier & Press With addicts desperate for a cheaper high than prescription drugs or seeking a more powerful fix, experts are seeing heroin addiction treatment admissions, overdoses and fatalities rising in nearly every region, including areas where the drug has ... Reporter knows that life is possible after heroin addictionPeoria Journal Star all 4 news articles » |
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Objective:
Psychopathy is a personality disorder associated with severely antisocial behavior and a host of cognitive and affective deficits. The neuropathological basis of the disorder has not been clearly established. Cortical thickness is a sensitive measure of brain structure that has been used to identify neurobiological abnormalities in a number of psychiatric disorders. The authors assessed cortical thickness and corresponding functional connectivity in psychopathic prison inmates.
Method:
Using T1 MRI data, the authors computed cortical thickness maps in a sample of adult male prison inmates selected on the basis of psychopathy diagnosis (21 psychopathic inmates and 31 nonpsychopathic inmates). Using resting-state functional MRI data from a subset of these inmates (20 psychopathic inmates and 20 nonpsychopathic inmates), the authors then computed functional connectivity within networks exhibiting significant thinning among psychopaths.
Results:
Relative to nonpsychopaths, psychopaths had significantly thinner cortex in a number of regions, including the left insula and dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, the left and right precentral gyri, the left and right anterior temporal cortices, and the right inferior frontal gyrus. These neurostructural differences were not due to differences in age, IQ, or substance use. Psychopaths also exhibited a corresponding reduction in functional connectivity between the left insula and the left dorsal anterior cingulate cortex.
Conclusions:
Psychopathy is associated with a distinct pattern of cortical thinning and reduced functional connectivity.
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To the Editor: The Images in Psychiatry feature on Sabina Spielrein in the January 2012 issue of the Journal (+1) unfortunately mischaracterized the circumstances of her death, inadvertently reinforcing a nearly simultaneous effort at the scene of her murder to alter the facts of history. Dr. Fusar-Poli's essay noted, “The Wehrmacht murdered [Spielrein] and her two daughters in 1941.” Although the 1941 date is reported in some earlier works on Spielrein (+2), recent records have indicated—as the sources cited in the essay and later ones—that she died with thousands of other Jews in Rostov-on-Don in August 1942 (+3+–+5). Under the direction of the SS Einsatzgruppe charged with exterminating Rostov's Jews, she was last seen being herded toward the Zmiyevskaya Balka, a ravine outside town, where she and her daughters were almost certainly shot to death. The error in the date of her death might be a small thing in other circumstances, but along with the omission of any mention of the reason she was killed—because she was a Jew—it eerily echoes an attempt in Russia to erase precisely that memory. At almost the same time the essay appeared, the world press reported that the plaque at the site of the massacre, which read “On 11/12 August 1942 there had been destroyed [here] by the Nazis more than 27,000 Jews,” had been replaced by one marking the death site of many “peaceful citizens of Rostov-on-Don and Soviet prisoners-of-war” (+6, +7). Thus, we write to preserve the memory of the thousands of Jews of Rostov-on-Don who died at the Zmiyevskaya Balka in August 1942 only because they were Jews, including Sabina Spielrein and her two daughters.
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No psychiatrist since Freud and Jung has gained as much public recognition as Ronald David Laing. After the publication of The Divided Self in 1960, he became a darling of the British New Left and was treated as a guru by young people across the English-speaking world. “Two chicks who dig Coltrane, the [Grateful] Dead and R.D. Laing” advertised in New York's Village Voice in 1971 for compatible guests to join them at a party, and bumper stickers during Laing's 1972 U.S. college lecture tour read “I'm mad about R.D. Laing” (+1, p. 67). A generation of practicing psychiatrists was influenced by his view that the symptoms of psychosis could be seen as meaningful and appropriate to a patient's circumstances. This book will appeal to many of those psychiatrists as well as to others who admire Laing's intellectual achievements. The book addresses the following questions: How did it come about that a middle-class youth from Glasgow wrote a book about madness that rocked the world? How did he produce a work based on existential thinking and the ideas of European philosophers, such as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, within 5 years of graduating from medical school, a work that was nearly in complete form when he arrived at the Tavistock Clinic in London in 1956?
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The choice of editors for this second edition of the Textbook of Psychoanalysis, just 7 years after the first, speaks volumes about contemporary broadening changes in the field that are manifest in daily practice as well as encouraged institutionally in the various teaching psychoanalytic institutes and centers throughout the United States. The coeditors of both the first and previous edition (published in 2005) were all psychiatrists. Two of the three editors of the first edition, to whom the second edition is dedicated—the late Arnold Cooper, of Weill Cornell Medical College, and Ethel Person, of Columbia University—came of age in the “golden era” of the 1950s and 1960s when psychoanalysis was popular in the United States and the theory was more unified and centered on Freud's ideas. Glen Gabbard (who is incidentally coeditor, along with Robert E. Hales and Stuart C. Yudofsky, of The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychiatry, 5th Edition) has remained a coeditor of the textbook for the second edition. Gabbard, Cooper, and Person are well known to the readership of the Journal, and their work continues to be taught in psychiatry residency departments. The first volume did a fine, orderly job of describing the many changing aspects of clinical treatment in the second century of psychoanalysis.
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Authors: Ersche KD, Jones PS, Williams GB, Robbins TW, Bullmore ET
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Mol Psychiatry. 2012 Apr 24;
Authors: Moylan S, Maes M, Wray NR, Berk M
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In some patients with major depressive disorder (MDD), individual illness characteristics appear consistent with those of a neuroprogressive illness. Features of neuroprogression include poorer symptomatic, treatment and functional outcomes in patients with earlier disease onset and increased number and length of depressive episodes. In such patients, longer and more frequent depressive episodes appear to increase vulnerability for further episodes, precipitating an accelerating and progressive illness course leading to functional decline. Evidence from clinical, biochemical and neuroimaging studies appear to support this model and are informing novel therapeutic approaches. This paper reviews current knowledge of the neuroprogressive processes that may occur in MDD, including structural brain consequences and potential molecular mechanisms including the role of neurotransmitter systems, inflammatory, oxidative and nitrosative stress pathways, neurotrophins and regulation of neurogenesis, cortisol and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis modulation, mitochondrial dysfunction and epigenetic and dietary influences. Evidence-based novel treatments informed by this knowledge are discussed.Molecular Psychiatry advance online publication, 24 April 2012; doi:10.1038/mp.2012.33.
PMID: 22525486 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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Mol Psychiatry. 2012 Jan 31;
Authors: Bhattacharyya S, Atakan Z, Martin-Santos R, Crippa JA, Kambeitz J, Prata D, Williams S, Brammer M, Collier DA, McGuire PK
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L’influence de la pensée de Claude Lévi-Strauss sur l’Å“uvre de Jacques Lacan n’est plus à démontrer. Le début coïncide avec la conférence du psychanalyste intitulée « Le mythe individuel du névrosé ». Dans cette conférence, il était question de démontrer en quoi le cas cli...
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Psychiatrists: Colo. Shooting Witnesses With Past Trauma, Anxiety Face Added ...
WIBW Twelve people have been killed and dozens more were injured. "All the witnesses to this horror will be faced with the reliving of this event," says Dr. Victor Fornari, director of child/adolescent psychiatry at North Shore-LIJ Health System in New Hyde ... and more » |
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FierceHealthcare has; Hospitals Report Only 1% Of Patient Harm Events July 20, 2012 | By Alicia Caramenico Although about 60 percent of patient harm events occurred at hospitals in states with reporting systems, only 12 ...
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I have been watching the media coverage of the mass shooting incident today - Interviews of family members, medical personnel and officials. I saw a trauma surgeon at one of the receiving hospitals describe the current ...
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In their recent paper, Natalie Banner and Tim Thornton evaluate seven volumes of the Oxford University Press series “International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry,” an international book series begun in 2003 focusing on the ...
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How Therapeutic Communities Work. Research from England explores the unique capacities of therapeutic communities (TCs) in an article published online July 20, 2012 by the International Journal of Social Psychiatry.
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Study shows child's behavior is linked to father-infant interactions
Examiner.com In a study which has been published today in the 'Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry' researchers at the University of Oxford studied 192 families to see whether there was a link between father-child interactions in the early postnatal period ... Father And Infant Interactions Affect Behavior Later OnRedOrbit Child's Behavior Linked to Father-Infant Interactions, Study ShowsScience Daily (press release) Fathers influence babies' behaviourToronto Star Counsel & Heal -HLNtv.com all 36 news articles » |
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James Holmes was set to lecture on psychiatric and neuroscience disorders at ...
scallywagandvagabond dailybeast: The professor who ran his course on the biological basis of psychiatric and neurological disorders is a prominent member of the medical school's department of psychiatry. The two student-led seminars scheduled immediately after Holmes's ... Q&A: Understanding the Mindset of a Shooter's ParentsTIME I was 'The Joker', says 'The Dark Knight Rises' premier gunman killerNewstrack India Police beef up patrols in wake of movie shootingRochester Democrat and Chronicle USA TODAY -Detroit Free Press all 22,764 news articles » |
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Next year the International Congress on Neuropsychopharmacology (CINP) is holding a thematic meeting in April 2013 entitled “Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine in Psychiatry.” An 'All Star' plenary faculty, who ...
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The group Speak Out Against Psychiatry I had in fact not heard of before but they had seen my very basic website and felt strongly about holding such a protest as this hospital is well known to some people who they are aware ...
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The nation's psychiatric establishment is wrestling with questions on proper treatment of transgender people as it works to overhaul its diagnostic manual for the first time in almost two decades. Advocates have spent years ...
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Explaining the misunderstood art of diagnosis Source: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archiv e/2012/07/how-thoughts-become-a-psychiat ric-diagnosis/260012/
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Once in the ER, I was taken directly to the so called “purple pod” — the psychiatric section, and shifted onto a gurney in a curtained-off cubicle, told to change into hospital garb, which I did under duress but before I was forcibly changed by the guards, as was the threat, and was told to lie down and be quiet. I did. I submitted to a physical by an APRN .... She also won an international poetry competition sponsored by the BBC in 2001/2. Her art is currently on display in a ...
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Patients with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are at an increased risk for many diseases. However, little has been published about the dental health of patients with ASDs. Here, we describe the clinical presentations in a 28-year-old woman with autistic disorder. The most striking finding was th...
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Trailblazing psychiatrist Peter R. Breggin, MD in his first of the series: Simple Truths About Psychiatry: Do You Have A Biochemical Imbalance? Dr. Breggin debunks the myth of biochemical imbalance and examines what is known about ...
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Transgender advocates seek new diagnostic terms
Longview News-Journal Advocates have spent years lobbying the American Psychiatric Association to rewrite or even remove the categories typically used to diagnose transgender people, arguing that terms like Gender Identity Disorder and Transvestic Fetishism promote ... 6 ... |
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“Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is the standard classification of mental disorders used by mental health professionals in the United States and contains a listing of diagnostic criteria for every ...
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Behind-The-Scenes "Vocal Opposition" by Psychiatrist Against MindFreedom International Protest in Philadelphia of American Psychiatric Association's Labeling. Dr. Allen Frances: "Vocal Opposition" to MindFreedom Protest ...
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Behind-The-Scenes "Vocal Opposition" by Psychiatrist Against MindFreedom International Protest in Philadelphia of American Psychiatric Association's Labeling. Dr. Allen Frances: "Vocal Opposition" to MindFreedom Protest ...
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Surprising Secret Opposition to MFI's Successful Peaceful Protest of Psychiatry on 5 May 2012
When 200 people, mainly psychiatric survivors, protested in front of the American Psychiatric Association... there was something missing. A surprising footnote to the 5 May 2012 protest in Philadelphia reveals that Dr. Allen Frances "vocally opposed" support for the event, behind the scenes.
MindFreedom International News Investigation
Revealed:
Behind-The-Scenes "Vocal Opposition" by Psychiatrist Against MindFreedom International Protest in Philadelphia of American Psychiatric Association's Labeling
MindFreedom's historic national protest of the harm done by psychiatric labeling revealed some surprisingly "vocal opposition" to us psychiatric survivors, behind the scenes:
Dr. Allen Frances (photo on right), supposedly a key critic of the psychiatry's proposed newest label bible, acted to squash support from key allies for the protest.
Dr. Allen Frances vs. Psychiatric Survivor Activism
There we were, enthusiastically preparing to protest peacefully directly in front of the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting in Philadelphia on 5 May 2012.
Two hundred of us, mainly psychiatric survivors, came from all over the USA and Canada, listened to speeches, marched in the streets and even tore up our labels directly in front of this gathering of thousands of psychiatrists, to protest their planned new "label bible," their upcoming revised Diagnostic and Statistical Manual - DSM 5.
But something surprising was revealed by the protest. Or more accurately, something surprising was missing at the protest. Looking back, it seemed we were mainly psychiatric survivors and family members, with only a few psychologists and psychiatrists allies (thank you!).
It turns out a committee of psychologists opposing psychiatry's new label bible - behind the scenes - pulled announced support for our protest, due to private pressure by that psychiatrist who claims to be a lead critic, Dr. Allen Frances. read David Oak's report here
hat tip: TallaTrialogue
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There have been 22 international drug regulatory warnings issued on psychiatric drugs causing violence, mania, hostility, aggression, psychosis, and other violent type reactions. These warnings have been issued in the ...
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I see myself as protecting mainstream psychiatry from the dangers of DSM 5- I am not at all a critic of psychiatry done well and within its competence. I don't want to be identified with any group that has a broader agenda of ...
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Some dispute the message that "breast is best" and cite concerns for the pressure and guilt it heaps on working mothers.
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Nearly two dozen people were injured during the first night of a seminar led by the motivational speaker Tony Robbins, called “Unleash the Power Within,” which included a fire walk.
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The present study constructed empirically derived subtypes of adolescent offenders based on general traits and examined their associations with psychopathology and psychopathic traits. The sample included 342 detained minors (172 boys and 17 girls; mean age 15.85 years, SD = 1.7) recruited in var...
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Professor Thomas Fahy has published articles in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica; British Journal of Psychiatry; European Psychiatry; Comprehensive Psychiatry; International Journal of Clinical Practice; Journal of Forensic ...
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However, in psychiatric populations, studying alterations in decision-making can provide insights into the neurobiology underlying real world functional impairments. Dr. Sharp commented that neuroeconomics provides an ...
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Transgender advocates seek new diagnostic terms in rewriting of psychiatric ...
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I found out about Grindr through my sound engineer whose girlfriend works in psychiatry research and is currently interviewing people who are at high risk for contracting HIV. She said many of the gay men she interviewed ...
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