Psychiatric Labels

Harm caused by unscientific psychiatric diagnoses.

Psychiatric Labels Plague Women's Mental Health by Netcorps Admin — last modified 2007-09-18 17:07

Paula Caplan, PhD is an author, psychologist and long-time critic of psychiatric labeling. Paula is also a MindFreedom activist who has attended the MindFreedom Action Conference, and is providing some great information to members about how to fight abuse caused by psychiatric labeling.

BBC: "Schizophrenia term use 'invalid'" by David W. Oaks — last modified 2006-11-24 13:14

BBC News: Professors say psychiatric use of the term "schizophrenia" ought to be abolished because it's unscientific.

Site Critical of Psychiatric Diagnosis Hazards by David W. Oaks — last modified 2006-11-05 22:34

Information coordinated by Paula Caplan, PhD about the kinds of harm resulting directly from receiving psychiatric diagnoses and about suggested solutions.

Bruce Levine Challenges Corporate Labeling of "Depression" by David W. Oaks — last modified 2007-02-10 00:58

Dissident psychologist Bruce E. Levine reviews two books -- "Lincoln’s Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness," by Joshua Wolf Shenk and "Against Depression" by Peter D. Kramer -- in "Z Magazine" Jan. 2007.

Globalization of Psychiatric Labeling by David W. Oaks — last modified 2007-06-02 09:08

A brief alert about how the American Psychiatric Association has closed the door on psychiatric survivor group involvement in the future and globalization of psychiatric labeling.

Brain Test Could Help Make Earlier Diagnoses by Mark T — last modified 2007-09-21 15:24

An "elegantly simple test" for analyzing the dynamic magnetic fields of the brain has been surprisingly accurate so far, and shows promise in detecting neurological disorders, virtually all of which could not, before now, be diagnosed via any form of available testing. Nearly 300 patients and healthy volunteers have been assessed at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Minneapolis, where Dr. Apostolos Georgopoulos used a technology known as MEG (magnetoencephalography) to study the brains of patients with Alzheimer's, chronic alcoholism, schizophrenia, multiple sclerosis, and other disorders. Georgopoulos developed a method for analyzing the magnetism data and licensed the technology to a startup company, Orasi Medical Inc.

Let's Stop Saying "Mental Illness" by David W. Oaks — last modified 2008-08-03 20:44

An essay about why it would be helpful to find and use other phrases for people who have in the past been described as "mentally ill." [Modified 16 April 2008.]

Link to essay by David W. Oaks about, "Stop Saying Mentally Ill" by David W. Oaks — last modified 2008-06-22 13:20

This guest editorial was published by the web site "Mentai Illness Watch" about why we ought to stop saying the phrase "mentally ill." Similar to an essasy in this MindFreedom Knowledge Base web folder, this modified piece was released on March 3, 2008.