psychiatry

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-46258687 This woman exploited a loophole at the time to avoid having her knowledge tested. What does it say about psychiatry that you can get away with no qualifications for this long without any peers picking up on it.

not new but many people do not know about it: http://www.richardwebster.net/hysteriarevisited.html also: http://www.richardwebster.net/freudandcharcot.html http://www.richardwebster.net/freudandhysteria.html powerful writing. [edited. as with any relevant material, where possible, it is...

Thursday, April 25th, 2019 18:00 - 18:45 Childhood maltreatment and treatment resistance in adult psychiatric disorders Carmine Pariante (King's College London, United Kingdom) Saturday, April 27th, 2019 9:00 - 9:45 CBT-resistance Trudie Chalder (King's College London, United Kingdom)...

https://psychscenehub.com/psychinsights/autoimmune-diseases-masquerading-psychiatric-disorders-paradigm-shift-psychiatry/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30063870 I wasn't sure whether to put this here or in the BPS forum so mods, please move it if BPS would be more suitable.

Germany: Restraining psychiatric patients requires court order https://www.dw.com/en/germany-restraining-psychiatric-patients-requires-court-order/a-44809053

An article in the Guardian, paid for by the Royal College of Psychiatrists. https://amp.theguardian.com/royal-college-of-psychiatrists-courses/2018/jun/05/psychiatry-the-medical-speciality-that-combines-empathy-and-science?

http://psychiatrized.org/donweitz/PsychiatryAsSocialControl.pdf

Posting with the hope that someone here might find this article illuminating/interesting and possibly discussion worthy. http://eiko-fried.com/all-mental-disorders-are-brain-disorders-not/ Also, the link within the text to this...

Good old psychs, making the world worse for whoever they can get their hands on. :mad: (OK, there must be some good ones, I'll admit that, I just struggle to believe that the good they achieve outweighs the bad of all the rest.)...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/05/meditation-does-not-make-better-person-study-finds/ Yet more evidence of methodological flaws & bias in psych research? what?! never! :whistle::rolleyes:

No, this is not about psychiatrists as impostors - although it could be :D - but about people who pretended to have a degree in psychiatry and got - partly central - positions in a clinic. A TV part (ZDF) about Alexandra Beek who pretended to have a PhD and was a psychiatrist two years in...

https://www.madinamerica.com/2018/01/the-scientism-of-psychiatry/

Extending blue badge scheme to include non-physical Just listened to a discussion on this on the Jeremy Vine show. ie now https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/bbc_radio_two it will be available to listen to on iplayer later. The last caller had Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibro.