Mad Science argues that the fundamental claims of modern American psychiatry are based on misconceived, flawed, and distorted science. The authors address multiple paradoxes in American mental health research, including the remaking of coercion into scientific psychiatric treatment, the adoption of an unscientific diagnostic system that controls the distribution of services, and how drug treatments have failed to improve the mental health outcome.
Archive for October 2015
“Keep your brain fit!” Effectiveness of a psychoeducational intervention on cognitive functioning in healthy adults: A randomised controlled trial
Men, masculinities and young people: north–south dialogues
Prevalence of psychotic disorders in an urban area of France
Depression and anxiety during the perinatal period
Social Work Practice with LGBT Elders at End of Life: Developing Practice Evaluation and Clinical Skills Through a Cultural Perspective
Victimization and Polyvictimization Among Spanish Adolescent Outpatients
Assessing Interpersonal Subtypes in Depression
The long-term effects of being bullied or a bully in adolescence on externalizing and internalizing mental health problems in adulthood
Mad Science: Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis, and Drugs
A Global Framework for Understanding Homelessness
Treatment of LGBTI Citizens Worldwide
The effect of contact with natural environments on positive and negative affect: A meta-analysis
Recommendations for growth monitoring, and prevention and management of overweight and obesity in children and youth in primary care
‘Unjoined persons’: psychic isolation in adolescence and its relation to bodily symptoms
Holocaust Survivors In Canada Offers Cautionary Tale, Says Author
But after 1950, with the expansion of immigration law to permit the arrival of more Jewish immigrants, government social service provision was stronger and the Jewish community was larger and more prepared for new arrivals. “They came to social services that were more developed, social workers who had better training, and also organizations and communities that had a better sense of the distinct needs of this particular immigrant group,” Goldberg said of the second wave.
Immigrant Social Workers and Transnational Practices: The Example of Latin Americans in Switzerland
Youth Summit 2015 UNGA video