Mad Science: Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis, and Drugs: 0

In spite of compelling evidence to the contrary, we continue to treat symptoms as if they are caused by a “broken brain” in which deficiencies or “imbalances” of serotonin and other neurotransmitters are regarded by modern psychiatry as sufficient explanations of mental illness.

The judges of normality are present everywhere.-Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punishment, 304an official announcement [reads that] ... nearly half of all Americans experience a psychiatric disorder.... does that mean no one is normal ... ? Or [do] we live in such a crazy-making, sick, impersonal society that it does serious psychological damage t

In medicating ourselves to adapt to the world, what kind of world are we settling for? Under the guise of treating pain and mental illness, are we rendering large segments of the population biochemically indifferent to intolerable circumstance? Worse yet, have psychotropic medications become a means of social control, especially of the poor, unempl

When I went through medical school and residency in the 1990s, I was taught that people with depression, anxiety, attention deficit, cognitive distortions, sleep problems, and so on have brains that don’t work the way they’re supposed to, just like people with diabetes have a pancreas that doesn’t secrete enough insulin. My job, according to the th