Info 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. [August 2011 update: a couple of the links that originally worked for more information in this article, no longer work. But for the record, they are still included.] …
Info BBC News: Professors say psychiatric use of the term “schizophrenia” ought to be abolished because it’s unscientific. American Psychiatric Association members literally vote in and out labels from the Diagnostic & Statistical Manual. BBC – 10 October 2006 The term schizophrenia should be abolished, experts have said. They claim the category falsely groups a…
Info Document Actions Print this 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. Psychiatric Labels Plague Women’s Mental Health Date…