REFUSING PSYCHIATRY

Mental illness is simply the problem of bad behavior, inseparable categorically from a continuum of crime. Our attempts to distinguish men...

Why do you look for the living among the dead? Mourners visiting a tomb were asked this question one morning, long ago. I ask it today o...

A report in today's paper by Chicago Tribune reporter Amanda Marrazzo  illustrates our moral confusion, and a lesson from the Passover ...

My attention returns from Hollywood to Southern Illinois. Chester to be precise, in Randolph County.... One reverts to a peculiar frame of m...

Oh man, I liked her! Falling up the stairs was cool, but how could she say something this stupid ? "It's just so bizarre how in t...

I have often referred to Thomas Szasz's theory that absent the facility of state coercion, psychiatry as we know it would rapidly fade a...

A couple months ago I outlined the case of a client whom I called Billy. His motion for pass privileges was recently granted by the court, ...