REFUSING PSYCHIATRY

Here's something I know from personal experience. When a group is subjected to certain simultaneous pressures, or when its leaders cho...

Years ago, I was present when Jeffrey Lieberman gave a talk to psychiatrists which included a suggestion that they could rule the world as ...

When a criminal defendant is found not guilty by reason of insanity, he or she is involuntarily committed until no longer mentally ill and d...

Dr. Paul Appelbaum, M.D., a psychiatrist from Columbia University and a past President of the APA, was o ne panelist in the symposium I atte...

Interesting thoughts provoked by a session on outpatient commitment, or "Assisted Outpatient Treatment" yesterday... When a cour...

   Section 1. [ Abolition of Forced Mental Treatment ]    Neither involuntary mental hospitalization, nor coerced mental treatment of any...

Dr. Lucy Johnstone , British clinical psychologist and author, recently suggested that a psychiatrist who was praised for his recent, honest...