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ifeminists
July 8, 2003
Todd Andrew Barnett |
Christine Wilhelm: "Mentally Ill" Victim or Murderer? Christine Wilhelm, the mother who stands accused of murdering her four-year old son Luke by drowning him in a bathtub in their home near Vermont on April 16th, 2002, has become the latest poster girl of the mental health field establishment.   |
Reason
May 2005
Jacob Sullum |
Thomas Szasz Takes on His Critics In Szasz Under Fire: The Psychiatric Abolitionist Faces His Critics, edited by Jeffrey A. Schaler, Szasz sticks to his guns and scores many points, but his responses are not always completely satisfying. |
Salon.com
March 13, 2002
Janelle Brown |
Swift injustice Anger and frustration dominate reactions to the quick guilty verdict in the murder trial of Andrea Yates... |
Reason
July 2007
Brian Doherty |
'You Can't See Why on an fMRI' What science can, and can't, tell us about the insanity defense. |
Reason
January 2003
Jacob Sullum |
Head Games What are the rules for defining mental illness? |
Reason
July 2000
Jacob Sullum |
Curing the Therapeutic State Thomas Szasz, author of "The Myth of Mental Illness," on the medicalization of American life. |
ifeminists
August 2, 2006
Tony Zizza |
Wrong Verdict in Yates Case The verdict that came down in the new Andrea Yates murder trial of "not guilty by reason of insanity" is absolutely insane. She needs to spend the rest of her life in prison for drowning not one child, or two, or three, or four, but five children. |
ifeminists
February 16, 2005
Byron Fraser |
Marginalized No Longer! In Broken Brains or Wounded Hearts--What Causes Mental Illness, Ty C. Colbert elucidates his very innovative concept of a forced choice: the emotional pain model does not lay the blame on the individual, but eventually opens the door for him to take charge of his own life and set of choices. |
Salon.com
May 26, 2000
Dawn MacKeen |
Shrinks under scrutiny Should shrinks probe the violent fantasies of patients? They often don't. And that failure can be tragic. |
Reason
November 2000 |
Letters Vouchers for Childcare... Mad About Szasz... Reinforcing the Foundation... |
Managed Care
February 2002
Heidi A. Sauder & Sheri Wallace |
Push Is On for Improved Treatment of Women's Psychological Maladies Sure there are diagnostic and treatment challenges, but the money that can be saved for society might make this fertile ground for investment... |
Salon.com
March 14, 2002
Douglas Cruickshank |
The Andrea Yates verdict is insane A mentally ill mother is guilty of little more than extraordinary need and dangerous fragility, and both are beyond her control... |
ifeminists
January 26, 2005
Tony Zizza |
NAMI Is Dead Wrong On Mental Health Screening It's time to relentlessly put President Bush's mental health screening monster and groups like NAMI in their place. Mandatory mental health screening is child abuse. |
ifeminists
October 22, 2002
Tresa McBee |
Pass the Prozac Sparring spouses seek counseling, where they are diagnosed with "relational disorder," meaning the relationship is causing problems, not the people. Relational disorder is not a recognized mental illness. Yet. If two psychiatrists convince enough people, RD could be added to the DSM. |
Salon.com
December 1, 1999
Annie Murphy Paul |
Painting insanity black Why are there more black schizophrenics? |
Salon.com
March 13, 2002
Suzanne O'Malley |
Worst-case scenario I knew it was coming, but it's still hard to accept: In Texas, mental illness is not a defense to murder... |
Reason
May 2002
Brian Doherty |
Ill-Treated The continuing history of psychiatric abuses is laid out in Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill, by Robert Whitaker... |
Salon.com
July 27, 2001
Suzy Hansen |
The mind of a killer A neurologist who studies murderers' brains talks about factors that make someone kill, the difficulty of predicting violence and why most murderers can never be rehabilitated... |
ifeminists
June 21, 2006
Tony Zizza |
Tom Cruise Was - Right! In American, when even choosing to be a jerk in your automobile is now viewed as suffering from a mental disorder that requires therapy and drugs, psychiatry is 100% -- pseudoscience. |
Job Journal
August 24, 2008 |
Career Snapshot: Psychiatrist Psychiatrists tend to the mental well-being of society. |
Salon.com
May 25, 2000
J.B. Orenstein |
Who will care for the crazy? She was 18 and had been found hanging by a noose. But the moment I saw her insurer, I knew she was one of the lucky ones. |
ifeminists
March 24, 2009
Tony Zizza |
Mental health stats merit scrutiny I don't believe the mental health system in Tennessee, or in this country for that matter, faces a severe crisis. |
ifeminists
March 29, 2006
Tony Zizza |
Is Debra Lafave A Bipolar Disorder Publicist? Debra Lafave, a teacher who had sex with one of her 14-year-old students, became a celebrity through a crime and through the smoke and mirrors of mental illness posturing and pandering. |
ifeminists
August 11, 2004
Tony Zizza |
The New Child Abuse: Mandatory Mental Health Screenings Politicians and pharmaceutical companies must believe there is something noble in the entire U.S. population being labeled with a mental disorder, and subsequently drugged. |
Reason
September 2005 |
Letters Straight Shooting on Gun Control... Thomas Szasz Takes on His Critics... Correction... etc. |
Job Journal
November 18, 2007
Julia Hollister |
Mental Health Staffing Shortages a Real Headache Trained professionals in the mental health field are in short supply. |
Salon.com
May 25, 2000
Laura Miller |
"Of Two Minds" By T.M. Luhrmann A subtle study of the conflict between talk-oriented and drug-oriented psychotherapy -- and a frightening demonstration of how medical budget cutters are betraying the mentally ill and putting the rest of us at risk. |
Financial Planning
November 1, 2011
Ed Slott |
When a Disability Isn't Disabling The tax code generally assesses a 10% penalty on distributions from qualified plans, including IRAs, before age 59 1/2. But as many advisors and even many clients know, there are a number of exceptions to this rule. |
On Wall Street
May 1, 2012
Lorie Konish |
Counseling Clients Through Mental Illness Wealth planning for families coping with mental illnesses requires a lot of attention around estate plans and supplemental and special needs trusts to ensure affected family members are cared for. |
Managed Care
March 2006
Michael S. Victoroff |
When Should Bad Behavior Become a Covered Disease? Defining noxious people as 'sick' distinguishes them socially from sinners, criminals, and scoundrels. |
Managed Care
July 2005 |
Two Major Studies Focus On Mental Health Two major studies on mental health say that while strides have been made in awareness of the problem and the willingness of patients to seek help, much more needs to be done. |
American Family Physician
November 1, 2003
Stovall & Domino |
Approaching the Suicidal Patient In an attempt to help the family physician prevent suicide, this article reviews known risk factors and offers a strategy for assessing and addressing these factors in individual patients. |
HBS Working Knowledge
April 6, 2015
Michael Blanding |
Germanwings Lesson: Organizations Must Pay More Attention to Employee Mental Health The Germanwings tragedy catapulted the issues of mental health and corporate risk and responsibility into the world's headlines. |
American Family Physician
August 15, 2002 |
Medicines for Mental Health During Pregnancy What mental problems may occur during pregnancy?... Can pregnancy cause these mental problems? Does it make them worse?... Are mental health medicines safe to use during pregnancy?... What should I do if I have a history of a mental disorder and want to get pregnant?... etc. |
ifeminists
December 5, 2008
Tony Zizza |
Don't We All Have A Personality Disorder? On December 2nd, the Fox News website posted this from the AP: "1 in 5 Young Adults Has Personality Disorder, Study Finds." Isn't this lovely? |
Managed Care
October 2002
John Carroll |
National Mental Health Parity Bill Poised To Pass This Time Around After years of skirmishing over mental health parity, the battle lines are drawn. Troops are armed with a cache of talking points and data -- pro and con. And, after a brief summer truce, another big showdown looms on Capitol Hill. |
Job Journal
May 28, 2006
Rich Heintz |
Do You Have a Head for Mental Health Work? Would working in the field of mental health make you happy? Here is a look at some professions. |
ifeminists
December 31, 2007
Tony Zizza |
Massachusetts Takes Wrong Turn On Mental Health Screening New regulations in Massachusetts require doctors to screen for possible mental health problems in children. |
TIME Asia
February 14, 2011 |
Inbox Readers comment on the recent Tucson shootings. |
ifeminists
September 13, 2006
Tony Zizza |
When Did Teenage Schizophrenia Become A Coupon? American children between the ages of 13-17 are now being marketed to parents clipping coupons to have their children participate in clinical research studies in which investigational "drugs for schizophrenia" are used. |
ifeminists
March 16, 2005
Byron Fraser |
New Breakthrough : Schizophrenia Cured! -- Some Reflections on Lowen, Leary, Chopra and Liberation From Psychiatry We must realize that the Psycho-Pharmaceutical Complex and the psychiatric establishment are sick, misguided, devolved-- and desperately in need of "healing" --but conscious criminals, nevertheless. |
Reason
April 2008
Michael C. Moynihan |
Psychotic Reaction A series of recent incidents suggests that a Soviet-era practice, of diagnosing dissidents with mental illnesses in order to confine them to institutions, might be making a comeback. |
Reason
October 2005
Maia Szalavitz |
In Defense of Happy Pills While psychotherapy validated by research has its place, there is no convincing reason why it should be considered inherently superior to drugs. Pleasure can be just as important for emotional recovery and growth as pain, if not more so. |
Job Journal
February 13, 2005
Rich Heintz |
Positive Outlook for Mental Health Careers Passage of Prop 63 in California offers hope of a hiring boom. |
Managed Care
May 2002
Michael S. Victoroff |
Psychologist Prescribing: Not Such a Crazy Idea New Mexico has just granted medication-prescribing authority to certain certified Ph.D psychologists -- a development with broad potential implications for the field of mental health. It's a bold precedent |
Salon.com
August 9, 2000
Alicia Montgomery |
Too slow for death row? Oliver David Cruz failed seventh grade three times and couldn't pass the Army's entrance exam, but Texas says he's smart enough to be executed. |
ifeminists
May 24, 2006
Tony Zizza |
The Trouble With TeenScreen While some of our young people may properly rebel against TeenScreen and other dangerous in-school mental health propoganda that helps Big Pharma, what about all the young people who come running home convinced they are -- mentally ill? |
ifeminists
July 26, 2006
Tony Zizza |
Are Affluent Teens The Latest Victims Of Mental Illness? Everything in America is viewed through the prism of alleged mental illness. Affluent teenagers are just today's advertising copy for the next psych drug and insurance billing code. |
Salon.com
October 4, 2001
Lauren Sandler |
The trauma to come A city reels -- and braces for the psychic fallout of its monstrous ordeal... |
Reason
April 2004
Joli Jensen |
Emotional Choices What story you choose to believe about antidepressants reveals a deeper truth about who you are. |
