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Critical psychiatry

02 Aug We Need To Be More/Other Than Critical

Posted at 17:30h in Community Organizing, Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Human Development, Philosophy, Politics, Popular Posts, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy 1 Comment

I few months ago I was invited to write a chapter for a book being published on the topic of critical psychotherapy, counseling and psychoanalysis. I’ve begun working on it this week and am at that early stage in writing (for me) where something is emerging, but I don’t know...

12 Apr Let’s Not Call Them Mental Health Experts Anymore

Posted at 18:22h in Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Human Development, Psychology of Becoming, Youth Development 2 Comments

Reprinted below is my Psychology Today column, "Danger! A Frightening New Mental Illness." A friend from South Africa contacted me today to see if I had read the article about a new diagnosis, sluggish cognitive tempo. I hadn’t. My first thought was that she must be referring to some parody of...

15 Mar Just Released—Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology

Posted at 14:37h in Activity Theory, Critical psychiatry, Performance Movement, Philosophy, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Publications, Social Therapy, Vygotsky, What's New, Wittgenstein 2 Comments

Congratulations to Thomas Teo on the release of the Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology, for which he served as editor. The massive (2400 pages) anthology published by Springer Reference is “the first reference work in English that comprehensively looks at psychological topics from critical as well as international points of view.” Teo,...

16 Feb Beyond the Therapeutic State

Posted at 03:07h in Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Events, I Like This, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, What's New 2 Comments

That’s the title of a conference taking place in Norway this coming June. I like the title for a few reasons. First, therapy has become “an arm” of the state. Second, I agree that we must believe in and work for something other than (“beyond”) the current therapy institution (what...

29 May Are Psychiatrists the Sick Ones?

Posted at 22:07h in Critical psychiatry, Culture, DSM-5, Human Development, Philosophy, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapy, Wittgenstein 0 Comments

May 29, 2013 To New York Times columnist and cultural and political commentator David Brooks, psychiatrists are not heroes of science but “heroes of uncertainty.” Such is the title of his May 27, 2013 Op-Ed piece. Brooks takes the compilers of the DSM-5 and contemporary psychiatry to task for presenting their field...

07 May NIMH Wants to “Fail Better” than the DSM-5 Did

Posted at 00:12h in Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Human Development, Politics, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming 11 Comments

May 6, 2013 I wonder why no major media outlet is covering this story—the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) announced on April 29, 2013 that it won’t be using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) anymore. (The story is all over the blogosphere, which is how I...

10 Apr Avoiding the Social in Social Anxiety

Posted at 02:03h in Critical psychiatry, Human Development, Philosophy, Popular Posts, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy 14 Comments

April 9, 2013 Joseph LeDoux’s opinion piece in The New York Times, “For the Anxious, Avoidance Can Have an Upside,” is an interesting essay that—like so many reports of neuroscience research in the mass media—miseducates the public. Here’s the formula, as I see it. Take a phenomenon of human social life—in this...

07 Feb Danger: Psychiatrists as Moralists

Posted at 19:02h in Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Philosophy, Psychology of Becoming 20 Comments

February 7, 2013 I just read an Opinionator piece in The New York Times on “Depression and the Limits of Psychiatry.” The author is Gary Gutting, is a professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He tells us he’s been teaching a graduate seminar on Michel Foucault’s work and proceeds...

05 Dec DSM-5—Flawed or Something Much Worse?

Posted at 15:36h in Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Human Development, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy 5 Comments

December 5, 2012 As Allen Francis, one of the DSM-5’s most vocal critics, writes in his recent Psychology Today column, the final approval of the “deeply flawed DSM-5” by The Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association “will start a half or dozen or more new fads which will be...

15 Aug Marxism, Psychology, Activism and Academia

Posted at 02:46h in Critical psychiatry, Human Development, Philosophy, Politics, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming 4 Comments

[caption id="attachment_1319" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Opening Plenary Ceremony[/caption] August 14, 2012 The Second International Conference on Marxism and Psychology last week in Morelia Mexico was packed—about 700 participants, a good half of them Mexican university students and activists. It was challenging and fascinating to be part of the gathering of academics and activists,...