Paula J. Caplan: Losing Labels to Find Ourselves

Paula Caplan, Ph.D. - What is Wrong with Psychiatric Diagnosis (2000 )

Watch the Stories of Harm the APA Refused to Hear: Introduction by Paula...

Paula Joan Caplan - When Johnny and Jane Come Marchung Home

 

http://www.paulajcaplan.net/ 

On Monday, March 13, from 1-2 p.m., I will be a guest on "Viewpoint with Seeta and Friends" to talk about two of my related essays, "Myths are Used to Justify Depriving People Diagnosed as Mentally Ill of Their Human Rights" and "The Naked Emperor and the Vanishing Veteran." You can listen to it and post comments or questions (that the producer checks during the show) at http:/​/​1510wmel.com/​listen If you live in Brevard County, FL, you can listen at AM 1510 WMEL or on FM stations - 94.7, 99.9, and 100.7 To listen to the archived show after we do it live, you may go to www.SeetaMediaInc.com or look for the specific link and blog essay about it at that site.

The Truth About Trump and Psychiatric Diagnosis -- The Lightbulb Has to Want to Change is my new post at http:/​/​www.huffingtonpost.com/​entry/​58abb3b0e4b0417c4066c22b NO ONE on either side of this debate has written about the crucial points I note in the essay. Also available in Blog section of this Authors Guild website.

New essay on Blog page here -- Valentine's Day Alarm: Violence Against Women by Budget Cuts

Please read it and post, tweet, forward. Thank you.

Bias in psychiatric diagnosis by Paula J.Caplan and Lisa Cosgrove

 

Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis edited by Paula Joan Caplan and Lisa Cosgrove
 

The public has a right to know that when they go to a therapist, they are almost certain to be given a psychiatric diagnosis, no matter how mild or normal their problems might be. It is unlikely that they will be told that a diagnosis will be written forever in their chart and that alarming consequences can result solely from having any psychiatric diagnosis. It would be disturbing enough if diagnosis was a thoroughly scientific process, but it is not, and its unscientific nature creates a vacuum into which biases of all kinds can rush. Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis is the first book ever published about how gender, race, social class, age, physical disability, and sexual orientation affect the classification of human beings into categories of psychiatric diagnosis. It is surprising that this kind of book is not yet on the market, because it is such a hot topic, and the negative consequences of psychiatric diagnosis range from loss of custody of a child to denial of health insurance and employment to removal of one’s right to make decisions about one’s legal affairs. It is an unusually compelling book because of its real-life relevance for millions of people. Virtually everyone these days has been a therapy patient or has a loved one who has been. In addition, psychiatric diagnosis and biases in diagnosis are increasingly crucial portions of, or the main subject of, legal proceedings. This book should sit next to every doctor’s PDR, especially given the skyrocketing use of psychoactive drugs in toddlers, children, and adolescents, as well as in adults, and especially because receiving a psychiatric label vastly increases the chances of being prescribed one or more of these drugs.

http://recoveringfrompsychiatry.com/books/ 

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Why depathologize war trauma by Paula J.Caplan

 Un libro e un film su come e perché i traumi da guerra dei veterani non è giusto vengano imputati ad una loro presunta malattia mentale, anzichè agli orrori della guerra.

 http://whenjohnnyandjanecomemarching.weebly.com/

The Welcome the Johnny and Jane Home Coalition's mission is to depathologize war trauma (stop saying that those troubled by war are therefore mentally ill) and increase the use of nonpathologizing, low-risk  ways to help veterans heal emotionally, morally, and spiritually. The full mission statement can be found here.

Paula Joan Caplan – I miti utilizzati per giustificare la privazione dei diritti umani alle persone diagnosticate come malate mentali

 

http://www.madinamerica.com/2016/03/myths-are-used-to-justify-depriving-people-diagnosed-as-mentally-ill-of-their-human-rights/ 

https://absoluteprohibition.wordpress.com/2016/03/18/paula-caplan-myths-are-used-to-justify-depriving-people-diagnosed-as-mentally-ill-of-their-human-rights/ 

18 marzo 2016

di Paula J. Caplan, PHD.

Chi, in questo mondo, dovrebbe avere il diritto di prendere decisioni sulla propria vita, e chi è tenuto a perdere tale diritto e ad essere sostituito dalla comunità medica e dalle corti?

Nonostante il fatto che nella storia nessuno, nemmeno l’onnipotente Associazione Psichiatrica Americana (American Psychiatric Association) - che produce e trae immensi profitti dalla “Bibbia” dei disturbi mentali [il DSM n.d.t.] - abbia messo a punto una definizione di “malattia mentale”, buona anche solo a metà, e nonostante il fatto che il processo di creazione e applicazione delle etichette di malattia mentale non sia scientifica, alcune di queste etichette possono essere utilizzate per privare la persona etichettata in tal modo, dei suoi diritti umani. Questo è terrificante e dovrebbe terrorizzare coloro che sono stati così etichettati, e coloro che non lo sono, perché la privazione dei diritti umani per motivi del tutto arbitrari è disumano e immorale.