by Jack Carney | Nov 30, 2015 | Mad In America
“Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.” Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote, 1605-15 Since April, 1999, when fifteen Columbine High School students were shot and killed and...
by Jack Carney | Sep 8, 2015 | Mad In America
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims. — Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor, 1978 (Editor’s note: This blog is an excerpt from Jack Carney’s book Nation of Killers: Guns, Violence, White...
by Jack Carney | Mar 17, 2014 | Mad In America
Greetings. It seems that somebody’s passing is the only thing that will stir me sufficiently to write about what’s going on in this benighted country. I had anticipated writing this a week or two ago but I got sidetracked. It’s certainly not too late, since Hoffman’s...
by Jack Carney | Jan 29, 2014 | Mad In America
A great American passed away the other day. Ordinarily, I never indulge in such chauvinism, but how else can you describe Pete Seeger? Who else has contributed as much to the country’s emotional and spiritual well-being? I haven’t posted to this site for more than two...
by Jack Carney | Dec 2, 2013 | Mad In America
I. DSM-5 Boycott: Yes, the boycott of the DSM-5 continues. I can’t tell you how many fewer DSMs have so far been purchased as a result of the boycott; and conversations I have had with professionals in New York’s public mental health system lead me to believe that...
by Jack Carney | Jul 23, 2013 | Mad In America
Introduction: The article below was originally accepted for November publication in a small British academic review for psychology students. On the heels of its acceptance, the article was rejected by a senior editor who, for unknown reasons, decided that what I wrote...
by Jack Carney | Jul 7, 2013 | Mad In America
(I had planned to post this article on Mad In America on June 26th to acknowledge International Day in Solidarity with Victims of Torture. My computer crashed … better late than never.) “There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said — no....
by Jack Carney | May 31, 2013 | Mad In America
Greetings, MIA readers. Would you like to write your own review of the DSM-5 (even if you haven’t read it, never mind bought it.) I’ve done neither, but I’ve read, talked, written enough about it to have an opinion. One of our Boycott Committee members, Wendy...
by Jack Carney | May 24, 2013 | Mad In America
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. – Frederick Douglass You never know what you’re going to accomplish when you start something. Which is why you start...
by Jack Carney | May 17, 2013 | Mad In America
Tomorrow, May 18, the American Psychiatric Association kicks off its 166th annual conference. That same day, its new DSM-5 will be officially published. Given the occurrences of the past couple of weeks, which I’ll review briefly below, some members of the APA might...
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