by Jack Carney | Apr 29, 2013 | Mad In America
“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.” Edmund Burke, 1757 “Fear exceeds all other disorders in intensity.” Michel de Montaigne, 16th C. “It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.”...
by Jack Carney | Mar 26, 2013 | Mad In America
Does anybody know what’s going on around here? Groucho probably had the best answer: “I don’t know what they have to say, It makes no difference anyway, Whatever it is, I’m against it. No matter what it is or who commenced it, I’m against it. Your proposition may be...
by Jack Carney | Feb 26, 2013 | Mad In America
Machiavelli had it right. “There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order to things.” Ever since we launched our DSM-5 Boycott three weeks ago, we’ve...
by Jack Carney | Feb 5, 2013 | Mad In America
Boycott the DSM-5! Believe it or not, there’s some confusion about what “boycott” means. Bluntly, it means “Don’t purchase or use the object being boycotted.” Remember the United Farm Workers and table grapes and iceberg lettuce? I remember walking a picket line daily...
by Jack Carney | Jan 25, 2013 | Mad In America
Scapegoating is an ancient human practice that probably dates from the time the first human beings decided to circle their huts — what we fondly term the dawn of civilization. When things got tense in the compound, penalties got handed out to one or more individuals...
by Jack Carney | Dec 20, 2012 | Mad In America
This is the third time in less than two years that I’m writing an article about young men walking into public venues and shooting a dozen or more people at a time — first Tucson, then Aurora, now Newtown. The Newtown killer, Adam Lanza, didn’t just walk into the Sandy...
by Jack Carney | Dec 10, 2012 | Mad In America
When plans for the DSM-5 were first announced about ten years ago, most folks’ reaction was “Why?”. Many of us asked that same question several times as the publication date for the new tome kept on getting pushed back. Finally, the curtain enshrouding the DSM-5 Task...
by Jack Carney | Dec 4, 2012 | Mad In America
[This is the second part of a two-part article about the system of surveillance and social control that has been established in this country with psychiatric involuntary commitment laws at its center, and about a possible campaign to end Kendra’s Law or Assisted...
by Jack Carney | Dec 3, 2012 | Mad In America
[This is the first part of a two-part article about the system of surveillance and social control that has been established in this country with psychiatric involuntary commitment laws at its center, and about a possible campaign to end Kendra’s Law or Assisted...
by Jack Carney | Oct 31, 2012 | Mad In America
In response to my own question, not yet, although a handful of us, including me and a few social work researchers that I’ll reference below, are attempting to push the profession in the U.S. in that direction. As for “post-psychiatry”, that’s a term that two Irish...
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