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...
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...
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