Recently added articles from Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry:
EDITORIAL
Jul 01, 2009; ... During these past months we have witnessed the worsening crisis in national and global financial markets. Everyday news stories focus on increasing unemployment levels, with governments and businesses facing dire outcomes, consequential from the failure of ethical practices in financial systems ....
A Hero Protects America's Children From Psychiatric Abuse
Jul 01, 2009; ... Jim Gottstein's Law Project for Psychiatric Rights (PsychRights.org) has gone to court to stop the drugging of Alaska's children. Before they are given psychiatric drugs, Attorney Gottstein wants the following standards to be met: 1. That proven psychosocial interventions have been ...
Electroshock Forced on Children and Involuntary Adults
Jul 01, 2009; ... In the United States involuntary adults continue to be administered electroshock treatment (ECT) despite strenuous legal efforts and publicity generated by psychiatric reformers (Oaks, 2009). In Australia psychiatrists have taken shock treatment to a new level of irrationality and abuse by ...
Is a Correct Psychiatric Diagnosis Possible? Major Depressive Disorder as a Case in Point
Jul 01, 2009; ... The desire on the part of American psychiatry in the 1970s to "rejoin medicine" resulted in DSM-III and subsequent editions. The form of medical conditions is imitated as closely as possible by listing criteria symptom sets for supposedly discrete, autonomous clinical entities, although relevant ...
User Experiences of Different Treatment Cultures in Mental Health Care
Jul 01, 2009; ... Background: Clients have mixed experiences with mental health services. Historically there have been quite different and also incompatible approaches to treatment in mental health care. Some antagonisms may have been overcome, but clients' experiences still seem to mirror approaches that are in ...