Real Psychiatry

    The topic came up last week and it happens on a recurrent basis – diagnoses especially psychiatric diagnoses are not good because t...

The basic position that I take on this blog is that stigma is an overblown concept.  Certainly no professional should ever be in the p...

I have always been skeptical of the value of the stigma concept in advocating for the rights of people with mental illness.  It seems to imp...

In a rare statement of clarity amid the usual sensational spin this comment jumped out at me: "Doctors don't label...Doctors diag...