I've been practicing psychiatry for 38 years. I love my job, my peers, and my patients. But I've come to the conclusion that I'm participating in the biggest intellectual scam of this era. We claim to be a science, but have no understanding how thought or behavior is generated./1

I've had thoughts about this before, and have come to the conclusion that most doctors of any stripe are conventional by nature. Psychiatrists used to be the least conventional of all, until the Neo-Kraepelinian revolution happened in the late 1970s, offering us the opportunity

The reason I love psychiatry is because I love working with psychiatric patients. I personally think that psychiatry is ripe for reform, because I've had no problem at all punching holes in its guiding logic. Wish me luck in my efforts, and maybe it will be all right!

I'm proud to say that I cover ALL those bases in this book. I've tried very hard to present a multifaceted takedown of modern psychiatric practice.

@PaulMinotMD Psychiatrists not only lost their minds, they also lost their integrity, objectivity, and capacity for critical thinking. One could also include all the professions in the mental health business.

@DrWinarick I've always thought of Complex PTSD as a more polite, less stigmatizing diagnosis for most of the patients diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. The problem with BPD as a diagnosis is that it implicitly suggests that these people are choosing this tragic pattern of

The previously posted date of for my book (10/15) is being postponed for a week or two because of problems in formatting--which are currently under repair. In the meantime, here's the cover art for your review:

My target audience is the general public, not psychiatrists. My hope is that the public will read this story, and then asks psychiatry how the hell they let that happen.

@PaulMinotMD Rebecca Riley -- haunting.... Every psychiatrist should know the details of this story.

On October 15th, my book "How Psychiatry Lost Its Mind...and Where It Might Be Found," will be released by Kindle Direct Publishing and available for purchase on Amazon--initially in e-book and paperback formats. An audiobook will be available as soon as I can. (My voice only

For a professional to label another person's grief 'pathological' is the height of ideological arrogance. I say 'ideological' as there's no objective science to support this heartless ascription. The label is clinically valueless. Who'd argue for this..? https://t.co/rtDdEaLazI

I bring this to social media in an attempt to facilitate change. I am an outpatient clinical psychologist and we are ROUTINELY observing young people being placed on psychiatric drugs & amid a poor reaction the prescribers are doubling down.. increasing the dose, abruptly

Our massive use of antidepressants and prescription drugs is the symptom of a social problem. "The deeper problem is a culture that reflexively medicates instead of teaching people how to cope."

“There is no where in the Bible where we are taught to honor evil and how you die does not redeem how you lived. You don’t become a hero in death when you are a weapon of the enemy in life” ~Pastor Howard John-Wesley of Alfred Street Baptist Church In DC #CharlieKirk

Sorry if this offends you. You probably aren't "ADHD". In all likelihood your brain works exactly as its supposed to & you are attending to stimuli that is most relevant or interesting. Modern living is the problem not your brain. What most people think but do not say

I think ADHD is just a normal genetic variant. Consider man in its original environment--the wild. To hunt for game, it needed to be alert to the entirety of its surrounding environment. It needed the same sensations to keep from being eaten by predators. "Being distractable" was

@DrCarlHindy I am employed by a hospital, doing both outpatient and inpatient work, operating as part of a team. I would say that my work is more medication oriented than I would prefer--all our doctors have to work within mainstream standards. But my employer and my team members know that I

This aphorism has never been more applicable to any enterprise than it is to modern psychiatry.

@PaulMinotMD When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything else looks like a nail.

“We are made by relationships. Most meaning, as well as suffering, is found in relationships. Our entire sense of self only makes sense within the context of relationships.” @OrestisZavlis 👇🏽

'Saving Normal' has aged much better than I have. Published 12 years ago, it's just as lively & relevant now as it was then. Sorry i can't say the same for my knees or my mind. The word endures better than the flesh.