More than any other medical specialty, psychiatry is prey to groundless theory; I say this as
one who practises in the field. Our patients show no objective signs of abnormality, and …

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CMAJ - A Misty Image Indeed Home | Indexing | About us | Why Mens Sana? | Conceptual …

It is writing very much of its period: political debate was more sanguine and polarised, old
fashioned socialism looked set for longevity (and the USSR for eternity). Vietnam was a …

My sister, Yu Sim, who read the original manuscript and gave helpful comments. I have
learned more about psychiatry from my many patients than from textbooks. They struggle …

There is still however a lot of confusion about the status of the things that psychiatrists treat.
These are by no means illnesses, and the medications doctors use to treat them are by no …

David Zigmond is a former GP, psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and political activist based in
London. He writes prolifically and inspiringly on the perils of the industrialisation of health …

Listen, Little Man! Is a human and not a scientific document. It was written in the summer of
1945 for the Archives of the Orgone Institute without the intention of publishing it. It was the …

Is psychiatry as we know it" dead"?(1) Not on your life! But if you believe some of the doleful
pronouncements in the blogosphere, you might as well be hanging crepe for our profession …

In an article for the New England Journal of Medicine, WW Benjamin described a millennium
of doctors wielding the largely unchanged toolkit of “the herb, the knife and the word”[1] …

As part of the excitement and challenge of our times, psychiatry shares with the rest of
human activity a soul-searching, candid questioning of principles and practices and a …