Adding this:
PHILIP HICKEY, PH.D.
Person-first Terminology Doesn’t Validate Psychiatric Diagnoses
January 8, 2014
via Psykisk Daily
This is an interview with the president-elect of the American Psychiatric Association, Dr. Paul Summergrad:
http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2014/01/renounce-term-the-mentally-ill
I have also renounced the concept of "mental illness" - more about that here:
http://freudfri.blogspot.no/2013/12/i-dont-understand-mental-illness.html
And I'm linking to Harold A Maio's article in the Guardian:
http://freudfri.blogspot.no/2011/11/heroes-harold-maio.html
While I'm at it, I might as well link to Gary Greenberg's interview with Allen Frances:
Inside the Battle to Define Mental Illness
and his book:The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry
Other books:
Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis [Kindle Edition]
Paula J. Caplan (Editor), Lisa Cosgrove (Editor)
Women and Madness: Revised and Updated Paperback
by Phyllis Chesler
by Johnstone, Lucy and Dallos, Rudi
History of Madness
Michel Foucault (Author), Jean Khalfa (Editor), Jonathan Murphy (Translator)
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