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Motherhood is Not a Medical Disorder

By On July 13, 2009 · 54 Comments

This recent article in Time Magazine discusses the Mother’s Act, legislation initiated in response to the story of Melanie Blocker-Stokes, who leaped to her death from her hotel room in Chicago three months after the birth of her daughter. Officially known as the Melanie Blocker-Stokes Post Partum Depression Research and Care Act, but referred to as the Mother’s Act, this legislation would require screening of all women post-partum for depression.

The problem with this is the attitude that being a mother is a risk factor for a psychiatric disorder.

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Capt. Pill Takes Shot Across the Bow in PTSD Wars

By On March 31, 2009 · 7 Comments

Well I thought my last post on PTSD (see “DSM V Team Strikes Back Against PTSD Establishment on PTSD”) might at least flush out who the mystery woman psychiatrist is from the Sex and Seroquel scandal (it didn’t) but it did provoke a reaction from David Dobbs, the author of the Time magazine article (The PTSD Trap”) that I took on as peddling pseudo-contrarian views.

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DSM V Shadow Team Strikes Back at Psychiatric Establishment on PTSD

By On March 24, 2009 · 41 Comments

several recent articles on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by journalists who seem to have granted themselves honorary degrees in psychiatry and who quote whatever ridiculous opinion from psychiatrists that happens to cross their desk as if it is, well, worth quoting, have prompted us to speak out.

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