Affirming Psychiatry

While benzodiazepine prescribing certainly carries risks, those risks have been demonstrably exaggerated in the minds of government officials, critics, and the public at large.

Patients should be confident about what psychiatric care offers, regardless of whether they utilize any specific treatments, or even recognize that they are receiving therapeutic care.

Psychiatric treatment works to a degree comparable to other branches of medicine which address complex, chronic illnesses.

Why does the media continue to persecute psychotherapy?

Where might proponents of neurodiversity and psychiatrists agree?

Involuntary treatment is a trauma.

Mental illness is medically real.

What if the psychiatrist’s public face changed from that of a distant prescriber to one of a fellow warrior in the trenches?

Let’s stop fighting amongst ourselves as a mental health movement and focus on biological as well as psychosocial treatment.

A frequent criticism of psychiatry: psychiatrists do not learn, practice, or value psychotherapy. Is it true?

The truth: Psychiatric treatment works.

How important is psychotherapy today?

How does a recent critique of the history of psychiatry get it wrong?

"Nobody likes the DSM..."

In this new series, explore how to approach the criticisms of psychiatry.