Affirming Psychiatry

Articles

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

Are Psychiatrists Pill Pushers? 

is Instructor of Psychiatry at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine in Orlando, FL, and Adjunct Instructor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, MA. He is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice.

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

Psychiatry and Psychotherapy: The Great Divorce That Never Happened

Is There a Cure for Ignorance? The Shocking Truth About Psychiatric Treatment

Psychotherapy: A Core Psychiatric Treatment

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

The History of Psychiatry—A History of Failure?

The DSM: Diagnostic Manual or Diabolical Manipulation?

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