Mental Illness Manual Revision is Criticized Over Racism Entry
A revised mental disorders diagnostic manual being released this month already faces controversy over attempts to explain the impact of and “under-diagnosing” of racism and…
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CCHR Calls for Prosecution of CIA Torture Psychologists
By Kelly Patricia O’Meara July 22, 2015 Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) calls for prosecutions of psychologists involved in CIA-political torture. This follows the…
The Daily Mail: Fussy eaters could be classified as having an ‘Eating Disorder’ in new psychiatric manual (DSM)
They are the nightmare guests at dinner parties. But picky eaters have no control over what they like and could be suffering from an eating disorder, according to psychologists. US researchers are considering giving picky eaters an official classification for the first time and plan to put them in the same bracket as those who have anorexia and bulimia.
Parent Alienation-Another bogus mental disorder: Child is “mentally ill” if one parent has “alienated” him from the other
The phenomenon has been described for many decades, but it became a cause célèbre in 1985, when Richard Gardner, a clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University, coined the term “parental alienation syndrome.” The American Psychological Association has issued a statement that “there is no evidence within the psychological literature of a diagnosable parental alienation syndrome.”
New Declassified Documents: Psychologists did much more than develop/train others in torture, they participated in it.
Psychology professor Jeffrey Lohr and colleague David Tolin, both of the University of Arkansas, examined the evidence of any alleged role of psychologists in “creating, teaching and implementing torture practices.” They found psychologists did more than just develop and train others in “enhanced interrogation methods.”