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ADHD and the Wisdom of William James

by Dr Jeffrey Rubin

Last week’s post, titled ADHD and Psychiatric Name Calling, criticized the prevalent practice of converting concerns about a person’s ability to pay attention into medical lingo. There was a great deal of interest in the post so I decided to present another for your consideration. As I began to craft this, my thoughts went back to my most popular post, Teaching Children How to Deal with…

Dr. Jeffrey Rubin November 10, 2014 9 min read

ADHD and Psychiatric Name Calling

by Dr Jeffrey Rubin

Recently I published a post titled “Name Calling by Psychiatrists: Is it Time to Put a Stop to it?” Among the points that I had tried to make is that psychiatrists falsely claim that the names they use to describe patients are “diagnoses.” In actuality, all that they do is convert someone’s expressed concerns into medical jargon. I soon followed with a post titled “Psychiatric Name…

Dr. Jeffrey Rubin November 3, 2014 15 min read