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Seeking to Reform the Psychiatric Diagnosis System

A Discussion of the New Open Letter From The Task Force on Psychiatric Diagnostic Alternatives

Welcome to From Insults To Respect. As several of my earlier blog posts have indicated, many professionals, mental health service users, involuntary patients, and the general public have little, to no respect, for the American Psychiatric Association’s most recent version of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). Just before the DSM-5 was published, early drafts were made available, and in 2011 the British Psychological Society…

Dr. Jeffrey Rubin February 16, 2020 6 min read

My 2016 APA Speech On Psychiatric Diagnoses

by Jeffrey Rubin, PhD

Welcome to “From Insults to Respect.” Regular readers know that I have some serious objections to how mental health service providers treat those seeking their services. As things stand now, unless you can afford to completely pay for such services without any insurance coverage, to access services you are very likely to be required to be labelled as having a mental disorder. Now, many mental…

Dr. Jeffrey Rubin August 11, 2016 12 min read