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Don’t Call Me a Therapist

Mad in America

The psychiatric diagnosis is a medical theoretical construct with limited epistemic validity. Be it politicians, hospital managers, welfare bureaucrats, supervisory bodies, children’s services, psychiatrists, doctors or psychologists. Psychiatric diagnoses are hypotheses and not proof of the existence of real diseases.

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Depression: Psychiatry’s Discredited Theories and Drugs Versus a Sane Model and Approach

Mad in America

In The Great Psychotherapy Debate (2001), Bruce Wampold notes that while therapists tend to believe their therapy techniques—such as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)—are significant, patients believe having someone who understands them and is interested in them is most important.