Critical Psychiatry

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

Linda Gask, who I have mentioned before (see eg. previous post ), has reviewed Conversations in critical psychiatry (2024) edited by Awais Aftab (see her review and eg. my comment about the book in a previous post ). As she says, reading the book reminds her of when she first tried to make sense of psychiatry in her training. Such an experience of trying to make sense of psychiatry in the wake of the so-called anti-psychiatry of the time was common for our generation of psychiatrists (see eg. my

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

“G oing to therapy,” once meant quite literally, going , or leaving the house and traveling to the therapist’s office, which was endowed with a certain cultural cache as a socially sanctioned place for people to go to share their most troubling and troublesome thoughts and feelings. Therapy started when you left the house, which is reflected in the oft-uttered phrase I hear clients use: “On the way here I was zeroing in on what I wanted to talk about during today’s session.

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Real Psychiatry

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

I grew up in the northernmost regions of Wisconsin on the shore of Lake Superior. I also grew up a relatively long time ago. There were no wealthy people around you were either a working-class family with a regular pay check or a working-class family with an irregular paycheck. It all depended on the work. My father was a railroad fireman (he shoveled coal in steam engines) and later an engineer on diesel locomotives.

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