Science News: Unscientific Diagnoses Medicalize Normal Human Experiences
Update: 2022-01-05
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Peter Simons covers articles about the validity of psychiatric diagnoses, the medicalization of normal human experiences like grief, and how the pharmaceutical industry co-opts feminist messaging to gain approval for ineffective drugs.
- Kenneth Kendler: “Implausible” That Psychiatric Diagnoses Even “Approximately True”
- Neurobiological Explanations Can Foreclose Self-Understanding
- Medicalizing Grief May Threaten Our Ability to Mourn
- Research Reveals Mental Health Professionals’ Participation in Rape Culture
- Why the FDA Approved Ineffective Drugs for Low Sexual Desire in Women
- Overuse of Psychiatric Drugs is Worsening Public Mental Health, Doctor Argues
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