Encefalus

The grandma has freaked out!
The greek newspaper To Vima publishes once a week, a magazine along with the newspaper called Vimagazino. I was reading the other day and I found a very funny article which shows how utterly stupid sometimes psychiatrists can be.
This article was published in an one page column where the readers submit [...]

I found this video the other day on YouTube and I wanted to share it with you (if you can’t play the video click the link below it)
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In this video Thomas Szasz explains the core of his philosophy in a 5 minutes video. It’s a good start for those of you who have [...]

Trapped: Mental Illness in America’s Prisons

I found the above link in Mind Hacks. It talks about a project of photographer Jenn Ackerman. She is making an essay on Kentucky’s correctional facility for prisoners with mental illness called Trapped:Mental Illness in America’s Prisons. For she now she has made an excellent video, that contains an overview [...]

Providentia just released part 3 of A Shocking Discovery series describing the use of ECT throughout the history of psychiatry. It also includes a few remarks about antipsychiatry and closes with a very reasonable debate concerning the use of shock therapy as a treatment.
A Shocking Discovery (Part Three)
A Shocking Discovery (Part Two)
A Shocking Discovery (Part [...]

I managed to write three articles with the word "suck" in the title. Since, I think that I threw enough rant, and after my bashing of clinical psychology (Clinical Psychology SUCKS or The Psychological Paradigm in the 21st century) I need to redeem myself. So, in this article I will discuss about something else, D&D [...]

Providentia just released the second post in the series about ECT and psychiatry at A Shocking Discovery (Part Two). Readers of Encefalus will remember that the first in the series sparked the article Psychiatry, anti-psychiatry and mental disease: Does psychiatry suck? This time, we will not comment on the new article, but read it, since [...]

Remember what we were saying at Psychiatry, anti-psychiatry and mental disease: Does psychiatry suck?.
I found the other day this article The Mental "Illness" Metaphor Has Not Worked: What’s Next? at Psychology Today
It addresses pretty much the same thing that we do, albeit more briefly.
To make a synopsis, it starts with some of the methods [...]

I just felt the urge to throw some random rant.
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY SUCKS
I just had to say it.
Psychology became a science at 1879 at Leipzig by Wilhelm Wundt. It was seperated from philosophy since what seperates science from philosophy is the experimental procedure that science makes use of.
It all started with simple psychophysical experiments trying [...]

I found this link in Providentia
A Shocking Discovery (Part One)
It speaks about the discovery of the electroshock by the psychiatrists in the 1930s. As it seems, this is a series of articles discussing this issue. I felt compeled to offer my personal viewpoint concerning a few facts about psychiatry.
The above link may appear a [...]