Science News: Unscientific Diagnoses Medicalize Normal Human Experiences
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