Abstract
In the wake of revelations about harm done in the early twenty-first century to countless citizens not just in the United States but also globally because of inadequate regulation in some countries of giants in the financial industry, it is hardly noticed that the massive enterprise of psychiatric diagnosis is entirely unregulated and causes harm to countless citizens in dozens of countries across the globe.
Large portions of this chapter are taken from Paula J. Caplan. (2012). Will the APA Listen to the Voices of Those Harmed by Psychiatric Diagnosis? October 1.http://www.madinamerica.com/2012/10/p20137/ and Paula J. Caplan. (2012). The APA Refuses to listen to the voices of those harmed by diagnosis…and refuses and refuses. Mad in America: Science, Psychiatry, and Community. November 19. http://www.madinamerica.com/2012/11/the-apa-refuses-to-listen-to-voices-of-people-harmed-by-diagnosis-and-refuses-and-refuses-refuses/#comment-17784
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Caplan, Paula J. (1995). They Say You’re Crazy: How the World’s Most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Who’s Normal. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
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The following is most of my article from http://www.madinamerica.com/2012/10/p20137/, “Will the APA Listen to the Voices of Those Harmed by Psychiatric Diagnosis?”
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In preparing the complaints, as well as the template described later, I received various kinds of assistance from David Dunlap, Jeffery Wilson, Jim Gottstein, Julie Leonovs, Patrice Campion, Emily H. Roberts, Amy Smith, Wendy Murphy, Leslie Friedlander, Emily Cohen, David Jacobs, and two other people who asked that their names not be published.
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Caplan, P. (2013). Psychiatric Diagnosis as a Last Bastion of Unregulated, Rampant Harm to the Populace. In: Dellwing, M., Harbusch, M. (eds) Krankheitskonstruktionen und Krankheitstreiberei. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-18784-6_15
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