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Towards Ethical Psychology

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Randy has been busy, like all of us.  Still Big Pharma is also busy and profitable as ever. Not that being profitable is bad, but when you do it partially from fraud, that is bad.

The United States uses 90% of the world’s drugs.

Your Kids Aren't Sick

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Well, maybe not so brief an interlude.

I’ve been off my blog for several months, though I haven’t been idle.  I’m ready to get back to it.  Let me tell you why.

I’m now on the Board of Directors of the International Society for Ethical Psychiatrists and Psychologists (ISEPP), and I’m the newly named Membership Director.  I joined ISEPP three years ago when I retired.  It’s the only group I’ve ever joined.  We are professionals, parents, psychiatric survivors, and others dedicated to ending the use of the medical model and those abusive chemicals we take for fictitious diseases.  As a reminder, I’m here to convince you the use of chemicals to “treat” unwanted behaviors in adults and children is modern day voodoo.  We count ourselves in the hundreds at ISEPP, though our network has tens of thousands  – and we’re growing.  You can find more about ISEPP here.

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Thomas Szasz

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Thomas Szasz is a Rational who has been telling us that the Emperor has no clothes.

Your Kids Aren't Sick

“Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.”    – Thomas Szasz

Dr. Thomas Szasz recently celebrated his 92 birthday.  He hasn’t slowed down a bit.

Born to Jewish parents in Budapest, Hungary, on April 15, 1920, young Thomas moved to the United States when he was 18 years old.  He was awarded his medical degree from the University of Cincinnati, and he did his residency at Cincinnati General Hospital.  Since then – except for the 24 months he served on active duty in the United States Navy – Szasz has been an historic – and heroic – figure in the continuing battle to bring common sense back to psychiatry.  He has written dozens of books and papers revealing this false “science.”  You can see more of his lifelong works at his…

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