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Particularly controversial was the work of Harvard neurosurgeon Vernon Mark and psychiatrist Frank Ervin, who wrote a book, Violence and the Brain, in 1970. [1] The National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research in 1977 endorsed the continued limited use of psychosurgical procedures.
Large, high quality research has found small differences in the brain between ADHD and non-ADHD patients. [1] [15] Jonathan Leo and David Cohen, critics who reject the characterization of ADHD as a disorder, contended in 2003 and 2004 that the controls for stimulant medication usage were inadequate in some lobar volumetric studies, which makes it impossible to determine whether ADHD itself or ...
Psychiatry is, and has historically been, viewed as controversial by those under its care, as well as sociologists and psychiatrists themselves. There are a variety of reasons cited for this controversy, including the subjectivity of diagnosis, [1] the use of diagnosis and treatment for social and political control including detaining citizens and treating them without consent, [2] the side ...
Reports of medical harm to patients resulting from the use of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) as a primary treatment and the use of graded exercise therapy (GET) have arisen. [69] [61] [70] A controversial clinical trial of the Lightning Process in children, [71] led to it being specifically forbidden in the NICE guidelines.
Results published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in 2011 were retracted by the Journal in 2016. [88] In 2016 Jamal received a lifetime funding ban from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research [ 89 ] [ 90 ] and in 2018 her license to practice medicine was revoked by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario ...
Abortion and mental health; Abortion–breast cancer hypothesis; Adiposis dolorosa; Adrenocorticotropic hormone (medication) Aerotoxic Association; Age management medicine; Agent Orange; Anesthesia awareness; Anomalous Health Incidents; Aspartame controversy; Attack therapy; Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder controversies
The biopsychiatry controversy is a dispute over which viewpoint should predominate and form a basis of psychiatric theory and practice. The debate is a criticism of a claimed strict biological view of psychiatric thinking .
The Journal of Health Psychology is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering all aspects of health psychology. The editors-in-chief are Rachel Annunziato (Fordham University), Abigail Locke (Keele University), and Gareth Treharne (University of Otago). The founding editor-in-chief was David Marks, who served from 1996 to 2021.