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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 ...
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. Its critics include disparate groups such as the antipsychiatry movement and some academics.
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
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.
Participation of medical professionals in American executions; Linda Peeno; Pelvic examinations under anesthesia by medical students without consent; Pit of despair; Planned Parenthood 2015 undercover videos controversy; The Plutonium Files; Haleigh Poutre; Project Nightingale; Provo Canyon School; Purdue Pharma
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funding ban from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research [89] [90] and in 2018 her license to practice medicine was revoked by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. [91]
Anti-psychiatry, sometimes spelled antipsychiatry, is a movement based on the view that psychiatric treatment can be often more damaging than helpful to patients. [1] [2] The term anti-psychiatry was coined in 1912, and the movement emerged in the 1960s, highlighting controversies about psychiatry. [3]