Welcome to this website, which is an extension of the longstanding website, psychdiagnosis.net This site includes but is by no means limited to information about what happens to complaints filed with the American Psychiatric Association about harm caused by psychiatric diagnosis. New material will be added from time to time.
A great deal of information will remain at psychdiagnosis.net, so please have a look at that as well.
If you go to the tab on the left, "Patients Harmed by Psychiatric Diagnosis File Complaints," you will find an article with a link to Paula J. Caplan's Washington Post piece from April 27, 2012, about the fact that many people who were harmed because of receiving psychiatric diagnoses, made formal complaints to the Ethics Department of the American Psychiatric Association (publisher of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM), in an attempt at last to hold accountable those whose work could be called the "first cause," the sine qua non of harm. The APA summarily dismissed all nine complaints on October 22, 2012, giving spurious "grounds" and with no consideration of their merits. But more complaints are being filed, and anyone interested in possibly filing one (that addresses the grounds for dismissal) should send a brief inquiry through the Contact Us form on this site.
To get a sense of the vast array of kinds of harm that have been caused by psychiatric labels, please look at the recent stories here of harm from psychiatric diagnosis. And you may want to look at the 53 stories of harm that are at the older psychdiagnosis.net site, where you will also see a great deal of additional information, including some articles and books about the subject and most importantly, six different kinds of solutions.
There is absolutely no connection between this site or and Scientology or the Scientology arm calling itself the "Citizens Commission on Human Rights," even if you see that they have lifted and used any of the work from this site, from psychdiagnosis.net, or from the work of Paula J. Caplan, who is one of the people affiliated with these two sites. Dr. Caplan has asked them not to use her work and does not in any way support what they do.
A great deal of information will remain at psychdiagnosis.net, so please have a look at that as well.
If you go to the tab on the left, "Patients Harmed by Psychiatric Diagnosis File Complaints," you will find an article with a link to Paula J. Caplan's Washington Post piece from April 27, 2012, about the fact that many people who were harmed because of receiving psychiatric diagnoses, made formal complaints to the Ethics Department of the American Psychiatric Association (publisher of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM), in an attempt at last to hold accountable those whose work could be called the "first cause," the sine qua non of harm. The APA summarily dismissed all nine complaints on October 22, 2012, giving spurious "grounds" and with no consideration of their merits. But more complaints are being filed, and anyone interested in possibly filing one (that addresses the grounds for dismissal) should send a brief inquiry through the Contact Us form on this site.
To get a sense of the vast array of kinds of harm that have been caused by psychiatric labels, please look at the recent stories here of harm from psychiatric diagnosis. And you may want to look at the 53 stories of harm that are at the older psychdiagnosis.net site, where you will also see a great deal of additional information, including some articles and books about the subject and most importantly, six different kinds of solutions.
There is absolutely no connection between this site or and Scientology or the Scientology arm calling itself the "Citizens Commission on Human Rights," even if you see that they have lifted and used any of the work from this site, from psychdiagnosis.net, or from the work of Paula J. Caplan, who is one of the people affiliated with these two sites. Dr. Caplan has asked them not to use her work and does not in any way support what they do.
