How You Can Help
The Grassroots Group to End Harm from Psychiatric Diagnosis, whose website is psychdiagnosis.weebly.com -- where many stories of harm from diagnosis of civilians as well can be read --- has a suggestion for people who are troubled by the APA's failure to take action to redress the harm to the complainants or to prevent harm to others. They urge concerned citizens to ask the APA to overturn its summary dismissal of the complaints and instead give serious consideration to their merits by doing any or all of the following: (1) emailing Linda Hughes, who is apparently the head administrator in the APA's Ethics Department (the names of the psychiatrists who make up the Ethics Committee that is tasked with reviewing complaints were not disclosed to the complainants, despite their repeated requests), Colleen Coyle, the APA's General Counsel, and current APA President Dilip Jeste at "Linda Hughes" <LHughes@psych.org>, "Colleen Coyle" <CCoyle@psych.org>, and djeste@ucsd.edu; and (2)making the same requests to them by telephone at 703-907-7300 (for Hughes and Coyle) and at 858-534-4020 for Jeste).
Please consider signing the following petitions:
1) Boycott the DSM
For professionals with credentials to assign psychiatric diagnoses, this petition stems from concern about the lack of science behind the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the absence of evidence that it helps in identifying effective treatments, the absence of evidence that it helps with outcome, and the abundance of evidence of people being seriously harmed by receiving a psychiatric label.
2) Everyone who cares about the harm done by psychiatric diagnosis: Endorse the call for Congressional hearings about psychiatric diagnosis
Please endorse the call by the PLAN T (Psychiatric Labeling Action Network for Truth) Alliance to hold Congressional Hearings about psychiatric diagnosis in an attempt to explore the nature and extent of harm that many Americans and, increasingly, people in other countries, have suffered solely because of being given a psychiatric label.
1) Boycott the DSM
For professionals with credentials to assign psychiatric diagnoses, this petition stems from concern about the lack of science behind the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the absence of evidence that it helps in identifying effective treatments, the absence of evidence that it helps with outcome, and the abundance of evidence of people being seriously harmed by receiving a psychiatric label.
2) Everyone who cares about the harm done by psychiatric diagnosis: Endorse the call for Congressional hearings about psychiatric diagnosis
Please endorse the call by the PLAN T (Psychiatric Labeling Action Network for Truth) Alliance to hold Congressional Hearings about psychiatric diagnosis in an attempt to explore the nature and extent of harm that many Americans and, increasingly, people in other countries, have suffered solely because of being given a psychiatric label.