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My 40 Year War on Psychiatry
My 40 Year War on Psychiatry by James Bovard, June 16, 2026 Forty years ago, I attended the annual meetings of the American Psychiatric Association in Washington and my sanity never recovered. Or at least that is what therapists presume based on my writings about their endless fabrication of bogus mental illnesses. I was attending […]
Can Kennedy Save Kids from Psychiatric Ravage?
Brownstone Institute, February 22, 2025 Can Kennedy Save Kids from Psychiatric Ravage? by James Bovard President Trump issued an executive order last week creating a Make America Healthy Again Commission, to be chaired by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Among other targets, the commission will examine “prevalence of and threat posed […]
Pummeling Politicians, Psychiatrists, Etc. on Chicago Radio MP3
Shaun Thompson and I whupped a bunch of politicians, psychiatrists, and other rascals tonight on his program on Chicago’s The Answer AM 560. Shaun, the host of the Liberty Hour program, mentioned seeing drug advertisements on Chicago TV that always end with a high speed list of side effects. I mentioned that a dentist had […]
Psychiatry is Vexxing More Americans Than Ever
Psychiatrists are continually concocting new "mental illnesses" to stretch their power over everyone else. But psychiatry fails to recognize people suffering from “Missing Bullshit Alarm” as a grave malady in our times. https://t.co/FkK0UPfFA7 — James Bovard (@JimBovard) May 14, 2024 Therapists are hollowing out the American character, generation by generation. What do they offer in lieu […]
Psychiatry is Vexing Americans and Subverting Freedom
Psychiatry is Vexing Americans and Subverting Freedom by James Bovard | May 13, 2024 Psychiatry is ruining more lives than ever before. The New York Times recently showcased psychiatric “prevalence inflation”—a vast increase in reported mental illness among teenagers because they are encouraged to view normal symptoms as grave maladies requiring intervention. Oxford University psychologist […]
Thomas Szasz Born 100 Years Ago Today
Thomas Szasz, the great Hungarian-American champion of freedom, was born 100 years ago today. Tom was one of the great heroes of liberty of the modern era. Scholar Sheldon Richman aptly labeled Szasz “the most underappreciated libertarian.” His work had severed the chains on vast numbers of people wrongfully incarcerated because officialdom did not approve […]
Jim
Thanks for the correction.
D Solimando
Custer's middle name was Armstrong, so it is
DB
Yeah - RIP to a great one.
I always wonder when
DB
I’m going to have to strongly disagree with you