From Furious Seasons:
The following was written by Gene Combs, a psychiatrist in Illinois who has also written books about narrative therapy, including "Narrative Therapy: The Social Construction of Preferred Realities." Combs is also an associate professor of psychiatry at Loyola University, Chicago. He wrote these thoughts to a friend and then passed them along to me and I am printing them here with his permission because it's refreshing to see someone be so reflective about his profession and the huge issues around "corporate psychiatry" and the bipolar label.
Psychiatrist and Assoc. Professor Gene Comb's thoughts can be read
here.
Some excerpts from his thoughts:
"I'm a psychiatrist. I don't always like being a psychiatrist, largely because it seems my colleagues are either greedy, self-important, unreflective bozos (like I imagine Dr. Biederman to be) or ordinary people who have huge responsibilities and are caught up in a system that they don't know how to question, who assume that the very poor excuse for science that they get in their professional literature can be trusted and should be followed.
& "What I'm trying to say is, I'm not anti-meds. I am against corporate capitalism masquerading as science. I am, I think for good reason, highly suspicious of any and everything that comes from organized psychiatry these days. This Biederman thing is just the tip of the iceberg."
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