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Various articles relating to urgent mental health issues are presented on this site with relevant citations.
Dr. Peter Breggin’s call to the social work profession: “My aim is to re-empower social work on the basis of it having more fundamental truth than my own profession of psychiatry, in particular biological psychiatry, and on it having a much richer, more meaningful tradition to which to cleave with all your courage. It takes courage in this day and age to talk about the things I’m
talking about and even more courage to live by them in a potentially hostile environment dominated by biological
psychiatry.
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MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES
Given Dr. Torrey’s untruthful remarks quoted below about the “biological basis of anosognosia,” I have to agree with Dr. Szasz. In spite of all the years of hoping to prove a biological basis to “severe mental illness,” the medical profession hasn’t done so.
DR. MOSHER’S DISGUST WITH THE AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION
The former president of the American Psychiatric Association addresses his letter of resignation from the APA with several recommendations for reform, including breaking with NAMI [National Alliance on Mental Illness] and giving up the profession’s use of coercion, greed and fraud in pursuit of its goals.
Inside the Battle to Define Mental Illness
Every so often Al Frances says something that seems to surprise even him. Just now, for instance, in the predawn darkness of his comfortable, rambling home in Carmel, California, he has broken off his exercise routine to declare that “there is no definition of a mental disorder. . .
DR. THOMAS SZASZ HAS CHARACTERIZED E. FULLER TORREY, MD, AS A LIAR
DON CASTELLANO-HOYT
Castellano-Hoyt’s qualifications include
- Helping TCLEOSE write the original Mental Health Officer course (1991-92)
- Conducting over 200 crisis interventions “on the street” in 17 year period in Bexar County, Texas
- Talking his way out of hostage situation in basement of old Bexar County courthouse (1987)
- Teaching crisis negotiations, inservices, and cadet classes from 1987 thru 2004 with SAPD
- Acting as crisis negotiator for TDCJ from 2005 thru 2011
- Training over 7000 officers in South Central Texas
- Publishing one textbook in police crisis intervention
- Coordinating services with local, state, and federal magistrates
- Keynoting for NIMH, police chaplains, and law enforcement entities
- BA and MA degrees in religion, MSW
Licensed clinical social worker in the State of Texas, Lic. #05294.
Certified at the Advanced Level as a Texas Police Instructor through the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education (TCLEOSE)
Social Work Consultant in Psychosocial Issues - -
Police Instructor in MH Issues
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