Overdiagnosis in Children
We publish the article by Dr. Ludovica Turchetti, speech therapist, on the devastating phenomenon that is becoming increasingly popular in recent years and which concerns the various psychiatric diagnoses in children.
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We publish the article by Dr. Ludovica Turchetti, speech therapist, on the devastating phenomenon that is becoming increasingly popular in recent years and which concerns the various psychiatric diagnoses in children.
Almost every week we can read articles in the media where it is said that a person has found self-understanding about his ADHD or autism diagnosis. With this, they are able to accept their specialness and understand the reasons why they are a certain way. But what is that self-understanding that diagnoses give?
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This book brings together different genres of literature such as essay, memoir, diary, chronicle, poetry, manual, manifesto and decalogue. The book uses these various non-fiction literary styles to present reason, sanity, and coherence as a system of oppression that privileges sane people. From there "cuerdismo" is derived.
Psychiatry, of all the medical specialities, is the one which is supposed to hold wisdom when it comes to human behaviour, but there is none so blind as those who fail to see themselves. Unfortunately, psychiatry has always harboured those who crave power.