Science News: Unscientific Diagnoses Medicalize Normal Human Experiences

Peter Simons covers articles about the validity of psychiatric diagnoses, the medicalization of normal human experiences like grief, and how the pharmaceutical industry co-opts feminist messaging to gain approval for ineffective drugs.

• Kenneth Kendler: “Implausible” That Psychiatric Diagnoses Even “Approximately True”
• Neurobiological Explanations Can Foreclose Self-Understanding
• Medicalizing Grief May Threaten Our Ability to Mourn
• Research Reveals Mental Health Professionals’ Participation in Rape Culture
• Why the FDA Approved Ineffective Drugs for Low Sexual Desire in Women
• Overuse of Psychiatric Drugs is Worsening Public Mental Health, Doctor Argues