Talk:Biopsychiatry controversy

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[edit] contrived controversy?

I question if this is really a controversy. Is there an active debate going on or do we have fringe critics who are largely ignored? Are there secondary sources which have reported on this issue? Citations would be appreciated. --scuro (talk) 14:54, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

If it is a true controversy you might as well attribute the sources...which I did. --scuro (talk) 04:56, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Unreliable sources?

Sources 21 and 22 are both found in peer-reviewed journals, and #22 is a print journal and not even open-access. What exactly makes these unreliable? 99.230.117.211 (talk) 20:40, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Discussion of this can be found at Talk:Biopsychiatry controversy/Archive2#New 'Focus on biochemical factors' section. The first article is an explicit opinion piece (which would thus be subjected to minimal, if any, peer review), the second published in a social-science rather than medical journal. The authors are an anti-biomedical partisan with a slim resume & a social work academic. Hrafn^Talk_Stalk 03:05, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

I'm with the anon. It is very difficult to imagine how "In a further article they state" is not adequately supported by a reference to the article in which they do, indeed, state such things. I believe that this ref is perfectly adequate for the sentence as it is written. It looks like you are trying to get a source which supports a rather stronger claim than the one actually made by this sentence. WhatamIdoing (talk) 05:34, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Not all Antipsychiatry is Scientology

I see no distinction between anti-mental health and anti-psychiatry on wikipedia...nor do I see a distinction between the anti-psychiatry groups that are mental health client friendly versus those who view the mental health clients as psychiatric conspirators and therefore part of the evil psychiatric problem. There is no mention of anti-psychiatric pro mental health groups. The overall view of this article paints a picture of Antipsychiatry being a Scientology thing. --Recovery Psychology (talk) 12:12, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

The lead clearly distinguishes the "Antipsychiatry movement" from Scientology: "mainly from the Antipsychiatry movement and certain religions, especially Scientology." If it "paint[ed] a picture of Antipsychiatry being a Scientology thing" it would have said "including" not "and". Hrafn^Talk_Stalk 13:04, 6 May 2008 (UTC)