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By Marvin Ross
A major impediment to improving care for those with schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses is the coalition of anti-psychiatry advocates. These are groups who do not believe schizophrenia is a biological disorder, that medication makes people worse for drug company profits and that people have the right to determine their own trea...
By Dr. David Laing Dawson
Anosognosia
This word is a mouthful. Looking back I don’t think my colleagues and I ever used it in a clinical setting. Rather we would talk of insight. No insight, partial insight, variable insight, good insight.
But while the word anosogosia is a mouthful, the concept might be more central in the sympt...
By Marvin Ross
When I first learned about the tragedy at Tumbler Ridge, I knew I had to write about it as it is the latest and one of the worst Canadian disasters resulting from our failure to provide treatment and support for those with severe mental illness in this country. The examples are everywhere but we react with blinders to much of it. Just this past week, ...
By Dr. David Laing Dawson
1. How on earth did a teenager acquire guns? Was this a failing of law? Or of law enforcement? Or an aberration that changes in law or law enforcement would not and could not prevent? We need an answer to this question. And then act accordingly.
2. Guns and mental illness. Not “mental health a...