Collectif Initiative pour une Clinique du Sujet STOP DSM - Having it out once and for all with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

Report on the progress and contributions of french psychoanalysts to the field of mental health, youth and culture

The events and social issues of recent years have repeatedly put psychoanalysis and/or psychoanalysts in the spotlight. In the minds of the public and political decision-makers, the discipline founded by Freud in the early 20th century remains linked to fragmentary and heterogeneous ideas and is often seen as controversial. And yet, directly or indirectly, French […]

The Psychoanalytic Struggle Against the DSM

Patrick Landman – The struggle waged by psychoanalysts for the last forty years, mainly in the field of mental health, is a paradigm of a certain development in Western culture and of what Freud called its “discontents.” Let us go back to 1975: psychoanalytic psychiatry was then quasi-hegemonic, and psychopathological models were accepted and used […]

August 27, 2018
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Tags: DSM, Psychoanalytic Struggle, The Psychoanalytic Struggle Against the DSM

Why should we contest ADHD?

Because we have moved from a coherent semiological entity to a pharmaco-induced pseudo-disease, now completely out of control First, let’s talk about the circumstances in which the diagnosis ADHD came into existence. Some ADHD advocates argue that this mental disease follows in the wake of the descriptions of the French psychiatrist Bourneville, of Henri Wallon’s […]

October 10, 2017
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Tags: ADHD, Contest, Context, Patrick LANDMAN, Psychanalyse, Psychiatry One Comment

Methylphenidate (MPH) – an opportunity to waste? What are the alternatives?

1) Why opportunity? MPH is an opportunity because it “works”, i.e., it has a real positive effect on attention, which allows the individual to concentrate better, especially when carrying out tedious tasks. It also works very quickly, giving the impression of a “miraculous” change, or at least a breaking away from the previous symptomatic situation, […]

June 20, 2017
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Tags: DSM, Méthylphénidate, MPH, ritalin

Who are we? What do we want? To whom is the petition addressed? What are our future prospects?

A petition against a unique way of thinking, by Patrick Landman. The idea of a petition against the DSM’s unique way of thinking was born into a small group that spread quickly. From the beginning, this initiative involved two inseparable aspects: first of all the political aspect and secondly the nosographic work in order to […]

April 13, 2017
Posted in Why Stop DSM?
Tags: petition, Psychiatry, Stop DSM

The Petition: Having it out once and for all with the DSM

The Mandatory Diagnostic Reference to the DSM is contrary to scientific initiative; Harmful to treatments of the human psyche; Costly for governments; Paralyzing for research and teaching.

April 13, 2017
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Tags: American Psychiatric Association, Manifest Stop DSM

In order to consent the existence of mental diseases classifications independently developed

Mental health should no longer refer to a single textbook required by the WHO

April 12, 2017
Posted in Why Stop DSM?
Tags: CIM 10, DSM