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(This page will redirect to the new location in 60 seconds, unless you select the link options)Radical Perspectives on 'Problem Children (and Adults)' & ADD(S) / ADHD & the Schizophrenias. ADHD is a relatively new Clinical Category which assumes children have a medical problem, if they are not naturally inclined to sit still and pay attention to the World Wise Wisdoms of their parents (who helped create this wonderful world as we know it) and the carefully constructed Indoctrinations of their Institutional Instructors (educationalists / teachers). This kind of medical claptrap is not new. I feel embarrassed for the fine, ethical, socially competent, think outside the box, medical colleagues that I have worked with, but no less than I do for the genuine examples within my own profession of Social Work. At least in that profession people have and intelligent wariness and deserved contempt for the Profession and a respect only for the individual practitioners working within it, who have earn it. This distorted 'medical' perspective on childhood affects our kids and the future generation of Parents, so I will not be politically correct and polite in this instance. This is the same kind of limited intellectual thinking and prejudiced attitudes that led the medical profession to perceive, seek to demonstrate and medically treat: - "Black People as having limited intellectual and moral competence (along with religious leaders and academic thinkers of the time)";
- Women as being intellectually inferior and morally weaker than men (again, along with religious leaders and academic thinkers of the time);
- The need to keep people with Learning Difficulties in Long Stay Institutions, supposedly for their own safety (as they did until the 1970's & 80's);
- The profession that set the standard for 'social care', providing 'Specialist Nursing Homes' for people with physical and sensory problems. Homes where the formation of physical / sexual relationships and private demonstrations of affection, were challenged by 'Matron' with the threat of discharge (eviction to the rest of us). When did this end? in the 1970's.
- The view that people who think, process information and behave differently (Gay people, Transsexuals, Geniuses and the 'Psychotically' Mentally Ill included) had a form of incurable genetically determined 'Madness'.
- Now Gay people are a valuable asset to the medical profession and transsexuals can get treatment without judgment, from the Health Services. Sadly geniuses and the 'induced' mentally ill have not faired so well, as yet.
- Look at the new evidence that is coming to light through the Genome Project. I promise you. Much more is to come. Get off the fence and join the winning teams. It will be necessary to revise all our thinking about 'Mental Illness'.
- See Also: Genetics Unplugged ; The Mind Unplugged ; Institutions Unplugged ; Disability Unplugged ; Psycho-Social Perspectives ; Conspiracy Theory
Kids and Adults with 'alleged' ADHD and 'Out of their Boxes' thinking, have the potential to find all the answers you will ever need, to solve most of the problems you encounter. We will tell you how! For Free! Just for the fun of being 'Free Thinkers' :-). Just pay us a decent professional salary, a few toys to play with and some real responsibilities and opportunities to show what works and what doesn't. See: www.psychminded.co.uk
1st October 2008
 October 1: Drugs should not be first-line treatment for ADHD, doctors told - and NICE says medication should not be prescribed at all to pre-school children with ADHD
See: www.psychminded.co.uk
1st October 2008 Feature: Sept 5: Schizophrenia gene, where art thou? Molecular genetics has failed to reliably identify DNA for schizophrenia. So has the search been a complete damp squid? Adam James examines the evidence.
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