Three members of Occupy Psychiatry protest the American Psychiatric Association at their annual conference in San Francisco last week. Walter Madden had a secret.
He and his wife, Kelsey, had been married for seven years when they divorced. They had one child. A joint custody agreement was reached in 2008.
But soon, because of Walter's secret, Kelsey decided that joint custody wouldn't work. She appealed to the court in their small Utah town for sole parental rights. Kelsey argued that her husband was mentally ill and, in the words of the state, "unfit or incompetent" to be a parent. And the court was required to listen intently: She had the "Bible of Psychiatry," the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), on her...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/28/4370328/legally-unsound-a-book-meant-to-assist-doctors-becomes-a-weapon-in
No comments:
Post a Comment