Niall McLaren on Critical Psychiatry

The War Against Personality Disorder

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Niall McLaren
Sep 10, 2024
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For years, I’ve been saying that mainstream psychiatry is engaged in a long-term project of re-diagnosing personality disorders, which psychiatry can’t treat, as mental disorder and putting everybody on drugs [1]. That way, patients who would normally be sent to the psychologists or social workers can be brought back indefinitely (and profitably) for “r…

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