How Anti-Psychiatrists Shame Parents Who Seek the Best Care For Their Children With ADHD
An expose’ of the tactics of some Dutch anti-psychiatrists plus some expert advice from the US CDC about what to do if you are wondering whether your child has ADHD
I said that the next time I wrote about Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder I would continue a discussion of a grossly misleading and unfair article in Frontiers in Psychiatry authored by Sanne te Meerman, Justin E. Freedman, and Professor Laura Batstra from the Department of Child and Family Welfare, University of Groningen, the Netherlands.
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Does a Dutch professor have legitimate objections to the “epistemologically violent” language of ADHD or is she just having fun casting makebelieve spells on parents, children, and health care providers who use the term?
The Frontiers article ridicules not only the parents of children with ADHD, but the professionals to whom they turn for help, condemning them the whole lot of them for mistakes, errors, and logical fallacies in their taking a diagnosis of ADHD seriously. Professor Batstra’s team considers ADHD an “alleged entity” and she warns that use of the term becomes “epistemolo…