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1/ In light of yesterday’s @Mad_In_America report on @DrJlieberman, here’s my Lieberman story: I met him at last year’s SXSW conference. He initially refused to speak to me because I was with @Mad_In_America. He lectured me about dishonest journalism . . . https://www.madinamerica.com/2020/04/muzzled-psychiatry-time-crisis/
2/ He boasted that he was on the board of @NEJM, which he said was rated the most factual publication in the country. He then, surprisingly, invited me to a private mental health round table he was hosting . . .
3/ Ironically, at the event, Lieberman wrongly claimed that One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest was just an allegory about power & wasn’t meant as a critique of psych hospital abuses. In fact, Ken Kesey wrote decades ago that it was based on real abuses . . . https://lettersofnote.com/2011/05/25/it-can-never-be-as-bad-in-fiction-as-it-is-in-real-life/
5/ I don’t bring this story up to pile on @DrJlieberman, but because I don’t like when people downplay the history of psychiatric hospital abuses, and because @DrJlieberman has a history of unfairly maligning critics of mainstream psychiatry . . . http://behaviorismandmentalhealth.com/2015/02/24/dr-lieberman-is-annoyed/
6/ @DrJlieberman’s tendency to mislead is especially troubling because he is a powerful & influential voice in psychiatry. He’s the former President of @APAPsychiatric. My former boss Robert Whitaker sums up Lieberman’s history of rewriting history here: https://www.madinamerica.com/2015/03/shrinks-self-portrait-profession/
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