AnyFile, I've answered your question about e-mail at Wikipedia:Help_desk#How_can_I_e-mail_a_user.3F Was there something else about e-mailing that you wanted to know? — Triskaideka 15:58, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Hello. Linking to Electromagnetic Field does not work because of the incorrect capital letters; electromagnetic field works.
Field (mathematics) is about something entirely different from what you seem to have intended in that article. Also, if you link to [[A|B]], the reader sees B, but the link points to A, not the other way around.
Michael Hardy 21:05, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Anyfile, you've put the page Clauser and Horne's 1974 Bell test down as needing attention. Can you please tell me what you think is wrong with it? Caroline Thompson 22:31, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Thank you! I'll get to work merging in the translated material right away. — Charles P. (Mirv) 00:01, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Hi AnyFile,
I have read some of your comments in talk:Psychiatry and I agree with you.
I wonder if you have read the article Biopsychiatry controversy?
This is the article that you can help us to improve.
Wikipedia is not a soapbox, please stop using it as such. I'm removing your recent edits to Psychiatry for the following reasons. I give these reasons because I feel bad just removing your edits with no explanation:
It is not uncommon, in the past but also in the present day, that a person is committed to a psychiatric asylum or psychiatric ward not for having a proved mental illness, but because it is in the interest of some people that that person go away from the society and is forcibly kept in the psychiatric asylum (or ward). For instance if an old person can not afford his/her living expense it can be committed to a psychiatric asylum. It is well reported that people interested in the money of a person can easily have this person declare subject of mental illness and enter in possession of that money. Have a person declared having a mental illness is also an easy, economical and with fewer trouble to obtain a divorce. And this is considered a legal way to get end to a marriage even in countries where divorce is (or was) considered unacceptable or illegal.
It is notable that no proofs have to be given to declare a person affected by mental illness, but just an opinion by a self-proclaimed expert in the field. It is also notable that a person does not became affected by a mental illness when something happens to his/her body, but when a psychiatrist declare him/her as such. While there is no need to show real proofs, based on real evidence of the presence of a problem in the body of the person, on the other hands proofs are required for a person declared affected by mental illness to just ask that his/her position to be reconsidered. Moreover there is no a way for a person to prove that he/she is not affected by mental illness. It should be noted that all of this came from the fact that the diagnosis and the declaration of being affected by mental illness are based only on opinion.
Moreover psychiatrists, in a way similar that what happen in other field of the medicine, but in this specific field in a more troublemaking way due to the lack of need of any proofs, can be accused and even charged for not having diagnosed a mental illness to a person that is affected, but it is not consider a fault to make a diagnosis to a person that is not affected.
Psychiatrists consider that the sole fact that a person ask information to a psychiatrist is an enough proof that the person is affected by a mental illness. [1] On the same ground it is easy to convince a psychiatrist that a person is affected by a mental illness (the sole fact the one or more people are spending time to reporting that a person has some problems, is enough, for a psychiatrist, to be sure that that person should be affected by a mental illness). All of this make very easy to obtain a declaration that a person is affected by a mental illness and there are no provision to avoid that a person is declared mental ill when there is no reason.
The bottom line with all your edits is that they aren't included in all your references. Much of this is inaccurate and original research (although I can't speak to your Italian source). In addition, even if this was accurate, per WP:SIZE, this information should be included in the Anti-psychiatry article and only a "short summary" should actually stay in "Psychiatry". Chupper 15:34, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
I can agree that some sentences I have written are not very clear. I will try to rewrite them more clearly.
Anti-psychiatry should deal only about the movement so called (if it exists a movement so called, as far as I know there are many movement, that for different reasons, have found problems in the psychiatry theory/behaviour.
Actually what I would consider more useful is not a section under the page psychiatry that talk about the criticism, but that at every sentences where what is said is consider in such a way only by a restricted group of people, this should be stressed. The fact that this group of people have made many effort to convince people that their believe are true, so that many people actually believe them as true, this make this statement true.
For instance:
"Psychiatric inpatients are people admitted to a hospital or clinic to receive psychiatric care."
Now a real encyclopaedia should state what people receive when admitted in the hospital, not what psychiatrists want us to believe.
For example one point that should be said is that the diagnosis is only based on the opinion of self-proclamated experts in the field, but nobody could oppose on their opinion, since there are no proof of what they state.
here I cannot explain you what a proof is, I think that, after many century science has tried to explain the need of proof to state a conclusion, it should already well known. Why the psychiatry thinks that it not need to give proves it is a good question, and a good explanation of what psychiatry is should include a warning on the danger it make, and among them there is the fact that decisions taken only on opinion often give problem and no benefit.
You have stated that what I have written is not included in the source.
First of all let me say about the Italian source, what I have taken from it is only that the author of this book noted that in psychiatry there is the "strangeness" that every people who consult a psychiatrists is found to be ill, while the same do not apply to other branch of medicine. And he conclude that one reason for this is that the psychiatrists consider that the sole fact that a person has asked for psychiatric advise means that this person is ill.
About the Szasz book, I actually not sure that the one I have written is the one, among his books I have written, where it is well explained what I have tried to summarize. There is a study about the easiness how people can be declare mental ill because of the willing of their relative. There are example of that too : for instance there is an example of sons and daughters that make their mother declared mental ill and sent to asylium so that they can use her house and her money. Their is the example of one important politician of the United Stated of the late XIX century, who was able to divorce from his wife, declaring her having a mental illness (and in this way he kept the money of her wife).
Now I cannot understand how could you say that what I have written is not present in the sources.
Is it that the what I have written is not written inside a book that only say the psychiatric-true?
I would like to finish saying that I really can not understand what psychiatry is from the article. One reason could be that psychiatry is actually not clear. For instance if it is said that it is done to get well being, why psychiatrists often do harmful treatment that cause pain and no effect useful to the patients?
Anyfile, some final words here - and these do not relate directly to the improvement of the article. In your own search for or conclusion of understandings about the field of psychiatry -or any field for that matter, you can't take it on all at one time. It is futile. Even though I strongly disagree with the field of Iridology, I don't use general sources to debate its existence. I draw conclusions from specific experiments. Why don't you run your own experiments or perform a meta-analysis and try publishing it to a scientific journal? Or if you don't like to be peer reviewed, why don't you start up your own web site, or blog? Authoritative references state that psychiatry is a real discipline. As I said, I've pulled about 180,000 peer-reviewed articles supporting different elements of it. The fact that you or I don't or do believe its "real" can never be proven or disproven. That is not the way science works. We look to evidence, and evidence supports its existence. Until these authoritative references change into something else, articles like psychiatry can't have 90% of the content be made up of criticisms. Because of these authoritative references, that would not be NPOV. But we do have a SIGNIFICANT amount of content dealing the criticisms of psychiatry at the anti-psychiatry article. I could tell initially you wanted this content written write into the psychiatry article. This is because you were trying to use Wikipedia as a soap box. During your most recent comments I've noticed you have toned that down a bit and are now addressing issues of referencing and have questions about what and what is not "authoritative". I hope I've answered these for you. Chupper 13:17, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
could you express an opinion with regard to this move request? Icsunonove 20:27, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
I have read some of your posts in Psychiatry. You may want to take a look at what I say about it in my user page. Presently I think it would be easier if you try to edit the Anti-psychiatry article. — Cesar Tort 07:15, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
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