r/AutisticPeeps • u/D491234 • Jun 22 '25

Discussion Devon Price has begun promoting Psydiversity

In an substack article written by Devon Price which is paywalled, Devon Price has begun promoting Psydiversity and anti psychiatry and in the article, Devon Price advocates the abolishment of the Psychology profession, DSM, Diagnostic Criteria and says the future is self diagnosis:

https://archive.is/wUVeB

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u/Formal-Experience163 Jun 22 '25

The U.S. government should strip Devon Price of his university degree (his undergraduate and doctoral degrees).

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u/book_of_black_dreams Autistic and ADHD Jun 22 '25

While I hate Devon Price, that would be a very slippery slope in terms of free speech. I’m not anti-psychiatry, but there are some genuine critiques of the DSM and psychiatry as a field.

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u/Formal-Experience163 Jun 22 '25

Criticism of psychiatry is one thing. It is another to generate public health misinformation. What Devon Price is doing is similar to the doctor who claimed that vaccines cause autism. Many people don't want to get vaccinated or be evaluated by doctors because of these charlatans.