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Kill Pill Story Podcast – Roxanne Stewart-Johnson: A Psychiatric Refugee
Ivy Wilson interviews Roxanne Stewart-Johnson, subject of the film A Psychiatric Refugee
Psychotherapy Is Not a Product: What the Substitutes Leave Out
Psychotherapy Is Not a Product: What the Substitutes Leave Out
Controversial Treatment Still Used on 2,500 Brits a Year as Survivor Says it ‘Felt Like Rape’
Electroshock therapy peaked in the 1940s and 1950s. But the controversial practice - with patients sometimes shocked while fully awake and without muscle relaxants - has not disappeared.
The Great ADHD Myth: What you Need to Know About Channel 4’s “Most Controversial Show of the Year”
The Great ADHD Myth: What you Need to Know About Channel 4’s “Most Controversial Show of the Year”
Treatment Involving Patient’s Family Cuts Mental Health Hospital Admissions, Study Finds
Treatment Involving Patient's Family Cuts Mental Health Hospital Admissions, Study Finds
The Disease Model Has Failed – Now What?
Robert Whitaker keynote at the Deutscher Psychotherapie Kongress (German Psychological Association), Berlin, June 2026.
SSRIs & Psychedelics: Another Psychiatric Drug? | Robert Whitaker
Robert Whitaker appears on the Third Wave podcast.
"What if some of the assumptions behind long-term SSRI prescribing were never as settled as most of...
Is ADHD Really a Brain Condition? Five Experts Debate the Evidence
From the Teachers Talk Radio podcast. "Is ADHD best understood as a brain condition, a useful diagnostic construct or a label for a collection...
A Psychedelic-Therapy Paper Has Sat Under an Expression of Concern Since March. Sage Still Hasn’t Decided.
A Psychedelic-Therapy Paper Has Sat Under an Expression of Concern Since March. Sage Still Hasn’t Decided.
Rising Number of People Seeking ADHD Diagnosis Without Treatment, say Experts
From The Guardian. “People are increasingly seeking to an obtain an ADHD diagnosis without pursuing treatment, according to experts who have called for more...
‘Blanket’ Forced Treatment of Involuntary Psychiatric Patients Unconstitutional, B.C. Court Rules
From CBC News. "Elements of British Columbia's involuntary care regime that allow forced psychiatric treatment, regardless of a person's capacity to make health care...
A Message from the MadFreedom Advocates Board of Directors: DMH Termination of MFA Grant
From the MadFreedom Advocates website: On Wednesday, July 8, 2026, the Department of Mental Health terminated our grant, with no notice, with almost two...
A Point-by-Point Criticism of “The Top 10 Misleading Claims About Antidepressants”
From Substack, written by Bryan Shapiro MD. "The following is a rapid-fire, scientific rebuttal of the recent psychiatric times article “The Top 10 Misleading...
The Americans Trump Would Rather Not See
From The Bulwark. "The Trump administration has made clear that it wishes to purge America of some of its undesirables. That includes, for instance,...
When Treatment Becomes the Problem Part 2 – Robert Whitaker on the Psychophobia Podcast
Robert Whitaker appears on the Psychophobia podcast hosted by Dr. Michael Montgomery.
Watch Part 2 here.
Watch Part 1 here.
"Stevie Nicks lost her creativity, her zest...
When Treatment Becomes the Problem – Robert Whitaker on the Psychophobia Podcast
Robert Whitaker appears on the Psychophobia podcast hosted by Dr. Michael Montgomery.
Watch the interview here.
"The former head of the American Psychiatric Association once called...
Sad Loss to our Global Community
From Mad in the UK, a remembrance of Marius Romme, who recently passed away. He was a founder of the Hearing Voices network.
"Marius Romme...
Who Gets to Define Human Suffering?
When psychiatry concedes that its critics of psychiatric diagnoses were right.
Leonora Carrington Work Painted During Psychiatric Confinement to go on Show for First Time
From The Guardian: "A recently discovered painting by the surrealist artist Leonora Carrington, made during her confinement in a Spanish psychiatric hospital during the...
The APA Gave Him A Human Rights Award. Then They Cut His Microphone For Talking About Gaza
From MuslimMatters.org: Dr. Mansoor Malik is a professor of psychiatry at John Hopkins. For most of his career, his work has been what you’d...
No Progress on B.C. Premier’s Promise to Review Mental Health Act Following Lapu-Lapu Day Tragedy
From CBC News: "One year ago, in the wake of the deaths of 11 people at the Lapu-Lapu Day street festival in Vancouver, B.C....
AI Chatbot Prescribing Psychiatric Medications Raises Red Flags
From Medscape. "A Utah pilot program that will allow an AI-powered system to authorize prescription refills for select psychiatric medications is raising patient safety...
Require Black Box Warnings to Explicitly Name and Describe Akathisia
A Change.org petition is calling for attention to a serious patient safety issue involving psychiatric medications and the inadequate warning of a potentially life-threatening...
What is Mental Health? Toward an Empathic and Efficacious Psychiatry
A Grand Rounds psychiatry talk at Sutter Health Berkeley, CA by neuroscientist Peter Sterling.
Nursing Homes Falsely Diagnose Patients as Schizophrenic to Sedate Them, Report Says
From MedPage Today. Dementia patients are given antipsychotics, which FDA warns may increase the risk for death.
"Nursing home staff overdiagnoses their dementia patients with...
