Art, Poetry, and Humor Galleries
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Leaves Over Pond by Cathy Noble Art
Observational Studies Confirm Trial Results That Antidepressants Double Suicides
Depression drugs don’t work, and they increase suicide.
Schizophrenia in Philosophy and Theology
From Socrates to Jesus to Nietzsche, all experienced divine Beatific Visions, just as I have.
Psychiatry, Capitalism, and the Industrial Machine
Psychiatry, under the guise of science, tries to identify and manage those who deviate from industrial society's norms.
Mad In South Asia
While conducting research in rural Northern India, Ayurdhi Dhar spoke to a woman whose mother...
Default Depression—How We Now Interpret Distress as Mental Illness
The Situational Approach provides an alternative to the poor outcomes seen with the medicalisation of distress.
Grief and Burnout: The Challenge of Staying Out of Psychiatry
No matter how many times I scatter, I gather my pieces every time and get down to my garden where souls dwell, waiting to be tended.
Psychology and the Other
Survivors And Families Empowered (SAFE) has developed a pilot project to work with caring families who have been stymied in their search for support and help. You can fill out their survey here.
Please join us on Saturday, February 22, at 1PM ET, for The Case For Soteria: Past, Present and Future, a special panel on the Soteria house model of treatment.
Kids Are Not the Problem: An Interview With Gretchen LeFever Watson
In this interview, Brooke Siem, who is the author of a memoir on antidepressant withdrawal, May Cause Side Effects, interviews Gretchen LeFever Watson, PhD.
Gretchen...
Peer Support and Resistance: Becky Brasfield’s Vision for Mental Health Justice
In this interview with Ayurdhi Dhar, Becky Brasfield calls for radical truth-telling in the mental health system.
Summing up the STAR*D Scandal: The Public was Betrayed, Millions were Harmed, and the...
American psychiatry, the NIMH, the larger medical community, and mainstream media have betrayed the American public by failing to make this scandal known.
Mad Sisters: An Interview With Susan Grundy
Susan Grundy on her lifelong caregiving journey for an older sister diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of 13.
The Anatomy of Anxiety: An Interview With Ellen Vora
Dr. Ellen Vora, author of 'The Anatomy of Anxiety', joins us to discuss trauma, grief, functional medicine and more.
One Person’s Journey from Celebrity Medical Model Advocate to Skeptic: An Interview with Rose...
Rose Cartwright is a screenwriter and the author of Pure, a hugely successful memoir which was then turned into a series for Channel Four....
Mental Health – An Umbrella Term with Holes Under Which We...
For me, the term mental health is, at best, a belief system. The world of human emotion is overflowing with theories, beliefs, interventions and possibilities, but very few certainties and facts.
Dramatic Increase in Women’s Overdose Deaths – Mad in Puerto Rico
The report begins with a chilling figure: between 2013 and 2023, nearly 400 women died from overdoses in Puerto Rico, according to data from the Institute of Forensic Sciences.
The Commodification of Mental Disorders: Mental Health and Social Networks
We thus see the memification of psychiatry and the trendification of mental disorders, whose roots are based on the triad pathologization – medicalization – commercialization of existence.
