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Emotional Crisis Response: The Peer-Run Respite/Soteria House Approach Compared to the Conventional Approach

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The peer respite/Soteria house model responds to emotional crisis with compassion and curiosity, rather than pathologizing.
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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 7: Psychosis (Part Two)

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Peter Gøtzsche reviews the evidence that psychosis pills substantially increase mortality.

One Pill To Disrupt: Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and the Marital Relationship

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The suicidality that accompanies akathisia is the natural human impulse to escape being tortured. To save my wife, the woman I love, I was forced to argue for her continued torture.

Mad Poetry Slam!

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Poets with lived experience with mental distress are invited to perform their poetry live at MIA's Mad Poetry Slam on Zoom on May 7th, 12PM EST.
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Acute Religious Experiences: Madness, Psychosis, and Religious Studies

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It is the capacity of mad studies to advance the idea that mad is not necessarily bad. Acute Religious Experiences are always phenomenally mad, but not necessarily pathological.

Tolstoy’s Hermit: Jay Schulkin

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Jay Schulkin, a neuroscientist and philosopher of prodigious curiosity and energy, has died at age 70 of hepatic cancer.

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PharmedOut’s Making Healthy People Sick: Invented Diseases and Overtreatment June 15-16 at Georgetown University seeks submissions. View details here. Due April 20, 2023.

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Screening for Perinatal Depression: An Effective Intervention, or One That Does More Harm Than Good?

Why does the U.S. describe perinatal screening as providing a proven benefit, while the task forces in the U.K. and Canada see no evidence of such benefit?

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