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Disability as a Creative Practice

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I wanted to explore how time and sequence work when memory is disrupted, in my case due to traumatic brain injury. I needed to document and reclaim my own sensorium.
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Compassion and Understanding Versus Drugs and Disease: Where Does Humanistic Psychology Stand Now?

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Authors with lived experience of extreme states present a humanistic contrast to psychiatry.

25 Years Later: Honoring a Stress Breakdown

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This was no illness. And I knew my biochemistry was not the primary issue. I chose to call it a severe stress breakdown.
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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 6: Psychiatric Drug Trials Are Not Reliable

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In this blog, Gøtzsche discusses the ways in which drug trials are biased, including breaking of the double-blind and industry manipulation.

What’s Missing from NAMI and Pro-Psychiatry: A Lack of Lived Experience

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Since many psych patients become forced consumers, their advocates have a duty to be educated and concerned with adverse reactions.
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How Peer Reviewers and Editors Protected a Failed Paradigm for Psychiatric Drug Testing

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My recent article was so threatening to the whole edifice of psychiatry that the peer reviewers and editors did what they could to kill it.

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Psychology & The Other Conference Oct. 6-8 at Boston College seeks submissions. View details here. Due March 17, 2023.

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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