Psychiatry Ignores an Elephant in the Room
Large cohort studies of people with a first-episode psychosis provide a unique opportunity for finding out why so many young people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders die at a young age. However, it seems that those psychiatrists who have access to the mortality data generally do not want the facts to come out.
Psychiatry Ignores an Elephant in the Room
Large cohort studies of people with a first-episode psychosis provide a unique opportunity for finding out why so many young people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders die at a young age. However, it seems that those psychiatrists who have access to the mortality data generally do not want the facts to come out.
Part VI: How Adult Society Betrayed Michelle Carter and Conrad Roy
The story of Michelle Carter and Conrad Roy is not only a tragedy within itself and for all those involved with them, it is emblematic of the situation faced by millions of young people in the western world and increasingly around the entire planet. Final installment in the series.
Language of Mental Illness “Others” People: It’s a Human Rights Violation
When separation and microaggressions are legitimized and put into public policy and discourse, we become second class citizens and subhumans. This is oppression and bigotry systemically supported and then denied by almost everyone, including those most seriously affected. We come to believe these lies.
Health Disparity Project Cuts Out the Recovery Movement
Lots of funders are now doing initiatives to address health disparities. But once again we have found that a project designated to help our community has gone astray without even bothering to ask our community what we need. Here's why that matters and what grassroots advocates can do about it.
The Salvation of Psychiatry
Hope lies in psychotherapy. It is a purely human practice, based on the development of real trust and genuine responsiveness. It is not an analytic process, but a feeling one. We need to return to a psychiatry that respects the complexity of human nature. We need to go beyond ‘do no harm’ and promote genuine healing.
Trauma-Ignored Care? Going to the MAT on Opioids
Our current, reductionistic approach to mental health issues doesn’t offer any insights or explanations on the etiology of most mental disturbances. Similarly, medication assisted treatment (MAT) focuses on the surface symptoms of opiate abuse without addressing the underlying causes of overwhelming distress and pain.
Michelle Carter Series:
Peter Breggin’s in-depth report:
I. Did she text her boyfriend to death?
II. Michelle starts Prozac and sees the devil.
III. DA goes after her expert witness to stop his blog.
IV: Did she tell Conrad to “Get back in the truck”?
V: The Michelle Carter texting trial becomes a witch hunt.
VI: How adult society betrayed Michelle Carter and Conrad Roy.
ARTWORK
Lancet Psychiatry Needs to Retract the ADHD-Enigma Study
Lancet Psychiatry, a UK-based medical journal, recently published a study that concluded brain scans showed that individuals diagnosed with ADHD had smaller brains. That conclusion is belied by the study data. The journal needs to retract this study.
UPDATE: Lancet Psychiatry (online) has published letters critical of the study, and the authors' response, and a correction.
Psychiatric Medications and Long-term Outcomes for Schizophrenia
Martin Harrow, PhD, and Thomas Jobe, MD, present findings from their 26-year study of patients with schizophrenia. They focus on the differences in outcomes for patients who remained on versus patients who stopped taking their medication, and discuss the clinical implications of their findings.
The Extended Therapy Room Foundation
Our therapy practice is an alternative to the medical model within psychiatry, we meet people without any manuals, diagnosis and specific methods.
FEATURED VIDEO
Sami Timimi, MD at "Pharmaceuticals – Risks and Alternatives", 15th of October, 2016.
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Olga Runciman at "Pharmaceuticals – Risks and Alternatives," 15th of October, 2016
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Open Paradigm Project - Will Eberle
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Open Paradigm Project - Marty Hadge
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"Moving Beyond Psychiatric Labels"
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Carina Håkansson, PhD at "Pharmaceuticals – Risks and Alternatives", 15th of October, 2016.
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John Read at "Pharmaceuticals – Risks and Alternatives," 15th of October, 2016.
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Open Paradigm Project - Matt Samet
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Open Paradigm Project - Sera Davidow
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UCLA/ISEPP - Robert Whitaker
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UCLA/ISEPP - Bob Fancher
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Open Paradigm Project - Amy Long
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Open Paradigm Project - Leah Harris
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UCLA/ISEPP - Allen Frances
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Open Paradigm Project - Cheryl Sharp
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UCLA/ISEPP - Peter Whitehouse
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UCLA/ISEPP - David Healy
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Open Paradigm Project - Faith Rhyne
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Antidepressants & Pregnancy: The risks and potential harm to normal fetal development
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Open Paradigm Project - Leonard Roy Frank
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Open Paradigm Project - Dorothy Dundas
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UCLA/ISEPP - Bonnie Burstow
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Open Paradigm Project - Sean Donovan
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UCLA/ISEPP - John Read
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Open Paradigm Project - Celia Brown
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Open Paradigm Project - Joanna Moncrieff
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Interview with Bruce Levine
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Open Paradigm Project - Iden McCollum
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Interview with Peter Gøtzsche
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About Mad in America (2013)
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Mad in America's International Film Festival
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Will Hall at "Pharmaceuticals – Risks and Alternatives", 15th of October, 2016.
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Open Paradigm Project - Jenna Fogle
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Jaakko Seikkula, PhD at "Pharmaceuticals – Risks and Alternatives," 15th of October, 2016.
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Open Paradigm Project - Laura Nicole Sisson
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Open Paradigm Project - Oryx Cohen
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Forced Psychiatric Detention
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Birgitta Alakare, MD at "Pharmaceuticals – Risks and Alternatives", 15th of October, 2016.
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