Yearly Archives: 2023
The Collective Denial of Evil and Its Impact on Psychiatric Treatment
From Narcissist Abuse Support/Sheri Heller, LCSW: Why arenât victims more often believed, and why are facilitators of an empirical science denying the psychological reality of evil?
Threatened for Telling the Truth: Polish Journalist Speaks Out
Now Iâm under attack, with threats of violence flung at me alongside threats of lawsuits. And all because I shared the large body of peer-reviewed research that contradicts the mainstream assumptions of psychiatry.
Feds to Investigate Nursing Home Abuse of ‘Antipsychotic’ Drugs
From AP: Evidence has mounted over decades that some facilities wrongly 'diagnose' residents with 'schizophrenia' or administer 'antipsychotic' drugs to sedate them, despite dangerous side effects that could include death.
Researchers Seek Standardized and Safe Antidepressant Tapering Protocol
A new study promotes the use of a standardized approach to antidepressant tapering.
“Hidden Valley Road” and Schizophrenia: Do Genes Tell the Story?
The âgenetics of mental disordersâ story told in Kolker's "Hidden Valley Road" involves omission and misrepresentation of genetic research.
Antidepressants âShould Be Reduced in Stagesâ to Avoid Withdrawal Symptoms
From The Guardian: A new draft quality standard from the UK's medical watchdog NICE includes specific guidance for GPs to help adults come off antidepressant medication permanently.
Yale Changes Mental Health Policies for Students in Crisis
From The Washington Post: The changes, which come after former and current students sued the university, will allow students to keep their health insurance and take leaves of absence instead of being pushed to withdraw.
Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 1: Why a Critical Textbook of Psychiatry?
The discrepancy between opinion and science is prevalent in psychiatric textbooks. The coming generations of healthcare professionals will learn a lot during their studies that is incorrect.
Therapy Beats Drugs for Depression for Long-Term Outcomes
Combining drugs and therapy also did not lead to better depression outcomes than therapy alone.
Broken Kids, Not Guns | Michael Mendizza
From Touch the Future: To blame guns, TV, video games, Twinkies, the bully next door, bad genes, and all the rest for the pervasive violence, self-mutilation, self-medication, and suicide is a misguided defense.
Allies for Human Rights in Mental Health: Psychiatric Survivor David W. Oaks Interviews WHO...
"Psychiatric practice is too often violating human rights, too often incapable of understanding the suffering of people, too often unable to provide help to people who need housing, work, money, respect, inclusion and instead are receiving psychotropic drugs, electroshock, physical restraint, isolation."
Hindsight is 20/20
During my 2003 episode I received a series of ten shocks and at first they seemed to âmagicallyâ cure me. However, it only took a month for me to go back to feeling depressed and suicidal â again.
A Conversation With Ann Bracken, Author of ‘Crash: A Memoir of Overmedication and Recovery’
From Medicating Normal: Poet-activist Ann Bracken's new book explores mother-daughter depression, chronic pain experiences, and struggling in a mechanistic and reductionist health-care system.
The Dividing Line Between Crazy and Not Crazy | Daniel Mackler
From Wild Truth: Being in touch with reality means seeing things clearly, without the veils or filters known as defenses. Thus, weâre all crazy to some degree, to the degree that we have defenses.
Project LETS: Building Peer-Led Mental Health Alternatives on Campus
Founder and Executive Director Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu talks about the organization's work to support struggling students and end discrimination against them.
Why Breakdowns Are Sometimes Necessary
From Sustainable Human: Everyone thinks that the way to get to love, happiness and joy is by avoiding the forest of dark emotions inside us. But we actually need to go through it in order to get to the Garden of Eden.
New York’s Mayor: Weâre out of Ideas, so Itâs âBack to the Cuckooâs Nestâ...
A psychiatrist obsessed with violence among the mentally ill, Torrey is dedicated to promoting involuntary hospitalization.
Be Worried About Boys, Especially Baby Boys | Darcia Narvaez, PhD
From ACES Too High/Kindred Media: A review of research by Dr. Allan Schore shows that early life experience influences boys significantly more than girls, leading them to need more care instead of less.
âYou Canât Coerce Someone into Wanting to Be Alive”: The Carceral Heart of the...
âYou canât coerce someone into wanting to be alive. Force just doesnât work. People must be invited to live while supporters (healthcare professionals, social workers, loved ones) make their lives and world more habitable.â
A Theological Reckoning With âBad Tripsâ
From Harvard Divinity Bulletin: The therapeutic instrumentalization of transcendence ignores volumes of wisdom from traditions that emphasize the dangers of nonordinary experience.
I Can Barely Breathe
The psychiatrists broke my body and my brain and now they are washing their hands of me. When I think about what has been done to me and what has been taken from me, I can barely breathe.
Concern as Proportion of Children in England on Antipsychotics Doubles
From The Guardian: Although the overall percentage who were prescribed antipsychotics was relatively small, experts consider it a worrying trend since these powerful drugs carry serious safety risks.
Leading Psychiatrists Unwittingly Acknowledge Psychiatry Is a Religion, Not a Science
Leading figures in psychiatry acknowledge that DSM psychiatric diagnoses and the chemical imbalance theory of mental illness are not scientifically valid, but are useful fictions that help people manage their emotions and comply with their medication treatments.
A Neuroscientist Views Deaths of Despair and Depression
Dr. Sterling's grand rounds lecture looks at why U.S. deaths of despair are the highest in the developed world, what our species' needs are for a healthy lifecycle, and what happens when those needs are frustrated.
A Revolution Wobbles: Will Norwayâs “Medication-Freeâ Hospital Survive?
We interview Ole Andreas Underland, Director of the Hurdalsjøen Recovery Center in Norway which provides âmedication-freeâ care for those who want such treatment or who want to taper from their psychiatric drugs. Ole Andreas explains why the success of this pioneering approach might threaten its future.
