Yearly Archives: 2025
Reframing Antipsychotic Discontinuation: A Psychiatrist’s Personal and Professional Call for Epistemic Justice
A psychiatrist with lived experience advocates for a more humane, collaborative approach to antipsychotic discontinuation that respects diverse ways of knowing.
For-Profit Healthcare Is a Predator; Its Main Prey Is Our Young
Labeling kids with “brain diseases” sets them up for failure. This explains why the U.S. has so many youth crises.
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.
My Involuntary Metamorphosis
After day treatment, I went once a week to a “continuing care” group. What was “continued” was the lesson that you had a fault that was shameful, volatile and dangerous.
From Auctions to Moral Treatment
In less than 25 years Oregon moved from auctioning off the “care” of the "insane" to the lowest bidder to creating a safe place focused on recovery.
