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Are Psychiatrists More Mad Than Their Patients?

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And You Thought They Were Side Effects: How Psychiatry Turned Chemical Disruption Into Medical...

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The Quiet Crisis in Mental Health: The Medicalization and Deskilling of Psychotherapy

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Jo Watson Interviews Cathy Wield, Author of “Unshackled Mind”

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America’s Unhealthy Relationship with Antidepressants

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The Moral World of Personality Disorder Assessment

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Dreaming with Purpose: How the Mind’s Hidden GPS Can Guide Us Toward Personal and...

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Behind the Smiles: Mental Health in South Korea’s High-Pressure Society

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The Mental Health System in the UK Failed Us

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Lost in Psychobabble? Cut Through the Jargon for Real Mental Clarity

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A Reflection on “Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance”

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The Curious Case of Empty Asylums and the Birth of Psychiatry

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False Information in UK Package Inserts for Antidepressants About a Chemical Imbalance

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Confessions of an Advertising Writer: How I Helped Pharma Sell Antidepressants

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De-Meaning Psychotherapy: The New Psychiatric Critic

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Symptoms and Surface Psychology

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Rethinking Mental Health in Ireland: Why Not a Trieste-Style Approach?

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When Narratives Clash: Unshrunk and The Cognitive Dissonance of the NY Times

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Psychiatry: Medical Science of Mind or Moral Ideology?

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What I Have Learned in Working With 300+ People in Their Journey of Tapering

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Mad Camp Europe: My Journey from Ward Violence to Healing and Community

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From Public Service to Private Practice: The Collapse of the Social Work Profession

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Everything About Us Without Us

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Sexual Sanism: Why Anti-Queer Rhetoric Is a Threat to the Mad, Too

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The Ethics of Long-Term Psychiatric Drug Use and Why We Need a Better Way

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Jo Watson Chats With Rob Wipond About His Work and His Book

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Usorum: A Peer Led Collective Wisdom Project

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Managing Nonconformity: Lessons from Quality

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Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: Harm Reduction, Not Judgment

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Suicides Increase After National Suicide Prevention Introduced

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Mad in Ireland

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RFK Jr. May Be Wrong on Many Medical Issues, But He’s Right About Antidepressants

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Upcoming ECT Legislation Needs to Be Revised

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Observational Studies Confirm Trial Results That Antidepressants Double Suicides

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Schizophrenia in Philosophy and Theology

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Psychiatry, Capitalism, and the Industrial Machine

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Mad In South Asia

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Default Depression—How We Now Interpret Distress as Mental Illness

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Kyrie Therapeutic Farm: Distress Understood as Part of the Human Condition

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Beyond Techniques: The Common Factors That Drive Healing

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“There’s No Word for Depression in Zulu”: Inside South Africa’s Mental Health Crisis

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Don’t Include Involuntary Commitment as a Treatment Tool in Seattle

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The Ouija Board and the Skeptic

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Guided Dreaming Can Transform Psychosocial Issues: 11 Case Studies

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Schizophrenia and Homosexuality: My Experience and Case Studies

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For-Profit Healthcare Is a Predator; Its Main Prey Is Our Young

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From Auctions to Moral Treatment

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Mad in America’s 10 Most Popular Articles in 2024

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Modern Psychology and Its Colonial Legacy

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Who Can Consent to Research—and What Does That Mean for Forced Treatment?

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The Fallacy of Modern Psychiatry: Treating Symptoms, Ignoring Causes

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Mental Illness Prophesies Society’s Spiritual Sickness

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Set, Setting, Forgetting: Silence on Abuse in Psychedelic Therapy Histories

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Exile: My Cure for Psychosis

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Rights, Responsibilities and Resources–Peer Support in Mental Health Services

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The Schizophrenic and the Dreamer

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What Are Waking Dreams, and Why Should You Care?

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The Consciousness of Voices and Visions

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The Two Earliest Stories of Recovery in Oregon

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Seriously Misleading Testimony by Psychiatry Professor in Oslo District Court About the Effect of...

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Smoke ‘Em if You Got ‘Em: Rethinking Smoking as a Trauma Response

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Beyond the Chemical Imbalance: Looking to the Past to Understand the Mental Health Crisis

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Ward 362: On Meeting People in Sorrow

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A Bicultural Māori/European Vision for a Truly Healing Hospital

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The Trauma Craze: How the Expansion of Trauma Diagnoses Fueled Victimhood Culture

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Irrational Polypharmacy: How Integrated Mental Health Treatment Can Help

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Is Virtual Psychotherapy of Lesser Quality Than In-Person?

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Is There Transformative Meaning in Madness?

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I Accuse Psychiatry of Murder

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How I Developed a Critical Perspective on Psychiatry

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Dismantling the Psychiatric Monopoly: Why We Need an Alternative

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The Emperor’s New Clothes? The Psychiatrist as Expert in a Post-Modern World

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My Impressions of Psychiatry

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School Phone Bans and “Mental Health”

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Gender and Psychiatry: Pathologized Emotions

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Why I Stopped Taking Antidepressants—and Was It Worth It?

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How We Started the Bay Area Hearing Voices Network

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The Core Error of Psychiatrists and Psychologists: Certainty about “Consensus Reality”

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“What Matters to You?” – An Antidote to “What’s Wrong” and “What Happened”

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So-Called Suicide Experts Recommend Antidepressants, Which Increase Suicides

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A Case for Parallel Mental Health Care

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Greater Role for Experts by Experience in the Dialogue on Euthanasia in Cases of...

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New Guidelines on How to Accurately Convey ADHD Information

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Investigators Who Blew the Whistle On STAR*D Fraud Call for Retraction of Five AJP...

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ADHD and “Weak Muscle Disorder”

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Risks of Prescribing Psychiatric Drugs to Veterans

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Gigantic Hoax on Danish National TV: “Patients with an ADHD Diagnosis Die Five Years...

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Preventing Suicide Among Older Adults

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SAFE: Survivors And Families Empowered—An Update

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What Helped and What Hindered My Recovery from PSSD and Protracted Withdrawal from Antidepressants?

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Is Mental Health a Choice—and Can Understanding Help Us Heal?

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Right-Wing or Left-Wing: Who Really Owns the Critique of Over-Medicalisation?

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Researchers Accuse Lancet Article and British Psychiatrists of Minimising Antidepressants’ Withdrawal Effects

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Assessing Community Mental Health Programs in India: Insights from Task-Shifting in Kerala

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How to Be a Happy, Successful Incurable Schizophrenic

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The Long-Disputed Science of Twin Studies

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STAR*D: The Harms of Orchestrated Psychiatric Fraud

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Human Suffering as Numbers and Graphs: The Problem with Measuring Outcomes in Therapy

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Elder Eyes Wide Shut

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Do Depression Pills Improve Quality of Life?

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What I’ve Learned about Tapering Psychiatric Drugs—A Holistic Therapist’s Perspective

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The Iatrogenic Gaze: How We Forgot That Psychiatry Could Be Harmful

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Working to Transmute the Pain: Why I Do the Work I Do

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Modern Psychiatry and the Human Soul and Spirit: Is Our Freedom at Stake?

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A Polyvagal Understanding of Being Human

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Impacting Parenting from a Place of Strength: Looking Back to Move Forward

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Flying While Depressed? The FAA’s Troubling New Antidepressant Standards

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Mishiguene

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To Young People of Color with Lived Experience: Pay it Forward; Become a Peer

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The Co-Opting of the Peer Movement in Mental Health

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When It Comes to Post-Surgical Opioid Tapering, You’re on Your Own!

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The Birth of The “Just Stop It” Movement: A Family’s Journey Through Mental Health...

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Violence Caused by Antidepressants Ignored Once Again by Psychiatrists

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My Story of Surviving Psychiatry

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How to Know if You Have an Abusive Therapist

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Part 4: Neurodiversity: New Paradigm, or Trojan Horse?

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Escaping the Hell of Protracted Withdrawal Syndrome

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We Are Amidst the Age of Behavioral Alchemy

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Trust Among Those People in Prison, Rising From the Borderlands

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Part 3: Neuro-Authenticity, Neuro-Identities, and the Neuro-Industry  

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What Is Beyond a Diagnosis?

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The Power of Suggestion and the Problematic Insignificance of Significance 

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Part 2: Are We All Neurodivergent Nowadays?

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Theodoric of Arizona: State-Sanctioned Pharma-Based Pseudo-Doctor

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Why Increased Psychological Freedom Should be the Main Goal of Psychotherapy

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Part 1: Neurodiversity–What Exactly Does It Mean?

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Desperate Measures: Ghaemi’s Response to Our Review of Lithium and Suicide Prevention

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Who Is Afraid of the Abolition of Psychiatric Confinement?

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The Patient-Enemy: How Derrida Helps Explain Psychiatry’s Cruelty and Care

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Iatrogenic Practices in Psychiatry: Kindling

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What Are We Overlooking? Reviewing Current and Alternative Treatments for Psychosis

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Who Is Being Targeted for Forced Medical Treatment in NYC? We Require Answers

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It’s You, It’s Not Me: Treatment Resistant Depression and the Psychiatric Breakup

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Prescription Drugs: The Hidden Costs to Health and the Planet

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Doctors Are Not Trained to Think Critically

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Reframing Mental and Emotional Pain from a Buddhist Psychology Perspective

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How to Explain Top Psychiatrists’ “Dr. Strangelove Exuberance” Unchecked by Reality

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Dorothea Buck’s Memoir Tells of the Horrors of Twentieth Century Psychiatry: A “Hell Amidst...

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Don’t Call Me a Therapist

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Remembering Bhargavi Davar: A Global Leader in the Struggle for Human Rights

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When HVN Ireland Meets HVN Athens

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Can We Talk About Spirituality? The Medicalization of Transpersonal Experiences

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Deconstructing the Word Trauma: What Does it Mean Today?

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Is Public Psychiatry Responding to the Mental Health Crisis or Just “Treating the Chart?”

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Psychosis Treatment: Numbing the World of Spirit

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Who Do We Leave Behind When We Ignore the Body? Why Critical Neuroscientists and...

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How Danish Journalism Misleads About Psychiatry

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Irish Open Dialogue Shut Down—Despite Expert Report Stating It Should Be Scaled Up

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Prescription Drugs Are the Leading Cause of Death

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What Is “Care” in a Psychiatric Medical Camp for the Unhoused in India?

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Witless and Dangerous? Challenging the Assumptions of the ‘Schizo’ Paradigm

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Tapering Strips: A Practical Tool for Personalised and Safe Tapering of Withdrawal-Causing Prescription Drugs

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From the Dopamine Theory to the Outcomes Paradox

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The Significance of Semiotics in Social Work

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On the Brink of Murder Because of an Antidepressant

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Bad Science Revisited: “The Bell Curve” Turns 30

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Szasz and the Liberation of the “Mental Patient”

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The Experience of Survivors of Psychiatry in Brazil

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Medical Journals Refuse to Retract Fraudulent Trial Reports That Omitted Suicidal Events in Children

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From a Paranoid Schizophrenia Diagnosis to a Peer Researcher in Nigeria

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Beyond Greenspaces and Mental Health: The Power of the Wild

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Can Madness Save the World? Where R.D. Laing—and Star Trek—Meet

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Putting JAMA Psychiatry and MIA to the Genetic Test

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Animal Theory of Emotion: Emotion Is Not a Disorder

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Charles Spencer’s Story of Boarding School Abuse Is Haunting

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Interpersonal Caring as an Act of Resistance Among Socially Marginalized

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In Defense of Open Dialogue Research

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Never Waste a Good Depression: Family Therapy Challenges the Seductive Shortcut of Psychiatric Drugs

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Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS): How the Last Step to Recovery Became the Final Step...

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How Psychiatrists Responded to the Launch of Our New ECT Survey

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The Integration of Peer Support Principles in Community Mental Health Policy and Practice: Toward...

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Benzodiazepines in Canada: Is a Withdrawal Crisis Looming?

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The Psychiatric Peddlers in Your Schools

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Reflections on the Silicon Valley Teen Suicides-by-Train: Fifteen Years Later

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The “Madness” of Inpatient Psychiatry

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 8)

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Irish Psychiatry Says Chemical Imbalance Is a Figure of Speech—So, What Now?

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Enlarging the Treatment Lens for Postpartum Depression

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How the Medical Profession Pathologizes Emotions and the Damage to Patients

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 7)

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Trauma and Resources Within Social Context

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As a Psychologist, I’ve Seen Many Children Misdiagnosed as Autistic—It’s a Clinical Catastrophe

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The Social-Emotional Distress Field, or How I Divorced “Mental Health”

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Are “Trauma/Addiction Experts” and Psychiatrists Misleading Us?

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 6)

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RADAR and the Dignity of Risk-Taking

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“Get Over It”? A Response to Empower Parents to Repair Instead of Victim Blame

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The Dangers of Precision Medicine: Mental Health Is Not a Battlefield

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“Impairment: Says Who?”: The Fundamental Question of Mental Health Treatment

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 5)

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Toxic Interactions: Social Circumstances and Well-Being

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Accounting for Mental Disorder: Time for a Paradigm Shift

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 4)

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Arrested Development: Britney Spears’ Memoir Is a Survivor’s Tale of Generational Trauma, Psychiatric Abuse,...

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Giving Caregivers a Platform: Sherita, Mother of Tony

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What Helped—and What Didn’t Help—My Recovery

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It’s Health’s Illusions I Recall, I Really Don’t Know Health at All

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 3)

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A Psychotic Experience can Help to Process Difficult Memories

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De-privatizing Our Relationships

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 2)

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Mad in America’s 10 Most Popular Articles in 2023

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Dr. Gordon Warme: The Curious Case of an Unconventional Psychiatrist

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Conservatorship: The Racket That Ruined My Father’s Last Years

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 1)

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Not Just a Dream: Finding the Mental Health Community I’d Been Longing For

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2023 in Review: A Paradigm Shift Is Underway

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Therapy by Script Undermines Healing; Connection Is the Key

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Reimagining Crisis Support: A Conversation with Tina Minkowitz

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 1, Part 3)

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How the Medical Model Corrupted Mennonite Values

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‘Delusions’ and ‘Paranoia’: What Are They, Really, and How Can We Engage Them in...

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The Power Dynamics of Psychedelic Therapy

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Q&A: What Is Executive Function, and How Can Parents and Teachers Help Kids Focus?

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 1, Part 2)

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Systemic Insanity

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Beyond Pills: UK Parliament Must Support Social and Psychological Services Instead

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Mental Disorder Has Roots in Trauma and Inequality, Not Biology

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You Have the Legal Right to Informed Consent

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A Remarkable Feat: A Psychiatric Patient Changed the Law on Restraints

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 1, Part 1)

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Decolonizing Psychiatry in Pakistan: A Reckoning with our Colonial Past and a Call for...

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The Drug Taper Paradox

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The Lie That Antidepressants Protect Against Suicide Is Deadly

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Preface)

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Pigs in the Hospital: The Collapse of Venezuela’s Mental Health System

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Psychiatry, Violence, and the State: California’s Systematic Failure of Its Unhoused Population

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Withdrawing From Psychiatric Drugs: How to Produce Smaller Doses Than Those the Drug Companies...

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The Psychiatric Diagnostic Evaluation: Medical Expertise or Smoke And Mirrors?

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Over-stressing Stress: American Psychological Association Report Omits Oppression

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The New WHO and UN Guidance: Psychiatry Must Entirely Change

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How the Psychosocial Approach Provides an Alternative to the Biomedical Model

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Why Do Only Some People Experience Severe Antidepressant Withdrawal?

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Six)

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I Secret Shopped #988 and Three Cop Cars Showed Up Outside My House

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The Challenge of Presenting Antidepressant Risks and Benefits

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Five)

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Madness and Method: Exploring the Realm of Unconventional Reasoning

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Healing From Psychiatric Drug Harm, Part 2: Rational Approaches to Recovery

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Medication-free Ward in Tromsø, Norway May Soon Close

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Antidepressant Withdrawal: A Clinician’s Middle View

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Four)

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The American Journal of Psychiatry’s Answer to MIA: A Silence that Speaks Volumes

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The War on Suicide Is Making Things Worse

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Dostoevsky: A Psychologist We Can All Learn From

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Three)

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Grant, Interrupted: An Introduction and Report Back from Oregon

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Reality According to Whom? Listening to My Wife—and The Problems with ‘Psychosis’

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Two)

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Reflections on the RADAR Study

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Survivors and Families Working Together For Change: A New Project 

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Medication Overload, Part II: The Explosion of Drugs for Kids

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part One)

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Not Before Time: Lived Experience Led Justice and Repair

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The Mental Health Crisis of Today’s Youth—The Hidden Culprit Every Parent and Therapist Should...

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Global Psychiatry’s Attempt to Excommunicate the Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to...

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Ten Years Later: Still Shooting the Odds

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Students Don’t Need Spying, They Need Trust

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 15: Withdrawal of Psychiatric Drugs

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What the RADAR Trial Tells Us About Antipsychotic Reduction and Discontinuation

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Remembrances of Linda Andre, Leader in the Fight Against ECT

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Report on Improving Mental Health Outcomes

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Awais Aftab Responds to the STAR*D Scandal . . . And Digs a New Hole...

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 14: Psychotherapy and the Role of Psychologists

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Giving Caregivers a Platform: Chandra, Mother of Sophia

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Update on Retracting the Fraudulent STAR*D Results

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Book Review: A History of Fatigue from the Middle Ages to the Present

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Inside the Neuroscience Community: Peter Sterling Responds to Awais Aftab

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 13: Forced Treatment

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A New Vision for Mental Health Care at Soteria Jerusalem

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Cochrane Reviews of Psychiatric Drugs Are Untrustworthy

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook Chapter 12: Electroshock

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Medication Overload, Part I: A Mountain of Drugs in America’s Cabinets

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Why I Resigned from Mental Health America

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Unattached Burdens: IFS Helps Us Understand What Psychiatry Ignores

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What’s Eating Oregon? Peer Respites, The Lund Report & Beyond

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 11: Dementia

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Book Review of Crash: A Memoir of Overmedication and Recovery by Ann Bracken

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“The Best Minds”: How the Dazzling New Book Falls Short

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 10: Anxiety Disorders

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Good Damage: How Community-Led Healing Challenges the Campus Mental Health System

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The Media’s False Narrative About Depression Pills, Suicides, and Saving Lives

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Paying Attention to ADHD Prescriptions in Your Community

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 9: ADHD (Part Three)

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Healing From Psychiatric Drug Harm, Part 1: First Steps

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 9: ADHD (Part Two)

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Fighting Outpatient Commitment in Massachusetts

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How to Advocate Effectively for Loved Ones Harmed by Psychiatric Drugs

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 9: ADHD (Part One)

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Driving Our Children into Suicide with Escitalopram and Other Happy Pills

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Everyone’s Afraid of an Angry Woman: Honoring Sinéad O’Connor

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 8: Depression and Mania (Affective Disorders) (Part Fourteen)

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The Clinical Uses of Stoic Acceptance

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How Does Untreated “Burnout” Manifest?

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 8: Depression and Mania (Affective Disorders) (Part Thirteen)

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ChatGPT Changes Its Mind: Maybe Antidepressants Do More Harm Than Good

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“Borderline Personality Disorder” and Survivor Injustice

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 8: Depression and Mania (Affective Disorders) (Part Twelve)

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My Sister Lucy’s Death and Life: Picturing an Alternate Timeline of Recovery

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Akathisia and Prescribed Harm as Traumatic Chemical Brain Injury (TCBI)

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Can ChatGPT Defend the Long-term Use of Antipsychotics?

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 8: Depression and Mania (Affective Disorders) (Part Eleven)

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Psychiatry Killed Tuva Andersson, Whose Problem Was Anxiety

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What Does ChatGPT Say About MIA?

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Sleepwalking My Life on Seroquel

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 8: Depression and Mania (Affective Disorders) (Part Ten)

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With the Launch of Mad in Denmark, a Global Network for Radical Change Grows...

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The Psychiatrization of Consumers after Harm from Plastic and Cosmetic Procedures

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What Does it Mean to Be Borderpolar?

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Q&A: How Can We See ADHD From Another Angle, and What Can We Do...

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 8: Depression and Mania (Affective Disorders) (Part Nine)

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Psychiatry’s Denial of the Horrors of Tardive Dyskinesia

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‘The Invisible Cage Called Freedom’: My Work, My Kids, My Mental Health

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Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics at the Crossroads: Mary Boyle Interviews Jay Joseph

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Splitting Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 8: Depression and Mania (Affective Disorders) (Part Eight)

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Stigma: But What if I Don’t Want to Be Like Everyone Else?

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 8: Depression and Mania (Affective Disorders) (Part Seven)

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Changing Brains, Changing Minds: Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and the Marital Relationship

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Akathisia: Historical Perspective for Healing

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How to Support Healing from Psychosis Versus Imposing Social Control

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Informed Consent Must Reflect Information from Online Withdrawal Forums

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Mental Health Survival Kit, Chapter 2: Is Psychiatry Evidence Based? (Part 1)

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Our Culture Is Abusive

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5917

Patients as Partners: A Social Empowerment Approach to Health and Mental Health

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Torture at Lake Alice “Hospital”, New Zealand

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Mental Health Survival Kit, Chapter 1: This Book Might Save Your Life

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Remembering Jennifer Kinzie (1979-2021)

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8370

The BBC, Harrow, and a Public Left in the Dark

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Book Review: “Prescription for Sorrow” by Patrick D. Hahn

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In Memoriam: Birgitta Alakare

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Insane Medicine: Epilogue

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2187

Online Experts on Withdrawal

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The Great Slowdown: Why Breaking Down Is Waking Up

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2451

The Role of Love in Mental Health

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Welcome to Planet Psychiatry

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Insane Medicine, Chapter 10: The Paradigm Shift Is Inevitable

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3633

Kendra’s Law Must Be a Beginning, Not an End

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Left-Wing Behavioral Genetics? A Closer Look at the Genetic Evidence in “The Cult of...

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9905

Insane Medicine, Chapter 9: The Worried Parent (Part 2)

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2150

Dr. Pies’ Non-Apology

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1478

Intensive Home Treatment for Acute Mental Disorders: An Alternative to Hospitalization

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CRPD Consultation on Deinstitutionalization: A Reparations Approach

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3303

Insane Medicine, Chapter 9: The Worried Parent (Part 1)

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3248

Some Principles of Human Design for a Post-COVID World

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An American History of Addiction, Part 5: Vietnam, Veterans, and Vermin

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1802

Psychiatrists and Open Dialogue

- 4
1154

Mainstream Mental Health Is Hazardous for Your Mental Health

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Attention! One Morning with a Roving Mind

- 2
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Dr. Pies and The Chemical Imbalance Deception

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Grief and Its Potential Lessons

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1891

The Genesis of a New Approach to Mental Healthcare: 4Sight

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Insane Medicine, Chapter 8: Treatment Traps and How to Get Out of Them (Part...

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3858

Eyewitness to Psychiatry Functioning as a Conspiracy Theory-Based Cult

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Can Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Hurt You?

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The History of Madness Network News and the Early Anti-Psychiatry Movement

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An American History of Addiction, Part 4: “Drugs Are Bad”

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Now I See a Person: A New Model for Breaking Free of Mental Health...

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3033

Is Anti-Psychiatry Harmful?

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5741

Insane Medicine, Chapter 8: Treatment Traps and How to Get Out of Them (Part...

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5372

Finding One’s Way Through Withdrawal

- 7
3081

Looking Under the Lamppost: Confinements of the Prevailing Mental Health Paradigm

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1479

Insane Medicine, Chapter 7: Industrialised Psychotherapy Markets Western Folk Psychology (Part 2)

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4943

The Professionalization of Mental Health Services Is Ruining Friendship

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12382

Appealing the FDA’s Denial of ECT’s Harms

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3523

Celebrating the Anti-Psychiatry Movement

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5033

Insane Medicine, Chapter 7: Industrialised Psychotherapy Markets Western Folk Psychology (Part 1)

- 13
5308

Out of the Bubble: Now or Never?

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3431

Insane Medicine, Chapter 6: Neoliberalism and the Compare-and-Compete Society

- 18
5701

Stop Saying This, An Encore!

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2285

To the Young Person Who Doesn’t Identify with Their Disability Diagnosis Anymore

- 15
3336

No, Jill Biden Should Not Be Called “Doctor”… But Only Because No One Should

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Dr. Pies: Still Going Wrong

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1581

Insane Medicine, Chapter 5: The Manufacture of Childhood Depression (Part 2)

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2812

Literally Indescribable: Are Antidepressants Addictive?

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Finding Meaning in Suffering: How Existentialism Can Help

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Insane Medicine, Chapter 5: The Manufacture of Childhood Depression (Part 1)

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4277

No, Autism Is Not Over-Diagnosed

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Exploring Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: A Town Hall Discussion Series

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3613

The Ups and Downs of Online Therapy

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1692

New FDA Study Shows Benzodiazepines Can Cause Long-Term Injury

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35919

Insane Medicine, Chapter 4: The Manufacture of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) (Part 2)

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Social Adversity, Mental Distress, and the Theatre of the Oppressed

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Dual Diagnosis Anonymous: Peer Support for Those Who Need It

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A Psychiatrist Critiques Psychiatry, and Does a Great Job!

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3330

Insane Medicine, Chapter 4: The Manufacture of Autism Spectrum Disorders (Part 1)

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11652

Does the NASW Code of Ethics Prohibit Peer Work?

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2807

Immigration Detention: The Mental Health Impacts

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Stop Saying This, Part 6: It Takes Two, Life’s Not Fair, and More

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2863

Insane Medicine, Chapter 3: The Manufacture of ADHD (Part 2)

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Understanding Mental Illnesses, and Ourselves

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3257

Insane Medicine, Chapter 3: The Manufacture of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) (Part 1)

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Who’s to Blame for the Lost Soul of Psychiatry?

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Stepping Into One’s Inner Radiant Space

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1898

Insane Medicine, Chapter 2: The Scientism of Psychiatry (Part 2)

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4305

When Psych Diagnosis Means Life-or-Death

- 14
1847

The Need for Acknowledgment of Context Within Approaches to Mental Distress

- 14
3319

The Reckoning in Psychiatry Over Protracted Antidepressant Withdrawal

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11399

The Spin Doctors: “ADHD” Research

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Insane Medicine, Chapter 2: The Scientism of Psychiatry (Part 1)

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5856

The Double Standard at the Heart of Peer Services

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3300

An American History of Addiction, Part 3: Mr. Booze

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2021

Original Soteria House Members to Speak!

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2945

Stop Saying This, Part Five: Fake It Till You Make It

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2589

De-Weaponizing Empathy

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6776

Insane Medicine, Chapter One: The Medical Model of Mental Health Is Finished

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Psychiatric Oppression Under Victoria’s Mental Health Laws

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What is Open Dialogue Today?

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4276

How Academic Psychiatry Minimized SSRI Withdrawal

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The Smoldering Wick: Suicide and Faith

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Insane Medicine: How the Mental Health Industry Creates Damaging Treatment Traps and How You...

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11010

Four Children

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2740

We Are the 100%: World Mad Pride, Disability, & Revolution

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How Many Times Must the “PTSD” Label’s Harm Be Exposed?

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5046

How Little We Really Know About Psychiatric Drugs

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The First Studies of Antidepressant Withdrawal

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How Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy Changed My Life

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You’ve Got to Be Crazy to Go to a Psychiatrist

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Addiction Treatment: How Many Meds Does It Take to Get Sober?

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How Mindful Awareness Can Reduce Suffering

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Suicidal Thoughts, Psychiatric Diagnosis, and What Really Helps: Part Two

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Suicidal Thoughts, Psychiatric Diagnosis, and What Really Helps: Part One

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A Conversation with Nev Jones

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VICE, MIA and The Movement Against Psychiatry

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Why Is the APA Proposing Sweeping Changes to Training Requirements?

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Malcharist: Fact or Fiction? Big Pharma, Psychiatry’s Key Opinion Leaders and their Ghostwriters

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2722

The Mirror Repeats: The Art of Phoebe Sparrow Wagner

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Stop Saying This, Part Four: Does Time Heal All Wounds?

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CAUTION: Spin Ahead! There is No Evidence That Psychostimulants Reduce the Risk for Infection...

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Hearing Voices: Let the Community Lead

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2201

A Positive Change for Mad in America Continuing Education

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1010

An Obituary for My Colonizer: Reflections on the Legacy of DJ Jaffe

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Can We Allow Suffering?

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4639

UN Special Rapporteur Dainius Pūras: Biomedical Approach “Still Has an Important Role to Play”

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2311

Dear “Psychology Today”: Believe Incest Survivors

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Deep Sleep “Therapy” in Australia in the 1960s & ’70s: Could Something Like This...

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6635

Inequities in Mental Health Services: It’s Time for a Reckoning and Rectification

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2127

SSRI Withdrawal’s Elephant in the Room: Tardive Akathisia

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Do We All Need Tinfoil Hats? Considering Schizophrenia

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4224

An American History of Drugs and Addiction, Part Two: Immigrating to a Temperance Culture

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2420

Who Is a Danger to Others: The “Mentally Ill” or the Powerful?

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Ecotherapy/Nature Therapy/Green Therapy

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2005

Behavioural Geneticist Robert Plomin: “There Are No Disorders, There Are Just Quantitative Dimensions”

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A Tale of Two Paradigms

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Stop Saying This, Part Three: “Everything in Moderation” and More

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3630

Identity, Oppression, and the Culture of “The Mentally Ill”

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Kicking Over a Straw Woman

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5045

A Recovery Movement Jedi Master, Bill Anthony, Died Recently

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2854

Drs. Pies and Ruffalo Still Rattling Their Wooden Swords

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An American History of Addiction: Ardent Spirits

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4172

Professional Mental Health Leaders: Experts in Humanity or in Marketing?

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3087

Whose Finger is Taking the Pulse of America’s Shock Treatment Controversy?

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5710

Stop Saying This, Part Two: “Reframing” and More

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4986

Is COVID-19 Making Everybody Crazy?

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10564

Racism and Radical Psychiatry

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2824

Suicide & Candy Corn: The Utility and Challenges of Risk Assessments

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Kerry O’Malley: A Personal Struggle Against Forced Medication

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4166

Is It Time to Rethink Mental Illness in Light of the Pandemic?

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3071

Defunding the Police: Replacing Guns With Prescription Pads Is Not the Answer

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6562

Does Stranger Mean Danger?

- 15
2054

Stop Saying This: Phrases That Sound Helpful, But Are Actually Gaslighting, Part 1

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17112

Black Suicidality and Mental Health #BlackLivesMatter

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2148

End Police “Wellness Checks.” Now.

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20089

We Must Not Be Silent On George Floyd & Systemic Racism.

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Withdrawing Kids from Psych Drugs: Why, How, and When

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Recovery: Stressing the Social Basis of the Process

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Canadian Mental Health Legislation and the CRPD

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3216

Supporting Children and Parents to Withdraw from Psychiatric Medication

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2775

“We Are All Mad!” A Call for the Development of an International Network Among...

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Jinxed: The Persecution of Evan Durst Kreeger

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Three Recent Genetics Books and Twin Studies’ Indefensible “Equal Environment Assumption”

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12 Essential Facts About Psychiatry

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Four Decades of Allying to Make Safe Spaces for All Voices: The Hearing Voices...

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Should You Ever Ask Someone “Are You Suicidal?”

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Electric Shock Update: Allegations of Regulatory Misconduct Filed with the FDA

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Should We Diagnose Donald Trump?

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2488

Does Pharma Need the Entrepreneur?

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1587

Beyond the Buzzwords: What Does Trauma-Informed Care Truly Mean?

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7734

What COVID-19 Has to Teach Us About Psychiatric Oppression

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4336

DSM Led Us Far Astray. Life Story Is the Path to Truth.

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When Telling A Psychiatrist You Are Not Mentally Ill Is Grounds for Commitment

- 31
6952

Loneliness Is Deadlier Than COVID

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5806

Why Compassionate Activism?

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2661

Dialogue Is Just What the Doctor Ordered: Town Halls in a Time of Crisis

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942

Re-establishing My Credentials: Psychiatric Survivor Activists Are Needed Now!

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The President’s Fitness: Can Professionals Help Decide?

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“Be Kind to Yourself… For Us!”

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Induction to Virus Psychosis

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Mental Health Is Our Common Wealth

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Jordan B. Peterson’s Support of Corporal Punishment for Children: A Critique

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The Launch of Mad in Sweden Culture Section

Recovery – From Personal Reform to Social Change

Injuries in the Children of Parents Living With Mental Illness

“Depression Among the Elderly Must be Prioritized”

Mad in America and Activism

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2327

Window of Opportunity: Reflections on “Dialogue in a Time of Crisis”

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1007

Allen Frances: Still Spinning the Story

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Is Your Brain Adequately Nourished to Cope With COVID-19 Stress?

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Too Good to Be True: How TMS Damaged My Brain

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There’s Something Spreading Faster Than COVID-19, and It’s Not Fear. It’s Toxic Positivity

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Lockdown Reading to End DSM Psychiatry?

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 Just Like Viruses, Emotions are Contagious

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Missing a Pivotal Outcome in a Large Cold Turkey Trial of Desvenlafaxine

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Exploring Dialogical Responses in a Time of Crisis: Are We Living in the...

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A Bridge Over Troubled Water: What’s This About Being a Hopeless Reformer?

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Exploring How Muslim Therapists Work With Jinn Possession

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8187

Blurring the Line Between “Us” and “Them”

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1619

What Do Psychiatrists Treat if Not the Soul (i.e., the Psyche)?

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3527

We Are All in This Together

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A Peek Inside the Modern Asylum

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11154

Social Determinants of Health and the Continued Individualization of Suffering

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3684

Supreme Court Decides Case on Insanity Defense

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Making a Mad Community, from Attic to Attic: Part Two

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Making a Mad Community, from Attic to Attic: Part One

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US Considering Policies That Will Lead to Mass Death Of Psychiatric Patients

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The Persistent, Misdirected Search for Causes of Trauma-based Suffering

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4176

Joint Statement on COVID-19 and Persons with Psychosocial Disabilities

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The Perils of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising

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1642

Mad in Brasil TV

Tending Hearts and Minds: Changing the Mental Health Paradigm in Our Schools

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Psychiatry and the Stupidification of America

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From FACT to POD: How a FACT Team Integrated Open Dialogue

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National Boards of Health Are Unresponsive to Children Driven to Suicide by Depression Pills

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The Psychiatric Narrative & The Boston Globe: Violence, Force, & Derogatory Labels  

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2602

A Book Review of “Acceptance: The Defining Voice of Validation”

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2631

Please Stop Saying Depression Is Like Diabetes

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5096

How Radical Women Changed Psychiatry in the 1970s

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4454

6 Ways Trauma Might Inform Your Current Life

- 29
6458

UN Report: Involuntary Psychiatric Interventions “May Well Amount to Torture”

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Psychiatry Needs a New Metaphor

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3451

The Most Dangerous Thing You Will Ever Do

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24488

What Can We Learn From the Asylum?

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2725

Why Did I Stay?

Rethinking “Delusions”: Envisioning a Humanistic Approach to Troublesome Beliefs

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What Does the Therapist Know? And Why Does It Matter?

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Working With the Four Dialogues: Using Chairwork in Clinical Practice

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Observations From an Open Circle

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1303

Our Movement Has a Cover-up Problem Too

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Turning the Corner: How Are We Educating Psychiatrists in Medical Schools?

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1638

Exploding the “Separated-at-Birth” Twin Study Myth

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7471

“Sublime Madness”: Anarchists, Psychiatric Survivors, Emma Goldman & Harriet Tubman

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3004

Why Must People Pathologize Eating Problems?

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Spiritual Emergency: Crisis or Transformation?

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7048

The Chemical Imbalance Theory of Depression: Where Is It Going?

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8421

The Review on Antidepressant Withdrawal That Cochrane Won’t Publish

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10242

A Kirist Response to Psychiatry

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3951

NY Times to Bonnie Burstow: May You Not Rest in Peace

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Psychiatry, Capitalism, and the Recuperation of Psychedelics

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6000

Big Pharma Meets Big Diagnosis, Big Courts, and Big Psychiatric Hospitals

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Reimagining Healthcare

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3365

Where Are the Results of These Five Clinical Trials of Antidepressant Drugs?

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4497

Ready, Fire, Aim: Mainstream Psychiatry Reacts to the UN Special Rapporteur

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How President Trump and Dr. Drew Got It Wrong on Deinstitutionalization

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MIACE 2020: New Approaches to Working With People Who Are Suicidal

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3136

Stalked by Stress, Abandoned to Predation: The Appeal of Suicide in a Modern World

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Making Peer Counseling Radically Accessible

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4461

The Day I Became Schizophrenic

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Power Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry

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The Real Myth of the Schizophrenogenic Mother

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15277

Remembering Bonnie Burstow

- 32
7914

No, Dr. Friedman: The Solution to Teen Suicide is Not So Simple

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3942

Surviving Psychiatry: A Typical Case of Serious Psychiatric Drug Harms

- 22
8406

Real Doctors Are Peddling Fake Diseases: Here’s How to Spot Them

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Overcoming the Madness in Us All

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Cast Aside No One

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2257

The Invisibles: Children in Foster Care

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4408

Zel Dolinsky: I Have a Right to “Death With Dignity”

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Merry, Beautiful, Unique: YOU

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Anatomy of a Suicide: Stress and the Human Condition

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43158

Medical Ghostwriting: When an “Author” Is Not Necessarily an “Author”

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4326

The House of Cards with Informed Consent Standards

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2092

Twin Studies and Ken Burns’ Upcoming Documentary on “The Gene: An Intimate History”

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5755

Are Regulatory Bodies Prioritising Drug Company Interests Over Public Safety?

- 31
2484

Is Australia’s Psychiatric System Redeemable?

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5513

The Field of Mental Health Has Gone Astray, But We Can Fix It

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4079

Dr. Huda Has Written His Book: ‘The Medical Model in Mental Health’

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5667

What Does ‘Relapse’ Mean? Definitions Used in Antipsychotic Trials Are Unclear

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1996

The Matrix: Disentangling Anti-Psychiatry

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In Memory of Julie Greene

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A Tribute to Stephen Gilbert, Warrior Behind Enemy Lines

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1998

Lighting a Spark to Heal Trauma: An Interview with Jesse Zook Mann

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3668

The Darker the Night, the Brighter the Light: Five Lessons Learned This Month

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3920

Seven Strategies to Avoid Retraumatization While Working with Psychosis

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3152

MIA at Eight Years: Are We Fulfilling Our Mission?

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Anthropologists Contemplate the Future Role of Psychiatry

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3561

Hearing Voices Network Launches Family & Friends Support Group

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4310

High Time for Anarchism in Mental Health

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Deep Brain Stimulation and Deeply Biased Researchers, Revisited

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3196

“We Need a New Paradigm” — Rethinking Psychiatry’s Hospitalization Survey

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2076

Capitalism Makes Solutions Impossible: A Review of ‘Rebel Minds’

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The Revolt Against Psychiatry: A Book Review

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Got a Gene for That? The Latest from the Chronicles of Gene Worshiping

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Holistic Approaches: A Proven Treatment for Psychotropic Drug Withdrawal

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13228

Responding to Workplace Mistreatment and Bullying

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From Moses to Jesus to Prozac: A Theory on “Chemical Imbalances” and Faith

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Power Threat Meaning Framework and Tapering Strips in Brasil

In Defense of Healthy Pride

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2729

Berlin Manifesto for Humane Psychiatry Released

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There Is No Such Thing as a Side Effect

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5074

Building a Culture of Mental Well-Being

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5430

When Mad Voices Are Locked Out of Academia

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Hereditary Madness? The Genain Sisters’ Tragic Story

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Peer Specialists in the Mental Health Workforce: A Critical Reassessment

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The Sisyphus Cycle: How Everyday Stress Leads to Suicide

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Dog Assisted Psychotherapy Most Effective With Children

Deep Brain Stimulation and Depression

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UN Expert Calls for Major Shift in Suicide Prevention Efforts on World Mental Health...

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Fighting Unjustified Commitment in Wisconsin: Leslie’s Story

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4259

Countervailing Forces Against Ritalin Use in France

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2693

Forced-Treatment Advocacy Group Cherry-Picks Data to Support Agenda (Again)

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2440

A Doctor Cures His Bipolar Diagnosis Without Psychiatry: Review of ‘I’

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Marci Webber Granted a Conditional Discharge

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The Problems with the DSM Mask a Dark Reality We’re All Complicit In

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10 Reasons Why Psychiatry Lives On—Obvious, Dark, and Darkest

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Is Remaking Psychiatric Care Possible?

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Lingering Side Effects of Quitting Antidepressants

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Trump and Cuomo: Red Flags Are Red Herrings

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How Psychological Injuries Cause Physical Illness—And How Therapy Can Heal It

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41198

William James’s Letter to His Depressed Daughter

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Pies’ Polemic and the Question of Theories in Psychiatry, Again

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4987

A ‘Blueprint’ for Genetic Determinism

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How Healthcare Foundations Destroy Grassroots Advocates

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1924

System Change Webinars: Promoting Radical Change

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Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal in Spain

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9674

The Problem Lies in the Term ‘Mental Illness’

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Poverty: The Newest Medically Treatable Brain Disease

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Monarch eTNS Inspires “Stop the Psychiatric Abuse of Children!” (SPAC!)

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Creating Our Mental Health

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The Mystic of Ireland: An Homage to Ivor Browne

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Collaborative Strategies for Re-Visioning the Public Mental Health System

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3632

In Defense of Anger

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No Graphic Detail: The Injustice of Being Silenced

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We Must Hear Marianne Williamson’s Message About the Overuse of Antidepressants

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Brave New Apps: The Arrival of Surveillance Psychiatry

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3375

Blaming the “Mentally Ill”: This is Hate Speech

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Antidepressants and the National Suicide Epidemic

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How “Safe Messaging” Gaslights Suicidal People

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Helping People Come Off Medication—Bad for Business?

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Psychiatric Eugenics Then and Now—You Betcha It’s Still Happening

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Rock Bottom: When You Are in Your Darkest Moment

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We’ve Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health

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An “Even-Handed” History of Psychiatry as Damning as the “Polemics”?

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2850

We Lost a Giant Today: A Tribute to Janet Foner

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Responding to “The Case Against AOT”—Next Steps for Change

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The Chemical Imbalance Theory: Dr. Pies Returns, Again

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U.S. Politicians Now “Trauma Informed”—Should We Be Hopeful?

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An Open Letter to Howard Stern, the “Poster Boy for Psychotherapy”

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End Kendra’s Law Now: Racist, Classist Practices in Involuntary Psychiatry Persist

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Talking About Psych Diagnoses and Drugs: A Primer for Parents & Professionals

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3319

System Change Toward a Green Movement in Mental Health

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Equal Legal Capacity or ‘Supported Decision-Making’?

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2061

On Cognitive Liberty: A Principle to Rally Behind

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Being-Towards-Suicide

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2762

Why Mad in Italy?

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2312

Inside an Online Charter School: Labeling Kids “Disabled” for Profit

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2724

A Guide to Long-Acting Neuroleptics: Education or Promotion?

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The Pill Shaming Phenomenon: What’s It Really About?

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The Voices My Daughter Hears

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Madness, Sexuality and Legacies of Strategic Sanism

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Introducing Voices for Choices

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“Three Identical Strangers” and the Nature-Nurture Debate

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To Warn or Not to Warn? A Critique of MIA’s Use of Diagnostic Terminology

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Tom Paine, Christianity, and Modern Psychiatry

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ECT Litigation Update: Are Patients Being Warned of Brain Damage Risk?

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Two Years Tapering an Antidepressant – A Life-Changing Experience That I Didn’t Want

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The Three Types of Psychiatric Drugs – A Doctor’s Guide for Consumers

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A Smashing Victory — And an Insidious New Threat

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When ‘For Your Own Good’ Actually Means ‘For My Own Good’

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Public Purse a Cash Cow for Pharma: Could Taxpayer Dollars Be Better Spent?

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Tough Love for Thomas Szasz: A Book Review

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I’m Introverted, Not Depressed!

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Blaming the System May Be the Best Therapy

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Helping Children to Overcome OCD: 6 Creative Strategies for Parents

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FDA Approves Using Electricity All Night Long on Children’s Brains

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Are Antidepressants Enabling the Population to Tolerate the Intolerable?

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My Son and the “Mental Health” System

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Recovery Versus Mad Pride: Exploring the Contradictions

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Stop Shocking and Torturing Women – My Sisters

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Reflections on 25,000 Hours of Being With People in Extreme States

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Thought About Killing Yourself Lately? It’s Not All In Your Head

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On Human Nature and Its Implications for the Mind-Body Problem

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Forced Drugging with Antipsychotics is Against the Law: Decision in Norway

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Lou Reed: That Which Does Not Kill Us Can Radicalize Us

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A Deeper Dive into System Change in the Mental Health Paradigm

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Lithium: A Survivor’s Guide for Parents

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Remembering Deron Drumm: The Vision and the Hope for Healing and Connection

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25 Lenses Through Which to View How Life is Experienced

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On Whose Authority?

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In Defense of Anti-Psychiatry

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“Dad, You Were Right”: I Got Better When I Stopped Treatment

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Media Errors in Covering “Mental Health” – Advice to Fellow Writers and Editors

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4406

Update on Marci Webber: Will the Nightmare Ever End?

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The Lonely Wave: On the Failure of Group Therapy

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The New Yorker Peers into the Psychiatric Abyss… And Loses Its Nerve

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Struggling Parents, Burdened Social Services: What We Can Change

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The Science and Pseudoscience of Women’s Mental Health: Conversation with Kelly Brogan

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ECT Explained by a CET (Certified Engineering Technologist)

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Why “Middle-Grounders” May Be as Dangerous as APA Presidents

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The Hints That Psychotherapy Clients Drop

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The Therapeutic Role of Blame

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“I Love My Diagnosis”: The Benefits of Mental Illness

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Lasting Damage from Prescribed Drugs

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A Faux Test for a Faux Disease Promoted by Real Psychiatrists

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“Breakthrough” Treatment for Postpartum Depression: Game Changer or Misguided Magic Bullet?

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3256

Introducing Multi-Lens Therapy

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I Believe There’s a Gene for Psychosis… And We All Have It!

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2447

Postpartum Depression: Is Brexanolone the Answer?

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4317

Right-Wing Psychiatry, Love-Me Liberals and the Anti-Authoritarian Left

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“Page Not Found” Ends Up “Telling All” About Psychiatry

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Recovery Porn: Tell Me Your Story, I’ll Tell You Your Value

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Together for Sustainable Change: The Launch of Mad in Sweden

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Real, Not Sham, Mental Health Coverage

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Saving Psychotherapy

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2488

I Get to Decide What’s Helpful for Me

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3502

Kick Big Pharma Out of the Classroom

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5174

Will the European Elections Be a Chance for Mental Health?

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2024

“Let’s Not Go Overboard About ECT”

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How “Mental Health Awareness” Exploits Schoolchildren

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7410

Why Many Doctors Are Authoritarians – and Harmful

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Why Are So Many Americans Seeking Medication for Distress?

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Psychiatric Medications: Who Decides?

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3326

I Don’t Believe in Autism

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39782

Psychiatry, Society and Stigma: Placing the Blame Where It Belongs

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Assessing Outcomes at the Alternative to Meds Center: Survey Results Prove Promising

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5523

Nasal Spray for Depression? Not So Fast

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Loneliness Cure: Red or Blue Pill?

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Institutional Corruption in the Cochrane Collaboration

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4247

Funder Fragility and Forced Collaboration

- 15
1415

‘Full Moral Status’ Part II: How to Achieve Safety, Parity, and Change

- 47
2031

“I’m Not Going, You Can’t Make Me!”: A Community Approach to School Refusal

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3552

The War on Antidepressants: Why We Need to End it for Public Benefit

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4615

Orthodox Madness

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7429

ASIST Suicide Prevention Training: “Safe” for Who?

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14330

Spiritual Texts in the Psych Ward

- 27
2198

How Long Does Antidepressant Withdrawal Last?

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6875

Why the ‘Psychological Injury Model’ Will Ultimately Triumph

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29688

Traumatic Immobility: Depression as a Stress Response

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37571

“Not all NAMIs!”: Why Even the Best Local NAMI Chapter is Still a Problem

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“ADHD: A Return to Psychology” Video Series

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Martin Luther King Jr. and the Psychiatric Violence Survivor Movement

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2714

Fake Science and Checking Sources

- 27
2163

Antidepressant Withdrawal: An Unknown Disorder?

- 24
7451

The Never Ending Story: How 2nd Story Respite House Was Saved

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Open Dialogue: Does the Current Research Data Support Further Investment?

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Suicide, Ketamine, the Propaganda Model and the New York Times

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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: An Infographic on Bipolar Drugs

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Tumbling Further Down the Rabbit Hole of Antidepressant Withdrawal Research

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2230

How Love Can Reformat Our Lives

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Mad in America: 2018 by the Numbers

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2536

The Mystery of Madness Throughout the Ages

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7 Tips to Help a Distracted Child

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Why We’re Establishing an Institute for Scientific Freedom

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8540

The Minds of Men: A Stunning New Film About Covert Mind Control

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6026

On Voice Hearing Simulations: Why They Should Be (Mostly) Banned

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3341

Pathways to Enhance Well-Being: Free Resource on Alternative Wellness Practices

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1942

7 Tasks for a Parent Whose Child Is Diagnosed with a Mental Illness

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3411

Reclaiming Humanity at the Dawn of Posthumanism: Conversation with Darcia Narvaez

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4294

Antidepressant Dependence Discussed at the Seat of Welsh Government – Video

- 30
2669

What Do Twin Studies Prove About Genetic Influences on Psychiatric Disorders? Absolutely Nothing

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12146

The Meaningfulness of Anxiety

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6535

Childhood Bipolar Disorder, Deconstructed

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5087

What’s “Grand” About Electroshock and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation?

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4625

The Madness of Our Mental Health System

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5679

When Will We Wake? Reflections on Suicide and Psychotropic Medications

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3092

Smoke and Flames: Silence In A World On Fire

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Anatomy of an Opioid Epidemic

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3430

Mindfulness and Complex Trauma: The Rewards and the Risks

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Are Emotional Disorders Really Disorders of Love?

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15196

The Real Attention Deficit Disorder

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4997

Filling the Crack in the Liberty Bell

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1964

What Would Real Informed Consent on Psychiatric Drugs Look Like?

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2374

Trauma Outside the Box: How the ‘Trauma-Informed’ Trend Falls Short

- 64
20392

Litigation Update: ECT Device Manufacturer Issues “Permanent Brain Damage” Warning

- 36
8616

Heroes of Science: Survival of a Whistleblower

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Learning From Each Other As Psychiatric Survivors

- 36
2847

Escaping from AOT: The Importance of the Incident with the Candle

- 28
2283

Mortification of the Self: The Impact of Stigma on Identity

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9492

Hearing Voices: Where We Locate Them Shapes Our Experience

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2396

Bad-Science Warning: The “Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart” (MISTRA)

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16151

The “Time to Strike” is Now: A Call for Anti-ECT Activism

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4647

The Language of Internalized Oppression

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7261

Allen Frances and the Increasing Use of Antidepressants

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5541

Psychiatric Marginalization of Anti-Authoritarians – Excerpt from New Book

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4598

MIA Update: Our Parent Resources Initiative and More

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2168

Suicide Hotlines, Risk Assessment and Rights: Whose Safety Matters?

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5004

Huge Breakthrough in Lawsuits Against ECT Shock Device Manufacturers

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10315

How Our Government Helps Drug-Dealing Doctors Kill Us

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4380

Peruvian Legal Capacity Reform – Celebration and Analysis

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55 Steps to Informed Consent

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25536

Trauma Blocks the Frontal Lobes – “Verbal Physiotherapy” Can Unblock Them

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9070

Results of World’s Largest Antidepressant Study Look Dismal

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The Cochrane Collaboration Has Failed Us All

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TCI ASIA Pacific: Engaging the Global Mental Health Movement in Dialogue

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1487

How Well Do Neuroleptics Work?

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3570

Healthy Guilt and Doing Right By Those We Have Wronged

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Fighting the Suppression of Dissent: A Guidebook for Those Who Refuse to Conform

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3136

Healthy Planet/Healthy Mind with Zach Bush, MD

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Helping Children With Angry Outbursts

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We Need To Talk About Self-Care

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New Video Series: ‘Parenting Today’

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2639

Alternatives to Suicide: Strategies for Staying Alive

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25920

What’s Blocking Progress in Behavioral Healthcare?

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The Science and Pseudoscience of Mental Health Podcast

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Building a Support Network for Peer Workers in NYC

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Having Empathy Doesn’t Mean That You Also Have Compassion!

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12654

The Decline of Danvers State Hospital

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A Significant Indigenous Scholarship and Another Antipsychiatry Battle

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Trump Anxiety Disorder Is More Fake News

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1354

Why Scientists Should Reconsider Presenting with TED

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5549

Did You Ever Stop Taking Antipsychotics? – World Survey on Withdrawal

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How Doctors Became Such Prolific Drug Dealers

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David Foster Wallace: Suicide and the Death of Agency

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52895

Memoirs of a Dissident Psychiatrist

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Process Oriented Approaches to Altered and Extreme States of Consciousness

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2884

Mad in the UK

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3527

Introducing ‘Brainsplain’

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4788

Letting Negative Projective Identifications Come, and Letting Them Go

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7444

The Impervious Surface of Professional Help: A Letter to My Therapist

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2892

Adolescent Suicide and The Black Box Warning: STAT Gets It All Wrong

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4715

When Rain Comes, Words Are Unnecessary: Our Search for a Better Way

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2069

Why Mainstream Psychiatry is Ableist

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5241

Waiting for Gravity

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1788

The Psychoanalytic Struggle Against the DSM

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7727

Suicides Are Increasing – And So Are Antidepressant Prescriptions

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5890

Uncomfortable Relations: Reflections on Learning From Psychiatric Survivors

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3516

A Time For Rain: Teaching Our Children About Sadness

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2577

Envisioning Psychiatric Drug Freedom

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3603

Resistance Matters: The Activism of Don Weitz

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2704

Prescripticide: A Proposal for Action and a Request for Your Help

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Deadly Serious: Talking Openly About Suicide

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5721

The Creativity and Suicide of Robin Williams: A Phenomenological Study

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6107

Hegemonic Sanity and Suicide

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10571

Suicidal Tendencies, Part III: So, When Do I Get to Call the Cops?

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Thar’s A New Sheriff in Town!

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3148

Results of the 2018 Mad in America Reader Survey

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3177

The Scientism of Childhood and Adolescent Depression

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5588

In Defense of Healthy Mania

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1870

Can Children Have Bipolar Disorder?

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2772

Ensuring Integrity of Studies: Analysis of the Dan Markingson Case

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4211

Why Mandating Mental Health Education in Schools is a Band-Aid on a Gaping Wound

- 0
3129

Psychiatric Retraumatization: A Conversation About Trauma and Madness in Mental Health Services

- 58
9891

Escaping from AOT: Letter to the Judge

- 52
3117

The Story of a Professional Delusion: Do Psychiatrists Believe Their Own Words?

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10131

12 Mental Health Design Principles to Replace This Thing

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2371

Mad in Asia: Towards Multiple Narratives for Inclusion

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1286

The REST Project Support Service for Benzo and Sleeping Tablet Dependence: My Story

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1944

In Defense of Healthy Depression

- 32
3326

“The Lion King” Psychiatrized: What If Psychiatry Had Gotten Its Hands on Simba?

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5632

The Creation of an Illness: Video Games and Defining Addiction

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3342

“The Angry Consumer”: Embracing Difficult Conversations

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6309

The Drugging of Migrant Children: A Symptom of a Systemic Issue

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2280

Selling Nicotine on a Psych Ward

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1467

Drug Treatment in Medicine and Psychiatry: Papering Over Important Differences

- 55
3049

How to Help Someone Who is Suicidal

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4047

Reappropriating Bipolar Beyond Pathology

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4817

Still Seeking a Chemical Cure After All These Years: Lauren Slater’s Blue Dreams

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The “Essential Principles” of Psychiatric Practice: More Psychiatric Cheerleading

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2128

Busting 7 Myths About the Practice of Psychotherapy

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3935

Is Psychosis Natural?

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4142

Learning to Speak Psychotic

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6235

Randomized Controlled Trials of Psychiatric Drugs Tell of Harm Done

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6071

Suicide in a Culture of Mandated Happiness – Who’s to Blame?

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7019

Spotlight on Institutional Psychiatry

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2324

TED Betrays Its Own Brand By Flagging Nutrition Talk

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10376

Rising Rates of Suicide: When Do We Acknowledge That Something Isn’t Working?!

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19581

So What’s This About Another Webinar Series on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal?

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1328

Dear Roseanne, The Blood is At Your Doorstep

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4157

Perspectives on “Reality” from an Alternative Epistemology

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1841

The Secret to Psychiatry’s “Success,” as Revealed by a Psychiatrist

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6344

This Is Your Personality Test Result On Capitalism

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3752

ISPS Australia’s Response to Schizophrenia Awareness Week: Drop the Label!

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2770

Towards the Re-politicization of “Mental Illness”

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3439

Neurofeedback is Not For Everyone: The Dangers of Neurology

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50641

Questioning the Integrity of Psychiatry

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4400

The Next Deadly Epidemic: Adult ADHD and Stimulants?

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4432

UN Meeting on Human Rights in Mental Health: A Response

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2787

ADHD: Disempowerment By Diagnosis

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3669

Distinguishing Dissociative Disorders from Psychotic Disorders: Compounding Alienation

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4723

The Long-term Consequences of Antidepressant Use: An Interview with Michael Hengartner

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5863

May is Power Threat Meaning Month

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4597

The Myth of Mental Wellness: Can We Really Improve our “Mental Health”?

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4312

Three Antipsychiatry Scholarships: The Revolution Continues

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4772

Molecular Fingerprints? On the Science and Ethics of Transcriptomic Research

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1114

A Commentary on the Finnish Analysis of Outcomes of First Episode Schizophrenia

- 33
2801

20-year Outcomes for First-episode Psychosis: Impact of Neuroleptic Drug Discontinuation

- 19
3083

Usage of Depression Pills Almost Halved Among Children in Denmark

- 40
4161

The Interim Report on the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act: A Response

- 31
3218

“The Power Threat Meaning Framework”: A New Perspective on Mental Distress

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5835

The Unsung Psychiatric Impact of Strep Throat

- 19
59141

How to Get So You’re Running the Psych Ward

- 36
3610

Verne Troyer’s Passing: What’s Prejudice Got to Do With It?

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2475

How Should We Treat Depression in Pregnancy?

- 44
2685

The Woeful Underfunding of Psychotherapy by Health Insurers

- 10
5077

ECT Shock Treatment Class Action – Case Update April 2018

- 20
4011

On Being Mad in Public

- 37
2053

“Psychiatric Meds Saved Your Life,” and Mine

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5426

Metacognitive Training (MCT): A New Treatment Approach for Delusions

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4752

Your Pharmacist is Tattling On You!

- 65
13772

Book Review: The Other Mrs. Smith by Bonnie Burstow

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2238

Debunking The Latest Gene Study

- 42
3740

Letter to The New York Times: Many People Taking Antidepressants Discover They Can’t Quit

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6281

“How Did This Happen?” – Being Injured By Pharmaceuticals Once Again

- 2
2323

Neurodiversity is Dead. Now What?

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25452

The Scientism of Autism

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14545

Apply Yourself, Your Whole Self, and Nothing But Yourself

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1886

Leon J. Kamin (1927-2017): A Nemesis of Genetic Determinism and Scientific Racism

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8279

“How Long a Time”: Ten Cold Hard Truths For Ending Psychiatric Abuse

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5266

How the Human Stress Response Explains Away “Bipolar Disorder”

- 54
16766

The Concerned Parents’ Project: 31 Questions

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2984

10 Things I Learned in 5 Years Consulting With People Coming Off Psych Drugs

- 26
8477

National Institute of Mental Health Violates Law on Posting Clinical Trial Results

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1663

Institutionalization: An Unacknowledged Cause of Psychiatric Outpatients’ Deterioration

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6591

A Tale of Two Studies

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7553

Psychiatry and a Near Mass Shooting at Cornell

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6535

The Antidepressant Wars in the Post-Truth Era

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2094

Changing Mental Health, One Published Case Report At A Time

- 15
1823

School Shootings: Who to Listen to Instead of Mainstream Shrinks

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2242

Antidepressant Anarchy in the UK

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4114

Whose Interests Does the Royal College of Psychiatrists Really Serve?

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1508

How Would We Know If We Overthrew the Mental Health System?

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3549

So What is Mental Disorder? Part 2: The Social Problem

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2805

Stop the Shocks: Torture in Massachusetts

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8569

Creating “Mental Illness” – An Interview with Christopher Lane

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7998

Rewarding the Companies That Cheated the Most in Antidepressant Trials

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8734

A Personal Perspective on the Development of the Survivors’ Movement in Israel

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1579

“Aha” Moments: In the World of Electroshock

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3429

Suicidal Tendencies, Part II: The Real ‘Stigma’ of Suicide

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3838

8 Years of Mental Health Research Distilled to 4 Infographics

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16179

Psychiatrist Says: More Psychiatry Means More Shootings

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30464

Promoting Healing After Psychosis

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9737

Challenging the New Hype About Antidepressants

- 63
13876

Dr. Pies Defending Psychiatry’s Position on Auditory Hallucinations

- 63
2191

Taking Big Pharma to Court: Why Lawsuits Have Little Effect on Drug Companies

- 9
7430

A Mother’s Worst Nightmare Continues

- 18
4154

The Scientism of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

- 62
13740

Psychiatry’s War on Free Will

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4948

I Used to Be Psychotic and Then I Heard a Voice Again

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2236

Why Should Suicide (Or Voluntary Death) Be a Civil Right?

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7992

Confirmed: Las Vegas Shooter on Benzos

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9369

Who Gets to Define “Peer Support?”

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16580

Reflections on the Torture Parents and the Pedophile Olympic Doctor

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1756

What Would a Truly Integrated System of Care Look Like?

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1217

Shock Class Action – Case Update

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3402

Beyond the Medicalization of Insomnia

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2670

Is Binge Eating Disorder Just Another Made-Up Disease?

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4093

Anger – What Is It REALLY a Symptom Of?

- 27
2938

Antidepressants Save People From Suicide, Right?

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5749

So What is Mental Disorder? Part 1: Reasoning and Meaning

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4411

Abolish Psychiatry and the Mental Health System: Really?

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6281

Rethinking the Nature of Our Woes

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2515

Painted Boxes: Death of an Activist

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4323

If “Mental Illnesses” Aren’t Real Illnesses, What Are They?

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13758

All in the Family: 4 Steps Toward Healing Adverse Childhood Experiences

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2618

From Picket Lines to Worry Lines

- 66
1832

What Should We Really Call Psychiatric Drugs?

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26548

What National Health Surveys Tell Us About Nutrition and Mental Health

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2781

Speaking Out Against Electric Shocks

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2909

Our Sexualized Culture and the Prejudiced Roots of Psychiatry

- 19
3415

Publication of the Power Threat Meaning Framework

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9119

The Medicalization of Conversation

- 30
3677

The Scientism of Psychiatry

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11358

It’s Unlikely That ‘Antidepressants’ Have a True Effect on Depression

- 39
7135

Stealing Blankets from the Hospital: 
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6296

To Make Adolescence Permanent, Just Label it “Bipolar Disorder”

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5850

2017: A Wake-up Call on Mental Health and Human Rights

- 27
3947

Florida’s “Free Kill” Law – A Death Trap for the State’s Populace and Visitors

- 20
3593

Micronutrients for ADHD Symptoms in Children

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People Are Dying Prematurely Due to Polypharmacy

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7174

The Upcoming MDMA Research Will Transform Mental Health Care

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6016

Dickens’ Christmas Carol: A Psychiatric Primer of Character and Redemption

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2660

When Minds Crack, The Light Might Get In: A Spiritual Perspective on Madness

- 55
6579

Human Connection is the Antidote to a Culture of Isolation

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2418

Launch of Online Forum for Young People Who Hear Voices

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2296

Freud: The First Anti-Psychiatrist

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13090

The Three Most Important Facts About Psychiatric Drugs

- 49
19037

How Would We Know If We Really Reformed the Mental Health System?

- 56
2033

APA: Drop the Stigmatizing Term “Schizophrenia”

- 53
6005

Reexamining Schizophrenia as a Brain Disease

- 52
9803

Psychotherapy is THE Biological Treatment

- 59
7486

New Book Takes Aim at the Mental Health Industrial Complex

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3715

From “Recovery” to “Transformation and Recovery”

- 48
2275

A Massachusetts Benzo Bill That Mandates Informed Consent

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4669

The Disillusioned Psychiatrist

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14020

Stop Shock Now: Psychiatry’s War Against Women and the Elderly

- 33
4368

A Call for Obligatory Diagnostic Reporting and Appeals Mechanisms

- 24
1365

Real People, Real Side Effects: Stories of Sexual Dysfunction

- 15
4696

Rebranding Psychiatry

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3157

How Psychiatry Evolved Into A Religion

- 36
7361

Are Mental Disorders Brain Diseases ‘In Waiting’?

- 57
3218

Psychiatry: The Brain is a Malignant Tumor!

- 38
3535

Steps Forward: Integrative Mental Health is Gaining Ground

- 33
1644

The Angry Congressman: Tim Murphy’s Lack of Insight

- 32
1798

The Orwellian New Digital Abilify Will Subjugate Vulnerable People Across the US

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9516

Creeping Fascism: University “Unfit to Study” Policies

- 72
4566

Learning About Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal

- 17
5271

Duration of Untreated Psychosis Revisited: Response to the Goff Paper

- 66
3168

More Bad News About Smartphones – When Will We Heed the Warnings?

- 17
5538

Why Disease and Illness Are Concepts of the Body

- 46
2801

Crazy or Wise? Learning From Those Who Have Transcended Psychological Crisis

- 28
4086

Mental Illness Vs. “Bad” Behavior

- 52
7491

Psychiatry’s Greatest Harm: Its Lies Have Poisoned Our Entire Culture

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12498

Bias and Deception in Behavioral Research

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3338

Tranquilizing Humanity into Oblivion: A Warning from Nathan S. Kline

- 38
4008

A Brave New World – Somatic Psychiatry in the Spotlight

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3415

Dualism and the Mind-Body ‘Problem’

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3677

Mortality of People Using Mental Health Services and Medications

- 22
5845

The State of Animal Psychiatric Research

- 22
992

Ending ECT: From a Lawsuit to a Novel – The Moment is Now!

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3120

UN to USA: Forced Treatment is Prohibited

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4325

Warning to Parents: Psychiatry is How Kids Get High and Die in the USA

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2891

“Prisons Without Bars” – Forced Institutionalization of People with Disabilities

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10490

Schizophrenia Genetic Research – Running on Empty

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7311

Channeling Dead German Poets: Taking Other People’s Alternate Realities Seriously

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1969

To See An Atom: Psychosis and Ecology

- 12
2971

Companies That Fueled the Opioid Epidemic Should Fund Efforts to End It

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1022

Child Abuse, Mental Health and Mental Illness

- 52
3502

Rethinking the Validity of Schizophrenia on World Mental Health Day

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2641

Our Movement Has Failed (So Far) – Here’s How To Change That

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3749

The Continuing Education Course on Withdrawal from Psychiatric Drugs is Here!

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1957

The Misuse of Collaboration and Therapy to Deter People From Discontinuing Medication

- 23
2077

Seven Points to Ponder for World Mental Health Day

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2899

World Mental Health Day 2017: Challenging the Messages – A Call to Action

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4545

Knowledge of Mental States and Behaviour: Insights From Heidegger and Others

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Your Child’s Mind Space

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Elimination of the Bereavement Exclusion: History and Implications

- 30
3529

Dogs and Serotonin

- 13
2162

And They Said it Wouldn’t Last – Rethinking Psychiatry Celebrates its 7th Year

- 11
1780

Stimulants: The Long View

- 12
2509

Electroconvulsive Therapy Class Action Filed

- 17
3433

How Should We Think About Mental States? The Contribution of Wittgenstein

- 84
5228

72 Hour Hold for Inalienable Personhood

- 15
2695

Rise of Involuntary Mental Health: What is Your Resistance Strategy?

- 61
3981

Dear Mental Health Professionals: Please Stop Defending Yourselves and Listen

- 78
17721

In Memoriam: Matt Stevenson

- 210
16520

Does a Psychiatric Diagnosis Have the Impact of a Medical Curse?

- 97
12117

Why Philosophy Matters?

- 32
2356

Thou Shall Not Criticize Our Drugs

- 51
10566

Psychiatry Ignores an Elephant in the Room

- 24
6971

Part VI: How Adult Society Betrayed Michelle Carter and Conrad Roy

- 12
12255

Language of Mental Illness “Others” People: It’s a Human Rights Violation

- 38
3081

Health Disparity Project Cuts Out the Recovery Movement

- 7
1236

The Salvation of Psychiatry

- 52
2728

Trauma-Ignored Care? Going to the MAT on Opioids

- 30
1792

If Psychiatrists Took Truth Serum, What Would They Say?

- 119
5842

Part V: The Michelle Carter Texting Trial Becomes a Witch Hunt

- 22
5422

Introducing “Ten Tips for Parents”

- 8
1629

The Unintended Consequences of Colorado’s “Social Experiment”

- 91
13884

Pharma Responds: Antidepressants Really Work. Really?

- 74
5076

Michelle Carter Part IV: Did She Tell Conrad to “Get back in the truck”?

- 13
14872

The Downfall of Peer Support: Are You Kidding Me?

- 85
5901

The Invisible Holocaust and the Gene Hypothesis

- 79
4932

The Continuing Evolution of Mad in America Continuing Education

- 9
926

So, You Still Say Trump is Crazy?

- 57
5955

Hurricane Harvey, Trump and US Mental Health: We Are All Mad, 100%!

- 16
1156

Michelle Carter Part III: DA Goes After Her Expert Witness to Stop His Blog

- 20
10188

Greed Disguised as Science: How a Multitude of Factors Led to the Opioid Crisis

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2089

Psychiatry’s 12-Step Program for Producing Heroin Addicts

- 81
10924

House on Fire: A ‘Mental Health Literacy’ Parable

- 29
6306

Some Thoughts About Conferences

- 129
2107

The Winding Road and the Importance of Going Sideways

- 17
2378

How to Avoid Severe SSRI Withdrawal Symptoms?

- 58
65061

Spiritual Side Effects of Psychiatric Medication: From Helpful to Harmful

- 44
19039

“Virtual Autism” May Explain Explosive Rise in ASD Diagnoses

- 85
692393

Prescription for Murder ABCD

- 6
1931

Death By Placebo

- 84
3968

Part II: Michelle Starts Prozac and Sees the Devil

- 35
26874

Psychoanalyst, Show Some Modesty

- 11
1507

Michelle Carter: Did She Text Her Boyfriend to Death?

- 27
51081

Adam Maier-Clayton: Assisted Suicide and Mental Illness

- 35
12148

Would Discovering the Biology of “Mental Illness” Explain its Cause?

- 56
3512

Senate Slated to Rubber-Stamp “Mental Health Czar” This Tuesday

- 14
1187

Voices in our Heads: The Prefrontal Cortex as Parasite

- 37
6563

If You Don’t Have a Brain…

- 22
6370

Is Xanax Really the Bad Guy?

- 16
11355

Has Psychiatry Gone Uniquely Astray?

- 65
3602

9 Questions the US Senate Should Ask Dr. McCance-Katz

- 18
1545

Makers of Risperdal Sued for Breast Development in Boys

- 18
25312

People of Great Britain! Our Beast Descends Upon Your Children

- 25
4067

Methylphenidate: How to Avoid Importing the American Disaster?

- 9
1802

While Psychiatry Slept (Part II)

- 24
2901

“Heartbeats of Hope: The Empowerment Way to Recover” – A Book Review

- 41
2350

Hearing Voices in the USA

- 15
2822

Why World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day?

- 67
3849

Three Suicides: Honoring Lives Lost to Benzodiazepines

- 21
22126

Tapering Strips for Benzodiazepines

- 12
7512

“Benzo Blue”: a Song of Protest and a Search for Liberation

- 35
3082

Senate Quietly Rubber-Stamps Trump’s “Mental Health Czar”

- 33
1892

New Resources from the WHO’s QualityRights Initiative

, & - 7
1354

Uniting Critical Voices: Where can we Collaborate?

- 104
2210

So You Say You Want a Revolution Part Two

- 15
1131

Landmark Victory against the “Oak Ridge Torturers” — Do We Cheer or Cry?

- 59
4025

No Psychiatrist Needs to Use ECT

- 113
8919

Do Psychiatrists Harm their Patients out of Stupidity?

- 308
28662

French and American Approaches to “ADHD”

- 2
4041

Data Shows That Nutrients Reduce Aggression: Why is Policy Not Changing?

& - 49
5144

Robert Whitaker Refutes Jeffrey Lieberman; But Is Psychiatry Reformable?

- 112
5266

An Open Letter to the President’s Commission on Combating Addiction and the Opioid Crisis

- 8
1056

MIA RADIO: Expanding the Audience for “Critical Psychiatry” Perspectives

- 24
1838

Aggregate vs. Anecdote for Med Lovers

- 24
2484

INTAR India 2016: Reflections

- 4
1166

Healing from Psychiatry: A Community Art Book

- 7
1644

Antipsychiatry – Say What?

- 396
8030

Breaking Through the Wall of Schizophrenia

- 19
3818

The Next Generation of the Mad Movement in NYC Looks Like This

- 16
3441

‘Mad’ Psychologist Speaks Out

- 104
6897

Killjoy: The Story of a Misguided ‘Mental Health’ Bot

- 25
3104

While Psychiatry Slept

- 47
3881

Human Right to Health – More than Economic Justice

- 53
1782

Trauma in Common?

- 33
1607

From Madness to Mastery: Gaining Competence with Altered States

- 19
2458

Psychosocial Disability and Legal Capacity: Don’t Bargain with Human Rights

- 25
3309

Conferring Legitimacy on the Counterhegemonic

- 44
2753

Psychiatry’s Troublesome History: How Far Have We Come?

- 34
2694

Back to Basics: What’s Wrong with NAMI

- 127
19846

Call to Action: MA Bill H.3594 for Informed Benzodiazepine Use

- 26
5248

How FDA Avoided Finding Adult Antidepressant Suicidality

- 12
4861

The Violence-Inducing Effects of Psychiatric Medication

- 28
6861

The Mental Health Professionals Who Perpetrate Against Us

- 50
3146

A Clashing of Worlds (and Perspectives) on the Problem of Suicide

- 77
3219

Crazywise:  Revisioning Narratives of Psychosis

- 12
3949

Alcoholism — Is it a Disease?

- 29
2273

The Diseasing of Defiance

- 16
4537

New UN Report: Steps Forward, But No End to Impunity

- 12
2141

Smash the Blue Lights: Autism Speaks is a ‘Danger to Self and Others’

- 53
8238

Oliver Sacks Helps Me Explain Hypersensitivity

- 6
1819

Nassir Ghaemi and The Psychological Fallacy

- 31
3485

Neuroqueering Judaism: Reflections on Mad Passover

- 3
1922

Change in Chicago: Playing Go

- 3
997

Inconvenient Truths About Antipsychotics: A Response to Goff et al

- 44
9680

Responding to Claims that the Benefits of Antipsychotics Outweigh the Risks

- 66
6386

Unusual Beliefs and Behaviors vs. Objective Realities and Truths

- 296
4142

Change in Chicago: The Dolin Verdict

- 3
1898

Wendy Dolin Takes on GlaxoSmithKline And Wins — For Now at Least

- 4
3652

“Let’s Talk Withdrawal” Podcast

- 28
5717

Public Petition: Support for People Affected by Prescribed Drug Dependence

- 7
1290

Trump Appoints Leader who Campaigned for Involuntary Outpatient Drugging

- 63
4515

Our Letter to Lancet Psychiatry

- 7
3618

The Unforeseen Relationship: Psychiatric Medication and Spirituality

- 64
9519

‘Enough is Enough’ Series: LSD Reconsidered

- 46
2726

Opening a Dialogue about Early Psychosis Programs in the US

- 40
1646

What if the Folly is in Us, Too?

- 62
2909

Anti-Authoritarian Options for Suicidal Anti-Authoritarians

- 21
2845

The Downfall of Peer Support: MHA & National Certification

- 130
12046

Would You Want Your Therapist to be Honest?

- 33
3171

“Doubly Brutish”: Forensic Psychiatry and Force

- 6
1581

Emotional Pain and the Possibility of Finding Hope

- 30
5825

Unusual Beliefs and Mental Well-Being

- 49
3977

Dear Boston Globe, Part VI: Congratulations. Bad Things Happen.

- 26
2307

From One Parent to Another

- 17
1440

When Modern Medicine Made Me More Autistic

- 41
5375

Celebrating Dorothea Buck’s 100th Birthday

- 8
2073

Finding the Way to Mental Health

- 168
3121

The Third Director: Interrogating the Mental Health Discourse in Marat/Sade

- 3
2442

The Torture in Treatment

- 142
6111

The Sunrise Center 2017

- 17
1509

Emotional Strategies and Skills for Aspiring Mental Health Workers

- 35
3966

Why I Don’t Like the Idea that Mental Disorder is a Disease

- 48
3900

‘CRAZY’: New Documentary about Forced Psychiatric Treatment

- 3
5084

Mainstream Western Psychiatry: Science or Non-science?

- 28
7813

What Role Does Talk Therapy Have in Recovery from Psychosis?

- 16
3568

Not Going Quietly

- 31
3657

Beyond Survival

- 15
2304

Discussing Nutrient Formulas Without Naming Them: Who Benefits?

& - 33
2686

Optimizing Mental Wellness Through Nutrient Therapy: A Gastroenterologist’s Perspective

- 48
13887

Introducing the ‘Parent Resources’ Page

- 5
1071

Burn Baby Burn (Psychopharmacology Part 3)

- 17
1679

Where Do We Go From Here?

- 76
4068

Leading Psychiatrists Follow Top-Dog Bankers’ Guide to Career Advancement

- 3
1491

Into the Woods: A Path Through Anxiety

- 8
1978

Spirituality and ‘Mental Illness’

- 22
5730

Psychiatric Hegemony: A Marxist Theory of Mental Illness

- 108
39678

Aliveness and Social Justice: Teaching the Principles and Practices of Open Dialogue

- 12
2990

SSRIs: Minimal Effectiveness and High Risk

- 93
7386

Tweeting while Medicine Burns (Psychopharmacology Part 2)

- 8
1614

Victims of Success: An Update from Mad in America Continuing Education

- 2
727

Letter to my Classmates on our 40th Reunion

- 14
3129

Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany (A Book Review)

- 10
3191

Lyme is ‘All in Your Head’ – A Wake-up Call to Mental Health Professionals

- 35
118594

Tweeting While Psychiatry Burns

- 8
2447

A Curse for a Cursed Profession

- 34
2540

Our Coming to Mad in Aotearoa

- 3
933

Transformations to Liberation

- 6
1743

A New Paradigm for Psychiatry: Answering the Call from the UN

- 62
4412

Psychosis for Mental Health?

- 39
5636

The Sedated Society: the Real Story of our Prescribing Epidemic

- 27
4937

Editorial Misconduct: Finnish Medical Journal Rejects Paper on Suicide Risk

- 25
10609

Farewell Mickey Nardo, 1 (not very) Boring Old Man

- 31
3824

Mickey Nardo: Tangled up in Life

- 9
2164

Committed: The Battle Over Involuntary Psychiatric Care

- 67
4374

Disobedience: What Can We Risk?

- 64
3274

SMILES Study: Depression and Nutrition

& - 20
10367

Generalists and Partialists

- 8
985

Why I Resigned From The Mighty

- 45
25556

“Active Minds” — What Conversation Are We Changing?

- 52
2677

7 Years Off Psych Drugs: A Message to Those Labeled by Psychiatry (video)

- 19
5576

Trump and the Diagnosis Free-for-All

- 237
8485

Vital Minds: Four Stories of Recovery

- 15
4301

Intentional Peer Support: Creating Relationships, Creating Change

& - 10
5081

Integrative Mental Health: 27 Non-drug Options that Work

- 62
7896

Sir Robin Murray and Our Collective Mea Culpa

- 40
2824

Understanding Extreme States: An Interview with Lloyd Ross

& - 25
5515

ISEPP Calling for Organizations to Join in Petition

- 8
1608

Scapegoating: Why Humanity Desperately Needs Hope to Cling to

- 24
1991

CRPD Absolute Prohibition Campaign and Course

- 7
2214

Killing “Schizophrenics”: Contemporary U.S. Psychiatry Versus Nazi Psychiatry

- 43
5647

Spoiling Split: Hollywood’s Latest Run at ‘Alternative Facts’ 

- 61
2849

Venomagnosia

- 18
1573

Psychiatry Interrogated:  A Book Review

- 11
2058

Chemical or Psychological Psychotherapy?

- 58
5122

Preventing Suicide in the UK – a Policy and Practice Divide

- 2
1238

SAMHSA’s Rose-Colored Lens

- 59
1627

Service Dogs, Allergies and Trauma: Making Spaces Inclusive

- 12
5328

CYP Testing to Help Prevent Dangerous Adverse Drug Reactions

- 66
8208

Mental Health First Aid: Another Psychiatric Expansionist Tool

- 52
3745

Soteria Shelter Program in Hungary: Crisis as Danger and Opportunity

- 18
3461

Peer-run Organizations Help People with Criminal Justice Involvement Return to the Community

- 7
1361

Allen Frances and the “Overdiagnosing” of Children

- 53
7583

The DSM and the Medical Model: New Video

- 92
5426

Ruby Wax: From Shark Bait to the Doyenne of Disease

- 20
2368

Healing Madness

- 93
4966

MIA in the Year 2017

- 92
3087

The NIMH in 2017: Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places

- 31
1437

How Psychiatric Drugs Really Work

- 80
8948

The Biological Evidence for “Mental Illness”

- 140
8313

What We Are Talking About When We Talk About Community Mental Health

- 13
1980

Understanding Extreme States: An Interview with Stephen Harrod Buhner

& - 43
13806

Pioneering New Zealand Antipsychotic Medication Study Focuses on Patient Experiences

- 17
3717

Time to ‘Drop the Disorder’

- 41
6752

Carrie Fisher, Bipolar Disorder, and the Spread of False Information

- 213
16429

Carrie Fisher, Dead at Age 60

- 50
17471

Why I’m Not Celebrating Being PMDD-Free

- 36
23977

Carrie Fisher: Bipolar Meds and Heart Disease

- 478
37265

Soldiers as Guinea Pigs: the Case of Mefloquine and Tafenoquine

- 22
3335

Starting the New Year with a Bang: A Medley of Antipsychiatry Resolutions

- 101
3232

The Real “Mental Illness” Epidemic: Withdrawal from Antidepressants

- 66
9771

The Right to Refuse Psychiatric Treatment

- 87
6043

Opening the Door to a New Year: Some Christmas Thoughts and Wishes

- 11
1429

Shock, Lies… and a Duvet

- 24
2698

Seven Reasons Why the US’s New Mental Health Law Is Dangerous

- 95
13710

Dear Boston Globe, Part V: Thanks for Nothing

- 36
2911

An Outsider’s Observation

- 24
2911

Learnings from Earthworms: The Ecstasy of an Antipsychiatry “Breakthrough”

- 30
2711

A Mother’s Very, Very Worst Nightmare

- 33
14078

INTAR India 2016: Community Development and Human Liberation

- 14
1682

Post-Election Considerations for Users and Survivors of Psychiatry

- 117
2210

Collaborative Network Approach

- 8
2384

My Response to a Defender of Psychiatry

- 74
5358

INTAR 2016: A Global Call for a New Paradigm In Psychiatry

- 32
3342

“Navigating” Recovery: Difficult When the Map is a Psychiatric Fraud!

- 33
2977

What is Holistic Psychiatry?

- 17
14075

A Racist Movement Cannot Move

, & - 395
6644

Warning: A Psychiatric tsuNAMI is Upon U.S.

- 168
12132

Is the Mental Health System Yet Another Form of Institutional Racism?

- 66
5265

Have You Ever Wondered Why Labels on Supplements are so Vague?

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3846

My Baby, Psychosis & Me: A lesson in how not to make a documentary...

- 21
2521

How the Technologically-Immersive Culture is Wrecking Our Youth’s Health & Well-Being

- 14
1923

The ACE Survey is Unusable Data

- 21
5507

Troubled by Individual and Collective Psychosis? Maybe Compassion and Dialogue Could Help!

- 40
1599

Understanding Extreme States: An Interview with Paris Williams

& - 107
4745

Is Society or Psychiatry to Blame for the “Seriously Mentally Ill” Dying 25 Years...

- 58
4370

Antidepressants Increase the Risk of Suicide and Violence at All Ages

- 29
14084

Curing Schizophrenia via Intensive Psychotherapy

- 22
5217

In a Post-Trump Election World: What is Insanity?

- 147
3905

Going On or Off Psych Drugs: One Reason or Many?

- 6
1560

Neuroleptic Drugs, Akathisia, and Suicide & Violence

- 19
6241

What’s the Harm in Taking an Antidepressant?

- 30
17971

Dual-award Winning Play and Film About Human Beings, not Psychopathology

- 1
1399

Exploring Psychiatry’s “Black Hole”: The International Institute on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal

- 33
16312

Mad in Brasil: Part of a Global Effort to Create a New Paradigm of...

- 7
1093

A Bill to Explore the Relationship Between Veteran Suicides and Prescription Medication

- 9
2717

Study 329 Trick, Treat or Treximet

- 2
1435

ADHD: A Destructive Psychiatric Hoax

- 360
40092

Psychiatry: Between a Rock and a Hard Place

- 39
4372

The Hidden Epidemic Exposed: The New Tardive Dyskinesia (TD) Resource Center

- 11
11201

The Helping Room

- 43
5364

Antidepressants and Pregnancy: The Risks and Potential Harm to Normal Fetal Development

- 2
1323

Go Figure: Murder or Accident?

- 8
1785

The Case for Neuroleptics Reducing Recovery from 80% to 5%

- 71
4151

Mad in the Spanish-Speaking World

- 6
857

The Difficulty of Challenging Deeply Personal Narratives

- 75
3187

Go Figure: Study 329

- 4
1153

What Do Santa Claus and the Chemical Imbalance Have in Common?

- 160
6251

Picking Our Battles in the War on Prejudice and Discrimination

- 14
1073

$11.9 Million Paxil Suicide Verdict: The Inside Story

- 11
8772

Turning the Tables: Using the Academy in the Battle Against Psychiatry

- 164
4600

Opening A Dialogue In Mental Health

- 15
3848

Study 329 Taper Phase

- 6
1539

Rejecting the “Medications for Schizophrenia” Narrative: Part II

- 61
4271

CHOICES Back on Track

- 7
1459

Why Social Isolation Leads to Inflammation

- 18
4045

Healing Silence

- 22
3694

The Mental Health Reform Act of 2016 (SB 2680) Would Be a Huge Step...

- 60
2695

Powerful Advocacy has Shut Down Halloween “Attractions” that Ramp Up Prejudice

- 36
1845

Evolution or Revolution? Why Western Psychiatry Won’t Change by Incremental Steps

- 72
3599

Study 329 Continuation Phase

- 3
796

Psychiatry’s Current Greatest Controversy: Fraud, Bullsh*t or What?

- 37
4041

Rejecting the “Medications for Schizophrenia” Narrative: A Survivor’s Response to Pies and Whitaker

- 154
8711

It’s Possible — and Beneficial — to Stop Feeling Guilt and Shame

- 53
7103

Dear Son: A Mother’s Experience of Psychiatry, Racism and Human Rights

- 14
1667

Depression, Antidepressants, and Expectancy

- 7
1514

Enough is Enough Series, #5 – The ADHD Fiction is Exposed. The French Have...

- 76
2445

The Algorithm Will See You Now: A Geek Tragedy

- 5
661

Helpful and Hopeful Thoughts

- 76
802

Searching for a Rose Garden: Challenging Psychiatry, Fostering Mad Studies

- 81
1525

My Daughter and Prozac

- 89
38714

Confessions of a Trespasser

- 166
2794

Psychiatric Ethics

- 51
700

How Psychiatry Almost Stopped Burning Man: A Story of Hell and Liberation

- 17
1125

Backing Away from Psychiatry

- 34
2370

Dear Boston Globe, Part IV: A Taste of Your Own Medicine

- 68
1105

Optimizing Children’s Mental Health is a Social Justice Issue

- 9
1943

The Real Narrative of Life

- 26
399

The ADHD Dilemma: Looking Beyond Big Pharma

- 26
1128

Can Co-production Really Transform UK Mental Health Services?

- 7
1943

Fighting For Change: An Epiphany From Inside the “Movement”

- 24
351

Not So Rare But Rarely Diagnosed: From Demonic Possession to Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis

- 26
15224

A Diluted Murphy Bill Clears the House and Goes to the Senate

- 72
989

Who and What Killed Prince and Michael Jackson? Will the Role of Benzos Ever...

- 52
4850

What Does Your Illness Mean?

- 14
842

Researching the Link Between SSRIs and Violence

- 38
1284

Pushing for an Informed Consent Benzo Bill in Texas

- 24
2872

Life Lessons and Trauma Informed Care

- 12
310

Life in the Era of Push-button Psychiatry

- 49
966

Mourning? – Yes; Forgiveness? – No. Healing from Trauma

- 60
2749

Inner Fire: Healing and Recovery Without Meds

- 49
3541

Escaping the Grip of Forensic Psychiatry

- 84
1392

I am Insane

- 121
6443

Sadness: The Problem and The Solution

- 9
1036

Off Psychiatric Drugs After Fourteen Years

- 87
3963

#Diversity? — What “Solidarity” Really Looks Like

- 35
577

More on the Power of Diversity: The “Hidden Recovered”

- 42
484

Centering Lived Experience

- 35
603

Why Mental Health Organizations Should Endorse the Movement for Black Lives

- 154
1418

Interview: Researcher Runs Trial on Antidepressant Withdrawal

- 6
3842

Dear Boston Globe, Part III: We Came. We Protested. You Still Didn’t Listen.

- 112
1141

It’s Time for a Revolution Within the Revolution: Coming Out of the Closet on...

- 147
719

What Do the DSM, Elvis Presley, and Dionysus Have in Common?

- 40
3939

The Struggle, and the Challenge: Young Adults in Crisis and the Use of Medication

- 97
403

Six Lessons on Open Dialogue From the Collaborative Pathway Experiment

- 27
1433

​I Will Not Abandon You

- 7
473

You Can Have Any Kind of Treatment You Want, Providing it’s Our Kind

- 20
744

Drug Choice, Scientology, Ego Needs & Other Divides: Real Politics 101, Part Three

- 84
2227

They Call This “Help”

- 44
2927

Hearing Voices, Living Fully: Living with the Voices in My Head

- 8
2109

The Case Against Antipsychotics

- 130
17786

Mental Health Advocacy in California: Perspectives of Advocates and Decision-Makers

- 3
1129

Violence Caused by Antidepressants: An Update after Munich  

- 25
6795

Psychiatry is Edging Dangerously Close to Eugenics

- 151
7813

The Sociological Study of Mental Illness: A Historical Perspective

- 30
5575

Foster Youths Meet Psychiatry: First – Do No pHarm

- 36
458

Falling Through the Cracks

- 36
2311

“Invisible” Resistance: Taking Charge in the Face of Difficulty and Institutional Rule

- 83
537

‘We’re Not Buying It!” — Survey on Emotional Distress and Diagnosis Reveals Mistrust of...

- 33
591

Schizophrenia Twin Research as Reported in The Gene: An Intimate History — Getting the...

- 21
2587

Dear Boston Globe, Part II: You Forgot the Facts

- 123
833

My Fixed Delusion

- 135
1326

Yogurt Cooperative in Spain Provides a Different Form of Help: Meaningful Work

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428

Announcing an International Symposium and Institute on Psychiatric Drug Risks and Withdrawal

- 18
1746

The Murphy Bill, HR 2646 — a Heinous Piece of Legislation — is Coming...

- 122
2360

Principled and Loving Support: The Greatest Gift We Can Give 

- 11
321

A Decade of Searching for the Needle in the Haystack

- 38
394

In the Matter of the Hospitalization of Mark V

- 69
439

Consequences of Taking the Yellow Brick Road: Lithium Carbonate 1984-1996

- 52
1995

Benzos: A Dance With the Devil

- 26
14261

Royal College of Psychiatrists Still not Interested in Discussing Important Evidence on Long-term Antipsychotic...

- 67
843

“The Overdiagnosis of ADHD”

- 68
2829

A CALL TO ACTION: The Murphy Bill Passed the E&C Committee but the Fight Is...

- 100
630

Reared-Apart Twin Study Mythology: The Latest Contribution (Part Two) 

- 4
1400

Dear Boston Globe: You Are the Failure You Describe

- 106
1343

My Operation Tomorrow: Mental Health Justice, Speaking Out for Our Rights, and Creative Maladjustment

- 13
391

Feral Psychiatry: More on the Garth Daniels Case

- 50
2563

Forced “Treatment” is Torture

- 140
24961

Important New Book— “Outside Mental Health: Voices and Visions of Madness”

- 14
772

Abolishing Forced Treatment in Psychiatry is an Ethical Imperative

- 255
7803

Pain’s Promise, and the Problem with Pills

- 12
315

Why Parents Give Amphetamines and Other Risky Psychiatric Drugs to the Children They Love

- 73
7078

Rising Rates of Suicide: Are Pills the Problem?

- 40
1548

Well-Being Therapy: A Guide to Long-term Recovery

- 14
720

No, It’s Not Because He Was ‘Mentally Ill’: Why Tragedy Struck in Orlando

- 187
1122

My Pharmaceutical Reincarnation

- 25
3606

Mad Memo #1: Dear Supreme Commander (You!) of Global Nonviolent Revolution!

- 40
405

What Would a Trauma-Informed Society Look Like?

- 88
3262

Eat Breathe Thrive: Chelsea Roff on Eating Disorders, Trauma, and Healing with Yoga and...

- 8
1420

Moving Forward in the Science of Psychiatric Medication Discontinuation/Reduction

- 22
785

Reared-Apart Twin Study Mythology: The Latest Contribution (Part One)

- 2
1283

A World That Would Have Us Doubt: Rape, the System, and Swim Fans

- 99
1132

Nutrition, Sleep, and Mental Health

& - 34
1941

Effective Tactics for the “Rehumanizing Resistance”: Real Politics 101, Part Two

- 148
973

Reclaiming My Voice

- 22
880

Please Join Groundbreaking Research on Psychiatric Medications

- 25
1182

Stop The War On Chronic Pain Patients

- 167
16665

Prescribing Antidepressants for Girls: Intergenerational Adverse Consequences

- 9
395

Who Will Guard the Guardians of Psychiatry?

- 28
913

Twin Method Assumptions are Indefensible, but are Useful to the Rich and Powerful

- 23
1547

The Evidence-Based Mind of Psychiatry on Display

- 153
6515

A Moment Passed Too Often

- 9
486

Are They “Symptoms” or “Strategies?”

- 35
499

A Worldwide Epidemic – The Misuse of Anti-Depressant Medications

- 35
2448

In Honor of Fear and Pain

- 10
1117

Mental Health in Black and White

- 29
798

Do We Really Need Mental Health Professionals?

- 138
1347

Are Psychiatrists Playing God?

- 64
4511

The Elusive Emotional Wounds of Omission That Our Culture Inflicts On Us – and...

- 57
1671

Daughter of a Psychiatrist

- 75
4286

Truth and Reconciliation: An Evening of Sharing and Healing

- 8
1057

Consciousness Revealed – Revolutionary Implications for Psychiatry

- 27
528

Report from the Parliament: Can Psychiatry At Least Be Curious?

- 47
1109

Real Politics 101, Part One: “First-Order Psychiatry” vs. the “Rehumanizing Resistance”

- 51
863

Reflections on Myth Machines, “Mental Illness,” and the Perils of Good Intentions

- 26
375

Making the Case Against Antidepressants in Parliament

- 41
3337

ADHD:  The Hoax Unravels

- 64
4941

On the Corner of Distress & Poverty: What Happens to Our Minds When There...

- 40
565

Not Seen

- 58
666

The FDA Is Hiding Reports Linking Psych Drugs to Homicides

- 55
9930

Psychiatry: Worth Keeping If “Slowed Down”?

- 171
609

Feral Psychiatry: The Case of Garth Daniels

- 123
7724

Restoring Study 329: Letter to BMJ

- 6
610

An Important Documentary: Letters from Generation Rx

& - 20
4271

My Time at Bellevue

- 24
5153

The Presidential Primary & Forced Outpatient Psych Drugs

- 30
380

The Anorexia Nervosa Genetics Initiative

- 36
610

Why Evidence-based Practices Might not Actually Help People

- 18
1390

Mental Health First Aid: Your Friendly Neighborhood Mental Illness Maker

- 110
7966

Unhelpful Utterances: 6 Comments We Should No Longer Hear From Mental Health Professionals

- 65
979

Female Peer Specialists Paid Less than Males, Study Finds

- 45
314

How Biological Psychiatry Can Harm: A Mother’s View

- 12
267

A “Hot-Potato” Topic and a “Rational” Book

- 28
922

The MD and the Imaginary Eating Disorder

- 49
1515

The Psychiatry Sandcastle Continues to Crumble

- 46
755

My Response to the FDA’s ECT Rule Change

- 26
1486

Science-Based Service User Input, PLEASE?

- 6
981

Dear Self-Proclaimed Progressives, Liberals and Humanitarians: You’ve Really Messed This One Up

- 264
2812

MIA Continuing Education Moves into its Next Phase

- 4
216

Limits to Medicine: Re-visiting Ivan Illich

- 11
1181

My Journey of Recovery

- 29
803

Beneath the Fog

- 61
1036

Finding Clarity Through Clutter

- 13
709

ACES Connection – Or Disease Mongering, Round 2?

- 21
1638

Victim Blaming: Childhood Trauma, Mental Illness & Diagnostic Distractions?

& - 92
10627

Dismissing the Patriarchal Prescriptions

- 36
775

Our Day in Mental Health Court

- 49
866

Update: Massachusetts Benzodiazepine Bill Hearing

- 11
3147

Study 329: Response to Keller & Colleagues

- 3
336

Psychiatric Diagnosis is a Fraud: The Destructive and Damaging Fiction of Biological ‘Diseases’

- 81
26121

Comments by Shock Survivors and Their Loved Ones

- 24
47050

Simple Things

- 24
522

A New Mental Health System? Interview with Jim van Os

- 48
3009

Congress Proposes Research on the Link Between Psychiatric Drugs and Suicide

- 17
1450

The Experiential Democracy Project: A Depth Approach to the Legislative Process

- 3
1032

Call to Action: Massachusetts Benzodiazepine Bill is Going to Committee

- 4
417

In Search of an Evidence-based Role for Psychiatry

, & - 93
890

My Shock Survivor Story

- 7
451

Doctor O’s Adventures in Wonderland

- 16
1132

Only 72 Hours Left to Say #FDAStopTheShockDevice

- 7
681

Trinkets and Lunches and Dollars for Docs Really Do Pay Off

- 10
499

Do 5 Million Americans Really Have Bipolar Disorder?

- 25
4588

Allen Frances on Anti-Psychiatry

- 54
976

Bridging the Benzo Divide: Iatrogenic Dependence and/or Addiction?

- 183
3204

Public Engagement Fail: Creating Community Solutions

- 2
523

Comments on Jeffrey Lieberman and Ogi Ogas’ Wall Street Journal Article on the Genetics...

- 71
1408

Medical Science Argues Against Forced Treatment Too

- 25
1685

“All for the Best of the Patient”

- 46
1216

Call To Action: Massachusetts Bill H4062 for Informed Benzodiazepine Use is Official

- 15
874

Dr. Pies and Dr. Frances Make a Compelling Case that Their Profession is Doing...

- 102
967

Life, Unarmed

- 14
493

Love is Dialogical: The Open Dialogue UK International Conference and Training

- 36
2222

TV Drug Ads, Abilify & Big Pharma Mobsters

- 23
857

Myths are Used to Justify Depriving People Diagnosed as Mentally Ill of Their Human...

- 47
1438

How Coalition or Community Engagement Work Damages Advocates

- 12
523

Getting Back to Dialogue – The Core of Healing!

- 10
218

Regarding the Impossibility of Recovery

- 29
1365

Has the FDA Abandoned Its Off-Label Promotion Ban?

- 7
319

Bipolarized and Crimes Against Nature

- 39
1301

The Drug-Free Solution to Ending Depression

- 49
771

The Future of Mental Health Interview Series: Marilyn Wedge on Reclaiming Childhood

- 2
295

Psychiatry Bashing

- 62
1846

Appealing to our Elected Representatives

- 37
615

“Bewitching Science” Revisited: Tales of Reunited Twins and the Genetics of Behavior

- 9
2649

Schizophrenia in the Golden Ass

- 13
1242

Advice on Coping With Voices

- 16
790

To the Heart of the Matter, Part III: The Critical Nature of Authenticity and...

- 22
183

A Conversation about Having Conversations about Psychiatry

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653

New Research into Antipsychotic Discontinuation And Reduction: the RADAR programme

- 30
1321

The Mental Health Tribunal

- 11
512

Smash the Biological Anxiety Myth: Say ‘No’ to Benzodiazepines

- 31
1263

Organized Denial: Psychiatry’s Quiet Desperation

- 18
1558

Future of Mental Health Series: Oryx Cohen on his film “Healing Voices”

- 0
198

Testifying in Vermont: Forced Drugs

- 125
1377

Short Notes from a Muddled Island (with apologies to Bill Bryson)

- 1
158

In Case You Missed This

- 69
471

Call to Action: Support a Bill for Informed Benzodiazepine Use

- 11
777

Foxes Guarding the Henhouse: the Role of the Chief Psychiatrist

- 17
702

Promoting Mental Health: Supporting Early Relationships Does Not Mean Blaming Parents

- 7
168

Troubling Mental Health Nurse Education

- 30
731

Einstein, Social Justice and The New Relativity

- 15
1203

The Future of Mental Health Interview Series: Eleanor Longden

- 3
941

Open Letter about BBC Coverage of Mental Health

, & - 34
966

All in the Brain? An Open Letter Re: Stephen Fry’s Assumptions About Mental Illness

- 50
2796

Recovery: Compromise or Liberation?

- 43
5006

The Curious Case of over 50 Consecutive ECTs in Melbourne

- 30
1843

40 Days to Tell the #FDAStoptheShockDevice

- 6
700

Depressed, Anxious, or Substance-Abusing? But Don’t Buy You Are “Defective”?

- 17
700

My 6-year Anniversary Off Psych Drugs: How I Made It Through the Darkest Times

- 0
726

Exploiting The Placebo Effect:  Deceiving People For Their Own Good?

- 23
325

Future of Mental Health Interview Series: Interview with Joanna Moncrieff on The Myth of...

- 15
306

Doing It Alone Together: Core Issues In Dutch Self-Managed Residential Programs

- 2
572

Rethinking Public Safety – The Case for 100% Voluntary

- 27
836

Supporting Resources: “The Case for 100% Voluntary”

- 1
483

Feeling Good with Narcotics Now “Evidence” of Opioid Deficiency: The Chemical Imbalance Theory of...

- 29
2076

Lost & Found: Drowning The Mermaid, and Our Collective Power

- 55
251

Bloodtime

- 17
527

Gender Wage Gap and Depression/Anxiety

- 24
613

Belief Systems, Nuance, and Productive Advocacy Ideas

- 12
443

Dr.s Leo & Lacasse Respond to Dr. Pies’ Response

- 6
677

Baby Blues, Postpartum Depression & Psychosis: Countering the Danger of Antidepressants

- 22
609

The Social Consequences of a Diagnosis on the Autism Spectrum

- 21
479

Allen Frances Seeks the “Middle Way”

- 44
268

The Future of Mental Health Interview Series, Part III

- 3
187

Insight Forty Years Later: A Dream of Progress

- 41
359

“Is It Her Hormones?” A Case of Psychiatry Missing the Mark

- 8
707

“Schizophrenia Breakthrough” – Or a Case of Ignoring the Most Important Evidence?

- 19
790

On Soul Loss and Mental Health Services at Yale

- 31
758

And Now for Something Completely the Same:  The Latest, Greatest Breakthrough in Understanding the...

- 18
921

We Need Your Help!

- 40
439

A New York Times Debate: Is the ADHD Diagnosis Helpful or Harmful?

- 6
364

The CHRUSP Call to Action, and Its Significance

- 20
619

Breaking News! The Cause of Schizophrenia Finally Discovered!(?)

- 38
8325

Hello World! An American Nut Challenges Trump About Status of “Bull Goose Loony.” We...

- 11
334

Further Evidence of the Adverse Effects of Antidepressants, and Why These Have Taken so...

- 30
1137

Inflammation and Psychosis

- 29
2664

The Future of Mental Health Interview Series, Part II

- 1
183

The Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health: Finding Our Way in a World of...

- 9
204

Why Screening Everyone for Depression is a Terrible Idea

- 58
1608

Support CRPD Absolute Prohibition of Commitment and Forced Treatment

- 19
734

Postpartum Depression Screening: Prevention or Problem?

- 15
289

Rethinking Psychiatry Teaches about Despair, Resilience, and the Great Turning

- 25
595

What Disability Benefit Trends Tell Us About Psychiatric Treatments and the Economy

- 27
761

Me, Allen Frances, and Climbing Out of a Pigeonhole

- 121
2249

My Diagnosis of ADHD and the Downfall That Followed

- 14
17682

Anxiety: The Price We Pay for Consciousness

- 11
1711

The Genetics of Schizophrenia: A Left Brain Theory about a Right Brain Deficit in...

- 20
4892

The Future of Mental Health Interview Series

- 7
289

Suicidal Tendencies, Part I: I’m Suicidal Because I’m Mentally Ill Because I’m Suicidal

- 97
4637

At the Intersection Between Black Pride and Mad Pride

- 55
1040

How I’ve Found Nonviolent Communication Helpful, Part 2; In the Mental Health System

- 25
825

Madness and the Family: What Helps, and What Makes Things Worse?

- 45
438

Are “Psychiatric Disorders” Brain Diseases?

- 41
1217

Schizophrenia and Genetics: A Closer Look at the Evidence

- 27
7865

We Need to be Studying the Mind, Not the Brain

- 34
3344

Middle School Invasion: When the Pharmaceutical Companies Come to Town

- 46
876

Launching Our Peer Respite Initiative

- 0
346

Smashing the Neurotransmitter Myth: How & Why Antidepressants Cause Suicides & Mass Murders

- 74
1157

Challenging the Ongoing ICD 10 Revision: How You Can Help

- 4
328

Duty to Warn – 14 Lies That Our Psychiatry Professors in Medical School Taught...

- 79
11818

How the “Relational Perspective Paradigm” Informs Justice-Oriented Clinical Practice

- 4
1166

Delay of Diagnosis: The Placebo Effect of Behavioral Diagnosis

- 22
414

How I’ve Found Nonviolent Communication Helpful

- 7
555

If a Tree Falls in the Forest

- 82
590

The Gauntlet of Protracted Benzodiazepine Withdrawal

- 95
20281

False Arguments, Part 3: Why Do People Hear Voices? (And Why Do We Need...

- 31
2051

When a Book is Like a Person: Lessons from Book Repair

- 7
2495

Reflections on How We Think About and Respond to Human Suffering, Existential Pain, and...

- 19
885

Privilege, the Construction of Sanity and Answering the Afiya Phone Line

- 2
238

President Obama Links Mental Health Conditions and Gun Violence! He Needs to Hear from...

- 28
794

The FDA Wants to Approve ECT Without Testing

- 52
1499

Becoming a Hearing Voices Facilitator

- 0
876

Serotonin Is Still Alive and Well in Psychiatry Land

- 7
404

Setting the Record Straight: The Psychiatric Legacy of Robert Spitzer

- 34
1057

A New Year’s Letter to Our Readers: The Past, Present, and Future of MIA

- 31
302

Is an Ominous New Era of Diagnosing Psychosis by Biotype on the Horizon?

- 62
763

Psychiatry and Crime

- 35
2515

To the Heart of the Matter, Part II: Perceptions of Public and Personal Stigma

- 107
240

Shock Device Safe As Eyeglasses? 89 Days to Say No

- 25
2351

Timberrr! Psychiatry’s Evidence Base For Antipsychotics Comes Crashing to the Ground

- 52
5025

Madness and the Family, Part III: Practical Methods for Transforming Troubled Family Systems

- 24
2710

My Desperate Yet Demoralizing Plight to Get My Son a Diagnosis for Christmas

- 24
340

Deafening Silence: What Happens When the Whistle Blows and Nobody Hears?

- 64
1123

Human Rights Updates

- 22
1506

Strange Gifts and the Search for Santa Claus

- 5
512

Culturally Numb

- 18
488

Antidepressants, Pregnancy, and Autism: Why Wouldn’t Antidepressant Chemicals Affect a Developing Baby’s Brain?

- 28
807

Madness and the Family (Part Two): Towards a Unified Theory of Family Dynamics and...

- 47
1490

Book Review: The Importance of Suffering

- 7
1686

Enough is Enough Series: 2-Year-olds on Anti-psychotics and Biological Markers for Psychosis

- 42
356

Healing Voices Documentary Review in the Huffington Post

- 30
1154

Book Review: “Overmedicated and Undertreated”

- 7
892

Antidepressants & The Undead

- 55
712

They May not Be Coming for Your Guns, But They Are Definitely Coming for...

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902

Madness and the Family (Part One): The History and Research of Family Dynamics and...

- 112
4114

Support for SB 614 with Amendment to Supervision Qualifications

- 22
253

The Deeper Genome: New Research Findings in Genomics and Epigenomics

- 16
772

Murphy’s Legislation Threatens Civil Rights of the “Mentally Ill”

- 10
205

Please Respond to the New York Times: “What Should Be Done to Prevent Mass...

- 60
221

Is Motivation Worth More Than Expertise?

- 6
404

More on Neuroessentialism: Theoretical and Clinical Considerations

- 17
556

Ernst Rüdin’s Unpublished Family Study of “Manic-Depressive Insanity” and the Genetics of Bipolar Disorder

- 9
727

Mad Love

- 2
263

Your Weight is Forbidden Fruit

- 16
539

Shut Up and Put Up: A Military Culture of Retaliation – Including Diagnosis – When...

- 10
373

For Me, Self-Love Requires Both Mercy and Defiance

- 28
1641

The Modern Day Witch-hunt

- 27
47166

Why I Have (Mostly) Given Up on Diagnosis

- 10
349

The Ghost of Research Future

- 13
491

Needle In a Haystack: Identifying the Next School Shooter Before He Shoots

- 65
503

My Response to Dr. Pies’ Response

- 13
487

Rep. Tim Murphy May Be in Violation of Professional Psychological Ethics & the Law

- 20
1037

The Mental Health Channel & Beyond: What Does it Really Mean to Present a...

- 95
381

Think About Mental Health Wellness for Your End-of-year Donations

& - 5
383

Where’s the Outrage?

- 82
803

Psychiatry’s Last Tango? — A Response to Bonnie Burstow

- 33
781

Electroshocking Veterans and Their Fetuses

- 32
2269

Sanity, Friendship, Community

- 13
401

Hypermodern Hyperactives

- 4
340

Don’t Harm Them Twice (Part II): What Can Be Done?

- 68
1264

MIA Continuing Education: An Update

- 5
191

Stranger Than Kindness

- 9
327

Crisis is (un)Learning

- 15
731

Appendix A: Section IX of United States of America vs. GlaxoSmithKline, PLC: GSK’S...

- 1
490

“Let Food Be Thy Medicine” — So Let’s Teach Physicians How to Cook!

& - 6
971

My Response To Dr. Pies

- 56
1163

Study 329: Big Risk

- 5
324

Beyond ADHD: Moving Past the DSM Paradigm of Mental Illness

- 6
567

Study 329: Psychiatry’s Thalidomide Moment, Part 2

- 2
384

A Mental Patient’s View of the Body

- 10
907

We Are Failing Our Kids: A Few Remedies

- 15
372

RAISE-ing Some Questions

- 22
494

Don’t Harm Them Twice: When the Language Surrounding Benzodiazepines Adds Insult to Injury (Part...

- 47
4622

The Revolution in Psychotherapy

- 11
811

“Murphy Bill” Continues to Exclude Voices of Millions with Mental Health Conditions as It...

- 28
508

Prescription Privileges for Psychologists, Part II: Is Our Consent Fully Informed?

- 10
756

Medication Mechanization: Microchip Sensors in Abilify to Increase Medication Compliance

- 89
5367

CU President Raises Mental Health “Awareness” in Defiance of Mental Health Facts

- 8
230

The Art of Mourning

- 5
212

Dear Man: Sexism, Misogyny, & Our ‘Movement’

- 201
1299

Sound Heals the Wild Beast

- 0
248

Suffering: Who Needs It?

- 11
299

Study 329: Transparency in Limbo at the British Medical Journal

- 3
447

Saving Congressman Murphy from Fraudulent Information

- 20
229

Losing Our Minds to ‘Science’: Treatment Survivors Speak Out Against the Murphy Bill (H.R....

- 109
767

Danger Ahead if HR 2646 (the “Murphy Bill”) Passes!

- 18
549

The Recovery After an Initial Schizophrenia Episode (RAISE) Study: Notes from the Trenches

- 43
1343

Why Mainstream Psychiatry Fears a Balanced Understanding of Psychosis

- 27
836

A Square Peg in a Round Hole: The Construction of Depression as a Disease

- 36
603

Twin Studies are Still in Trouble: A Response to Turkheimer

- 5
3654

The Making of Codex Alternus: What We Can Learn About Research on Non-Traditional Psychiatric...

- 11
844

World Health Organization Publishes Blog About My 40 Years in The Mad Movement

- 57
279

Transmuting Historical Trauma

- 20
1511

Diagnosisgate: A Major Media Blackout Mystery

- 34
4957

‘I’d Rather Die Than Go Back to Hospital’: Why We Need a Non-medical Crisis...

- 22
7333

Study 329: 50 Shades of Gray

- 3
264

A Tribute to Bonnie Nelson

- 6
955

Mad Economy: Let’s Change the World!

- 18
420

The Alternative to Drugs: The Real Treatment for Human Suffering

- 104
554

Dr. Pies and Psychiatry’s ‘Solid Center’

- 25
1413

Slow Psychiatry: Integrating Need-Adapted Approaches with Drug-Centered Pharmacology

- 86
1164

Ernst Rüdin: The Founding Father of Psychiatric Genetics

- 6
6326

“My Ego Strength is Too Developed for Me to Ever Become Psychotic!”

- 61
2183

Study 329: Conflicts of Interest

- 3
322

Antipsychotics Withdrawal, Part 3

- 29
5009

Suicide Tsunami

- 10
341

Keeping Meili Off Psychiatric Drugs

- 17
576

The UK National Health Service Peer-Supported Open Dialogue Project

- 20
1343

Destination, Dignity: Creating the Future We Want

- 45
209

Study 329 in Japan

- 0
0

Siddhartha, 1984, the Murphy Bill, and More

- 22
507

On the Link Between Psychiatric Drugs and Violence

- 36
1248

A Harm Reduction Approach to the Mental Health System

- 28
2282

On the Tyranny of Good Will: Why We Call Ourselves Psychiatric Survivors

- 18
1239

Race, Gun Violence & Mental Health: #BlackLivesMatter

- 26
1104

Human Beings Are More Than a Combination of Letters, or; Why We Needed a...

- 3
260

Being Myself

- 10
2128

Top Psychiatrist’s Stunning Announcement About Gun Violence

- 76
3345

Videos from the 2014 “Transforming Mad Science and Re-Imagining Mental Health Care” ISEPP/UCLA Conference

- 26
585

Integration of Physical and Mental Health

- 25
272

Study 329: By the Standards of the Time

- 19
438

A Confession, and a Dilemma

- 24
216

ADHD: More of It, Better Diagnosis, or Both?

- 14
372

A Reflective Checklist to Reduce Psychotropic Drugs for Vulnerable Children

- 9
539

Breaking News About the Oregon Shooter

- 93
2563

Benzodiazepines: Psychiatry’s Weakest Link  

- 38
3238

Is There Risk in Screening for Mental Health Disorders? 

- 27
390

The New York Times Celebrates Twin Research Yet Again

- 9
870

Psychiatry and the Pressure to Prescribe

- 19
745

Passage

- 53
680

Co-Optation, Failed Analogies, and ‘How to Touch a Hot Stove’

- 246
829

Why Did 158+ People Attend an Antipsychiatry Book Launch? (A Reflection)

- 15
446

Study 329: Minions no Longer

- 5
261

A Liberation Journey with Images

- 20
501

“Mental Disorders in the Classical World” (A Review)

- 14
1753

Hey; Don’t Just Shoot the Messenger!

- 26
682

Life Events Cause Psychosis: The Further Adventures of an Aspiring Psychonaut

- 9
476

Should Consumer/Survivors Help Psychiatrists Become Better Psychiatrists?

- 41
821

10 of the Worst Political Abuses of the Psychiatric and Psychological Professions in American...

- 47
1620

Study 329: The Data Wars Cross the Rubicon

- 9
323

Terry Lynch: The Doctor Who Stands for Truth

& - 20
1644

You, Your Kids, or the Doctor… Who’s Running the Show?

- 5
392

The APA’s New Image

- 42
641

New Video and Campaign Calls for REAL Change in Mental Health Policy 

- 18
286

What is #toppmote2015 and Why Does it Matter?

- 2
375

Involuntary Hospitalization: What’s Love Got to do With it?

- 36
1881

What Happened to those Who Were Suicidal in Study 329? And to the Learned...

- 2
288

Ronald Pies Doubles Down (And Why We Should Care)

- 119
2591

Love, Liberty, and Psychiatric Hospitalization

- 69
373

Psychiatry: The Hoax Exposed

- 57
1289

Hello World! 5 Reasons We Must Say ‘No’ to Normality & Psychiatry

- 5
395

Yesterday I Looked Forward to Taking Psych Drugs

- 14
537

The Questions Are Not the Problem

- 7
261

Psychiatry & Organized Crime

- 24
940

Study 329: MK, HK, SK and GSK

- 3
185

When There’s No Place Like Home…. 

- 118
297

Trauma Outpaces our Ability to Adapt: It is the Source of Our Suffering

- 22
706

On Making Non Sense

- 21
640

Psychiatry’s Thalidomide Moment

- 11
781

Benzo Drugs, UK Fudge, Cover Up and Consequences

- 13
728

Say What?  Understanding That What We Say—and How We Say It—Changes Lives

- 28
326

The Inherent Unreliability of the ADHD Label

- 91
539

Can Probiotics be Used for the Treatment of Mental Health Problems?

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3166

The Use of Antipsychotic Medications in Children

- 30
2732

The Troubled Life of Study 329: Consequences of Failure to Retract

- 13
730

The Fourth and Fifth Laws of Behavioral Genetics

- 12
2592

Mental Health: Misnomer & Metaphor

- 35
1125

Enhanced Interrogation: Is It Psychology’s Only Scandal? by Lois Holzman

- 0
372

A Not-So-Charmed Life

- 30
4506

Stigmatization of Psychiatry and Psychiatrists: Some Remedial Suggestions

- 73
862

From Self-Harm to Self-Empowerment: Liberation Through Words

- 46
1257

Yes, the Tide is Turning Against Psychiatry

- 128
2123

Do NAMI and MHA Suffer From Anosognosia?

- 105
2673

Study 329: The Timelines

- 6
232

Destination, Dignity: Focus on a Broken Criminal Justice System

- 6
424

Meta-Autonomy & Meta-Equality

- 3
767

Hiding the Evidence of Society’s Side Effects

- 8
306

Shooting the Odds, Part III

- 22
2798

House of Cards: Bad Science Creates False and Dangerous Beliefs

- 9
408

Book Review: Depression Delusion by Terry Lynch, MD, MA

- 60
1290

Study329.org: The Panorama Files

- 22
213

Cannabis for Treating Psychiatric Problems? A Clear Yes, Maybe.

- 76
5904

What if ACEs (Adverse Childhood Events) Were the Basis of Mental Health Treatment? 

- 83
1749

New Documentary, “Creatively Maladjusted”: Diagnosed-Psychotic Quad Activist Goes Global Revolutionary!

- 5
450

Incarcerated, “Delusional,” and Sentenced to Abuse  

- 22
716

How Following the Trail of “Cutting Edge” and “Convenient” Can Distort Reality

- 33
479

A Network Meeting in North America

- 18
298

Compassion and the Voice of the Tormentor

- 20
564

A Response to the Hyper-focus on Brain-based Research and “Disease”

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683

Reforming Prisons, Housing, Medication & Community-Based Support: Part I of a Common-Sense, Common Ground...

- 14
212

40,000 Suicides Annually and America Still Shrugs

- 41
633

Reflections on MIA’s Film Festival and Our Collective Human Future

- 19
0

Genetic Research in Psychiatry: A Brief Update

- 16
350

The Mentally Ill Do Not Exist: Challenging Popular Media’s Obsession

- 12
257

Is Listening the Key to Living?

- 16
180

The Case of the Missing Schizophrenia

- 16
231

More On the “Civil War” Between Mental Health Advocates

- 33
395

Toward a Selective Use Model of Psychiatric Medication

- 4
280

Please Stop Saying “Anti-psychiatry”

- 83
1048

Providing Loving Receptivity Can Help People in Extreme States

- 23
1565

Coming Out: Iatrogenic Illness Awareness Month

- 18
1900

Spiritual Bypass and the Chill Pill

- 10
301

More on Benzos and Cognitive Damage

- 45
19569

Wholesome Wave

& - 4
1034

Between Psychiatry and Anti-Psychiatry: Mad in America Opens a Dialogue

& - 58
1222

Antipsychiatry Revisited: Toward Greater Clarity

- 125
2165

Our Powerful Mind, and Hope

- 36
360

The Community Psychologist as Covert Operative in the Indian Health Service

- 9
459

The Federal Report on Financial Relationships Between Pharma Industry and Prescribing Physicians

- 5
653

The Scarlet Label: Close Encounters with ‘Borderline Personality Disorder’

& - 110
6836

Allen Frances – Civil War or Propaganda Battle?

- 48
679

It’s the Coercion, Stupid!

- 71
6476

Robin Williams or Patch Adams? Watch a Brief Message from David Oaks to the...

- 6
310

Am I Having a Breakdown or Breakthrough? Further Reflections on a Depressive Relapse

- 8
1163

Mental Illness as Metaphor

- 5
2543

Are We Discovering More ADHD?

- 6
337

The Blinding of Gloria X. in New Jersey State Hospital – Just Another Mental...

- 37
1458

May the ‘Force’ NEVER EVER Be With You! The Case for Abolition

- 171
1125

Benzodiazepine Use and Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease

- 20
1224

The Making of “Guilty Except for Insanity: Maddening Journeys Through an Asylum”

- 26
1144

A Discussion of Labels, Part One: Disability

- 13
294

Turning Distress into Joy, Part V and Final: Meaning & Transcendence

- 27
192

Rethinking Psychiatry

- 61
823

Back in the Dark House Again: The Recurrent Nature of Clinical Depression

- 29
1109

A New Model of Service

- 16
158

A Macabre Celebration:  80 Years of Convulsive ‘Therapy’

- 122
455

Why I Am Willing to Die on the Governor’s Doorstep

- 22
545

Healing From Intergenerational Trauma: Facing the Unfaceable

- 15
559

You Call Me Crazy. I Call Myself a “9”

- 8
518

Is it Better to Be a Life Coach or a Psychotherapist?

- 35
7001

To See a Professional or Not

- 17
233

Stumble Biscuits and the Murk of Benzo Disability

- 23
1751

Nutrition Above the Neck: Why is This Topic Met With Hostility?

& - 45
1209

Psychiatry Disrupted

- 44
645

PsychoQuad Goes to the Movies: The Power of Sex, Bettie Page and Art Overthrow...

- 96
396

Towards a Hermeneutic Shift in Psychiatry

- 50
2597

Mentally Ill or Conflict Repressed? Is Conflict a Lost Art?

- 19
301

On Being Sane in an Insane Place—The Rosenhan Experiment in the Laboratory of Plautus’...

- 40
1785

My Loss of Cultural Competence Among the Nacirema-Orue

- 27
302

Outside the Bubble and Into the “New” Economy

- 9
142

NICE Guidelines for Bipolar Disorder- a Missed Opportunity

- 22
729

The Alternatives Conference Helps Our Movement Grow

- 21
308

The Persecution of Heretics

- 11
464

The Problems of Non-Consensual Reality

- 105
2373

Not Another Brick in The Wall

- 16
296

It Gets Better: Neuropsych Doctor Confirms Psych Drug Iatrogenesis, PTSD, Brain Injury

- 21
751

Global Warming and the Mad Movement: Can You Help?

- 51
271

Pharma-funded Research

- 18
237

How to Spread the News, Part 2

- 63
327

Detecting the True ‘Culture’ of Indian Health Service Mental Health Programs

- 7
706

Turning Distress into Joy, Part IV:  Gratitude

- 14
537

Doctor Munchausen: Hear no, See no – What?

- 17
204

Our Movement Needs an Alternative to the “Alternatives” Conference

- 194
441

Why “Stabilizing” People is Entirely the Wrong Idea

- 26
358

Psychosis and Dissociation, Part 2: On Diagnosis, and Beyond

- 17
739

Second Generation Neuroleptics and Acute Kidney Injury in Older Adults

- 18
296

WHOMHP!

- 29
372

How Can We Spread the News?

- 110
304

Social Justice and the Benzodiazepine Death Camp

- 29
463

Pierce v. Pemiscot Hospital: Federal Judge Takes a Psychiatric Inmate’s Rights Seriously

- 43
631

Turning Distress into Joy, Part III:  Helping Others

- 10
273

Who Is Isaiah Rider???

- 28
917

From Burning Man to Bellevue Hospital

- 1
356

The Law’s Flaw

- 20
217

Dr. Pies Still Spinning

- 61
308

Patient Centred-Care Doesn’t Go Far Enough: We Need Patient-Perspective Care

- 75
683

Creating Alternatives to the Medical Model

- 6
646

On Spiritual Emergence and Other Extraordinary Experiences

- 19
506

Believe it or not . . .

- 49
322

Forced Treatment Ineffective: Advocacy Essential

- 33
329

If Not Meds, Then WHAT?

& - 189
979

Hope for Everyone

- 35
737

Do We Need More Hospital Beds?

- 51
537

How Reliable is the DSM-5?

- 19
19370

Peer Support in Mental Health: Exploitive, Transformative, or Both?

- 74
3241

A Critique of Genetic Research on Schizophrenia – Expensive Castles in the Air

- 41
2624

Does Long-Term Use of “Antipsychotic” Drugs Result in More Disability, and More Psychosis?

- 102
11732

Stranger

- 13
412

Autism, Antidepressants, and Pregnancy: The Basics

- 9
1196

Positive Explanations for Psychological Problems

- 47
598

The Lessons of Ancient Philosophy

- 42
716

On Religious and Psychiatric Atheism: The Success of Epicurus, the Failure of Thomas Szasz

- 224
8289

Embodying Peace in Times of War

- 11
271

Turning Distress into Joy, Part II:  Channeling

- 11
265

My Top 11 Ways to Reunite for a Mental Health Revolution!

- 61
620

It Gets Better: Living Well While Being Sick

- 2
287

Looking forward to the Good Ol’ Days

- 33
225

How About a Diagnostic Alternative for Use in Talk Therapy?

- 0
501

More Bogus Conclusions From More Bogus Research

- 27
248

Shh… Just Whisper it, But There Might Just Be a Revolution Underway

- 33
1025

Extend Your Child’s ADHD Summer Drug Holiday to Infinity and Beyond!

- 30
949

MHASF Launches a Warm Line

- 6
659

Fear is Life Force … (in Clinical Circles it’s Often Called Anxiety) – An...

- 12
380

Life & Death: Robin Williams, Suicide “Prevention,” and the World as We Know...

- 67
2203

Suicide Prevention for All: Making the World a Safer Place to Be Human

- 30
393

Turning Distress Into Joy, Part I:  Forgiveness

- 31
292

Antidepressants and Overall Wellbeing

- 27
375

Diagnosing the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

- 0
202

Doctor Munchausen and Sense about Science

- 9
184

Rethinking Therapy: Making Our Worlds as We Would Like Them to Be

- 7
317

It Gets Better: A Portrait of Poly Psychopharmacology

- 14
847

Managing Spiritual Emergency: In Spiritist Psychiatric Hospitals and Community Centers In Brazil

- 25
1075

Trauma, Psychosis, and Dissociation

- 57
24154

People Who Find Psychiatric Drugs Helpful

- 71
552

Taking an Entry Point: On Investigating the Psychiatric-Pharmaceutical Complex

- 45
562

Open Letter to Family Doctors and Mental Health Practitioners From an Average Kid Acting...

- 6
235

Father Munchausen, I Presume!

- 12
190

Proposal From Italy: An International Collection of Recovery Stories

- 33
197

The Cocktail Party

- 71
731

‘To Gift the Mind To Chemistry’, and To Take It Back: Dylan Tighe To...

- 7
820

Crash Course in Urban Shamanism

- 24
3320

Anti-Psychiatry

- 427
2295

Medicalizing Poverty

- 20
1389

The Logic of the ADHD Diagnosis

- 15
587

Code Black: When Time Doesn’t Heal

- 3
219

Is Psychiatry the Tea Party of Medical Science?

- 71
300

Simon Says:  Happiness Won’t Cure Mental Illness

- 15
390

Prescription Privileges for Psychologists: Is Our Consent Fully Informed?

- 13
2773

On Waking Up From the “American Dream”

- 55
779

Healing from an Addiction to Patterned Ways of Thinking

- 14
259

An Anti-Violence Mental Health Plan

- 95
675

Playing the Odds, Revisited

- 42
5478

The Use of Neuroleptic Drugs As Chemical Restraints

- 82
3587

Illegal-Psychiatric Drug Hypocrisy, & Why Michael Pollan is Smarter than Me

- 89
828

How Can Professionals Learn to Reduce Fears of Psychotic Experiences Rather Than Emphasize Pathology?

- 35
613

Los Angeles Increases Outpatient Involuntary Treatment in Spite of UN Declaring Force “Torture”

- 19
621

Consent and Psychiatry: Problematizing the Problematic 

- 62
1166

Suicide: A Permanent Solution to a Temporary Problem

- 20
1753

Changing the Role of Case Management

- 24
244

The Use of Neuroleptic Drugs As Chemical Restraints in Nursing Homes

- 24
668

What Is Biological Psychiatry? Pt. 3: Thoughts on Hastening Its Demise

- 49
243

Doctor Munchausen, I Presume!

- 107
523

Some Thoughts on Insanity Defense

- 27
2139

On Fighting Institutional Psychiatry With the “Attrition Model”

- 132
3726

SELF: Sharing Experience Lived Firsthand

- 14
253

Connecticut State in Mental Health Denial

- 62
231

ADHD: A Return to Psychology

- 19
457

Avoid the Hexperts

- 17
427

Thoughts on Psychiatric Incarceration When Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity

- 34
927

Please Don’t Empower Me Anymore

- 24
519

Suicidal Behavior After FDA Warnings

- 14
1201

The Meeting Was Sponsored by Merchants of Death

- 10
857

Response to “The End of Rethinking Psychiatry?”

- 93
1626

Jon Stewart’s Gaywatch

- 16
281

Independence From the Therapeutic State

- 21
923

Why I Became a Critical Psychiatrist

- 13
602

Who Decides Which People are Mentally Ill . . . Who Gets That Control?

- 34
349

What Is Biological Psychiatry? Part 2: Anatomy of Power and Control

- 25
450

It Gets Better!

- 24
341

News on Creative Maladjustment

- 1
187

The Media Missed the Story: Civil Rights and the Helping Families in Mental Health...

- 71
1080

Continuing the Antidepressant Debate: the Clinical Relevance of Drug-Placebo Differences

- 13
496

Talking About Psychosis, Part 1: Why Do It?

- 40
682

Psychocracy and Community

- 30
1891

Living in an Age of Melancholy: When Society Becomes Depressed

- 38
7804

Lingering Doubts About Psychiatry’s Scientific Status

- 111
1235

The End of Rethinking Psychiatry?

- 113
882

The Paradox of Praise

- 12
782

Believe and Know . . . (as it pertains to psych drug withdrawal syndrome...

- 18
494

MIA’s New Store & More

- 7
261

The Sandy Hook Advisory Commission and the Evidence of a “Convicted Offender”

- 2
228

Goodbye to Ken Braiterman

- 4
465

Sense about Science: Follow the Patient

- 19
165

New APA President: Same Old Cheerleading

- 18
329

Upon Further Review: Did the Black Box Warning on SSRIs Lead to Increased Suicide...

- 29
1232

“Psychiatric Prejudice” – A New Way of Silencing Criticism

- 46
1383

What is a Warm Line and What Should I Expect When I Call One?

- 7
52537

How Much Does it Matter for Patients to Believe They Will Get Well?

- 37
495

Heteronormative Violence of Mainstream Psychiatry: A Cautionary Tale

- 39
928

An Open Letter to Persons Self-Identifying as Mentally Ill

- 39
1507

Psychiatry’s Response: Attack and PR

- 272
913

A Look at Madness Through the Lens of Culture

- 8
1880

What Is Biological Psychiatry and Why Is It So Important To Know?

- 122
2140

From Self Care to Collective Caring

- 6
4164

Blame the Clients?

- 143
1026

The Story of “Teenagers Against Psychiatric Drugs”

- 17
364

Why I Work in the System

- 22
651

Why Do We Say That Mental Health Detention is Discrimination?

- 69
1392

The Proliferation and Elimination of Mental Illness: Clinging to the Slopes of Everest

- 139
993

More Delays on Sandy Hook Reports

- 19
161

Should Our Tax Dollars Be Spent on Promoting Drugs?

- 17
231

Pro-Force Attitudes a Symptom of Post Traumatic Stress?

- 65
796

Reflections on a Pathologized Adolescence and a Vision for the Future

- 52
1398

A Daughter’s Call for Safety and Sanity in Mental Health

- 22
381

News Flash: 4.5 Million Children Forced Daily by “Caretakers” to Do Cocaine-like Drugs 

- 58
694

Psychiatry DID Promote the Chemical Imbalance Theory

- 86
7193

Who’s Delusional? And How Do We Support Them?

- 30
1205

Did Psychiatric Drugs Play a Role in the Prom Day Killer’s Violent Behavior?

- 21
218

Tickets, Updates, and More on MIA’s International Film Festival

- 4
418

The Politics of Healing

- 15
785

Ode to Biological Psychiatry

- 182
1671

The Relationship Between Systems Change and Being Present with Others

- 3
195

Do We Underestimate the Benefits of Antidepressants?

- 34
997

Hearing Voices, Emancipation, Shamanism and CBT: Thoughts After Douglas Turkington’s Training

- 11
1211

What Should be The #1 Priority of Our Schools?

- 26
3256

Final Lecture

- 39
443

Creating More Equal Societies Decreases Mental Illness: What Should We Do?

- 33
632

Psychiatric Survivors Are Everywhere

- 33
1001

Time for a Policy Against Psychiatric Bullying

- 18
4701

Deconstructing Psychiatric Diagnoses: An Attempt At Humor

- 42
686

Psych Drugs Kill vs Psych Drugs Save Lives. What if Both Are True?

- 46
1120

From Psychiatric Coercion to Libertarianism: A Personal Journey

- 7
559

Connecticut Fails to Meet Deadline on Sandy Hook Mental Health Bill

- 13
182

Drugging Toddlers for Inattention, Impulsivity, and Hyperactivity

- 38
393

University of Minnesota Psychiatry: A Pattern of Research Abuse

- 9
555

From Protesting to Taking Over: Using Education to Change Mental Health Care

- 13
483

Are You Ready for Multiple Lawsuits By Victims of Psychiatric Misconduct?

- 9
345

What’s Wrong With You? Nothing.What Has Happened to You? Something.

- 99
7092

Adam Lanza’s Psychiatrist’s Ethics Violations Raise Questions About the Legislature’s Controversial Mental Health Increases

- 26
580

Childhood Social Functioning Predicts Adult Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder. Or Does It?

- 37
553

Calling for Rep. McCann’s resignation while there is still time to run a different...

- 0
131

Psychiatry’s Manufactured Consent: Chemical Imbalance Theory and the Antidepressant Explosion

- 18
4633

Behind Locked Doors: How I Got My Hospital Records, and What I Did With...

- 95
5357

Rethinking Diagnosis

- 51
453

There is Big Medicine in Everyone

- 7
266

Electroshock Causes More Harm Than Good

- 28
1056

Social Services and Psychiatry

- 25
161

Complexity

- 17
163

Dear DSM-5: I Still Have Some Questions

- 9
4840

PROTEST PSYCHIATRY – My Newest Film, Free!

- 30
495

Consumers Beware!

- 6
518

Hearing Voices Workshop Comes to Vermont

- 14
359

Dr. Lieberman’s Swansong

- 29
396

Psychiatry: We Need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Mental Health

- 17
1291

Screening Pregnant Women for Depression

- 14
824

Legislators: Don’t try to sneak this through as an amendment. (HB1386)

- 0
121

David W. Oaks’ Statement of Support for Protest of 2014 American Psychiatric Association Meeting

- 1
190

Breaking The Silence – Supporting Young People who Hear Voices in the US

- 5
696

The Final Visit to the Psychiatrist (Part 2 of Goodbye Psychiatry)

- 6
497

I Am Alive

- 25
838

Why I am Going to the APA Protest in NYC on May 4, 2014

- 4
327

The APA Is a Fraudulent Enterprise

- 12
4454

Goodbye Psychiatry

- 10
384

I’m Going, Are You? How to Get Involved in the Annual Protest of...

- 6
254

Neuroplasticity: My Newest Friend

- 2
411

Cold Turkey

- 14
1401

My Thoughts on an Alternative to HB1386 in Colorado (Open Letter)

- 1
177

Sluggish Cognitive Tempo – A New Diagnosis?

- 22
777

Partner Bill of Rights: Speaking to the Cycle of Abuse

- 9
207

The Hot Stove Project: Learning From People who Think Differently

& - 20
650

Sweeping Benzos Under the Carpet

- 7
806

More Support and Understanding Needed for People Wanting to Try a No-Meds Approach

- 48
283

We Need to Go Back to Our Roots in the Civil Rights Movement

- 89
371

My Healing Protocol Detailed

- 7
2520

How Doing Nothing Cured My Friend of Psychosis

- 3
1206

To Senator Harkin: My CRPD Story

- 23
427

An Open Letter to the Colorado House Health, Insurance and Environment Committee RE: HB1386

- 9
268

“Open Access” for the Activist Community

- 6
217

Creating Sustainability, Disarming Trauma and Loving One Another

- 3
171

‘Angels and Demons’: the Politics of Psychoactive Drugs

- 30
4040

Antidepressants, Pregnancy, and Autism: Really Time to Worry

- 15
404

‘ADHD’ and Dangerous Driving

- 24
565

The Manufacture and ‘Maintenance’ of Oppression: A Very Profitable Business

- 13
1184

Defeating Goliath: Mental Health is a Social Justice Issue, and People with Lived Experience...

- 102
2439

Lullaby

- 16
257

The End of Psychiatry

- 49
1517

Invisible Pain

- 68
1310

Too Corrupt, Insane & Ridiculous to Be Reformed? Even Establishment Psychiatrists Distance Themselves From...

- 48
1578

The Power of Words: What the Wall Street Journal Didn’t Tell You

- 11
246

Replacing Psychiatrists and Psychotherapists

- 41
381

I Actually Woke up This Morning Thinking I’d Arrived, I’m Well . . .

- 12
928

What it Means to be a Human, With all the Beauty and Complexity That...

- 14
317

Justina Pelletier: The Debate Continues

- 29
365

Open Letter Re: This Morning‘s Feature on Depression

- 55
853

America’s Sweetheart

- 19
1200

9 Ways to Stop the Next Village Shalom Shooting

- 3
225

Psychiatric Teams Have a Responsibility to Think About the Psychosis/Sexual Abuse Link

- 14
1354

Enslaved to Abilify

- 61
26837

The Great Turning

- 27
314

Historic Moment for the Right to Legal Capacity

- 43
377

Regulatory Capture

- 11
1126

A National Scandal: Psychological Therapies for Psychosis are Helpful, But Unavailable

& - 43
808

Markingson Case Supporters: Please Join Our Call-In Campaign

- 3
189

Rep. McCann: Taking Away the Jury Trial is Undemocratic. (Open Letter)

- 14
140

My Story of Benzo Withdrawal and Activism

- 22
6470

Who Cares About Kelsey?

- 25
1676

Antidepressants Make Things Worse in the Long Term

- 24
7893

It’s About the Trauma: How to Truly Address the Roots of Violence and Suffering...

- 81
1498

Important Considerations for Implementing Assisted Outpatient Treatment: A Collaborative Advocacy Agenda

- 44
407

Advice to the Newbies: Give Your Heart, & Hold Your Theories Lightly

- 4
271

The Can Collector’s Club: Clarifying Where Mental Health Begins

- 9
176

Justina Pelletier: The Case Continues

- 52
6796

First They Ignore You: Impressions From Today’s Hearing on H.R. 3717

- 57
378

It’s Time For A Stronger Political Ground Game To Compete With NAMI & Company...

- 125
700

Legislator’s Rush to Implement Increased Mental Health Services Based on No Data from Shooting...

- 45
291

Murphy Bill: Violates Civil Rights, Increases Government Intrusion and Control, and Ignores Scientific Research

- 18
490

Mental Illness & Violence

- 20
190

Why Don’t They Know? A Letter to My Doctor

- 52
11442

Recent Success for the Bay Area’s Campaign Against Expanding Forced Treatment

- 6
245

Open Letter to Senator Creigh Deeds

- 19
469

So They Say Your Child has ADHD? April Fools!

- 3
943

The Fat Lady Has Sung

- 58
1750

We Are the People

- 68
337

Are Neuroleptics “Anti-Psychotic”? Harrow’s 20-Year Outcomes

- 40
1223

Staying in the New Paradigm: More Thoughts on the Human Rights Committee Recommendation

- 2
284

UN: US Should “Generally Prohibit” Non-consensual Psychiatric Treatment

- 1
859

Antidepressants and Preterm Birth: More Concerning Findings

- 3
539

Overtreatment, Bereavement, and Antidepressants

- 5
537

Benzodiazepines: Disempowering and Dangerous

- 4
460

Katharine Hepburn is Glamorous – Suicide is Not

- 22
945

Made It! – Successfully Navigating Both Mainstream and Alternative Treatment for Mental Illness

- 4
415

De-escalating Folks When Psychotic and Potentially Violent

- 18
2247

Launch of the Council for Evidence-Based Psychiatry

- 23
1751

Are Vitamins Killing us Softly?

& - 1
1035

Robert Whitaker: Looking Back and Looking Ahead

- 8
145

Why You Can’t Get Informed Consent From a Doctor

- 15
346

Overcoming the Stigma of Depression

- 18
9812

What Will Cause Psychiatry to Change?

- 18
238

Six Ways You Can Really Help Prevent Suicide

- 27
2235

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Drugs and the Therapeutic State

- 6
627

Involuntary Mental Health Commitments

- 33
4361

Hospitalization: A Crisis in Crisis Care

- 12
222

U.N. Questions U.S. on Forced Psychiatric Drugging

- 27
578

DSM-5 And Somatic Symptom Disorder

- 15
401

Herbs, Supplements, Foods That Can Aid in Withdrawal Symptoms

- 18
40149

The Overmedication of Vulnerable Youth with Psychiatric Medication: Boon for the Pharma Industry

- 6
1912

Dear NAMI: My Apologies. I’ve Been Unfair.

- 54
6135

Benzodiazepines: Dangerous Drugs

- 29
5156

Neutralising Suffering: How the Medicalisation of Distress Obliterates Meaning and Creates Profit

- 18
810

Over Our Dead Bodies

- 8
384

Are We Losing Our Parenting Will?

- 8
300

Do We Need to See Inside the Box?

- 42
422

Will Psychiatry’s Harmful Treatment of Our Children Bring About Its Eventual Demise?

- 54
1039

I Love … Stigma? Reaching Out to College Students & Beyond

- 92
530

A Discussion of Justina Pelletier and Boston Children’s Hospital

- 34
1860

Building Bridges Between Mental Health and Addictions Communities

- 9
581

Psychiatry Admits It’s Been Wrong in Big Ways, But Can It Change? A Chat...

- 109
3053

Finding and Funding Our Way, Outside the System

- 36
216

Launching MIA Reports

- 12
545

A Blood Test for Schizophrenia with 83% Accuracy?

- 26
3720

Uses and Abuses of “Recovery” – A Review

- 41
536

Six First Steps for Building Communities of Emotional Wellness

- 23
530

[Un]Settling In for the Long Haul: The Interplay of Complacency, Stagnation, and Psychotropic...

- 20
225

The Hallucination in the Room

- 51
436

DSM‘s Somatoform Disorders: Millions More Might Be Diagnosed

- 22
681

ADHD, Bigfoot, and the Missing Links in Research

- 6
1440

Neuroleptics and Tardive Dyskinesia in Children

- 29
1404

Depression and Suicide in the Elderly

- 5
705

Me & The Meds: The Story of a Dysfunctional Relationship

- 27
614

SSRI ‘Indication Creep’ Relies on Negligent Doctors

- 11
937

The Origins of Mental Health Services

- 8
383

Unwarranted Criticism of “Psychiatry Gone Astray”

- 17
4280

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

- 34
17813

Current Research on Outpatient Commitment Laws (“Laura’s Law” in California)‎

- 27
1029

A New Silver Bullet? The Lurasidone Story

- 72
9144

The Great “Crazy” Cover-up: Harm Results from Rewriting the History of DSM

- 26
1394

Risperdal for a 2-year-old? Turning the Tide, One Interaction at a Time

- 30
1127

Should PsychRights Ask the U.S. Supreme Court to Hear an Appeal of the Alaska...

- 42
842

Reading Foucault and Human Rights

- 18
1420

Making the Invisible, Visible

- 23
782

Traditional Healing and Psychosis vs. the Promises of Modern Science

- 29
4846

Genetic Protection Against Schizophrenia?

- 13
421

Something Rotten in the State of British Psychiatry?

- 57
758

Have You Ever Taken an Experimental Antipsychotic Called Bifeprunox?

- 1
774

Electroshocking Children: Why It Should Be Stopped

- 20
19465

12 Vital Questions of Mental Health

- 10
300

How Competing in the Olympics is Like Mental Health Recovery

- 3
320

Blogging Your Survival Story: 11 Tips

- 20
274

Paradigm Shift

- 122
543

If You Are the Big, Big Tree; We Are the Small Axe

- 6
1245

Conversations About Death . . . in Pursuit of Life

- 13
214

The ADHD Diagnosis is a War of Semantics, Waged on Children

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1690

Are Micronutrients a Waste of Time? – A Randomized Controlled Trial

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12343

“Decolonizing Global Mental Health: The Psychiatrization of the Majority World” (Book Review)

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2469

Mark Your Calendars— Announcing Mad in America’s First International Film Festival!

- 23
632

The Problem of Blame

- 42
209

Challenging the Status Quo

- 6
571

We Shall Overcome: Remembering Pete Seeger

- 3
343

Psychiatry Gone Astray

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6124

Guilty

- 11
265

Conflict of Interest, DSM-5, and the APA

- 50
1282

All Real Living is Meeting

- 40
336

Welcome to Planet ADHD: A Farce to be Reckoned With

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945

No More Tears? The Shame of Johnson & Johnson

- 12
9446

Justina Pelletier Supporters Say: Close Harvard’s Abusive Psych Ward at Boston Children’s Hospital

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1493

Dare to Dream: Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

- 3
399

Ear Acupuncture to Support Mental Health

- 110
1516

My Journey – A Child Psychiatrist’s Struggle to Change the System

- 29
274

Reclaiming Humanity

- 114
287

Antidepressants, Pregnancy, and Autism: Time to Worry?

- 9
3100

Update: ABC World News Wants to Know About Benzos

- 19
901

Evidence That More Psychiatry Means More Suicide

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7137

When I Grow Up, I Want to be a Psychiatrist: Redefining the Profession for...

- 41
4073

Based on a True Story Filled with Lies

- 32
447

Tell the Feds What “Quality Care” Looks Like

- 1
195

Learning Family Recovery Skills: Krista Mackinnon on Madness Radio

- 17
444

Psychiatry Is Not Based On Valid Science

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4146

North Carolina Police Shoot and Kill “Mentally Ill” Kid

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498

Prescribing Rights for Psychologists

- 13
1568

Non-Compliance in the New Year: The Power of ‘No’

- 38
378

In Search of a Hundred Miles of Gratitude

- 3
217

If You Don’t Have Anything to Hide, You Don’t Have Anything to Worry About

- 71
818

The Meaning of Legal Capacity is Equality

- 9
790

The Promise of Open Dialogue

- 69
7608

Dream

- 14
144

On Creating Universes, Killing Cats and Other Odd Things

- 42
296

NIMH Mad Libs

- 6
1009

What’s Really Behind GSK’s New Business Model?

- 18
627

My Recovery from ‘Schizophrenia’ through Psychotherapy and Writing

- 7
1309

Making Sense of Being Crazy in a Crazy World: A Community Poll

- 0
384

Justina Pelletier Case Shows Public That Psychiatric Power is Out of Control

- 154
1678

Resolving to Make This Year Mean More

- 12
113

Returning Stuff

- 7
535

The Story of Legal Capacity: Specificity and Intersections

- 2
479

In Time for RXmas: Motivational Pharmacotherapy

- 21
401

Tim Murphy Mental Health Bill: More Expensive and Less Effective

- 15
350

Is There a Simple Way to Use Nutrition Knowledge to Decrease Onset of Psychosis?

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881

Psychiatry Has its Head in the Sand: Royal College of Psychiatrists Rejects Discussion of...

- 40
622

Homelessness, Hospitalization and “Compliance”

- 86
800

CAFÉ Study: Real Science or Marketing Exercise?

- 4
916

Epic Fail: The Legislation of Involuntary Mental Health Treatment

- 53
502

Power to Communities, Healing Through Social Justice: INTAR 2014 in Liverpool, England

& - 0
303

Do I Enjoy Prescribing Meds?

- 185
515

Investigate the Markingson Suicide? Not So Fast, Says University President

- 3
359

10 Ways Mental Health Professionals Increase Misery in Suffering People

- 24
5635

Off-Label in New Zealand

- 7
404

How Canada’s Prisons Killed Ashley Smith: A National Crime and Shame

- 16
8239

Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered

- 14
380

What is a Simple Way to Prevent the Onset of Physical Disease?

& - 9
450

The Esalen Connection: Fifty Years of Re-Visioning Madness and Trying to Transform the World

- 27
1183

Mind the Gap: The Space Between Alternatives & Force

- 79
851

Setting the Intention to Heal: The Starting Point of Mental Health Recovery

- 15
3504

Embracing Movement Diversity

- 4
219

Providing Sanctuary, Part 3; Support, Perfectionism, Structure and Flexibility

- 0
134

Is Addiction a Disease?

& - 20
475

Governments Delivering Customers to Big Pharma

- 20
296

Neuroleptics for Children: Harvard’s Shame

- 28
881

The Church of GSKology, Part 2

- 2
160

How Can We Talk About Difficult Experiences Non-Violently?

- 3
423

DSM-5 Boycott Enters 2nd Phase: A Primer for the NO-DSM Diagnosis Campaign

- 1
919

Against All Odds

- 19
344

Finding the Inner Wild

- 2
204

Inpatient Hospitalization: An Inside Perspective

- 140
1667

Response To Sandy Hook Report

- 15
188

A Small Revolution in Belgium: Psychologists to be Recognized Health Professionals

- 5
754

Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Human Metamorphosis

- 21
1342

KMSP-TV Investigative Report on Psychiatric Research Abuse at the University of Minnesota

- 6
255

An Opportunity for “Mad Caring”: David Oaks Needs Our Help

- 5
273

The Church of GSKology

- 8
202

American Psychosis

- 17
299

If I Had Remained Med Compliant…

- 18
1037

The Taper

- 3
835

eCPR: A Health Promotion Approach

, & - 13
1102

Patients’ Rights in Massachusetts

- 11
2614

Is Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) Effective?

- 112
8322

Statement to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on CRPD

- 52
592

Tapering Neuroleptics: Two Year Results

- 23
541

A Stranger in a Strange Land (Pt. 2): What Happened to You?

- 47
170

Where There is No Word for “Alone”

- 2
315

Threats, Coercion and Chemical Restraints for Distressed Children

- 42
763

The House of GSK

- 2
213

U.S. Renegade History, Psychiatric Survivors, & the Price of Acceptance

- 15
320

How to Escape Psychiatry as a Teen: Interview with a Survivor

- 42
850

Just Who is the Naked One Here?

- 34
603

Living in One of R. D. Laing’s Post-Kingsley Hall Households

- 51
6823

Mis- (and Dis-) Information about UN Disability Convention

- 11
642

What Are You Doing, WHO?

- 2
199

What Are You Doing WHO?

- 2
170

Is Emotional Distress Criminal?

- 16
549

Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness: A Counter-Narrative of Psychic Diversity

- 2
459

A Stranger in a Strange Land (Pt. 1)

- 9
176

GlaxoSmithKline’s Journey to Transparency

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607

P.S. Sometimes I still Hurt Myself… P.P.S. So do you…

- 30
1194

I Wonder if There is Some Axis II Going on Here? Further Thoughts on...

- 29
323

Schizophrenia Becomes Psychosis Susceptibility Syndrome

- 65
589

Pick Up a Pen, I Dare You

- 18
245

Bogus Journal Articles Distract From the Real Problem in Academic Medicine

- 5
438

“Tuff” Love: A Public Safety Alternative

- 5
577

Photo ID Cards for “Mental Patients” Now a Reality

- 115
2727

DSM-5’s “Speculative” 2002 Diagnostic System Based On Expected Gene Findings

- 6
621

Elimination of Bias, Not Disclosure of Bias, Must be the Standard

- 14
154

It’s NOT all in Your Head

- 37
1652

R.D. Laing & Anti-Psychopathology: The Myth of Mental Illness Redux

- 57
9548

A Caregiver’s Story- And How I Became an Addict

- 21
2613

Teens and Psych Drugs

- 6
330

The Unbearable Heaviness of Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal

- 27
5887

How to Parent a Dead Child

- 23
2993

Twin Studies and the “Nonreplication Curse” in Psychiatric Molecular Genetic Research

- 28
1593

The Shameful Story that Runs and Runs: A Review of The Bitterest Pills

- 21
1516

Talking Over Fences: Why I Am Helping to Organize Community Dialogues on Mental Health

- 31
233

A More Comprehensive Approach to Ethical and Effective Prescribing

- 68
1362

Could Your Doctor Be Mentally Ill or Suicidal?

- 15
876

A Recovery Movement Deterred?

- 9
303

We Are Meant to Heal in a Community

- 14
3896

Top Ten Reasons Alternatives 2013 is the “Cannot-Miss” Event of the Year

- 17
193

Setbacks

- 34
15137

Moving ‘Beyond the Medical Model’: HELP WANTED

, & - 20
976

UN Prohibition of Psychiatric Commitment: Review and Analysis

- 13
1374

5 Reasons To Meditate

- 0
175

My Story and My Fight Against Antidepressants

- 98
64319

Experiencing the Possibility of Change in the Digital Age

- 1
274

Internal Guidance

- 10
684

Emotions: Keys to Our Freedom

- 17
787

Our Backs Are Against the Wall, so There’s no Way to Go But Forward

- 66
305

Dr. Mark and the Village

- 24
918

“Why Wunderink Matters”

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233

Twenty Years Since My Last Suicide Attempt: Reflections

- 16
1536

The Bitterest Pills: The Troubling Story of Antipsychotic Drugs

- 18
6106

Mental Illness, Right & Wrong, Drugs, and Violence

- 13
2075

2013 Conference of the International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry

- 1
224

Psychiatric Profiling as Blood Libel

- 48
1150

Mike Wallace Must Be Spinning In His Grave

- 12
324

Of Course I’m Anti-Psychiatry.Aren’t You?

- 103
2600

Psychiatric Language: Perception, Reality, & Breakfast

- 12
396

ADHD in France and America

- 20
1981

60 Minutes: Stop the Lies!

- 21
556

NARPA Reflections: The Necessity of Disability

- 2
171

A Great Strategy Meeting is a Meeting of Minds

- 9
167

A Time for Heretics

- 25
204

One World, One People, One Struggle

- 9
601

Of FEP’s, DUP’s and BS

- 12
175

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Psychosis: A Valuable Contribution Despite Major Flaws

- 5
481

Amazing Victory for Mental Health Activists: NIMH Director Accepts Ideas Once Seen as Radical

- 10
3510

The United States of the Biomedical Model: Five Anecdotes

- 13
1675

UN: Ensure No One is Detained in Any Kind of Mental Health Facility

- 3
735

David Cohen on Madness Radio: The Meaning of Medications

- 3
368

Are Supplements Simply Creating Expensive Urine?

& - 13
936

Are You Abled or Disabled? How Do You Know?

- 28
452

Want Our Message Nationwide? Join the National Dialogue NOW

- 5
188

Psychiatry & Suicide Prevention: A 30-year Failed Experiment

- 17
941

At War With Ourselves

- 38
968

Human Rights Report on Forced Drugging in the U.S.

- 4
681

Voices, Then & Now

- 4
293

As Lawyers and Bureaucrats Delay, The Body Count Rises

- 5
238

Elephants and Flamingos

- 23
546

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The DSM-5

- 8
266

Reflections on Being a Therapist

- 124
49772

An Intersubjective Approach to Treating Young Children With Autism and Related Challenges

- 1
363

Trauma Informed Care Meets Pharma Informed Care

- 11
395

On Access Intimacy, Mental Health, and Rosebud the Psych Service Goat

- 8
1956

On the Urge to Take My Life, and My Decision to Take It Back...

- 37
4174

Taking “Anti-Psychotics” When You Are Not Psychotic

- 48
29318

Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: How Big Pharma Has Corrupted Health Care

- 37
9092

A Journey Into Madness and Back Again: Part 3

- 7
335

Creating Dialog on Approaches for “Psychosis” in New Jersey

- 10
241

Technology and Suicide

- 6
3394

Forced Psychiatric Treatment (and Protection against it) in Germany in 2013

- 6
1907

Does the Psychiatric Diagnosis Process Qualify as a Degradation Ceremony?

- 71
4260

The Temptation of Certainty: David Foster Wallace, Suicide and Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal

- 21
8055

No New Prozacs: A Dry Pipeline for New Psychiatric Drugs

- 11
382

Help Write a Psychiatric Survivor Manifesto

- 16
438

The Right to Profit vs. The Right to Know

- 11
350

The Brain that Changes Itself: How Breakthroughs in Neuroplasticity Can De-Pathologize Mental Health

- 1
819

5 Tasks if Your Child is Diagnosed With a Mental Illness

- 9
223

Dietary Patterns and Mental Health

& - 3
835

In ‘Peer’ We Trust

- 79
1132

Societies With Little Coercion Have Little Mental Illness

- 37
16721

The Speech

- 10
204

Community Discussions NOW That Actually Want Our Perspective

- 3
181

The Slow Torture of Mary Weiss

- 6
1012

A Journey Into Madness and Back Again: Part 1

- 4
276

Symptom or Experience: Does Language Matter?

- 44
1582

LERNing Through Research, Advocacy, and Experience

& - 9
621

My Mood, My Choice

- 21
432

The Today Show and ECT: The Full Story & Informed Consent

- 26
2203

Guiding Voices, Trauma-Induced Voices

- 28
397

Changing Minds About Voices: Action Over Words

- 116
567

Cured Meat: an Underground Art Take on Mental Healthcare

- 14
386

Understanding Madness as Revolution, Then Working Toward Peace

- 3
184

What Is the Emergency?

- 10
383

Chinese Medicine for Emotional Healing

- 18
808

Is a Little Stigma Better Than None?

- 22
404

Long-Term Antipsychotics: Making Sense of the Evidence in the Light of the Dutch Follow-Up...

- 46
3051

The Power of the Written Word

- 31
299

Is Depression Unhappiness?

- 47
1327

Playing the Odds: Antidepressant ‘Withdrawal’ and the Problem of Informed Consent

- 290
31397

Challenges and Visions for the “Mental Heatlh” System

- 0
133

Badgers Included

- 102
298

Raising Our Voices at TED 2013

- 29
625

I Was Fifteen

- 24
803

PTSD in Withdrawal

- 20
5279

Can Psychiatry “Re-Engage” with Pharma?

- 76
514

A Hand to Hold: Community Mental Health in Times of Crisis

- 60
238

Faith Lost

- 8
3206

On “Schizophrenia”

- 49
320

Why Involuntary Out-Patient Treatment Isn’t Necessary – A First Person Account

- 67
550

Why the Rise of Mental Illness? Pathologizing Normal, Adverse Drug Effects, and a Peculiar...

- 87
29128

Advancing the Use of Safe and Effective ADHD Treatment Options

- 45
794

Providing Sanctuary

- 3
424

My Reply to Pete Earley: Do I Have Blood On My Hands?

- 332
2119

Harm Reduction & the Elephant in the Room: End DSM Dependency

- 9
666

Haloperidol is Neurotoxic

- 198
10878

Dreams: Still the Royal Road to the Unconscious

- 40
3649

Western Psychiatry in Crisis: UK Psychiatry Re-Positions Itself

, & - 32
1106

Many Ears Make Light Listening

- 19
161

Harrow + Wunderink + Open Dialogue = An Evidence-based Mandate for A New Standard...

- 61
6055

What We Talk About When We Talk About Bipolar Disorder

- 105
2136

Opening the Dialogue: Can Families and Survivors Heal Together?

- 54
610

Robert Whitaker’s Lecture at NAMI – A Parent’s Perspective

- 122
909

If I’d Known Then What I Know Now

- 8
271

5 Things You’ve Taught me about Civility, Empathy, and Asking the Hard Questions

- 203
564

NAMI and Robert Whitaker

- 58
1086

Does NIMH Follow the Rules of Science? A Startling Study

- 23
1052

Diagnosis: Without Shoes

- 27
375

A Paradox Revealed – Again

- 54
2577

The Shoes Keep on Dropping… What Next?

- 4
760

Discrimination in Higher Education: Users & Survivors in Academia Speak Out

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1614

Rethinking Mental Health, Part 2: From a Disease-Based Model of Support to One...

- 15
1279

Cheers for Peers

- 31
3108

The Blame Game

- 25
623

Avoiding Stress After Diagnosis

- 10
467

Weighing Treatment Options – What Informs Choices?

- 4
427

Shaken But Unstirred – Can Nutrients Assist With Recovery From Earthquakes?

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458

Rethinking Mental Health, Part 1: From Positivism to a Holistic/Organismic Paradigm

- 25
3419

A Close Look at Andreasen et al.’s Advice to Increase the Dosage of Antipsychotics...

- 86
437

Seclusion & Restraint in Ohio

- 13
238

I Am Also Mad

- 102
431

Remembering a Restraint

- 12
6555

We Name It as Torture

- 15
2329

How I Overcame an Episode of SSRI-Induced Suicidal Depression

- 13
21896

Withdrawing From Psychiatric Drugs: What Psychiatrists Don’t Learn

- 74
10097

Spinning Straw into Gold: When Science Becomes Fiction

- 3
772

Snail’s Pace Race

- 3
281

Reflections on the New Mad in America Withdrawal Directory and the “Mental Health” Vanguard

- 36
482

MIA’s New Directory of Providers For Psych Drug Withdrawal

- 8
399

Conference at Vatican Holds Great Promise: You Can’t Always Get What You Want…

- 11
199

Antipsychotics and Brain Shrinkage: An Update

- 70
24431

The Vatican, Ritalin, and a Canadian Study of Long-term ADHD Outcomes

- 103
3674

Tapering Off Medications When “Symptoms Have Remitted”: Does That Make Sense?

- 2
242

Psychiatry’s Oppression of Young Anarchists — and the Underground Resistance

- 51
4138

What is Mental Illness Today? Five Hard Questions

- 6
1311

Dispatches from a Reluctant Guide on the Path to Disability

- 3
137

We Have a Dream: Getting Engaged to a Doctor

- 60
389

Avatar Therapy: A New Battle for the Tree of Life

- 24
1029

See No Evil, Hear No Evil

- 12
2786

Medication and Spirituality

- 7
2788

Can Psychosis be Treated With Nutrition?

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6405

Talk Therapy Can Cause Harm, Too

- 168
3995

Why the Fuss Over the DSM-5, When Did the DSM Start to Matter, &...

- 7
2617

Critical Psychiatry Network Calls on Institute of Psychiatry to Cancel Charles Nemeroff

- 70
524

Madness and Play: Exploring the Boundary

- 5
746

Failures of the Medical Model

- 29
268

Miscarried Life

- 39
573

Love It, Hate It … Write Your Own Review of the DSM-5 on Amazon

- 7
546

A Soiled Phoenix Rises

- 27
696

Thoughts on the Global and U.S. Movements

- 1
282

Open the Paradigm

- 11
564

Starvation: What Does it Do to the Brain?

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69044

Little Victories on Breezy

- 2
613

Next Steps: More Lessons Learned From the DSM-5 Boycott

- 4
489

My APA protest speech: “Keeping the Channel Open”

- 13
171

Help Create a Real Stigma Reduction Campaign

- 1
299

DSM-5 Statement by the Critical Psychiatry Network

- 74
1118

The Green Shadow Cabinet and a Mental Health Declaration of Independence

- 8
255

Enough with the Questions!

- 27
560

When “Recovery” Feels Like a Trap

- 64
508

Hearing Voices Network Launches Debate on DSM-5 and Psychiatric Diagnoses

- 29
1510

Thoughts on the Meaning of Neuroscience

- 99
367

Occupy APA in San Francisco: Joined in Spirit

- 26
408

Taking down the Giant: A Call for Increased Community Outreach

- 22
329

Difference is Not Disease: Scientific Integrity, Human Diversity, and the Potentially Bleak Future of...

- 173
1920

Purpose is Inherently Divorced From Consensual Reality

- 13
376

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: The Good, The Bad, The Limitations

- 126
14936

Jeopardizing Your Wife to Prove a Point: Pellagra as an Example of Deficit

& - 6
1273

DxSummit Officially Launches

- 5
527

Man Jumps, News at…?

- 86
248

Body Politics

- 43
317

Leaving Marcellas

- 21
190

BBC Interview with Lucy Johnstone from British Psychological Society

- 0
276

Does DSM-5 Matter? Yes; but not for Psychiatrists

- 18
3537

Why I Won’t Buy the DSM-5

- 17
825

UK Clinical Psychologists Call for the Abandonment of Psychiatric Diagnosis and the ‘Disease’ Model

- 77
6683

The Myth of Mental Illness Revisited, NIMH Style

- 12
1166

“Mental Illness”, the DSM-5, and Dreams for a Post-Psychiatry World

- 63
1896

Responding to Attacks on MIA — One Long Night of Zombie Whack-a-Mole

- 30
244

Everything Matters: a Memoir From Before, During and After Psychiatric Drugs

- 52
8899

Spiritual Emergency Round 2: Smashing Warped Philosophies

- 4
280

Using Mindfulness Meditation to Cope with Suicidal Thoughts and Feelings

- 12
11932

Chew on This: FDA Embraces Big Pharma; Takes Aim at Big Gum

- 16
170

Colonization or Postpsychiatry?

- 64
1024

Why Neuroscience Cannot Explain Madness

- 18
1746

CDC Reports ‘Substantial’ Increases in U.S. Suicide Rate for Middle-Aged Americans

- 3
253

Classism in Disguise

- 18
773

Witty A: Report to the President

- 1
207

The Inane Search for Magic Bullets to Treat Mental Illness

& - 7
1485

Recovering Myself

- 6
495

Truth is Like a Lion: The 25th Hearing Voices Conference

- 15
808

So, You Want to Be An Activist?

- 30
393

I Am A Witness… Fifty Years Later

- 66
4922

How Much can a Psychiatrist Charge to Visit With a Dead Research Subject?

- 0
273

Conspiracy Theories Fill a Need

- 19
435

Shield Texans From Psychiatric Force: Oppose Texas House Bill 2212!

- 11
654

The Hearing Voices Movement: Has it Really Been 25 years?

- 8
1385

The “Mental Illness” Paradigm: An “Illness” That is out of Control

- 50
3799

Inbetweenland Reflections

- 0
620

Family Members – Allies or Adversaries?

- 19
474

Brand Fascism

- 2
187

The Culture of Fear and the Lost Art of Organizing for Social Change

- 36
548

The ‘Recovery’ Trap

- 79
1847

Birthing Bliss, Birthing Trauma, and the Role of the Perinatal Patient

- 4
489

Fear, Discrimination and Our Ever-Eroding Civil Rights

- 40
198

Psychology and Neuroscience Are a Misfit

- 6
356

The Unmedicated Life

- 5
1101

Labeling

- 14
212

We Have Seen the Evidence Base, and it is Us

- 6
368

I Talked About Mad in America on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show!

- 0
171

Time for a new Understanding of Suicidal Feelings

- 11
1601

The Empire of Humbug: Not So Bad Pharma

- 0
127

The Words We Use…

- 7
439

Finding the Meaning in Suffering: My Experience with Coming off Psychiatric Drugs (in a...

- 79
6118

Carina Håkansson: Family Care Foundation

- 8
2361

Public Comment to the National Council on Disability on its Engagement with CRPD

- 3
264

Study the Past if You Would Define the Future [Confucius]

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1530

All Sorts of Realities

- 23
162

Could a Different Approach to “Mental Health” Be Part of Solving the Climate Crisis?

- 44
226

Did Electroshock Save my Life?

- 15
1118

Mad Flies and Bad Science

- 19
800

The Empire of Humbug: Bad Pharma

- 0
120

To Honor or to Investigate?

- 5
511

Nutrition and Mental Health

& - 28
1661

Optimal Use of Neuroleptics, Part 3: Duration of Untreated Psychosis

- 38
1090

One Year of Mad In America

- 34
155

Fire In The Belly

- 8
612

Slices of Pies: A Dialogue with Ronald Pies

- 168
322

Too Much Pies

- 67
292

The Tragedy of Lou Lasagna

- 0
450

“That’s Just How It Is”

- 24
676

Living Mindfully with Voices

- 7
583

Winners of the American Dream

- 62
447

Please Defend the Right to Bear Arms

- 77
234

Using Formulation to Change Team Cultures

- 6
1728

False Arguments, Part. 2: Anti-Anti-Stigma

- 70
4127

Making Plans for the Long Flight – Re-visioning Icarus’ Next 10 Years

- 6
174

The U.N. Asks the U.S. to Defend its Use of Forced Psychiatric Drugging

- 12
961

eCPR (Emotional CPR): A Tool & a Process of Peacemaking

- 3
1255

Imperialist Psychiatrists, Psychopathic Corporatists — But I Repeat Myself

- 7
853

On World Autism Day: Why I Am Concerned About the Use of Antidepressants During...

- 25
466

A Recovery Story, in Dollars and Cents

- 8
268

Managing a Movement or Community

- 0
103

Optimal Use of Neuroleptics, Pt. II; The Monkeys Were Not Psychotic

- 45
281

Situational Schizophrenia

- 12
504

Can a Profession Be any More Confused?

- 18
429

After the Statement by the Special Rapporteur on Torture, Taking Stock of Where We...

- 5
730

Not So Bad Pharma

- 2
280

Life, Liberty, & the Pursuit of Happiness? Protesting the Legislation of Systematic Civil...

- 26
1720

The DSM-5 Field Trials: Inter-Rater Reliability Ratings Take a Nose Dive

- 0
8472

Do Antipsychotics Worsen Long-term Schizophrenia Outcomes? Martin Harrow Explores the Question.

- 25
6106

To Medicate Or Not To Medicate: That Is Not The Question

- 8
504

Optimal Use of Neuroleptic Drugs: An Introduction

- 160
418

Death Grip: Then and Now

- 6
781

He Who Pays the Piper

- 18
340

Ask Michael Moore About Psychiatric Drugs and Gun Violence

- 8
1034

The Petition Against DSM-5

- 0
395

The 99th Mile: When Benzo Withdrawal Meets Parenthood

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2743

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About Being Paul Revere

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We Are Now Qualified to do Anything, with Nothing

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My Story of Recovery: Prayer, Community, and Healing

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Preventing Depression: SSRIs for At-Risk Populations?

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Profiles in Creative Maladjustment: AL GALVES

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Diagnosis Dilemma

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We Are The Ones

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Our Collective Stories Have Power

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Prozac and SSRIs: Twenty-fifth Anniversary

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Don’t Go Back to Sleep

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That Naughty Little Pill

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DSM-5 Boycott Launched!

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The SSRIs and Ten Years of Misleading Advertising: Who is Responsible?

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The Antidepressant Era: the Movie

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As We Scapegoat Schizophrenics Today, I Am Reminded of Nazi Germany

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5 Things You Can Do In 5 Minutes to UnDiagnose Emotional Distress

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Krazy Kiwi Kids

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A Breakthrough for Suicide (Attempt) Survivors at the AAS

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The Hearing Voices Movement: In Response to a Father – ‘My Daughter, the Schizophrenic’

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What is Critical Psychiatry?

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NCMHR Does Not Speak for Me

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Youth Violence is a Family Therapy Issue

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Day of Action to Stop Psychiatric Profiling: January 21, 2013

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Psychiatry Is Not the Only Branch of Medicine to Lose Its Soul to Pharma

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Civilians

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How to Get Away with Academic Misconduct at the University of Minnesota

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The Hearing Voices Movement: Beyond Critiquing the Status Quo

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Backsliding in the Bay State

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Re-examining the Biochemical Model after Newtown: The Effects of Stigma and the Need for...

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Defining Recovery

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How You Have Changed Me

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Time to Abolish Psychiatric Diagnosis?

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May Your Psychache be Minimal

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Where Do Messages of Hopelessness in Mental Health Care Come From?

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Media’s Failed Approach to Madness, Parts 1 & 2

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The Children Lead

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I Got a Break from Reality for Christmas!

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I am the Number 60

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Grief, Peace; Not Profiling

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The Head Bone’s Connected to the Body Bone

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Many Small Actions Bring Big Results

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Faith

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The Other Side

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CRPD Defeated in Senate – What Now?

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Do Diagnoses Injure People?

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I Believe Most of us Have a Broken Heart, Not a “Mental Illness”

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We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For

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Big Brother Is Watching: Children and Older Adults, Part I

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How 7 Historic Figures Overcame Depression without Doctors

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Philosopher Raymond Tallis – Challenging Pop Neuroscience

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“But It’s Just the Way Things Are”

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One Solution to Prescription Drug Overdoses: Make Oxycontin and Similar Drugs Safer

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Five Types of Mental Health Advocates

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Were Research Subjects Mistreated in the CATIE Study?

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Creativity and the Myth of the Self: A Way of Having Manic-Depression

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Entrepreneurs as Mental Health Advocates

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“I Was Just Following Orders”: a Seroquel Suicide, a Study Coordinator, and a “Corrective...

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On Deciphering Recovery for the American Psychiatric Association: Lecture on 13 Innovations to Improve...

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There’s No Duct Tape for Benzo Withdrawal

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3 Reasons Why Children Are Drawn to Succeed at Video Games

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“Mental Illness Awareness Week”

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New Research Project to be Funded by the Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health...

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West Virginia’s Prescription Drug Abuse Problem: Intersection of Two Industries?

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Abbott’s Admissions of Criminality: Do They Accomplish Anything?

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More on New York’s Kendra’s Law: Opponents Lining Up for Decisive Battle in 2015

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Fighting for Our Most Basic of Human Rights– The Right to be Human

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Dr. Friedman Criticizes the Overuse of the Atypical Antipsychotics

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Five Things I Learned at the Partnership with Patients Conference

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How Psychologists Meet the Needs of the “Power Structure”: A Talk at the Psychologists...

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2 Reasons Why Time-Outs Do Not Work

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Some Observations of Soteria-Alaska

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Let’s All Support Stephen Sheller’s FDA Petition to Revoke the Pediatric Approval of Risperdal

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Killer Brain Candy: One Woman’s Odyssey Through Benzodiazepine Addiction and Withdrawal or How Chicken...

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Psychosis as a Spiritual Crisis: An Opportunity For Growth

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4 Ways to Propel Success in Challenging Children

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Remembering the 2003 Fast For Freedom: Time for Another?

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Are You Committed to Eliminating Labels and Medications With Emotional Distress?

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Common Sense, Deferred: Lessons From the “Fresh Air” Fight, Part One

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Neuroleptic Drugs: Patient vs. Provider Perspective

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Finland: The Pre-Seminar

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Addiction, Biological Psychiatry and the Disease Model (Part 1)

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Post-Prozac Nation: Did our Drugs Work?

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Things Your Doctor Should Tell You About Antidepressants

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What I Learned From Producing Wellness Solutions 1.0

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What To Do With Advocates Who Refuse To Learn About Drug Downsides

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Icarus Project Celebrates Our 10th Anniversary with Visions of Paradigm Shifts in Mental Health...

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Martin Keller, Principal Investigator of Controversial Paxil Study, Leaves Brown University

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Building Mental Health Exit Ramps: 5 Actions You Can Take in 10 Minutes

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Five Nights in Finland

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The Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs: A Sane Approach to Psychiatric...

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Mad In America Forums and Other Updates

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Psychiatry as a Mixed Blessing

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Anosognosia: How Conjecture Becomes Medical “Fact”

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How You and I Can Take Back Translational Medicine – THIS WEEK!

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The History and Future of Our Psychiatric Survivor Movement

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Please Stop Saying “Medical Model.”

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22 Human Rights Defenders Tell Senate: Ratify Disability Rights Treaty Without Limitations

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Watchdogs or Show Dogs?

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Study 329’s Authors: Should Those Who Live in Glass Houses Throw Stones?

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When Medical Muckraking Fails

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A Chance for Ohio

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A New Understanding of “Psychosis”

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Jonah Lehrer was also Wrong About Antipsychotics

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Brain Disease or Existential Crisis?

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The First Ever USA Olympic Gold Medal in Judo – and a Recovery Story

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My Peer Service Work

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New Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care Project in the Works

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“Aurora: Shrouded in Myths”

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The Hidden Gorilla

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How My Anger Led Me to Forgiveness

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Coming Off Medications Guide – Second Edition – Free Download

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Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Breaking the Silence

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Are the Olympics Harder than Mental Health Recovery?

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Community Dialogues for Recovery and Wellness

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Peer Respite Centers and Medication Free Madness Sanctuaries: Why We Need Them Both Very...

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One Script to Rule Them All

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It’s Not Just the Drugs; Misinformation Used to Push Drugs Can Also Make Mental...

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Free Blog Ideas

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“Unfortunate experiments” in New Zealand and Minnesota

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Chapter Twenty-Seven: Reignition

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Can Its New Board President Turn NAMI Around?

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Billing the Victims of Unethical Medical Research

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A Child on the Shock Ward

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A Collective Human Potential Movement

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Are There Gifts In and From Our Madness That Our Culture Needs to Not...

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The Triumph of Bad Science

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Teenagers on SSRIs

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New York State’s Assisted Out-Patient Treatment Program: Racial Myths & Other Stereotypes

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Entrepreneurship Is The Way Out of Our Mess

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Ghostwriting: Time for a Name Change

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Listening to the Voices of Voice Hearers: World Hearing Voices Congress

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Killed by the Huffington Post, Article Now on the Newsstands in Skeptic

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Chemical Imbalances and Other Black Unicorns

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A Post-Racial Public Mental Health System: If Not Now, When?

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Prayer and Hope, Part II.

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The Psychopathology of American Life

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Personal Responsibility and Advance Directives

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The Biochemical Basis for “Mental Illness” – Finally Solved!

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Bringing Human Rights Home

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The Icarus Project: One Very Good Reason I Sleep Better at Night!

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Holistic Recovery From Schizophrenia: A Mother and Son’s Journey

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Our Emotions – The Sole Creators of Every Word, Voice, Symbolic Image, Bodily Movement...

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Avoidance of Voices Can Be as Problematic as Listening Too Much

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Better Living through Chemistry?

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We did it! Kansas’ Health Insurance Application withdrawn!

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The NY Times: When Stimulants Are Bad

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Are We Not Human Beings with the Rights to be Treated as Human?

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The Place of Medication in a Recovery Oriented System of Care

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US Senator Raises Concerns About Possible Stock Manipulation by Vertex Executives

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Black Hats, White Hats, and Financial Reckonings

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SSRIs in The Atlantic: Forget the Science Bring on the Anecdotes

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How Can We Stop So Great an Injustice?

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149

Nothing About Us Without Us!

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Heaven, Hell, and Psychosis

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Vertex Pharmaceutical Executives Cash in on False Hopes

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3 minutes to Create Medication Optimization for the Whole US

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Dialogical Recovery of our Minds

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Does Anyone Want a Genetically Modified Brain? – Anti-Psychotic Medications May Have Been Causing...

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Do I Have Too Many Questions This Morning?

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What You Can Do TODAY About Managed Care

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“You Can’t Go Home Again: New York’s Medicaid Health Homes”

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Our Recovery Community is One of the Richest in Our Country

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DSM5 Boycott: Growing Some Legs

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Madness Radio: Daniel Hazen On Abolishing Prisons

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How Many Deaths Will It Take Till We Know?

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Boycott DSM5? Why Not?

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Risk Management vs. Dignity of Risk

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Shanghai’d in Recovery

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Whose Recovery Is This?! Helping Families Heal

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The Big Chill: Psychiatric Medications Now Are on Trial For Murder

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Is there Any Value In Psychiatric Diagnosis?

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Is Psychiatry “Salvageable”?

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Mad Pride and Spiritual Community: Thoughts on The Spiritual Gift of Madness

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Start with a Solid Foundation

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My “Head in a Bucket” Metaphor

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Recovery through Learning Creatura, a Language of Life

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On Recovering from Psychiatric Labels and Psychotropic Medications: An ‘Occupy APA’ Manifesto

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The Pond, Learning and Humility

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At the Door of the Sausage Factory

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Are Some Psychiatrists Addicted to Deference?

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Call Me “The Doctor”

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Take a ride on the Mood Elevator

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Pandora’s Box

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10 Reasons Survivors Might Know More Medicine Than Psychiatrists

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National Peer Certification

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Jung’s First Dream, The Mad God Dionysus and a Madness Sanctuary called Diabasis

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It’s Not Going To Get Better Soon

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The Pipeline

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The New York Times Magazine Article on Antidepressants

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Troubling Times

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Hope

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Dialogical Recovery of Life

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The Real Suicide Data from the TADS Study Comes to Light

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60 Minutes, The SSRIs, and The Dirty Little Secret

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Turning a Child’s Intensity to Greatness

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What Do Psychiatrists Say When They Talk to Each Other?

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Responding to Madness With Loving Receptivity: a Practical Guide

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Mental Health Homes Open Their Proverbial Doors in New York: Caveats, Part II

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Dialogical Recovery from Monological Medicine

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Mental Health Homes Open Their Proverbial Doors in New York: A Look into the...

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Unraveling the Biopsychiatric Knot: the Future History of the Radical Mental Health Movement

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The Death of Leslie Carter

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The Role of Inflammation in the Success and Failure of Antidepressants

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Remembering A Medication-Free Madness Sanctuary

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On a Paradox Revealed: Discontinuing Neuroleptics

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Bring in the Peer!

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Madness Radio: Grainne Humphry on the Psychiatric Incarceration of John Hunt in Ireland

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Return to Self an Alternative Medication?

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Letters from the Front Lines

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The Power of Storytelling

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419

The Reality Is In Our Heads

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Should Jilted Lovers Be Treated with Antidepressants?

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Revising the History of the Serotonin Theory of Depression?

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Chapter Twenty-Three: On the Locked Unit, Locked in Myself

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Bipolar Everywhere

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More on Recovery & Liberation: Oppression & Resilience

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Is It All in Your Head?

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The Taint of Eugenics In NIMH-Funded Research Today

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Tsunami of Frozen Grief Found in the Clinical Work

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126

Excellent Article on Antipsychotic Drug Harm Reduction in Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health...

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Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care Projects

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Psychiatry’s Grand Confession

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The Cure for Mood Disorders Is Dementia?

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463

Introducing Myself

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Get Off Prescription Drugs: Arriving at the Work

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275

The Importance of Being Useful

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Letters from the Front Lines

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139

Recovery and Liberation: One and the Same?

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Pilgrim’s Progress: From Young Madman to Old Therapist

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On Creative Maladjustment and Rethinking Psychiatry

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303

Diagnosing Dangers

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Chapter Twenty-Two: To the Hospital on the Hill

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A Visit into the Lithuanian Mental Health System

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Rethinking Brain Research In Psychiatry

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Letters from the Front Lines

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125

A Mother Bear’s Story

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695

Evidence, Bias, and Anecdote

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1036

New Video: Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs: A Harm Reduction Approach

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512

A Counter Narrative for Psychic Diversity

- 1
863

Expect Recovery….

- 3
250

Initiatory Madness

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Introduction: Anatomy of a Psychiatric Practice

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575

The New York Times and all that…

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203

Happy New Year From The Icarus Project!

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907

Chapter Twenty-One: Countdown to Surrender

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Letters From the Front Lines

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143

A Three Pronged Approach to Mental Health System Change

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Answering the Critics: William Glazer, in Behavioral Healthcare Magazine

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Cognitive Therapy Found Effective in Unmedicated Psychotic Patients . . . And Other News

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333

Chapter Twenty: Russian Roulette

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Answering the Critics: Massachusetts General Hospital Grand Rounds

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Chapter Nineteen: Playing the Part

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Answering the Critics: Let’s Roll the Tape (Again)

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402

Answering the Critics: The Carlat Psychiatry Blog

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Chapter Eighteen: Sentenced to Life

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Healing the Body and Mind

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215

A Rorschach Test for Psych Drugs

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Anatomy of an Epidemic Down Under: Psychiatric Drugs and the Astonishing Rise of Disabling...

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September 15, 2011

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Chapter Seventeen: Commencing to Self-Destruct

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Chapter Sixteen: Inside a House of Cards

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August 4, 2011

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In Defense of Psychiatric Medications, Part Two

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Chapter Fifteen: A Haven from Self

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July 12, 2011

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The New York Times’ Defense of Antidepressants

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Chapter Fourteen: Crossing the Threshold

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Now Antidepressant-Induced Chronic Depression Has a Name: Tardive Dysphoria

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June 27, 2011

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Drug Companies ‘Just Say No’ to Psych Drugs

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June 17, 2011

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Chapter Thirteen: In the Muck and The Mire

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Summing Up the NIMH Trials: Evidence of an Effective Paradigm of Care?

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Chapter Twelve: A Gift of Desperation

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After 25 Posts on this Website, Dr. Mark Foster is Terminated by his Employer

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Chapter Eleven: Teetering on the Edge

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Should the Medical Literature Be Cleansed of All STAR*D Articles?

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April 30, 2011

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Anatomy of an Epidemic wins investigative journalism award

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Chapter Ten: A ‘Victim of Circumstance’

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April 11, 2011

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Chapter Nine: Is It Me Or My Meds?

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STAR*D: Adding Fiction to Fiction

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Rethinking Mental Health Care: The Story of the Oregon Symposium and the Foundation that...

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March 29, 2011

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An Introduction: The Story of Bias in the STAR*D Trial and More

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March 15, 2011

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Letters from the Front Lines

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Chapter Eight: “Forget Happiness . . . I’ve Got Control”

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March 4, 2011

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Chapter Seven: Becoming Bipolar, Becoming Empowered

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February 14, 2011

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Andreasen Drops a Bombshell: Antipsychotics Shrink the Brain

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Chapter Six: A Disease of Dis-Ease, and New Hope for a Cure

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January 31, 2011

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Speaking at MGH Grand Rounds, and More

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January 17, 2011

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January 7, 2011

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Antipsychotics and the Scientific Method

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Psychiatric Drugs and Violence: A Review of FDA Data Finds A Link

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December 22, 2010

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December 15, 2010

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Chapter Five: Filling the Void

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December 6, 2010

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Updates on the Epidemic

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Do Psychiatric Drugs Impair Normal Brain Development?

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206

The GlaxoSmithKline Ghostwriting Documents, Part Two

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Chapter Four: Eye of the Storm

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A Ghostwritten Psychiatric Textbook Hints at a Much Larger Problem

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456

November 26, 2010

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Volunteers for Psychotherapy Is A Finalist for International Award

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Chapter Three: At War With A Diagnosis

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November 11, 2010

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November 1, 2010

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November 9, 2010

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Coffee Mugs or the Medical Literature: Why Do Doctors Make the Decisions They Do?

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November 4, 2010

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The Successful Creation of a Societal Delusion . . . and the Increase in...

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Tardive Dyskinesia in the Atypicals Era: Is The Risk Any Less Today Than Before?

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New Rat Study: SSRIs Markedly Deplete Brain Serotonin

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440

October 28, 2010

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October 25, 2010

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Do Antidepressants Worsen the Long-term Course of Depression? Giovanni Fava Pushes the Debate Forward.

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October 21, 2010

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October 17, 2010

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October 14, 2010

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Chapter Two: Opening Pandora’s Box

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October 10, 2010

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SAMHSA, Alternatives, and A Psychiatrist’s Despair over the State of American Science

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SAMHSA, Alternatives, and the Story of an Opportunity Lost

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October 6, 2010

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Keeping Tabs on the Serotonin Theory of Depression

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Chapter One: Journeying Back to Self

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September 25, 2010

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September 21, 2010

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September 18, 2010

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Introducing Our Blog

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September 27, 2010

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And Now For the Rest of the Story

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The STAR*D Scandal: A New Paper Sums It All Up

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Charlie Rose and the Mentally Ill Brain

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News Roundup From June

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”Broken Brains” and “Beautiful Minds”

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333

Medicating Children: A “Whistleblower’s Lawsuit” Raises a Novel Legal Question

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191

Yet Another Disappointment: First Catie, and Now the 12-Month Results from TEOSS

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630

Update on the Star*D Report

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A Schizophrenia Mystery Solved?

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Time Magazine and Anatomy of an Epidemic

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251

Hypotheses, Scientific Evidence, and On Being Compared to an AIDS Denier

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Story-Telling in the Age of Corporate Medicine (or more on being called an AIDS...

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Fact Checking the New Yorker, Part Two

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Fact Checking the New Yorker

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