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Public Citizen, the FDA, and SSRI Safety
The safe and effective treatment for depression is psychotherapy and social support, not prescription drugs.
Beliefs that Create Madness
We know that it is not simply a chemical imbalance or a broken brain. We know how the context plays a large role.
Antidepressants in Pregnancy—Turning a Blind Eye, Again
You might think that telling women about the potential risks of taking antidepressants during pregnancy would be uncontroversial.
Sober Living: Why Less Clinical Sometimes Means More Recovery
Real independence is where most people stumble. Treatment can’t replicate what it’s like to live sober in the chaos of everyday life.
The Psychological Totalization of Experience: Objectification and Subjectivity
I must be a mechanistic, predictable unit, in order for a psychiatric label or a psychological variable to be implemented on me smoothly.
ECT: New Studies Detail Harms, Lack of Efficacy, Lack of Informed...
What people who have received ECT really think about what they were told, and about how ECT affected them.
Narrative Reclamation: Who’s Allowed to Tell Their Story?
Narratives have the power to lock us up—sometimes literally. But they also have the power to set us free.
Veteran Suicide Prevention Legislation Introduced That Will Save Lives
The bill will require prescribers to obtain written informed consent including the risks of psychiatric drugs.
It’s the Cracked Ones Who Let the Light in
The identified patient is often the healthiest: a lighthouse desperately pointing the way to the wounds and power imbalances in the family.
Treat Systems, Not Symptoms: Defending the Sanity of the Oppressed
Pathologizing distress benefits psychiatry, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies, but dampens responses that could dismantle oppression.
Cochrane Recommends Antidepressants for Anxiety in a Garbage In, Garbage Out...
Cochrane's review of antidepressants for anxiety is misleading and harmful.
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Society’s practice of physically segregating privileged people from those they deem to be “less than” has deep roots beginning with the treatment of madness.
Where Did All the People Go?
The question that this history will try to answer is how Oregonian lives were affected by deinstitutionalization, in three phases.
An Approach to Making Sense of Psychiatric Research
I don’t consider myself a scientist in the usual sense, but I know a lot about what makes scientific findings more valid and useful.
Subpatterns: A Deeper Dive into Attachment Theory
Psychological issues have their roots in childhood and are linked to the attachment patterns we develop early in life.
Grossly Flawed Paper Denies that Antidepressant Withdrawal Effects are “Clinically Meaningful”
Pharma-funded researchers are endangering patient safety by minimising the incidence and severity of withdrawal.
Brain Disorders or Problems with Living? How Research on “Mental Illness”...
Is it time to consider the possibility that the entire field is a failed enterprise, a wrong turn in human history?
Becoming Stewards of Shadow: Beyond Great Men and Myths of Invention
Before the psyche was carved into parts with elegant diagrams and marketed methods, cultures walked with shadow.Â
Mad in Puerto Rico
Since Puerto Rico is, in essence, a colony of the United States, colonialism has a heavy impact on mental health and the healthcare system.
The Cat Is Out of the Bag
I’ve healed; not overnight and not without effort, but today I feel the vitality that I had before my psychiatrization began as a teen.