Art, Poetry, and Humor Galleries
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Anhedonia by M. U.
Are Psychiatrists More Mad Than Their Patients?
Misconceptions among psychiatric leaders are at variance with the scientific evidence. They suffer from a serious, collective delusion.
Death in a Bottle: My 24-Year Battle with Benzodiazepines
I’m not even taking Klonopin because it helps me. I’m taking Klonopin so I don’t go through withdrawal from Klonopin. That’s the trap.
And You Thought They Were Side Effects: How Psychiatry Turned Chemical Disruption Into Medical Treatment
There’s no cure beneath the disruption, just a chemical hit that alters perception or behavior.
The Quiet Crisis in Mental Health: The Medicalization and Deskilling of Psychotherapy
The focus on the "worried well" and the exclusion of the "mad" serves to legitimize psychiatric control and surveillance.
Jo Watson Interviews Cathy Wield, Author of “Unshackled Mind”
It’s never too late to seek another explanation for the problems you’re facing, to change your mind and get your life back.
The Garden of the Mind: Fictions Weeded Out by Psychiatry
Delusions are more than fleeting mental turmoil; they reveal the unconscious mind’s storytelling power.
Rebecca Williams from University of Manchester is seeking participants for research on what potential participants want to know about psychedelic-assisted therapies. If you are interested in taking part, please contact [email protected].
Dr. Morgan Shields of Washington University in St. Louis is conducting research on the experience of people utilizing behavioral health crisis services. They are recruiting people who have direct lived experience as patients/
Please join us on Saturday, May 10 at 10AM PST, 1PM EST, 5PM GMT, 7PM CET, for a private screening of the film Cover Me: The Path to Purpose, followed by a Q&A with Alison Perry Sower, producer and founder of the ranch featured in the film.
- May 10, 2025, 1:00 pm: Private Film Screening & Q&A: Cover Me: The Path to Purpose
- May 21, 2025, 12:00 pm: When Conversation Turns to Suicide, May, 2025
Kermit Cole: Dialogical Therapy and Quantum Theory Walk Into a Bar…
On the podcast this week we are joined by Kermit Cole who shares his thoughts on how humor can help in creating a shared experience that is helpful to the healing process. Kermit, in his experiences of being with people in psychotic states, has seen humor as a moment when a connection can be made. In many ways, this project is bringing Kermit back full circle to his work as a film director, early in his professional career.
Criticisms That Establishment Psychiatry Can and Cannot Tolerate
Criticism that uniquely applies to establishment psychiatry but not to medicine in general threatens its existential legitimacy, and is not tolerated.
Chemically Imbalanced: Joanna Moncrieff on the Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth
Joanna Moncrieff joins Robert Whitaker to talk about her latest book, titled Chemically Imbalanced: The Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth. They discuss the serotonin story and the fact that there is no good evidence that a serotonergic deficiency is a primary cause of depression.
The Fight Against Involuntary Commitment: Are Protection & Advocacy Organizations Fulfilling Their Mission?
Protection and Advocacy organizations were designed as ground-breaking tools for fighting involuntary commitment and protecting patients’ rights. Are they fulfilling their promise? And will they survive Trump?
Interview with German activist Peter Lehmann: “I Lost My Fear and Gained Everything.”
Peter Lehmann is a central figure in the struggle for emancipation and dignity of people with lived experience of psychiatric treatment.
The Failure of “Spit For Science”: No Genetic or Neurological Pathways for Substance Abuse
Despite finding no meaningful correlation between genes and substance use, high-profile geneticists misleadingly conveyed optimistic results.
Beyond 180…some reflection
If it is true that mental health is not psychiatry and that mental disorder is part of a distress that has its origin in a complex of factors, which in a somewhat too simplistic way are defined as bio-psycho-social, then I believe that psychiatry cannot omnipotently take charge of it but that it must find a less reductive interpretation than the currently dominant one.
Murder in Daphni
If the dominant psychiatric paradigm does not radically change, which unfortunately has been embraced by Psychologists, Social Workers, Nurses and other professionals involved in the provision of mental health services (without this meaning that I question their humanity), the tragedy of the way we approach and treat/care for people who experience mental suffering will continue and be reproduced, and even worse, as a non-tragedy.
Are Patients Being Paid to Provide Industry Endorsements?
My study investigates the data available in all three sources and finds that they are incomplete and inconsistent, making any conclusions about patient groups’ conflict-of-interest and funding unreliable.
