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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 8: Depression and Mania (Affective Disorders) (Part Four)
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November 16, 2021
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“For Life”: New Opera Tells the Stories of Those Harmed by Psychiatric Drugs
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November 15, 2021
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November 11, 2021
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November 9, 2021
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“Make Psychiatry Healthy”: Analysis of a Leaflet From the Danish Psychiatric Association
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November 4, 2021
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November 2, 2021
21
3924
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November 1, 2021
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October 21, 2021
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October 1, 2021
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September 13, 2021
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July 29, 2021
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July 22, 2021
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June 7, 2021
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June 6, 2021
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Lawrence Kelmenson, MD
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June 3, 2021
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May 31, 2021
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May 25, 2021
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1517
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May 24, 2021
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2055
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2651
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April 26, 2021
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April 24, 2021
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April 13, 2021
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2391
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2746
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April 5, 2021
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April 4, 2021
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Online Exhibition: Art-Making During the Pandemic
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February 20, 2021
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February 18, 2021
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February 5, 2021
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David Heath
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February 1, 2021
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October 12, 2020
61
11076
Four Children
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October 10, 2020
32
2746
We Are the 100%: World Mad Pride, Disability, & Revolution
David W. Oaks
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October 8, 2020
54
6223
How Many Times Must the “PTSD” Label’s Harm Be Exposed?
Paula J. Caplan, PhD
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October 7, 2020
33
5100
How Little We Really Know About Psychiatric Drugs
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
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October 6, 2020
69
6061
The First Studies of Antidepressant Withdrawal
Christopher Lane, PhD
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October 4, 2020
22
8133
How Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy Changed My Life
Tania DeJong
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October 3, 2020
31
5595
You’ve Got to Be Crazy to Go to a Psychiatrist
Lawrence Kelmenson, MD
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October 1, 2020
38
6531
Addiction Treatment: How Many Meds Does It Take to Get Sober?
Dylan Lundgren
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September 29, 2020
34
3596
How Mindful Awareness Can Reduce Suffering
Trishna Patnaik
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September 28, 2020
1
1387
Suicidal Thoughts, Psychiatric Diagnosis, and What Really Helps: Part Two
Paula J. Caplan, PhD
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September 25, 2020
42
3932
Suicidal Thoughts, Psychiatric Diagnosis, and What Really Helps: Part One
Paula J. Caplan, PhD
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September 24, 2020
82
5352
A Conversation with Nev Jones
Sandra Steingard, MD
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September 22, 2020
51
3512
VICE, MIA and The Movement Against Psychiatry
Robert Whitaker
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September 21, 2020
117
8195
Why Is the APA Proposing Sweeping Changes to Training Requirements?
Ben Greenberg, PsyD
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September 20, 2020
14
5245
Malcharist: Fact or Fiction? Big Pharma, Psychiatry’s Key Opinion Leaders and their Ghostwriters
Leemon McHenry
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September 16, 2020
15
2746
The Mirror Repeats: The Art of Phoebe Sparrow Wagner
Larry Taylor
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September 15, 2020
23
2469
Stop Saying This, Part Four: Does Time Heal All Wounds?
Megan Wildhood
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September 9, 2020
11
2886
CAUTION: Spin Ahead! There is No Evidence That Psychostimulants Reduce the Risk for Infection...
Yaakov Ophir, PhD
&
Yaffa Shir-Raz, PhD
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September 8, 2020
24
2957
Hearing Voices: Let the Community Lead
Dmitriy Gutkovich
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September 6, 2020
10
2213
A Positive Change for Mad in America Continuing Education
Robert Nikkel, MSW
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September 3, 2020
2
1023
An Obituary for My Colonizer: Reflections on the Legacy of DJ Jaffe
briana gilmore
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September 2, 2020
38
2899
Can We Allow Suffering?
Karin Jervert
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September 1, 2020
43
4660
UN Special Rapporteur Dainius Pūras: Biomedical Approach “Still Has an Important Role to Play”
Jon Sedarati, MSc
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August 30, 2020
27
2341
Dear “Psychology Today”: Believe Incest Survivors
Anna Holtzman
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August 29, 2020
30
9449
Deep Sleep “Therapy” in Australia in the 1960s & ’70s: Could Something Like This...
Philip Hickey, PhD
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August 27, 2020
67
6770
Inequities in Mental Health Services: It’s Time for a Reckoning and Rectification
Karen Zilberstein
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August 25, 2020
4
2169
SSRI Withdrawal’s Elephant in the Room: Tardive Akathisia
Stuart Shipko
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August 22, 2020
114
16423
Do We All Need Tinfoil Hats? Considering Schizophrenia
Eric Coates
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August 20, 2020
12
4260
An American History of Drugs and Addiction, Part Two: Immigrating to a Temperance Culture
Kevin Gallagher
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August 18, 2020
3
2478
Who Is a Danger to Others: The “Mentally Ill” or the Powerful?
Caroline Colwill
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August 15, 2020
164
3775
Ecotherapy/Nature Therapy/Green Therapy
Trishna Patnaik
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August 11, 2020
8
2044
Behavioural Geneticist Robert Plomin: “There Are No Disorders, There Are Just Quantitative Dimensions”
Jon Sedarati, MSc
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August 9, 2020
53
7191
A Tale of Two Paradigms
Robert Nikkel, MSW
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August 8, 2020
31
3366
Stop Saying This, Part Three: “Everything in Moderation” and More
Megan Wildhood
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August 6, 2020
51
3652
Identity, Oppression, and the Culture of “The Mentally Ill”
Lael Ewy
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August 4, 2020
90
6511
Kicking Over a Straw Woman
Patrick Hahn
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August 2, 2020
52
5151
A Recovery Movement Jedi Master, Bill Anthony, Died Recently
Mark Ragins, MD
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August 1, 2020
10
2877
Drs. Pies and Ruffalo Still Rattling Their Wooden Swords
Philip Hickey, PhD
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July 28, 2020
102
3099
An American History of Addiction: Ardent Spirits
Kevin Gallagher
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July 23, 2020
13
4247
Professional Mental Health Leaders: Experts in Humanity or in Marketing?
Caroline Colwill
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July 19, 2020
71
3097
Whose Finger is Taking the Pulse of America’s Shock Treatment Controversy?
Sarah Price Hancock
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July 16, 2020
49
5791
Stop Saying This, Part Two: “Reframing” and More
Megan Wildhood
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July 12, 2020
47
5031
Is COVID-19 Making Everybody Crazy?
Paula J. Caplan, PhD
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July 10, 2020
29
10619
Racism and Radical Psychiatry
Lucas Richert
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July 8, 2020
146
2852
Suicide & Candy Corn: The Utility and Challenges of Risk Assessments
Sera Davidow
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June 21, 2020
68
4568
Kerry O’Malley: A Personal Struggle Against Forced Medication
Brett Collins
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June 20, 2020
10
4210
Is It Time to Rethink Mental Illness in Light of the Pandemic?
Caroline Colwill
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June 18, 2020
36
3089
Defunding the Police: Replacing Guns With Prescription Pads Is Not the Answer
Noel Hunter, PsyD
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June 17, 2020
46
6584
Does Stranger Mean Danger?
Dan Kriegman, PhD
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June 15, 2020
15
2077
Stop Saying This: Phrases That Sound Helpful, But Are Actually Gaslighting, Part 1
Megan Wildhood
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June 14, 2020
37
17139
Black Suicidality and Mental Health #BlackLivesMatter
Samantha Lilly
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June 12, 2020
4
2173
End Police “Wellness Checks.” Now.
Will Hall
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June 11, 2020
63
20172
We Must Not Be Silent On George Floyd & Systemic Racism.
Sera Davidow
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June 9, 2020
257
4173
Withdrawing Kids from Psych Drugs: Why, How, and When
Nicole Beurkens, PhD, CNS
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June 8, 2020
12
2971
Recovery: Stressing the Social Basis of the Process
Alain Topor
,
Inger Beate Larsen
&
Tore Dag Bøe
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June 6, 2020
28
4414
Canadian Mental Health Legislation and the CRPD
Irit Shimrat
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June 5, 2020
44
3249
Supporting Children and Parents to Withdraw from Psychiatric Medication
Nicole Beurkens, PhD, CNS
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June 4, 2020
13
2798
“We Are All Mad!” A Call for the Development of an International Network Among...
Marcello Maviglia
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June 1, 2020
83
2414
Jinxed: The Persecution of Evan Durst Kreeger
Jim Gottstein, JD
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May 31, 2020
97
14128
Three Recent Genetics Books and Twin Studies’ Indefensible “Equal Environment Assumption”
Jay Joseph, PsyD
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May 29, 2020
19
4981
12 Essential Facts About Psychiatry
Jon Sedarati, MSc
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May 28, 2020
81
14586
Four Decades of Allying to Make Safe Spaces for All Voices: The Hearing Voices...
Kermit Cole
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May 27, 2020
5
1253
Should You Ever Ask Someone “Are You Suicidal?”
Sera Davidow
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May 26, 2020
78
9719
Electric Shock Update: Allegations of Regulatory Misconduct Filed with the FDA
Lauren Tenney, PhD, MPhil, MPA, Psychiatric Survivor
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May 24, 2020
33
3573
Should We Diagnose Donald Trump?
Dan Kriegman, PhD
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May 23, 2020
53
2512
Does Pharma Need the Entrepreneur?
Stephen Farghali
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May 21, 2020
17
1606
Beyond the Buzzwords: What Does Trauma-Informed Care Truly Mean?
Rachel Levy, LCSW
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May 20, 2020
33
7861
What COVID-19 Has to Teach Us About Psychiatric Oppression
Sera Davidow
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May 19, 2020
167
4356
DSM Led Us Far Astray. Life Story Is the Path to Truth.
Eric Kuelker, PhD, RPsych
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May 18, 2020
86
5279
When Telling A Psychiatrist You Are Not Mentally Ill Is Grounds for Commitment
Gail Tasch
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May 17, 2020
31
7065
Loneliness Is Deadlier Than COVID
Megan Wildhood
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May 13, 2020
44
5839
Why Compassionate Activism?
Mitzy Sky
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May 12, 2020
7
2702
Dialogue Is Just What the Doctor Ordered: Town Halls in a Time of Crisis
Kermit Cole
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May 11, 2020
14
961
Re-establishing My Credentials: Psychiatric Survivor Activists Are Needed Now!
David W. Oaks
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May 10, 2020
97
3134
The President’s Fitness: Can Professionals Help Decide?
Paula J. Caplan, PhD
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May 8, 2020
160
3081
“Be Kind to Yourself… For Us!”
Hugh Polk, MD
&
Ann Green, PMHNP
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May 7, 2020
15
1132
Induction to Virus Psychosis
Maria Quarato
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May 7, 2020
9
1219
Mental Health Is Our Common Wealth
Kermit Cole
&
Justin Karter
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May 4, 2020
20
1421
Jordan B. Peterson’s Support of Corporal Punishment for Children: A Critique
Jon Sedarati, MSc
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May 4, 2020
62
24116
The Launch of Mad in Sweden Culture Section
May 3, 2020
Recovery – From Personal Reform to Social Change
May 3, 2020
Injuries in the Children of Parents Living With Mental Illness
May 3, 2020
“Depression Among the Elderly Must be Prioritized”
May 3, 2020
Mad in America and Activism
Ron Bassman, PhD
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May 1, 2020
65
2409
Window of Opportunity: Reflections on “Dialogue in a Time of Crisis”
Kermit Cole
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April 30, 2020
1
1025
Allen Frances: Still Spinning the Story
Philip Hickey, PhD
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April 24, 2020
112
5719
Is Your Brain Adequately Nourished to Cope With COVID-19 Stress?
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
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April 22, 2020
22
3030
Too Good to Be True: How TMS Damaged My Brain
James Hall
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April 21, 2020
440
204228
There’s Something Spreading Faster Than COVID-19, and It’s Not Fear. It’s Toxic Positivity
Megan Wildhood
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April 20, 2020
49
16338
Lockdown Reading to End DSM Psychiatry?
Magdalene D'Silva, BA/LLB, LLM, MA
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April 17, 2020
77
6870
Just Like Viruses, Emotions are Contagious
Enrico Gnaulati, PhD
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April 16, 2020
19
1836
Missing a Pivotal Outcome in a Large Cold Turkey Trial of Desvenlafaxine
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
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April 16, 2020
6
1381
Exploring Dialogical Responses in a Time of Crisis: Are We Living in the...
Kermit Cole
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April 14, 2020
37
4292
A Bridge Over Troubled Water: What’s This About Being a Hopeless Reformer?
Robert Nikkel, MSW
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April 12, 2020
103
2412
Exploring How Muslim Therapists Work With Jinn Possession
Kawthar Alli
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April 11, 2020
18
8326
Blurring the Line Between “Us” and “Them”
Diana Spore
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April 10, 2020
29
1655
What Do Psychiatrists Treat if Not the Soul (i.e., the Psyche)?
Fr. John
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April 9, 2020
42
3563
We Are All in This Together
Lucy Johnstone, PsyD
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April 7, 2020
162
5022
A Peek Inside the Modern Asylum
Ekaterina Netchitailova, PhD
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April 5, 2020
29
11274
Social Determinants of Health and the Continued Individualization of Suffering
Kevin Gallagher
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April 4, 2020
20
3715
Supreme Court Decides Case on Insanity Defense
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
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April 3, 2020
7
1896
Making a Mad Community, from Attic to Attic: Part Two
Jessica M
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March 31, 2020
0
123
Making a Mad Community, from Attic to Attic: Part One
Jessica M
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March 31, 2020
0
114
US Considering Policies That Will Lead to Mass Death Of Psychiatric Patients
Will Hall
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March 29, 2020
51
3025
The Persistent, Misdirected Search for Causes of Trauma-based Suffering
Paula J. Caplan, PhD
-
March 27, 2020
45
4198
Joint Statement on COVID-19 and Persons with Psychosocial Disabilities
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
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March 26, 2020
75
4424
The Perils of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising
Katherine Werner Blasi
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March 25, 2020
8
1690
Mad in Brasil TV
March 22, 2020
Tending Hearts and Minds: Changing the Mental Health Paradigm in Our Schools
Rev. Dr. Steven Epperson
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March 19, 2020
11
1955
Psychiatry and the Stupidification of America
Lawrence Kelmenson, MD
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March 18, 2020
53
6076
From FACT to POD: How a FACT Team Integrated Open Dialogue
Marion DeBoer
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March 16, 2020
13
1376
National Boards of Health Are Unresponsive to Children Driven to Suicide by Depression Pills
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
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March 15, 2020
29
3931
The Psychiatric Narrative & The Boston Globe: Violence, Force, & Derogatory Labels
Vesper Moore
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March 14, 2020
50
2626
A Book Review of “Acceptance: The Defining Voice of Validation”
Paula J. Caplan, PhD
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March 13, 2020
7
2673
Please Stop Saying Depression Is Like Diabetes
Megan Wildhood
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March 12, 2020
47
5131
How Radical Women Changed Psychiatry in the 1970s
Lucas Richert
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March 9, 2020
19
4555
6 Ways Trauma Might Inform Your Current Life
Noel Hunter, PsyD
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March 8, 2020
29
6489
UN Report: Involuntary Psychiatric Interventions “May Well Amount to Torture”
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
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March 5, 2020
117
11837
Psychiatry Needs a New Metaphor
Scott Hall
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March 4, 2020
34
3507
The Most Dangerous Thing You Will Ever Do
Peter Breggin, MD
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March 2, 2020
76
24914
What Can We Learn From the Asylum?
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
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February 29, 2020
79
2745
Why Did I Stay?
February 29, 2020
Rethinking “Delusions”: Envisioning a Humanistic Approach to Troublesome Beliefs
Ron Unger, LCSW
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February 27, 2020
24
3762
What Does the Therapist Know? And Why Does It Matter?
Ann Green, PMHNP
&
Hugh Polk, MD
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February 25, 2020
14
2706
Working With the Four Dialogues: Using Chairwork in Clinical Practice
Scott Kellogg, PhD
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February 22, 2020
10
4196
Observations From an Open Circle
Milan Röhricht
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February 20, 2020
29
1339
Our Movement Has a Cover-up Problem Too
Will Hall
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February 18, 2020
81
3398
Turning the Corner: How Are We Educating Psychiatrists in Medical Schools?
Robert Nikkel, MSW
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February 17, 2020
29
1654
Exploding the “Separated-at-Birth” Twin Study Myth
Jay Joseph, PsyD
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February 16, 2020
5
7903
“Sublime Madness”: Anarchists, Psychiatric Survivors, Emma Goldman & Harriet Tubman
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
February 15, 2020
32
3063
Why Must People Pathologize Eating Problems?
Paula J. Caplan, PhD
&
Jo Watson
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February 15, 2020
38
5111
Spiritual Emergency: Crisis or Transformation?
Julia Sellers
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February 14, 2020
11
7112
The Chemical Imbalance Theory of Depression: Where Is It Going?
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
February 13, 2020
56
8487
The Review on Antidepressant Withdrawal That Cochrane Won’t Publish
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
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February 11, 2020
33
10276
A Kirist Response to Psychiatry
Eric Maisel, PhD
-
February 7, 2020
29
3998
NY Times to Bonnie Burstow: May You Not Rest in Peace
Robert Whitaker
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February 5, 2020
123
7331
Psychiatry, Capitalism, and the Recuperation of Psychedelics
Mia Khan
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February 4, 2020
31
6064
Big Pharma Meets Big Diagnosis, Big Courts, and Big Psychiatric Hospitals
Paula J. Caplan, PhD
-
January 31, 2020
92
8648
Reimagining Healthcare
Audrey Stillerman, MD
-
January 30, 2020
23
3414
Where Are the Results of These Five Clinical Trials of Antidepressant Drugs?
Till Bruckner, PhD
-
January 28, 2020
11
4528
Ready, Fire, Aim: Mainstream Psychiatry Reacts to the UN Special Rapporteur
Niall McLaren
-
January 26, 2020
41
5672
How President Trump and Dr. Drew Got It Wrong on Deinstitutionalization
Michael Simonson
&
Leah Harris
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January 24, 2020
37
5145
MIACE 2020: New Approaches to Working With People Who Are Suicidal
Robert Nikkel, MSW
-
January 21, 2020
26
3163
Stalked by Stress, Abandoned to Predation: The Appeal of Suicide in a Modern World
Sarah Knutson
-
January 16, 2020
59
5417
Making Peer Counseling Radically Accessible
Tim Desmond, LMFT
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January 14, 2020
33
4528
The Day I Became Schizophrenic
Eric Coates
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January 12, 2020
62
6066
Power Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry
Sera Davidow
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January 11, 2020
74
4673
The Real Myth of the Schizophrenogenic Mother
Patrick Hahn
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January 10, 2020
53
15457
Remembering Bonnie Burstow
Don Weitz
-
January 9, 2020
32
8006
No, Dr. Friedman: The Solution to Teen Suicide is Not So Simple
Jacob Hess, PhD
-
January 8, 2020
24
3962
Surviving Psychiatry: A Typical Case of Serious Psychiatric Drug Harms
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
-
January 7, 2020
22
8472
Real Doctors Are Peddling Fake Diseases: Here’s How to Spot Them
Lawrence Kelmenson, MD
-
January 4, 2020
68
5851
Overcoming the Madness in Us All
Peter Breggin, MD
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January 3, 2020
36
8813
Cast Aside No One
Melissa Toni
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January 2, 2020
97
2299
The Invisibles: Children in Foster Care
Paula J. Caplan, PhD
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December 30, 2019
18
4440
Zel Dolinsky: I Have a Right to “Death With Dignity”
Robert Whitaker
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December 28, 2019
97
8658
Merry, Beautiful, Unique: YOU
Ekaterina Netchitailova, PhD
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December 25, 2019
15
1429
Anatomy of a Suicide: Stress and the Human Condition
Sarah Knutson
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December 24, 2019
21
43209
Medical Ghostwriting: When an “Author” Is Not Necessarily an “Author”
Jonathan Leo, PhD
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December 21, 2019
4
4371
The House of Cards with Informed Consent Standards
Robert Nikkel, MSW
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December 20, 2019
19
2100
Twin Studies and Ken Burns’ Upcoming Documentary on “The Gene: An Intimate History”
Jay Joseph, PsyD
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December 19, 2019
25
5796
Are Regulatory Bodies Prioritising Drug Company Interests Over Public Safety?
John Read
-
December 17, 2019
31
2505
Is Australia’s Psychiatric System Redeemable?
Niall McLaren
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December 15, 2019
48
5548
The Field of Mental Health Has Gone Astray, But We Can Fix It
Birgit Valla
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December 13, 2019
45
4112
Dr. Huda Has Written His Book: ‘The Medical Model in Mental Health’
Philip Hickey, PhD
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December 11, 2019
64
5691
What Does ‘Relapse’ Mean? Definitions Used in Antipsychotic Trials Are Unclear
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
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December 10, 2019
15
2007
The Matrix: Disentangling Anti-Psychiatry
T.N. Tampiyappa, FRANZCP
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December 7, 2019
120
8645
In Memory of Julie Greene
MIA Editors
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December 6, 2019
62
6251
A Tribute to Stephen Gilbert, Warrior Behind Enemy Lines
MIA Editors
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December 3, 2019
32
2041
Lighting a Spark to Heal Trauma: An Interview with Jesse Zook Mann
Chaya Grossberg
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December 1, 2019
21
3741
The Darker the Night, the Brighter the Light: Five Lessons Learned This Month
Lauren Spiro
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November 28, 2019
11
3933
Seven Strategies to Avoid Retraumatization While Working with Psychosis
Tim Dreby, MFT
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November 26, 2019
18
3177
MIA at Eight Years: Are We Fulfilling Our Mission?
Robert Whitaker
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November 22, 2019
69
4905
Anthropologists Contemplate the Future Role of Psychiatry
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
November 19, 2019
19
3624
Hearing Voices Network Launches Family & Friends Support Group
David Adams
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November 16, 2019
4
4373
High Time for Anarchism in Mental Health
Itay Kander
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November 14, 2019
57
6731
Deep Brain Stimulation and Deeply Biased Researchers, Revisited
Andrew Scull, PhD
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November 13, 2019
19
3211
“We Need a New Paradigm” — Rethinking Psychiatry’s Hospitalization Survey
Rachel Levy, LCSW
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November 9, 2019
8
2091
Capitalism Makes Solutions Impossible: A Review of ‘Rebel Minds’
Megan Wildhood
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November 8, 2019
20
3510
The Revolt Against Psychiatry: A Book Review
Susan Rosenthal
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November 6, 2019
44
3906
Got a Gene for That? The Latest from the Chronicles of Gene Worshiping
Noel Hunter, PsyD
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November 5, 2019
21
2604
Holistic Approaches: A Proven Treatment for Psychotropic Drug Withdrawal
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
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November 2, 2019
5
13263
Responding to Workplace Mistreatment and Bullying
Will Hall
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October 31, 2019
23
2287
From Moses to Jesus to Prozac: A Theory on “Chemical Imbalances” and Faith
Lawrence Kelmenson, MD
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October 30, 2019
58
6145
Power Threat Meaning Framework and Tapering Strips in Brasil
October 28, 2019
In Defense of Healthy Pride
Enrico Gnaulati, PhD
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October 27, 2019
21
2756
Berlin Manifesto for Humane Psychiatry Released
Jann Schlimme
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October 24, 2019
43
4086
There Is No Such Thing as a Side Effect
Eric Coates
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October 23, 2019
28
5112
Building a Culture of Mental Well-Being
Aryan Aggarwal
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October 20, 2019
1
5447
When Mad Voices Are Locked Out of Academia
Chris Maylea, MHSMP, JD, DSW
&
Indigo Daya, DipMgt, BBus(Comn), psychiatric survivor
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October 19, 2019
124
8621
Hereditary Madness? The Genain Sisters’ Tragic Story
Patrick Hahn
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October 17, 2019
14
27887
Peer Specialists in the Mental Health Workforce: A Critical Reassessment
Darby Penney
&
Peter Stastny, MD
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October 16, 2019
74
11166
The Sisyphus Cycle: How Everyday Stress Leads to Suicide
Sarah Knutson
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October 12, 2019
29
9406
Dog Assisted Psychotherapy Most Effective With Children
October 12, 2019
Deep Brain Stimulation and Depression
Andrew Scull, PhD
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October 10, 2019
27
3462
UN Expert Calls for Major Shift in Suicide Prevention Efforts on World Mental Health...
MIA Editors
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October 10, 2019
6
4104
Fighting Unjustified Commitment in Wisconsin: Leslie’s Story
Gail Tasch
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October 9, 2019
40
4306
Countervailing Forces Against Ritalin Use in France
Marilyn Wedge, PhD
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October 6, 2019
5
2726
Forced-Treatment Advocacy Group Cherry-Picks Data to Support Agenda (Again)
Michael Simonson
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September 30, 2019
28
2487
A Doctor Cures His Bipolar Diagnosis Without Psychiatry: Review of ‘I’
Magdalene D'Silva, BA/LLB, LLM, MA
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September 29, 2019
58
12859
Marci Webber Granted a Conditional Discharge
Robert Whitaker
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September 25, 2019
104
6804
The Problems with the DSM Mask a Dark Reality We’re All Complicit In
James Barnes, MSc, MA
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September 21, 2019
38
5550
10 Reasons Why Psychiatry Lives On—Obvious, Dark, and Darkest
Bruce Levine, PhD
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September 17, 2019
138
14542
Is Remaking Psychiatric Care Possible?
Robert Whitaker
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September 14, 2019
255
7740
Lingering Side Effects of Quitting Antidepressants
Jane Tholen
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September 13, 2019
16
19318
Trump and Cuomo: Red Flags Are Red Herrings
Lauren Tenney, PhD, MPhil, MPA, Psychiatric Survivor
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September 11, 2019
29
2899
How Psychological Injuries Cause Physical Illness—And How Therapy Can Heal It
Eric Kuelker, PhD, RPsych
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September 10, 2019
56
41374
William James’s Letter to His Depressed Daughter
Jeffrey Rubin, PhD
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September 5, 2019
12
6963
Pies’ Polemic and the Question of Theories in Psychiatry, Again
Niall McLaren
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September 4, 2019
53
5018
A ‘Blueprint’ for Genetic Determinism
Jay Joseph, PsyD
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September 3, 2019
22
9705
How Healthcare Foundations Destroy Grassroots Advocates
Corinna West
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September 1, 2019
11
1969
System Change Webinars: Promoting Radical Change
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August 29, 2019
36
960
Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal in Spain
Francisco Jose Sans Lacussan
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August 27, 2019
31
9721
The Problem Lies in the Term ‘Mental Illness’
Ekaterina Netchitailova, PhD
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August 25, 2019
208
6033
Poverty: The Newest Medically Treatable Brain Disease
Lawrence Kelmenson, MD
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August 23, 2019
79
5488
Monarch eTNS Inspires “Stop the Psychiatric Abuse of Children!” (SPAC!)
Peter Breggin, MD
&
Michael Cornwall, PhD
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August 20, 2019
24
6161
Creating Our Mental Health
Ann Green, PMHNP
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Hugh Polk, MD
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August 18, 2019
9
2234
The Mystic of Ireland: An Homage to Ivor Browne
Tomás Hardiman
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August 17, 2019
12
6239
Collaborative Strategies for Re-Visioning the Public Mental Health System
Sascha Altman DuBrul
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August 16, 2019
51
3667
In Defense of Anger
Megan Wildhood
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August 15, 2019
42
5195
No Graphic Detail: The Injustice of Being Silenced
Sera Davidow
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August 12, 2019
60
3172
We Must Hear Marianne Williamson’s Message About the Overuse of Antidepressants
Kenneth F. McCallion
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August 11, 2019
20
3243
Brave New Apps: The Arrival of Surveillance Psychiatry
Jonah Bossewitch, PhD
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August 9, 2019
20
3429
Blaming the “Mentally Ill”: This is Hate Speech
Robert Whitaker
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August 8, 2019
238
7456
Antidepressants and the National Suicide Epidemic
Patrick Hahn
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August 6, 2019
33
4760
How “Safe Messaging” Gaslights Suicidal People
Jess Stohlmann-Rainey
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August 4, 2019
25
10789
Helping People Come Off Medication—Bad for Business?
Peter Groot, PhD
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August 1, 2019
26
2964
Psychiatric Eugenics Then and Now—You Betcha It’s Still Happening
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
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July 31, 2019
119
13472
Rock Bottom: When You Are in Your Darkest Moment
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
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July 30, 2019
12
3798
We’ve Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health
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July 28, 2019
10
4057
An “Even-Handed” History of Psychiatry as Damning as the “Polemics”?
Sandra Steingard, MD
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July 27, 2019
13
2887
We Lost a Giant Today: A Tribute to Janet Foner
Lauren Spiro
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David W. Oaks
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July 25, 2019
10
4335
Responding to “The Case Against AOT”—Next Steps for Change
Robert Nikkel, MSW
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July 24, 2019
31
1729
The Chemical Imbalance Theory: Dr. Pies Returns, Again
Philip Hickey, PhD
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July 22, 2019
81
6604
U.S. Politicians Now “Trauma Informed”—Should We Be Hopeful?
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
July 20, 2019
15
2066
An Open Letter to Howard Stern, the “Poster Boy for Psychotherapy”
Enrico Gnaulati, PhD
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July 19, 2019
11
3404
End Kendra’s Law Now: Racist, Classist Practices in Involuntary Psychiatry Persist
Lauren Tenney, PhD, MPhil, MPA, Psychiatric Survivor
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July 17, 2019
9
4506
Talking About Psych Diagnoses and Drugs: A Primer for Parents & Professionals
Paula J. Caplan, PhD
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July 13, 2019
14
3381
System Change Toward a Green Movement in Mental Health
Robert Nikkel, MSW
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July 12, 2019
12
1273
Equal Legal Capacity or ‘Supported Decision-Making’?
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
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July 10, 2019
38
2081
On Cognitive Liberty: A Principle to Rally Behind
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
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July 7, 2019
192
5086
Being-Towards-Suicide
Milan Röhricht
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July 7, 2019
57
2785
Why Mad in Italy?
Marcello Maviglia
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July 6, 2019
51
2350
Inside an Online Charter School: Labeling Kids “Disabled” for Profit
Julie Greene, MFA
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July 2, 2019
47
2740
A Guide to Long-Acting Neuroleptics: Education or Promotion?
Sandra Steingard, MD
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June 28, 2019
61
3347
The Pill Shaming Phenomenon: What’s It Really About?
Sera Davidow
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Caroline Mazel-Carlton
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June 26, 2019
182
12290
The Voices My Daughter Hears
Tricia Stafford
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June 25, 2019
33
3773
Madness, Sexuality and Legacies of Strategic Sanism
Sarah Carr, PhD
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June 23, 2019
22
3974
Introducing Voices for Choices
Jim Flannery
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June 22, 2019
12
1522
“Three Identical Strangers” and the Nature-Nurture Debate
Jay Joseph, PsyD
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June 21, 2019
14
26811
To Warn or Not to Warn? A Critique of MIA’s Use of Diagnostic Terminology
Paula J. Caplan, PhD
-
June 18, 2019
211
6690
Tom Paine, Christianity, and Modern Psychiatry
Bruce Levine, PhD
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June 14, 2019
36
2625
ECT Litigation Update: Are Patients Being Warned of Brain Damage Risk?
David Karen, Esq.
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June 13, 2019
12
4745
Two Years Tapering an Antidepressant – A Life-Changing Experience That I Didn’t Want
James Moore
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June 12, 2019
39
6335
The Three Types of Psychiatric Drugs – A Doctor’s Guide for Consumers
Lawrence Kelmenson, MD
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June 9, 2019
122
6357
A Smashing Victory — And an Insidious New Threat
Peter Breggin, MD
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June 9, 2019
24
6320
When ‘For Your Own Good’ Actually Means ‘For My Own Good’
Sera Davidow
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June 4, 2019
71
9084
Public Purse a Cash Cow for Pharma: Could Taxpayer Dollars Be Better Spent?
Robert Nikkel, MSW
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June 1, 2019
49
1410
Tough Love for Thomas Szasz: A Book Review
Michael Fontaine, PhD
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May 31, 2019
111
3985
I’m Introverted, Not Depressed!
Enrico Gnaulati, PhD
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May 29, 2019
23
4384
Blaming the System May Be the Best Therapy
Megan Wildhood
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May 25, 2019
47
5329
Helping Children to Overcome OCD: 6 Creative Strategies for Parents
Ben Furman, MD
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May 22, 2019
35
22143
FDA Approves Using Electricity All Night Long on Children’s Brains
Michael Cornwall, PhD
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May 21, 2019
57
7027
Are Antidepressants Enabling the Population to Tolerate the Intolerable?
Melody Ullah
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May 18, 2019
27
5727
My Son and the “Mental Health” System
Alan Moster
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May 17, 2019
60
5799
Recovery Versus Mad Pride: Exploring the Contradictions
Ron Unger, LCSW
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May 14, 2019
130
6287
Stop Shocking and Torturing Women – My Sisters
Don Weitz
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May 12, 2019
28
2962
Reflections on 25,000 Hours of Being With People in Extreme States
Michael Cornwall, PhD
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May 11, 2019
69
6449
Thought About Killing Yourself Lately? It’s Not All In Your Head
Eric Greene
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May 10, 2019
48
5344
On Human Nature and Its Implications for the Mind-Body Problem
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
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May 9, 2019
15
2739
Forced Drugging with Antipsychotics is Against the Law: Decision in Norway
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
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May 4, 2019
19
9238
Lou Reed: That Which Does Not Kill Us Can Radicalize Us
Bruce Levine, PhD
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May 3, 2019
55
6548
A Deeper Dive into System Change in the Mental Health Paradigm
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May 3, 2019
37
4017
Lithium: A Survivor’s Guide for Parents
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May 1, 2019
55
6082
Remembering Deron Drumm: The Vision and the Hope for Healing and Connection
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April 28, 2019
7
2613
25 Lenses Through Which to View How Life is Experienced
Eric Maisel, PhD
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April 27, 2019
30
4491
On Whose Authority?
Ann Green, PMHNP
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Hugh Polk, MD
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April 27, 2019
26
2466
In Defense of Anti-Psychiatry
Philip Hickey, PhD
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April 25, 2019
281
16165
Helping People to Constructively Engage with Voices
Ron Unger, LCSW
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April 24, 2019
41
5895
“Dad, You Were Right”: I Got Better When I Stopped Treatment
Julie Greene, MFA
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April 23, 2019
123
5668
Media Errors in Covering “Mental Health” – Advice to Fellow Writers and Editors
Sandy Allen
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April 21, 2019
14
4527
Update on Marci Webber: Will the Nightmare Ever End?
Cindy Perlin
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April 20, 2019
47
4744
The Lonely Wave: On the Failure of Group Therapy
Cody B.
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April 19, 2019
54
7650
The New Yorker Peers into the Psychiatric Abyss… And Loses Its Nerve
Robert Whitaker
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April 18, 2019
415
15618
Struggling Parents, Burdened Social Services: What We Can Change
Karen Zilberstein
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April 16, 2019
23
1903
The Science and Pseudoscience of Women’s Mental Health: Conversation with Kelly Brogan
Sharna Olfman, PhD
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April 13, 2019
5
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ECT Explained by a CET (Certified Engineering Technologist)
Fr. John
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April 11, 2019
32
5494
Why “Middle-Grounders” May Be as Dangerous as APA Presidents
Bruce Levine, PhD
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April 9, 2019
231
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The Hints That Psychotherapy Clients Drop
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April 7, 2019
5
2118
The Therapeutic Role of Blame
Megan Wildhood
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April 6, 2019
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“I Love My Diagnosis”: The Benefits of Mental Illness
Fred Moss, MD
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April 4, 2019
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6489
Lasting Damage from Prescribed Drugs
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
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April 1, 2019
77
14703
A Faux Test for a Faux Disease Promoted by Real Psychiatrists
Noel Hunter, PsyD
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March 30, 2019
33
6205
“Breakthrough” Treatment for Postpartum Depression: Game Changer or Misguided Magic Bullet?
Kim Witczak
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March 28, 2019
37
3280
Introducing Multi-Lens Therapy
Eric Maisel, PhD
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March 26, 2019
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I Believe There’s a Gene for Psychosis… And We All Have It!
Lawrence Kelmenson, MD
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March 24, 2019
46
2455
Postpartum Depression: Is Brexanolone the Answer?
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
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March 24, 2019
9
4339
Right-Wing Psychiatry, Love-Me Liberals and the Anti-Authoritarian Left
Bruce Levine, PhD
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March 22, 2019
60
5713
“Page Not Found” Ends Up “Telling All” About Psychiatry
Peter Breggin, MD
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March 20, 2019
58
6929
Recovery Porn: Tell Me Your Story, I’ll Tell You Your Value
Sera Davidow
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March 17, 2019
102
8659
Together for Sustainable Change: The Launch of Mad in Sweden
Lasse Mattila
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March 16, 2019
9
3373
Real, Not Sham, Mental Health Coverage
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March 16, 2019
22
2345
Saving Psychotherapy
Eric Maisel, PhD
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March 15, 2019
23
2533
I Get to Decide What’s Helpful for Me
Megan Wildhood
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March 13, 2019
9
3521
Kick Big Pharma Out of the Classroom
Jo Ann Cook
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March 7, 2019
35
5214
Will the European Elections Be a Chance for Mental Health?
Ophélie Martin
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March 6, 2019
40
2072
“Let’s Not Go Overboard About ECT”
Peter Breggin, MD
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March 3, 2019
99
5746
How “Mental Health Awareness” Exploits Schoolchildren
Jo Ann Cook
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March 1, 2019
55
7452
Why Many Doctors Are Authoritarians – and Harmful
Bruce Levine, PhD
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February 28, 2019
82
9893
Why Are So Many Americans Seeking Medication for Distress?
Lawrence Kelmenson, MD
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February 27, 2019
151
4071
Psychiatric Medications: Who Decides?
Ann Green, PMHNP
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Hugh Polk, MD
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February 24, 2019
26
3339
I Don’t Believe in Autism
Anders Lee
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February 24, 2019
50
40634
Psychiatry, Society and Stigma: Placing the Blame Where It Belongs
Lee Coleman, MD
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February 23, 2019
204
6990
Assessing Outcomes at the Alternative to Meds Center: Survey Results Prove Promising
Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
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February 21, 2019
29
5596
Nasal Spray for Depression? Not So Fast
Kim Witczak
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February 20, 2019
59
7781
Loneliness Cure: Red or Blue Pill?
Vicki Lännerholm, PsyD, LPC
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February 15, 2019
31
4814
Institutional Corruption in the Cochrane Collaboration
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
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February 14, 2019
21
4269
Funder Fragility and Forced Collaboration
Corinna West
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February 13, 2019
15
1430
‘Full Moral Status’ Part II: How to Achieve Safety, Parity, and Change
Krista Hartmann
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February 10, 2019
47
2041
“I’m Not Going, You Can’t Make Me!”: A Community Approach to School Refusal
Ben Furman, MD
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February 9, 2019
36
3634
The War on Antidepressants: Why We Need to End it for Public Benefit
Michael P. Hengartner, PhD
-
February 8, 2019
52
4638
Orthodox Madness
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February 6, 2019
60
7494
ASIST Suicide Prevention Training: “Safe” for Who?
Sera Davidow
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February 5, 2019
75
14546
Spiritual Texts in the Psych Ward
Chaya Grossberg
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February 3, 2019
27
2217
How Long Does Antidepressant Withdrawal Last?
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
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February 2, 2019
17
6906
Why the ‘Psychological Injury Model’ Will Ultimately Triumph
Eric Kuelker, PhD, RPsych
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January 31, 2019
179
29772
Traumatic Immobility: Depression as a Stress Response
Sarah Knutson
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January 27, 2019
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37654
“Not all NAMIs!”: Why Even the Best Local NAMI Chapter is Still a Problem
Sera Davidow
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January 25, 2019
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“ADHD: A Return to Psychology” Video Series
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January 24, 2019
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2093
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January 21, 2019
153
2730
Fake Science and Checking Sources
Sylvain Rousselot
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January 20, 2019
27
2177
Antidepressant Withdrawal: An Unknown Disorder?
Fiammetta Cosci, MD, PhD
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January 19, 2019
24
7496
The Never Ending Story: How 2nd Story Respite House Was Saved
Adrian Bernard
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January 18, 2019
12
1862
Open Dialogue: Does the Current Research Data Support Further Investment?
Sandra Steingard, MD
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January 14, 2019
159
5162
Suicide, Ketamine, the Propaganda Model and the New York Times
Bruce Levine, PhD
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January 13, 2019
17
4733
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: An Infographic on Bipolar Drugs
Craig Wagner
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January 10, 2019
56
9540
Tumbling Further Down the Rabbit Hole of Antidepressant Withdrawal Research
James Davies, PhD
&
John Read
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January 8, 2019
18
2282
How Love Can Reformat Our Lives
Peter Breggin, MD
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January 8, 2019
187
5726
Mad in America: 2018 by the Numbers
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January 5, 2019
28
2582
The Mystery of Madness Throughout the Ages
Ekaterina Netchitailova, PhD
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January 2, 2019
260
4447
7 Tips to Help a Distracted Child
Marilyn Wedge, PhD
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January 1, 2019
26
2092
Why We’re Establishing an Institute for Scientific Freedom
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December 30, 2018
45
8598
The Minds of Men: A Stunning New Film About Covert Mind Control
Peter Breggin, MD
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December 29, 2018
35
6041
On Voice Hearing Simulations: Why They Should Be (Mostly) Banned
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December 26, 2018
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3380
Pathways to Enhance Well-Being: Free Resource on Alternative Wellness Practices
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December 26, 2018
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7 Tasks for a Parent Whose Child Is Diagnosed with a Mental Illness
Chaya Grossberg
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December 25, 2018
15
3428
Reclaiming Humanity at the Dawn of Posthumanism: Conversation with Darcia Narvaez
Sharna Olfman, PhD
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December 21, 2018
28
4351
Antidepressant Dependence Discussed at the Seat of Welsh Government – Video
James Moore
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December 20, 2018
30
2724
What Do Twin Studies Prove About Genetic Influences on Psychiatric Disorders? Absolutely Nothing
Jay Joseph, PsyD
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December 18, 2018
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12286
The Meaningfulness of Anxiety
Enrico Gnaulati, PhD
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December 15, 2018
36
6574
Childhood Bipolar Disorder, Deconstructed
Eric Maisel, PhD
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December 12, 2018
29
5134
What’s “Grand” About Electroshock and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation?
Robert Nikkel, MSW
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December 11, 2018
430
4676
The Madness of Our Mental Health System
John Ashfield, PhD
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December 8, 2018
51
5716
When Will We Wake? Reflections on Suicide and Psychotropic Medications
Beatrice Birch
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December 7, 2018
58
3106
Smoke and Flames: Silence In A World On Fire
Will Hall
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December 5, 2018
198
5505
Anatomy of an Opioid Epidemic
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December 2, 2018
44
3445
Mindfulness and Complex Trauma: The Rewards and the Risks
Monica Cassani
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November 27, 2018
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Are Emotional Disorders Really Disorders of Love?
Peter Breggin, MD
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November 26, 2018
168
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The Real Attention Deficit Disorder
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November 24, 2018
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5010
Filling the Crack in the Liberty Bell
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November 23, 2018
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What Would Real Informed Consent on Psychiatric Drugs Look Like?
Robert Nikkel, MSW
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November 20, 2018
44
2399
Trauma Outside the Box: How the ‘Trauma-Informed’ Trend Falls Short
Noel Hunter, PsyD
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November 17, 2018
64
20479
Litigation Update: ECT Device Manufacturer Issues “Permanent Brain Damage” Warning
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November 15, 2018
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Heroes of Science: Survival of a Whistleblower
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November 13, 2018
31
3502
Learning From Each Other As Psychiatric Survivors
Chaya Grossberg
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November 13, 2018
36
2853
Escaping from AOT: The Importance of the Incident with the Candle
Eric Coates
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November 11, 2018
28
2297
Mortification of the Self: The Impact of Stigma on Identity
Vladimir Musicki, PhD
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November 9, 2018
51
9632
Hearing Voices: Where We Locate Them Shapes Our Experience
Greg Shankland
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November 8, 2018
18
2439
Bad-Science Warning: The “Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart” (MISTRA)
Jay Joseph, PsyD
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November 6, 2018
7
16302
The “Time to Strike” is Now: A Call for Anti-ECT Activism
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
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November 2, 2018
89
4674
The Language of Internalized Oppression
Sera Davidow
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November 1, 2018
123
7368
Allen Frances and the Increasing Use of Antidepressants
Philip Hickey, PhD
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October 30, 2018
86
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Psychiatric Marginalization of Anti-Authoritarians – Excerpt from New Book
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October 27, 2018
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MIA Update: Our Parent Resources Initiative and More
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October 26, 2018
5
2210
Suicide Hotlines, Risk Assessment and Rights: Whose Safety Matters?
Megan Wildhood
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October 25, 2018
32
5058
Huge Breakthrough in Lawsuits Against ECT Shock Device Manufacturers
Peter Breggin, MD
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October 23, 2018
36
10374
How Our Government Helps Drug-Dealing Doctors Kill Us
Lawrence Kelmenson, MD
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October 21, 2018
47
4403
Peruvian Legal Capacity Reform – Celebration and Analysis
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October 19, 2018
2
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55 Steps to Informed Consent
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October 17, 2018
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Trauma Blocks the Frontal Lobes – “Verbal Physiotherapy” Can Unblock Them
Bob Johnson, MD
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October 16, 2018
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9107
Results of World’s Largest Antidepressant Study Look Dismal
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October 12, 2018
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12599
The Cochrane Collaboration Has Failed Us All
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October 11, 2018
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9332
TCI ASIA Pacific: Engaging the Global Mental Health Movement in Dialogue
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October 9, 2018
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How Well Do Neuroleptics Work?
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October 9, 2018
77
3612
Healthy Guilt and Doing Right By Those We Have Wronged
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October 7, 2018
31
2606
Fighting the Suppression of Dissent: A Guidebook for Those Who Refuse to Conform
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October 5, 2018
46
3146
Healthy Planet/Healthy Mind with Zach Bush, MD
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October 4, 2018
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11936
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October 3, 2018
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October 2, 2018
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September 30, 2018
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September 29, 2018
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26095
What’s Blocking Progress in Behavioral Healthcare?
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September 28, 2018
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1888
The Science and Pseudoscience of Mental Health Podcast
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September 27, 2018
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5550
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September 24, 2018
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2605
Having Empathy Doesn’t Mean That You Also Have Compassion!
Michael Cornwall, PhD
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September 22, 2018
103
12853
The Decline of Danvers State Hospital
Katherine Anderson, MAT
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September 21, 2018
41
7034
A Significant Indigenous Scholarship and Another Antipsychiatry Battle
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September 20, 2018
305
3394
Trump Anxiety Disorder Is More Fake News
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September 19, 2018
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Why Scientists Should Reconsider Presenting with TED
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
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September 16, 2018
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Did You Ever Stop Taking Antipsychotics? – World Survey on Withdrawal
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September 15, 2018
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7254
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September 14, 2018
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September 12, 2018
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Memoirs of a Dissident Psychiatrist
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September 8, 2018
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September 7, 2018
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September 5, 2018
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September 3, 2018
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7512
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September 1, 2018
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2916
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August 31, 2018
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August 29, 2018
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August 26, 2018
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August 25, 2018
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August 23, 2018
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Uncomfortable Relations: Reflections on Learning From Psychiatric Survivors
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August 22, 2018
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A Time For Rain: Teaching Our Children About Sadness
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2617
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3140
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2292
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1481
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3069
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4062
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2138
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4199
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10435
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183
19615
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4456
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2828
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May 16, 2018
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3727
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May 11, 2018
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May 9, 2018
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May 9, 2018
165
4329
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May 8, 2018
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1151
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May 5, 2018
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2816
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3108
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May 4, 2018
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May 2, 2018
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3253
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May 1, 2018
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April 29, 2018
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59196
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April 28, 2018
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3635
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2509
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April 25, 2018
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2705
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April 24, 2018
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5102
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4024
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April 20, 2018
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2061
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April 19, 2018
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5459
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April 18, 2018
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4809
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April 16, 2018
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2255
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April 12, 2018
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April 11, 2018
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April 10, 2018
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25617
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April 7, 2018
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16852
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March 31, 2018
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March 29, 2018
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1681
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March 24, 2018
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March 22, 2018
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March 21, 2018
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March 20, 2018
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2099
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March 20, 2018
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1834
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March 18, 2018
12
2272
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March 16, 2018
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4150
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March 16, 2018
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1532
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March 14, 2018
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8611
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March 8, 2018
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8026
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March 7, 2018
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8817
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1599
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March 4, 2018
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3448
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March 2, 2018
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3851
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February 26, 2018
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February 25, 2018
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9794
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February 24, 2018
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13946
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February 23, 2018
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2199
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February 22, 2018
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February 21, 2018
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4223
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February 20, 2018
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14099
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February 18, 2018
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5015
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February 16, 2018
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2248
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February 13, 2018
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9414
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February 10, 2018
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16841
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February 7, 2018
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1770
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1225
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2969
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January 31, 2018
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5772
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6328
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January 25, 2018
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2530
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January 23, 2018
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January 22, 2018
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2632
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1851
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January 15, 2018
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3429
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January 12, 2018
31
9152
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January 11, 2018
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3720
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January 10, 2018
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January 8, 2018
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7153
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January 5, 2018
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6330
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January 3, 2018
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January 2, 2018
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3996
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3650
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7216
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December 27, 2017
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December 24, 2017
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2705
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2332
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19232
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56
2040
APA: Drop the Stigmatizing Term “Schizophrenia”
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December 10, 2017
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December 8, 2017
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9862
Psychotherapy is THE Biological Treatment
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December 7, 2017
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7513
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2291
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4421
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November 27, 2017
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7423
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November 26, 2017
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3241
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November 24, 2017
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3548
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November 22, 2017
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1650
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November 21, 2017
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1810
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November 19, 2017
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November 19, 2017
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4609
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5295
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November 13, 2017
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5559
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2825
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4104
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7503
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3453
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3743
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October 29, 2017
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5863
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October 27, 2017
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October 26, 2017
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3138
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4351
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2939
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October 22, 2017
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10615
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October 19, 2017
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3534
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October 13, 2017
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2672
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October 5, 2017
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October 3, 2017
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September 22, 2017
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Language of Mental Illness “Others” People: It’s a Human Rights Violation
Monica Cassani
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September 19, 2017
38
3133
Health Disparity Project Cuts Out the Recovery Movement
Corinna West
-
September 19, 2017
7
1250
The Salvation of Psychiatry
Robert Berezin, MD
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September 17, 2017
52
2747
Trauma-Ignored Care? Going to the MAT on Opioids
Wayne Munchel
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September 15, 2017
30
1802
If Psychiatrists Took Truth Serum, What Would They Say?
Lawrence Kelmenson, MD
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September 14, 2017
119
5871
Part V: The Michelle Carter Texting Trial Becomes a Witch Hunt
Peter Breggin, MD
-
September 13, 2017
22
5472
Introducing “Ten Tips for Parents”
Eric Maisel, PhD
-
September 10, 2017
8
1635
The Unintended Consequences of Colorado’s “Social Experiment”
Elizabeth Stuyt, MD
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September 8, 2017
91
13911
Pharma Responds: Antidepressants Really Work. Really?
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
September 7, 2017
74
5083
Michelle Carter Part IV: Did She Tell Conrad to “Get back in the truck”?
Peter Breggin, MD
-
September 6, 2017
13
14935
The Downfall of Peer Support: Are You Kidding Me?
Patrick Hendry, NCPS
-
September 5, 2017
85
6042
The Invisible Holocaust and the Gene Hypothesis
Eric Coates
-
September 3, 2017
79
4949
The Continuing Evolution of Mad in America Continuing Education
Robert Nikkel, MSW
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September 1, 2017
9
933
So, You Still Say Trump is Crazy?
Sera Davidow
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August 31, 2017
57
5996
Hurricane Harvey, Trump and US Mental Health: We Are All Mad, 100%!
David W. Oaks
-
August 30, 2017
16
1173
Michelle Carter Part III: DA Goes After Her Expert Witness to Stop His Blog
Peter Breggin, MD
-
August 30, 2017
20
10215
Greed Disguised as Science: How a Multitude of Factors Led to the Opioid Crisis
Elizabeth Capps
&
Kurt Michael
-
August 28, 2017
5
2096
Psychiatry’s 12-Step Program for Producing Heroin Addicts
Lawrence Kelmenson, MD
-
August 25, 2017
81
10956
House on Fire: A ‘Mental Health Literacy’ Parable
Brett Deacon, PhD
-
August 24, 2017
29
6370
Some Thoughts About Conferences
Kim Auth
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August 23, 2017
129
2113
The Winding Road and the Importance of Going Sideways
David Steingart, LCSW
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August 20, 2017
17
2395
How to Avoid Severe SSRI Withdrawal Symptoms?
Stuart Shipko
-
August 19, 2017
58
65344
Spiritual Side Effects of Psychiatric Medication: From Helpful to Harmful
Lynne Vanderpot, PhD
-
August 16, 2017
44
19572
“Virtual Autism” May Explain Explosive Rise in ASD Diagnoses
Marilyn Wedge, PhD
-
August 15, 2017
88
692812
Prescription for Murder ABCD
David Healy, MD
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August 11, 2017
6
1981
Death By Placebo
Lawrence Kelmenson, MD
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August 9, 2017
84
4025
Part II: Michelle Starts Prozac and Sees the Devil
Peter Breggin, MD
-
August 7, 2017
35
26914
Psychoanalyst, Show Some Modesty
Stewart Justman, PhD
-
August 5, 2017
11
1519
Michelle Carter: Did She Text Her Boyfriend to Death?
Peter Breggin, MD
-
August 3, 2017
27
51136
Adam Maier-Clayton: Assisted Suicide and Mental Illness
Susan Stefan, JD
-
August 2, 2017
37
12197
Would Discovering the Biology of “Mental Illness” Explain its Cause?
Lawrence Kelmenson, MD
-
August 1, 2017
56
3522
Senate Slated to Rubber-Stamp “Mental Health Czar” This Tuesday
David W. Oaks
-
July 30, 2017
14
1195
Voices in our Heads: The Prefrontal Cortex as Parasite
Eric Coates
-
July 29, 2017
37
6629
If You Don’t Have a Brain…
Peter Breggin, MD
-
July 28, 2017
22
6386
Is Xanax Really the Bad Guy?
Jocelyn Pedersen
-
July 24, 2017
16
11432
Has Psychiatry Gone Uniquely Astray?
Henry Bauer
-
July 23, 2017
65
3612
9 Questions the US Senate Should Ask Dr. McCance-Katz
David W. Oaks
-
July 22, 2017
18
1568
Makers of Risperdal Sued for Breast Development in Boys
Barbara Liston
-
July 21, 2017
18
25390
People of Great Britain! Our Beast Descends Upon Your Children
Peter Breggin, MD
-
July 20, 2017
25
4108
Methylphenidate: How to Avoid Importing the American Disaster?
Patrick Landman, MD
-
July 18, 2017
9
1814
While Psychiatry Slept (Part II)
George Mecouch, DO
-
July 16, 2017
24
2918
“Heartbeats of Hope: The Empowerment Way to Recover” – A Book Review
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
July 14, 2017
41
2367
Hearing Voices in the USA
Sera Davidow
-
July 13, 2017
15
2860
Why World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day?
Jocelyn Pedersen
-
July 11, 2017
67
3864
Three Suicides: Honoring Lives Lost to Benzodiazepines
Angie Peacock
-
July 10, 2017
21
22245
Tapering Strips for Benzodiazepines
Peter Groot, PhD
-
July 10, 2017
12
7582
“Benzo Blue”: a Song of Protest and a Search for Liberation
Richard D. Lewis
-
July 9, 2017
35
3119
Senate Quietly Rubber-Stamps Trump’s “Mental Health Czar”
David W. Oaks
-
July 7, 2017
33
1895
New Resources from the WHO’s QualityRights Initiative
Michelle Funk
,
Natalie Drew
&
Marie Baudel
-
July 6, 2017
7
1369
Uniting Critical Voices: Where can we Collaborate?
Gary Sidley, PhD
-
July 5, 2017
104
2231
So You Say You Want a Revolution Part Two
Robert Nikkel, MSW
-
July 3, 2017
15
1144
Landmark Victory against the “Oak Ridge Torturers” — Do We Cheer or Cry?
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
July 2, 2017
59
4046
No Psychiatrist Needs to Use ECT
Niall McLaren
-
June 27, 2017
113
8996
Do Psychiatrists Harm their Patients out of Stupidity?
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
June 25, 2017
308
28887
French and American Approaches to “ADHD”
Redmond O'Hanlon, DPhil
-
June 24, 2017
2
4097
Data Shows That Nutrients Reduce Aggression: Why is Policy Not Changing?
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
&
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
-
June 23, 2017
49
5177
Robert Whitaker Refutes Jeffrey Lieberman; But Is Psychiatry Reformable?
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
June 22, 2017
112
5302
An Open Letter to the President’s Commission on Combating Addiction and the Opioid Crisis
Richard Lawhern, PhD
-
June 21, 2017
8
1066
MIA RADIO: Expanding the Audience for “Critical Psychiatry” Perspectives
Robert Whitaker
-
June 21, 2017
24
1857
Aggregate vs. Anecdote for Med Lovers
Corinna West
-
June 20, 2017
24
2502
INTAR India 2016: Reflections
Bhargavi Davar, PhD
-
June 18, 2017
4
1194
Healing from Psychiatry: A Community Art Book
motto
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June 17, 2017
7
1661
Antipsychiatry – Say What?
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
June 15, 2017
396
8092
Breaking Through the Wall of Schizophrenia
Marilyn Wedge, PhD
-
June 14, 2017
19
3827
The Next Generation of the Mad Movement in NYC Looks Like This
Sascha Altman DuBrul
-
June 13, 2017
16
3501
‘Mad’ Psychologist Speaks Out
Helen W.
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June 10, 2017
104
6930
Killjoy: The Story of a Misguided ‘Mental Health’ Bot
Sera Davidow
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June 8, 2017
25
3120
While Psychiatry Slept
George Mecouch, DO
-
June 7, 2017
47
3898
Human Right to Health – More than Economic Justice
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
June 6, 2017
53
1801
Trauma in Common?
Robert Nikkel, MSW
-
June 2, 2017
33
1613
From Madness to Mastery: Gaining Competence with Altered States
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
May 31, 2017
19
2471
Psychosocial Disability and Legal Capacity: Don’t Bargain with Human Rights
Maria Nyman
-
May 30, 2017
25
3378
Conferring Legitimacy on the Counterhegemonic
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
May 28, 2017
44
2773
Psychiatry’s Troublesome History: How Far Have We Come?
Twilah Hiari
-
May 27, 2017
34
2737
Back to Basics: What’s Wrong with NAMI
Sera Davidow
-
May 26, 2017
127
20101
Call to Action: MA Bill H.3594 for Informed Benzodiazepine Use
Sonja Styblo
-
May 25, 2017
26
5271
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Peter Breggin, MD
-
May 24, 2017
12
4879
The Violence-Inducing Effects of Psychiatric Medication
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
May 21, 2017
28
6878
The Mental Health Professionals Who Perpetrate Against Us
Monica Cassani
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May 18, 2017
50
3177
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Kurt Michael
-
May 17, 2017
77
3227
Crazywise: Revisioning Narratives of Psychosis
Sascha Altman DuBrul
-
May 16, 2017
12
3991
Alcoholism — Is it a Disease?
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
May 16, 2017
29
2293
The Diseasing of Defiance
Eric Maisel, PhD
-
May 15, 2017
16
4564
New UN Report: Steps Forward, But No End to Impunity
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
May 14, 2017
12
2154
Smash the Blue Lights: Autism Speaks is a ‘Danger to Self and Others’
Sera Davidow
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May 13, 2017
53
8273
Oliver Sacks Helps Me Explain Hypersensitivity
Monica Cassani
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May 12, 2017
6
1852
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Philip Hickey, PhD
-
May 12, 2017
31
3505
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Au Valencia
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May 10, 2017
3
1931
Change in Chicago: Playing Go
David Healy, MD
-
May 9, 2017
3
1010
Inconvenient Truths About Antipsychotics: A Response to Goff et al
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
May 7, 2017
44
9740
Responding to Claims that the Benefits of Antipsychotics Outweigh the Risks
Miriam Larsen-Barr, DClinPsy
-
May 6, 2017
66
6426
Unusual Beliefs and Behaviors vs. Objective Realities and Truths
James Schroeder, PhD
-
May 5, 2017
296
4192
Change in Chicago: The Dolin Verdict
Johanna Ryan
-
May 2, 2017
3
1917
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Jim Gottstein, JD
-
May 2, 2017
4
3699
“Let’s Talk Withdrawal” Podcast
James Moore
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April 29, 2017
28
5757
Public Petition: Support for People Affected by Prescribed Drug Dependence
Marion Brown
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April 28, 2017
7
1319
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David W. Oaks
-
April 27, 2017
63
4539
Our Letter to Lancet Psychiatry
Robert Whitaker
-
April 26, 2017
7
3645
The Unforeseen Relationship: Psychiatric Medication and Spirituality
Lynne Vanderpot, PhD
-
April 25, 2017
64
9683
‘Enough is Enough’ Series: LSD Reconsidered
Robert Berezin, MD
-
April 23, 2017
46
2766
Opening a Dialogue about Early Psychosis Programs in the US
Robert Nikkel, MSW
-
April 22, 2017
40
1651
What if the Folly is in Us, Too?
Gordon Warme, MD
-
April 20, 2017
62
2942
Anti-Authoritarian Options for Suicidal Anti-Authoritarians
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
April 19, 2017
21
2863
The Downfall of Peer Support: MHA & National Certification
Sera Davidow
-
April 18, 2017
130
12098
Would You Want Your Therapist to be Honest?
Chaya Grossberg
-
April 15, 2017
33
3177
“Doubly Brutish”: Forensic Psychiatry and Force
Aimee Inomata, PhD
-
April 14, 2017
6
1591
Emotional Pain and the Possibility of Finding Hope
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
April 13, 2017
30
5864
Unusual Beliefs and Mental Well-Being
Rev. Dr. Steven Epperson
-
April 9, 2017
49
4027
Dear Boston Globe, Part VI: Congratulations. Bad Things Happen.
Sera Davidow
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April 9, 2017
26
2348
From One Parent to Another
Tabita Green
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April 8, 2017
17
1444
When Modern Medicine Made Me More Autistic
Twilah Hiari
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April 6, 2017
41
5411
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Peter Lehmann
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April 5, 2017
8
2107
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Elizabeth Szlek
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April 4, 2017
168
3136
The Third Director: Interrogating the Mental Health Discourse in Marat/Sade
Peter Simons
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April 3, 2017
3
2488
The Torture in Treatment
Ronda Richardson
-
April 1, 2017
142
6129
The Sunrise Center 2017
Terry Simpson
-
March 31, 2017
17
1525
Emotional Strategies and Skills for Aspiring Mental Health Workers
Mark Ragins, MD
-
March 29, 2017
35
3979
Why I Don’t Like the Idea that Mental Disorder is a Disease
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
March 28, 2017
48
3923
‘CRAZY’: New Documentary about Forced Psychiatric Treatment
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
March 27, 2017
3
5124
Mainstream Western Psychiatry: Science or Non-science?
Niall McLaren
-
March 25, 2017
28
7840
What Role Does Talk Therapy Have in Recovery from Psychosis?
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
March 24, 2017
16
3594
Not Going Quietly
Rufus May
-
March 23, 2017
32
3675
Beyond Survival
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
March 22, 2017
15
2343
Discussing Nutrient Formulas Without Naming Them: Who Benefits?
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
March 19, 2017
33
2711
Optimizing Mental Wellness Through Nutrient Therapy: A Gastroenterologist’s Perspective
Rebecca Carey, MD, MS, CNSC
-
March 18, 2017
48
13901
Introducing the ‘Parent Resources’ Page
Eric Maisel, PhD
-
March 16, 2017
5
1079
Burn Baby Burn (Psychopharmacology Part 3)
David Healy, MD
-
March 15, 2017
17
1738
Where Do We Go From Here?
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
March 15, 2017
76
4089
Leading Psychiatrists Follow Top-Dog Bankers’ Guide to Career Advancement
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
March 14, 2017
3
1508
Into the Woods: A Path Through Anxiety
Albert Buhr
-
March 14, 2017
8
2010
Spirituality and ‘Mental Illness’
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
March 13, 2017
22
5747
Psychiatric Hegemony: A Marxist Theory of Mental Illness
Susan Rosenthal
-
March 11, 2017
108
40168
Aliveness and Social Justice: Teaching the Principles and Practices of Open Dialogue
Mary Olson, PhD
-
March 10, 2017
12
3048
SSRIs: Minimal Effectiveness and High Risk
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
March 9, 2017
93
7412
Tweeting while Medicine Burns (Psychopharmacology Part 2)
David Healy, MD
-
March 7, 2017
8
1627
Victims of Success: An Update from Mad in America Continuing Education
Robert Nikkel, MSW
-
March 7, 2017
2
735
Letter to my Classmates on our 40th Reunion
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
March 6, 2017
14
3173
Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany (A Book Review)
Niall McLaren
-
March 5, 2017
10
3248
Lyme is ‘All in Your Head’ – A Wake-up Call to Mental Health Professionals
Lori Dennis
-
March 4, 2017
35
118685
Tweeting While Psychiatry Burns
David Healy, MD
-
March 3, 2017
8
2469
A Curse for a Cursed Profession
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
March 2, 2017
34
2553
Our Coming to Mad in Aotearoa
Mad in Aotearoa
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February 28, 2017
3
940
Transformations to Liberation
Jenna Rai Miller, LPC
-
February 27, 2017
6
1752
A New Paradigm for Psychiatry: Answering the Call from the UN
Robert Berezin, MD
-
February 26, 2017
62
4428
Psychosis for Mental Health?
Noel Hunter, PsyD
-
February 25, 2017
39
5660
The Sedated Society: the Real Story of our Prescribing Epidemic
James Davies, PhD
-
February 23, 2017
27
4958
Editorial Misconduct: Finnish Medical Journal Rejects Paper on Suicide Risk
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
-
February 22, 2017
25
10690
Farewell Mickey Nardo, 1 (not very) Boring Old Man
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
February 21, 2017
31
3842
Mickey Nardo: Tangled up in Life
David Healy, MD
-
February 20, 2017
9
2193
Committed: The Battle Over Involuntary Psychiatric Care
Sandra Steingard, MD
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February 20, 2017
67
4430
Disobedience: What Can We Risk?
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
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February 19, 2017
64
3305
SMILES Study: Depression and Nutrition
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
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February 18, 2017
20
10396
Generalists and Partialists
David Healy, MD
-
February 17, 2017
8
1000
Why I Resigned From The Mighty
Twilah Hiari
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February 16, 2017
45
25617
“Active Minds” — What Conversation Are We Changing?
Danny Kochanowski
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February 14, 2017
52
2689
7 Years Off Psych Drugs: A Message to Those Labeled by Psychiatry (video)
Monica Cassani
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February 12, 2017
19
5591
Trump and the Diagnosis Free-for-All
Sera Davidow
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February 11, 2017
237
8524
Vital Minds: Four Stories of Recovery
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
February 9, 2017
15
4326
Intentional Peer Support: Creating Relationships, Creating Change
Beth Filson
&
Shery Mead
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February 8, 2017
10
5129
Integrative Mental Health: 27 Non-drug Options that Work
Craig Wagner
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February 7, 2017
62
7946
Sir Robin Murray and Our Collective Mea Culpa
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
February 6, 2017
40
2856
Understanding Extreme States: An Interview with Lloyd Ross
Lloyd Ross, PhD
&
Matt Stevenson
-
February 5, 2017
25
5554
ISEPP Calling for Organizations to Join in Petition
Chuck Ruby, PhD
-
February 4, 2017
8
1627
Scapegoating: Why Humanity Desperately Needs Hope to Cling to
Noel Hunter, PsyD
-
February 3, 2017
24
2009
CRPD Absolute Prohibition Campaign and Course
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
February 2, 2017
7
2240
Killing “Schizophrenics”: Contemporary U.S. Psychiatry Versus Nazi Psychiatry
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
February 2, 2017
43
5683
Spoiling Split: Hollywood’s Latest Run at ‘Alternative Facts’
Sera Davidow
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February 1, 2017
61
2878
Venomagnosia
David Healy, MD
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January 31, 2017
18
1588
Psychiatry Interrogated: A Book Review
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
January 30, 2017
11
2067
Chemical or Psychological Psychotherapy?
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
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January 29, 2017
58
5160
Preventing Suicide in the UK – a Policy and Practice Divide
Thurstine Basset
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January 28, 2017
2
1245
SAMHSA’s Rose-Colored Lens
Robert Nikkel, MSW
-
January 27, 2017
59
1640
Service Dogs, Allergies and Trauma: Making Spaces Inclusive
Chaya Grossberg
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January 26, 2017
12
5350
CYP Testing to Help Prevent Dangerous Adverse Drug Reactions
Selma Eikelenboom-Schieveld, MD, PhD
-
January 24, 2017
66
8283
Mental Health First Aid: Another Psychiatric Expansionist Tool
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
January 23, 2017
52
3765
Soteria Shelter Program in Hungary: Crisis as Danger and Opportunity
Dániel Ács
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January 21, 2017
18
3497
Peer-run Organizations Help People with Criminal Justice Involvement Return to the Community
Susan Rogers
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January 19, 2017
7
1369
Allen Frances and the “Overdiagnosing” of Children
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
January 18, 2017
53
7668
The DSM and the Medical Model: New Video
Steve Spiegel
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January 17, 2017
92
5456
Ruby Wax: From Shark Bait to the Doyenne of Disease
Paul Wilson
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January 15, 2017
20
2381
Healing Madness
Eve A. Wood, MD
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January 14, 2017
93
4997
MIA in the Year 2017
Robert Whitaker
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January 13, 2017
92
3100
The NIMH in 2017: Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places
Robert Nikkel, MSW
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January 12, 2017
31
1447
How Psychiatric Drugs Really Work
Peter Breggin, MD
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January 11, 2017
80
9002
The Biological Evidence for “Mental Illness”
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
January 10, 2017
140
8376
What We Are Talking About When We Talk About Community Mental Health
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
January 9, 2017
13
2011
Understanding Extreme States: An Interview with Stephen Harrod Buhner
Matt Stevenson
&
Stephen Buhner
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January 6, 2017
43
13925
Pioneering New Zealand Antipsychotic Medication Study Focuses on Patient Experiences
Will Hall
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January 4, 2017
17
3740
Time to ‘Drop the Disorder’
Jo Watson
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January 3, 2017
41
6817
Carrie Fisher, Bipolar Disorder, and the Spread of False Information
Noel Hunter, PsyD
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January 2, 2017
213
16515
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Philip Hickey, PhD
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January 2, 2017
50
17501
Why I’m Not Celebrating Being PMDD-Free
Twilah Hiari
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December 31, 2016
36
24060
Carrie Fisher: Bipolar Meds and Heart Disease
Corinna West
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December 31, 2016
478
37320
Soldiers as Guinea Pigs: the Case of Mefloquine and Tafenoquine
Stuart McCarthy
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December 28, 2016
22
3391
Starting the New Year with a Bang: A Medley of Antipsychiatry Resolutions
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
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December 28, 2016
101
3246
The Real “Mental Illness” Epidemic: Withdrawal from Antidepressants
Stuart Shipko
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December 27, 2016
66
9814
The Right to Refuse Psychiatric Treatment
Merete Nesset
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December 22, 2016
87
6108
Opening the Door to a New Year: Some Christmas Thoughts and Wishes
Carina Håkansson, PhD
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December 21, 2016
11
1436
Shock, Lies… and a Duvet
Olga Runciman, Cand Psych BSc
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December 19, 2016
24
2708
Seven Reasons Why the US’s New Mental Health Law Is Dangerous
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December 17, 2016
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13710
Dear Boston Globe, Part V: Thanks for Nothing
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December 17, 2016
36
2928
An Outsider’s Observation
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December 15, 2016
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2929
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December 14, 2016
30
2722
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December 10, 2016
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14115
INTAR India 2016: Community Development and Human Liberation
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December 9, 2016
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1698
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December 8, 2016
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2215
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December 7, 2016
8
2433
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December 6, 2016
74
5365
INTAR 2016: A Global Call for a New Paradigm In Psychiatry
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December 6, 2016
32
3361
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December 4, 2016
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2987
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Gary Gibbs, DO
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December 3, 2016
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14111
A Racist Movement Cannot Move
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December 2, 2016
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November 29, 2016
168
12159
Is the Mental Health System Yet Another Form of Institutional Racism?
Noel Hunter, PsyD
-
November 28, 2016
66
5299
Have You Ever Wondered Why Labels on Supplements are so Vague?
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
&
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
-
November 27, 2016
20
3871
My Baby, Psychosis & Me: A lesson in how not to make a documentary...
Rai Waddingham
-
November 26, 2016
21
2534
How the Technologically-Immersive Culture is Wrecking Our Youth’s Health & Well-Being
James Schroeder, PhD
-
November 25, 2016
14
1956
The ACE Survey is Unusable Data
Corinna West
-
November 21, 2016
21
5543
Troubled by Individual and Collective Psychosis? Maybe Compassion and Dialogue Could Help!
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
November 19, 2016
40
1606
Understanding Extreme States: An Interview with Paris Williams
Matt Stevenson
&
Paris Williams, PhD
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November 17, 2016
107
4798
Is Society or Psychiatry to Blame for the “Seriously Mentally Ill” Dying 25 Years...
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
November 16, 2016
58
4400
Antidepressants Increase the Risk of Suicide and Violence at All Ages
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
-
November 16, 2016
29
14141
Curing Schizophrenia via Intensive Psychotherapy
Ira Steinman, MD
-
November 15, 2016
22
5248
In a Post-Trump Election World: What is Insanity?
Noel Hunter, PsyD
-
November 10, 2016
147
3929
Going On or Off Psych Drugs: One Reason or Many?
Chaya Grossberg
-
November 9, 2016
6
1563
Neuroleptic Drugs, Akathisia, and Suicide & Violence
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
November 8, 2016
19
6280
What’s the Harm in Taking an Antidepressant?
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
November 6, 2016
30
18024
Dual-award Winning Play and Film About Human Beings, not Psychopathology
Paula J. Caplan, PhD
-
November 5, 2016
1
1414
Exploring Psychiatry’s “Black Hole”: The International Institute on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal
Kermit Cole
-
November 4, 2016
33
16338
Mad in Brasil: Part of a Global Effort to Create a New Paradigm of...
Paulo Amarante & Fernando Freitas
-
November 2, 2016
7
1124
A Bill to Explore the Relationship Between Veteran Suicides and Prescription Medication
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
November 1, 2016
9
2737
Study 329 Trick, Treat or Treximet
David Healy, MD
-
October 31, 2016
2
1486
ADHD: A Destructive Psychiatric Hoax
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
October 30, 2016
360
40518
Psychiatry: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Terry Lynch, MD
-
October 30, 2016
39
4399
The Hidden Epidemic Exposed: The New Tardive Dyskinesia (TD) Resource Center
Peter Breggin, MD
-
October 28, 2016
11
11217
The Helping Room
Steven Morgan
-
October 27, 2016
43
5390
Antidepressants and Pregnancy: The Risks and Potential Harm to Normal Fetal Development
Robert Nikkel, MSW
-
October 25, 2016
2
1332
Go Figure: Murder or Accident?
David Healy, MD
-
October 24, 2016
8
1810
The Case for Neuroleptics Reducing Recovery from 80% to 5%
Jim Gottstein, JD
-
October 22, 2016
71
4184
Mad in the Spanish-Speaking World
MIA-Hispanohablante Editors
-
October 21, 2016
6
872
The Difficulty of Challenging Deeply Personal Narratives
Tabita Green
-
October 20, 2016
75
3193
Go Figure: Study 329
David Healy, MD
-
October 17, 2016
4
1177
What Do Santa Claus and the Chemical Imbalance Have in Common?
Tim Carey, PhD
-
October 16, 2016
160
6316
Picking Our Battles in the War on Prejudice and Discrimination
Susan Rogers
-
October 15, 2016
14
1087
$11.9 Million Paxil Suicide Verdict: The Inside Story
Peter Breggin, MD
-
October 14, 2016
11
8800
Turning the Tables: Using the Academy in the Battle Against Psychiatry
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
October 12, 2016
164
4640
Opening A Dialogue In Mental Health
Jonny Martell, MBBS
-
October 11, 2016
15
3876
Study 329 Taper Phase
David Healy, MD
-
October 10, 2016
6
1570
Rejecting the “Medications for Schizophrenia” Narrative: Part II
Matt Stevenson
-
October 6, 2016
61
4295
CHOICES Back on Track
Jim Gottstein, JD
-
October 5, 2016
7
1472
Why Social Isolation Leads to Inflammation
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
October 4, 2016
18
4057
Healing Silence
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
October 1, 2016
22
3709
The Mental Health Reform Act of 2016 (SB 2680) Would Be a Huge Step...
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
September 30, 2016
60
2721
Powerful Advocacy has Shut Down Halloween “Attractions” that Ramp Up Prejudice
Susan Rogers
-
September 30, 2016
36
1867
Evolution or Revolution? Why Western Psychiatry Won’t Change by Incremental Steps
Gary Sidley, PhD
-
September 30, 2016
72
3614
Study 329 Continuation Phase
David Healy, MD
-
September 28, 2016
3
839
Psychiatry’s Current Greatest Controversy: Fraud, Bullsh*t or What?
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
September 24, 2016
37
4078
Rejecting the “Medications for Schizophrenia” Narrative: A Survivor’s Response to Pies and Whitaker
Matt Stevenson
-
September 23, 2016
154
8784
It’s Possible — and Beneficial — to Stop Feeling Guilt and Shame
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
September 23, 2016
53
7139
Dear Son: A Mother’s Experience of Psychiatry, Racism and Human Rights
Mitzy Sky
-
September 20, 2016
14
1710
Depression, Antidepressants, and Expectancy
William Schultz
-
September 19, 2016
7
1565
Enough is Enough Series, #5 – The ADHD Fiction is Exposed. The French Have...
Robert Berezin, MD
-
September 16, 2016
76
2487
The Algorithm Will See You Now: A Geek Tragedy
David Healy, MD
-
September 14, 2016
5
681
Helpful and Hopeful Thoughts
Kjetil Mellingen
-
September 13, 2016
76
809
Searching for a Rose Garden: Challenging Psychiatry, Fostering Mad Studies
Liat Ben-Moshe, PhD
-
September 12, 2016
81
1555
My Daughter and Prozac
David Guttman
-
September 8, 2016
89
38814
Confessions of a Trespasser
Robert Whitaker
-
September 7, 2016
166
2818
Psychiatric Ethics
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
September 6, 2016
51
703
How Psychiatry Almost Stopped Burning Man: A Story of Hell and Liberation
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
September 6, 2016
17
1142
Backing Away from Psychiatry
Ronda Richardson
-
September 1, 2016
34
2396
Dear Boston Globe, Part IV: A Taste of Your Own Medicine
Sera Davidow
-
September 1, 2016
68
1132
Optimizing Children’s Mental Health is a Social Justice Issue
Tabita Green
-
August 31, 2016
9
1968
The Real Narrative of Life
Robert Berezin, MD
-
August 30, 2016
26
407
The ADHD Dilemma: Looking Beyond Big Pharma
Claudia Gold, MD
-
August 29, 2016
26
1149
Can Co-production Really Transform UK Mental Health Services?
Sarah Carr, PhD
-
August 29, 2016
7
1976
Fighting For Change: An Epiphany From Inside the “Movement”
Jen Constantine
-
August 25, 2016
24
357
Not So Rare But Rarely Diagnosed: From Demonic Possession to Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis
Nesrin Shaheen
-
August 24, 2016
26
15320
A Diluted Murphy Bill Clears the House and Goes to the Senate
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
August 23, 2016
72
1011
Who and What Killed Prince and Michael Jackson? Will the Role of Benzos Ever...
Richard D. Lewis
-
August 23, 2016
52
4876
What Does Your Illness Mean?
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
August 21, 2016
14
880
Researching the Link Between SSRIs and Violence
Catherine Clarke
-
August 20, 2016
38
1306
Pushing for an Informed Consent Benzo Bill in Texas
Stephen LaCorte, JD
-
August 18, 2016
24
2899
Life Lessons and Trauma Informed Care
Matthew Morris
-
August 18, 2016
12
314
Life in the Era of Push-button Psychiatry
Julie Greene, MFA
-
August 17, 2016
49
984
Mourning? – Yes; Forgiveness? – No. Healing from Trauma
Robert Berezin, MD
-
August 17, 2016
60
2774
Inner Fire: Healing and Recovery Without Meds
Beatrice Birch
-
August 16, 2016
49
3584
Escaping the Grip of Forensic Psychiatry
Aimee Inomata, PhD
-
August 14, 2016
84
1418
I am Insane
Reid Bertino
-
August 12, 2016
121
6469
Sadness: The Problem and The Solution
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
August 11, 2016
9
1051
Off Psychiatric Drugs After Fourteen Years
Naas Siddiqui, BA, CPS, MA
-
August 10, 2016
88
4030
#Diversity? — What “Solidarity” Really Looks Like
Iden Campbell, CPRP
-
August 9, 2016
35
588
More on the Power of Diversity: The “Hidden Recovered”
Ron Bassman, PhD
-
August 9, 2016
42
495
Centering Lived Experience
Kenneth Blatt, MD
-
August 9, 2016
35
615
Why Mental Health Organizations Should Endorse the Movement for Black Lives
Will Hall
-
August 3, 2016
154
1440
Interview: Researcher Runs Trial on Antidepressant Withdrawal
Justin Karter
-
August 3, 2016
6
3890
Dear Boston Globe, Part III: We Came. We Protested. You Still Didn’t Listen.
Sera Davidow
-
August 3, 2016
112
1162
It’s Time for a Revolution Within the Revolution: Coming Out of the Closet on...
Iden Campbell, CPRP
-
August 1, 2016
147
729
What Do the DSM, Elvis Presley, and Dionysus Have in Common?
Michael Fontaine, PhD
-
July 31, 2016
40
4074
The Struggle, and the Challenge: Young Adults in Crisis and the Use of Medication
Kenneth Blatt, MD
-
July 31, 2016
97
404
Six Lessons on Open Dialogue From the Collaborative Pathway Experiment
Chris Gordon, MD
-
July 29, 2016
27
1446
I Will Not Abandon You
Lauren Spiro
-
July 29, 2016
7
486
You Can Have Any Kind of Treatment You Want, Providing it’s Our Kind
Alec Grant, PhD
-
July 28, 2016
20
761
Drug Choice, Scientology, Ego Needs & Other Divides: Real Politics 101, Part Three
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
July 27, 2016
84
2247
They Call This “Help”
Otto Douglas
-
July 26, 2016
44
3134
Hearing Voices, Living Fully: Living with the Voices in My Head
Claire Bien, M.Ed.
-
July 26, 2016
8
2126
The Case Against Antipsychotics
Robert Whitaker
-
July 25, 2016
130
17874
Mental Health Advocacy in California: Perspectives of Advocates and Decision-Makers
Laysha Ostrow, PhD
-
July 25, 2016
3
1151
Violence Caused by Antidepressants: An Update after Munich
Peter Breggin, MD
-
July 25, 2016
25
6916
Psychiatry is Edging Dangerously Close to Eugenics
Robert Berezin, MD
-
July 20, 2016
151
7928
The Sociological Study of Mental Illness: A Historical Perspective
Andrew Scull, PhD
-
July 20, 2016
30
5633
Foster Youths Meet Psychiatry: First – Do No pHarm
Wayne Munchel
-
July 18, 2016
36
468
Falling Through the Cracks
Merry Citoli
-
July 17, 2016
36
2328
“Invisible” Resistance: Taking Charge in the Face of Difficulty and Institutional Rule
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
July 16, 2016
83
553
‘We’re Not Buying It!” — Survey on Emotional Distress and Diagnosis Reveals Mistrust of...
Lois Holzman, PhD
-
July 14, 2016
33
601
Schizophrenia Twin Research as Reported in The Gene: An Intimate History — Getting the...
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
July 12, 2016
21
2640
Dear Boston Globe, Part II: You Forgot the Facts
Sera Davidow
-
July 7, 2016
123
852
My Fixed Delusion
Michael Rock
-
July 6, 2016
135
1364
Yogurt Cooperative in Spain Provides a Different Form of Help: Meaningful Work
Anna Thomson
&
David Baksh
-
July 6, 2016
25
435
Announcing an International Symposium and Institute on Psychiatric Drug Risks and Withdrawal
Carina Håkansson, PhD
-
July 6, 2016
18
1794
The Murphy Bill, HR 2646 — a Heinous Piece of Legislation — is Coming...
Val Marsh, MSW
-
July 5, 2016
122
2387
Principled and Loving Support: The Greatest Gift We Can Give
Lauren Spiro
-
July 3, 2016
11
330
A Decade of Searching for the Needle in the Haystack
Chaya Grossberg
-
July 2, 2016
38
415
In the Matter of the Hospitalization of Mark V
Jim Gottstein, JD
-
July 1, 2016
69
449
Consequences of Taking the Yellow Brick Road: Lithium Carbonate 1984-1996
Julie Greene, MFA
-
July 1, 2016
52
2015
Benzos: A Dance With the Devil
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
July 1, 2016
26
14322
Royal College of Psychiatrists Still not Interested in Discussing Important Evidence on Long-term Antipsychotic...
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
June 30, 2016
68
859
“The Overdiagnosis of ADHD”
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
June 28, 2016
68
2864
A CALL TO ACTION: The Murphy Bill Passed the E&C Committee but the Fight Is...
Val Marsh, MSW
-
June 27, 2016
100
682
Reared-Apart Twin Study Mythology: The Latest Contribution (Part Two)
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
June 27, 2016
4
1435
Dear Boston Globe: You Are the Failure You Describe
Sera Davidow
-
June 27, 2016
106
1393
My Operation Tomorrow: Mental Health Justice, Speaking Out for Our Rights, and Creative Maladjustment
David W. Oaks
-
June 22, 2016
13
394
Feral Psychiatry: More on the Garth Daniels Case
Niall McLaren
-
June 21, 2016
50
2596
Forced “Treatment” is Torture
Peter Breggin, MD
-
June 19, 2016
140
25066
Important New Book— “Outside Mental Health: Voices and Visions of Madness”
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
June 19, 2016
14
783
Abolishing Forced Treatment in Psychiatry is an Ethical Imperative
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
-
June 17, 2016
255
7953
Pain’s Promise, and the Problem with Pills
James Schroeder, PhD
-
June 15, 2016
12
323
Why Parents Give Amphetamines and Other Risky Psychiatric Drugs to the Children They Love
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
June 14, 2016
73
7146
Rising Rates of Suicide: Are Pills the Problem?
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
June 13, 2016
40
1591
Well-Being Therapy: A Guide to Long-term Recovery
Giovanni Fava
-
June 13, 2016
14
728
No, It’s Not Because He Was ‘Mentally Ill’: Why Tragedy Struck in Orlando
Sera Davidow
-
June 13, 2016
187
1141
My Pharmaceutical Reincarnation
Theresa Trevor
-
June 11, 2016
25
3632
Mad Memo #1: Dear Supreme Commander (You!) of Global Nonviolent Revolution!
David W. Oaks
-
June 10, 2016
40
421
What Would a Trauma-Informed Society Look Like?
Noel Hunter, PsyD
-
June 6, 2016
88
3321
Eat Breathe Thrive: Chelsea Roff on Eating Disorders, Trauma, and Healing with Yoga and...
Vanessa Krasinski, MSN, RN
-
June 3, 2016
8
1473
Moving Forward in the Science of Psychiatric Medication Discontinuation/Reduction
Laysha Ostrow, PhD
-
June 2, 2016
22
802
Reared-Apart Twin Study Mythology: The Latest Contribution (Part One)
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
June 2, 2016
2
1308
A World That Would Have Us Doubt: Rape, the System, and Swim Fans
Sera Davidow
-
June 2, 2016
99
1159
Nutrition, Sleep, and Mental Health
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
June 1, 2016
34
1991
Effective Tactics for the “Rehumanizing Resistance”: Real Politics 101, Part Two
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
May 31, 2016
148
989
Reclaiming My Voice
Emily Lupsor
-
May 29, 2016
22
888
Please Join Groundbreaking Research on Psychiatric Medications
Will Hall
-
May 27, 2016
25
1201
Stop The War On Chronic Pain Patients
Richard Lawhern, PhD
-
May 26, 2016
167
16724
Prescribing Antidepressants for Girls: Intergenerational Adverse Consequences
Claudia Gold, MD
-
May 25, 2016
9
444
Who Will Guard the Guardians of Psychiatry?
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
May 24, 2016
28
935
Twin Method Assumptions are Indefensible, but are Useful to the Rich and Powerful
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
May 24, 2016
23
1568
The Evidence-Based Mind of Psychiatry on Display
Robert Whitaker
-
May 23, 2016
153
6607
A Moment Passed Too Often
Steve Imperato
-
May 22, 2016
9
497
Are They “Symptoms” or “Strategies?”
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
May 22, 2016
35
508
A Worldwide Epidemic – The Misuse of Anti-Depressant Medications
David Fox
-
May 20, 2016
35
2470
In Honor of Fear and Pain
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
May 18, 2016
10
1125
Mental Health in Black and White
Twilah Hiari
-
May 16, 2016
29
815
Do We Really Need Mental Health Professionals?
Gary Sidley, PhD
-
May 16, 2016
138
1352
Are Psychiatrists Playing God?
Peter Breggin, MD
-
May 15, 2016
64
4572
The Elusive Emotional Wounds of Omission That Our Culture Inflicts On Us – and...
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
May 15, 2016
57
1714
Daughter of a Psychiatrist
Mariel Chance
-
May 14, 2016
77
4331
Truth and Reconciliation: An Evening of Sharing and Healing
Rachel Levy, LCSW
-
May 14, 2016
8
1095
Consciousness Revealed – Revolutionary Implications for Psychiatry
Robert Berezin, MD
-
May 14, 2016
27
543
Report from the Parliament: Can Psychiatry At Least Be Curious?
Robert Whitaker
-
May 13, 2016
47
1144
Real Politics 101, Part One: “First-Order Psychiatry” vs. the “Rehumanizing Resistance”
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
May 12, 2016
51
878
Reflections on Myth Machines, “Mental Illness,” and the Perils of Good Intentions
Robert Nikkel, MSW
-
May 11, 2016
26
387
Making the Case Against Antidepressants in Parliament
Robert Whitaker
-
May 10, 2016
41
3364
ADHD: The Hoax Unravels
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
May 10, 2016
64
4969
On the Corner of Distress & Poverty: What Happens to Our Minds When There...
Sera Davidow
-
May 9, 2016
40
577
Not Seen
Elizabeth Hill
-
May 8, 2016
58
671
The FDA Is Hiding Reports Linking Psych Drugs to Homicides
Andrew Thibault
-
May 6, 2016
55
9966
Psychiatry: Worth Keeping If “Slowed Down”?
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
May 6, 2016
171
622
Feral Psychiatry: The Case of Garth Daniels
Niall McLaren
-
May 5, 2016
123
7782
Restoring Study 329: Letter to BMJ
Jon Jureidini, MD
-
May 3, 2016
6
664
An Important Documentary: Letters from Generation Rx
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
May 3, 2016
20
4326
My Time at Bellevue
Vlado C.
-
May 1, 2016
24
5212
The Presidential Primary & Forced Outpatient Psych Drugs
David W. Oaks
-
May 1, 2016
30
388
The Anorexia Nervosa Genetics Initiative
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
April 29, 2016
36
619
Why Evidence-based Practices Might not Actually Help People
Corinna West
-
April 29, 2016
18
1421
Mental Health First Aid: Your Friendly Neighborhood Mental Illness Maker
Sera Davidow
-
April 28, 2016
110
8087
Unhelpful Utterances: 6 Comments We Should No Longer Hear From Mental Health Professionals
Gary Sidley, PhD
-
April 26, 2016
65
991
Female Peer Specialists Paid Less than Males, Study Finds
Malia Fontecchio, MSW
-
April 26, 2016
45
325
How Biological Psychiatry Can Harm: A Mother’s View
Claudia Gold, MD
-
April 26, 2016
12
278
A “Hot-Potato” Topic and a “Rational” Book
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
April 25, 2016
28
937
The MD and the Imaginary Eating Disorder
Twilah Hiari
-
April 24, 2016
49
1524
The Psychiatry Sandcastle Continues to Crumble
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
April 22, 2016
46
762
My Response to the FDA’s ECT Rule Change
Christopher James Dubey
-
April 21, 2016
26
1507
Science-Based Service User Input, PLEASE?
Corinna West
-
April 19, 2016
6
1001
Dear Self-Proclaimed Progressives, Liberals and Humanitarians: You’ve Really Messed This One Up
Sera Davidow
-
April 18, 2016
264
2948
MIA Continuing Education Moves into its Next Phase
Robert Nikkel, MSW
-
April 18, 2016
4
219
Limits to Medicine: Re-visiting Ivan Illich
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
April 18, 2016
11
1229
My Journey of Recovery
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
April 17, 2016
29
817
Beneath the Fog
Michael Baker
-
April 16, 2016
61
1054
Finding Clarity Through Clutter
Matthew Morris
-
April 15, 2016
13
720
ACES Connection – Or Disease Mongering, Round 2?
Corinna West
-
April 14, 2016
21
1664
Victim Blaming: Childhood Trauma, Mental Illness & Diagnostic Distractions?
Liz Mullinar
&
Matthew Britts
-
April 13, 2016
92
10782
Dismissing the Patriarchal Prescriptions
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
April 9, 2016
36
786
Our Day in Mental Health Court
Serafina B.
-
April 8, 2016
49
877
Update: Massachusetts Benzodiazepine Bill Hearing
motto
-
April 7, 2016
11
3171
Study 329: Response to Keller & Colleagues
David Healy, MD
-
April 6, 2016
3
355
Psychiatric Diagnosis is a Fraud: The Destructive and Damaging Fiction of Biological ‘Diseases’
Robert Berezin, MD
-
April 5, 2016
81
26242
Comments by Shock Survivors and Their Loved Ones
Lauren Tenney, PhD, MPhil, MPA, Psychiatric Survivor
-
April 4, 2016
26
47231
Simple Things
Deena Hoblit
-
April 2, 2016
24
535
A New Mental Health System? Interview with Jim van Os
Will Hall
-
March 31, 2016
48
3061
Congress Proposes Research on the Link Between Psychiatric Drugs and Suicide
Chuck Ruby, PhD
-
March 30, 2016
17
1468
The Experiential Democracy Project: A Depth Approach to the Legislative Process
Kirk Schneider, PhD
-
March 29, 2016
3
1063
Call to Action: Massachusetts Benzodiazepine Bill is Going to Committee
motto
-
March 28, 2016
4
426
In Search of an Evidence-based Role for Psychiatry
John Read
,
Olga Runciman, Cand Psych BSc
&
Jacqui Dillon
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March 28, 2016
93
899
My Shock Survivor Story
Corinna West
-
March 25, 2016
7
468
Doctor O’s Adventures in Wonderland
Opeyemi Parham
-
March 25, 2016
16
1163
Only 72 Hours Left to Say #FDAStopTheShockDevice
Lauren Tenney, PhD, MPhil, MPA, Psychiatric Survivor
-
March 25, 2016
7
710
Trinkets and Lunches and Dollars for Docs Really Do Pay Off
Edward Opton, JD, PhD
-
March 23, 2016
10
506
Do 5 Million Americans Really Have Bipolar Disorder?
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
March 23, 2016
25
4618
Allen Frances on Anti-Psychiatry
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
March 23, 2016
54
1008
Bridging the Benzo Divide: Iatrogenic Dependence and/or Addiction?
Richard D. Lewis
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March 21, 2016
183
3229
Public Engagement Fail: Creating Community Solutions
Corinna West
-
March 21, 2016
2
534
Comments on Jeffrey Lieberman and Ogi Ogas’ Wall Street Journal Article on the Genetics...
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
March 21, 2016
71
1462
Medical Science Argues Against Forced Treatment Too
Robert Whitaker
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March 19, 2016
25
1728
“All for the Best of the Patient”
Dorrit Cato Christensen
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March 18, 2016
46
1261
Call To Action: Massachusetts Bill H4062 for Informed Benzodiazepine Use is Official
motto
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March 18, 2016
15
919
Dr. Pies and Dr. Frances Make a Compelling Case that Their Profession is Doing...
Robert Whitaker
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102
988
Life, Unarmed
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March 17, 2016
14
502
Love is Dialogical: The Open Dialogue UK International Conference and Training
Kermit Cole
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March 15, 2016
36
2282
TV Drug Ads, Abilify & Big Pharma Mobsters
Bruce Levine, PhD
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March 14, 2016
23
874
Myths are Used to Justify Depriving People Diagnosed as Mentally Ill of Their Human...
Paula J. Caplan, PhD
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March 14, 2016
47
1455
How Coalition or Community Engagement Work Damages Advocates
Corinna West
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March 13, 2016
12
543
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Ron Unger, LCSW
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March 13, 2016
10
224
Regarding the Impossibility of Recovery
Carrie Foulkes
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March 11, 2016
29
1380
Has the FDA Abandoned Its Off-Label Promotion Ban?
Jim Gottstein, JD
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March 10, 2016
7
321
Bipolarized and Crimes Against Nature
Rachel Levy, LCSW
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March 8, 2016
39
1347
The Drug-Free Solution to Ending Depression
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March 7, 2016
49
775
The Future of Mental Health Interview Series: Marilyn Wedge on Reclaiming Childhood
Eric Maisel, PhD
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March 7, 2016
2
300
Psychiatry Bashing
Philip Hickey, PhD
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March 7, 2016
62
1885
Appealing to our Elected Representatives
John Read
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March 7, 2016
37
648
“Bewitching Science” Revisited: Tales of Reunited Twins and the Genetics of Behavior
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March 6, 2016
9
2696
Schizophrenia in the Golden Ass
Michael Fontaine, PhD
-
March 6, 2016
13
1267
Advice on Coping With Voices
Luisa Castagnaro, MA
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March 4, 2016
16
806
To the Heart of the Matter, Part III: The Critical Nature of Authenticity and...
James Schroeder, PhD
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March 4, 2016
22
190
A Conversation about Having Conversations about Psychiatry
Amber Gum, PhD
&
Mariaelena Bartesaghi, PhD
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March 2, 2016
151
668
New Research into Antipsychotic Discontinuation And Reduction: the RADAR programme
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
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March 2, 2016
30
1367
The Mental Health Tribunal
John Read
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March 1, 2016
11
522
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Robert Berezin, MD
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March 1, 2016
31
1284
Organized Denial: Psychiatry’s Quiet Desperation
Stuart Shipko
-
March 1, 2016
18
1614
Future of Mental Health Series: Oryx Cohen on his film “Healing Voices”
Eric Maisel, PhD
-
February 29, 2016
0
205
Testifying in Vermont: Forced Drugs
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
February 28, 2016
125
1430
Short Notes from a Muddled Island (with apologies to Bill Bryson)
Hugh Middleton, MD
-
February 28, 2016
1
161
In Case You Missed This
Ally Nugent
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February 27, 2016
69
489
Call to Action: Support a Bill for Informed Benzodiazepine Use
motto
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February 26, 2016
11
791
Foxes Guarding the Henhouse: the Role of the Chief Psychiatrist
John Read
-
February 26, 2016
17
719
Promoting Mental Health: Supporting Early Relationships Does Not Mean Blaming Parents
Claudia Gold, MD
-
February 25, 2016
7
174
Troubling Mental Health Nurse Education
Alec Grant, PhD
-
February 23, 2016
30
758
Einstein, Social Justice and The New Relativity
Sarah Knutson
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February 23, 2016
15
1223
The Future of Mental Health Interview Series: Eleanor Longden
Eric Maisel, PhD
-
February 22, 2016
3
949
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Anne Cooke
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Peter Kinderman
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Rai Waddingham
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February 21, 2016
34
978
All in the Brain? An Open Letter Re: Stephen Fry’s Assumptions About Mental Illness
Richard Bentall, PhD
-
February 20, 2016
50
2865
Recovery: Compromise or Liberation?
Jay Watts, DClinPsy
-
February 20, 2016
43
5058
The Curious Case of over 50 Consecutive ECTs in Melbourne
John Read
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February 19, 2016
30
1885
40 Days to Tell the #FDAStoptheShockDevice
Lauren Tenney, PhD, MPhil, MPA, Psychiatric Survivor
-
February 17, 2016
6
717
Depressed, Anxious, or Substance-Abusing? But Don’t Buy You Are “Defective”?
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
February 17, 2016
17
715
My 6-year Anniversary Off Psych Drugs: How I Made It Through the Darkest Times
Monica Cassani
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February 16, 2016
0
745
Exploiting The Placebo Effect: Deceiving People For Their Own Good?
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
February 16, 2016
23
336
Future of Mental Health Interview Series: Interview with Joanna Moncrieff on The Myth of...
Eric Maisel, PhD
-
February 15, 2016
15
315
Doing It Alone Together: Core Issues In Dutch Self-Managed Residential Programs
Max Huber
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February 15, 2016
2
609
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Sarah Knutson
-
February 15, 2016
27
848
Supporting Resources: “The Case for 100% Voluntary”
Sarah Knutson
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February 15, 2016
1
490
Feeling Good with Narcotics Now “Evidence” of Opioid Deficiency: The Chemical Imbalance Theory of...
Vivek Datta, MD, MPH
-
February 15, 2016
29
2091
Lost & Found: Drowning The Mermaid, and Our Collective Power
Sera Davidow
-
February 14, 2016
55
259
Bloodtime
Jyl Anais
-
February 12, 2016
17
534
Gender Wage Gap and Depression/Anxiety
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
February 12, 2016
24
641
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Corinna West
-
February 11, 2016
12
458
Dr.s Leo & Lacasse Respond to Dr. Pies’ Response
Jonathan Leo, PhD / Jeffrey Lacasse, PhD
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February 11, 2016
6
690
Baby Blues, Postpartum Depression & Psychosis: Countering the Danger of Antidepressants
Robert Berezin, MD
-
February 10, 2016
22
624
The Social Consequences of a Diagnosis on the Autism Spectrum
Lois Holzman, PhD
-
February 9, 2016
21
484
Allen Frances Seeks the “Middle Way”
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
February 9, 2016
44
280
The Future of Mental Health Interview Series, Part III
Eric Maisel, PhD
-
February 8, 2016
3
187
Insight Forty Years Later: A Dream of Progress
Mary Maddock
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February 7, 2016
41
370
“Is It Her Hormones?” A Case of Psychiatry Missing the Mark
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
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February 6, 2016
8
759
“Schizophrenia Breakthrough” – Or a Case of Ignoring the Most Important Evidence?
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
February 6, 2016
19
797
On Soul Loss and Mental Health Services at Yale
Naas Siddiqui, BA, CPS, MA
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February 6, 2016
31
772
And Now for Something Completely the Same: The Latest, Greatest Breakthrough in Understanding the...
Dan Kriegman, PhD
-
February 6, 2016
18
958
We Need Your Help!
Robert Whitaker
-
February 4, 2016
40
453
A New York Times Debate: Is the ADHD Diagnosis Helpful or Harmful?
Marilyn Wedge, PhD
-
February 4, 2016
6
372
The CHRUSP Call to Action, and Its Significance
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
February 4, 2016
20
658
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February 3, 2016
38
8356
Hello World! An American Nut Challenges Trump About Status of “Bull Goose Loony.” We...
David W. Oaks
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February 1, 2016
11
340
Further Evidence of the Adverse Effects of Antidepressants, and Why These Have Taken so...
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
February 1, 2016
30
1159
Inflammation and Psychosis
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
February 1, 2016
29
2684
The Future of Mental Health Interview Series, Part II
Eric Maisel, PhD
-
February 1, 2016
1
190
The Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health: Finding Our Way in a World of...
Yana Jacobs
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January 30, 2016
9
212
Why Screening Everyone for Depression is a Terrible Idea
Vivek Datta, MD, MPH
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January 29, 2016
58
1632
Support CRPD Absolute Prohibition of Commitment and Forced Treatment
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
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January 29, 2016
19
751
Postpartum Depression Screening: Prevention or Problem?
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
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January 28, 2016
15
295
Rethinking Psychiatry Teaches about Despair, Resilience, and the Great Turning
Rachel Levy, LCSW
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January 28, 2016
25
607
What Disability Benefit Trends Tell Us About Psychiatric Treatments and the Economy
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
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January 28, 2016
27
786
Me, Allen Frances, and Climbing Out of a Pigeonhole
Robert Whitaker
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January 27, 2016
121
2279
My Diagnosis of ADHD and the Downfall That Followed
Renee M.
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January 26, 2016
14
17724
Anxiety: The Price We Pay for Consciousness
Brian Koehler, PhD
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January 26, 2016
11
1727
The Genetics of Schizophrenia: A Left Brain Theory about a Right Brain Deficit in...
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January 25, 2016
20
4933
The Future of Mental Health Interview Series
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January 25, 2016
7
297
Suicidal Tendencies, Part I: I’m Suicidal Because I’m Mentally Ill Because I’m Suicidal
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January 24, 2016
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4716
At the Intersection Between Black Pride and Mad Pride
Justin Brown
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January 24, 2016
55
1053
How I’ve Found Nonviolent Communication Helpful, Part 2; In the Mental Health System
Rufus May
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January 24, 2016
25
837
Madness and the Family: What Helps, and What Makes Things Worse?
Ron Unger, LCSW
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January 21, 2016
45
447
Are “Psychiatric Disorders” Brain Diseases?
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
January 19, 2016
41
1242
Schizophrenia and Genetics: A Closer Look at the Evidence
Jay Joseph, PsyD
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January 18, 2016
27
7895
We Need to be Studying the Mind, Not the Brain
Al Galves, PhD
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January 16, 2016
34
3372
Middle School Invasion: When the Pharmaceutical Companies Come to Town
Sera Davidow
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January 16, 2016
46
883
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Laysha Ostrow, PhD
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January 15, 2016
0
354
Smashing the Neurotransmitter Myth: How & Why Antidepressants Cause Suicides & Mass Murders
Robert Berezin, MD
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January 15, 2016
74
1173
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Akiko Hart
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January 14, 2016
4
339
Duty to Warn – 14 Lies That Our Psychiatry Professors in Medical School Taught...
Gary Kohls, MD
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January 14, 2016
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How the “Relational Perspective Paradigm” Informs Justice-Oriented Clinical Practice
Norbert A. Wetzel, ThD, MFT
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January 14, 2016
4
1216
Delay of Diagnosis: The Placebo Effect of Behavioral Diagnosis
Patrick Landman, MD
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January 13, 2016
22
426
How I’ve Found Nonviolent Communication Helpful
Rufus May
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January 11, 2016
7
564
If a Tree Falls in the Forest
Sandra Steingard, MD
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January 11, 2016
82
601
The Gauntlet of Protracted Benzodiazepine Withdrawal
Robert Pfaff
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January 10, 2016
95
20351
False Arguments, Part 3: Why Do People Hear Voices? (And Why Do We Need...
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January 10, 2016
31
2101
When a Book is Like a Person: Lessons from Book Repair
Rev. Dr. Steven Epperson
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January 10, 2016
7
2502
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January 8, 2016
19
903
Privilege, the Construction of Sanity and Answering the Afiya Phone Line
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January 7, 2016
2
241
President Obama Links Mental Health Conditions and Gun Violence! He Needs to Hear from...
Susan Rogers
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January 6, 2016
28
837
The FDA Wants to Approve ECT Without Testing
Peter Breggin, MD
-
January 6, 2016
52
1521
Becoming a Hearing Voices Facilitator
David Lawrence
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January 5, 2016
0
885
Serotonin Is Still Alive and Well in Psychiatry Land
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
January 5, 2016
7
415
Setting the Record Straight: The Psychiatric Legacy of Robert Spitzer
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
January 5, 2016
34
1082
A New Year’s Letter to Our Readers: The Past, Present, and Future of MIA
Robert Whitaker
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January 4, 2016
31
313
Is an Ominous New Era of Diagnosing Psychosis by Biotype on the Horizon?
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
January 4, 2016
62
818
Psychiatry and Crime
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
January 4, 2016
35
2612
To the Heart of the Matter, Part II: Perceptions of Public and Personal Stigma
James Schroeder, PhD
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December 31, 2015
107
244
Shock Device Safe As Eyeglasses? 89 Days to Say No
Lauren Tenney, PhD, MPhil, MPA, Psychiatric Survivor
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December 30, 2015
25
2379
Timberrr! Psychiatry’s Evidence Base For Antipsychotics Comes Crashing to the Ground
Robert Whitaker
-
December 29, 2015
52
5086
Madness and the Family, Part III: Practical Methods for Transforming Troubled Family Systems
Paris Williams, PhD
-
December 28, 2015
24
2756
My Desperate Yet Demoralizing Plight to Get My Son a Diagnosis for Christmas
Sera Davidow
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December 27, 2015
24
348
Deafening Silence: What Happens When the Whistle Blows and Nobody Hears?
Richard D. Lewis
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December 27, 2015
64
1144
Human Rights Updates
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
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December 27, 2015
22
1521
Strange Gifts and the Search for Santa Claus
Heather Duke
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December 25, 2015
5
520
Culturally Numb
Deron Drumm
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December 22, 2015
18
497
Antidepressants, Pregnancy, and Autism: Why Wouldn’t Antidepressant Chemicals Affect a Developing Baby’s Brain?
Adam Urato, MD
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December 22, 2015
28
863
Madness and the Family (Part Two): Towards a Unified Theory of Family Dynamics and...
Paris Williams, PhD
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December 20, 2015
47
1521
Book Review: The Importance of Suffering
Redmond O'Hanlon, DPhil
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December 20, 2015
7
1739
Enough is Enough Series: 2-Year-olds on Anti-psychotics and Biological Markers for Psychosis
Robert Berezin, MD
-
December 18, 2015
42
366
Healing Voices Documentary Review in the Huffington Post
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
December 17, 2015
30
1173
Book Review: “Overmedicated and Undertreated”
Edward Opton, JD, PhD
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December 16, 2015
7
903
Antidepressants & The Undead
David Healy, MD
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December 15, 2015
55
746
They May not Be Coming for Your Guns, But They Are Definitely Coming for...
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
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December 15, 2015
15
917
Madness and the Family (Part One): The History and Research of Family Dynamics and...
Paris Williams, PhD
-
December 13, 2015
112
4170
Support for SB 614 with Amendment to Supervision Qualifications
Malia Fontecchio, MSW
-
December 10, 2015
22
257
The Deeper Genome: New Research Findings in Genomics and Epigenomics
Brian Koehler, PhD
-
December 9, 2015
16
787
Murphy’s Legislation Threatens Civil Rights of the “Mentally Ill”
Jim Probert
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December 9, 2015
10
211
Please Respond to the New York Times: “What Should Be Done to Prevent Mass...
Susan Rogers
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December 8, 2015
60
228
Is Motivation Worth More Than Expertise?
David Healy, MD
-
December 8, 2015
6
420
More on Neuroessentialism: Theoretical and Clinical Considerations
William Schultz
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December 7, 2015
17
582
Ernst Rüdin’s Unpublished Family Study of “Manic-Depressive Insanity” and the Genetics of Bipolar Disorder
Jay Joseph, PsyD
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December 7, 2015
9
742
Mad Love
Jennifer Maria Padron
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December 7, 2015
2
270
Your Weight is Forbidden Fruit
Julie Greene, MFA
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December 6, 2015
16
552
Shut Up and Put Up: A Military Culture of Retaliation – Including Diagnosis – When...
Elayne Clift
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December 6, 2015
10
379
For Me, Self-Love Requires Both Mercy and Defiance
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
December 6, 2015
28
1660
The Modern Day Witch-hunt
Noel Hunter, PsyD
-
December 5, 2015
27
47248
Why I Have (Mostly) Given Up on Diagnosis
Randy Paterson, PhD, RPsych
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December 4, 2015
10
362
The Ghost of Research Future
Johanna Ryan
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December 3, 2015
13
512
Needle In a Haystack: Identifying the Next School Shooter Before He Shoots
Jack Carney, DSW
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November 30, 2015
65
523
My Response to Dr. Pies’ Response
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
November 30, 2015
13
500
Rep. Tim Murphy May Be in Violation of Professional Psychological Ethics & the Law
Jasenn Zaejian, PhD
-
November 29, 2015
20
1090
The Mental Health Channel & Beyond: What Does it Really Mean to Present a...
Sera Davidow
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November 27, 2015
95
386
Think About Mental Health Wellness for Your End-of-year Donations
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
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November 25, 2015
5
395
Where’s the Outrage?
Pat Risser
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November 25, 2015
82
839
Psychiatry’s Last Tango? — A Response to Bonnie Burstow
Redmond O'Hanlon, DPhil
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November 24, 2015
33
790
Electroshocking Veterans and Their Fetuses
Lauren Tenney, PhD, MPhil, MPA, Psychiatric Survivor
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November 24, 2015
32
2324
Sanity, Friendship, Community
Michael Guy Thompson
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November 22, 2015
13
405
Hypermodern Hyperactives
Patrick Landman, MD
-
November 21, 2015
4
347
Don’t Harm Them Twice (Part II): What Can Be Done?
J. Doe
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November 20, 2015
68
1283
MIA Continuing Education: An Update
Robert Nikkel, MSW
-
November 20, 2015
5
198
Stranger Than Kindness
Mark Radcliffe, PhD, RMN
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November 19, 2015
9
334
Crisis is (un)Learning
Sera Davidow
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November 18, 2015
15
740
Appendix A: Section IX of United States of America vs. GlaxoSmithKline, PLC: GSK’S...
Philip Hickey, PhD
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November 18, 2015
1
498
“Let Food Be Thy Medicine” — So Let’s Teach Physicians How to Cook!
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
November 17, 2015
6
993
My Response To Dr. Pies
Philip Hickey, PhD
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November 17, 2015
56
1176
Study 329: Big Risk
David Healy, MD
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November 16, 2015
5
336
Beyond ADHD: Moving Past the DSM Paradigm of Mental Illness
Claudia Gold, MD
-
November 16, 2015
6
584
Study 329: Psychiatry’s Thalidomide Moment, Part 2
Redmond O'Hanlon, DPhil
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November 16, 2015
2
423
A Mental Patient’s View of the Body
Issa Ibrahim
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November 15, 2015
10
918
We Are Failing Our Kids: A Few Remedies
Tabita Green
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November 14, 2015
15
373
RAISE-ing Some Questions
Wayne Munchel
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November 13, 2015
22
503
Don’t Harm Them Twice: When the Language Surrounding Benzodiazepines Adds Insult to Injury (Part...
J. Doe
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November 12, 2015
47
4668
The Revolution in Psychotherapy
David Elkins, PhD
-
November 12, 2015
11
828
“Murphy Bill” Continues to Exclude Voices of Millions with Mental Health Conditions as It...
National Coalition for Mental Health Recovery
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November 12, 2015
28
553
Prescription Privileges for Psychologists, Part II: Is Our Consent Fully Informed?
James Schroeder, PhD
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November 12, 2015
10
764
Medication Mechanization: Microchip Sensors in Abilify to Increase Medication Compliance
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
November 10, 2015
89
5410
CU President Raises Mental Health “Awareness” in Defiance of Mental Health Facts
Corinna West
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November 10, 2015
8
235
The Art of Mourning
Jennifer Maria Padron
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November 9, 2015
5
220
Dear Man: Sexism, Misogyny, & Our ‘Movement’
Sera Davidow
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November 8, 2015
201
1322
Sound Heals the Wild Beast
Jennifer Maria Padron
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November 6, 2015
0
259
Suffering: Who Needs It?
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
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November 6, 2015
11
309
Study 329: Transparency in Limbo at the British Medical Journal
David Healy, MD
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November 6, 2015
3
463
Saving Congressman Murphy from Fraudulent Information
Dennis Embry, PhD
-
November 6, 2015
20
234
Losing Our Minds to ‘Science’: Treatment Survivors Speak Out Against the Murphy Bill (H.R....
Sarah Knutson
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November 5, 2015
109
782
Danger Ahead if HR 2646 (the “Murphy Bill”) Passes!
Susan Rogers
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November 4, 2015
18
562
The Recovery After an Initial Schizophrenia Episode (RAISE) Study: Notes from the Trenches
Sandra Steingard, MD
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November 4, 2015
43
1378
Why Mainstream Psychiatry Fears a Balanced Understanding of Psychosis
Ron Unger, LCSW
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November 3, 2015
27
860
A Square Peg in a Round Hole: The Construction of Depression as a Disease
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
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November 2, 2015
36
613
Twin Studies are Still in Trouble: A Response to Turkheimer
Jay Joseph, PsyD
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November 2, 2015
5
3686
The Making of Codex Alternus: What We Can Learn About Research on Non-Traditional Psychiatric...
Dion Zessin
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November 1, 2015
11
866
World Health Organization Publishes Blog About My 40 Years in The Mad Movement
David W. Oaks
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October 31, 2015
57
284
Transmuting Historical Trauma
Naas Siddiqui, BA, CPS, MA
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October 30, 2015
20
1534
Diagnosisgate: A Major Media Blackout Mystery
Paula J. Caplan, PhD
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October 30, 2015
34
4982
‘I’d Rather Die Than Go Back to Hospital’: Why We Need a Non-medical Crisis...
Anne Cooke
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October 28, 2015
22
7382
Study 329: 50 Shades of Gray
David Healy, MD
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October 28, 2015
3
272
A Tribute to Bonnie Nelson
Nancy Rubenstein del Giudice
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October 28, 2015
6
981
Mad Economy: Let’s Change the World!
Karen Taylor, RMN
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October 23, 2015
18
432
The Alternative to Drugs: The Real Treatment for Human Suffering
Robert Berezin, MD
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October 23, 2015
104
570
Dr. Pies and Psychiatry’s ‘Solid Center’
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
October 22, 2015
25
1457
Slow Psychiatry: Integrating Need-Adapted Approaches with Drug-Centered Pharmacology
Sandra Steingard, MD
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October 19, 2015
86
1178
Ernst Rüdin: The Founding Father of Psychiatric Genetics
Jay Joseph, PsyD
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October 19, 2015
6
6458
“My Ego Strength is Too Developed for Me to Ever Become Psychotic!”
Michael Cornwall, PhD
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October 18, 2015
61
2209
Study 329: Conflicts of Interest
David Healy, MD
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October 18, 2015
3
328
Antipsychotics Withdrawal, Part 3
Corinna West
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October 17, 2015
29
5044
Suicide Tsunami
Sheralyn Rose, PhD
-
October 17, 2015
10
352
Keeping Meili Off Psychiatric Drugs
Stephen Shenfield
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October 16, 2015
17
588
The UK National Health Service Peer-Supported Open Dialogue Project
Tom Stockmann, MD
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October 15, 2015
20
1372
Destination, Dignity: Creating the Future We Want
Iden Campbell, CPRP
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October 15, 2015
45
214
Study 329 in Japan
David Healy, MD
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October 14, 2015
0
0
Siddhartha, 1984, the Murphy Bill, and More
Cindi Fisher
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October 13, 2015
22
521
On the Link Between Psychiatric Drugs and Violence
Philip Hickey, PhD
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October 13, 2015
36
1266
A Harm Reduction Approach to the Mental Health System
Noel Hunter, PsyD
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October 12, 2015
28
2298
On the Tyranny of Good Will: Why We Call Ourselves Psychiatric Survivors
Mary Maddock
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October 12, 2015
18
1265
Race, Gun Violence & Mental Health: #BlackLivesMatter
David W. Oaks
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October 10, 2015
26
1125
Human Beings Are More Than a Combination of Letters, or; Why We Needed a...
Carina Håkansson, PhD
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October 10, 2015
3
268
Being Myself
Iden Campbell, CPRP
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October 9, 2015
10
2192
Top Psychiatrist’s Stunning Announcement About Gun Violence
Paula J. Caplan, PhD
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October 9, 2015
76
3365
Videos from the 2014 “Transforming Mad Science and Re-Imagining Mental Health Care” ISEPP/UCLA Conference
David Cohen
-
October 9, 2015
26
597
Integration of Physical and Mental Health
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
October 9, 2015
25
286
Study 329: By the Standards of the Time
Johanna Ryan
-
October 8, 2015
19
445
A Confession, and a Dilemma
Tracey Libby
-
October 7, 2015
24
230
ADHD: More of It, Better Diagnosis, or Both?
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
October 7, 2015
14
377
A Reflective Checklist to Reduce Psychotropic Drugs for Vulnerable Children
Dave Traxson
-
October 7, 2015
9
548
Breaking News About the Oregon Shooter
Peter Breggin, MD
-
October 5, 2015
93
2590
Benzodiazepines: Psychiatry’s Weakest Link
Richard D. Lewis
-
October 5, 2015
38
3267
Is There Risk in Screening for Mental Health Disorders?
Claudia Gold, MD
-
October 5, 2015
27
404
The New York Times Celebrates Twin Research Yet Again
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
October 5, 2015
9
889
Psychiatry and the Pressure to Prescribe
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
October 5, 2015
19
766
Passage
Elizabeth Hill
-
October 3, 2015
53
696
Co-Optation, Failed Analogies, and ‘How to Touch a Hot Stove’
Sera Davidow
-
October 3, 2015
246
847
Why Did 158+ People Attend an Antipsychiatry Book Launch? (A Reflection)
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
October 3, 2015
15
457
Study 329: Minions no Longer
David Healy, MD
-
October 2, 2015
5
276
A Liberation Journey with Images
Lauren Spiro
-
October 2, 2015
20
526
“Mental Disorders in the Classical World” (A Review)
Michael Fontaine, PhD
-
October 2, 2015
14
1786
Hey; Don’t Just Shoot the Messenger!
Hugh Middleton, MD
-
October 1, 2015
26
695
Life Events Cause Psychosis: The Further Adventures of an Aspiring Psychonaut
Corinna West
-
October 1, 2015
9
481
Should Consumer/Survivors Help Psychiatrists Become Better Psychiatrists?
Lucy Costa
-
September 29, 2015
41
830
10 of the Worst Political Abuses of the Psychiatric and Psychological Professions in American...
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
September 29, 2015
47
1655
Study 329: The Data Wars Cross the Rubicon
David Healy, MD
-
September 28, 2015
9
329
Terry Lynch: The Doctor Who Stands for Truth
Jim Maddock
&
Mary Maddock
-
September 25, 2015
20
1690
You, Your Kids, or the Doctor… Who’s Running the Show?
Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
-
September 25, 2015
5
399
The APA’s New Image
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
September 25, 2015
42
657
New Video and Campaign Calls for REAL Change in Mental Health Policy
Campaign for Real Change in Mental Health Policy
-
September 24, 2015
18
291
What is #toppmote2015 and Why Does it Matter?
Peter Kinderman
-
September 24, 2015
2
395
Involuntary Hospitalization: What’s Love Got to do With it?
Noel Hunter, PsyD
-
September 23, 2015
36
1916
What Happened to those Who Were Suicidal in Study 329? And to the Learned...
David Healy, MD
-
September 21, 2015
2
304
Ronald Pies Doubles Down (And Why We Should Care)
Robert Whitaker
-
September 21, 2015
119
2635
Love, Liberty, and Psychiatric Hospitalization
Norman Hoffman, MD
-
September 20, 2015
69
384
Psychiatry: The Hoax Exposed
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
September 20, 2015
57
1311
Hello World! 5 Reasons We Must Say ‘No’ to Normality & Psychiatry
David W. Oaks
-
September 19, 2015
5
422
Yesterday I Looked Forward to Taking Psych Drugs
Corinna West
-
September 19, 2015
14
549
The Questions Are Not the Problem
Tim Carey, PhD
-
September 19, 2015
7
271
Psychiatry & Organized Crime
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
September 18, 2015
24
954
Study 329: MK, HK, SK and GSK
David Healy, MD
-
September 18, 2015
3
191
When There’s No Place Like Home….
motto
-
September 18, 2015
118
301
Trauma Outpaces our Ability to Adapt: It is the Source of Our Suffering
Robert Berezin, MD
-
September 17, 2015
22
724
On Making Non Sense
Kit Riley
-
September 17, 2015
21
658
Psychiatry’s Thalidomide Moment
Redmond O'Hanlon, DPhil
-
September 16, 2015
11
796
Benzo Drugs, UK Fudge, Cover Up and Consequences
Barry Haslam
-
September 16, 2015
13
760
Say What? Understanding That What We Say—and How We Say It—Changes Lives
James Schroeder, PhD
-
September 16, 2015
28
341
The Inherent Unreliability of the ADHD Label
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
September 15, 2015
91
560
Can Probiotics be Used for the Treatment of Mental Health Problems?
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
&
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
-
September 15, 2015
16
3201
The Use of Antipsychotic Medications in Children
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
September 14, 2015
30
2777
The Troubled Life of Study 329: Consequences of Failure to Retract
David Healy, MD
-
September 9, 2015
13
749
The Fourth and Fifth Laws of Behavioral Genetics
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
September 8, 2015
12
2681
Mental Health: Misnomer & Metaphor
Jack Carney, DSW
-
September 8, 2015
35
1152
Enhanced Interrogation: Is It Psychology’s Only Scandal? by Lois Holzman
Lois Holzman, PhD
-
September 5, 2015
0
381
A Not-So-Charmed Life
Redmond O'Hanlon, DPhil
-
September 5, 2015
30
4735
Stigmatization of Psychiatry and Psychiatrists: Some Remedial Suggestions
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
September 5, 2015
73
917
From Self-Harm to Self-Empowerment: Liberation Through Words
Jeanene Harlick
-
September 3, 2015
46
1279
Yes, the Tide is Turning Against Psychiatry
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
September 3, 2015
128
2153
Do NAMI and MHA Suffer From Anosognosia?
Sera Davidow
-
September 2, 2015
105
2701
Study 329: The Timelines
David Healy, MD
-
September 2, 2015
6
242
Destination, Dignity: Focus on a Broken Criminal Justice System
Susan Rogers
-
September 2, 2015
6
430
Meta-Autonomy & Meta-Equality
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
September 2, 2015
3
791
Hiding the Evidence of Society’s Side Effects
motto
-
September 1, 2015
8
320
Shooting the Odds, Part III
Stuart Shipko
-
September 1, 2015
22
2862
House of Cards: Bad Science Creates False and Dangerous Beliefs
Robert Berezin, MD
-
September 1, 2015
9
417
Book Review: Depression Delusion by Terry Lynch, MD, MA
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
August 31, 2015
60
1326
Study329.org: The Panorama Files
David Healy, MD
-
August 27, 2015
22
220
Cannabis for Treating Psychiatric Problems? A Clear Yes, Maybe.
Will Hall
-
August 27, 2015
76
5932
What if ACEs (Adverse Childhood Events) Were the Basis of Mental Health Treatment?
Wayne Munchel
-
August 26, 2015
83
1772
New Documentary, “Creatively Maladjusted”: Diagnosed-Psychotic Quad Activist Goes Global Revolutionary!
David W. Oaks
-
August 26, 2015
5
466
Incarcerated, “Delusional,” and Sentenced to Abuse
motto
-
August 25, 2015
22
774
How Following the Trail of “Cutting Edge” and “Convenient” Can Distort Reality
James Schroeder, PhD
-
August 24, 2015
33
490
A Network Meeting in North America
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
August 24, 2015
18
306
Compassion and the Voice of the Tormentor
Timothy N.
-
August 21, 2015
20
581
A Response to the Hyper-focus on Brain-based Research and “Disease”
Noel Hunter, PsyD
&
William Schultz
-
August 20, 2015
36
762
Delusions
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
August 20, 2015
43
990
Is Mandatory Trial Registration Decontaminating the Psychiatric Literature?
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
August 19, 2015
9
1037
A Milestone in the Battle for Truth in Drug Safety: Study 329’s Final Chapter...
David Healy, MD
-
August 18, 2015
18
254
A Debate on Twin Research Has Broken Out in American Criminology
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
August 18, 2015
5
1021
Flibanserin: The Female Viagra is a Failed Me-too Antidepressant
Emily Wheeler
-
August 17, 2015
39
6125
My Father-in-law on Risperdal — A Case Study Gets Personal
Steve McCrea
-
August 16, 2015
34
3297
The Murphys Have Their Way With Words
Sera Davidow
-
August 15, 2015
30
565
The Boy in the Closet — How I Lost my Best Friend to a...
motto
-
August 15, 2015
25
411
My Successful Campaign for Dedicated Benzo Withdrawal Services
Barry Haslam
-
August 15, 2015
20
869
Psychiatry’s “Institutional Corruption”—A Chat with Robert Whitaker and Lisa Cosgrove
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
August 12, 2015
106
1964
On Relaxing Off-Label Meds: Do the Opposite. Especially for Children. Especially Antipsychotics
Steven Francesco
-
August 12, 2015
15
534
Senate Bill 1945: The New Fraud – Getting into the “Mental Health Reform Act...
Lauren Tenney, PhD, MPhil, MPA, Psychiatric Survivor
-
August 11, 2015
13
870
#1 Wacko Memo: Disability & Mental Health Revolution to Stop Global Warming!
David W. Oaks
-
August 11, 2015
28
500
What Do We Owe When a Shock Survivor Dies? – On the Death of...
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
August 11, 2015
16
1522
Do We Need to Medicate More Children? – A Response to Calls to Remove...
Dan Kriegman, PhD
-
August 10, 2015
14
1094
Binge Eating and Genetics
William Schultz
-
August 10, 2015
13
472
Why was James Holmes, the Movie Theater Killer, Spared the Death Penalty?
Robert Berezin, MD
-
August 9, 2015
41
718
Healing is a Shocking Process: Protracted Psych Drug Withdrawal Syndrome (Iatrogenic Brain Injury)
Monica Cassani
-
August 8, 2015
38
6258
Thoughts on the Nature of Emotions
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
August 7, 2015
10
356
The Ubiquity of Unhappiness: An Introduction to Cultural Psychiatry
Jeremy Wallace, MD
-
August 7, 2015
11
574
“Knowing Together” vs. “Knowing Apart”: The Importance of Extending Our Network
Carina Håkansson, PhD
-
August 5, 2015
27
343
Impoverished Youth; Our Neighbors in Distress, and at Risk
motto
-
August 5, 2015
7
590
Lost in Medication
David Healy, MD
-
August 4, 2015
18
330
Intermittent Explosive Disorder: The ‘Illness’ That Goes On Growing
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
August 4, 2015
76
63265
Should Physicians Read Journals? Given Current Standards, Maybe Not
Randy Paterson, PhD, RPsych
-
July 29, 2015
27
379
Lithium and Suicide: What Does the Evidence Show?
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
July 27, 2015
23
12494
Stimulate Your Vagus Nerve and Thus Chill Out: Simple, Natural, Uninvasive Methods
Monica Cassani
-
July 27, 2015
7
1821
#ADA25 Birthday, Mental Health, Justin Dart and My Crazy Hashtags
David W. Oaks
-
July 26, 2015
6
297
Five Strikes Against Assisted Outpatient Treatment Laws
motto
-
July 25, 2015
29
1121
Revised UN Prison Rules
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
July 24, 2015
4
626
ADHD: A Destructive and Disempowering Label; Not an Illness
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
July 24, 2015
21
1751
Survey on Emotional Distress and Mental Health Diagnosis: An International Campaign to Include “Regular...
Lois Holzman, PhD
-
July 22, 2015
14
629
Teen Bipolar Disorder and the Abnormal Brain: Making Sense of New Research
Claudia Gold, MD
-
July 21, 2015
32
718
Why the DSM Differential Diagnosis is So Disappointing
James Schroeder, PhD
-
July 21, 2015
24
817
Gut Microbiota & Mental Health
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
July 20, 2015
25
1341
The Sweet Spot Between Ignorance and Certainty: A Place Where Dialogue and Healing...
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
July 19, 2015
12
434
One Family’s Encounter with Modern Psychiatry and a Call for Social Change
Tabita Green
-
July 17, 2015
113
1597
Benzodiazepines: Miracle Drugs?
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
July 16, 2015
94
1807
Rx Resilience: Cultivating the Ability to Bounce Back
Jennifer Bahr, ND
-
July 15, 2015
7
803
The Lonely Way: Reflections from a Young Psychologist
Victor Morasse
-
July 15, 2015
59
1662
The Disease Loop – Mental Health Infographics
Corinna West
-
July 13, 2015
5
2059
Dialogues as a Way of Transforming Consciousness: Results from Three Teleconference Dialogues of Discovery...
Lauren Spiro
-
July 12, 2015
4
458
Always a Mystery: Why do Drugs Come and Go?
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
July 8, 2015
91
507
Women, ECT, and Memory
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
July 7, 2015
28
1675
Tearing Apart the DSM-5 in Social Work Class
Sascha Altman DuBrul
-
July 6, 2015
29
2989
For a Well Mind, Try Revolution? Creative Maladjustment Week 2015
David W. Oaks
-
July 6, 2015
1
293
Psychiatric Drugs are False Prophets with Big Profits. Psychiatry Has Been Hijacked
Robert Berezin, MD
-
July 5, 2015
55
764
Who Needs Radicalisation?
Matthew Morris
-
July 5, 2015
5
252
Why the Shades of Awakening Online Series Matters
Sean Blackwell
-
July 5, 2015
39
831
Tell PCORI What Research Funding We Really Need
Corinna West
-
July 4, 2015
3
252
Reasons Not to Believe in Lithium
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
June 30, 2015
84
14768
Lessons from Soteria-Alaska
Jim Gottstein, JD
-
June 29, 2015
63
3760
It’s as Bad as You Think: The Gap Between the Rich and the Poor...
Philip Thomas, MD
-
June 29, 2015
34
629
Mistakes Were Made (by all of us)
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
June 28, 2015
105
628
Can Madness Save the World?
Paris Williams, PhD
-
June 26, 2015
31
2402
Children, Youth and Mental Health in British Columbia: A Presentation to the Legislature
Rev. Dr. Steven Epperson
-
June 26, 2015
32
1262
Are DSM Psychiatric Disorders “Heritable”?
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
June 24, 2015
39
6060
CBT: Part of the Solution, Part of the Problem, an Illusion, or All...
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
June 24, 2015
54
1596
A Witness to Fraud
Lauren Tenney, PhD, MPhil, MPA, Psychiatric Survivor
-
June 24, 2015
18
643
When the Tail Wags the Dog, Eventually the Dog Bites
Norman Hoffman, MD
-
June 24, 2015
54
521
The Mind and Body Connection: The Correlation between Stress and Inflammation
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
June 23, 2015
15
759
Men on Hooks: The Origin of Modern Psychiatric Diagnostic Systems
George Atwood, PhD
-
June 22, 2015
20
372
The First “Working To Recovery” Camp: June, 2015
Karen Taylor, RMN
-
June 22, 2015
13
649
Decision-Making and Moral Injury
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
June 22, 2015
26
1119
What Do Dreams Mean? Dreams Provide a Window Into Our Character
Robert Berezin, MD
-
June 22, 2015
1
488
What You Believe Makes a Difference
Al Galves, PhD
-
June 21, 2015
35
522
Regarding Representative Tim Murphy’s Helping Families In Mental Health Crisis Act
Noel Hunter, PsyD
-
June 19, 2015
11
2087
Electroshock Survivors Taught Me Eight Lessons in International Protests
David W. Oaks
-
June 18, 2015
6
366
Upon the U.K. Launch of Psychiatry and the Business of Madness: A Reflection
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
June 16, 2015
29
349
Bullying+Lying = Fear+Complying
motto
-
June 15, 2015
10
262
To the Heart of the Matter: Stigma, Labeling, and the Delicate Search for the...
James Schroeder, PhD
-
June 13, 2015
70
847
The Medical Model Discovers Heroin Addiction
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
June 12, 2015
38
879
The Time to Curb Forced Drugging is Now: In Your State, and Nationally
Edward Opton, JD, PhD
-
June 10, 2015
12
312
Towards a Healthcare Magna Carta, Part One
David Healy, MD
-
June 8, 2015
18
335
How Should We Understand the Link Between ADHD and Early Death?
Claudia Gold, MD
-
June 8, 2015
9
463
Psychiatry On The Defensive, But Ceding No Ground
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
June 8, 2015
31
258
‘Empathy’ is a False God: ‘Responsiveness’ is the Real Deal
Robert Berezin, MD
-
June 8, 2015
31
1494
With the Public Defrauded, the Illegitimacy of Forced Psychiatry Crystallizes
Lauren Tenney, PhD, MPhil, MPA, Psychiatric Survivor
-
June 7, 2015
22
421
Competition, Collaboration & Collusion: The Triple Threat for Our Kids
motto
-
June 7, 2015
18
385
“Let’s Roll” With Mad in America Continuing Education
Robert Nikkel, MSW
-
June 6, 2015
5
277
Book Review: Parenting Your Child with ADHD: A No-Nonsense Guide for Nurturing Self-Reliance...
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
June 5, 2015
1
215
Responsibility – Legal and Spiritual
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
June 5, 2015
7
561
Thinking Upstream: Winning Real Mental Health Reform By Joining the Anti-Corruption Movement
Will Hall
-
June 5, 2015
56
1135
What the Research Has Told Us About Peer-Run Respite Houses: The Second Story Story
Yana Jacobs
-
June 4, 2015
11
1696
May 16, 2015: 25 Shock Treatment Protests in 9 Countries! What Now?
Ted Chabasinski, JD
-
June 4, 2015
115
1112
3 Facts All Parents Should Know About ADHD Stimulant Drugs
Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
-
June 3, 2015
28
9684
The ADHD Label and Mortality
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
June 3, 2015
20
357
From Independent to Institutionalized
David Hidajattoellah
-
June 3, 2015
8
211
Chemicals Have Consequences: Antidepressants, Pregnancy, and the New York Times
Adam Urato, MD
-
June 2, 2015
30
1666
Children are Vulnerable Targets on the Algorithm Superhighway
motto
-
June 1, 2015
34
239
Has a New Twin Study Meta-Analysis Finally “Settled” the Nature-Nurture Debate?
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
June 1, 2015
15
3212
Psychiatrists May be Ready to Learn About Treating With Micronutrients
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
May 29, 2015
85
1675
Who’s the “Menace to Society”? Robert Whitaker or Jeffrey Lieberman?
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
May 27, 2015
2
3703
Neuroleptic Drugs And Mortality
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
May 27, 2015
23
670
The Murphy Bill: People are Afraid
Noel Hunter, PsyD
-
May 26, 2015
94
904
Reflections on ‘Montage of Heck’: The Life and Art of Kurt Cobain
Robert Berezin, MD
-
May 26, 2015
23
1780
A Declaration of Interdependence for the Era of the Murphy Bill
Ron Bassman, PhD
-
May 25, 2015
9
480
Reflections on a Beautiful Mind
Robert Whitaker
-
May 25, 2015
58
13581
Adventures at the APA
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
May 22, 2015
51
263
Announcing Mad in America’s New Resource Section on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal
Laura Delano
-
May 21, 2015
60
1249
Questions About Jeffrey Lieberman’s “Notorious Past and Bright Future of Psychiatry”
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
May 21, 2015
50
798
Book Review: Psychiatry in Context: Experience, Meaning & Communities, by Phil Thomas
Eleanor Longden, PhD
-
May 19, 2015
2
556
ECT: Safe and Effective for Agitation and Aggression in Cases of Dementia?
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
May 19, 2015
21
1037
Reviving the Spirit of Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest!
David W. Oaks
-
May 16, 2015
28
674
Psychiatry Reconsidered … Once Again
Hugh Middleton, MD
-
May 14, 2015
23
206
The American Indian Youth Suicide Epidemic: Mental Health Professionals as Superheroes
David Walker, PhD
-
May 14, 2015
46
428
Listening to the Voiceless Citizens
motto
-
May 13, 2015
10
183
What Kind of Forced Treatment Would You Prefer?
Olga Runciman, Cand Psych BSc
-
May 13, 2015
24
754
Thank You Notes: #ForTheKids
Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
&
Michael Gilbert, PsyD
-
May 12, 2015
5
258
Free Your Mind! These Online Documentaries About Festivals Give Me Hope
David W. Oaks
-
May 11, 2015
1
260
What Would CRPD-Compliant Mental Health Legislation Look Like?
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
May 11, 2015
11
1117
Is My Therapist Good or Not?
Daniel Mackler
-
May 11, 2015
91
6690
The Once and Future Abilify: Depot Injections for Everyone?
Johanna Ryan
-
May 11, 2015
23
3503
Psychiatry: Smoke and Mirrors
motto
-
May 11, 2015
18
397
Physician, Heal Thyself (Luke 4:23)
Dan Kriegman, PhD
-
May 11, 2015
4
591
It’s a Circus Under This ‘Big Tent’
Sera Davidow
-
May 10, 2015
60
392
What is Love? An Ode to Motherhood on Mother’s Day
Robert Berezin, MD
-
May 10, 2015
8
197
Thoughts on “Antipsychiatry”
Nancy Rubenstein del Giudice
-
May 9, 2015
73
1204
Psychiatry Through the Lens of Institutional Corruption
Robert Whitaker
-
May 7, 2015
117
2308
Psych Meds Put 49 Million Americans at Risk for Cancer
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
May 6, 2015
31
3138
My Story and My Fight Against Antidepressants, Part II
David Fox
-
May 6, 2015
50
11248
Voiceless in America
motto
-
May 5, 2015
16
1601
Book Review: Tales From The Madhouse, by Gary Sidley
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
May 5, 2015
5
353
When the Hunger for Real Knowledge is Enough, Change Will Come
Carina Håkansson, PhD
-
May 4, 2015
24
257
Sheller’s Appeal Demonstrates FDA’s Indifference to Drug Harm
Jim Gottstein, JD
-
May 4, 2015
21
294
Musings on the Yale Conference
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
May 4, 2015
15
210
Lieberman’s Intellectual Cowardice in His Critique of Szasz, or: What to Do About Page...
Joseph Tarantolo, MD
-
May 3, 2015
62
888
Baltimore is Burning: Who Defines ‘Violence’?
Sera Davidow
-
May 1, 2015
120
569
Sounds of Silence from Inside the Jail
motto
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May 1, 2015
17
589
RCTs: Really Concerning Trends in Research and Marketing
Tim Carey, PhD
-
May 1, 2015
25
263
Kudos to Art Levine for Exposing Government Complicity in Illegal Psychiatric Drugging of Children
Jim Gottstein, JD
-
April 30, 2015
14
406
Forced Psychiatry is Torture
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
April 30, 2015
33
8607
Response to “The Marketing of Serotonin” on BMJ
David Healy, MD
-
April 28, 2015
22
236
The Sociological Study of Mental Illness: A Historical Perspective
Andrew Scull, PhD
-
April 28, 2015
21
26326
Hearing Voices: Misconception, Misdirection & Moving Forward
Sera Davidow
-
April 27, 2015
30
1042
The Spurious Chemical Imbalance Theory is Still Alive and Well
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
April 27, 2015
37
4491
A Challenge to Dr. Lieberman
Robert Whitaker
-
April 26, 2015
112
1721
The Latest News from Twin Research: The Genetic Influence on Political Voting Choices is...
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
April 26, 2015
7
894
Real Psychiatry and Darwinian Evolution are One and the Same: Molecular Psychiatry has Missed...
Robert Berezin, MD
-
April 26, 2015
36
168
Want to Be Drug Free? It’s Time to Live More Simply
James Schroeder, PhD
-
April 26, 2015
17
238
Getting Our Anti/Critical Psychiatry Authors Read: A Case for Book Activism
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April 23, 2015
270
950
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April 22, 2015
12
1665
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April 21, 2015
11
2185
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April 21, 2015
42
755
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April 20, 2015
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1268
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April 20, 2015
64
353
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April 20, 2015
6
1660
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384
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825
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April 18, 2015
21
1527
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April 17, 2015
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1260
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April 17, 2015
14
3364
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April 16, 2015
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April 15, 2015
13
348
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1453
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Amy Upham
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April 14, 2015
54
1137
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April 13, 2015
15
2312
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April 12, 2015
26
727
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April 11, 2015
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264
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April 9, 2015
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2373
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April 8, 2015
125
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April 8, 2015
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2626
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April 7, 2015
35
541
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John Read
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April 7, 2015
163
2168
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April 7, 2015
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664
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April 5, 2015
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432
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April 5, 2015
22
328
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April 5, 2015
14
2425
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April 4, 2015
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998
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April 3, 2015
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438
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Chaya Grossberg
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April 2, 2015
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448
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April 2, 2015
11
855
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April 2, 2015
69
1082
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Art Levine
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April 2, 2015
10
1035
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April 1, 2015
13
444
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March 31, 2015
9
752
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March 31, 2015
28
1082
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March 30, 2015
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4305
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March 30, 2015
18
1617
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March 30, 2015
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743
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March 30, 2015
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1154
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1419
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1131
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March 26, 2015
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386
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Bonnie Schell
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March 26, 2015
25
807
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March 25, 2015
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155
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March 24, 2015
83
537
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Andrew Scull, PhD
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March 23, 2015
17
433
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March 23, 2015
73
3205
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Joanne Cacciatore, PhD
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March 22, 2015
43
1231
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Afiya Respite House
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March 22, 2015
18
338
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Paula J. Caplan, PhD
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March 21, 2015
50
866
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Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
&
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March 19, 2015
0
612
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Hugh Middleton, MD
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March 19, 2015
8
271
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March 19, 2015
112
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March 19, 2015
48
14168
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March 18, 2015
9
193
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222
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Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
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March 17, 2015
5
901
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March 17, 2015
15
188
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March 16, 2015
43
1119
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18
377
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March 14, 2015
18
2329
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March 13, 2015
32
254
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March 13, 2015
23
919
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32
496
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March 10, 2015
5
296
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505
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Peter Kinderman
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March 9, 2015
19
1389
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March 9, 2015
9
1146
Me, My Brain, and Baked Beans
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March 8, 2015
38
1443
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March 8, 2015
47
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16
1013
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March 6, 2015
61
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Immune Response is Secondary to Trauma
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1405
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364
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March 4, 2015
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423
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March 3, 2015
17
955
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March 3, 2015
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March 2, 2015
8
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13
349
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March 1, 2015
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1328
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Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
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March 1, 2015
38
2510
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March 1, 2015
33
378
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March 1, 2015
29
439
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February 27, 2015
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571
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426
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11
264
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165
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February 22, 2015
48
1248
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Eric Maisel, PhD
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February 22, 2015
14
526
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February 20, 2015
46
2219
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February 19, 2015
44
316
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February 19, 2015
6
675
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February 15, 2015
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24053
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19
898
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David Walker, PhD
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February 11, 2015
16
1331
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February 10, 2015
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405
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13
1184
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Ron Bassman, PhD
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February 9, 2015
16
738
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February 9, 2015
23
750
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13
1144
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45
18196
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February 6, 2015
8
781
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3091
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February 5, 2015
30
707
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20
354
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186
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247
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January 30, 2015
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486
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19
1011
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820
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350
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1213
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January 24, 2015
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4009
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460
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January 22, 2015
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151
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374
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588
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January 16, 2015
7
465
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January 14, 2015
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651
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January 14, 2015
23
928
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January 13, 2015
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4975
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January 13, 2015
4
843
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January 12, 2015
13
480
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January 12, 2015
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2729
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January 11, 2015
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434
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January 11, 2015
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January 11, 2015
19
1631
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1405
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January 9, 2015
19
768
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821
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January 8, 2015
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1769
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January 8, 2015
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792
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January 7, 2015
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311
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Bruce Levine, PhD
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January 6, 2015
35
1278
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January 5, 2015
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1480
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January 5, 2015
10
1918
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January 5, 2015
41
922
ECT for Agitation and Aggression in Dementia
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January 2, 2015
47
2321
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January 1, 2015
20
2852
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27
460
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December 31, 2014
24
1061
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Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
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December 30, 2014
69
12742
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December 29, 2014
10
690
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22
246
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December 25, 2014
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1646
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December 24, 2014
8
874
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December 23, 2014
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1872
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December 22, 2014
8
713
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December 22, 2014
46
395
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7418
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December 20, 2014
27
845
The Truth About Antidepressant Research: An Invitation to Dialogue
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December 19, 2014
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1506
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December 18, 2014
50
851
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December 18, 2014
3
430
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Elizabeth Kenny
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December 17, 2014
18
522
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December 17, 2014
17
745
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December 16, 2014
38
426
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December 15, 2014
9
311
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4
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45
2565
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December 12, 2014
33
279
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8
229
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9
997
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30
649
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14
2434
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1064
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22
1858
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25
240
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181
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1261
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42
51716
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433
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526
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1454
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November 23, 2014
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272
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418
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November 21, 2014
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761
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222
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November 19, 2014
6
582
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3378
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November 18, 2014
60
602
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47
1243
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November 16, 2014
4
1058
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49
664
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Justin Brown
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November 11, 2014
6
604
Trauma and Schizophrenia: The Ultimate Political Battle
Noel Hunter, PsyD
-
November 10, 2014
93
2049
My Favorite Fears and How They May Serve Us
Malaika Puffer
-
November 9, 2014
24
392
Pain Management in Modern Times: Does This Sound Familiar?
James Schroeder, PhD
-
November 9, 2014
13
477
The Indian Health Service’s Psychiatric Drug Habit & the ‘Heavy Influence of Biomedical Models’
David Walker, PhD
-
November 6, 2014
16
577
What Does an 800 lb Gorilla in the Room Say at an ADHD Conference? ...
Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
-
November 5, 2014
25
699
Reforming Prisons, Housing, Medication & Community-Based Support: Part I of a Common-Sense, Common Ground...
Justin Brown
-
November 4, 2014
14
224
40,000 Suicides Annually and America Still Shrugs
Douglas Bloch
-
November 4, 2014
41
671
Reflections on MIA’s Film Festival and Our Collective Human Future
Laura Delano
-
November 3, 2014
19
0
Genetic Research in Psychiatry: A Brief Update
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
November 3, 2014
16
360
The Mentally Ill Do Not Exist: Challenging Popular Media’s Obsession
Scott Spicer, MPH, CPSS
-
November 2, 2014
12
266
Is Listening the Key to Living?
Chaya Grossberg
-
November 1, 2014
16
185
The Case of the Missing Schizophrenia
Laysha Ostrow, PhD
-
November 1, 2014
16
235
More On the “Civil War” Between Mental Health Advocates
Justin Brown
-
October 31, 2014
33
404
Toward a Selective Use Model of Psychiatric Medication
Andrew L. Yoder, MSW
-
October 31, 2014
4
287
Please Stop Saying “Anti-psychiatry”
Corinna West
-
October 30, 2014
83
1065
Providing Loving Receptivity Can Help People in Extreme States
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
October 30, 2014
23
1592
Coming Out: Iatrogenic Illness Awareness Month
Ally Nugent
-
October 29, 2014
18
1931
Spiritual Bypass and the Chill Pill
Melissa Bond
-
October 28, 2014
10
309
More on Benzos and Cognitive Damage
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
October 28, 2014
45
19604
Wholesome Wave
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
October 27, 2014
4
1049
Between Psychiatry and Anti-Psychiatry: Mad in America Opens a Dialogue
Allen Frances, MD
&
Justin Brown
-
October 26, 2014
58
1262
Antipsychiatry Revisited: Toward Greater Clarity
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
October 26, 2014
125
2188
Our Powerful Mind, and Hope
Kjetil Mellingen
-
October 25, 2014
36
370
The Community Psychologist as Covert Operative in the Indian Health Service
David Walker, PhD
-
October 24, 2014
9
465
The Federal Report on Financial Relationships Between Pharma Industry and Prescribing Physicians
Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
-
October 23, 2014
5
663
The Scarlet Label: Close Encounters with ‘Borderline Personality Disorder’
Jacqueline Simon Gunn, PsyD
&
Brent Potter, PhD
-
October 22, 2014
110
6900
Allen Frances – Civil War or Propaganda Battle?
Corinna West
-
October 22, 2014
48
687
It’s the Coercion, Stupid!
David Cohen
-
October 21, 2014
71
6554
Robin Williams or Patch Adams? Watch a Brief Message from David Oaks to the...
David W. Oaks
-
October 20, 2014
6
319
Am I Having a Breakdown or Breakthrough? Further Reflections on a Depressive Relapse
Douglas Bloch
-
October 20, 2014
8
1181
Mental Illness as Metaphor
Andrew L. Yoder, MSW
-
October 20, 2014
5
2559
Are We Discovering More ADHD?
Craig B. Wiener, EdD
-
October 18, 2014
6
347
The Blinding of Gloria X. in New Jersey State Hospital – Just Another Mental...
Seth Farber, PhD
-
October 17, 2014
37
1478
May the ‘Force’ NEVER EVER Be With You! The Case for Abolition
Richard D. Lewis
-
October 17, 2014
171
1162
Benzodiazepine Use and Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
October 17, 2014
20
1233
The Making of “Guilty Except for Insanity: Maddening Journeys Through an Asylum”
Jan Haaken, PhD
-
October 16, 2014
26
1156
A Discussion of Labels, Part One: Disability
Melissa Bond
-
October 16, 2014
13
306
Turning Distress into Joy, Part V and Final: Meaning & Transcendence
James Schroeder, PhD
-
October 15, 2014
27
198
Rethinking Psychiatry
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
October 14, 2014
61
851
Back in the Dark House Again: The Recurrent Nature of Clinical Depression
Douglas Bloch
-
October 13, 2014
29
1133
A New Model of Service
Andrew L. Yoder, MSW
-
October 10, 2014
16
166
A Macabre Celebration: 80 Years of Convulsive ‘Therapy’
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
October 9, 2014
122
476
Why I Am Willing to Die on the Governor’s Doorstep
Aubrey Ellen Shomo
-
October 8, 2014
22
574
Healing From Intergenerational Trauma: Facing the Unfaceable
Lauren Spiro
-
October 8, 2014
15
565
You Call Me Crazy. I Call Myself a “9”
Brenda Vezina
-
October 7, 2014
8
530
Is it Better to Be a Life Coach or a Psychotherapist?
Daniel Mackler
-
October 6, 2014
35
7040
To See a Professional or Not
Monica Cassani
-
October 6, 2014
17
242
Stumble Biscuits and the Murk of Benzo Disability
Melissa Bond
-
October 5, 2014
23
1782
Nutrition Above the Neck: Why is This Topic Met With Hostility?
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
October 5, 2014
45
1228
Psychiatry Disrupted
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
October 4, 2014
44
660
PsychoQuad Goes to the Movies: The Power of Sex, Bettie Page and Art Overthrow...
David W. Oaks
-
October 4, 2014
96
411
Towards a Hermeneutic Shift in Psychiatry
Pat Bracken, MD
-
October 3, 2014
50
2620
Mentally Ill or Conflict Repressed? Is Conflict a Lost Art?
Chaya Grossberg
-
October 2, 2014
19
309
On Being Sane in an Insane Place—The Rosenhan Experiment in the Laboratory of Plautus’...
Michael Fontaine, PhD
-
October 2, 2014
40
1815
My Loss of Cultural Competence Among the Nacirema-Orue
David Walker, PhD
-
October 2, 2014
27
310
Outside the Bubble and Into the “New” Economy
Laysha Ostrow, PhD
-
October 1, 2014
9
150
NICE Guidelines for Bipolar Disorder- a Missed Opportunity
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
September 30, 2014
22
733
The Alternatives Conference Helps Our Movement Grow
Susan Rogers
-
September 30, 2014
21
317
The Persecution of Heretics
David Healy, MD
-
September 29, 2014
11
473
The Problems of Non-Consensual Reality
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
September 29, 2014
105
2411
Not Another Brick in The Wall
Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
-
September 29, 2014
16
307
It Gets Better: Neuropsych Doctor Confirms Psych Drug Iatrogenesis, PTSD, Brain Injury
Monica Cassani
-
September 28, 2014
21
767
Global Warming and the Mad Movement: Can You Help?
David W. Oaks
-
September 28, 2014
51
283
Pharma-funded Research
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
September 26, 2014
18
242
How to Spread the News, Part 2
Kjetil Mellingen
-
September 25, 2014
63
343
Detecting the True ‘Culture’ of Indian Health Service Mental Health Programs
David Walker, PhD
-
September 24, 2014
7
722
Turning Distress into Joy, Part IV: Gratitude
James Schroeder, PhD
-
September 23, 2014
14
558
Doctor Munchausen: Hear no, See no – What?
David Healy, MD
-
September 22, 2014
17
208
Our Movement Needs an Alternative to the “Alternatives” Conference
Ted Chabasinski, JD
-
September 20, 2014
194
444
Why “Stabilizing” People is Entirely the Wrong Idea
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
September 19, 2014
26
370
Psychosis and Dissociation, Part 2: On Diagnosis, and Beyond
Noel Hunter, PsyD
-
September 18, 2014
17
754
Second Generation Neuroleptics and Acute Kidney Injury in Older Adults
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
September 18, 2014
18
303
WHOMHP!
David Walker, PhD
-
September 17, 2014
29
379
How Can We Spread the News?
Kjetil Mellingen
-
September 16, 2014
110
323
Social Justice and the Benzodiazepine Death Camp
Melissa Bond
-
September 15, 2014
29
474
Pierce v. Pemiscot Hospital: Federal Judge Takes a Psychiatric Inmate’s Rights Seriously
Jim Gottstein, JD
-
September 11, 2014
43
652
Turning Distress into Joy, Part III: Helping Others
James Schroeder, PhD
-
September 10, 2014
10
279
Who Is Isaiah Rider???
Nancy Rubenstein del Giudice
-
September 10, 2014
28
935
From Burning Man to Bellevue Hospital
Sascha Altman DuBrul
-
September 9, 2014
1
360
The Law’s Flaw
Wayne Munchel
-
September 9, 2014
20
227
Dr. Pies Still Spinning
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
September 8, 2014
61
319
Patient Centred-Care Doesn’t Go Far Enough: We Need Patient-Perspective Care
Tim Carey, PhD
-
September 8, 2014
75
711
Creating Alternatives to the Medical Model
Tamasin Knight, MBChB, MPH
-
September 7, 2014
6
659
On Spiritual Emergence and Other Extraordinary Experiences
Naas Siddiqui, BA, CPS, MA
-
September 7, 2014
19
511
Believe it or not . . .
Tracey Cannon
-
September 5, 2014
49
342
Forced Treatment Ineffective: Advocacy Essential
Scott Spicer, MPH, CPSS
-
September 5, 2014
33
337
If Not Meds, Then WHAT?
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
September 4, 2014
189
993
Hope for Everyone
Kjetil Mellingen
-
September 3, 2014
35
759
Do We Need More Hospital Beds?
motto
-
September 2, 2014
51
550
How Reliable is the DSM-5?
Rachel Cooper, PhD
-
September 2, 2014
19
19433
Peer Support in Mental Health: Exploitive, Transformative, or Both?
Larry Davidson, PhD
-
September 1, 2014
74
3285
A Critique of Genetic Research on Schizophrenia – Expensive Castles in the Air
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
September 1, 2014
41
2674
Does Long-Term Use of “Antipsychotic” Drugs Result in More Disability, and More Psychosis?
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
August 31, 2014
102
11753
Stranger
Steven Morgan
-
August 29, 2014
13
425
Autism, Antidepressants, and Pregnancy: The Basics
Adam Urato, MD
-
August 27, 2014
9
1245
Positive Explanations for Psychological Problems
Kjetil Mellingen
-
August 27, 2014
47
617
The Lessons of Ancient Philosophy
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
August 26, 2014
42
743
On Religious and Psychiatric Atheism: The Success of Epicurus, the Failure of Thomas Szasz
Michael Fontaine, PhD
-
August 26, 2014
224
8397
Embodying Peace in Times of War
Lauren Spiro
-
August 26, 2014
11
274
Turning Distress into Joy, Part II: Channeling
James Schroeder, PhD
-
August 26, 2014
11
273
My Top 11 Ways to Reunite for a Mental Health Revolution!
David W. Oaks
-
August 25, 2014
61
636
It Gets Better: Living Well While Being Sick
Monica Cassani
-
August 25, 2014
2
297
Looking forward to the Good Ol’ Days
Tim Carey, PhD
-
August 23, 2014
33
239
How About a Diagnostic Alternative for Use in Talk Therapy?
Jonathan Raskin
-
August 23, 2014
0
514
More Bogus Conclusions From More Bogus Research
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
August 21, 2014
27
254
Shh… Just Whisper it, But There Might Just Be a Revolution Underway
Peter Kinderman
-
August 18, 2014
33
1055
Extend Your Child’s ADHD Summer Drug Holiday to Infinity and Beyond!
Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
-
August 16, 2014
30
970
MHASF Launches a Warm Line
Chaya Grossberg
-
August 15, 2014
6
668
Fear is Life Force … (in Clinical Circles it’s Often Called Anxiety) – An...
Monica Cassani
-
August 15, 2014
12
394
Life & Death: Robin Williams, Suicide “Prevention,” and the World as We Know...
Sera Davidow
-
August 14, 2014
67
2267
Suicide Prevention for All: Making the World a Safer Place to Be Human
Leah Harris
-
August 13, 2014
30
404
Turning Distress Into Joy, Part I: Forgiveness
James Schroeder, PhD
-
August 13, 2014
31
298
Antidepressants and Overall Wellbeing
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
August 13, 2014
27
383
Diagnosing the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Martyn Pickersgill, PhD
-
August 12, 2014
0
206
Doctor Munchausen and Sense about Science
David Healy, MD
-
August 12, 2014
9
200
Rethinking Therapy: Making Our Worlds as We Would Like Them to Be
Tim Carey, PhD
-
August 12, 2014
7
330
It Gets Better: A Portrait of Poly Psychopharmacology
Monica Cassani
-
August 11, 2014
14
866
Managing Spiritual Emergency: In Spiritist Psychiatric Hospitals and Community Centers In Brazil
Emma Bragdon, PhD
-
August 11, 2014
25
1093
Trauma, Psychosis, and Dissociation
Noel Hunter, PsyD
-
August 6, 2014
57
24264
People Who Find Psychiatric Drugs Helpful
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
August 6, 2014
71
565
Taking an Entry Point: On Investigating the Psychiatric-Pharmaceutical Complex
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
August 4, 2014
45
575
Open Letter to Family Doctors and Mental Health Practitioners From an Average Kid Acting...
Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
-
August 4, 2014
6
241
Father Munchausen, I Presume!
David Healy, MD
-
August 4, 2014
12
196
Proposal From Italy: An International Collection of Recovery Stories
Giuseppe Tibaldi
-
August 4, 2014
33
199
The Cocktail Party
Alesandra Rain
-
August 1, 2014
71
758
‘To Gift the Mind To Chemistry’, and To Take It Back: Dylan Tighe To...
Laura Delano
-
August 1, 2014
7
833
Crash Course in Urban Shamanism
Will Hall
-
July 28, 2014
24
3393
Anti-Psychiatry
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
July 28, 2014
427
2332
Medicalizing Poverty
Wayne Munchel
-
July 28, 2014
20
1434
The Logic of the ADHD Diagnosis
Craig B. Wiener, EdD
-
July 28, 2014
15
594
Code Black: When Time Doesn’t Heal
Vanessa Krasinski, MSN, RN
-
July 27, 2014
3
224
Is Psychiatry the Tea Party of Medical Science?
Bertel Rüdinger
-
July 27, 2014
71
305
Simon Says: Happiness Won’t Cure Mental Illness
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
July 27, 2014
15
392
Prescription Privileges for Psychologists: Is Our Consent Fully Informed?
James Schroeder, PhD
-
July 23, 2014
13
2802
On Waking Up From the “American Dream”
Laura Delano
-
July 23, 2014
55
796
Healing from an Addiction to Patterned Ways of Thinking
Lauren Spiro
-
July 22, 2014
14
268
An Anti-Violence Mental Health Plan
Mark Ragins, MD
-
July 22, 2014
95
690
Playing the Odds, Revisited
Stuart Shipko
-
July 21, 2014
42
5557
The Use of Neuroleptic Drugs As Chemical Restraints
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
July 21, 2014
82
3687
Illegal-Psychiatric Drug Hypocrisy, & Why Michael Pollan is Smarter than Me
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
July 20, 2014
89
858
How Can Professionals Learn to Reduce Fears of Psychotic Experiences Rather Than Emphasize Pathology?
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
July 19, 2014
35
628
Los Angeles Increases Outpatient Involuntary Treatment in Spite of UN Declaring Force “Torture”
Monica Cassani
-
July 19, 2014
19
643
Consent and Psychiatry: Problematizing the Problematic
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
July 19, 2014
62
1214
Suicide: A Permanent Solution to a Temporary Problem
Douglas Bloch
-
July 18, 2014
20
1850
Changing the Role of Case Management
Peter Zook
-
July 18, 2014
24
259
The Use of Neuroleptic Drugs As Chemical Restraints in Nursing Homes
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
July 17, 2014
24
687
What Is Biological Psychiatry? Pt. 3: Thoughts on Hastening Its Demise
Richard D. Lewis
-
July 16, 2014
49
255
Doctor Munchausen, I Presume!
David Healy, MD
-
July 14, 2014
107
536
Some Thoughts on Insanity Defense
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
July 12, 2014
27
2179
On Fighting Institutional Psychiatry With the “Attrition Model”
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
July 12, 2014
132
3764
SELF: Sharing Experience Lived Firsthand
Vanessa Krasinski, MSN, RN
-
July 12, 2014
14
262
Connecticut State in Mental Health Denial
Sheila Matthews
-
July 11, 2014
62
235
ADHD: A Return to Psychology
Craig B. Wiener, EdD
-
July 10, 2014
19
475
Avoid the Hexperts
Deron Drumm
-
July 9, 2014
17
435
Thoughts on Psychiatric Incarceration When Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity
motto
-
July 9, 2014
34
949
Please Don’t Empower Me Anymore
David Healy, MD
-
July 7, 2014
24
532
Suicidal Behavior After FDA Warnings
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
July 7, 2014
14
1223
The Meeting Was Sponsored by Merchants of Death
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
-
July 7, 2014
10
889
Response to “The End of Rethinking Psychiatry?”
Jason Renaud
-
July 7, 2014
93
1660
Jon Stewart’s Gaywatch
Peter Gajdics
-
July 7, 2014
16
295
Independence From the Therapeutic State
Eugene Epstein
-
July 4, 2014
21
938
Why I Became a Critical Psychiatrist
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
July 4, 2014
13
612
Who Decides Which People are Mentally Ill . . . Who Gets That Control?
Sheila Matthews
-
July 3, 2014
34
355
What Is Biological Psychiatry? Part 2: Anatomy of Power and Control
Richard D. Lewis
-
July 3, 2014
25
459
It Gets Better!
Bertel Rüdinger
-
July 3, 2014
24
354
News on Creative Maladjustment
Al Galves, PhD
-
July 2, 2014
1
192
The Media Missed the Story: Civil Rights and the Helping Families in Mental Health...
Christian Exoo
-
July 2, 2014
71
1106
Continuing the Antidepressant Debate: the Clinical Relevance of Drug-Placebo Differences
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
July 2, 2014
13
505
Talking About Psychosis, Part 1: Why Do It?
Mark Ragins, MD
-
July 2, 2014
40
711
Psychocracy and Community
Rev. Dr. Steven Epperson
-
July 1, 2014
30
1944
Living in an Age of Melancholy: When Society Becomes Depressed
Douglas Bloch
-
June 30, 2014
38
7852
Lingering Doubts About Psychiatry’s Scientific Status
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
June 26, 2014
111
1256
The End of Rethinking Psychiatry?
motto
-
June 26, 2014
113
896
The Paradox of Praise
James Schroeder, PhD
-
June 25, 2014
12
814
Believe and Know . . . (as it pertains to psych drug withdrawal syndrome...
Monica Cassani
-
June 25, 2014
18
519
MIA’s New Store & More
Robert Whitaker
-
June 25, 2014
7
266
The Sandy Hook Advisory Commission and the Evidence of a “Convicted Offender”
Sheila Matthews
-
June 24, 2014
2
232
Goodbye to Ken Braiterman
Corinna West
-
June 24, 2014
4
501
Sense about Science: Follow the Patient
David Healy, MD
-
June 24, 2014
19
172
New APA President: Same Old Cheerleading
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
June 24, 2014
18
342
Upon Further Review: Did the Black Box Warning on SSRIs Lead to Increased Suicide...
MIA Editors
-
June 23, 2014
29
1250
“Psychiatric Prejudice” – A New Way of Silencing Criticism
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
June 23, 2014
46
1396
What is a Warm Line and What Should I Expect When I Call One?
Chaya Grossberg
-
June 22, 2014
7
52723
How Much Does it Matter for Patients to Believe They Will Get Well?
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
June 18, 2014
37
512
Heteronormative Violence of Mainstream Psychiatry: A Cautionary Tale
Peter Gajdics
-
June 18, 2014
39
938
An Open Letter to Persons Self-Identifying as Mentally Ill
Andrew L. Yoder, MSW
-
June 18, 2014
39
1563
Psychiatry’s Response: Attack and PR
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
June 18, 2014
272
941
A Look at Madness Through the Lens of Culture
Phil Borges
-
June 17, 2014
8
1914
What Is Biological Psychiatry and Why Is It So Important To Know?
Richard D. Lewis
-
June 16, 2014
122
2165
From Self Care to Collective Caring
Leah Harris
-
June 16, 2014
6
4201
Blame the Clients?
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
June 16, 2014
143
1037
The Story of “Teenagers Against Psychiatric Drugs”
Jaquelin Kalach
-
June 15, 2014
17
373
Why I Work in the System
Malaika Puffer
-
June 15, 2014
22
665
Why Do We Say That Mental Health Detention is Discrimination?
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
June 13, 2014
69
1413
The Proliferation and Elimination of Mental Illness: Clinging to the Slopes of Everest
James Schroeder, PhD
-
June 11, 2014
139
1009
More Delays on Sandy Hook Reports
Sheila Matthews
-
June 11, 2014
19
165
Should Our Tax Dollars Be Spent on Promoting Drugs?
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
June 10, 2014
17
240
Pro-Force Attitudes a Symptom of Post Traumatic Stress?
Sera Davidow
-
June 9, 2014
65
826
Reflections on a Pathologized Adolescence and a Vision for the Future
Laura Delano
-
June 8, 2014
52
1412
A Daughter’s Call for Safety and Sanity in Mental Health
Leah Harris
-
June 6, 2014
22
397
News Flash: 4.5 Million Children Forced Daily by “Caretakers” to Do Cocaine-like Drugs
Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
-
June 6, 2014
58
719
Psychiatry DID Promote the Chemical Imbalance Theory
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
June 6, 2014
86
7260
Who’s Delusional? And How Do We Support Them?
Paris Williams, PhD
-
June 5, 2014
30
1235
Did Psychiatric Drugs Play a Role in the Prom Day Killer’s Violent Behavior?
Sheila Matthews
-
June 5, 2014
21
224
Tickets, Updates, and More on MIA’s International Film Festival
Laura Delano
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June 5, 2014
4
426
The Politics of Healing
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
June 4, 2014
15
805
Ode to Biological Psychiatry
Daniel Mackler
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June 3, 2014
182
1690
The Relationship Between Systems Change and Being Present with Others
Lauren Spiro
-
June 3, 2014
3
201
Do We Underestimate the Benefits of Antidepressants?
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
May 30, 2014
34
1013
Hearing Voices, Emancipation, Shamanism and CBT: Thoughts After Douglas Turkington’s Training
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
May 29, 2014
11
1239
What Should be The #1 Priority of Our Schools?
Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
-
May 28, 2014
26
3281
Final Lecture
Larry M. Leitner, PhD
-
May 27, 2014
39
465
Creating More Equal Societies Decreases Mental Illness: What Should We Do?
Duncan Wright, MD
-
May 25, 2014
33
644
Psychiatric Survivors Are Everywhere
Chaya Grossberg
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May 24, 2014
33
1012
Time for a Policy Against Psychiatric Bullying
Maria Bradshaw
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May 24, 2014
18
4735
Deconstructing Psychiatric Diagnoses: An Attempt At Humor
Daniel Mackler
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May 24, 2014
42
698
Psych Drugs Kill vs Psych Drugs Save Lives. What if Both Are True?
Monica Cassani
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May 24, 2014
46
1160
From Psychiatric Coercion to Libertarianism: A Personal Journey
Tristano Ajmone
-
May 23, 2014
7
593
Connecticut Fails to Meet Deadline on Sandy Hook Mental Health Bill
Sheila Matthews
-
May 22, 2014
13
188
Drugging Toddlers for Inattention, Impulsivity, and Hyperactivity
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
May 22, 2014
38
409
University of Minnesota Psychiatry: A Pattern of Research Abuse
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
-
May 21, 2014
9
563
From Protesting to Taking Over: Using Education to Change Mental Health Care
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
May 19, 2014
13
491
Are You Ready for Multiple Lawsuits By Victims of Psychiatric Misconduct?
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
-
May 18, 2014
9
347
What’s Wrong With You? Nothing.What Has Happened to You? Something.
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
May 17, 2014
99
7140
Adam Lanza’s Psychiatrist’s Ethics Violations Raise Questions About the Legislature’s Controversial Mental Health Increases
Sheila Matthews
-
May 15, 2014
26
593
Childhood Social Functioning Predicts Adult Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder. Or Does It?
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
May 15, 2014
37
560
Calling for Rep. McCann’s resignation while there is still time to run a different...
Aubrey Ellen Shomo
-
May 14, 2014
0
140
Psychiatry’s Manufactured Consent: Chemical Imbalance Theory and the Antidepressant Explosion
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
May 14, 2014
18
4663
Behind Locked Doors: How I Got My Hospital Records, and What I Did With...
motto
-
May 13, 2014
95
5403
Rethinking Diagnosis
Eric Maisel, PhD
-
May 10, 2014
51
464
There is Big Medicine in Everyone
Monica Cassani
-
May 10, 2014
7
279
Electroshock Causes More Harm Than Good
Mary Maddock
-
May 9, 2014
28
1069
Social Services and Psychiatry
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
May 9, 2014
25
169
Complexity
motto
-
May 8, 2014
17
168
Dear DSM-5: I Still Have Some Questions
James Schroeder, PhD
-
May 8, 2014
9
4859
PROTEST PSYCHIATRY – My Newest Film, Free!
Daniel Mackler
-
May 7, 2014
30
527
Consumers Beware!
Vera Sharav
-
May 7, 2014
6
527
Hearing Voices Workshop Comes to Vermont
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
May 7, 2014
14
372
Dr. Lieberman’s Swansong
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
May 6, 2014
29
411
Psychiatry: We Need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Mental Health
Leah Harris
-
May 5, 2014
17
1316
Screening Pregnant Women for Depression
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
-
May 5, 2014
14
888
Legislators: Don’t try to sneak this through as an amendment. (HB1386)
Aubrey Ellen Shomo
-
May 4, 2014
0
127
David W. Oaks’ Statement of Support for Protest of 2014 American Psychiatric Association Meeting
MindFreedom
-
May 4, 2014
1
202
Breaking The Silence – Supporting Young People who Hear Voices in the US
Rai Waddingham
-
May 3, 2014
5
709
The Final Visit to the Psychiatrist (Part 2 of Goodbye Psychiatry)
Monica Cassani
-
May 2, 2014
6
514
I Am Alive
Laura Delano
-
May 1, 2014
26
856
Why I am Going to the APA Protest in NYC on May 4, 2014
motto
-
May 1, 2014
4
335
The APA Is a Fraudulent Enterprise
Jim Gottstein, JD
-
May 1, 2014
12
4493
Goodbye Psychiatry
Monica Cassani
-
May 1, 2014
10
399
I’m Going, Are You? How to Get Involved in the Annual Protest of...
Lauren Tenney, PhD, MPhil, MPA, Psychiatric Survivor
-
April 30, 2014
6
256
Neuroplasticity: My Newest Friend
Lauren Spiro
-
April 30, 2014
2
422
Cold Turkey
motto
-
April 30, 2014
14
1406
My Thoughts on an Alternative to HB1386 in Colorado (Open Letter)
Aubrey Ellen Shomo
-
April 29, 2014
1
182
Sluggish Cognitive Tempo – A New Diagnosis?
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
April 29, 2014
22
796
Partner Bill of Rights: Speaking to the Cycle of Abuse
James Schroeder, PhD
-
April 28, 2014
9
213
The Hot Stove Project: Learning From People who Think Differently
Lois Oppenheim, PhD
&
Alice Maher, MD
-
April 27, 2014
20
664
Sweeping Benzos Under the Carpet
Barry Haslam
-
April 26, 2014
7
822
More Support and Understanding Needed for People Wanting to Try a No-Meds Approach
Jean Davison
-
April 26, 2014
48
301
We Need to Go Back to Our Roots in the Civil Rights Movement
Ted Chabasinski, JD
-
April 26, 2014
89
379
My Healing Protocol Detailed
Monica Cassani
-
April 25, 2014
7
2556
How Doing Nothing Cured My Friend of Psychosis
Chaya Grossberg
-
April 24, 2014
3
1221
To Senator Harkin: My CRPD Story
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
April 24, 2014
23
445
An Open Letter to the Colorado House Health, Insurance and Environment Committee RE: HB1386
Lauren Tenney, PhD, MPhil, MPA, Psychiatric Survivor
-
April 23, 2014
9
277
“Open Access” for the Activist Community
Nev Jones, PhD
-
April 23, 2014
6
224
Creating Sustainability, Disarming Trauma and Loving One Another
Iden Campbell, CPRP
-
April 23, 2014
3
182
‘Angels and Demons’: the Politics of Psychoactive Drugs
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
April 22, 2014
30
4122
Antidepressants, Pregnancy, and Autism: Really Time to Worry
Adam Urato, MD
-
April 22, 2014
15
419
‘ADHD’ and Dangerous Driving
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
April 22, 2014
24
574
The Manufacture and ‘Maintenance’ of Oppression: A Very Profitable Business
Richard D. Lewis
-
April 22, 2014
13
1197
Defeating Goliath: Mental Health is a Social Justice Issue, and People with Lived Experience...
Leah Harris
-
April 21, 2014
102
2456
Lullaby
David Healy, MD
-
April 21, 2014
16
266
The End of Psychiatry
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
April 20, 2014
49
1555
Invisible Pain
motto
-
April 18, 2014
68
1356
Too Corrupt, Insane & Ridiculous to Be Reformed? Even Establishment Psychiatrists Distance Themselves From...
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
April 17, 2014
48
1609
The Power of Words: What the Wall Street Journal Didn’t Tell You
Scott Bryant-Comstock
-
April 17, 2014
11
252
Replacing Psychiatrists and Psychotherapists
Eric Maisel, PhD
-
April 17, 2014
41
387
I Actually Woke up This Morning Thinking I’d Arrived, I’m Well . . .
Monica Cassani
-
April 16, 2014
12
957
What it Means to be a Human, With all the Beauty and Complexity That...
Carina Håkansson, PhD
-
April 15, 2014
14
325
Justina Pelletier: The Debate Continues
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
April 15, 2014
29
379
Open Letter Re: This Morning‘s Feature on Depression
Julie Leonovs
-
April 15, 2014
55
869
America’s Sweetheart
Nancy Rubenstein del Giudice
-
April 14, 2014
19
1225
9 Ways to Stop the Next Village Shalom Shooting
Corinna West
-
April 14, 2014
3
240
Psychiatric Teams Have a Responsibility to Think About the Psychosis/Sexual Abuse Link
Jay Watts, DClinPsy
-
April 14, 2014
14
1365
Enslaved to Abilify
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
April 14, 2014
61
26891
The Great Turning
Iden Campbell, CPRP
-
April 13, 2014
27
330
Historic Moment for the Right to Legal Capacity
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
April 12, 2014
43
390
Regulatory Capture
Maria Bradshaw
-
April 11, 2014
11
1140
A National Scandal: Psychological Therapies for Psychosis are Helpful, But Unavailable
Peter Kinderman
&
Anne Cooke
-
April 11, 2014
43
836
Markingson Case Supporters: Please Join Our Call-In Campaign
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
-
April 11, 2014
3
198
Rep. McCann: Taking Away the Jury Trial is Undemocratic. (Open Letter)
Aubrey Ellen Shomo
-
April 11, 2014
14
142
My Story of Benzo Withdrawal and Activism
Barry Haslam
-
April 10, 2014
22
6530
Who Cares About Kelsey?
Sera Davidow
-
April 8, 2014
25
1710
Antidepressants Make Things Worse in the Long Term
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
April 8, 2014
24
7925
It’s About the Trauma: How to Truly Address the Roots of Violence and Suffering...
Leah Harris
-
April 7, 2014
81
1527
Important Considerations for Implementing Assisted Outpatient Treatment: A Collaborative Advocacy Agenda
Mark Ragins, MD
-
April 6, 2014
44
415
Advice to the Newbies: Give Your Heart, & Hold Your Theories Lightly
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
April 6, 2014
4
281
The Can Collector’s Club: Clarifying Where Mental Health Begins
James Schroeder, PhD
-
April 6, 2014
9
181
Justina Pelletier: The Case Continues
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
April 4, 2014
52
6829
First They Ignore You: Impressions From Today’s Hearing on H.R. 3717
Leah Harris
-
April 3, 2014
57
390
It’s Time For A Stronger Political Ground Game To Compete With NAMI & Company...
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
April 3, 2014
125
714
Legislator’s Rush to Implement Increased Mental Health Services Based on No Data from Shooting...
Sheila Matthews
-
April 3, 2014
45
303
Murphy Bill: Violates Civil Rights, Increases Government Intrusion and Control, and Ignores Scientific Research
Gina Nikkel, PhD
-
April 3, 2014
18
501
Mental Illness & Violence
Mary Jackson
-
April 3, 2014
20
198
Why Don’t They Know? A Letter to My Doctor
Lisa D.
-
April 2, 2014
52
11497
Recent Success for the Bay Area’s Campaign Against Expanding Forced Treatment
Will Hall
-
April 1, 2014
6
247
Open Letter to Senator Creigh Deeds
Leah Harris
-
March 31, 2014
19
483
So They Say Your Child has ADHD? April Fools!
Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
-
March 31, 2014
3
956
The Fat Lady Has Sung
Robert Whitaker
-
March 30, 2014
58
1782
We Are the People
Oryx Cohen, M.P.A.
-
March 30, 2014
68
350
Are Neuroleptics “Anti-Psychotic”? Harrow’s 20-Year Outcomes
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
March 29, 2014
40
1247
Staying in the New Paradigm: More Thoughts on the Human Rights Committee Recommendation
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
March 29, 2014
2
295
UN: US Should “Generally Prohibit” Non-consensual Psychiatric Treatment
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
March 29, 2014
1
906
Antidepressants and Preterm Birth: More Concerning Findings
Adam Urato, MD
-
March 28, 2014
3
562
Overtreatment, Bereavement, and Antidepressants
Jonathan Leo, PhD / Jeffrey Lacasse, PhD
-
March 27, 2014
5
553
Benzodiazepines: Disempowering and Dangerous
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
March 27, 2014
4
468
Katharine Hepburn is Glamorous – Suicide is Not
Maria Bradshaw
-
March 26, 2014
22
968
Made It! – Successfully Navigating Both Mainstream and Alternative Treatment for Mental Illness
Idakatherine Graver
-
March 24, 2014
4
421
De-escalating Folks When Psychotic and Potentially Violent
Monica Cassani
-
March 23, 2014
18
2290
Launch of the Council for Evidence-Based Psychiatry
James Davies, PhD
-
March 22, 2014
24
1783
Are Vitamins Killing us Softly?
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
March 19, 2014
1
1053
Robert Whitaker: Looking Back and Looking Ahead
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
March 18, 2014
8
150
Why You Can’t Get Informed Consent From a Doctor
Chaya Grossberg
-
March 18, 2014
15
356
Overcoming the Stigma of Depression
Douglas Bloch
-
March 17, 2014
18
9843
What Will Cause Psychiatry to Change?
Andrew L. Yoder, MSW
-
March 17, 2014
18
249
Six Ways You Can Really Help Prevent Suicide
Leah Harris
-
March 17, 2014
27
2286
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Drugs and the Therapeutic State
Jack Carney, DSW
-
March 17, 2014
6
645
Involuntary Mental Health Commitments
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
March 16, 2014
33
4382
Hospitalization: A Crisis in Crisis Care
motto
-
March 15, 2014
12
230
U.N. Questions U.S. on Forced Psychiatric Drugging
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
March 15, 2014
27
600
DSM-5 And Somatic Symptom Disorder
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
March 15, 2014
15
411
Herbs, Supplements, Foods That Can Aid in Withdrawal Symptoms
Chaya Grossberg
-
March 14, 2014
18
40305
The Overmedication of Vulnerable Youth with Psychiatric Medication: Boon for the Pharma Industry
Vicki Martin, MD
-
March 13, 2014
6
1933
Dear NAMI: My Apologies. I’ve Been Unfair.
Sera Davidow
-
March 12, 2014
54
6209
Benzodiazepines: Dangerous Drugs
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
March 12, 2014
29
5184
Neutralising Suffering: How the Medicalisation of Distress Obliterates Meaning and Creates Profit
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
March 11, 2014
18
824
Over Our Dead Bodies
Maria Bradshaw
-
March 11, 2014
8
395
Are We Losing Our Parenting Will?
James Schroeder, PhD
-
March 11, 2014
8
303
Do We Need to See Inside the Box?
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
March 9, 2014
42
432
Will Psychiatry’s Harmful Treatment of Our Children Bring About Its Eventual Demise?
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
March 8, 2014
54
1101
I Love … Stigma? Reaching Out to College Students & Beyond
Sera Davidow
-
March 8, 2014
92
534
A Discussion of Justina Pelletier and Boston Children’s Hospital
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
March 6, 2014
34
1885
Building Bridges Between Mental Health and Addictions Communities
Oryx Cohen, M.P.A.
-
March 6, 2014
9
597
Psychiatry Admits It’s Been Wrong in Big Ways, But Can It Change? A Chat...
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
March 5, 2014
109
3117
Finding and Funding Our Way, Outside the System
Chaya Grossberg
-
March 4, 2014
36
222
Launching MIA Reports
Robert Whitaker
-
March 4, 2014
12
555
A Blood Test for Schizophrenia with 83% Accuracy?
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
March 4, 2014
26
3733
Uses and Abuses of “Recovery” – A Review
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
March 2, 2014
41
577
Six First Steps for Building Communities of Emotional Wellness
motto
-
March 1, 2014
23
546
[Un]Settling In for the Long Haul: The Interplay of Complacency, Stagnation, and Psychotropic...
James Schroeder, PhD
-
February 28, 2014
20
237
The Hallucination in the Room
Rossa Forbes
-
February 25, 2014
51
438
DSM‘s Somatoform Disorders: Millions More Might Be Diagnosed
Monica Cassani
-
February 25, 2014
22
696
ADHD, Bigfoot, and the Missing Links in Research
Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
-
February 24, 2014
6
1492
Neuroleptics and Tardive Dyskinesia in Children
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
February 24, 2014
29
1420
Depression and Suicide in the Elderly
Douglas Bloch
-
February 24, 2014
5
719
Me & The Meds: The Story of a Dysfunctional Relationship
Rai Waddingham
-
February 23, 2014
27
622
SSRI ‘Indication Creep’ Relies on Negligent Doctors
Maria Bradshaw
-
February 21, 2014
11
985
The Origins of Mental Health Services
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
February 20, 2014
8
389
Unwarranted Criticism of “Psychiatry Gone Astray”
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
-
February 20, 2014
17
4308
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
February 20, 2014
37
18034
Current Research on Outpatient Commitment Laws (“Laura’s Law” in California)
Jasenn Zaejian, PhD
-
February 18, 2014
27
1046
A New Silver Bullet? The Lurasidone Story
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
February 17, 2014
72
9180
The Great “Crazy” Cover-up: Harm Results from Rewriting the History of DSM
Paula J. Caplan, PhD
-
February 17, 2014
26
1424
Risperdal for a 2-year-old? Turning the Tide, One Interaction at a Time
James Schroeder, PhD
-
February 17, 2014
30
1143
Should PsychRights Ask the U.S. Supreme Court to Hear an Appeal of the Alaska...
Jim Gottstein, JD
-
February 15, 2014
42
866
Reading Foucault and Human Rights
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
February 15, 2014
18
1481
Making the Invisible, Visible
Maria Bradshaw
-
February 12, 2014
23
797
Traditional Healing and Psychosis vs. the Promises of Modern Science
motto
-
February 12, 2014
29
4935
Genetic Protection Against Schizophrenia?
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
February 12, 2014
13
430
Something Rotten in the State of British Psychiatry?
Philip Thomas, MD
-
February 11, 2014
57
771
Have You Ever Taken an Experimental Antipsychotic Called Bifeprunox?
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
-
February 11, 2014
1
829
Electroshocking Children: Why It Should Be Stopped
John Breeding, PhD
-
February 11, 2014
20
19571
12 Vital Questions of Mental Health
Eric Maisel, PhD
-
February 10, 2014
10
307
How Competing in the Olympics is Like Mental Health Recovery
Corinna West
-
February 10, 2014
3
324
Blogging Your Survival Story: 11 Tips
Chaya Grossberg
-
February 9, 2014
20
288
Paradigm Shift
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
February 9, 2014
122
555
If You Are the Big, Big Tree; We Are the Small Axe
Stephen Weatherhead, DClinPsy
-
February 9, 2014
6
1252
Conversations About Death . . . in Pursuit of Life
James Schroeder, PhD
-
February 5, 2014
13
221
The ADHD Diagnosis is a War of Semantics, Waged on Children
Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
-
February 4, 2014
43
1738
Are Micronutrients a Waste of Time? – A Randomized Controlled Trial
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
February 3, 2014
52
12381
“Decolonizing Global Mental Health: The Psychiatrization of the Majority World” (Book Review)
Philip Thomas, MD
-
February 3, 2014
24
2497
Mark Your Calendars— Announcing Mad in America’s First International Film Festival!
Laura Delano
-
January 31, 2014
23
684
The Problem of Blame
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
January 30, 2014
42
214
Challenging the Status Quo
Maria Bradshaw
-
January 29, 2014
6
586
We Shall Overcome: Remembering Pete Seeger
Jack Carney, DSW
-
January 29, 2014
3
371
Psychiatry Gone Astray
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
-
January 28, 2014
90
6177
Guilty
David Healy, MD
-
January 28, 2014
11
269
Conflict of Interest, DSM-5, and the APA
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
January 25, 2014
50
1313
All Real Living is Meeting
Carina Håkansson, PhD
-
January 24, 2014
40
344
Welcome to Planet ADHD: A Farce to be Reckoned With
Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
-
January 23, 2014
25
968
No More Tears? The Shame of Johnson & Johnson
Maria Bradshaw
-
January 22, 2014
12
9518
Justina Pelletier Supporters Say: Close Harvard’s Abusive Psych Ward at Boston Children’s Hospital
Ted Chabasinski, JD
-
January 21, 2014
22
1524
Dare to Dream: Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Keris Jän Myrick
-
January 20, 2014
3
406
Ear Acupuncture to Support Mental Health
motto
-
January 20, 2014
110
1542
My Journey – A Child Psychiatrist’s Struggle to Change the System
Vicki Martin, MD
-
January 19, 2014
29
280
Reclaiming Humanity
Greg Benson
-
January 17, 2014
114
294
Antidepressants, Pregnancy, and Autism: Time to Worry?
Adam Urato, MD
-
January 16, 2014
9
3128
Update: ABC World News Wants to Know About Benzos
Melissa Bond
-
January 15, 2014
19
921
Evidence That More Psychiatry Means More Suicide
Maria Bradshaw
-
January 12, 2014
144
7183
When I Grow Up, I Want to be a Psychiatrist: Redefining the Profession for...
James Schroeder, PhD
-
January 11, 2014
41
4085
Based on a True Story Filled with Lies
Olga Runciman, Cand Psych BSc
-
January 11, 2014
32
454
Tell the Feds What “Quality Care” Looks Like
Corinna West
-
January 10, 2014
1
200
Learning Family Recovery Skills: Krista Mackinnon on Madness Radio
Will Hall
-
January 10, 2014
17
455
Psychiatry Is Not Based On Valid Science
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
January 9, 2014
34
4223
North Carolina Police Shoot and Kill “Mentally Ill” Kid
Faith Rhyne
-
January 8, 2014
64
505
Prescribing Rights for Psychologists
Maria Bradshaw
-
January 7, 2014
13
1588
Non-Compliance in the New Year: The Power of ‘No’
Sera Davidow
-
January 6, 2014
38
390
In Search of a Hundred Miles of Gratitude
James Schroeder, PhD
-
January 6, 2014
3
225
If You Don’t Have Anything to Hide, You Don’t Have Anything to Worry About
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
January 3, 2014
71
828
The Meaning of Legal Capacity is Equality
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
January 2, 2014
9
810
The Promise of Open Dialogue
Mary Olson, PhD
-
January 1, 2014
69
7680
Dream
Chaya Grossberg
-
January 1, 2014
14
147
On Creating Universes, Killing Cats and Other Odd Things
Maria Bradshaw
-
January 1, 2014
42
305
NIMH Mad Libs
MIA Editors
-
December 29, 2013
6
1027
What’s Really Behind GSK’s New Business Model?
Maria Bradshaw
-
December 28, 2013
18
633
My Recovery from ‘Schizophrenia’ through Psychotherapy and Writing
Lia Govers
-
December 28, 2013
7
1319
Making Sense of Being Crazy in a Crazy World: A Community Poll
Sascha Altman DuBrul
-
December 27, 2013
0
395
Justina Pelletier Case Shows Public That Psychiatric Power is Out of Control
Ted Chabasinski, JD
-
December 27, 2013
154
1706
Resolving to Make This Year Mean More
James Schroeder, PhD
-
December 27, 2013
12
118
Returning Stuff
Chaya Grossberg
-
December 25, 2013
7
556
The Story of Legal Capacity: Specificity and Intersections
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
December 25, 2013
2
494
In Time for RXmas: Motivational Pharmacotherapy
Maria Bradshaw
-
December 23, 2013
21
415
Tim Murphy Mental Health Bill: More Expensive and Less Effective
Corinna West
-
December 20, 2013
15
378
Is There a Simple Way to Use Nutrition Knowledge to Decrease Onset of Psychosis?
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
December 20, 2013
8
897
Psychiatry Has its Head in the Sand: Royal College of Psychiatrists Rejects Discussion of...
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
December 20, 2013
40
637
Homelessness, Hospitalization and “Compliance”
motto
-
December 18, 2013
86
812
CAFÉ Study: Real Science or Marketing Exercise?
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
December 18, 2013
4
948
Epic Fail: The Legislation of Involuntary Mental Health Treatment
Faith Rhyne
-
December 18, 2013
53
517
Power to Communities, Healing Through Social Justice: INTAR 2014 in Liverpool, England
Philip Thomas, MD
&
Peter Stastny, MD
-
December 17, 2013
0
315
Do I Enjoy Prescribing Meds?
Mark Ragins, MD
-
December 16, 2013
185
526
Investigate the Markingson Suicide? Not So Fast, Says University President
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
-
December 16, 2013
3
395
10 Ways Mental Health Professionals Increase Misery in Suffering People
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
December 15, 2013
24
5715
Off-Label in New Zealand
Erik Monasterio, MD
-
December 15, 2013
7
410
How Canada’s Prisons Killed Ashley Smith: A National Crime and Shame
Don Weitz
-
December 14, 2013
16
8281
Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered
Maria Bradshaw
-
December 13, 2013
14
392
What is a Simple Way to Prevent the Onset of Physical Disease?
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
December 12, 2013
9
458
The Esalen Connection: Fifty Years of Re-Visioning Madness and Trying to Transform the World
Michael Cornwall, PhD
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December 12, 2013
27
1213
Mind the Gap: The Space Between Alternatives & Force
Sera Davidow
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December 11, 2013
79
875
Setting the Intention to Heal: The Starting Point of Mental Health Recovery
Douglas Bloch
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December 10, 2013
15
3547
Embracing Movement Diversity
Chaya Grossberg
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December 10, 2013
4
227
Providing Sanctuary, Part 3; Support, Perfectionism, Structure and Flexibility
Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD
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December 9, 2013
0
139
Is Addiction a Disease?
Deron Drumm
&
Kelvin Young
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December 7, 2013
20
486
Governments Delivering Customers to Big Pharma
Maria Bradshaw
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December 5, 2013
20
300
Neuroleptics for Children: Harvard’s Shame
Philip Hickey, PhD
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December 4, 2013
28
905
The Church of GSKology, Part 2
David Healy, MD
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December 4, 2013
2
164
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Rufus May
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December 3, 2013
3
437
DSM-5 Boycott Enters 2nd Phase: A Primer for the NO-DSM Diagnosis Campaign
Jack Carney, DSW
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December 2, 2013
1
934
Against All Odds
Chaya Grossberg
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December 1, 2013
19
360
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Ron Unger, LCSW
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December 1, 2013
2
223
Inpatient Hospitalization: An Inside Perspective
motto
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November 30, 2013
140
1676
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Greg Benson
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November 29, 2013
15
196
A Small Revolution in Belgium: Psychologists to be Recognized Health Professionals
Nadia Mahjoub
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November 29, 2013
5
774
Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Human Metamorphosis
Laura Delano
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November 28, 2013
21
1361
KMSP-TV Investigative Report on Psychiatric Research Abuse at the University of Minnesota
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
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November 27, 2013
6
258
An Opportunity for “Mad Caring”: David Oaks Needs Our Help
Ron Unger, LCSW
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November 26, 2013
5
289
The Church of GSKology
David Healy, MD
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November 25, 2013
8
210
American Psychosis
Sandra Steingard, MD
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November 25, 2013
17
305
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Monica Cassani
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November 24, 2013
18
1057
The Taper
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
November 22, 2013
3
866
eCPR: A Health Promotion Approach
Lauren Spiro
,
Daniel Fisher, MD, PhD
&
Leah Harris
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November 22, 2013
13
1134
Patients’ Rights in Massachusetts
Cathy Levin
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November 22, 2013
11
2624
Is Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) Effective?
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
November 21, 2013
112
8372
Statement to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on CRPD
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
November 19, 2013
52
625
Tapering Neuroleptics: Two Year Results
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
November 18, 2013
23
549
A Stranger in a Strange Land (Pt. 2): What Happened to You?
Andrew L. Yoder, MSW
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November 18, 2013
47
177
Where There is No Word for “Alone”
Lauren Spiro
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November 18, 2013
2
331
Threats, Coercion and Chemical Restraints for Distressed Children
Maria Bradshaw
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November 17, 2013
42
780
The House of GSK
David Healy, MD
-
November 17, 2013
2
221
U.S. Renegade History, Psychiatric Survivors, & the Price of Acceptance
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
November 14, 2013
15
337
How to Escape Psychiatry as a Teen: Interview with a Survivor
Chaya Grossberg
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November 14, 2013
42
864
Just Who is the Naked One Here?
Olga Runciman, Cand Psych BSc
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November 10, 2013
34
619
Living in One of R. D. Laing’s Post-Kingsley Hall Households
Michael Guy Thompson
-
November 9, 2013
51
6891
Mis- (and Dis-) Information about UN Disability Convention
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
November 8, 2013
11
654
What Are You Doing, WHO?
Maria Bradshaw
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November 8, 2013
2
204
What Are You Doing WHO?
Maria Bradshaw
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November 8, 2013
2
176
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Deron Drumm
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November 7, 2013
16
568
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Sascha Altman DuBrul
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November 5, 2013
2
476
A Stranger in a Strange Land (Pt. 1)
Andrew L. Yoder, MSW
-
November 5, 2013
9
187
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David Healy, MD
&
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
-
November 4, 2013
11
625
P.S. Sometimes I still Hurt Myself… P.P.S. So do you…
Sera Davidow
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November 3, 2013
30
1276
I Wonder if There is Some Axis II Going on Here? Further Thoughts on...
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
November 3, 2013
29
337
Schizophrenia Becomes Psychosis Susceptibility Syndrome
Anoiksis
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November 2, 2013
65
596
Pick Up a Pen, I Dare You
Chaya Grossberg
-
November 1, 2013
18
250
Bogus Journal Articles Distract From the Real Problem in Academic Medicine
Jonathan Leo, PhD / Jeffrey Lacasse, PhD
-
October 30, 2013
5
470
“Tuff” Love: A Public Safety Alternative
Sarah Knutson
-
October 29, 2013
5
589
Photo ID Cards for “Mental Patients” Now a Reality
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
October 29, 2013
115
2761
DSM-5’s “Speculative” 2002 Diagnostic System Based On Expected Gene Findings
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
October 27, 2013
6
641
Elimination of Bias, Not Disclosure of Bias, Must be the Standard
Maria Bradshaw
-
October 27, 2013
14
162
It’s NOT all in Your Head
Richard Lawhern, PhD
-
October 27, 2013
37
1671
R.D. Laing & Anti-Psychopathology: The Myth of Mental Illness Redux
Michael Guy Thompson
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October 26, 2013
57
9639
A Caregiver’s Story- And How I Became an Addict
Madeline Goldstein
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October 23, 2013
21
2626
Teens and Psych Drugs
Chaya Grossberg
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October 22, 2013
6
335
The Unbearable Heaviness of Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal
Monica Cassani
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October 22, 2013
27
5899
How to Parent a Dead Child
Maria Bradshaw
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October 21, 2013
23
3025
Twin Studies and the “Nonreplication Curse” in Psychiatric Molecular Genetic Research
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
October 21, 2013
28
1619
The Shameful Story that Runs and Runs: A Review of The Bitterest Pills
Philip Thomas, MD
-
October 20, 2013
21
1543
Talking Over Fences: Why I Am Helping to Organize Community Dialogues on Mental Health
Faith Rhyne
-
October 19, 2013
31
238
A More Comprehensive Approach to Ethical and Effective Prescribing
Mark Ragins, MD
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October 18, 2013
68
1378
Could Your Doctor Be Mentally Ill or Suicidal?
Maria Bradshaw
-
October 18, 2013
15
889
A Recovery Movement Deterred?
Wayne Munchel
-
October 18, 2013
9
316
We Are Meant to Heal in a Community
Douglas Bloch
-
October 16, 2013
14
3932
Top Ten Reasons Alternatives 2013 is the “Cannot-Miss” Event of the Year
Oryx Cohen, M.P.A.
-
October 16, 2013
17
201
Setbacks
Matt Samet
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October 15, 2013
34
15333
Moving ‘Beyond the Medical Model’: HELP WANTED
Sera Davidow
,
Laura Delano
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October 14, 2013
20
1021
UN Prohibition of Psychiatric Commitment: Review and Analysis
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
October 13, 2013
13
1396
5 Reasons To Meditate
Chaya Grossberg
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October 13, 2013
0
183
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David Fox
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October 12, 2013
98
64537
Experiencing the Possibility of Change in the Digital Age
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284
Internal Guidance
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October 10, 2013
10
713
Emotions: Keys to Our Freedom
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
October 10, 2013
17
801
Our Backs Are Against the Wall, so There’s no Way to Go But Forward
Ted Chabasinski, JD
-
October 10, 2013
66
312
Dr. Mark and the Village
Mark Ragins, MD
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October 8, 2013
24
935
“Why Wunderink Matters”
Around The Web
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October 8, 2013
1
235
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Leah Harris
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October 7, 2013
16
1566
The Bitterest Pills: The Troubling Story of Antipsychotic Drugs
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
October 6, 2013
18
6173
Mental Illness, Right & Wrong, Drugs, and Violence
Elahe Hessamfar
-
October 5, 2013
13
2081
2013 Conference of the International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry
Al Galves, PhD
-
October 4, 2013
1
230
Psychiatric Profiling as Blood Libel
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
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October 2, 2013
48
1188
Mike Wallace Must Be Spinning In His Grave
Susan Rogers
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October 1, 2013
12
332
Of Course I’m Anti-Psychiatry.Aren’t You?
Ted Chabasinski, JD
-
October 1, 2013
103
2632
Psychiatric Language: Perception, Reality, & Breakfast
Maria Bradshaw
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September 30, 2013
12
400
ADHD in France and America
David Cohen
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September 30, 2013
20
2005
60 Minutes: Stop the Lies!
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September 29, 2013
21
564
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Chaya Grossberg
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September 27, 2013
2
179
A Great Strategy Meeting is a Meeting of Minds
David Ross, MEd, LPCC
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September 26, 2013
9
173
A Time for Heretics
Deron Drumm
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September 25, 2013
25
211
One World, One People, One Struggle
Richard D. Lewis
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September 24, 2013
9
619
Of FEP’s, DUP’s and BS
Wayne Munchel
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September 23, 2013
12
184
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Psychosis: A Valuable Contribution Despite Major Flaws
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
September 22, 2013
5
502
Amazing Victory for Mental Health Activists: NIMH Director Accepts Ideas Once Seen as Radical
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
September 22, 2013
10
3533
The United States of the Biomedical Model: Five Anecdotes
MIA Editors
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September 21, 2013
13
1721
UN: Ensure No One is Detained in Any Kind of Mental Health Facility
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
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September 21, 2013
3
772
David Cohen on Madness Radio: The Meaning of Medications
Will Hall
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September 21, 2013
3
381
Are Supplements Simply Creating Expensive Urine?
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
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September 19, 2013
13
948
Are You Abled or Disabled? How Do You Know?
Chaya Grossberg
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September 19, 2013
28
474
Want Our Message Nationwide? Join the National Dialogue NOW
Corinna West
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September 18, 2013
5
194
Psychiatry & Suicide Prevention: A 30-year Failed Experiment
Maria Bradshaw
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September 17, 2013
17
955
At War With Ourselves
Rufus May
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September 15, 2013
38
983
Human Rights Report on Forced Drugging in the U.S.
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
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September 14, 2013
4
697
Voices, Then & Now
Ron Coleman
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September 14, 2013
4
306
As Lawyers and Bureaucrats Delay, The Body Count Rises
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
-
September 13, 2013
5
245
Elephants and Flamingos
Olga Runciman, Cand Psych BSc
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September 13, 2013
23
554
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The DSM-5
Eugene Epstein
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September 13, 2013
8
269
Reflections on Being a Therapist
Daniel Mackler
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September 11, 2013
124
49895
An Intersubjective Approach to Treating Young Children With Autism and Related Challenges
Michelle Fouts
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September 11, 2013
1
368
Trauma Informed Care Meets Pharma Informed Care
Wayne Munchel
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September 11, 2013
11
405
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Jacks McNamara
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September 10, 2013
8
1977
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Laura Delano
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September 9, 2013
37
4488
Taking “Anti-Psychotics” When You Are Not Psychotic
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
September 9, 2013
48
29348
Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: How Big Pharma Has Corrupted Health Care
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
-
September 9, 2013
37
9164
A Journey Into Madness and Back Again: Part 3
Steindór J. Erlingsson, PhD
-
September 8, 2013
7
348
Creating Dialog on Approaches for “Psychosis” in New Jersey
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
September 8, 2013
10
260
Technology and Suicide
Maria Bradshaw
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September 7, 2013
6
3403
Forced Psychiatric Treatment (and Protection against it) in Germany in 2013
Peter Lehmann
-
September 7, 2013
6
1953
Does the Psychiatric Diagnosis Process Qualify as a Degradation Ceremony?
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
September 7, 2013
71
4311
The Temptation of Certainty: David Foster Wallace, Suicide and Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal
Vanessa Krasinski, MSN, RN
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September 6, 2013
21
8133
No New Prozacs: A Dry Pipeline for New Psychiatric Drugs
Douglas Bloch
-
September 5, 2013
11
389
Help Write a Psychiatric Survivor Manifesto
Corinna West
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September 4, 2013
16
456
The Right to Profit vs. The Right to Know
Johanna Ryan
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September 3, 2013
11
355
The Brain that Changes Itself: How Breakthroughs in Neuroplasticity Can De-Pathologize Mental Health
Lucinda Jewell
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September 3, 2013
1
835
5 Tasks if Your Child is Diagnosed With a Mental Illness
Chaya Grossberg
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September 2, 2013
9
228
Dietary Patterns and Mental Health
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
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September 1, 2013
3
860
In ‘Peer’ We Trust
Sera Davidow
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August 31, 2013
79
1161
Societies With Little Coercion Have Little Mental Illness
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
August 30, 2013
37
16777
The Speech
Wayne Munchel
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August 30, 2013
10
211
Community Discussions NOW That Actually Want Our Perspective
Corinna West
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August 30, 2013
3
183
The Slow Torture of Mary Weiss
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
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August 28, 2013
6
1044
A Journey Into Madness and Back Again: Part 1
Steindór J. Erlingsson, PhD
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August 27, 2013
4
281
Symptom or Experience: Does Language Matter?
Rai Waddingham
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August 27, 2013
44
1607
LERNing Through Research, Advocacy, and Experience
Laysha Ostrow, PhD
&
Nev Jones, PhD
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August 27, 2013
9
632
My Mood, My Choice
Cyndi Roberts
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August 27, 2013
21
444
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Lauren Spiro
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August 26, 2013
26
2254
Guiding Voices, Trauma-Induced Voices
Chaya Grossberg
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August 25, 2013
28
407
Changing Minds About Voices: Action Over Words
Sera Davidow
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August 25, 2013
116
584
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Polly Trope
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August 24, 2013
14
394
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Ron Unger, LCSW
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August 24, 2013
3
200
What Is the Emergency?
Jim Gottstein, JD
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August 21, 2013
10
385
Chinese Medicine for Emotional Healing
Will Fudeman
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August 21, 2013
18
814
Is a Little Stigma Better Than None?
Chaya Grossberg
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August 17, 2013
22
450
Long-Term Antipsychotics: Making Sense of the Evidence in the Light of the Dutch Follow-Up...
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
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August 13, 2013
46
3108
The Power of the Written Word
Tamasin Knight, MBChB, MPH
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August 13, 2013
31
304
Is Depression Unhappiness?
Monica Cassani
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August 12, 2013
47
1357
Playing the Odds: Antidepressant ‘Withdrawal’ and the Problem of Informed Consent
Stuart Shipko
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August 12, 2013
290
31723
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Chaya Grossberg
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August 12, 2013
0
144
Badgers Included
Nancy Rubenstein del Giudice
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August 8, 2013
102
303
Raising Our Voices at TED 2013
Eleanor Longden, PhD
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August 8, 2013
29
644
I Was Fifteen
Ted Chabasinski, JD
-
August 7, 2013
24
823
PTSD in Withdrawal
Matt Samet
-
August 6, 2013
20
5365
Can Psychiatry “Re-Engage” with Pharma?
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
August 4, 2013
76
525
A Hand to Hold: Community Mental Health in Times of Crisis
Faith Rhyne
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August 4, 2013
60
244
Faith Lost
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
August 4, 2013
8
3248
On “Schizophrenia”
Chaya Grossberg
-
August 3, 2013
49
322
Why Involuntary Out-Patient Treatment Isn’t Necessary – A First Person Account
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
August 2, 2013
67
560
Why the Rise of Mental Illness? Pathologizing Normal, Adverse Drug Effects, and a Peculiar...
Bruce Levine, PhD
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July 31, 2013
87
29209
Advancing the Use of Safe and Effective ADHD Treatment Options
Gretchen LeFever Watson
-
July 31, 2013
45
802
Providing Sanctuary
Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD
-
July 24, 2013
3
437
My Reply to Pete Earley: Do I Have Blood On My Hands?
Robert Whitaker
-
July 23, 2013
332
2162
Harm Reduction & the Elephant in the Room: End DSM Dependency
Jack Carney, DSW
-
July 23, 2013
9
683
Haloperidol is Neurotoxic
Sandra Steingard, MD
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July 21, 2013
198
10956
Dreams: Still the Royal Road to the Unconscious
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
July 20, 2013
40
3730
Western Psychiatry in Crisis: UK Psychiatry Re-Positions Itself
Lucy Johnstone, PsyD
,
Jacqui Dillon
&
Suman Fernando
-
July 19, 2013
32
1130
Many Ears Make Light Listening
Chaya Grossberg
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July 18, 2013
19
169
Harrow + Wunderink + Open Dialogue = An Evidence-based Mandate for A New Standard...
Robert Whitaker
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July 17, 2013
61
6102
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Julie Leonovs
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July 16, 2013
105
2163
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Jennifer Maurer
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July 11, 2013
54
625
Robert Whitaker’s Lecture at NAMI – A Parent’s Perspective
Kathy Brandt
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July 10, 2013
122
928
If I’d Known Then What I Know Now
Robert Nikkel, MSW
-
July 10, 2013
8
284
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motto
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July 10, 2013
203
578
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Claire Weber
-
July 9, 2013
58
1101
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Niall McLaren
-
July 9, 2013
23
1068
Diagnosis: Without Shoes
Sera Davidow
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July 8, 2013
27
385
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Sandra Steingard, MD
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July 7, 2013
54
2599
The Shoes Keep on Dropping… What Next?
Jack Carney, DSW
-
July 7, 2013
4
787
Discrimination in Higher Education: Users & Survivors in Academia Speak Out
Laysha Ostrow, PhD
&
Nev Jones, PhD
-
July 6, 2013
4
1628
Rethinking Mental Health, Part 2: From a Disease-Based Model of Support to One...
Paris Williams, PhD
-
July 4, 2013
15
1304
Cheers for Peers
Sera Davidow
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July 4, 2013
31
3214
The Blame Game
Matt Samet
-
July 3, 2013
25
636
Avoiding Stress After Diagnosis
Deron Drumm
-
July 3, 2013
10
491
Weighing Treatment Options – What Informs Choices?
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
July 2, 2013
4
441
Shaken But Unstirred – Can Nutrients Assist With Recovery From Earthquakes?
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
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June 30, 2013
3
471
Rethinking Mental Health, Part 1: From Positivism to a Holistic/Organismic Paradigm
Paris Williams, PhD
-
June 29, 2013
25
3458
A Close Look at Andreasen et al.’s Advice to Increase the Dosage of Antipsychotics...
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
June 29, 2013
86
446
Seclusion & Restraint in Ohio
Steve Stone
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June 27, 2013
13
243
I Am Also Mad
Sandra Steingard, MD
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June 26, 2013
102
449
Remembering a Restraint
Aubrey Ellen Shomo
-
June 26, 2013
12
6633
We Name It as Torture
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
June 26, 2013
15
2383
How I Overcame an Episode of SSRI-Induced Suicidal Depression
Douglas Bloch
-
June 26, 2013
13
21950
Withdrawing From Psychiatric Drugs: What Psychiatrists Don’t Learn
Vivek Datta, MD, MPH
-
June 24, 2013
74
10175
Spinning Straw into Gold: When Science Becomes Fiction
Marilyn Wedge, PhD
-
June 24, 2013
3
786
Snail’s Pace Race
Chaya Grossberg
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June 23, 2013
3
288
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Laura Delano
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June 22, 2013
36
502
MIA’s New Directory of Providers For Psych Drug Withdrawal
motto
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June 22, 2013
8
409
Conference at Vatican Holds Great Promise: You Can’t Always Get What You Want…
Barry Duncan
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June 21, 2013
11
205
Antipsychotics and Brain Shrinkage: An Update
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
June 19, 2013
70
24508
The Vatican, Ritalin, and a Canadian Study of Long-term ADHD Outcomes
Robert Whitaker
-
June 18, 2013
103
3748
Tapering Off Medications When “Symptoms Have Remitted”: Does That Make Sense?
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
June 18, 2013
2
261
Psychiatry’s Oppression of Young Anarchists — and the Underground Resistance
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
June 16, 2013
51
4179
What is Mental Illness Today? Five Hard Questions
Hugh Middleton, MD
-
June 13, 2013
6
1354
Dispatches from a Reluctant Guide on the Path to Disability
Michael Rock
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June 11, 2013
3
144
We Have a Dream: Getting Engaged to a Doctor
David Healy, MD
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June 10, 2013
60
391
Avatar Therapy: A New Battle for the Tree of Life
Rufus May
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June 9, 2013
24
1046
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
June 9, 2013
12
2828
Medication and Spirituality
Lynne Vanderpot, PhD
-
June 9, 2013
7
2809
Can Psychosis be Treated With Nutrition?
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
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June 7, 2013
45
6433
Talk Therapy Can Cause Harm, Too
Jill Littrell, PhD
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June 6, 2013
168
4025
Why the Fuss Over the DSM-5, When Did the DSM Start to Matter, &...
Hannah S. Decker
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June 6, 2013
7
2644
Critical Psychiatry Network Calls on Institute of Psychiatry to Cancel Charles Nemeroff
Philip Thomas, MD
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June 4, 2013
70
538
Madness and Play: Exploring the Boundary
Ron Unger, LCSW
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June 3, 2013
5
764
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Sandra Steingard, MD
-
June 2, 2013
29
282
Miscarried Life
Sera Davidow
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May 31, 2013
39
588
Love It, Hate It … Write Your Own Review of the DSM-5 on Amazon
Jack Carney, DSW
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May 31, 2013
7
569
A Soiled Phoenix Rises
Philip Thomas, MD
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May 30, 2013
27
714
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Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
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May 29, 2013
1
298
Open the Paradigm
PJ Moynihan
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May 29, 2013
11
576
Starvation: What Does it Do to the Brain?
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
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May 28, 2013
15
69453
Little Victories on Breezy
Matt Samet
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May 27, 2013
2
625
Next Steps: More Lessons Learned From the DSM-5 Boycott
Jack Carney, DSW
-
May 24, 2013
4
507
My APA protest speech: “Keeping the Channel Open”
Chaya Grossberg
-
May 23, 2013
13
173
Help Create a Real Stigma Reduction Campaign
Corinna West
-
May 23, 2013
1
314
DSM-5 Statement by the Critical Psychiatry Network
Philip Thomas, MD
-
May 23, 2013
74
1133
The Green Shadow Cabinet and a Mental Health Declaration of Independence
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
May 21, 2013
8
267
Enough with the Questions!
Jay Watts, DClinPsy
-
May 21, 2013
27
575
When “Recovery” Feels Like a Trap
Sean Donovan
-
May 20, 2013
64
518
Hearing Voices Network Launches Debate on DSM-5 and Psychiatric Diagnoses
Jacqui Dillon
-
May 20, 2013
29
1526
Thoughts on the Meaning of Neuroscience
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
May 19, 2013
99
381
Occupy APA in San Francisco: Joined in Spirit
Jack Carney, DSW
-
May 17, 2013
26
432
Taking down the Giant: A Call for Increased Community Outreach
Paris Williams, PhD
-
May 16, 2013
22
353
Difference is Not Disease: Scientific Integrity, Human Diversity, and the Potentially Bleak Future of...
Faith Rhyne
-
May 16, 2013
173
1939
Purpose is Inherently Divorced From Consensual Reality
Chaya Grossberg
-
May 15, 2013
13
383
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: The Good, The Bad, The Limitations
Richard D. Lewis
-
May 15, 2013
126
14975
Jeopardizing Your Wife to Prove a Point: Pellagra as an Example of Deficit
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
May 15, 2013
6
1294
DxSummit Officially Launches
Jonathan Raskin
-
May 15, 2013
5
544
Man Jumps, News at…?
Jennifer Maurer
-
May 14, 2013
86
254
Body Politics
Sera Davidow
-
May 14, 2013
43
333
Leaving Marcellas
Michael Rock
-
May 14, 2013
21
203
BBC Interview with Lucy Johnstone from British Psychological Society
Paul Baker
-
May 14, 2013
0
282
Does DSM-5 Matter? Yes; but not for Psychiatrists
Vivek Datta, MD, MPH
-
May 13, 2013
18
3585
Why I Won’t Buy the DSM-5
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
May 13, 2013
17
837
UK Clinical Psychologists Call for the Abandonment of Psychiatric Diagnosis and the ‘Disease’ Model
Lucy Johnstone, PsyD
-
May 13, 2013
77
6765
The Myth of Mental Illness Revisited, NIMH Style
Jonathan Raskin
-
May 13, 2013
12
1183
“Mental Illness”, the DSM-5, and Dreams for a Post-Psychiatry World
Laura Delano
-
May 12, 2013
63
1916
Responding to Attacks on MIA — One Long Night of Zombie Whack-a-Mole
motto
-
May 12, 2013
30
252
Everything Matters: a Memoir From Before, During and After Psychiatric Drugs
Monica Cassani
-
May 11, 2013
52
8961
Spiritual Emergency Round 2: Smashing Warped Philosophies
Corinna West
-
May 10, 2013
4
289
Using Mindfulness Meditation to Cope with Suicidal Thoughts and Feelings
Douglas Bloch
-
May 10, 2013
12
11978
Chew on This: FDA Embraces Big Pharma; Takes Aim at Big Gum
David Ross, MEd, LPCC
-
May 10, 2013
16
176
Colonization or Postpsychiatry?
Olga Runciman, Cand Psych BSc
-
May 9, 2013
64
1063
Why Neuroscience Cannot Explain Madness
Philip Thomas, MD
-
May 7, 2013
18
1776
CDC Reports ‘Substantial’ Increases in U.S. Suicide Rate for Middle-Aged Americans
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
May 7, 2013
3
267
Classism in Disguise
Chaya Grossberg
-
May 7, 2013
18
781
Witty A: Report to the President
David Healy, MD
-
May 7, 2013
1
212
The Inane Search for Magic Bullets to Treat Mental Illness
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
May 7, 2013
7
1515
Recovering Myself
Amanda Back
-
May 7, 2013
6
504
Truth is Like a Lion: The 25th Hearing Voices Conference
Rufus May
-
May 7, 2013
15
823
So, You Want to Be An Activist?
Faith Rhyne
-
May 6, 2013
30
404
I Am A Witness… Fifty Years Later
motto
-
May 4, 2013
66
4993
How Much can a Psychiatrist Charge to Visit With a Dead Research Subject?
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
-
May 4, 2013
0
282
Conspiracy Theories Fill a Need
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
May 4, 2013
19
449
Shield Texans From Psychiatric Force: Oppose Texas House Bill 2212!
MindFreedom
-
May 3, 2013
11
668
The Hearing Voices Movement: Has it Really Been 25 years?
Paul Baker
-
May 2, 2013
8
1406
The “Mental Illness” Paradigm: An “Illness” That is out of Control
Paris Williams, PhD
-
May 2, 2013
50
3844
Inbetweenland Reflections
Jennifer Maria Padron
-
May 1, 2013
0
632
Family Members – Allies or Adversaries?
Deron Drumm
-
April 30, 2013
19
495
Brand Fascism
David Healy, MD
-
April 30, 2013
2
195
The Culture of Fear and the Lost Art of Organizing for Social Change
Jack Carney, DSW
-
April 29, 2013
36
591
The ‘Recovery’ Trap
Sera Davidow
-
April 28, 2013
79
1904
Birthing Bliss, Birthing Trauma, and the Role of the Perinatal Patient
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
April 26, 2013
4
533
Fear, Discrimination and Our Ever-Eroding Civil Rights
Sean Donovan
-
April 26, 2013
40
206
Psychology and Neuroscience Are a Misfit
Al Galves, PhD
-
April 26, 2013
6
365
The Unmedicated Life
Matt Samet
-
April 26, 2013
5
1114
Labeling
Chaya Grossberg
-
April 26, 2013
14
225
We Have Seen the Evidence Base, and it is Us
Janet Currie
-
April 25, 2013
6
377
I Talked About Mad in America on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show!
Sascha Altman DuBrul
-
April 24, 2013
0
171
Time for a new Understanding of Suicidal Feelings
Will Hall
-
April 24, 2013
11
1641
The Empire of Humbug: Not So Bad Pharma
David Healy, MD
-
April 24, 2013
0
136
The Words We Use…
Robert Nikkel, MSW
-
April 23, 2013
7
449
Finding the Meaning in Suffering: My Experience with Coming off Psychiatric Drugs (in a...
Laura Delano
-
April 23, 2013
79
6185
Carina Håkansson: Family Care Foundation
Kermit Cole
-
April 23, 2013
8
2440
Public Comment to the National Council on Disability on its Engagement with CRPD
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
April 22, 2013
3
285
Study the Past if You Would Define the Future [Confucius]
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
April 22, 2013
8
1544
All Sorts of Realities
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
April 22, 2013
23
170
Could a Different Approach to “Mental Health” Be Part of Solving the Climate Crisis?
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
April 21, 2013
44
239
Did Electroshock Save my Life?
Loretta Wilson
-
April 20, 2013
15
1134
Mad Flies and Bad Science
Philip Thomas, MD
-
April 17, 2013
19
814
The Empire of Humbug: Bad Pharma
David Healy, MD
-
April 16, 2013
0
125
To Honor or to Investigate?
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
-
April 15, 2013
5
521
Nutrition and Mental Health
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
April 15, 2013
28
1682
Optimal Use of Neuroleptics, Part 3: Duration of Untreated Psychosis
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
April 14, 2013
38
1106
One Year of Mad In America
motto
-
April 14, 2013
34
160
Fire In The Belly
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
April 13, 2013
8
628
Slices of Pies: A Dialogue with Ronald Pies
Sera Davidow
-
April 12, 2013
168
326
Too Much Pies
Sera Davidow
-
April 10, 2013
67
309
The Tragedy of Lou Lasagna
David Healy, MD
-
April 9, 2013
0
460
“That’s Just How It Is”
Matt Samet
-
April 9, 2013
24
703
Living Mindfully with Voices
Rufus May
-
April 9, 2013
7
594
Winners of the American Dream
Alice Keys, MD
-
April 7, 2013
62
463
Please Defend the Right to Bear Arms
Deron Drumm
-
April 7, 2013
77
243
Using Formulation to Change Team Cultures
Lucy Johnstone, PsyD
-
April 7, 2013
6
1764
False Arguments, Part. 2: Anti-Anti-Stigma
Sera Davidow
-
April 6, 2013
70
4186
Making Plans for the Long Flight – Re-visioning Icarus’ Next 10 Years
Sascha Altman DuBrul
-
April 5, 2013
6
177
The U.N. Asks the U.S. to Defend its Use of Forced Psychiatric Drugging
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
April 4, 2013
12
1004
eCPR (Emotional CPR): A Tool & a Process of Peacemaking
Lauren Spiro
-
April 4, 2013
3
1289
Imperialist Psychiatrists, Psychopathic Corporatists — But I Repeat Myself
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
April 4, 2013
7
869
On World Autism Day: Why I Am Concerned About the Use of Antidepressants During...
Adam Urato, MD
-
April 2, 2013
25
481
A Recovery Story, in Dollars and Cents
Lyn Legere
-
April 1, 2013
8
273
Managing a Movement or Community
David Ross, MEd, LPCC
-
March 30, 2013
0
113
Optimal Use of Neuroleptics, Pt. II; The Monkeys Were Not Psychotic
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
March 30, 2013
45
294
Situational Schizophrenia
Marilyn Wedge, PhD
-
March 29, 2013
12
512
Can a Profession Be any More Confused?
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
March 28, 2013
18
441
After the Statement by the Special Rapporteur on Torture, Taking Stock of Where We...
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
March 28, 2013
5
746
Not So Bad Pharma
David Healy, MD
-
March 28, 2013
2
288
Life, Liberty, & the Pursuit of Happiness? Protesting the Legislation of Systematic Civil...
Laura Delano
-
March 27, 2013
26
1729
The DSM-5 Field Trials: Inter-Rater Reliability Ratings Take a Nose Dive
Jack Carney, DSW
-
March 26, 2013
0
8571
Do Antipsychotics Worsen Long-term Schizophrenia Outcomes? Martin Harrow Explores the Question.
Robert Whitaker
-
March 26, 2013
25
6149
To Medicate Or Not To Medicate: That Is Not The Question
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
March 25, 2013
8
519
Optimal Use of Neuroleptic Drugs: An Introduction
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
March 23, 2013
160
426
Death Grip: Then and Now
Matt Samet
-
March 21, 2013
6
788
He Who Pays the Piper
Alice Keys, MD
-
March 21, 2013
18
350
Ask Michael Moore About Psychiatric Drugs and Gun Violence
Jim Gottstein, JD
-
March 21, 2013
8
1066
The Petition Against DSM-5
Philip Thomas, MD
-
March 20, 2013
0
401
The 99th Mile: When Benzo Withdrawal Meets Parenthood
Melissa Bond
-
March 19, 2013
16
2760
“They Need to be Held Accountable”
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
-
March 16, 2013
3
703
The Trouble with Twin Studies
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
March 13, 2013
25
35327
Confronting the Addiction Voice on the Road to Recovery
James Moore
-
March 13, 2013
18
6704
Social Vacuum
Matt Samet
-
March 13, 2013
5
4908
The Systemic Crushing of Young Nonconformists and Anti-Authoritarians
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
March 11, 2013
55
1174
About Being Paul Revere
Alice Keys, MD
-
March 10, 2013
107
389
We Are Now Qualified to do Anything, with Nothing
Jennifer Maria Padron
-
March 6, 2013
5
607
My Story of Recovery: Prayer, Community, and Healing
Douglas Bloch
-
March 5, 2013
9
1186
Preventing Depression: SSRIs for At-Risk Populations?
Jonathan Leo, PhD / Jeffrey Lacasse, PhD
-
March 4, 2013
38
440
The Latest Gene Finding Claim in Psychiatry
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
March 4, 2013
43
581
Profiles in Creative Maladjustment: AL GALVES
MindFreedom
-
March 1, 2013
4
275
Diagnosis Dilemma
Alice Keys, MD
-
March 1, 2013
109
342
The Politics of Systems Change: Lessons Learned from the Launch of the DSM-5 Boycott
Jack Carney, DSW
-
February 26, 2013
17
586
Components for a Good Neuroleptic Withdrawal Program
Daniel Mackler
-
February 25, 2013
81
1752
We are Whole People, Not Broken Brains
Daniel Fisher, MD, PhD
-
February 24, 2013
50
2625
Reflections on a Psychiatric Indoctrination, or, How I Began to Free Myself from the...
Laura Delano
-
February 23, 2013
241
4809
Keynote Speech at Alternatives 2012 Conference: Remembering Our History, Thinking About our Future
Will Hall
-
February 23, 2013
3
358
Pinball Wizards and the Doomed Project of Psychiatric Diagnosis
Philip Thomas, MD
-
February 19, 2013
14
1543
How Do You Live at the Intersection of Love and Outrage?
Corinna West
-
February 18, 2013
8
843
Dan’s Journey Through OCD
Janet Singer
-
February 15, 2013
9
9114
Five Decades of Gene Finding Failures in Psychiatry
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
February 15, 2013
60
5812
Love Note for Valentine’s Day: Beware of Those Peddling ADHD Drugs
Gretchen LeFever Watson
-
February 14, 2013
3
375
Some Thoughts on the Origins of Mental Illnesses
Hugh Middleton, MD
-
February 14, 2013
37
941
We Are The Ones
Alice Keys, MD
-
February 13, 2013
23
214
Not so Black: Ablixa and Homicidal Side Effects
David Healy, MD
-
February 13, 2013
18
29494
Register now for the UnDiagnosing UnPlanned UnConference
Corinna West
-
February 13, 2013
9
887
Our Collective Stories Have Power
Leah Harris
-
February 12, 2013
9
245
Emotional CPR as a Way of Life
Lauren Spiro
-
February 12, 2013
5
1451
Prozac and SSRIs: Twenty-fifth Anniversary
David Healy, MD
-
February 11, 2013
3
451
Rejuvenating Abolitionism of Psychiatric Labels — Even Some Establishment Psychiatrists Embarrassed by New DSM-5
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
February 10, 2013
9
2197
Don’t Go Back to Sleep
Alice Keys, MD
-
February 8, 2013
17
217
That Naughty Little Pill
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
February 8, 2013
3
2334
Redemption Songs: Music and Madness
Faith Rhyne
-
February 8, 2013
25
551
A New Film Called ‘Beyond the Medical Model’
Sera Davidow
-
February 6, 2013
44
1386
DSM-5 Boycott Launched!
Jack Carney, DSW
-
February 5, 2013
30
4028
The SSRIs and Ten Years of Misleading Advertising: Who is Responsible?
Jonathan Leo, PhD / Jeffrey Lacasse, PhD
-
February 5, 2013
72
494
It’s Time to Wake Up and Stop the Violence
Oryx Cohen, M.P.A.
-
February 4, 2013
28
870
The Antidepressant Era: the Movie
David Healy, MD
-
February 1, 2013
2
657
Why Do the Stories Psychiatrists Tell Their Patients Matter?
Philip Thomas, MD
-
January 28, 2013
13
847
As We Scapegoat Schizophrenics Today, I Am Reminded of Nazi Germany
Ted Chabasinski, JD
-
January 26, 2013
26
965
5 Things You Can Do In 5 Minutes to UnDiagnose Emotional Distress
Corinna West
-
January 25, 2013
0
368
Scapegoating Persons Labelled Mentally Ill: The Politics of Marginalization
Jack Carney, DSW
-
January 25, 2013
15
1516
Krazy Kiwi Kids
Maria Bradshaw
-
January 23, 2013
6
384
A Breakthrough for Suicide (Attempt) Survivors at the AAS
David Webb
-
January 22, 2013
1
429
The Hearing Voices Movement: In Response to a Father – ‘My Daughter, the Schizophrenic’
Jacqui Dillon
-
January 21, 2013
100
3391
What is Critical Psychiatry?
Philip Thomas, MD
-
January 21, 2013
7
12634
Taking Martin Luther King Jr’s Call For Creative Maladjustment Seriously
MindFreedom
-
January 21, 2013
1
6951
Luscious Lipids
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
January 20, 2013
2
322
A Phenomenological View of Madness and Medicine
Dan Kriegman, PhD
-
January 20, 2013
3
614
NCMHR Does Not Speak for Me
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
January 19, 2013
14
372
What Happened After a Nation Methodically Murdered Its Schizophrenics? Rethinking Mental Illness and Its...
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
January 19, 2013
22
464
Youth Violence is a Family Therapy Issue
Marilyn Wedge, PhD
-
January 18, 2013
1
324
And That’s the News from the Department of Psychiatry
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
-
January 18, 2013
9
666
Day of Action to Stop Psychiatric Profiling: January 21, 2013
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
January 18, 2013
5
337
Free from Harm? Reflecting on the Dangers of the White House’s Proposed ‘Now...
Laura Delano
-
January 17, 2013
20
462
Psychiatry Is Not the Only Branch of Medicine to Lose Its Soul to Pharma
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
January 17, 2013
19
548
The Problem with PTSD
Vivek Datta, MD, MPH
-
January 17, 2013
6
954
“Baby Cry Too Much?”
Alice Keys, MD
-
January 17, 2013
2
189
Civilians
Matt Samet
-
January 16, 2013
7
613
False Arguments: A Three-Part Story
Sera Davidow
-
January 15, 2013
30
764
More Thinking about Alternatives to Psychiatric Diagnosis
Lucy Johnstone, PsyD
-
January 15, 2013
14
1779
Exporting Depression
Ethan Watters
-
January 12, 2013
8
1252
PsychRights’ Letter to the President’s Task Force on Gun Violence
Jim Gottstein, JD
-
January 11, 2013
9
392
Commentary on the National Comorbidity Survey Replication
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
January 10, 2013
2
206
How to Get Away with Academic Misconduct at the University of Minnesota
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
-
January 10, 2013
4
1120
The Hearing Voices Movement: Beyond Critiquing the Status Quo
Jacqui Dillon
-
January 10, 2013
13
2828
Backsliding in the Bay State
Jonathan Dosick
-
January 7, 2013
9
322
Thinking about Alternatives to Psychiatric Diagnosis
Lucy Johnstone, PsyD
-
January 7, 2013
33
3220
Re-examining the Biochemical Model after Newtown: The Effects of Stigma and the Need for...
Rossa Forbes
-
January 7, 2013
59
616
Introduction: The Gene Illusion Continues
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
January 6, 2013
15
649
Peace Making
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
January 5, 2013
4
142
A Message of Hope in Mental Health Care: There IS an Alternative
MindFreedom
-
January 4, 2013
8
1490
Defining Recovery
Alice Keys, MD
-
January 3, 2013
34
268
101 Uses for a Dead Journal
David Healy, MD
-
January 3, 2013
5
347
Walking
Matt Samet
-
January 2, 2013
8
1075
How You Have Changed Me
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
January 1, 2013
70
541
Time to Abolish Psychiatric Diagnosis?
Lucy Johnstone, PsyD
-
January 1, 2013
45
5629
May Your Psychache be Minimal
David Webb
-
January 1, 2013
20
919
Where Do Messages of Hopelessness in Mental Health Care Come From?
MindFreedom
-
December 31, 2012
50
4047
Media’s Failed Approach to Madness, Parts 1 & 2
Faith Rhyne
-
December 29, 2012
37
618
The Children Lead
Alice Keys, MD
-
December 29, 2012
31
164
David W. Oaks’ Message To the World: “Cracking the Nut of Normality”
MindFreedom
-
December 28, 2012
2
286
I Got a Break from Reality for Christmas!
Corinna West
-
December 25, 2012
15
322
I am the Number 60
Sera Davidow
-
December 21, 2012
23
3213
Grief, Peace; Not Profiling
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
December 21, 2012
1
129
Mass Murder in Newtown: Why and Where Next?
Jack Carney, DSW
-
December 20, 2012
13
403
We Are All Adam Lanza’s Mother (& other things we’re not talking about)
Jennifer Maurer
-
December 19, 2012
32
329
A Reflection on Mothers, Children, and Mental Illness
Faith Rhyne
-
December 18, 2012
31
2492
The Head Bone’s Connected to the Body Bone
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
December 18, 2012
6
575
Many Small Actions Bring Big Results
Alice Keys, MD
-
December 18, 2012
23
203
A Challenge to “I Am Adam Lanza’s Mother”
Laura Delano
-
December 18, 2012
119
3518
Faith
Matt Samet
-
December 17, 2012
6
1312
Thoughts About David Oaks
Robert Whitaker
-
December 17, 2012
13
1212
Rediscovering Traditions of Community Healing – Susan McKeown
Will Hall
-
December 16, 2012
0
232
Critical Psychiatry as Narrative
Philip Thomas, MD
-
December 15, 2012
2
656
The Price is Wrong
Maria Bradshaw
-
December 12, 2012
9
473
Trying Too Hard to Be Sane, or Trying Too Hard to Recover, Can Lead...
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
December 12, 2012
12
468
Identity Theft
Matt Samet
-
December 12, 2012
7
682
My Journey Home to Self
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
December 11, 2012
5
801
Boycott The DSM-5: Anachronistic Before Its Time
Jack Carney, DSW
-
December 10, 2012
10
887
Bottle Fish. Going and Doing. Being.
Alice Keys, MD
-
December 10, 2012
15
182
Building a Bridge to Hope
Lisbeth Riis Cooper
-
December 10, 2012
13
509
Psychiatry Beyond the Current Paradigm, and DSM-5
Hugh Middleton, MD
-
December 10, 2012
3
679
The Other Side
Matt Samet
-
December 9, 2012
9
3339
The Road to Perdition
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
-
December 7, 2012
2
2484
CRPD Defeated in Senate – What Now?
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
December 5, 2012
16
304
Do Diagnoses Injure People?
Alice Keys, MD
-
December 4, 2012
59
701
Big Brother Is Watching: A Strategy to End Kendra’s Law in New York State,...
Jack Carney, DSW
-
December 4, 2012
10
965
I Believe Most of us Have a Broken Heart, Not a “Mental Illness”
Jacks McNamara
-
December 4, 2012
9
370
We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For
Daniel Fisher, MD, PhD
-
December 4, 2012
21
1301
Big Brother Is Watching: Children and Older Adults, Part I
Jack Carney, DSW
-
December 3, 2012
3
447
A Recent Study of Atypical Neuroleptics: “The Results of our Study are Sobering”
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
December 3, 2012
52
810
Reparations: It is Conceivable
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
December 3, 2012
3
897
The Denial of Pain and Mortality: Or, the Art of Self-Prescribing and the Philosopher’s...
Vivek Datta, MD, MPH
-
December 3, 2012
10
246
Getting Involved in Prison Issues – Making Alliances With Mental Health Advocacy
Will Hall
-
December 1, 2012
0
274
Suckling Pigs, Stray Dogs, and Psychiatric Diagnoses
Vivek Datta, MD, MPH
-
November 29, 2012
13
283
How 7 Historic Figures Overcame Depression without Doctors
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
November 29, 2012
9
1114
Philosopher Raymond Tallis – Challenging Pop Neuroscience
Will Hall
-
November 29, 2012
2
828
“But It’s Just the Way Things Are”
Alice Keys, MD
-
November 29, 2012
35
258
One Solution to Prescription Drug Overdoses: Make Oxycontin and Similar Drugs Safer
Alison Bass
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325
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November 15, 2012
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November 14, 2012
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November 8, 2012
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November 7, 2012
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November 6, 2012
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October 31, 2012
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598
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October 28, 2012
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290
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Sandra Steingard, MD
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October 26, 2012
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October 26, 2012
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October 26, 2012
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Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD
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October 26, 2012
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October 26, 2012
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The Search for the Miracle Cure
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October 16, 2012
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621
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Lisbeth Riis Cooper
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October 16, 2012
28
780
Why Do So Few People Know that CRPD Prohibits Forced Psychiatry?
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
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October 14, 2012
12
825
The United Met States of Psychiatry
Laura Delano
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October 14, 2012
51
489
Hearing Voices Research & Development Fund
Gina Nikkel, PhD
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October 13, 2012
10
220
Behavior Modification and an Authoritarian Society
Bruce Levine, PhD
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October 12, 2012
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1034
There’s No Duct Tape for Benzo Withdrawal
Melissa Bond
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October 11, 2012
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21036
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Howard Glasser
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October 11, 2012
1
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David Ross, MEd, LPCC
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October 9, 2012
16
269
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Gina Nikkel, PhD
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October 9, 2012
18
327
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Alison Bass
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October 8, 2012
0
150
Abbott’s Admissions of Criminality: Do They Accomplish Anything?
Jim Gottstein, JD
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October 8, 2012
6
248
More on New York’s Kendra’s Law: Opponents Lining Up for Decisive Battle in 2015
Jack Carney, DSW
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October 8, 2012
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947
Neuroleptic Taper in a Clinical Practice
Sandra Steingard, MD
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October 7, 2012
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887
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October 6, 2012
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758
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October 4, 2012
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318
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October 2, 2012
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October 1, 2012
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606
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October 1, 2012
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September 30, 2012
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September 28, 2012
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Yana Jacobs
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September 28, 2012
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810
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Jim Gottstein, JD
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September 27, 2012
8
803
Drug Development, “Lucrative Markets,” and the Future of Psychiatry
Sandra Steingard, MD
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September 27, 2012
42
233
Killer Brain Candy: One Woman’s Odyssey Through Benzodiazepine Addiction and Withdrawal or How Chicken...
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September 26, 2012
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Psychosis as a Spiritual Crisis: An Opportunity For Growth
Michael Cornwall, PhD
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September 25, 2012
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945
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September 25, 2012
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190
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September 23, 2012
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344
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September 21, 2012
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September 20, 2012
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1355
Are You Committed to Eliminating Labels and Medications With Emotional Distress?
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September 18, 2012
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471
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Jonathan Dosick
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September 17, 2012
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391
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Vanessa Krasinski, MSN, RN
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September 17, 2012
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240
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Sandra Steingard, MD
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September 15, 2012
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203
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September 12, 2012
45
2036
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September 12, 2012
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Paul Andrews
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September 12, 2012
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August 12, 2012
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859
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Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
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August 7, 2012
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August 6, 2012
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August 2, 2012
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August 1, 2012
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August 1, 2012
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526
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August 1, 2012
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July 30, 2012
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July 21, 2012
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July 19, 2012
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July 19, 2012
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556
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Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
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July 18, 2012
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423
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July 17, 2012
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A Collective Human Potential Movement
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July 7, 2012
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487
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Jonathan Leo, PhD
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July 7, 2012
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July 5, 2012
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July 5, 2012
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July 3, 2012
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June 21, 2012
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Our Emotions – The Sole Creators of Every Word, Voice, Symbolic Image, Bodily Movement...
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Are We Not Human Beings with the Rights to be Treated as Human?
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June 7, 2012
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June 7, 2012
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Jonathan Leo, PhD
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June 6, 2012
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390
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David Ross, MEd, LPCC
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June 4, 2012
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159
Nothing About Us Without Us!
David Ross, MEd, LPCC
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June 3, 2012
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May 27, 2012
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May 24, 2012
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Our Recovery Community is One of the Richest in Our Country
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May 24, 2012
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Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
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May 24, 2012
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May 22, 2012
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Jack Carney, DSW
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May 22, 2012
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449
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May 21, 2012
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262
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Alice Keys, MD
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May 21, 2012
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Jack Carney, DSW
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May 21, 2012
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568
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Jack Carney, DSW
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May 17, 2012
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Sandra Steingard, MD
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May 17, 2012
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Fast-Moving Bill in Congress Would Weaken FDA Oversight of New Drugs and Devices
Alison Bass
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May 16, 2012
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175
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Robert Whitaker
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Lisbeth Riis Cooper
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Michael Cornwall, PhD
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May 16, 2012
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316
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Tim Desmond, LMFT
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May 16, 2012
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1866
Is Psychiatry “Salvageable”?
Alice Keys, MD
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May 15, 2012
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708
Mad Pride and Spiritual Community: Thoughts on The Spiritual Gift of Madness
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May 13, 2012
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David Ross, MEd, LPCC
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May 13, 2012
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140
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Alice Keys, MD
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May 9, 2012
308
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Alison Bass
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May 8, 2012
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Daniel Fisher, MD, PhD
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May 7, 2012
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365
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Maria Bradshaw
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May 7, 2012
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559
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Laura Delano
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May 6, 2012
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Alice Keys, MD
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May 5, 2012
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148
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David Ross, MEd, LPCC
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May 4, 2012
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198
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Bruce Levine, PhD
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May 4, 2012
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Call Me “The Doctor”
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May 2, 2012
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Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
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April 30, 2012
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Robert Nikkel, MSW
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April 29, 2012
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148
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Ron Unger, LCSW
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April 29, 2012
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Alice Keys, MD
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April 29, 2012
39
254
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Corinna West
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April 29, 2012
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Jennifer Maria Padron
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April 28, 2012
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Alison Bass
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April 27, 2012
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April 26, 2012
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It’s Not Going To Get Better Soon
Alice Keys, MD
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April 26, 2012
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Sandra Steingard, MD
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April 25, 2012
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April 24, 2012
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314
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April 24, 2012
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Sandra Steingard, MD
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Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD
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April 21, 2012
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Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD
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April 19, 2012
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April 17, 2012
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April 16, 2012
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292
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April 16, 2012
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April 15, 2012
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Madness Radio: Toby Watson on Ethical Psychotherapy
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April 15, 2012
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April 14, 2012
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April 12, 2012
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April 11, 2012
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April 10, 2012
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April 10, 2012
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Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
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April 8, 2012
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You Are What You Eat
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April 8, 2012
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3
3641
“Social Workers’ Malaise: What’s Our Mission?”
Jack Carney, DSW
-
April 2, 2012
11
364
Playing Hide-and-Seek with Psychiatric Drug Studies
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
-
April 1, 2012
5
636
Does It Matter if We Believe in Mental Illness?
Tim Desmond, LMFT
-
March 30, 2012
23
231
Bipolar? When Quitting is the Answer
Howard Glasser
-
March 29, 2012
9
879
Dialogical Recovery of Life
Daniel Fisher, MD, PhD
-
March 28, 2012
10
586
1984 & DSM5, Revisited: Where Are the Social Workers?
Jack Carney, DSW
-
March 27, 2012
16
766
Dyskinesia, Dissociation, and the Long Term Consequences of “Antipsychotic” Drugs
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
March 26, 2012
3
1622
How Technology Worship Keeps Americans Ignorant about Depression Treatment
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
March 26, 2012
4
1798
What is in a Name: One Psychiatrist’s View of Psychiatric Diagnosis
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
March 25, 2012
58
514
“Come Out for Health Week”: March 26-30, 2012
Jennifer Maria Padron
-
March 24, 2012
3
309
Remembering Kate
Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD
-
March 21, 2012
37
557
Thinking Holistically – Don’t Forget Tobacco
Elizabeth Stuyt, MD
-
March 21, 2012
14
299
The Illegality of Forced Drugging and Electroshock
Jim Gottstein, JD
-
March 21, 2012
34
2514
Madness Radio: Sharna Olfman on Medicating Children Diagnosed Bipolar
Will Hall
-
March 19, 2012
2
157
I Don’t Believe in Mental Illness, Do You?
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
March 19, 2012
112
37553
We Need Drugs
Elliot Goldberg, LCSW
-
March 18, 2012
10
584
Chapter Twenty-Five: “Paranoid Android”
Laura Delano
-
March 17, 2012
2
349
Why Can’t They Hear Our Truth? We Have a Cure.
Corinna West
-
March 16, 2012
32
1870
Snake Medicine: Transforming Our Stories
Lisbeth Riis Cooper
-
March 16, 2012
7
369
In Praise of Families
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
March 16, 2012
7
125
Poverty & Serious Mental illness: Connecting the Dots
Jack Carney, DSW
-
March 12, 2012
6
657
Empowerment is Vital to Dialogical Recovery
Daniel Fisher, MD, PhD
-
March 9, 2012
23
453
Poverty & Mental Illness: You Can’t Have One Without the Other
Jack Carney, DSW
-
March 7, 2012
13
17067
Generative Narratives and the Counterculture Psychiatrists
Sascha Altman DuBrul
-
March 6, 2012
7
304
Eyewitness to the Ruination of a Public Mental Health System
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
March 4, 2012
31
1450
Why I Prescribe
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
March 3, 2012
44
539
Thinking Holistically – attempting to change the Status Quo
Elizabeth Stuyt, MD
-
March 3, 2012
7
198
How can parents help kids who don’t want help?
Corinna West
-
March 3, 2012
10
9085
The George Costanza Excuse for Medical Ghostwriting
Jonathan Leo, PhD / Jeffrey Lacasse, PhD
-
March 2, 2012
2
506
We are for truly informed choice; not anti-medications
Corinna West
-
March 1, 2012
11
427
A Pharmaceutical Company That Agrees With Irving Kirsch? Wellbutrin Advertised as 10% More Effective...
Jonathan Leo, PhD / Jeffrey Lacasse, PhD
-
February 29, 2012
6
1850
Better Broadband
Howard Glasser
-
February 29, 2012
4
165
Thinking Holistically
Elizabeth Stuyt, MD
-
February 28, 2012
17
278
Vote NOW for solutions to emotional distress!
Corinna West
-
February 27, 2012
2
140
The Shame Game of “Patient Responsibility”
Elliot Goldberg, LCSW
-
February 27, 2012
0
544
Why Anti-Authoritarians Are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
February 26, 2012
341
142023
The Emperor’s Antipsychotic Drugs
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
February 25, 2012
5
697
Chapter Twenty-Four: Off the Meds and Out of My Mind
Laura Delano
-
February 25, 2012
9
446
So This Is Texas 2
Jennifer Maria Padron
-
February 24, 2012
0
388
The American Psychiatric Association’s Response to 60 Minutes: Where is the Science?
Jonathan Leo, PhD / Jeffrey Lacasse, PhD
-
February 24, 2012
29
1397
Interpreting Harrow’s 20-Year Results: Are the Drugs to Blame?
Robert Whitaker
-
February 23, 2012
30
7276
The Cause and Solution for Emotional Distress
Corinna West
-
February 22, 2012
4
1020
Response to 60 Minutes
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
February 22, 2012
5
952
Letters from the Front Lines
Mark Foster, DO
-
February 21, 2012
6
126
Personal Steps toward a Revolution in Mental Health Care
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
February 21, 2012
6
291
A Road Map to Hope
Lisbeth Riis Cooper
-
February 21, 2012
1
199
The Real Suicide Data from the TADS Study Comes to Light
Robert Whitaker
-
February 20, 2012
18
4583
60 Minutes, The SSRIs, and The Dirty Little Secret
Jonathan Leo, PhD / Jeffrey Lacasse, PhD
-
February 20, 2012
35
6646
Turning a Child’s Intensity to Greatness
Howard Glasser
-
February 19, 2012
2
1095
What Do Psychiatrists Say When They Talk to Each Other?
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
February 18, 2012
15
584
Responding to Madness With Loving Receptivity: a Practical Guide
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
February 14, 2012
39
3387
Mental Health Homes Open Their Proverbial Doors in New York: Caveats, Part II
Jack Carney, DSW
-
February 10, 2012
0
238
Dialogical Recovery from Monological Medicine
Daniel Fisher, MD, PhD
-
February 8, 2012
16
975
Mental Health Homes Open Their Proverbial Doors in New York: A Look into the...
Jack Carney, DSW
-
February 7, 2012
4
475
Unraveling the Biopsychiatric Knot: the Future History of the Radical Mental Health Movement
Sascha Altman DuBrul
-
February 7, 2012
4
1710
The Death of Leslie Carter
Elliot Goldberg, LCSW
-
February 7, 2012
2
1362
The Role of Inflammation in the Success and Failure of Antidepressants
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
February 6, 2012
4
893
Remembering A Medication-Free Madness Sanctuary
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
February 3, 2012
25
3013
On a Paradox Revealed: Discontinuing Neuroleptics
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
February 2, 2012
9
350
Bring in the Peer!
Keris Jän Myrick
-
February 1, 2012
10
867
Madness Radio: Grainne Humphry on the Psychiatric Incarceration of John Hunt in Ireland
Will Hall
-
February 1, 2012
2
424
Return to Self an Alternative Medication?
Elliot Goldberg, LCSW
-
February 1, 2012
1
177
Letters from the Front Lines
Mark Foster, DO
-
February 1, 2012
3
204
The Power of Storytelling
Lisbeth Riis Cooper
-
February 1, 2012
4
435
The Reality Is In Our Heads
Dan Kriegman, PhD
-
January 31, 2012
3
511
Should Jilted Lovers Be Treated with Antidepressants?
Jonathan Leo, PhD / Jeffrey Lacasse, PhD
-
January 31, 2012
4
4208
Revising the History of the Serotonin Theory of Depression?
Jonathan Leo, PhD / Jeffrey Lacasse, PhD
-
January 29, 2012
18
2824
Chapter Twenty-Three: On the Locked Unit, Locked in Myself
Laura Delano
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January 29, 2012
2
424
Bipolar Everywhere
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
January 28, 2012
20
1975
More on Recovery & Liberation: Oppression & Resilience
Jack Carney, DSW
-
January 26, 2012
7
504
Is It All in Your Head?
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
January 25, 2012
46
551
The Taint of Eugenics In NIMH-Funded Research Today
Robert Whitaker
-
January 25, 2012
28
1979
Tsunami of Frozen Grief Found in the Clinical Work
Elliot Goldberg, LCSW
-
January 24, 2012
1
131
Excellent Article on Antipsychotic Drug Harm Reduction in Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health...
Will Hall
-
January 24, 2012
0
489
Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care Projects
Gina Nikkel, PhD
-
January 23, 2012
3
259
Psychiatry’s Grand Confession
Jonathan Leo, PhD / Jeffrey Lacasse, PhD
-
January 23, 2012
54
9940
The Cure for Mood Disorders Is Dementia?
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
January 22, 2012
2
476
Introducing Myself
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
January 22, 2012
1
132
Get Off Prescription Drugs: Arriving at the Work
Elliot Goldberg, LCSW
-
January 20, 2012
2
280
The Importance of Being Useful
Carolyn Crowder, PhD
-
January 20, 2012
4
1362
Letters from the Front Lines
Mark Foster, DO
-
January 19, 2012
8
148
Recovery and Liberation: One and the Same?
Jack Carney, DSW
-
January 19, 2012
12
435
Pilgrim’s Progress: From Young Madman to Old Therapist
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
January 17, 2012
8
587
On Creative Maladjustment and Rethinking Psychiatry
Keris Jän Myrick
-
January 16, 2012
9
308
Diagnosing Dangers
Jim Gottstein, JD
-
January 15, 2012
30
407
Chapter Twenty-Two: To the Hospital on the Hill
Laura Delano
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January 14, 2012
15
327
A Visit into the Lithuanian Mental Health System
Daniel Mackler
-
January 12, 2012
8
3318
Rethinking Brain Research In Psychiatry
Robert Whitaker
-
January 12, 2012
22
729
Letters from the Front Lines
Mark Foster, DO
-
January 11, 2012
9
129
A Mother Bear’s Story
Lisbeth Riis Cooper
-
January 11, 2012
10
710
Evidence, Bias, and Anecdote
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
January 10, 2012
6
1072
New Video: Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs: A Harm Reduction Approach
Will Hall
-
January 9, 2012
3
527
A Counter Narrative for Psychic Diversity
Sascha Altman DuBrul
-
January 7, 2012
1
875
Expect Recovery….
Gina Nikkel, PhD
-
January 6, 2012
3
254
Initiatory Madness
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
January 5, 2012
25
2093
Introduction: Anatomy of a Psychiatric Practice
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
January 3, 2012
9
583
The New York Times and all that…
Keris Jän Myrick
-
January 3, 2012
6
211
Happy New Year From The Icarus Project!
Sascha Altman DuBrul
-
January 2, 2012
0
927
Chapter Twenty-One: Countdown to Surrender
Laura Delano
-
January 1, 2012
4
642
Letters From the Front Lines
Mark Foster, DO
-
December 31, 2011
3
146
A Three Pronged Approach to Mental Health System Change
Jim Gottstein, JD
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December 30, 2011
12
2419
Answering the Critics: William Glazer, in Behavioral Healthcare Magazine
Robert Whitaker
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December 13, 2011
0
901
Cognitive Therapy Found Effective in Unmedicated Psychotic Patients . . . And Other News
Robert Whitaker
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December 10, 2011
2
348
Chapter Twenty: Russian Roulette
Laura Delano
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December 9, 2011
0
280
Answering the Critics: Massachusetts General Hospital Grand Rounds
Robert Whitaker
-
December 2, 2011
5
2984
Chapter Nineteen: Playing the Part
Laura Delano
-
December 1, 2011
0
248
Answering the Critics: Let’s Roll the Tape (Again)
Robert Whitaker
-
November 30, 2011
0
420
Answering the Critics: The Carlat Psychiatry Blog
Robert Whitaker
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November 22, 2011
0
1592
Chapter Eighteen: Sentenced to Life
Laura Delano
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November 11, 2011
1
558
Healing the Body and Mind
Mark Foster, DO
-
November 6, 2011
0
218
A Rorschach Test for Psych Drugs
Robert Whitaker
-
November 2, 2011
0
174
Anatomy of an Epidemic Down Under: Psychiatric Drugs and the Astonishing Rise of Disabling...
Robert Whitaker
-
September 16, 2011
2
491
September 15, 2011
Mark Foster, DO
-
September 15, 2011
0
165
Chapter Seventeen: Commencing to Self-Destruct
Laura Delano
-
September 5, 2011
0
274
Chapter Sixteen: Inside a House of Cards
Laura Delano
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August 11, 2011
0
259
August 4, 2011
Mark Foster, DO
-
August 4, 2011
0
135
In Defense of Psychiatric Medications, Part Two
Robert Whitaker
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August 2, 2011
2
272
Chapter Fifteen: A Haven from Self
Laura Delano
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July 20, 2011
0
254
July 12, 2011
Mark Foster, DO
-
July 12, 2011
1
944
The New York Times’ Defense of Antidepressants
Robert Whitaker
-
July 10, 2011
0
752
Chapter Fourteen: Crossing the Threshold
Laura Delano
-
June 30, 2011
1
283
Now Antidepressant-Induced Chronic Depression Has a Name: Tardive Dysphoria
Robert Whitaker
-
June 30, 2011
6
3084
June 27, 2011
Mark Foster, DO
-
June 27, 2011
0
156
Drug Companies ‘Just Say No’ to Psych Drugs
Robert Whitaker
-
June 27, 2011
2
558
June 17, 2011
Mark Foster, DO
-
June 17, 2011
0
166
Chapter Thirteen: In the Muck and The Mire
Laura Delano
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June 5, 2011
1
290
Summing Up the NIMH Trials: Evidence of an Effective Paradigm of Care?
Robert Whitaker
-
May 28, 2011
0
188
Chapter Twelve: A Gift of Desperation
Laura Delano
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May 26, 2011
0
262
After 25 Posts on this Website, Dr. Mark Foster is Terminated by his Employer
Robert Whitaker
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May 25, 2011
0
1592
Chapter Eleven: Teetering on the Edge
Laura Delano
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May 10, 2011
0
267
Should the Medical Literature Be Cleansed of All STAR*D Articles?
Robert Whitaker
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May 5, 2011
0
235
April 30, 2011
Mark Foster, DO
-
April 30, 2011
0
149
Anatomy of an Epidemic wins investigative journalism award
Robert Whitaker
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April 26, 2011
0
282
Chapter Ten: A ‘Victim of Circumstance’
Laura Delano
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April 20, 2011
0
294
April 11, 2011
Mark Foster, DO
-
April 11, 2011
0
132
Chapter Nine: Is It Me Or My Meds?
Laura Delano
-
April 10, 2011
0
451
STAR*D: Adding Fiction to Fiction
Ed Pigott, PhD
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April 10, 2011
1
1238
Rethinking Mental Health Care: The Story of the Oregon Symposium and the Foundation that...
Robert Whitaker
-
March 30, 2011
0
284
March 29, 2011
Mark Foster, DO
-
March 29, 2011
0
187
An Introduction: The Story of Bias in the STAR*D Trial and More
Ed Pigott, PhD
-
March 23, 2011
0
2153
March 15, 2011
Mark Foster, DO
-
March 15, 2011
0
178
Letters from the Front Lines
Mark Foster, DO
-
March 15, 2011
0
157
Chapter Eight: “Forget Happiness . . . I’ve Got Control”
Laura Delano
-
March 10, 2011
1
273
March 4, 2011
Mark Foster, DO
-
March 4, 2011
0
129
Chapter Seven: Becoming Bipolar, Becoming Empowered
Laura Delano
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February 20, 2011
0
399
February 14, 2011
Mark Foster, DO
-
February 14, 2011
0
164
Andreasen Drops a Bombshell: Antipsychotics Shrink the Brain
Robert Whitaker
-
February 14, 2011
4
715
Chapter Six: A Disease of Dis-Ease, and New Hope for a Cure
Laura Delano
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February 10, 2011
0
259
January 31, 2011
Mark Foster, DO
-
January 31, 2011
0
154
Speaking at MGH Grand Rounds, and More
Robert Whitaker
-
January 21, 2011
1
645
January 17, 2011
Mark Foster, DO
-
January 17, 2011
0
171
January 7, 2011
Mark Foster, DO
-
January 7, 2011
0
126
Antipsychotics and the Scientific Method
Jonathan Leo, PhD / Jeffrey Lacasse, PhD
-
January 7, 2011
0
271
Psychiatric Drugs and Violence: A Review of FDA Data Finds A Link
Robert Whitaker
-
January 5, 2011
2
644
December 22, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
-
December 22, 2010
0
166
December 15, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
-
December 15, 2010
0
125
Chapter Five: Filling the Void
Laura Delano
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December 10, 2010
0
321
December 6, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
-
December 6, 2010
0
102
Updates on the Epidemic
Robert Whitaker
-
December 5, 2010
0
224
Do Psychiatric Drugs Impair Normal Brain Development?
Robert Whitaker
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December 4, 2010
0
220
The GlaxoSmithKline Ghostwriting Documents, Part Two
Robert Whitaker
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December 1, 2010
0
177
Chapter Four: Eye of the Storm
Laura Delano
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December 1, 2010
0
329
A Ghostwritten Psychiatric Textbook Hints at a Much Larger Problem
Robert Whitaker
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November 30, 2010
0
500
November 26, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
-
November 26, 2010
0
137
Volunteers for Psychotherapy Is A Finalist for International Award
Robert Whitaker
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November 26, 2010
0
127
Chapter Three: At War With A Diagnosis
Laura Delano
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November 20, 2010
2
378
November 11, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
-
November 11, 2010
0
143
November 1, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
-
November 10, 2010
0
176
November 9, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
-
November 9, 2010
0
109
Coffee Mugs or the Medical Literature: Why Do Doctors Make the Decisions They Do?
Jonathan Leo, PhD / Jeffrey Lacasse, PhD
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November 9, 2010
0
165
November 4, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
-
November 4, 2010
0
134
The Successful Creation of a Societal Delusion . . . and the Increase in...
Robert Whitaker
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November 4, 2010
3
405
Tardive Dyskinesia in the Atypicals Era: Is The Risk Any Less Today Than Before?
Robert Whitaker
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November 2, 2010
0
475
New Rat Study: SSRIs Markedly Deplete Brain Serotonin
Robert Whitaker
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November 1, 2010
0
452
October 28, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
-
October 28, 2010
0
141
October 25, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
-
October 25, 2010
0
147
Do Antidepressants Worsen the Long-term Course of Depression? Giovanni Fava Pushes the Debate Forward.
Robert Whitaker
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October 25, 2010
0
446
October 21, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
-
October 21, 2010
2
168
October 17, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
-
October 17, 2010
0
147
October 14, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
-
October 14, 2010
0
143
Chapter Two: Opening Pandora’s Box
Laura Delano
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October 10, 2010
4
489
October 10, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
-
October 10, 2010
0
158
SAMHSA, Alternatives, and A Psychiatrist’s Despair over the State of American Science
Robert Whitaker
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October 10, 2010
1
305
SAMHSA, Alternatives, and the Story of an Opportunity Lost
Robert Whitaker
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October 8, 2010
2
396
October 6, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
-
October 6, 2010
0
255
Keeping Tabs on the Serotonin Theory of Depression
Jonathan Leo, PhD / Jeffrey Lacasse, PhD
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October 6, 2010
0
336
Chapter One: Journeying Back to Self
Laura Delano
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October 1, 2010
12
1953
September 25, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
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September 25, 2010
0
186
September 21, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
-
September 21, 2010
3
156
September 18, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
-
September 18, 2010
0
176
Introducing Our Blog
Jonathan Leo, PhD / Jeffrey Lacasse, PhD
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September 18, 2010
0
204
September 27, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
-
September 10, 2010
0
172
And Now For the Rest of the Story
Robert Whitaker
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August 31, 2010
0
211
The STAR*D Scandal: A New Paper Sums It All Up
Robert Whitaker
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August 27, 2010
0
1380
Charlie Rose and the Mentally Ill Brain
Robert Whitaker
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August 12, 2010
2
403
News Roundup From June
Robert Whitaker
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July 5, 2010
0
182
”Broken Brains” and “Beautiful Minds”
Robert Whitaker
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July 2, 2010
0
356
Medicating Children: A “Whistleblower’s Lawsuit” Raises a Novel Legal Question
Robert Whitaker
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June 2, 2010
0
201
Yet Another Disappointment: First Catie, and Now the 12-Month Results from TEOSS
Robert Whitaker
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May 25, 2010
0
650
Update on the Star*D Report
Robert Whitaker
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May 19, 2010
0
295
A Schizophrenia Mystery Solved?
Robert Whitaker
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May 8, 2010
1
1936
Time Magazine and Anatomy of an Epidemic
Robert Whitaker
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April 24, 2010
0
257
Hypotheses, Scientific Evidence, and On Being Compared to an AIDS Denier
Robert Whitaker
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April 14, 2010
1
256
Story-Telling in the Age of Corporate Medicine (or more on being called an AIDS...
Robert Whitaker
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April 13, 2010
0
281
Fact Checking the New Yorker, Part Two
Robert Whitaker
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March 15, 2010
0
269
Fact Checking the New Yorker
Robert Whitaker
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March 15, 2010
0
655