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America’s Unhealthy Relationship with Antidepressants
Tunde Aideyan
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April 24, 2025
5
790
The Moral World of Personality Disorder Assessment
Maarit Lehtinen
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April 22, 2025
21
749
Dreaming with Purpose: How the Mind’s Hidden GPS Can Guide Us Toward Personal and...
Bei Linda Tang
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April 17, 2025
17
1135
Behind the Smiles: Mental Health in South Korea’s High-Pressure Society
Daehyun Rho
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April 15, 2025
3
1137
The Mental Health System in the UK Failed Us
Ekaterina Netchitailova, PhD
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April 10, 2025
8
962
Lost in Psychobabble? Cut Through the Jargon for Real Mental Clarity
Mat Costanzo
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April 8, 2025
10
1365
A Reflection on “Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance”
Sandra Steingard, MD
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April 5, 2025
58
12030
The Curious Case of Empty Asylums and the Birth of Psychiatry
Randy Cima
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April 4, 2025
15
2224
False Information in UK Package Inserts for Antidepressants About a Chemical Imbalance
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
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April 3, 2025
6
1401
Confessions of an Advertising Writer: How I Helped Pharma Sell Antidepressants
Lydia Green
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April 2, 2025
28
2817
De-Meaning Psychotherapy: The New Psychiatric Critic
Mad in the UK
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April 1, 2025
4
765
Symptoms and Surface Psychology
Gidi Rosenfeld
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March 29, 2025
20
1385
Rethinking Mental Health in Ireland: Why Not a Trieste-Style Approach?
Mad In Ireland
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March 25, 2025
2
421
When Narratives Clash: Unshrunk and The Cognitive Dissonance of the NY Times
Robert Whitaker
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March 21, 2025
57
4513
Psychiatry: Medical Science of Mind or Moral Ideology?
Chuck Ruby, PhD
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March 20, 2025
15
1879
What I Have Learned in Working With 300+ People in Their Journey of Tapering
Jennifer Giordano
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March 18, 2025
45
4957
Mad Camp Europe: My Journey from Ward Violence to Healing and Community
Philipp Kernmayer
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March 13, 2025
14
1081
From Public Service to Private Practice: The Collapse of the Social Work Profession
Darragh Sheehan
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March 11, 2025
37
15355
Everything About Us Without Us
Robert Nikkel, MSW
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March 6, 2025
25
1480
Sexual Sanism: Why Anti-Queer Rhetoric Is a Threat to the Mad, Too
Aidan Blockley
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March 4, 2025
6
1365
The Ethics of Long-Term Psychiatric Drug Use and Why We Need a Better Way
Josef Witt-Doerring
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February 27, 2025
30
5072
Jo Watson Chats With Rob Wipond About His Work and His Book
Mad in the UK
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February 26, 2025
4
864
Usorum: A Peer Led Collective Wisdom Project
Dmitriy Gutkovich
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February 25, 2025
5
425
Managing Nonconformity: Lessons from Quality
Dan Nelson
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February 25, 2025
38
1030
Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: Harm Reduction, Not Judgment
Adele Framer
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Will Hall
,
Karen Hoffmann
,
Angie Peacock
&
Dina Tyler
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February 22, 2025
27
2446
Suicides Increase After National Suicide Prevention Introduced
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
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February 20, 2025
4
1751
Mad in Ireland
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February 17, 2025
1
384
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Edward L. Jones III
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February 13, 2025
120
21379
Upcoming ECT Legislation Needs to Be Revised
Christopher James Dubey
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February 11, 2025
12
1327
Observational Studies Confirm Trial Results That Antidepressants Double Suicides
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
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February 8, 2025
53
7008
Schizophrenia in Philosophy and Theology
Robert Dole
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February 6, 2025
19
2402
Psychiatry, Capitalism, and the Industrial Machine
Dan Nelson
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February 4, 2025
74
3432
Mad In South Asia
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February 2, 2025
1
269
Default Depression—How We Now Interpret Distress as Mental Illness
Anthony Smith
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February 1, 2025
24
3432
Kyrie Therapeutic Farm: Distress Understood as Part of the Human Condition
Mad In Ireland
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January 30, 2025
1
735
Beyond Techniques: The Common Factors That Drive Healing
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January 28, 2025
28
1932
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Catherine Hayden
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January 25, 2025
18
1278
Don’t Include Involuntary Commitment as a Treatment Tool in Seattle
Laura Van Tosh
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January 20, 2025
15
888
The Ouija Board and the Skeptic
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January 18, 2025
80
1782
Guided Dreaming Can Transform Psychosocial Issues: 11 Case Studies
Bei Linda Tang
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January 16, 2025
7
798
Schizophrenia and Homosexuality: My Experience and Case Studies
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January 14, 2025
40
1631
For-Profit Healthcare Is a Predator; Its Main Prey Is Our Young
Lawrence Kelmenson, MD
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January 9, 2025
14
1272
From Auctions to Moral Treatment
Robert Nikkel, MSW
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January 2, 2025
5
1010
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December 31, 2024
3
2755
Modern Psychology and Its Colonial Legacy
Mridula Sridhar
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December 28, 2024
23
4852
Who Can Consent to Research—and What Does That Mean for Forced Treatment?
Chana Studley
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December 24, 2024
16
1092
The Fallacy of Modern Psychiatry: Treating Symptoms, Ignoring Causes
Dan Nelson
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December 21, 2024
105
4916
Mental Illness Prophesies Society’s Spiritual Sickness
Dr Nick Lombardo
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December 19, 2024
26
2701
Set, Setting, Forgetting: Silence on Abuse in Psychedelic Therapy Histories
Kayla Greenstien
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Will Hall
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December 18, 2024
14
3207
Exile: My Cure for Psychosis
Robert Dole
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December 17, 2024
31
4423
Rights, Responsibilities and Resources–Peer Support in Mental Health Services
Mad In Italy
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December 14, 2024
2
651
The Schizophrenic and the Dreamer
Gidi Rosenfeld
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December 12, 2024
16
1215
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Bei Linda Tang
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December 10, 2024
12
1398
The Consciousness of Voices and Visions
Mad in Argentina
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December 7, 2024
4
1710
The Two Earliest Stories of Recovery in Oregon
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December 5, 2024
10
1617
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December 4, 2024
6
2581
Smoke ‘Em if You Got ‘Em: Rethinking Smoking as a Trauma Response
Dan Nelson
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December 3, 2024
34
2106
Beyond the Chemical Imbalance: Looking to the Past to Understand the Mental Health Crisis
Chi Akano
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November 30, 2024
25
1811
Ward 362: On Meeting People in Sorrow
Mad in Sweden
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November 29, 2024
12
681
A Bicultural Māori/European Vision for a Truly Healing Hospital
Robin Youngson
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Kamaia Pere
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November 28, 2024
5
1292
The Trauma Craze: How the Expansion of Trauma Diagnoses Fueled Victimhood Culture
Hannah Spier
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November 27, 2024
102
5260
Irrational Polypharmacy: How Integrated Mental Health Treatment Can Help
Inna Zelikman
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November 26, 2024
1
1141
Is Virtual Psychotherapy of Lesser Quality Than In-Person?
Enrico Gnaulati, PhD
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November 23, 2024
33
1868
Is There Transformative Meaning in Madness?
Katie Mottram
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November 21, 2024
13
1603
I Accuse Psychiatry of Murder
Robert Dole
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November 19, 2024
21
2059
How I Developed a Critical Perspective on Psychiatry
Laura Mills
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November 18, 2024
69
5718
Dismantling the Psychiatric Monopoly: Why We Need an Alternative
Jonas Vennike Ditlevsen
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November 16, 2024
46
2692
The Emperor’s New Clothes? The Psychiatrist as Expert in a Post-Modern World
T.N. Tampiyappa, FRANZCP
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November 14, 2024
26
6057
My Impressions of Psychiatry
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November 13, 2024
5
1167
School Phone Bans and “Mental Health”
Zoe Cunniffe
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November 12, 2024
6
775
Gender and Psychiatry: Pathologized Emotions
Mad in Mexico
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November 9, 2024
8
3155
Why I Stopped Taking Antidepressants—and Was It Worth It?
Tomasz
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November 7, 2024
21
2972
How We Started the Bay Area Hearing Voices Network
Ed Herzog
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November 5, 2024
4
872
The Core Error of Psychiatrists and Psychologists: Certainty about “Consensus Reality”
Bruce Levine, PhD
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October 31, 2024
34
4814
“What Matters to You?” – An Antidote to “What’s Wrong” and “What Happened”
Hel Spandler, PhD
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October 29, 2024
18
5501
So-Called Suicide Experts Recommend Antidepressants, Which Increase Suicides
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
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October 24, 2024
23
2689
A Case for Parallel Mental Health Care
Ethan Miller
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October 22, 2024
36
5954
Greater Role for Experts by Experience in the Dialogue on Euthanasia in Cases of...
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October 19, 2024
10
843
New Guidelines on How to Accurately Convey ADHD Information
Sanne te Meerman
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October 17, 2024
26
2674
Investigators Who Blew the Whistle On STAR*D Fraud Call for Retraction of Five AJP...
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October 16, 2024
5
1934
ADHD and “Weak Muscle Disorder”
Nick Fortino
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October 15, 2024
10
3622
Risks of Prescribing Psychiatric Drugs to Veterans
Derek Blumke
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October 12, 2024
9
1241
Gigantic Hoax on Danish National TV: “Patients with an ADHD Diagnosis Die Five Years...
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
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October 10, 2024
7
1326
Preventing Suicide Among Older Adults
Diana Spore
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October 8, 2024
11
1002
SAFE: Survivors And Families Empowered—An Update
Ron Bassman, PhD
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October 5, 2024
9
1215
What Helped and What Hindered My Recovery from PSSD and Protracted Withdrawal from Antidepressants?
Tomasz
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October 3, 2024
7
6008
Is Mental Health a Choice—and Can Understanding Help Us Heal?
Christine Burnett
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October 1, 2024
41
2405
Right-Wing or Left-Wing: Who Really Owns the Critique of Over-Medicalisation?
James Davies, PhD
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September 28, 2024
43
3842
Researchers Accuse Lancet Article and British Psychiatrists of Minimising Antidepressants’ Withdrawal Effects
John Read
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September 26, 2024
6
2549
Assessing Community Mental Health Programs in India: Insights from Task-Shifting in Kerala
Mad in South Asia
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September 25, 2024
0
297
How to Be a Happy, Successful Incurable Schizophrenic
Robert Dole
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September 24, 2024
38
3280
The Long-Disputed Science of Twin Studies
Jay Joseph, PsyD
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September 19, 2024
5
1924
STAR*D: The Harms of Orchestrated Psychiatric Fraud
Allan Leventhal
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September 18, 2024
30
3435
Human Suffering as Numbers and Graphs: The Problem with Measuring Outcomes in Therapy
Matteo Zuccala
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September 17, 2024
6
1464
Elder Eyes Wide Shut
Jaimee K Martello
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September 12, 2024
24
2080
Do Depression Pills Improve Quality of Life?
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
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September 11, 2024
9
1916
What I’ve Learned about Tapering Psychiatric Drugs—A Holistic Therapist’s Perspective
Kelli Foulkrod, MS, LPC
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September 10, 2024
19
5035
The Iatrogenic Gaze: How We Forgot That Psychiatry Could Be Harmful
Alex Conway
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September 7, 2024
21
4748
Working to Transmute the Pain: Why I Do the Work I Do
Mitzy Sky
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September 5, 2024
4
1176
Modern Psychiatry and the Human Soul and Spirit: Is Our Freedom at Stake?
Beatrice Birch
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September 3, 2024
66
3208
A Polyvagal Understanding of Being Human
Mad in Finland
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August 31, 2024
10
2469
Impacting Parenting from a Place of Strength: Looking Back to Move Forward
Monica Zeno-Martin
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August 30, 2024
0
604
Flying While Depressed? The FAA’s Troubling New Antidepressant Standards
Gretchen LeFever Watson
,
Kim Witczak
,
David Antonuccio
&
Charles Bennett
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August 29, 2024
7
3483
Mishiguene
Alan Robinson
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August 27, 2024
15
753
To Young People of Color with Lived Experience: Pay it Forward; Become a Peer
Angela Colón-Rentas
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August 24, 2024
3
505
The Co-Opting of the Peer Movement in Mental Health
Max E. Guttman, LCSW
&
Phillip Fleming
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August 22, 2024
33
3911
When It Comes to Post-Surgical Opioid Tapering, You’re on Your Own!
Ann Bracken
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August 20, 2024
23
1152
The Birth of The “Just Stop It” Movement: A Family’s Journey Through Mental Health...
Pamela Williams
&
Mickey Joseph Sabb
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August 17, 2024
6
2037
Violence Caused by Antidepressants Ignored Once Again by Psychiatrists
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
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August 13, 2024
28
3887
My Story of Surviving Psychiatry
Mad in the UK
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August 10, 2024
6
1684
How to Know if You Have an Abusive Therapist
Noel Hunter, PsyD
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August 8, 2024
64
3825
Part 4: Neurodiversity: New Paradigm, or Trojan Horse?
John Cromby
&
Lucy Johnstone, PsyD
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August 5, 2024
50
6744
Escaping the Hell of Protracted Withdrawal Syndrome
Tomasz
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August 2, 2024
22
6089
We Are Amidst the Age of Behavioral Alchemy
David Straub
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August 1, 2024
12
2311
Trust Among Those People in Prison, Rising From the Borderlands
Ryan Bemis
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July 30, 2024
0
1229
Part 3: Neuro-Authenticity, Neuro-Identities, and the Neuro-Industry
John Cromby
&
Lucy Johnstone, PsyD
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July 29, 2024
39
5273
What Is Beyond a Diagnosis?
Chana Studley
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July 25, 2024
9
2620
The Power of Suggestion and the Problematic Insignificance of Significance
Dan Kriegman, PhD
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July 23, 2024
6
1627
Part 2: Are We All Neurodivergent Nowadays?
John Cromby
&
Lucy Johnstone, PsyD
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July 22, 2024
28
6370
Theodoric of Arizona: State-Sanctioned Pharma-Based Pseudo-Doctor
James Knochel
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July 18, 2024
5
1478
Why Increased Psychological Freedom Should be the Main Goal of Psychotherapy
Enrico Gnaulati, PhD
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July 16, 2024
19
3195
Part 1: Neurodiversity–What Exactly Does It Mean?
John Cromby
&
Lucy Johnstone, PsyD
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July 15, 2024
49
9308
Desperate Measures: Ghaemi’s Response to Our Review of Lithium and Suicide Prevention
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
&
Martin Plöderl, PhD
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July 13, 2024
88
11344
Who Is Afraid of the Abolition of Psychiatric Confinement?
Mad in Greece
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July 11, 2024
3
828
The Patient-Enemy: How Derrida Helps Explain Psychiatry’s Cruelty and Care
Alex Conway
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July 9, 2024
16
2984
Iatrogenic Practices in Psychiatry: Kindling
Mad In Italy
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July 6, 2024
16
3206
What Are We Overlooking? Reviewing Current and Alternative Treatments for Psychosis
Neil Broatch
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June 27, 2024
57
3093
Who Is Being Targeted for Forced Medical Treatment in NYC? We Require Answers
Sarah Gorman
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June 25, 2024
8
1755
It’s You, It’s Not Me: Treatment Resistant Depression and the Psychiatric Breakup
Josh Hines
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June 20, 2024
83
28607
Prescription Drugs: The Hidden Costs to Health and the Planet
Sam Bowman
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June 18, 2024
1
1167
Doctors Are Not Trained to Think Critically
Cathy Wield
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June 13, 2024
26
4714
Reframing Mental and Emotional Pain from a Buddhist Psychology Perspective
Diane Chrestman
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June 11, 2024
45
4029
How to Explain Top Psychiatrists’ “Dr. Strangelove Exuberance” Unchecked by Reality
Bruce Levine, PhD
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June 6, 2024
42
3654
Dorothea Buck’s Memoir Tells of the Horrors of Twentieth Century Psychiatry: A “Hell Amidst...
Susanne Paola Antonetta
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June 4, 2024
8
5066
Don’t Call Me a Therapist
Mad in Norway
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May 30, 2024
32
4436
Remembering Bhargavi Davar: A Global Leader in the Struggle for Human Rights
Robert Whitaker
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May 24, 2024
3
2660
When HVN Ireland Meets HVN Athens
Mad In Ireland
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May 18, 2024
0
603
Can We Talk About Spirituality? The Medicalization of Transpersonal Experiences
Mad in Sweden
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May 16, 2024
13
2534
Deconstructing the Word Trauma: What Does it Mean Today?
Diana Rose
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May 16, 2024
5
1504
Is Public Psychiatry Responding to the Mental Health Crisis or Just “Treating the Chart?”
Daniel Hoffman, LCSW
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May 9, 2024
22
4128
Psychosis Treatment: Numbing the World of Spirit
Dr Nick Lombardo
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May 7, 2024
38
6316
Who Do We Leave Behind When We Ignore the Body? Why Critical Neuroscientists and...
Jazmine Russell
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May 2, 2024
21
2665
How Danish Journalism Misleads About Psychiatry
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
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April 30, 2024
6
2965
Irish Open Dialogue Shut Down—Despite Expert Report Stating It Should Be Scaled Up
Mad In Ireland
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April 20, 2024
3
1733
Prescription Drugs Are the Leading Cause of Death
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
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April 16, 2024
29
23414
What Is “Care” in a Psychiatric Medical Camp for the Unhoused in India?
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April 13, 2024
8
1672
Witless and Dangerous? Challenging the Assumptions of the ‘Schizo’ Paradigm
Neil Broatch
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April 11, 2024
11
2156
Tapering Strips: A Practical Tool for Personalised and Safe Tapering of Withdrawal-Causing Prescription Drugs
Peter Groot, PhD
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April 9, 2024
19
4306
From the Dopamine Theory to the Outcomes Paradox
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April 6, 2024
7
3485
The Significance of Semiotics in Social Work
Max E. Guttman, LCSW
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April 2, 2024
9
3595
On the Brink of Murder Because of an Antidepressant
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
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March 28, 2024
8
3632
Bad Science Revisited: “The Bell Curve” Turns 30
Jay Joseph, PsyD
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March 27, 2024
25
4710
Szasz and the Liberation of the “Mental Patient”
Crystal Nelson
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March 26, 2024
9
1789
The Experience of Survivors of Psychiatry in Brazil
Mad in Brasil
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March 23, 2024
0
1340
Medical Journals Refuse to Retract Fraudulent Trial Reports That Omitted Suicidal Events in Children
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
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March 21, 2024
2
3035
From a Paranoid Schizophrenia Diagnosis to a Peer Researcher in Nigeria
Mayowa Malomo
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March 19, 2024
21
5890
Beyond Greenspaces and Mental Health: The Power of the Wild
Shannon Branigin
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March 16, 2024
5
1445
Can Madness Save the World? Where R.D. Laing—and Star Trek—Meet
Will Hall
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March 14, 2024
19
3105
Putting JAMA Psychiatry and MIA to the Genetic Test
Robert Whitaker
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March 13, 2024
50
4114
Animal Theory of Emotion: Emotion Is Not a Disorder
Ilana Kronick
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March 12, 2024
17
3402
Charles Spencer’s Story of Boarding School Abuse Is Haunting
Mad in the UK
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March 11, 2024
2
2939
Interpersonal Caring as an Act of Resistance Among Socially Marginalized
Mad in South Asia
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March 9, 2024
0
683
In Defense of Open Dialogue Research
Jaakko Seikkula
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March 7, 2024
4
1744
Never Waste a Good Depression: Family Therapy Challenges the Seductive Shortcut of Psychiatric Drugs
Amy Begel
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David Keith
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March 5, 2024
1
4084
Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS): How the Last Step to Recovery Became the Final Step...
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March 2, 2024
26
5243
How Psychiatrists Responded to the Launch of Our New ECT Survey
John Read
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February 29, 2024
17
6376
The Integration of Peer Support Principles in Community Mental Health Policy and Practice: Toward...
Taryn Heon
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February 27, 2024
7
3131
Benzodiazepines in Canada: Is a Withdrawal Crisis Looming?
Mad in Canada
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February 22, 2024
5
2919
The Psychiatric Peddlers in Your Schools
Michael Lucas
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February 20, 2024
27
4891
Reflections on the Silicon Valley Teen Suicides-by-Train: Fifteen Years Later
Cheryl Green
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February 14, 2024
9
11955
The “Madness” of Inpatient Psychiatry
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February 13, 2024
54
5370
Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 8)
Les Ruthven
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February 12, 2024
0
641
Irish Psychiatry Says Chemical Imbalance Is a Figure of Speech—So, What Now?
Mad In Ireland
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February 10, 2024
23
3164
Enlarging the Treatment Lens for Postpartum Depression
Ann Bracken
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February 8, 2024
5
1571
How the Medical Profession Pathologizes Emotions and the Damage to Patients
Phil Lane
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February 7, 2024
29
5924
Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 7)
Les Ruthven
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February 5, 2024
3
625
Trauma and Resources Within Social Context
Iva Paska, PhD
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February 3, 2024
12
2742
As a Psychologist, I’ve Seen Many Children Misdiagnosed as Autistic—It’s a Clinical Catastrophe
Shoshana Levin Fox
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February 1, 2024
41
22074
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DOOCE: A Case Study on the Failure of Psychiatry
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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 7: Psychosis (Part Six)
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April 23, 2023
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2023
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1644
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June 21, 2021
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5628
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2421
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1729
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June 14, 2021
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3323
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June 8, 2021
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1863
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June 7, 2021
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2394
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June 6, 2021
15
2664
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4390
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Marcello Maviglia
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May 29, 2021
32
1947
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Ron Bassman, PhD
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May 25, 2021
5
1495
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May 24, 2021
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2312
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May 23, 2021
13
3328
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Paul Blackburn
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May 22, 2021
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4704
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May 20, 2021
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3721
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May 17, 2021
21
3238
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1068
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May 15, 2021
15
3194
Radical Acts of Community Healing and Self-Love
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May 13, 2021
18
2035
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May 10, 2021
14
2493
We Do Not Have Everything We Need
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May 8, 2021
46
2936
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May 3, 2021
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2625
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May 2, 2021
10
1620
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April 26, 2021
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April 24, 2021
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3208
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April 13, 2021
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7651
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April 12, 2021
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2343
Mental Health at the End of the World
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2702
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April 7, 2021
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2724
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April 5, 2021
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April 4, 2021
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3439
Psycho-Bizarreness Theory: A Rational, Anti-Psychiatric Theory of Madness
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Yochay Rofé
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March 22, 2021
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Online Exhibition: Art-Making During the Pandemic
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March 18, 2021
13
2445
How Psychiatry Turned General Difficulties in Adaptation into “Real Illnesses Just Like Diabetes”
Philip Hickey, PhD
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March 16, 2021
41
4262
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March 15, 2021
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3663
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Patients as Partners: A Social Empowerment Approach to Health and Mental Health
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Torture at Lake Alice “Hospital”, New Zealand
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February 18, 2021
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February 8, 2021
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January 4, 2021
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January 2, 2021
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January 1, 2021
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5026
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2280
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December 15, 2020
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1576
Insane Medicine, Chapter 5: The Manufacture of Childhood Depression (Part 2)
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December 13, 2020
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4747
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December 10, 2020
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December 5, 2020
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3602
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November 30, 2020
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4982
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Dual Diagnosis Anonymous: Peer Support for Those Who Need It
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November 24, 2020
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November 9, 2020
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November 5, 2020
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November 3, 2020
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1894
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November 2, 2020
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4289
When Psych Diagnosis Means Life-or-Death
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1842
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October 29, 2020
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October 28, 2020
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De-Weaponizing Empathy
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Psychiatric Oppression Under Victoria’s Mental Health Laws
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October 17, 2020
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October 15, 2020
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October 7, 2020
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5039
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October 6, 2020
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October 4, 2020
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5491
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Suicidal Thoughts, Psychiatric Diagnosis, and What Really Helps: Part Two
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September 22, 2020
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September 21, 2020
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Why Is the APA Proposing Sweeping Changes to Training Requirements?
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September 20, 2020
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5220
Malcharist: Fact or Fiction? Big Pharma, Psychiatry’s Key Opinion Leaders and their Ghostwriters
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September 16, 2020
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The Mirror Repeats: The Art of Phoebe Sparrow Wagner
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UN Special Rapporteur Dainius Pūras: Biomedical Approach “Still Has an Important Role to Play”
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3346
Stop Saying This, Part Three: “Everything in Moderation” and More
Megan Wildhood
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August 6, 2020
51
3621
Identity, Oppression, and the Culture of “The Mentally Ill”
Lael Ewy
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August 4, 2020
90
6432
Kicking Over a Straw Woman
Patrick Hahn
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August 2, 2020
52
5027
A Recovery Movement Jedi Master, Bill Anthony, Died Recently
Mark Ragins, MD
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August 1, 2020
10
2849
Drs. Pies and Ruffalo Still Rattling Their Wooden Swords
Philip Hickey, PhD
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July 28, 2020
102
3059
An American History of Addiction: Ardent Spirits
Kevin Gallagher
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July 23, 2020
13
4154
Professional Mental Health Leaders: Experts in Humanity or in Marketing?
Caroline Colwill
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July 19, 2020
71
3085
Whose Finger is Taking the Pulse of America’s Shock Treatment Controversy?
Sarah Price Hancock
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July 16, 2020
49
5695
Stop Saying This, Part Two: “Reframing” and More
Megan Wildhood
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July 12, 2020
47
4975
Is COVID-19 Making Everybody Crazy?
Paula J. Caplan, PhD
-
July 10, 2020
29
10548
Racism and Radical Psychiatry
Lucas Richert
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July 8, 2020
146
2817
Suicide & Candy Corn: The Utility and Challenges of Risk Assessments
Sera Davidow
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June 21, 2020
68
4482
Kerry O’Malley: A Personal Struggle Against Forced Medication
Brett Collins
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June 20, 2020
10
4157
Is It Time to Rethink Mental Illness in Light of the Pandemic?
Caroline Colwill
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June 18, 2020
36
3064
Defunding the Police: Replacing Guns With Prescription Pads Is Not the Answer
Noel Hunter, PsyD
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June 17, 2020
46
6555
Does Stranger Mean Danger?
Dan Kriegman, PhD
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June 15, 2020
15
2050
Stop Saying This: Phrases That Sound Helpful, But Are Actually Gaslighting, Part 1
Megan Wildhood
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June 14, 2020
37
17103
Black Suicidality and Mental Health #BlackLivesMatter
Samantha Lilly
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June 12, 2020
4
2142
End Police “Wellness Checks.” Now.
Will Hall
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June 11, 2020
63
20075
We Must Not Be Silent On George Floyd & Systemic Racism.
Sera Davidow
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June 9, 2020
257
4109
Withdrawing Kids from Psych Drugs: Why, How, and When
Nicole Beurkens, PhD, CNS
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June 8, 2020
12
2897
Recovery: Stressing the Social Basis of the Process
Alain Topor
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Inger Beate Larsen
&
Tore Dag Bøe
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June 6, 2020
28
4370
Canadian Mental Health Legislation and the CRPD
Irit Shimrat
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June 5, 2020
44
3208
Supporting Children and Parents to Withdraw from Psychiatric Medication
Nicole Beurkens, PhD, CNS
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June 4, 2020
13
2765
“We Are All Mad!” A Call for the Development of an International Network Among...
Marcello Maviglia
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June 1, 2020
83
2375
Jinxed: The Persecution of Evan Durst Kreeger
Jim Gottstein, JD
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May 31, 2020
97
13788
Three Recent Genetics Books and Twin Studies’ Indefensible “Equal Environment Assumption”
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
May 29, 2020
19
4907
12 Essential Facts About Psychiatry
Jon Sedarati, MSc
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May 28, 2020
81
14409
Four Decades of Allying to Make Safe Spaces for All Voices: The Hearing Voices...
Kermit Cole
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May 27, 2020
5
1210
Should You Ever Ask Someone “Are You Suicidal?”
Sera Davidow
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May 26, 2020
78
9388
Electric Shock Update: Allegations of Regulatory Misconduct Filed with the FDA
Lauren Tenney, PhD, MPhil, MPA, Psychiatric Survivor
-
May 24, 2020
33
3540
Should We Diagnose Donald Trump?
Dan Kriegman, PhD
-
May 23, 2020
53
2477
Does Pharma Need the Entrepreneur?
Stephen Farghali
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May 21, 2020
17
1583
Beyond the Buzzwords: What Does Trauma-Informed Care Truly Mean?
Rachel Levy, LCSW
-
May 20, 2020
33
7702
What COVID-19 Has to Teach Us About Psychiatric Oppression
Sera Davidow
-
May 19, 2020
167
4331
DSM Led Us Far Astray. Life Story Is the Path to Truth.
Eric Kuelker, PhD, RPsych
-
May 18, 2020
86
5239
When Telling A Psychiatrist You Are Not Mentally Ill Is Grounds for Commitment
Gail Tasch
-
May 17, 2020
31
6915
Loneliness Is Deadlier Than COVID
Megan Wildhood
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May 13, 2020
44
5801
Why Compassionate Activism?
Mitzy Sky
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May 12, 2020
7
2650
Dialogue Is Just What the Doctor Ordered: Town Halls in a Time of Crisis
Kermit Cole
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May 11, 2020
14
936
Re-establishing My Credentials: Psychiatric Survivor Activists Are Needed Now!
David W. Oaks
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May 10, 2020
97
3063
The President’s Fitness: Can Professionals Help Decide?
Paula J. Caplan, PhD
-
May 8, 2020
160
3026
“Be Kind to Yourself… For Us!”
Hugh Polk, MD
&
Ann Green, PMHNP
-
May 7, 2020
15
1117
Induction to Virus Psychosis
Maria Quarato
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May 7, 2020
9
1199
Mental Health Is Our Common Wealth
Kermit Cole
&
Justin Karter
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May 4, 2020
20
1400
Jordan B. Peterson’s Support of Corporal Punishment for Children: A Critique
Jon Sedarati, MSc
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May 4, 2020
62
23915
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
-
May 1, 2020
65
2289
Window of Opportunity: Reflections on “Dialogue in a Time of Crisis”
Kermit Cole
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April 30, 2020
1
1000
Allen Frances: Still Spinning the Story
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
April 24, 2020
112
5587
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
2994
Too Good to Be True: How TMS Damaged My Brain
James Hall
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April 21, 2020
428
200355
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
16285
Lockdown Reading to End DSM Psychiatry?
Magdalene D'Silva, BA/LLB, LLM, MA
-
April 17, 2020
77
6785
Just Like Viruses, Emotions are Contagious
Enrico Gnaulati, PhD
-
April 16, 2020
19
1792
Missing a Pivotal Outcome in a Large Cold Turkey Trial of Desvenlafaxine
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
-
April 16, 2020
6
1325
Exploring Dialogical Responses in a Time of Crisis: Are We Living in the...
Kermit Cole
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April 14, 2020
37
4250
A Bridge Over Troubled Water: What’s This About Being a Hopeless Reformer?
Robert Nikkel, MSW
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April 12, 2020
103
2364
Exploring How Muslim Therapists Work With Jinn Possession
Kawthar Alli
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April 11, 2020
18
8152
Blurring the Line Between “Us” and “Them”
Diana Spore
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April 10, 2020
29
1616
What Do Psychiatrists Treat if Not the Soul (i.e., the Psyche)?
Fr. John
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April 9, 2020
42
3512
We Are All in This Together
Lucy Johnstone, PsyD
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April 7, 2020
162
4978
A Peek Inside the Modern Asylum
Ekaterina Netchitailova, PhD
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April 5, 2020
29
11131
Social Determinants of Health and the Continued Individualization of Suffering
Kevin Gallagher
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April 4, 2020
20
3671
Supreme Court Decides Case on Insanity Defense
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
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April 3, 2020
7
1877
Making a Mad Community, from Attic to Attic: Part Two
Jessica M
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March 31, 2020
0
111
Making a Mad Community, from Attic to Attic: Part One
Jessica M
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March 31, 2020
0
102
US Considering Policies That Will Lead to Mass Death Of Psychiatric Patients
Will Hall
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March 29, 2020
51
2991
The Persistent, Misdirected Search for Causes of Trauma-based Suffering
Paula J. Caplan, PhD
-
March 27, 2020
45
4171
Joint Statement on COVID-19 and Persons with Psychosocial Disabilities
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
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March 26, 2020
75
4385
The Perils of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising
Katherine Werner Blasi
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March 25, 2020
8
1631
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
1921
Psychiatry and the Stupidification of America
Lawrence Kelmenson, MD
-
March 18, 2020
53
6014
From FACT to POD: How a FACT Team Integrated Open Dialogue
Marion DeBoer
-
March 16, 2020
13
1352
National Boards of Health Are Unresponsive to Children Driven to Suicide by Depression Pills
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
-
March 15, 2020
29
3880
The Psychiatric Narrative & The Boston Globe: Violence, Force, & Derogatory Labels
Vesper Moore
-
March 14, 2020
50
2599
A Book Review of “Acceptance: The Defining Voice of Validation”
Paula J. Caplan, PhD
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March 13, 2020
7
2624
Please Stop Saying Depression Is Like Diabetes
Megan Wildhood
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March 12, 2020
47
5091
How Radical Women Changed Psychiatry in the 1970s
Lucas Richert
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March 9, 2020
19
4436
6 Ways Trauma Might Inform Your Current Life
Noel Hunter, PsyD
-
March 8, 2020
29
6446
UN Report: Involuntary Psychiatric Interventions “May Well Amount to Torture”
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
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March 5, 2020
117
11588
Psychiatry Needs a New Metaphor
Scott Hall
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March 4, 2020
34
3438
The Most Dangerous Thing You Will Ever Do
Peter Breggin, MD
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March 2, 2020
76
24414
What Can We Learn From the Asylum?
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
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February 29, 2020
79
2720
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
3659
What Does the Therapist Know? And Why Does It Matter?
Ann Green, PMHNP
&
Hugh Polk, MD
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February 25, 2020
14
2691
Working With the Four Dialogues: Using Chairwork in Clinical Practice
Scott Kellogg, PhD
-
February 22, 2020
10
4051
Observations From an Open Circle
Milan Röhricht
-
February 20, 2020
29
1297
Our Movement Has a Cover-up Problem Too
Will Hall
-
February 18, 2020
81
3357
Turning the Corner: How Are We Educating Psychiatrists in Medical Schools?
Robert Nikkel, MSW
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February 17, 2020
29
1633
Exploding the “Separated-at-Birth” Twin Study Myth
Jay Joseph, PsyD
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February 16, 2020
5
7446
“Sublime Madness”: Anarchists, Psychiatric Survivors, Emma Goldman & Harriet Tubman
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
February 15, 2020
32
2994
Why Must People Pathologize Eating Problems?
Paula J. Caplan, PhD
&
Jo Watson
-
February 15, 2020
38
5018
Spiritual Emergency: Crisis or Transformation?
Julia Sellers
-
February 14, 2020
11
7036
The Chemical Imbalance Theory of Depression: Where Is It Going?
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
February 13, 2020
56
8404
The Review on Antidepressant Withdrawal That Cochrane Won’t Publish
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
-
February 11, 2020
33
10226
A Kirist Response to Psychiatry
Eric Maisel, PhD
-
February 7, 2020
29
3946
NY Times to Bonnie Burstow: May You Not Rest in Peace
Robert Whitaker
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February 5, 2020
123
7258
Psychiatry, Capitalism, and the Recuperation of Psychedelics
Mia Khan
-
February 4, 2020
31
5985
Big Pharma Meets Big Diagnosis, Big Courts, and Big Psychiatric Hospitals
Paula J. Caplan, PhD
-
January 31, 2020
92
8576
Reimagining Healthcare
Audrey Stillerman, MD
-
January 30, 2020
23
3345
Where Are the Results of These Five Clinical Trials of Antidepressant Drugs?
Till Bruckner, PhD
-
January 28, 2020
11
4491
Ready, Fire, Aim: Mainstream Psychiatry Reacts to the UN Special Rapporteur
Niall McLaren
-
January 26, 2020
41
5614
How President Trump and Dr. Drew Got It Wrong on Deinstitutionalization
Michael Simonson
&
Leah Harris
-
January 24, 2020
37
5065
MIACE 2020: New Approaches to Working With People Who Are Suicidal
Robert Nikkel, MSW
-
January 21, 2020
26
3130
Stalked by Stress, Abandoned to Predation: The Appeal of Suicide in a Modern World
Sarah Knutson
-
January 16, 2020
59
5377
Making Peer Counseling Radically Accessible
Tim Desmond, LMFT
-
January 14, 2020
33
4449
The Day I Became Schizophrenic
Eric Coates
-
January 12, 2020
62
5996
Power Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry
Sera Davidow
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January 11, 2020
74
4620
The Real Myth of the Schizophrenogenic Mother
Patrick Hahn
-
January 10, 2020
53
15227
Remembering Bonnie Burstow
Don Weitz
-
January 9, 2020
32
7891
No, Dr. Friedman: The Solution to Teen Suicide is Not So Simple
Jacob Hess, PhD
-
January 8, 2020
24
3934
Surviving Psychiatry: A Typical Case of Serious Psychiatric Drug Harms
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
-
January 7, 2020
22
8394
Real Doctors Are Peddling Fake Diseases: Here’s How to Spot Them
Lawrence Kelmenson, MD
-
January 4, 2020
68
5783
Overcoming the Madness in Us All
Peter Breggin, MD
-
January 3, 2020
36
8727
Cast Aside No One
Melissa Toni
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January 2, 2020
97
2251
The Invisibles: Children in Foster Care
Paula J. Caplan, PhD
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December 30, 2019
18
4395
Zel Dolinsky: I Have a Right to “Death With Dignity”
Robert Whitaker
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December 28, 2019
97
8603
Merry, Beautiful, Unique: YOU
Ekaterina Netchitailova, PhD
-
December 25, 2019
15
1390
Anatomy of a Suicide: Stress and the Human Condition
Sarah Knutson
-
December 24, 2019
21
43140
Medical Ghostwriting: When an “Author” Is Not Necessarily an “Author”
Jonathan Leo, PhD
-
December 21, 2019
4
4313
The House of Cards with Informed Consent Standards
Robert Nikkel, MSW
-
December 20, 2019
19
2090
Twin Studies and Ken Burns’ Upcoming Documentary on “The Gene: An Intimate History”
Jay Joseph, PsyD
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December 19, 2019
25
5750
Are Regulatory Bodies Prioritising Drug Company Interests Over Public Safety?
John Read
-
December 17, 2019
31
2480
Is Australia’s Psychiatric System Redeemable?
Niall McLaren
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December 15, 2019
48
5505
The Field of Mental Health Has Gone Astray, But We Can Fix It
Birgit Valla
-
December 13, 2019
45
4071
Dr. Huda Has Written His Book: ‘The Medical Model in Mental Health’
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
December 11, 2019
64
5656
What Does ‘Relapse’ Mean? Definitions Used in Antipsychotic Trials Are Unclear
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
December 10, 2019
15
1980
The Matrix: Disentangling Anti-Psychiatry
T.N. Tampiyappa, FRANZCP
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December 7, 2019
120
8602
In Memory of Julie Greene
MIA Editors
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December 6, 2019
62
6198
A Tribute to Stephen Gilbert, Warrior Behind Enemy Lines
MIA Editors
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December 3, 2019
32
1991
Lighting a Spark to Heal Trauma: An Interview with Jesse Zook Mann
Chaya Grossberg
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December 1, 2019
21
3655
The Darker the Night, the Brighter the Light: Five Lessons Learned This Month
Lauren Spiro
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November 28, 2019
11
3918
Seven Strategies to Avoid Retraumatization While Working with Psychosis
Tim Dreby, MFT
-
November 26, 2019
18
3147
MIA at Eight Years: Are We Fulfilling Our Mission?
Robert Whitaker
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November 22, 2019
69
4869
Anthropologists Contemplate the Future Role of Psychiatry
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
November 19, 2019
19
3552
Hearing Voices Network Launches Family & Friends Support Group
David Adams
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November 16, 2019
4
4282
High Time for Anarchism in Mental Health
Itay Kander
-
November 14, 2019
57
6635
Deep Brain Stimulation and Deeply Biased Researchers, Revisited
Andrew Scull, PhD
-
November 13, 2019
19
3190
“We Need a New Paradigm” — Rethinking Psychiatry’s Hospitalization Survey
Rachel Levy, LCSW
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November 9, 2019
8
2069
Capitalism Makes Solutions Impossible: A Review of ‘Rebel Minds’
Megan Wildhood
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November 8, 2019
20
3459
The Revolt Against Psychiatry: A Book Review
Susan Rosenthal
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November 6, 2019
44
3881
Got a Gene for That? The Latest from the Chronicles of Gene Worshiping
Noel Hunter, PsyD
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November 5, 2019
21
2585
Holistic Approaches: A Proven Treatment for Psychotropic Drug Withdrawal
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
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November 2, 2019
5
13219
Responding to Workplace Mistreatment and Bullying
Will Hall
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October 31, 2019
21
2248
From Moses to Jesus to Prozac: A Theory on “Chemical Imbalances” and Faith
Lawrence Kelmenson, MD
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October 30, 2019
58
6050
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
2719
Berlin Manifesto for Humane Psychiatry Released
Jann Schlimme
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October 24, 2019
43
4046
There Is No Such Thing as a Side Effect
Eric Coates
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October 23, 2019
28
5056
Building a Culture of Mental Well-Being
Aryan Aggarwal
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October 20, 2019
1
5426
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
8562
Hereditary Madness? The Genain Sisters’ Tragic Story
Patrick Hahn
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October 17, 2019
14
27500
Peer Specialists in the Mental Health Workforce: A Critical Reassessment
Darby Penney
&
Peter Stastny, MD
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October 16, 2019
74
11073
The Sisyphus Cycle: How Everyday Stress Leads to Suicide
Sarah Knutson
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October 12, 2019
29
9327
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
3421
UN Expert Calls for Major Shift in Suicide Prevention Efforts on World Mental Health...
MIA Editors
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October 10, 2019
6
4060
Fighting Unjustified Commitment in Wisconsin: Leslie’s Story
Gail Tasch
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October 9, 2019
40
4242
Countervailing Forces Against Ritalin Use in France
Marilyn Wedge, PhD
-
October 6, 2019
5
2685
Forced-Treatment Advocacy Group Cherry-Picks Data to Support Agenda (Again)
Michael Simonson
-
September 30, 2019
28
2436
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
12780
Marci Webber Granted a Conditional Discharge
Robert Whitaker
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September 25, 2019
104
6713
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
5523
10 Reasons Why Psychiatry Lives On—Obvious, Dark, and Darkest
Bruce Levine, PhD
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September 17, 2019
138
14472
Is Remaking Psychiatric Care Possible?
Robert Whitaker
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September 14, 2019
255
7721
Lingering Side Effects of Quitting Antidepressants
Jane Tholen
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September 13, 2019
16
19105
Trump and Cuomo: Red Flags Are Red Herrings
Lauren Tenney, PhD, MPhil, MPA, Psychiatric Survivor
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September 11, 2019
29
2874
How Psychological Injuries Cause Physical Illness—And How Therapy Can Heal It
Eric Kuelker, PhD, RPsych
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September 10, 2019
56
41143
William James’s Letter to His Depressed Daughter
Jeffrey Rubin, PhD
-
September 5, 2019
12
6898
Pies’ Polemic and the Question of Theories in Psychiatry, Again
Niall McLaren
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September 4, 2019
53
4980
A ‘Blueprint’ for Genetic Determinism
Jay Joseph, PsyD
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September 3, 2019
22
9596
How Healthcare Foundations Destroy Grassroots Advocates
Corinna West
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September 1, 2019
11
1917
System Change Webinars: Promoting Radical Change
Robert Nikkel, MSW
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August 29, 2019
36
957
Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal in Spain
Francisco Jose Sans Lacussan
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August 27, 2019
31
9663
The Problem Lies in the Term ‘Mental Illness’
Ekaterina Netchitailova, PhD
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August 25, 2019
208
6001
Poverty: The Newest Medically Treatable Brain Disease
Lawrence Kelmenson, MD
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August 23, 2019
79
5450
Monarch eTNS Inspires “Stop the Psychiatric Abuse of Children!” (SPAC!)
Peter Breggin, MD
&
Michael Cornwall, PhD
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August 20, 2019
24
6117
Creating Our Mental Health
Ann Green, PMHNP
&
Hugh Polk, MD
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August 18, 2019
9
2211
The Mystic of Ireland: An Homage to Ivor Browne
Tomás Hardiman
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August 17, 2019
12
6189
Collaborative Strategies for Re-Visioning the Public Mental Health System
Sascha Altman DuBrul
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August 16, 2019
51
3624
In Defense of Anger
Megan Wildhood
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August 15, 2019
42
5137
No Graphic Detail: The Injustice of Being Silenced
Sera Davidow
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August 12, 2019
60
3144
We Must Hear Marianne Williamson’s Message About the Overuse of Antidepressants
Kenneth F. McCallion
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August 11, 2019
20
3220
Brave New Apps: The Arrival of Surveillance Psychiatry
Jonah Bossewitch, PhD
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August 9, 2019
20
3370
Blaming the “Mentally Ill”: This is Hate Speech
Robert Whitaker
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August 8, 2019
238
7411
Antidepressants and the National Suicide Epidemic
Patrick Hahn
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August 6, 2019
33
4732
How “Safe Messaging” Gaslights Suicidal People
Jess Stohlmann-Rainey
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August 4, 2019
25
10727
Helping People Come Off Medication—Bad for Business?
Peter Groot, PhD
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August 1, 2019
26
2941
Psychiatric Eugenics Then and Now—You Betcha It’s Still Happening
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
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July 31, 2019
119
13343
Rock Bottom: When You Are in Your Darkest Moment
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
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July 30, 2019
12
3778
We’ve Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health
MIA Editors
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July 28, 2019
10
4005
An “Even-Handed” History of Psychiatry as Damning as the “Polemics”?
Sandra Steingard, MD
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July 27, 2019
13
2845
We Lost a Giant Today: A Tribute to Janet Foner
Lauren Spiro
&
David W. Oaks
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July 25, 2019
10
4296
Responding to “The Case Against AOT”—Next Steps for Change
Robert Nikkel, MSW
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July 24, 2019
31
1681
The Chemical Imbalance Theory: Dr. Pies Returns, Again
Philip Hickey, PhD
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July 22, 2019
81
6541
U.S. Politicians Now “Trauma Informed”—Should We Be Hopeful?
Bruce Levine, PhD
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July 20, 2019
15
2047
An Open Letter to Howard Stern, the “Poster Boy for Psychotherapy”
Enrico Gnaulati, PhD
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July 19, 2019
11
3345
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
4458
Talking About Psych Diagnoses and Drugs: A Primer for Parents & Professionals
Paula J. Caplan, PhD
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July 13, 2019
14
3309
System Change Toward a Green Movement in Mental Health
Robert Nikkel, MSW
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July 12, 2019
12
1266
Equal Legal Capacity or ‘Supported Decision-Making’?
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
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July 10, 2019
38
2055
On Cognitive Liberty: A Principle to Rally Behind
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
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July 7, 2019
192
5038
Being-Towards-Suicide
Milan Röhricht
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July 7, 2019
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2753
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2306
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2717
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3607
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3921
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1476
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June 4, 2019
71
8944
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June 1, 2019
49
1385
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May 31, 2019
111
3886
I’m Introverted, Not Depressed!
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May 29, 2019
23
4358
Blaming the System May Be the Best Therapy
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May 25, 2019
47
5278
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May 22, 2019
35
21829
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May 21, 2019
57
6961
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27
5647
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5712
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130
6116
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2905
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May 11, 2019
69
6401
Thought About Killing Yourself Lately? It’s Not All In Your Head
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May 10, 2019
48
5330
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15
2681
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May 4, 2019
19
9132
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May 3, 2019
55
6476
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37
3984
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6038
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7
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April 27, 2019
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4426
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26
2442
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54
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April 18, 2019
415
15525
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1880
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April 13, 2019
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April 7, 2019
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2108
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Bruce Levine, PhD
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March 22, 2019
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5664
“Page Not Found” Ends Up “Telling All” About Psychiatry
Peter Breggin, MD
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March 20, 2019
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6898
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102
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March 16, 2019
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2320
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March 15, 2019
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2483
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March 13, 2019
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“Let’s Not Go Overboard About ECT”
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February 23, 2019
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Assessing Outcomes at the Alternative to Meds Center: Survey Results Prove Promising
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5510
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7722
Loneliness Cure: Red or Blue Pill?
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February 15, 2019
31
4773
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February 14, 2019
21
4240
Funder Fragility and Forced Collaboration
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February 13, 2019
15
1410
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February 10, 2019
47
2028
“I’m Not Going, You Can’t Make Me!”: A Community Approach to School Refusal
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February 9, 2019
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3537
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February 8, 2019
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4607
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February 6, 2019
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7414
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February 5, 2019
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February 3, 2019
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2195
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February 2, 2019
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January 31, 2019
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29665
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January 27, 2019
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37546
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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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2058
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January 21, 2019
153
2711
Fake Science and Checking Sources
Sylvain Rousselot
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January 20, 2019
27
2160
Antidepressant Withdrawal: An Unknown Disorder?
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January 19, 2019
24
7434
The Never Ending Story: How 2nd Story Respite House Was Saved
Adrian Bernard
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January 18, 2019
12
1829
Open Dialogue: Does the Current Research Data Support Further Investment?
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January 14, 2019
159
5120
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Bruce Levine, PhD
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January 13, 2019
17
4694
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: An Infographic on Bipolar Drugs
Craig Wagner
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January 10, 2019
56
9421
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January 8, 2019
18
2226
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January 8, 2019
187
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Mad in America: 2018 by the Numbers
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January 5, 2019
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2533
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Ekaterina Netchitailova, PhD
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January 2, 2019
260
4391
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January 1, 2019
26
2080
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December 30, 2018
45
8525
The Minds of Men: A Stunning New Film About Covert Mind Control
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December 29, 2018
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3333
Pathways to Enhance Well-Being: Free Resource on Alternative Wellness Practices
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1935
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December 25, 2018
15
3408
Reclaiming Humanity at the Dawn of Posthumanism: Conversation with Darcia Narvaez
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December 21, 2018
28
4285
Antidepressant Dependence Discussed at the Seat of Welsh Government – Video
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December 20, 2018
30
2662
What Do Twin Studies Prove About Genetic Influences on Psychiatric Disorders? Absolutely Nothing
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December 18, 2018
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12094
The Meaningfulness of Anxiety
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December 15, 2018
36
6526
Childhood Bipolar Disorder, Deconstructed
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December 12, 2018
29
5077
What’s “Grand” About Electroshock and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation?
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December 11, 2018
430
4620
The Madness of Our Mental Health System
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December 8, 2018
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5671
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3088
Smoke and Flames: Silence In A World On Fire
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December 5, 2018
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5466
Anatomy of an Opioid Epidemic
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3425
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November 27, 2018
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Are Emotional Disorders Really Disorders of Love?
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The Real Attention Deficit Disorder
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November 24, 2018
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4988
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November 23, 2018
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1960
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November 20, 2018
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2369
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November 13, 2018
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3452
Learning From Each Other As Psychiatric Survivors
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November 13, 2018
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2845
Escaping from AOT: The Importance of the Incident with the Candle
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November 11, 2018
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2275
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November 9, 2018
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2381
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November 6, 2018
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4639
The Language of Internalized Oppression
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November 1, 2018
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October 30, 2018
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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
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2163
Suicide Hotlines, Risk Assessment and Rights: Whose Safety Matters?
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October 25, 2018
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4997
Huge Breakthrough in Lawsuits Against ECT Shock Device Manufacturers
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4376
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October 17, 2018
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9056
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October 12, 2018
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12548
The Cochrane Collaboration Has Failed Us All
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3562
Healthy Guilt and Doing Right By Those We Have Wronged
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October 7, 2018
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2569
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3134
Healthy Planet/Healthy Mind with Zach Bush, MD
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October 4, 2018
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September 30, 2018
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1842
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5516
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Having Empathy Doesn’t Mean That You Also Have Compassion!
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September 22, 2018
103
12584
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September 21, 2018
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September 20, 2018
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1353
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September 16, 2018
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September 15, 2018
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7201
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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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2879
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September 3, 2018
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7420
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Uncomfortable Relations: Reflections on Learning From Psychiatric Survivors
Hel Spandler, PhD
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August 22, 2018
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July 26, 2018
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June 30, 2018
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3039
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May 27, 2018
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May 25, 2018
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50538
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May 22, 2018
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4395
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May 20, 2018
55
4420
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May 19, 2018
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2782
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May 16, 2018
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May 14, 2018
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May 11, 2018
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5853
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May 9, 2018
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4588
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May 9, 2018
165
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May 8, 2018
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May 6, 2018
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1112
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May 5, 2018
33
2798
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May 5, 2018
19
3075
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May 4, 2018
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4153
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May 2, 2018
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3212
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May 1, 2018
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5828
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April 29, 2018
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59120
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April 28, 2018
36
3599
Verne Troyer’s Passing: What’s Prejudice Got to Do With It?
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April 27, 2018
22
2462
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April 25, 2018
44
2683
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April 24, 2018
10
5069
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April 21, 2018
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4004
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April 20, 2018
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2047
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April 19, 2018
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5420
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April 18, 2018
112
4743
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April 16, 2018
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13764
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April 13, 2018
45
2229
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April 12, 2018
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3733
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April 11, 2018
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April 10, 2018
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2321
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April 8, 2018
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25419
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April 7, 2018
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14488
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April 4, 2018
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8187
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April 3, 2018
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16738
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March 31, 2018
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March 30, 2018
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8467
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March 29, 2018
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1656
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March 24, 2018
297
6583
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March 22, 2018
26
7545
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March 21, 2018
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6528
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March 20, 2018
20
2093
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March 20, 2018
15
1822
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March 18, 2018
12
2235
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March 16, 2018
14
4105
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March 16, 2018
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1504
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March 15, 2018
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3539
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March 14, 2018
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2798
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March 9, 2018
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8557
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March 8, 2018
22
7989
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March 7, 2018
21
8722
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March 6, 2018
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1574
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March 4, 2018
101
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March 2, 2018
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3830
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March 1, 2018
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February 26, 2018
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February 25, 2018
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9729
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February 24, 2018
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13862
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February 23, 2018
63
2190
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February 22, 2018
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7420
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February 21, 2018
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4135
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February 20, 2018
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13672
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February 18, 2018
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4941
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February 16, 2018
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2231
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February 15, 2018
231
7910
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February 13, 2018
42
9361
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Darby Penney
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February 10, 2018
189
16531
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February 7, 2018
38
1751
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February 6, 2018
34
1217
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February 4, 2018
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3400
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February 3, 2018
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2664
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February 2, 2018
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February 1, 2018
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2933
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January 31, 2018
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5744
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January 30, 2018
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January 25, 2018
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2513
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January 23, 2018
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4318
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January 22, 2018
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All in the Family: 4 Steps Toward Healing Adverse Childhood Experiences
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January 19, 2018
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2615
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January 18, 2018
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1826
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January 17, 2018
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26518
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January 16, 2018
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January 15, 2018
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January 13, 2018
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3411
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January 12, 2018
31
9111
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January 11, 2018
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3661
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January 10, 2018
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January 8, 2018
39
7128
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January 5, 2018
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6285
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January 3, 2018
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5845
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January 2, 2018
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3934
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3583
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7163
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December 27, 2017
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December 24, 2017
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2653
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December 22, 2017
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2414
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December 16, 2017
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2291
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December 15, 2017
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December 13, 2017
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2030
APA: Drop the Stigmatizing Term “Schizophrenia”
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December 10, 2017
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December 8, 2017
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December 7, 2017
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7481
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December 5, 2017
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December 4, 2017
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2274
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December 4, 2017
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4661
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December 3, 2017
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December 1, 2017
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November 30, 2017
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1364
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November 27, 2017
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3212
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November 24, 2017
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3534
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November 22, 2017
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1643
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1792
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November 19, 2017
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November 19, 2017
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4561
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November 13, 2017
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November 12, 2017
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2791
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4081
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November 7, 2017
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November 5, 2017
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November 1, 2017
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3410
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October 29, 2017
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5839
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988
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October 26, 2017
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October 24, 2017
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4316
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2886
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October 22, 2017
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10466
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October 19, 2017
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2638
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October 9, 2017
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October 6, 2017
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881
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October 5, 2017
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October 4, 2017
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October 3, 2017
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October 2, 2017
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September 30, 2017
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September 29, 2017
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2692
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September 28, 2017
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September 27, 2017
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September 25, 2017
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September 24, 2017
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September 22, 2017
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2352
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September 21, 2017
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September 20, 2017
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September 19, 2017
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September 17, 2017
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September 14, 2017
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September 13, 2017
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September 7, 2017
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September 6, 2017
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September 5, 2017
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September 3, 2017
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September 1, 2017
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August 30, 2017
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August 25, 2017
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August 24, 2017
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August 16, 2017
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August 15, 2017
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August 5, 2017
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August 3, 2017
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August 1, 2017
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July 30, 2017
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July 29, 2017
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If You Don’t Have a Brain…
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July 28, 2017
22
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3596
9 Questions the US Senate Should Ask Dr. McCance-Katz
David W. Oaks
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July 22, 2017
18
1543
Makers of Risperdal Sued for Breast Development in Boys
Barbara Liston
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July 21, 2017
18
25298
People of Great Britain! Our Beast Descends Upon Your Children
Peter Breggin, MD
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July 20, 2017
25
4064
Methylphenidate: How to Avoid Importing the American Disaster?
Patrick Landman, MD
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July 18, 2017
9
1799
While Psychiatry Slept (Part II)
George Mecouch, DO
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July 16, 2017
24
2893
“Heartbeats of Hope: The Empowerment Way to Recover” – A Book Review
Ron Unger, LCSW
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July 14, 2017
41
2342
Hearing Voices in the USA
Sera Davidow
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July 13, 2017
15
2810
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Jocelyn Pedersen
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July 11, 2017
67
3843
Three Suicides: Honoring Lives Lost to Benzodiazepines
Angie Peacock
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July 10, 2017
21
22098
Tapering Strips for Benzodiazepines
Peter Groot, PhD
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July 10, 2017
12
7495
“Benzo Blue”: a Song of Protest and a Search for Liberation
Richard D. Lewis
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July 9, 2017
35
3071
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David W. Oaks
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July 7, 2017
33
1891
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Michelle Funk
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Natalie Drew
&
Marie Baudel
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July 6, 2017
7
1349
Uniting Critical Voices: Where can we Collaborate?
Gary Sidley, PhD
-
July 5, 2017
104
2204
So You Say You Want a Revolution Part Two
Robert Nikkel, MSW
-
July 3, 2017
15
1127
Landmark Victory against the “Oak Ridge Torturers” — Do We Cheer or Cry?
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
July 2, 2017
59
4021
No Psychiatrist Needs to Use ECT
Niall McLaren
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June 27, 2017
113
8900
Do Psychiatrists Harm their Patients out of Stupidity?
Michael Cornwall, PhD
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June 25, 2017
308
28599
French and American Approaches to “ADHD”
Redmond O'Hanlon, DPhil
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June 24, 2017
2
4027
Data Shows That Nutrients Reduce Aggression: Why is Policy Not Changing?
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
&
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
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June 23, 2017
49
5139
Robert Whitaker Refutes Jeffrey Lieberman; But Is Psychiatry Reformable?
Philip Hickey, PhD
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June 22, 2017
112
5260
An Open Letter to the President’s Commission on Combating Addiction and the Opioid Crisis
Richard Lawhern, PhD
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June 21, 2017
8
1052
MIA RADIO: Expanding the Audience for “Critical Psychiatry” Perspectives
Robert Whitaker
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June 21, 2017
24
1829
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Corinna West
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June 20, 2017
24
2478
INTAR India 2016: Reflections
Bhargavi Davar, PhD
-
June 18, 2017
4
1161
Healing from Psychiatry: A Community Art Book
motto
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June 17, 2017
7
1642
Antipsychiatry – Say What?
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
June 15, 2017
396
8021
Breaking Through the Wall of Schizophrenia
Marilyn Wedge, PhD
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June 14, 2017
19
3816
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Sascha Altman DuBrul
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June 13, 2017
16
3428
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Helen W.
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June 10, 2017
104
6888
Killjoy: The Story of a Misguided ‘Mental Health’ Bot
Sera Davidow
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June 8, 2017
25
3097
While Psychiatry Slept
George Mecouch, DO
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June 7, 2017
47
3870
Human Right to Health – More than Economic Justice
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
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June 6, 2017
53
1777
Trauma in Common?
Robert Nikkel, MSW
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June 2, 2017
33
1604
From Madness to Mastery: Gaining Competence with Altered States
Ron Unger, LCSW
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May 31, 2017
19
2450
Psychosocial Disability and Legal Capacity: Don’t Bargain with Human Rights
Maria Nyman
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May 30, 2017
25
3298
Conferring Legitimacy on the Counterhegemonic
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
May 28, 2017
44
2747
Psychiatry’s Troublesome History: How Far Have We Come?
Twilah Hiari
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May 27, 2017
34
2687
Back to Basics: What’s Wrong with NAMI
Sera Davidow
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May 26, 2017
127
19771
Call to Action: MA Bill H.3594 for Informed Benzodiazepine Use
Sonja Styblo
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May 25, 2017
26
5240
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Peter Breggin, MD
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May 24, 2017
12
4855
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Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
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May 21, 2017
28
6856
The Mental Health Professionals Who Perpetrate Against Us
Monica Cassani
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May 18, 2017
50
3143
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Kurt Michael
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May 17, 2017
77
3215
Crazywise: Revisioning Narratives of Psychosis
Sascha Altman DuBrul
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May 16, 2017
12
3939
Alcoholism — Is it a Disease?
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
May 16, 2017
29
2266
The Diseasing of Defiance
Eric Maisel, PhD
-
May 15, 2017
16
4526
New UN Report: Steps Forward, But No End to Impunity
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
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May 14, 2017
12
2137
Smash the Blue Lights: Autism Speaks is a ‘Danger to Self and Others’
Sera Davidow
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May 13, 2017
53
8224
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Monica Cassani
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May 12, 2017
6
1812
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Philip Hickey, PhD
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May 12, 2017
31
3478
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Au Valencia
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May 10, 2017
3
1916
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David Healy, MD
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May 9, 2017
3
994
Inconvenient Truths About Antipsychotics: A Response to Goff et al
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
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May 7, 2017
44
9662
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Miriam Larsen-Barr, DClinPsy
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May 6, 2017
66
6374
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James Schroeder, PhD
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May 5, 2017
296
4131
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Johanna Ryan
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May 2, 2017
3
1893
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Jim Gottstein, JD
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May 2, 2017
4
3644
“Let’s Talk Withdrawal” Podcast
James Moore
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April 29, 2017
28
5705
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April 28, 2017
7
1287
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David W. Oaks
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April 27, 2017
63
4483
Our Letter to Lancet Psychiatry
Robert Whitaker
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April 26, 2017
7
3611
The Unforeseen Relationship: Psychiatric Medication and Spirituality
Lynne Vanderpot, PhD
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April 25, 2017
64
9477
‘Enough is Enough’ Series: LSD Reconsidered
Robert Berezin, MD
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April 23, 2017
46
2722
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Robert Nikkel, MSW
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April 22, 2017
40
1644
What if the Folly is in Us, Too?
Gordon Warme, MD
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April 20, 2017
62
2900
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Bruce Levine, PhD
-
April 19, 2017
21
2841
The Downfall of Peer Support: MHA & National Certification
Sera Davidow
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April 18, 2017
130
12027
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Chaya Grossberg
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April 15, 2017
33
3161
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Aimee Inomata, PhD
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April 14, 2017
6
1580
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Michael Cornwall, PhD
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April 13, 2017
30
5808
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Rev. Dr. Steven Epperson
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April 9, 2017
49
3967
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Sera Davidow
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April 9, 2017
26
2304
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Tabita Green
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April 8, 2017
17
1439
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Twilah Hiari
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April 6, 2017
41
5363
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Peter Lehmann
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April 5, 2017
8
2067
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Elizabeth Szlek
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April 4, 2017
168
3115
The Third Director: Interrogating the Mental Health Discourse in Marat/Sade
Peter Simons
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April 3, 2017
3
2429
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Ronda Richardson
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April 1, 2017
142
6103
The Sunrise Center 2017
Terry Simpson
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March 31, 2017
17
1501
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Mark Ragins, MD
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March 29, 2017
35
3960
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Joanna Moncrieff, MD
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March 28, 2017
48
3893
‘CRAZY’: New Documentary about Forced Psychiatric Treatment
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
March 27, 2017
3
5070
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Niall McLaren
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March 25, 2017
28
7807
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Ron Unger, LCSW
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March 24, 2017
16
3563
Not Going Quietly
Rufus May
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March 23, 2017
31
3654
Beyond Survival
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
March 22, 2017
15
2297
Discussing Nutrient Formulas Without Naming Them: Who Benefits?
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
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March 19, 2017
33
2680
Optimizing Mental Wellness Through Nutrient Therapy: A Gastroenterologist’s Perspective
Rebecca Carey, MD, MS, CNSC
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March 18, 2017
48
13883
Introducing the ‘Parent Resources’ Page
Eric Maisel, PhD
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March 16, 2017
5
1070
Burn Baby Burn (Psychopharmacology Part 3)
David Healy, MD
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March 15, 2017
17
1675
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Philip Hickey, PhD
-
March 15, 2017
76
4064
Leading Psychiatrists Follow Top-Dog Bankers’ Guide to Career Advancement
Bruce Levine, PhD
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March 14, 2017
3
1487
Into the Woods: A Path Through Anxiety
Albert Buhr
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March 14, 2017
8
1977
Spirituality and ‘Mental Illness’
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
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March 13, 2017
22
5723
Psychiatric Hegemony: A Marxist Theory of Mental Illness
Susan Rosenthal
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March 11, 2017
108
39582
Aliveness and Social Justice: Teaching the Principles and Practices of Open Dialogue
Mary Olson, PhD
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March 10, 2017
12
2981
SSRIs: Minimal Effectiveness and High Risk
Philip Hickey, PhD
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March 9, 2017
93
7374
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David Healy, MD
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March 7, 2017
8
1610
Victims of Success: An Update from Mad in America Continuing Education
Robert Nikkel, MSW
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March 7, 2017
2
723
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Sandra Steingard, MD
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March 6, 2017
14
3119
Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany (A Book Review)
Niall McLaren
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March 5, 2017
10
3174
Lyme is ‘All in Your Head’ – A Wake-up Call to Mental Health Professionals
Lori Dennis
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March 4, 2017
34
118559
Tweeting While Psychiatry Burns
David Healy, MD
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March 3, 2017
8
2442
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Bonnie Burstow, PhD
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March 2, 2017
34
2536
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Mad in Aotearoa
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February 28, 2017
3
932
Transformations to Liberation
Jenna Rai Miller, LPC
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February 27, 2017
6
1742
A New Paradigm for Psychiatry: Answering the Call from the UN
Robert Berezin, MD
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February 26, 2017
62
4407
Psychosis for Mental Health?
Noel Hunter, PsyD
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February 25, 2017
39
5628
The Sedated Society: the Real Story of our Prescribing Epidemic
James Davies, PhD
-
February 23, 2017
27
4928
Editorial Misconduct: Finnish Medical Journal Rejects Paper on Suicide Risk
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
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February 22, 2017
25
10600
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Sandra Steingard, MD
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February 21, 2017
31
3818
Mickey Nardo: Tangled up in Life
David Healy, MD
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February 20, 2017
9
2161
Committed: The Battle Over Involuntary Psychiatric Care
Sandra Steingard, MD
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February 20, 2017
67
4366
Disobedience: What Can We Risk?
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
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February 19, 2017
64
3267
SMILES Study: Depression and Nutrition
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
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February 18, 2017
20
10352
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David Healy, MD
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February 17, 2017
8
983
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Twilah Hiari
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February 16, 2017
45
25536
“Active Minds” — What Conversation Are We Changing?
Danny Kochanowski
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February 14, 2017
52
2672
7 Years Off Psych Drugs: A Message to Those Labeled by Psychiatry (video)
Monica Cassani
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February 12, 2017
19
5571
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Sera Davidow
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February 11, 2017
237
8470
Vital Minds: Four Stories of Recovery
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
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February 9, 2017
15
4293
Intentional Peer Support: Creating Relationships, Creating Change
Beth Filson
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Shery Mead
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February 8, 2017
10
5060
Integrative Mental Health: 27 Non-drug Options that Work
Craig Wagner
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February 7, 2017
62
7888
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Sandra Steingard, MD
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February 6, 2017
40
2816
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Lloyd Ross, PhD
&
Matt Stevenson
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February 5, 2017
25
5506
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Chuck Ruby, PhD
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February 4, 2017
8
1605
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February 3, 2017
24
1989
CRPD Absolute Prohibition Campaign and Course
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
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February 2, 2017
7
2207
Killing “Schizophrenics”: Contemporary U.S. Psychiatry Versus Nazi Psychiatry
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
February 2, 2017
43
5640
Spoiling Split: Hollywood’s Latest Run at ‘Alternative Facts’
Sera Davidow
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February 1, 2017
61
2842
Venomagnosia
David Healy, MD
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January 31, 2017
18
1570
Psychiatry Interrogated: A Book Review
Philip Hickey, PhD
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January 30, 2017
11
2056
Chemical or Psychological Psychotherapy?
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
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January 29, 2017
58
5106
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Thurstine Basset
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January 28, 2017
2
1236
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January 27, 2017
59
1623
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Chaya Grossberg
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January 26, 2017
12
5322
CYP Testing to Help Prevent Dangerous Adverse Drug Reactions
Selma Eikelenboom-Schieveld, MD, PhD
-
January 24, 2017
66
8194
Mental Health First Aid: Another Psychiatric Expansionist Tool
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
January 23, 2017
52
3736
Soteria Shelter Program in Hungary: Crisis as Danger and Opportunity
Dániel Ács
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January 21, 2017
18
3454
Peer-run Organizations Help People with Criminal Justice Involvement Return to the Community
Susan Rogers
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January 19, 2017
7
1359
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Philip Hickey, PhD
-
January 18, 2017
53
7564
The DSM and the Medical Model: New Video
Steve Spiegel
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January 17, 2017
92
5420
Ruby Wax: From Shark Bait to the Doyenne of Disease
Paul Wilson
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January 15, 2017
20
2367
Healing Madness
Eve A. Wood, MD
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January 14, 2017
93
4960
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Robert Whitaker
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January 13, 2017
92
3082
The NIMH in 2017: Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places
Robert Nikkel, MSW
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January 12, 2017
31
1435
How Psychiatric Drugs Really Work
Peter Breggin, MD
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January 11, 2017
80
8938
The Biological Evidence for “Mental Illness”
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
January 10, 2017
140
8306
What We Are Talking About When We Talk About Community Mental Health
Sandra Steingard, MD
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January 9, 2017
13
1975
Understanding Extreme States: An Interview with Stephen Harrod Buhner
Matt Stevenson
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Stephen Buhner
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January 6, 2017
43
13788
Pioneering New Zealand Antipsychotic Medication Study Focuses on Patient Experiences
Will Hall
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January 4, 2017
17
3709
Time to ‘Drop the Disorder’
Jo Watson
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January 3, 2017
41
6738
Carrie Fisher, Bipolar Disorder, and the Spread of False Information
Noel Hunter, PsyD
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January 2, 2017
213
16409
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Philip Hickey, PhD
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January 2, 2017
50
17463
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December 31, 2016
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23950
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December 31, 2016
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37257
Soldiers as Guinea Pigs: the Case of Mefloquine and Tafenoquine
Stuart McCarthy
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December 28, 2016
22
3328
Starting the New Year with a Bang: A Medley of Antipsychiatry Resolutions
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
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December 28, 2016
101
3226
The Real “Mental Illness” Epidemic: Withdrawal from Antidepressants
Stuart Shipko
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December 27, 2016
66
9758
The Right to Refuse Psychiatric Treatment
Merete Nesset
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December 22, 2016
87
6027
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Carina Håkansson, PhD
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December 21, 2016
11
1428
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Olga Runciman, Cand Psych BSc
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December 19, 2016
24
2696
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Noel Hunter, PsyD
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December 17, 2016
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December 17, 2016
36
2905
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Marion Brown
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December 15, 2016
24
2905
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Bonnie Burstow, PhD
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December 14, 2016
30
2707
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December 10, 2016
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14062
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December 9, 2016
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1678
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December 8, 2016
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2208
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December 7, 2016
8
2371
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Philip Hickey, PhD
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December 6, 2016
74
5357
INTAR 2016: A Global Call for a New Paradigm In Psychiatry
Robert Whitaker
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December 6, 2016
32
3336
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Ron Unger, LCSW
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December 4, 2016
33
2972
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Gary Gibbs, DO
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December 3, 2016
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14069
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Iden Campbell, CPRP
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December 2, 2016
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Lauren Tenney, PhD, MPhil, MPA, Psychiatric Survivor
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November 29, 2016
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Noel Hunter, PsyD
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November 28, 2016
66
5255
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Julia Rucklidge, PhD
&
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November 27, 2016
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3842
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Rai Waddingham
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November 26, 2016
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2513
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James Schroeder, PhD
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November 25, 2016
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1917
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Corinna West
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November 21, 2016
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5500
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November 19, 2016
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1598
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November 17, 2016
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November 16, 2016
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Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
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November 16, 2016
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14067
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November 15, 2016
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5206
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November 10, 2016
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November 9, 2016
6
1559
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Philip Hickey, PhD
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November 8, 2016
19
6227
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Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
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November 6, 2016
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17956
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November 5, 2016
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November 2, 2016
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November 1, 2016
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2711
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October 31, 2016
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October 30, 2016
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October 30, 2016
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4367
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October 28, 2016
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October 27, 2016
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5358
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October 25, 2016
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October 24, 2016
8
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Jim Gottstein, JD
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October 22, 2016
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4139
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October 21, 2016
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October 20, 2016
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3185
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October 17, 2016
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1145
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October 16, 2016
160
6244
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Susan Rogers
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October 15, 2016
14
1067
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Peter Breggin, MD
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October 14, 2016
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8764
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Bonnie Burstow, PhD
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October 12, 2016
164
4591
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Jonny Martell, MBBS
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October 11, 2016
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October 10, 2016
6
1531
Rejecting the “Medications for Schizophrenia” Narrative: Part II
Matt Stevenson
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October 6, 2016
61
4266
CHOICES Back on Track
Jim Gottstein, JD
-
October 5, 2016
7
1453
Why Social Isolation Leads to Inflammation
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
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October 4, 2016
18
4043
Healing Silence
Michael Cornwall, PhD
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October 1, 2016
22
3691
The Mental Health Reform Act of 2016 (SB 2680) Would Be a Huge Step...
Philip Hickey, PhD
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September 30, 2016
60
2687
Powerful Advocacy has Shut Down Halloween “Attractions” that Ramp Up Prejudice
Susan Rogers
-
September 30, 2016
36
1839
Evolution or Revolution? Why Western Psychiatry Won’t Change by Incremental Steps
Gary Sidley, PhD
-
September 30, 2016
72
3594
Study 329 Continuation Phase
David Healy, MD
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September 28, 2016
3
793
Psychiatry’s Current Greatest Controversy: Fraud, Bullsh*t or What?
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
September 24, 2016
37
4036
Rejecting the “Medications for Schizophrenia” Narrative: A Survivor’s Response to Pies and Whitaker
Matt Stevenson
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September 23, 2016
154
8697
It’s Possible — and Beneficial — to Stop Feeling Guilt and Shame
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
September 23, 2016
53
7095
Dear Son: A Mother’s Experience of Psychiatry, Racism and Human Rights
Mitzy Sky
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September 20, 2016
14
1663
Depression, Antidepressants, and Expectancy
William Schultz
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September 19, 2016
7
1506
Enough is Enough Series, #5 – The ADHD Fiction is Exposed. The French Have...
Robert Berezin, MD
-
September 16, 2016
76
2439
The Algorithm Will See You Now: A Geek Tragedy
David Healy, MD
-
September 14, 2016
5
656
Helpful and Hopeful Thoughts
Kjetil Mellingen
-
September 13, 2016
76
801
Searching for a Rose Garden: Challenging Psychiatry, Fostering Mad Studies
Liat Ben-Moshe, PhD
-
September 12, 2016
81
1512
My Daughter and Prozac
David Guttman
-
September 8, 2016
89
38690
Confessions of a Trespasser
Robert Whitaker
-
September 7, 2016
166
2788
Psychiatric Ethics
Philip Hickey, PhD
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September 6, 2016
51
695
How Psychiatry Almost Stopped Burning Man: A Story of Hell and Liberation
Ron Unger, LCSW
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September 6, 2016
17
1121
Backing Away from Psychiatry
Ronda Richardson
-
September 1, 2016
34
2361
Dear Boston Globe, Part IV: A Taste of Your Own Medicine
Sera Davidow
-
September 1, 2016
68
1101
Optimizing Children’s Mental Health is a Social Justice Issue
Tabita Green
-
August 31, 2016
9
1938
The Real Narrative of Life
Robert Berezin, MD
-
August 30, 2016
26
396
The ADHD Dilemma: Looking Beyond Big Pharma
Claudia Gold, MD
-
August 29, 2016
26
1125
Can Co-production Really Transform UK Mental Health Services?
Sarah Carr, PhD
-
August 29, 2016
7
1933
Fighting For Change: An Epiphany From Inside the “Movement”
Jen Constantine
-
August 25, 2016
24
348
Not So Rare But Rarely Diagnosed: From Demonic Possession to Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis
Nesrin Shaheen
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August 24, 2016
26
15209
A Diluted Murphy Bill Clears the House and Goes to the Senate
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
August 23, 2016
72
985
Who and What Killed Prince and Michael Jackson? Will the Role of Benzos Ever...
Richard D. Lewis
-
August 23, 2016
52
4813
What Does Your Illness Mean?
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
August 21, 2016
14
839
Researching the Link Between SSRIs and Violence
Catherine Clarke
-
August 20, 2016
38
1278
Pushing for an Informed Consent Benzo Bill in Texas
Stephen LaCorte, JD
-
August 18, 2016
24
2868
Life Lessons and Trauma Informed Care
Matthew Morris
-
August 18, 2016
12
308
Life in the Era of Push-button Psychiatry
Julie Greene, MFA
-
August 17, 2016
49
961
Mourning? – Yes; Forgiveness? – No. Healing from Trauma
Robert Berezin, MD
-
August 17, 2016
60
2746
Inner Fire: Healing and Recovery Without Meds
Beatrice Birch
-
August 16, 2016
49
3532
Escaping the Grip of Forensic Psychiatry
Aimee Inomata, PhD
-
August 14, 2016
84
1382
I am Insane
Reid Bertino
-
August 12, 2016
121
6434
Sadness: The Problem and The Solution
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
August 11, 2016
9
1033
Off Psychiatric Drugs After Fourteen Years
Naas Siddiqui, BA, CPS, MA
-
August 10, 2016
87
3940
#Diversity? — What “Solidarity” Really Looks Like
Iden Campbell, CPRP
-
August 9, 2016
35
571
More on the Power of Diversity: The “Hidden Recovered”
Ron Bassman, PhD
-
August 9, 2016
42
477
Centering Lived Experience
Kenneth Blatt, MD
-
August 9, 2016
35
602
Why Mental Health Organizations Should Endorse the Movement for Black Lives
Will Hall
-
August 3, 2016
154
1412
Interview: Researcher Runs Trial on Antidepressant Withdrawal
Justin Karter
-
August 3, 2016
6
3834
Dear Boston Globe, Part III: We Came. We Protested. You Still Didn’t Listen.
Sera Davidow
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August 3, 2016
112
1136
It’s Time for a Revolution Within the Revolution: Coming Out of the Closet on...
Iden Campbell, CPRP
-
August 1, 2016
147
717
What Do the DSM, Elvis Presley, and Dionysus Have in Common?
Michael Fontaine, PhD
-
July 31, 2016
40
3909
The Struggle, and the Challenge: Young Adults in Crisis and the Use of Medication
Kenneth Blatt, MD
-
July 31, 2016
97
401
Six Lessons on Open Dialogue From the Collaborative Pathway Experiment
Chris Gordon, MD
-
July 29, 2016
27
1426
I Will Not Abandon You
Lauren Spiro
-
July 29, 2016
7
471
You Can Have Any Kind of Treatment You Want, Providing it’s Our Kind
Alec Grant, PhD
-
July 28, 2016
20
739
Drug Choice, Scientology, Ego Needs & Other Divides: Real Politics 101, Part Three
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
July 27, 2016
84
2222
They Call This “Help”
Otto Douglas
-
July 26, 2016
44
2919
Hearing Voices, Living Fully: Living with the Voices in My Head
Claire Bien, M.Ed.
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July 26, 2016
8
2100
The Case Against Antipsychotics
Robert Whitaker
-
July 25, 2016
130
17763
Mental Health Advocacy in California: Perspectives of Advocates and Decision-Makers
Laysha Ostrow, PhD
-
July 25, 2016
3
1118
Violence Caused by Antidepressants: An Update after Munich
Peter Breggin, MD
-
July 25, 2016
25
6759
Psychiatry is Edging Dangerously Close to Eugenics
Robert Berezin, MD
-
July 20, 2016
151
7782
The Sociological Study of Mental Illness: A Historical Perspective
Andrew Scull, PhD
-
July 20, 2016
30
5550
Foster Youths Meet Psychiatry: First – Do No pHarm
Wayne Munchel
-
July 18, 2016
36
456
Falling Through the Cracks
Merry Citoli
-
July 17, 2016
36
2308
“Invisible” Resistance: Taking Charge in the Face of Difficulty and Institutional Rule
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
July 16, 2016
83
533
‘We’re Not Buying It!” — Survey on Emotional Distress and Diagnosis Reveals Mistrust of...
Lois Holzman, PhD
-
July 14, 2016
33
591
Schizophrenia Twin Research as Reported in The Gene: An Intimate History — Getting the...
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
July 12, 2016
21
2580
Dear Boston Globe, Part II: You Forgot the Facts
Sera Davidow
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July 7, 2016
123
827
My Fixed Delusion
Michael Rock
-
July 6, 2016
135
1315
Yogurt Cooperative in Spain Provides a Different Form of Help: Meaningful Work
Anna Thomson
&
David Baksh
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July 6, 2016
25
426
Announcing an International Symposium and Institute on Psychiatric Drug Risks and Withdrawal
Carina Håkansson, PhD
-
July 6, 2016
18
1740
The Murphy Bill, HR 2646 — a Heinous Piece of Legislation — is Coming...
Val Marsh, MSW
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July 5, 2016
122
2352
Principled and Loving Support: The Greatest Gift We Can Give
Lauren Spiro
-
July 3, 2016
11
319
A Decade of Searching for the Needle in the Haystack
Chaya Grossberg
-
July 2, 2016
38
389
In the Matter of the Hospitalization of Mark V
Jim Gottstein, JD
-
July 1, 2016
69
434
Consequences of Taking the Yellow Brick Road: Lithium Carbonate 1984-1996
Julie Greene, MFA
-
July 1, 2016
52
1985
Benzos: A Dance With the Devil
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
July 1, 2016
26
14250
Royal College of Psychiatrists Still not Interested in Discussing Important Evidence on Long-term Antipsychotic...
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
June 30, 2016
67
839
“The Overdiagnosis of ADHD”
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
June 28, 2016
68
2816
A CALL TO ACTION: The Murphy Bill Passed the E&C Committee but the Fight Is...
Val Marsh, MSW
-
June 27, 2016
100
627
Reared-Apart Twin Study Mythology: The Latest Contribution (Part Two)
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
June 27, 2016
4
1393
Dear Boston Globe: You Are the Failure You Describe
Sera Davidow
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June 27, 2016
106
1335
My Operation Tomorrow: Mental Health Justice, Speaking Out for Our Rights, and Creative Maladjustment
David W. Oaks
-
June 22, 2016
13
391
Feral Psychiatry: More on the Garth Daniels Case
Niall McLaren
-
June 21, 2016
50
2554
Forced “Treatment” is Torture
Peter Breggin, MD
-
June 19, 2016
140
24938
Important New Book— “Outside Mental Health: Voices and Visions of Madness”
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
June 19, 2016
14
768
Abolishing Forced Treatment in Psychiatry is an Ethical Imperative
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
-
June 17, 2016
255
7782
Pain’s Promise, and the Problem with Pills
James Schroeder, PhD
-
June 15, 2016
12
314
Why Parents Give Amphetamines and Other Risky Psychiatric Drugs to the Children They Love
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
June 14, 2016
73
7052
Rising Rates of Suicide: Are Pills the Problem?
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
June 13, 2016
40
1542
Well-Being Therapy: A Guide to Long-term Recovery
Giovanni Fava
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June 13, 2016
14
720
No, It’s Not Because He Was ‘Mentally Ill’: Why Tragedy Struck in Orlando
Sera Davidow
-
June 13, 2016
187
1108
My Pharmaceutical Reincarnation
Theresa Trevor
-
June 11, 2016
25
3596
Mad Memo #1: Dear Supreme Commander (You!) of Global Nonviolent Revolution!
David W. Oaks
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June 10, 2016
40
399
What Would a Trauma-Informed Society Look Like?
Noel Hunter, PsyD
-
June 6, 2016
88
3247
Eat Breathe Thrive: Chelsea Roff on Eating Disorders, Trauma, and Healing with Yoga and...
Vanessa Krasinski, MSN, RN
-
June 3, 2016
8
1414
Moving Forward in the Science of Psychiatric Medication Discontinuation/Reduction
Laysha Ostrow, PhD
-
June 2, 2016
22
778
Reared-Apart Twin Study Mythology: The Latest Contribution (Part One)
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
June 2, 2016
2
1273
A World That Would Have Us Doubt: Rape, the System, and Swim Fans
Sera Davidow
-
June 2, 2016
99
1128
Nutrition, Sleep, and Mental Health
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
June 1, 2016
34
1937
Effective Tactics for the “Rehumanizing Resistance”: Real Politics 101, Part Two
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
May 31, 2016
148
964
Reclaiming My Voice
Emily Lupsor
-
May 29, 2016
22
878
Please Join Groundbreaking Research on Psychiatric Medications
Will Hall
-
May 27, 2016
25
1176
Stop The War On Chronic Pain Patients
Richard Lawhern, PhD
-
May 26, 2016
167
16657
Prescribing Antidepressants for Girls: Intergenerational Adverse Consequences
Claudia Gold, MD
-
May 25, 2016
9
388
Who Will Guard the Guardians of Psychiatry?
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
May 24, 2016
28
907
Twin Method Assumptions are Indefensible, but are Useful to the Rich and Powerful
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
May 24, 2016
23
1541
The Evidence-Based Mind of Psychiatry on Display
Robert Whitaker
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May 23, 2016
153
6496
A Moment Passed Too Often
Steve Imperato
-
May 22, 2016
9
483
Are They “Symptoms” or “Strategies?”
Ron Unger, LCSW
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May 22, 2016
35
494
A Worldwide Epidemic – The Misuse of Anti-Depressant Medications
David Fox
-
May 20, 2016
35
2443
In Honor of Fear and Pain
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
May 18, 2016
10
1115
Mental Health in Black and White
Twilah Hiari
-
May 16, 2016
29
793
Do We Really Need Mental Health Professionals?
Gary Sidley, PhD
-
May 16, 2016
138
1346
Are Psychiatrists Playing God?
Peter Breggin, MD
-
May 15, 2016
64
4502
The Elusive Emotional Wounds of Omission That Our Culture Inflicts On Us – and...
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
May 15, 2016
57
1659
Daughter of a Psychiatrist
Mariel Chance
-
May 14, 2016
75
4277
Truth and Reconciliation: An Evening of Sharing and Healing
Rachel Levy, LCSW
-
May 14, 2016
8
1049
Consciousness Revealed – Revolutionary Implications for Psychiatry
Robert Berezin, MD
-
May 14, 2016
27
525
Report from the Parliament: Can Psychiatry At Least Be Curious?
Robert Whitaker
-
May 13, 2016
47
1100
Real Politics 101, Part One: “First-Order Psychiatry” vs. the “Rehumanizing Resistance”
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
May 12, 2016
51
858
Reflections on Myth Machines, “Mental Illness,” and the Perils of Good Intentions
Robert Nikkel, MSW
-
May 11, 2016
26
374
Making the Case Against Antidepressants in Parliament
Robert Whitaker
-
May 10, 2016
41
3328
ADHD: The Hoax Unravels
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
May 10, 2016
64
4936
On the Corner of Distress & Poverty: What Happens to Our Minds When There...
Sera Davidow
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May 9, 2016
40
562
Not Seen
Elizabeth Hill
-
May 8, 2016
58
666
The FDA Is Hiding Reports Linking Psych Drugs to Homicides
Andrew Thibault
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May 6, 2016
55
9915
Psychiatry: Worth Keeping If “Slowed Down”?
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
May 6, 2016
171
605
Feral Psychiatry: The Case of Garth Daniels
Niall McLaren
-
May 5, 2016
123
7699
Restoring Study 329: Letter to BMJ
Jon Jureidini, MD
-
May 3, 2016
6
607
An Important Documentary: Letters from Generation Rx
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
May 3, 2016
20
4259
My Time at Bellevue
Vlado C.
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May 1, 2016
24
5139
The Presidential Primary & Forced Outpatient Psych Drugs
David W. Oaks
-
May 1, 2016
30
377
The Anorexia Nervosa Genetics Initiative
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
April 29, 2016
36
606
Why Evidence-based Practices Might not Actually Help People
Corinna West
-
April 29, 2016
18
1384
Mental Health First Aid: Your Friendly Neighborhood Mental Illness Maker
Sera Davidow
-
April 28, 2016
110
7937
Unhelpful Utterances: 6 Comments We Should No Longer Hear From Mental Health Professionals
Gary Sidley, PhD
-
April 26, 2016
65
974
Female Peer Specialists Paid Less than Males, Study Finds
Malia Fontecchio, MSW
-
April 26, 2016
45
308
How Biological Psychiatry Can Harm: A Mother’s View
Claudia Gold, MD
-
April 26, 2016
12
264
A “Hot-Potato” Topic and a “Rational” Book
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
April 25, 2016
28
911
The MD and the Imaginary Eating Disorder
Twilah Hiari
-
April 24, 2016
49
1514
The Psychiatry Sandcastle Continues to Crumble
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
April 22, 2016
46
755
My Response to the FDA’s ECT Rule Change
Christopher James Dubey
-
April 21, 2016
26
1480
Science-Based Service User Input, PLEASE?
Corinna West
-
April 19, 2016
6
976
Dear Self-Proclaimed Progressives, Liberals and Humanitarians: You’ve Really Messed This One Up
Sera Davidow
-
April 18, 2016
264
2781
MIA Continuing Education Moves into its Next Phase
Robert Nikkel, MSW
-
April 18, 2016
4
214
Limits to Medicine: Re-visiting Ivan Illich
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
April 18, 2016
11
1171
My Journey of Recovery
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
April 17, 2016
29
803
Beneath the Fog
Michael Baker
-
April 16, 2016
61
1032
Finding Clarity Through Clutter
Matthew Morris
-
April 15, 2016
13
706
ACES Connection – Or Disease Mongering, Round 2?
Corinna West
-
April 14, 2016
21
1631
Victim Blaming: Childhood Trauma, Mental Illness & Diagnostic Distractions?
Liz Mullinar
&
Matthew Britts
-
April 13, 2016
92
10558
Dismissing the Patriarchal Prescriptions
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
April 9, 2016
36
770
Our Day in Mental Health Court
Serafina B.
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April 8, 2016
49
863
Update: Massachusetts Benzodiazepine Bill Hearing
motto
-
April 7, 2016
11
3142
Study 329: Response to Keller & Colleagues
David Healy, MD
-
April 6, 2016
3
332
Psychiatric Diagnosis is a Fraud: The Destructive and Damaging Fiction of Biological ‘Diseases’
Robert Berezin, MD
-
April 5, 2016
81
26091
Comments by Shock Survivors and Their Loved Ones
Lauren Tenney, PhD, MPhil, MPA, Psychiatric Survivor
-
April 4, 2016
24
46992
Simple Things
Deena Hoblit
-
April 2, 2016
24
513
A New Mental Health System? Interview with Jim van Os
Will Hall
-
March 31, 2016
48
2998
Congress Proposes Research on the Link Between Psychiatric Drugs and Suicide
Chuck Ruby, PhD
-
March 30, 2016
17
1445
The Experiential Democracy Project: A Depth Approach to the Legislative Process
Kirk Schneider, PhD
-
March 29, 2016
3
1026
Call to Action: Massachusetts Benzodiazepine Bill is Going to Committee
motto
-
March 28, 2016
4
414
In Search of an Evidence-based Role for Psychiatry
John Read
,
Olga Runciman, Cand Psych BSc
&
Jacqui Dillon
-
March 28, 2016
93
879
My Shock Survivor Story
Corinna West
-
March 25, 2016
7
448
Doctor O’s Adventures in Wonderland
Opeyemi Parham
-
March 25, 2016
16
1120
Only 72 Hours Left to Say #FDAStopTheShockDevice
Lauren Tenney, PhD, MPhil, MPA, Psychiatric Survivor
-
March 25, 2016
7
676
Trinkets and Lunches and Dollars for Docs Really Do Pay Off
Edward Opton, JD, PhD
-
March 23, 2016
10
498
Do 5 Million Americans Really Have Bipolar Disorder?
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
March 23, 2016
25
4577
Allen Frances on Anti-Psychiatry
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
March 23, 2016
54
975
Bridging the Benzo Divide: Iatrogenic Dependence and/or Addiction?
Richard D. Lewis
-
March 21, 2016
183
3199
Public Engagement Fail: Creating Community Solutions
Corinna West
-
March 21, 2016
2
518
Comments on Jeffrey Lieberman and Ogi Ogas’ Wall Street Journal Article on the Genetics...
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
March 21, 2016
71
1400
Medical Science Argues Against Forced Treatment Too
Robert Whitaker
-
March 19, 2016
25
1674
“All for the Best of the Patient”
Dorrit Cato Christensen
-
March 18, 2016
46
1211
Call To Action: Massachusetts Bill H4062 for Informed Benzodiazepine Use is Official
motto
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March 18, 2016
15
869
Dr. Pies and Dr. Frances Make a Compelling Case that Their Profession is Doing...
Robert Whitaker
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March 17, 2016
102
966
Life, Unarmed
Matthew Purinton, LCSW
-
March 17, 2016
14
490
Love is Dialogical: The Open Dialogue UK International Conference and Training
Kermit Cole
-
March 15, 2016
36
2215
TV Drug Ads, Abilify & Big Pharma Mobsters
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
March 14, 2016
23
853
Myths are Used to Justify Depriving People Diagnosed as Mentally Ill of Their Human...
Paula J. Caplan, PhD
-
March 14, 2016
47
1430
How Coalition or Community Engagement Work Damages Advocates
Corinna West
-
March 13, 2016
12
519
Getting Back to Dialogue – The Core of Healing!
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
March 13, 2016
10
216
Regarding the Impossibility of Recovery
Carrie Foulkes
-
March 11, 2016
29
1356
Has the FDA Abandoned Its Off-Label Promotion Ban?
Jim Gottstein, JD
-
March 10, 2016
7
316
Bipolarized and Crimes Against Nature
Rachel Levy, LCSW
-
March 8, 2016
39
1291
The Drug-Free Solution to Ending Depression
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
March 7, 2016
49
769
The Future of Mental Health Interview Series: Marilyn Wedge on Reclaiming Childhood
Eric Maisel, PhD
-
March 7, 2016
2
293
Psychiatry Bashing
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
March 7, 2016
62
1840
Appealing to our Elected Representatives
John Read
-
March 7, 2016
37
608
“Bewitching Science” Revisited: Tales of Reunited Twins and the Genetics of Behavior
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
March 6, 2016
9
2640
Schizophrenia in the Golden Ass
Michael Fontaine, PhD
-
March 6, 2016
13
1235
Advice on Coping With Voices
Luisa Castagnaro, MA
-
March 4, 2016
16
779
To the Heart of the Matter, Part III: The Critical Nature of Authenticity and...
James Schroeder, PhD
-
March 4, 2016
22
180
A Conversation about Having Conversations about Psychiatry
Amber Gum, PhD
&
Mariaelena Bartesaghi, PhD
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March 2, 2016
151
648
New Research into Antipsychotic Discontinuation And Reduction: the RADAR programme
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
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March 2, 2016
30
1309
The Mental Health Tribunal
John Read
-
March 1, 2016
11
509
Smash the Biological Anxiety Myth: Say ‘No’ to Benzodiazepines
Robert Berezin, MD
-
March 1, 2016
31
1259
Organized Denial: Psychiatry’s Quiet Desperation
Stuart Shipko
-
March 1, 2016
18
1549
Future of Mental Health Series: Oryx Cohen on his film “Healing Voices”
Eric Maisel, PhD
-
February 29, 2016
0
197
Testifying in Vermont: Forced Drugs
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
February 28, 2016
125
1371
Short Notes from a Muddled Island (with apologies to Bill Bryson)
Hugh Middleton, MD
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February 28, 2016
1
158
In Case You Missed This
Ally Nugent
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February 27, 2016
69
469
Call to Action: Support a Bill for Informed Benzodiazepine Use
motto
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February 26, 2016
11
771
Foxes Guarding the Henhouse: the Role of the Chief Psychiatrist
John Read
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February 26, 2016
17
701
Promoting Mental Health: Supporting Early Relationships Does Not Mean Blaming Parents
Claudia Gold, MD
-
February 25, 2016
7
166
Troubling Mental Health Nurse Education
Alec Grant, PhD
-
February 23, 2016
30
724
Einstein, Social Justice and The New Relativity
Sarah Knutson
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February 23, 2016
15
1194
The Future of Mental Health Interview Series: Eleanor Longden
Eric Maisel, PhD
-
February 22, 2016
3
938
Open Letter about BBC Coverage of Mental Health
Anne Cooke
,
Peter Kinderman
&
Rai Waddingham
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February 21, 2016
34
960
All in the Brain? An Open Letter Re: Stephen Fry’s Assumptions About Mental Illness
Richard Bentall, PhD
-
February 20, 2016
50
2760
Recovery: Compromise or Liberation?
Jay Watts, DClinPsy
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February 20, 2016
43
4990
The Curious Case of over 50 Consecutive ECTs in Melbourne
John Read
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February 19, 2016
30
1836
40 Days to Tell the #FDAStoptheShockDevice
Lauren Tenney, PhD, MPhil, MPA, Psychiatric Survivor
-
February 17, 2016
6
692
Depressed, Anxious, or Substance-Abusing? But Don’t Buy You Are “Defective”?
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
February 17, 2016
17
693
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
721
Exploiting The Placebo Effect: Deceiving People For Their Own Good?
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
February 16, 2016
23
325
Future of Mental Health Interview Series: Interview with Joanna Moncrieff on The Myth of...
Eric Maisel, PhD
-
February 15, 2016
15
303
Doing It Alone Together: Core Issues In Dutch Self-Managed Residential Programs
Max Huber
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February 15, 2016
2
569
Rethinking Public Safety – The Case for 100% Voluntary
Sarah Knutson
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February 15, 2016
27
830
Supporting Resources: “The Case for 100% Voluntary”
Sarah Knutson
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February 15, 2016
1
481
Feeling Good with Narcotics Now “Evidence” of Opioid Deficiency: The Chemical Imbalance Theory of...
Vivek Datta, MD, MPH
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February 15, 2016
29
2068
Lost & Found: Drowning The Mermaid, and Our Collective Power
Sera Davidow
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February 14, 2016
55
250
Bloodtime
Jyl Anais
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February 12, 2016
17
527
Gender Wage Gap and Depression/Anxiety
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
February 12, 2016
24
607
Belief Systems, Nuance, and Productive Advocacy Ideas
Corinna West
-
February 11, 2016
12
438
Dr.s Leo & Lacasse Respond to Dr. Pies’ Response
Jonathan Leo, PhD / Jeffrey Lacasse, PhD
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February 11, 2016
6
674
Baby Blues, Postpartum Depression & Psychosis: Countering the Danger of Antidepressants
Robert Berezin, MD
-
February 10, 2016
22
605
The Social Consequences of a Diagnosis on the Autism Spectrum
Lois Holzman, PhD
-
February 9, 2016
21
477
Allen Frances Seeks the “Middle Way”
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
February 9, 2016
44
267
The Future of Mental Health Interview Series, Part III
Eric Maisel, PhD
-
February 8, 2016
3
186
Insight Forty Years Later: A Dream of Progress
Mary Maddock
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February 7, 2016
41
356
“Is It Her Hormones?” A Case of Psychiatry Missing the Mark
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
February 6, 2016
8
694
“Schizophrenia Breakthrough” – Or a Case of Ignoring the Most Important Evidence?
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
February 6, 2016
19
787
On Soul Loss and Mental Health Services at Yale
Naas Siddiqui, BA, CPS, MA
-
February 6, 2016
31
758
And Now for Something Completely the Same: The Latest, Greatest Breakthrough in Understanding the...
Dan Kriegman, PhD
-
February 6, 2016
18
912
We Need Your Help!
Robert Whitaker
-
February 4, 2016
40
436
A New York Times Debate: Is the ADHD Diagnosis Helpful or Harmful?
Marilyn Wedge, PhD
-
February 4, 2016
6
361
The CHRUSP Call to Action, and Its Significance
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
February 4, 2016
20
613
Breaking News! The Cause of Schizophrenia Finally Discovered!(?)
Noel Hunter, PsyD
-
February 3, 2016
38
8316
Hello World! An American Nut Challenges Trump About Status of “Bull Goose Loony.” We...
David W. Oaks
-
February 1, 2016
11
332
Further Evidence of the Adverse Effects of Antidepressants, and Why These Have Taken so...
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
February 1, 2016
30
1133
Inflammation and Psychosis
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
February 1, 2016
29
2660
The Future of Mental Health Interview Series, Part II
Eric Maisel, PhD
-
February 1, 2016
1
182
The Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health: Finding Our Way in a World of...
Yana Jacobs
-
January 30, 2016
9
204
Why Screening Everyone for Depression is a Terrible Idea
Vivek Datta, MD, MPH
-
January 29, 2016
58
1597
Support CRPD Absolute Prohibition of Commitment and Forced Treatment
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
January 29, 2016
19
730
Postpartum Depression Screening: Prevention or Problem?
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
January 28, 2016
15
288
Rethinking Psychiatry Teaches about Despair, Resilience, and the Great Turning
Rachel Levy, LCSW
-
January 28, 2016
25
585
What Disability Benefit Trends Tell Us About Psychiatric Treatments and the Economy
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
January 28, 2016
27
755
Me, Allen Frances, and Climbing Out of a Pigeonhole
Robert Whitaker
-
January 27, 2016
121
2236
My Diagnosis of ADHD and the Downfall That Followed
Renee M.
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January 26, 2016
14
17670
Anxiety: The Price We Pay for Consciousness
Brian Koehler, PhD
-
January 26, 2016
11
1710
The Genetics of Schizophrenia: A Left Brain Theory about a Right Brain Deficit in...
Sharna Olfman, PhD
-
January 25, 2016
20
4877
The Future of Mental Health Interview Series
Eric Maisel, PhD
-
January 25, 2016
7
285
Suicidal Tendencies, Part I: I’m Suicidal Because I’m Mentally Ill Because I’m Suicidal
Sera Davidow
-
January 24, 2016
97
4609
At the Intersection Between Black Pride and Mad Pride
Justin Brown
-
January 24, 2016
55
1032
How I’ve Found Nonviolent Communication Helpful, Part 2; In the Mental Health System
Rufus May
-
January 24, 2016
25
822
Madness and the Family: What Helps, and What Makes Things Worse?
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
January 21, 2016
45
437
Are “Psychiatric Disorders” Brain Diseases?
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
January 19, 2016
41
1209
Schizophrenia and Genetics: A Closer Look at the Evidence
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
January 18, 2016
27
7852
We Need to be Studying the Mind, Not the Brain
Al Galves, PhD
-
January 16, 2016
34
3337
Middle School Invasion: When the Pharmaceutical Companies Come to Town
Sera Davidow
-
January 16, 2016
46
874
Launching Our Peer Respite Initiative
Laysha Ostrow, PhD
-
January 15, 2016
0
341
Smashing the Neurotransmitter Myth: How & Why Antidepressants Cause Suicides & Mass Murders
Robert Berezin, MD
-
January 15, 2016
74
1152
Challenging the Ongoing ICD 10 Revision: How You Can Help
Akiko Hart
-
January 14, 2016
4
324
Duty to Warn – 14 Lies That Our Psychiatry Professors in Medical School Taught...
Gary Kohls, MD
-
January 14, 2016
79
11791
How the “Relational Perspective Paradigm” Informs Justice-Oriented Clinical Practice
Norbert A. Wetzel, ThD, MFT
-
January 14, 2016
4
1159
Delay of Diagnosis: The Placebo Effect of Behavioral Diagnosis
Patrick Landman, MD
-
January 13, 2016
22
410
How I’ve Found Nonviolent Communication Helpful
Rufus May
-
January 11, 2016
7
554
If a Tree Falls in the Forest
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
January 11, 2016
82
583
The Gauntlet of Protracted Benzodiazepine Withdrawal
Robert Pfaff
-
January 10, 2016
95
20258
False Arguments, Part 3: Why Do People Hear Voices? (And Why Do We Need...
Sera Davidow
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January 10, 2016
31
2034
When a Book is Like a Person: Lessons from Book Repair
Rev. Dr. Steven Epperson
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January 10, 2016
7
2490
Reflections on How We Think About and Respond to Human Suffering, Existential Pain, and...
Norbert A. Wetzel, ThD, MFT
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January 8, 2016
19
878
Privilege, the Construction of Sanity and Answering the Afiya Phone Line
Afiya Respite House
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January 7, 2016
2
236
President Obama Links Mental Health Conditions and Gun Violence! He Needs to Hear from...
Susan Rogers
-
January 6, 2016
28
790
The FDA Wants to Approve ECT Without Testing
Peter Breggin, MD
-
January 6, 2016
52
1493
Becoming a Hearing Voices Facilitator
David Lawrence
-
January 5, 2016
0
871
Serotonin Is Still Alive and Well in Psychiatry Land
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
January 5, 2016
7
401
Setting the Record Straight: The Psychiatric Legacy of Robert Spitzer
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
January 5, 2016
34
1045
A New Year’s Letter to Our Readers: The Past, Present, and Future of MIA
Robert Whitaker
-
January 4, 2016
31
301
Is an Ominous New Era of Diagnosing Psychosis by Biotype on the Horizon?
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
January 4, 2016
62
756
Psychiatry and Crime
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
January 4, 2016
35
2507
To the Heart of the Matter, Part II: Perceptions of Public and Personal Stigma
James Schroeder, PhD
-
December 31, 2015
107
239
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
2340
Timberrr! Psychiatry’s Evidence Base For Antipsychotics Comes Crashing to the Ground
Robert Whitaker
-
December 29, 2015
52
5012
Madness and the Family, Part III: Practical Methods for Transforming Troubled Family Systems
Paris Williams, PhD
-
December 28, 2015
24
2699
My Desperate Yet Demoralizing Plight to Get My Son a Diagnosis for Christmas
Sera Davidow
-
December 27, 2015
24
338
Deafening Silence: What Happens When the Whistle Blows and Nobody Hears?
Richard D. Lewis
-
December 27, 2015
64
1112
Human Rights Updates
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
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December 27, 2015
22
1503
Strange Gifts and the Search for Santa Claus
Heather Duke
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December 25, 2015
5
509
Culturally Numb
Deron Drumm
-
December 22, 2015
18
485
Antidepressants, Pregnancy, and Autism: Why Wouldn’t Antidepressant Chemicals Affect a Developing Baby’s Brain?
Adam Urato, MD
-
December 22, 2015
28
801
Madness and the Family (Part Two): Towards a Unified Theory of Family Dynamics and...
Paris Williams, PhD
-
December 20, 2015
47
1479
Book Review: The Importance of Suffering
Redmond O'Hanlon, DPhil
-
December 20, 2015
7
1671
Enough is Enough Series: 2-Year-olds on Anti-psychotics and Biological Markers for Psychosis
Robert Berezin, MD
-
December 18, 2015
42
349
Healing Voices Documentary Review in the Huffington Post
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
December 17, 2015
30
1149
Book Review: “Overmedicated and Undertreated”
Edward Opton, JD, PhD
-
December 16, 2015
7
890
Antidepressants & The Undead
David Healy, MD
-
December 15, 2015
55
707
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
898
Madness and the Family (Part One): The History and Research of Family Dynamics and...
Paris Williams, PhD
-
December 13, 2015
112
4093
Support for SB 614 with Amendment to Supervision Qualifications
Malia Fontecchio, MSW
-
December 10, 2015
22
251
The Deeper Genome: New Research Findings in Genomics and Epigenomics
Brian Koehler, PhD
-
December 9, 2015
16
768
Murphy’s Legislation Threatens Civil Rights of the “Mentally Ill”
Jim Probert
-
December 9, 2015
10
204
Please Respond to the New York Times: “What Should Be Done to Prevent Mass...
Susan Rogers
-
December 8, 2015
60
220
Is Motivation Worth More Than Expertise?
David Healy, MD
-
December 8, 2015
6
395
More on Neuroessentialism: Theoretical and Clinical Considerations
William Schultz
-
December 7, 2015
17
549
Ernst Rüdin’s Unpublished Family Study of “Manic-Depressive Insanity” and the Genetics of Bipolar Disorder
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
December 7, 2015
9
721
Mad Love
Jennifer Maria Padron
-
December 7, 2015
2
261
Your Weight is Forbidden Fruit
Julie Greene, MFA
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December 6, 2015
16
535
Shut Up and Put Up: A Military Culture of Retaliation – Including Diagnosis – When...
Elayne Clift
-
December 6, 2015
10
367
For Me, Self-Love Requires Both Mercy and Defiance
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
December 6, 2015
28
1636
The Modern Day Witch-hunt
Noel Hunter, PsyD
-
December 5, 2015
27
47143
Why I Have (Mostly) Given Up on Diagnosis
Randy Paterson, PhD, RPsych
-
December 4, 2015
10
348
The Ghost of Research Future
Johanna Ryan
-
December 3, 2015
13
488
Needle In a Haystack: Identifying the Next School Shooter Before He Shoots
Jack Carney, DSW
-
November 30, 2015
65
498
My Response to Dr. Pies’ Response
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
November 30, 2015
13
484
Rep. Tim Murphy May Be in Violation of Professional Psychological Ethics & the Law
Jasenn Zaejian, PhD
-
November 29, 2015
20
1029
The Mental Health Channel & Beyond: What Does it Really Mean to Present a...
Sera Davidow
-
November 27, 2015
95
380
Think About Mental Health Wellness for Your End-of-year Donations
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
November 25, 2015
5
379
Where’s the Outrage?
Pat Risser
-
November 25, 2015
82
797
Psychiatry’s Last Tango? — A Response to Bonnie Burstow
Redmond O'Hanlon, DPhil
-
November 24, 2015
33
775
Electroshocking Veterans and Their Fetuses
Lauren Tenney, PhD, MPhil, MPA, Psychiatric Survivor
-
November 24, 2015
32
2262
Sanity, Friendship, Community
Michael Guy Thompson
-
November 22, 2015
13
394
Hypermodern Hyperactives
Patrick Landman, MD
-
November 21, 2015
4
339
Don’t Harm Them Twice (Part II): What Can Be Done?
J. Doe
-
November 20, 2015
68
1256
MIA Continuing Education: An Update
Robert Nikkel, MSW
-
November 20, 2015
5
190
Stranger Than Kindness
Mark Radcliffe, PhD, RMN
-
November 19, 2015
9
326
Crisis is (un)Learning
Sera Davidow
-
November 18, 2015
15
730
Appendix A: Section IX of United States of America vs. GlaxoSmithKline, PLC: GSK’S...
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
November 18, 2015
1
489
“Let Food Be Thy Medicine” — So Let’s Teach Physicians How to Cook!
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
November 17, 2015
6
966
My Response To Dr. Pies
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
November 17, 2015
56
1158
Study 329: Big Risk
David Healy, MD
-
November 16, 2015
5
320
Beyond ADHD: Moving Past the DSM Paradigm of Mental Illness
Claudia Gold, MD
-
November 16, 2015
6
563
Study 329: Psychiatry’s Thalidomide Moment, Part 2
Redmond O'Hanlon, DPhil
-
November 16, 2015
2
379
A Mental Patient’s View of the Body
Issa Ibrahim
-
November 15, 2015
10
903
We Are Failing Our Kids: A Few Remedies
Tabita Green
-
November 14, 2015
15
372
RAISE-ing Some Questions
Wayne Munchel
-
November 13, 2015
22
490
Don’t Harm Them Twice: When the Language Surrounding Benzodiazepines Adds Insult to Injury (Part...
J. Doe
-
November 12, 2015
47
4605
The Revolution in Psychotherapy
David Elkins, PhD
-
November 12, 2015
11
807
“Murphy Bill” Continues to Exclude Voices of Millions with Mental Health Conditions as It...
National Coalition for Mental Health Recovery
-
November 12, 2015
28
503
Prescription Privileges for Psychologists, Part II: Is Our Consent Fully Informed?
James Schroeder, PhD
-
November 12, 2015
10
752
Medication Mechanization: Microchip Sensors in Abilify to Increase Medication Compliance
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
November 10, 2015
89
5361
CU President Raises Mental Health “Awareness” in Defiance of Mental Health Facts
Corinna West
-
November 10, 2015
8
229
The Art of Mourning
Jennifer Maria Padron
-
November 9, 2015
5
210
Dear Man: Sexism, Misogyny, & Our ‘Movement’
Sera Davidow
-
November 8, 2015
201
1291
Sound Heals the Wild Beast
Jennifer Maria Padron
-
November 6, 2015
0
246
Suffering: Who Needs It?
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
November 6, 2015
11
299
Study 329: Transparency in Limbo at the British Medical Journal
David Healy, MD
-
November 6, 2015
3
444
Saving Congressman Murphy from Fraudulent Information
Dennis Embry, PhD
-
November 6, 2015
20
228
Losing Our Minds to ‘Science’: Treatment Survivors Speak Out Against the Murphy Bill (H.R....
Sarah Knutson
-
November 5, 2015
109
762
Danger Ahead if HR 2646 (the “Murphy Bill”) Passes!
Susan Rogers
-
November 4, 2015
18
545
The Recovery After an Initial Schizophrenia Episode (RAISE) Study: Notes from the Trenches
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
November 4, 2015
43
1333
Why Mainstream Psychiatry Fears a Balanced Understanding of Psychosis
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
November 3, 2015
27
831
A Square Peg in a Round Hole: The Construction of Depression as a Disease
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
November 2, 2015
36
597
Twin Studies are Still in Trouble: A Response to Turkheimer
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
November 2, 2015
5
3647
The Making of Codex Alternus: What We Can Learn About Research on Non-Traditional Psychiatric...
Dion Zessin
-
November 1, 2015
11
840
World Health Organization Publishes Blog About My 40 Years in The Mad Movement
David W. Oaks
-
October 31, 2015
57
274
Transmuting Historical Trauma
Naas Siddiqui, BA, CPS, MA
-
October 30, 2015
20
1504
Diagnosisgate: A Major Media Blackout Mystery
Paula J. Caplan, PhD
-
October 30, 2015
34
4946
‘I’d Rather Die Than Go Back to Hospital’: Why We Need a Non-medical Crisis...
Anne Cooke
-
October 28, 2015
22
7321
Study 329: 50 Shades of Gray
David Healy, MD
-
October 28, 2015
3
263
A Tribute to Bonnie Nelson
Nancy Rubenstein del Giudice
-
October 28, 2015
6
948
Mad Economy: Let’s Change the World!
Karen Taylor, RMN
-
October 23, 2015
18
418
The Alternative to Drugs: The Real Treatment for Human Suffering
Robert Berezin, MD
-
October 23, 2015
104
551
Dr. Pies and Psychiatry’s ‘Solid Center’
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
October 22, 2015
25
1408
Slow Psychiatry: Integrating Need-Adapted Approaches with Drug-Centered Pharmacology
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
October 19, 2015
86
1160
Ernst Rüdin: The Founding Father of Psychiatric Genetics
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
October 19, 2015
6
6290
“My Ego Strength is Too Developed for Me to Ever Become Psychotic!”
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
October 18, 2015
61
2175
Study 329: Conflicts of Interest
David Healy, MD
-
October 18, 2015
3
322
Antipsychotics Withdrawal, Part 3
Corinna West
-
October 17, 2015
29
5004
Suicide Tsunami
Sheralyn Rose, PhD
-
October 17, 2015
10
340
Keeping Meili Off Psychiatric Drugs
Stephen Shenfield
-
October 16, 2015
17
572
The UK National Health Service Peer-Supported Open Dialogue Project
Tom Stockmann, MD
-
October 15, 2015
20
1333
Destination, Dignity: Creating the Future We Want
Iden Campbell, CPRP
-
October 15, 2015
45
207
Study 329 in Japan
David Healy, MD
-
October 14, 2015
0
0
Siddhartha, 1984, the Murphy Bill, and More
Cindi Fisher
-
October 13, 2015
22
501
On the Link Between Psychiatric Drugs and Violence
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
October 13, 2015
36
1242
A Harm Reduction Approach to the Mental Health System
Noel Hunter, PsyD
-
October 12, 2015
28
2276
On the Tyranny of Good Will: Why We Call Ourselves Psychiatric Survivors
Mary Maddock
-
October 12, 2015
18
1234
Race, Gun Violence & Mental Health: #BlackLivesMatter
David W. Oaks
-
October 10, 2015
26
1094
Human Beings Are More Than a Combination of Letters, or; Why We Needed a...
Carina Håkansson, PhD
-
October 10, 2015
3
256
Being Myself
Iden Campbell, CPRP
-
October 9, 2015
10
2118
Top Psychiatrist’s Stunning Announcement About Gun Violence
Paula J. Caplan, PhD
-
October 9, 2015
76
3338
Videos from the 2014 “Transforming Mad Science and Re-Imagining Mental Health Care” ISEPP/UCLA Conference
David Cohen
-
October 9, 2015
26
581
Integration of Physical and Mental Health
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
October 9, 2015
25
269
Study 329: By the Standards of the Time
Johanna Ryan
-
October 8, 2015
19
433
A Confession, and a Dilemma
Tracey Libby
-
October 7, 2015
24
205
ADHD: More of It, Better Diagnosis, or Both?
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
October 7, 2015
14
372
A Reflective Checklist to Reduce Psychotropic Drugs for Vulnerable Children
Dave Traxson
-
October 7, 2015
9
538
Breaking News About the Oregon Shooter
Peter Breggin, MD
-
October 5, 2015
93
2556
Benzodiazepines: Psychiatry’s Weakest Link
Richard D. Lewis
-
October 5, 2015
38
3232
Is There Risk in Screening for Mental Health Disorders?
Claudia Gold, MD
-
October 5, 2015
27
385
The New York Times Celebrates Twin Research Yet Again
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
October 5, 2015
9
862
Psychiatry and the Pressure to Prescribe
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
October 5, 2015
19
738
Passage
Elizabeth Hill
-
October 3, 2015
53
675
Co-Optation, Failed Analogies, and ‘How to Touch a Hot Stove’
Sera Davidow
-
October 3, 2015
246
820
Why Did 158+ People Attend an Antipsychiatry Book Launch? (A Reflection)
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
October 3, 2015
15
441
Study 329: Minions no Longer
David Healy, MD
-
October 2, 2015
5
256
A Liberation Journey with Images
Lauren Spiro
-
October 2, 2015
20
496
“Mental Disorders in the Classical World” (A Review)
Michael Fontaine, PhD
-
October 2, 2015
14
1745
Hey; Don’t Just Shoot the Messenger!
Hugh Middleton, MD
-
October 1, 2015
26
678
Life Events Cause Psychosis: The Further Adventures of an Aspiring Psychonaut
Corinna West
-
October 1, 2015
9
473
Should Consumer/Survivors Help Psychiatrists Become Better Psychiatrists?
Lucy Costa
-
September 29, 2015
41
814
10 of the Worst Political Abuses of the Psychiatric and Psychological Professions in American...
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
September 29, 2015
47
1613
Study 329: The Data Wars Cross the Rubicon
David Healy, MD
-
September 28, 2015
9
322
Terry Lynch: The Doctor Who Stands for Truth
Jim Maddock
&
Mary Maddock
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September 25, 2015
20
1634
You, Your Kids, or the Doctor… Who’s Running the Show?
Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
-
September 25, 2015
5
391
The APA’s New Image
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
September 25, 2015
42
636
New Video and Campaign Calls for REAL Change in Mental Health Policy
Campaign for Real Change in Mental Health Policy
-
September 24, 2015
18
286
What is #toppmote2015 and Why Does it Matter?
Peter Kinderman
-
September 24, 2015
2
372
Involuntary Hospitalization: What’s Love Got to do With it?
Noel Hunter, PsyD
-
September 23, 2015
36
1873
What Happened to those Who Were Suicidal in Study 329? And to the Learned...
David Healy, MD
-
September 21, 2015
2
283
Ronald Pies Doubles Down (And Why We Should Care)
Robert Whitaker
-
September 21, 2015
119
2581
Love, Liberty, and Psychiatric Hospitalization
Norman Hoffman, MD
-
September 20, 2015
69
369
Psychiatry: The Hoax Exposed
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
September 20, 2015
57
1283
Hello World! 5 Reasons We Must Say ‘No’ to Normality & Psychiatry
David W. Oaks
-
September 19, 2015
5
392
Yesterday I Looked Forward to Taking Psych Drugs
Corinna West
-
September 19, 2015
14
532
The Questions Are Not the Problem
Tim Carey, PhD
-
September 19, 2015
7
260
Psychiatry & Organized Crime
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
September 18, 2015
24
937
Study 329: MK, HK, SK and GSK
David Healy, MD
-
September 18, 2015
3
184
When There’s No Place Like Home….
motto
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September 18, 2015
118
296
Trauma Outpaces our Ability to Adapt: It is the Source of Our Suffering
Robert Berezin, MD
-
September 17, 2015
22
702
On Making Non Sense
Kit Riley
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September 17, 2015
21
633
Psychiatry’s Thalidomide Moment
Redmond O'Hanlon, DPhil
-
September 16, 2015
11
777
Benzo Drugs, UK Fudge, Cover Up and Consequences
Barry Haslam
-
September 16, 2015
13
720
Say What? Understanding That What We Say—and How We Say It—Changes Lives
James Schroeder, PhD
-
September 16, 2015
28
323
The Inherent Unreliability of the ADHD Label
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
September 15, 2015
91
535
Can Probiotics be Used for the Treatment of Mental Health Problems?
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
&
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
-
September 15, 2015
16
3159
The Use of Antipsychotic Medications in Children
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
September 14, 2015
30
2723
The Troubled Life of Study 329: Consequences of Failure to Retract
David Healy, MD
-
September 9, 2015
13
720
The Fourth and Fifth Laws of Behavioral Genetics
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
September 8, 2015
12
2579
Mental Health: Misnomer & Metaphor
Jack Carney, DSW
-
September 8, 2015
35
1112
Enhanced Interrogation: Is It Psychology’s Only Scandal? by Lois Holzman
Lois Holzman, PhD
-
September 5, 2015
0
371
A Not-So-Charmed Life
Redmond O'Hanlon, DPhil
-
September 5, 2015
30
4454
Stigmatization of Psychiatry and Psychiatrists: Some Remedial Suggestions
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
September 5, 2015
73
859
From Self-Harm to Self-Empowerment: Liberation Through Words
Jeanene Harlick
-
September 3, 2015
46
1245
Yes, the Tide is Turning Against Psychiatry
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
September 3, 2015
128
2115
Do NAMI and MHA Suffer From Anosognosia?
Sera Davidow
-
September 2, 2015
105
2660
Study 329: The Timelines
David Healy, MD
-
September 2, 2015
6
230
Destination, Dignity: Focus on a Broken Criminal Justice System
Susan Rogers
-
September 2, 2015
6
423
Meta-Autonomy & Meta-Equality
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
September 2, 2015
3
760
Hiding the Evidence of Society’s Side Effects
motto
-
September 1, 2015
8
304
Shooting the Odds, Part III
Stuart Shipko
-
September 1, 2015
22
2789
House of Cards: Bad Science Creates False and Dangerous Beliefs
Robert Berezin, MD
-
September 1, 2015
9
405
Book Review: Depression Delusion by Terry Lynch, MD, MA
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
August 31, 2015
60
1287
Study329.org: The Panorama Files
David Healy, MD
-
August 27, 2015
22
211
Cannabis for Treating Psychiatric Problems? A Clear Yes, Maybe.
Will Hall
-
August 27, 2015
76
5894
What if ACEs (Adverse Childhood Events) Were the Basis of Mental Health Treatment?
Wayne Munchel
-
August 26, 2015
83
1740
New Documentary, “Creatively Maladjusted”: Diagnosed-Psychotic Quad Activist Goes Global Revolutionary!
David W. Oaks
-
August 26, 2015
5
445
Incarcerated, “Delusional,” and Sentenced to Abuse
motto
-
August 25, 2015
22
711
How Following the Trail of “Cutting Edge” and “Convenient” Can Distort Reality
James Schroeder, PhD
-
August 24, 2015
33
476
A Network Meeting in North America
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
August 24, 2015
18
298
Compassion and the Voice of the Tormentor
Timothy N.
-
August 21, 2015
20
563
A Response to the Hyper-focus on Brain-based Research and “Disease”
Noel Hunter, PsyD
&
William Schultz
-
August 20, 2015
36
713
Delusions
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
August 20, 2015
43
930
Is Mandatory Trial Registration Decontaminating the Psychiatric Literature?
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
August 19, 2015
9
1016
A Milestone in the Battle for Truth in Drug Safety: Study 329’s Final Chapter...
David Healy, MD
-
August 18, 2015
18
246
A Debate on Twin Research Has Broken Out in American Criminology
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
August 18, 2015
5
972
Flibanserin: The Female Viagra is a Failed Me-too Antidepressant
Emily Wheeler
-
August 17, 2015
39
6005
My Father-in-law on Risperdal — A Case Study Gets Personal
Steve McCrea
-
August 16, 2015
34
3243
The Murphys Have Their Way With Words
Sera Davidow
-
August 15, 2015
30
539
The Boy in the Closet — How I Lost my Best Friend to a...
motto
-
August 15, 2015
25
398
My Successful Campaign for Dedicated Benzo Withdrawal Services
Barry Haslam
-
August 15, 2015
20
839
Psychiatry’s “Institutional Corruption”—A Chat with Robert Whitaker and Lisa Cosgrove
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
August 12, 2015
106
1894
On Relaxing Off-Label Meds: Do the Opposite. Especially for Children. Especially Antipsychotics
Steven Francesco
-
August 12, 2015
15
516
Senate Bill 1945: The New Fraud – Getting into the “Mental Health Reform Act...
Lauren Tenney, PhD, MPhil, MPA, Psychiatric Survivor
-
August 11, 2015
13
829
#1 Wacko Memo: Disability & Mental Health Revolution to Stop Global Warming!
David W. Oaks
-
August 11, 2015
28
478
What Do We Owe When a Shock Survivor Dies? – On the Death of...
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
August 11, 2015
16
1501
Do We Need to Medicate More Children? – A Response to Calls to Remove...
Dan Kriegman, PhD
-
August 10, 2015
14
1069
Binge Eating and Genetics
William Schultz
-
August 10, 2015
13
463
Why was James Holmes, the Movie Theater Killer, Spared the Death Penalty?
Robert Berezin, MD
-
August 9, 2015
41
690
Healing is a Shocking Process: Protracted Psych Drug Withdrawal Syndrome (Iatrogenic Brain Injury)
Monica Cassani
-
August 8, 2015
38
6172
Thoughts on the Nature of Emotions
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
August 7, 2015
10
348
The Ubiquity of Unhappiness: An Introduction to Cultural Psychiatry
Jeremy Wallace, MD
-
August 7, 2015
11
559
“Knowing Together” vs. “Knowing Apart”: The Importance of Extending Our Network
Carina Håkansson, PhD
-
August 5, 2015
27
334
Impoverished Youth; Our Neighbors in Distress, and at Risk
motto
-
August 5, 2015
7
577
Lost in Medication
David Healy, MD
-
August 4, 2015
18
325
Intermittent Explosive Disorder: The ‘Illness’ That Goes On Growing
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
August 4, 2015
76
63180
Should Physicians Read Journals? Given Current Standards, Maybe Not
Randy Paterson, PhD, RPsych
-
July 29, 2015
27
335
Lithium and Suicide: What Does the Evidence Show?
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
July 27, 2015
23
12437
Stimulate Your Vagus Nerve and Thus Chill Out: Simple, Natural, Uninvasive Methods
Monica Cassani
-
July 27, 2015
7
1808
#ADA25 Birthday, Mental Health, Justin Dart and My Crazy Hashtags
David W. Oaks
-
July 26, 2015
6
284
Five Strikes Against Assisted Outpatient Treatment Laws
motto
-
July 25, 2015
29
1100
Revised UN Prison Rules
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
July 24, 2015
4
595
ADHD: A Destructive and Disempowering Label; Not an Illness
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
July 24, 2015
21
1717
Survey on Emotional Distress and Mental Health Diagnosis: An International Campaign to Include “Regular...
Lois Holzman, PhD
-
July 22, 2015
14
597
Teen Bipolar Disorder and the Abnormal Brain: Making Sense of New Research
Claudia Gold, MD
-
July 21, 2015
32
675
Why the DSM Differential Diagnosis is So Disappointing
James Schroeder, PhD
-
July 21, 2015
24
812
Gut Microbiota & Mental Health
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
July 20, 2015
25
1294
The Sweet Spot Between Ignorance and Certainty: A Place Where Dialogue and Healing...
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
July 19, 2015
12
418
One Family’s Encounter with Modern Psychiatry and a Call for Social Change
Tabita Green
-
July 17, 2015
113
1573
Benzodiazepines: Miracle Drugs?
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
July 16, 2015
94
1778
Rx Resilience: Cultivating the Ability to Bounce Back
Jennifer Bahr, ND
-
July 15, 2015
7
769
The Lonely Way: Reflections from a Young Psychologist
Victor Morasse
-
July 15, 2015
59
1640
The Disease Loop – Mental Health Infographics
Corinna West
-
July 13, 2015
5
2057
Dialogues as a Way of Transforming Consciousness: Results from Three Teleconference Dialogues of Discovery...
Lauren Spiro
-
July 12, 2015
4
441
Always a Mystery: Why do Drugs Come and Go?
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
July 8, 2015
91
491
Women, ECT, and Memory
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
July 7, 2015
28
1642
Tearing Apart the DSM-5 in Social Work Class
Sascha Altman DuBrul
-
July 6, 2015
29
2959
For a Well Mind, Try Revolution? Creative Maladjustment Week 2015
David W. Oaks
-
July 6, 2015
1
284
Psychiatric Drugs are False Prophets with Big Profits. Psychiatry Has Been Hijacked
Robert Berezin, MD
-
July 5, 2015
55
745
Who Needs Radicalisation?
Matthew Morris
-
July 5, 2015
5
245
Why the Shades of Awakening Online Series Matters
Sean Blackwell
-
July 5, 2015
39
819
Tell PCORI What Research Funding We Really Need
Corinna West
-
July 4, 2015
3
244
Reasons Not to Believe in Lithium
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
June 30, 2015
80
14602
Lessons from Soteria-Alaska
Jim Gottstein, JD
-
June 29, 2015
63
3685
It’s as Bad as You Think: The Gap Between the Rich and the Poor...
Philip Thomas, MD
-
June 29, 2015
34
612
Mistakes Were Made (by all of us)
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
June 28, 2015
105
606
Can Madness Save the World?
Paris Williams, PhD
-
June 26, 2015
31
2349
Children, Youth and Mental Health in British Columbia: A Presentation to the Legislature
Rev. Dr. Steven Epperson
-
June 26, 2015
32
1232
Are DSM Psychiatric Disorders “Heritable”?
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
June 24, 2015
39
5972
CBT: Part of the Solution, Part of the Problem, an Illusion, or All...
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
June 24, 2015
54
1572
A Witness to Fraud
Lauren Tenney, PhD, MPhil, MPA, Psychiatric Survivor
-
June 24, 2015
18
612
When the Tail Wags the Dog, Eventually the Dog Bites
Norman Hoffman, MD
-
June 24, 2015
54
505
The Mind and Body Connection: The Correlation between Stress and Inflammation
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
June 23, 2015
15
751
Men on Hooks: The Origin of Modern Psychiatric Diagnostic Systems
George Atwood, PhD
-
June 22, 2015
20
361
The First “Working To Recovery” Camp: June, 2015
Karen Taylor, RMN
-
June 22, 2015
13
623
Decision-Making and Moral Injury
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
June 22, 2015
26
1094
What Do Dreams Mean? Dreams Provide a Window Into Our Character
Robert Berezin, MD
-
June 22, 2015
1
471
What You Believe Makes a Difference
Al Galves, PhD
-
June 21, 2015
35
496
Regarding Representative Tim Murphy’s Helping Families In Mental Health Crisis Act
Noel Hunter, PsyD
-
June 19, 2015
11
2068
Electroshock Survivors Taught Me Eight Lessons in International Protests
David W. Oaks
-
June 18, 2015
6
348
Upon the U.K. Launch of Psychiatry and the Business of Madness: A Reflection
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
June 16, 2015
29
341
Bullying+Lying = Fear+Complying
motto
-
June 15, 2015
10
255
To the Heart of the Matter: Stigma, Labeling, and the Delicate Search for the...
James Schroeder, PhD
-
June 13, 2015
70
806
The Medical Model Discovers Heroin Addiction
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
June 12, 2015
38
847
The Time to Curb Forced Drugging is Now: In Your State, and Nationally
Edward Opton, JD, PhD
-
June 10, 2015
12
304
Towards a Healthcare Magna Carta, Part One
David Healy, MD
-
June 8, 2015
18
309
How Should We Understand the Link Between ADHD and Early Death?
Claudia Gold, MD
-
June 8, 2015
9
452
Psychiatry On The Defensive, But Ceding No Ground
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
June 8, 2015
31
252
‘Empathy’ is a False God: ‘Responsiveness’ is the Real Deal
Robert Berezin, MD
-
June 8, 2015
31
1473
With the Public Defrauded, the Illegitimacy of Forced Psychiatry Crystallizes
Lauren Tenney, PhD, MPhil, MPA, Psychiatric Survivor
-
June 7, 2015
22
411
Competition, Collaboration & Collusion: The Triple Threat for Our Kids
motto
-
June 7, 2015
18
375
“Let’s Roll” With Mad in America Continuing Education
Robert Nikkel, MSW
-
June 6, 2015
5
268
Book Review: Parenting Your Child with ADHD: A No-Nonsense Guide for Nurturing Self-Reliance...
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
June 5, 2015
1
207
Responsibility – Legal and Spiritual
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
June 5, 2015
7
539
Thinking Upstream: Winning Real Mental Health Reform By Joining the Anti-Corruption Movement
Will Hall
-
June 5, 2015
56
1093
What the Research Has Told Us About Peer-Run Respite Houses: The Second Story Story
Yana Jacobs
-
June 4, 2015
11
1653
May 16, 2015: 25 Shock Treatment Protests in 9 Countries! What Now?
Ted Chabasinski, JD
-
June 4, 2015
115
1074
3 Facts All Parents Should Know About ADHD Stimulant Drugs
Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
-
June 3, 2015
28
9634
The ADHD Label and Mortality
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
June 3, 2015
20
347
From Independent to Institutionalized
David Hidajattoellah
-
June 3, 2015
8
204
Chemicals Have Consequences: Antidepressants, Pregnancy, and the New York Times
Adam Urato, MD
-
June 2, 2015
30
1638
Children are Vulnerable Targets on the Algorithm Superhighway
motto
-
June 1, 2015
34
233
Has a New Twin Study Meta-Analysis Finally “Settled” the Nature-Nurture Debate?
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
June 1, 2015
15
3154
Psychiatrists May be Ready to Learn About Treating With Micronutrients
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
May 29, 2015
85
1635
Who’s the “Menace to Society”? Robert Whitaker or Jeffrey Lieberman?
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
May 27, 2015
2
3670
Neuroleptic Drugs And Mortality
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
May 27, 2015
23
618
The Murphy Bill: People are Afraid
Noel Hunter, PsyD
-
May 26, 2015
94
864
Reflections on ‘Montage of Heck’: The Life and Art of Kurt Cobain
Robert Berezin, MD
-
May 26, 2015
23
1756
A Declaration of Interdependence for the Era of the Murphy Bill
Ron Bassman, PhD
-
May 25, 2015
9
458
Reflections on a Beautiful Mind
Robert Whitaker
-
May 25, 2015
58
13481
Adventures at the APA
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
May 22, 2015
51
255
Announcing Mad in America’s New Resource Section on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal
Laura Delano
-
May 21, 2015
60
1203
Questions About Jeffrey Lieberman’s “Notorious Past and Bright Future of Psychiatry”
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
May 21, 2015
50
784
Book Review: Psychiatry in Context: Experience, Meaning & Communities, by Phil Thomas
Eleanor Longden, PhD
-
May 19, 2015
2
536
ECT: Safe and Effective for Agitation and Aggression in Cases of Dementia?
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
May 19, 2015
21
1007
Reviving the Spirit of Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest!
David W. Oaks
-
May 16, 2015
28
654
Psychiatry Reconsidered … Once Again
Hugh Middleton, MD
-
May 14, 2015
23
203
The American Indian Youth Suicide Epidemic: Mental Health Professionals as Superheroes
David Walker, PhD
-
May 14, 2015
46
423
Listening to the Voiceless Citizens
motto
-
May 13, 2015
10
180
What Kind of Forced Treatment Would You Prefer?
Olga Runciman, Cand Psych BSc
-
May 13, 2015
24
740
Thank You Notes: #ForTheKids
Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
&
Michael Gilbert, PsyD
-
May 12, 2015
5
252
Free Your Mind! These Online Documentaries About Festivals Give Me Hope
David W. Oaks
-
May 11, 2015
1
252
What Would CRPD-Compliant Mental Health Legislation Look Like?
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
May 11, 2015
11
1079
Is My Therapist Good or Not?
Daniel Mackler
-
May 11, 2015
91
6618
The Once and Future Abilify: Depot Injections for Everyone?
Johanna Ryan
-
May 11, 2015
23
3462
Psychiatry: Smoke and Mirrors
motto
-
May 11, 2015
18
387
Physician, Heal Thyself (Luke 4:23)
Dan Kriegman, PhD
-
May 11, 2015
4
560
It’s a Circus Under This ‘Big Tent’
Sera Davidow
-
May 10, 2015
60
375
What is Love? An Ode to Motherhood on Mother’s Day
Robert Berezin, MD
-
May 10, 2015
8
186
Thoughts on “Antipsychiatry”
Nancy Rubenstein del Giudice
-
May 9, 2015
73
1170
Psychiatry Through the Lens of Institutional Corruption
Robert Whitaker
-
May 7, 2015
117
2260
Psych Meds Put 49 Million Americans at Risk for Cancer
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
May 6, 2015
31
3085
My Story and My Fight Against Antidepressants, Part II
David Fox
-
May 6, 2015
50
11187
Voiceless in America
motto
-
May 5, 2015
16
1583
Book Review: Tales From The Madhouse, by Gary Sidley
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
May 5, 2015
5
348
When the Hunger for Real Knowledge is Enough, Change Will Come
Carina Håkansson, PhD
-
May 4, 2015
24
251
Sheller’s Appeal Demonstrates FDA’s Indifference to Drug Harm
Jim Gottstein, JD
-
May 4, 2015
21
287
Musings on the Yale Conference
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
May 4, 2015
15
199
Lieberman’s Intellectual Cowardice in His Critique of Szasz, or: What to Do About Page...
Joseph Tarantolo, MD
-
May 3, 2015
62
881
Baltimore is Burning: Who Defines ‘Violence’?
Sera Davidow
-
May 1, 2015
120
550
Sounds of Silence from Inside the Jail
motto
-
May 1, 2015
17
571
RCTs: Really Concerning Trends in Research and Marketing
Tim Carey, PhD
-
May 1, 2015
25
258
Kudos to Art Levine for Exposing Government Complicity in Illegal Psychiatric Drugging of Children
Jim Gottstein, JD
-
April 30, 2015
14
396
Forced Psychiatry is Torture
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
April 30, 2015
33
8552
Response to “The Marketing of Serotonin” on BMJ
David Healy, MD
-
April 28, 2015
22
231
The Sociological Study of Mental Illness: A Historical Perspective
Andrew Scull, PhD
-
April 28, 2015
21
26151
Hearing Voices: Misconception, Misdirection & Moving Forward
Sera Davidow
-
April 27, 2015
30
1017
The Spurious Chemical Imbalance Theory is Still Alive and Well
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
April 27, 2015
37
4438
A Challenge to Dr. Lieberman
Robert Whitaker
-
April 26, 2015
112
1660
The Latest News from Twin Research: The Genetic Influence on Political Voting Choices is...
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
April 26, 2015
7
868
Real Psychiatry and Darwinian Evolution are One and the Same: Molecular Psychiatry has Missed...
Robert Berezin, MD
-
April 26, 2015
36
158
Want to Be Drug Free? It’s Time to Live More Simply
James Schroeder, PhD
-
April 26, 2015
17
229
Getting Our Anti/Critical Psychiatry Authors Read: A Case for Book Activism
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
April 23, 2015
270
936
A Reply to Peter Kramer: Do Serotonin Imbalances Cause Depression?
Jonathan Leo, PhD / Jeffrey Lacasse, PhD
-
April 22, 2015
12
1624
So Long, and Thanks for All the Serotonin
David Healy, MD
-
April 21, 2015
11
2151
Allen Frances and the Spurious Medicalization of Everyday Problems
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
April 21, 2015
42
714
An Open Letter to Colin Powell
Sera Davidow
-
April 20, 2015
36
1248
It’s Not Easy Being “Clean”
Tim Carey, PhD
-
April 20, 2015
64
345
A Story About NMDA Receptor Subunits, and Why SSRIs Impair Cognitive Capacity
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
April 20, 2015
6
1638
Antipsychiatry, (Ex)consumers, Peers, and ‘This Movement’: Assembling the Histories of Reform and Resistance, Part...
Derek Pyle
-
April 20, 2015
37
377
Dissolving Madness, Ending the Nightmare, Beginning a Better Dream
Asherah Eden
-
April 19, 2015
48
800
Turning Patients into Numbers
Bridget Mildon
-
April 18, 2015
21
1479
The Science and Pseudoscience of Children’s Mental Health
Sharna Olfman, PhD
-
April 17, 2015
27
1215
Spiritist Psychiatric Hospitals in Brazil
Emma Bragdon, PhD
-
April 17, 2015
14
3288
Psychiatry and the Business of Madness: An Ethical and Epistemological Accounting
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
April 16, 2015
51
1301
The Meds Became My Moods: A Woman’s Story of Dignity, Grace & Love
Joanne Cacciatore, PhD
-
April 15, 2015
13
342
The Sunrise Center: A Place For Adults To Recover From Psychiatric Drugs
Janet Foner
-
April 15, 2015
32
1430
Polypharmacy Poisoning, Dependence and Recovery from the Psychiatric Paradigm
Amy Upham
-
April 14, 2015
54
1115
Madness in Civilisation: A Cultural History of Insanity
Philip Thomas, MD
-
April 13, 2015
15
2280
Medical Nemesis Revisited: Physician-Caused Anger, Despair & Death
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
April 12, 2015
26
677
Fighting for the RLCs Continued: Where’s the Evidence?
Sera Davidow
-
April 11, 2015
33
254
Protesting a Psychiatric Atrocity
Peter Breggin, MD
-
April 9, 2015
74
2354
“Doing” Antipsychiatry on all Cylinders: Possibilities, Enigmas, Challenges
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
April 8, 2015
125
925
An Essay on Finnish Open Dialogue: A Five-Year Follow-Up
Daniel Mackler
-
April 8, 2015
75
2567
Publication Bias and Meta-Analyses: Tainting the Gold Standard with Lead
Randy Paterson, PhD, RPsych
-
April 7, 2015
35
493
Largest Survey of Antidepressants Finds High Rates of Adverse Emotional and Interpersonal Effects
John Read
-
April 7, 2015
163
2116
Reflections of a Lone Wolf Maddass in Search of a Better World
Sarah Knutson
-
April 7, 2015
23
643
The Risk Society and the Germanwings Tragedy: Stigma on Both Sides of the Psychiatry...
Timothy Kelly
-
April 5, 2015
51
413
So You Say You Want a Revolution?
Robert Nikkel, MSW
-
April 5, 2015
22
317
Upon Leaving Soteria-Alaska
Susan Musante
&
Matt Ladner
-
April 5, 2015
14
2374
A Tale of Two Cousins
Suzanne Beachy
-
April 4, 2015
51
967
Cracked Open – Installment 3
Melissa Bond
-
April 3, 2015
4
430
84 Things I Could do Once Again When I Got Off Psychiatric Drugs
Chaya Grossberg
-
April 2, 2015
51
440
ECT Day of Protest: Time for You to Take Leadership
Ted Chabasinski, JD
-
April 2, 2015
11
803
Psychiatric Diagnoses: Labels, Not Explanations
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
April 2, 2015
69
1057
The Torturous Evasions of the American Psychological Association
Art Levine
-
April 2, 2015
10
1014
How Young is Too Young? Part 1: Prescribing Psychiatric Drugs – Infancy to Toddlerhood
Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
-
April 1, 2015
13
429
Drugging Foster Kids: Let’s Do Something About It
Edward Opton, JD, PhD
-
March 31, 2015
9
739
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March 31, 2015
28
1048
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March 30, 2015
17
4240
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March 30, 2015
18
1583
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March 30, 2015
7
728
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34
1136
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March 29, 2015
14
1382
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March 27, 2015
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1104
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March 26, 2015
17
380
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March 26, 2015
25
778
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March 25, 2015
6
146
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March 24, 2015
83
515
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Andrew Scull, PhD
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March 23, 2015
17
421
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March 23, 2015
73
3170
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Joanne Cacciatore, PhD
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March 22, 2015
43
1206
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Afiya Respite House
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March 22, 2015
18
326
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Paula J. Caplan, PhD
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March 21, 2015
50
832
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Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
&
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March 19, 2015
0
584
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Hugh Middleton, MD
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March 19, 2015
8
261
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March 19, 2015
112
5938
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March 19, 2015
48
13996
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March 18, 2015
9
186
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March 17, 2015
217
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March 17, 2015
5
865
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March 17, 2015
15
182
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March 16, 2015
43
1090
Cracked Open – Installment 2
Melissa Bond
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March 16, 2015
18
371
Horse-Stealing Mania: The Hiawatha Asylum for Insane Indians
David Walker, PhD
-
March 14, 2015
18
2248
Do the Math
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
March 13, 2015
32
249
Retreat From the Social: a Review of Hegel’s Theory of Madness
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
March 13, 2015
23
892
When Asylums Are the Only Hammer, Everybody Looks Like a Nail
Bonnie Schell
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March 11, 2015
32
485
Driving Us Crazy: A Festival About Madness in Society, and in All of Us
Carina Håkansson, PhD
-
March 10, 2015
5
289
Peer Supports Under Siege: A Call for Help and Solidarity (And how this...
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March 9, 2015
90
486
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Anne Cooke
&
Peter Kinderman
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March 9, 2015
19
1351
A Disease Called Childhood
Marilyn Wedge, PhD
-
March 9, 2015
9
1125
Me, My Brain, and Baked Beans
Peter Kinderman
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March 8, 2015
38
1409
May 16, 2015: International Day of Protest Against Shock Treatment
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March 8, 2015
47
1925
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March 7, 2015
16
966
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Peter Breggin, MD
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March 6, 2015
61
5329
Immune Response is Secondary to Trauma
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March 6, 2015
25
1376
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Chaya Grossberg
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March 5, 2015
20
346
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Robert Berezin, MD
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March 4, 2015
7
410
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Bevin Croft
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March 3, 2015
17
931
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March 3, 2015
55
15159
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Philip Hickey, PhD
-
March 2, 2015
8
4450
All About the Word: Language, Choice & That Damn Dress
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March 2, 2015
13
333
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Sandra Steingard, MD
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March 1, 2015
46
1320
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Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
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March 1, 2015
38
2474
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March 1, 2015
33
370
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March 1, 2015
29
429
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Michael Cornwall, PhD
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February 27, 2015
117
543
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February 27, 2015
35
420
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Ron Unger, LCSW
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February 26, 2015
11
258
Polarization or Accommodation To Transformation: What Would Malcolm X Say?
Richard D. Lewis
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February 23, 2015
113
379
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Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
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February 23, 2015
165
1898
Born to Sense: High Sensitivity+Trauma = Psychiatric Diagnosis?
Sera Davidow
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February 22, 2015
48
1236
Envisioning the Future of Mental Health
Eric Maisel, PhD
-
February 22, 2015
14
514
Letter to the Mother of a “Schizophrenic”: We Must Do Better Than Forced Treatment...
Will Hall
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February 20, 2015
46
2176
Over the Falls Without a Barrel: The Patent Cliff and Prescriber Impartiality
Randy Paterson, PhD, RPsych
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February 19, 2015
44
307
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Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
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February 19, 2015
6
664
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February 16, 2015
132
656
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Bruce Levine, PhD
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February 15, 2015
24
878
Robert Whitaker Missed the Mark on Drugs and Disability: A Call for a Focus...
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164
1911
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Scott Shannon, MD
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February 13, 2015
37
6935
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February 12, 2015
26
23981
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Susan Rogers
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February 11, 2015
19
887
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David Walker, PhD
-
February 11, 2015
16
1288
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David Healy, MD
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February 10, 2015
5
402
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February 9, 2015
13
1166
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Ron Bassman, PhD
-
February 9, 2015
16
714
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Marilyn Wedge, PhD
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February 9, 2015
23
726
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February 8, 2015
13
1116
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Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
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February 6, 2015
45
18158
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February 6, 2015
8
749
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February 5, 2015
25
3082
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James Schroeder, PhD
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February 5, 2015
30
696
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Sandra Steingard, MD
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February 4, 2015
46
940
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Peter Breggin, MD
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February 3, 2015
20
346
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February 3, 2015
12
1157
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February 2, 2015
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3436
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February 1, 2015
41
1039
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February 1, 2015
13
180
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Ron Unger, LCSW
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January 31, 2015
0
243
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Will Hall
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January 30, 2015
9
477
One Gutsy Woman
Daisy Anderson
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January 29, 2015
19
997
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Jeremy Wallace, MD
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January 29, 2015
31
784
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January 29, 2015
22
336
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January 28, 2015
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901
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January 28, 2015
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2127
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January 27, 2015
14
371
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January 27, 2015
30
4806
Los Creativamente Inadaptados – The Alternatives to Psychiatry Movement in Chile/Argentina 2015
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January 26, 2015
32
1038
Psychotherapy Is the Real Deal: It is the Effective Treatment
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January 26, 2015
38
1201
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January 25, 2015
135
1347
Shamans and Psychiatrists: A Comparison
Natalie Tobert, PhD
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January 24, 2015
26
3971
I Am “Pro-Healing”
Hilary Bryant
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January 23, 2015
15
446
Persecution: Dangerous Liaisons
David Healy, MD
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January 22, 2015
5
144
Dreams of a Quick Fix, Gone Awry
Jon Jureidini, MD
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Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
&
Peter Parry, MD
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January 19, 2015
28
957
In Memoriam: Leonard Roy Frank
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January 18, 2015
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3186
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January 18, 2015
28
362
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January 17, 2015
37
573
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Ron Unger, LCSW
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January 16, 2015
7
441
Human Experiences in Academic Boxes
Natalie Tobert, PhD
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January 14, 2015
116
639
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Philip Hickey, PhD
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January 14, 2015
23
915
The Eight Lessons of Suicide
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January 13, 2015
11
4945
The Substance of Substance Use: Talking About Marijuana, Alcohol, and Other Drugs
Will Hall
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January 13, 2015
4
819
War on Civilization: What Would Happen if Patients Radicalize?
David Healy, MD
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January 12, 2015
13
455
A Call to Arms: The Future of Psychiatry is at Stake
Robert Berezin, MD
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January 12, 2015
63
2678
How Come the Word “Antipsychiatry” is so Challenging?
Carina Håkansson, PhD
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January 11, 2015
27
415
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January 11, 2015
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63820
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David Walker, PhD
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January 11, 2015
19
1566
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January 10, 2015
29
1383
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January 9, 2015
19
752
Just Me: A Series of Reflections on Trauma, Motherhood, and Psychiatry
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January 9, 2015
22
798
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Lucy Johnstone, PsyD
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January 8, 2015
21
1717
Schizophrenia; the Tragedy of a Promise Unfulfilled
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January 8, 2015
32
770
Dr. Feelgood: Traveling ‘On the Path of Least Resistance’
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January 7, 2015
42
303
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Bruce Levine, PhD
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January 6, 2015
35
1251
“Do I Have to Feel so Badly About Myself?” – The Legacies of Guilt,...
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January 5, 2015
27
1456
Quotations From the Genetics “Graveyard”: Nearly Half a Century of False Positive Gene Discovery...
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January 5, 2015
10
1877
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Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
January 5, 2015
41
873
ECT for Agitation and Aggression in Dementia
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January 2, 2015
47
2309
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January 1, 2015
20
2806
Trapped
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December 31, 2014
27
452
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Will Hall
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December 31, 2014
24
1042
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Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
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December 30, 2014
69
12666
Biology and Genetics are Irrelevant Once True Causes are Recognized
Jay Joseph, PsyD
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December 29, 2014
10
674
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Robert Nikkel, MSW
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December 29, 2014
22
240
Nitrous Oxide for Depression and Other Hazards of Modern Psychiatry
Sandra Steingard, MD
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December 25, 2014
79
1627
Rainbows and Unicorns
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December 24, 2014
8
847
My Mysterious Son
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December 23, 2014
29
1831
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December 22, 2014
8
688
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Jill Littrell, PhD
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December 22, 2014
46
371
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December 21, 2014
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7365
There’s More to Sleep than Shuts the Eye: Waking Up to All that Sleep Does...
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December 20, 2014
27
787
The Truth About Antidepressant Research: An Invitation to Dialogue
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December 19, 2014
32
1485
Enough is Enough Series: An Hallucinogen for Depression? Psychiatry is Testing Ketamine (‘Special...
Robert Berezin, MD
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December 18, 2014
50
838
Assessing the Cost of Psychiatric Drugs to the Elderly and Disabled Citizens of the...
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December 18, 2014
3
415
Sick‘s Wild Ride – From Treatment to TEDMED
Elizabeth Kenny
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December 17, 2014
18
516
Healing is in Our Stories
Deron Drumm
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December 17, 2014
17
697
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Philip Hickey, PhD
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December 16, 2014
38
409
Finding Human Life on Earth
Carina Håkansson, PhD
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December 15, 2014
9
257
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Jay Joseph, PsyD
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December 15, 2014
4
17297
Coercion in Care
Kerstin Ogard
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December 13, 2014
45
2543
The Quantum Mechanics of Tessa’s Dance & Signal Peak
David Walker, PhD
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December 12, 2014
33
267
Racism 102: It Is Not About Colorblindness
Lauren Spiro
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December 12, 2014
8
222
Nutrient Boosting of Medications
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
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December 9, 2014
9
977
The Chemical Imbalance Theory: Still Being Promoted
Philip Hickey, PhD
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December 9, 2014
30
643
Antidepressants and Pregnancy: Who Says They Are Safe?
Adam Urato, MD
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December 8, 2014
14
2354
A Debate Between Allen Frances and Robert Whitaker
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December 4, 2014
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Anne Cooke
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December 4, 2014
5
1042
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Philip Thomas, MD
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December 4, 2014
22
1827
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December 4, 2014
25
239
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December 2, 2014
32
174
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December 2, 2014
63
751
Ecstatic Dance Heals
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December 2, 2014
6
1728
Racism 101
Lauren Spiro
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December 2, 2014
9
351
On the Other Side
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December 2, 2014
16
8877
The Evidence of Our Convictions
Katie Tierney Higgins, RN
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December 1, 2014
20
1214
When Homosexuality Came Out (of the DSM)
Vivek Datta, MD, MPH
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December 1, 2014
42
51511
Understanding Psychosis and Schizophrenia – A Valuable, and Free, Online Report
Ron Unger, LCSW
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November 30, 2014
5
417
Michael Brown and the ‘Peer’ Movement
Sera Davidow
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November 28, 2014
103
673
Choice and Emotion: a Short Essay With Some Musing
Monica Cassani
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November 25, 2014
10
510
A Positive Understanding of How Our Minds Work
Kjetil Mellingen
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November 25, 2014
7
1416
An Unplanned Path to Discovering My Truth
Lauren Spiro
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November 24, 2014
5
235
Going Deeper into “Madness”: ISPS 2015’s International Dialogue
Ron Unger, LCSW
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November 23, 2014
6
264
Winning Friends and Influencing People
Peter Kinderman
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November 22, 2014
20
398
Paradigms Lost
James Fitzgerald
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November 21, 2014
9
736
Science and Pseudoscience in Psychiatric Training: What Psychiatrists Don’t Learn and What Psychiatrists Should...
Vivek Datta, MD, MPH
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November 20, 2014
24
1710
Implications of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement on Equitable Access to Healthcare
Erik Monasterio, MD
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November 20, 2014
5
213
On The Ubiquity of Conflict
Tim Carey, PhD
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November 19, 2014
6
565
Julia’s TEDx Talk: Time to Get Serious About Nutrition
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
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November 18, 2014
9
3320
Psychiatry: Still Trying To Rewrite History
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
November 18, 2014
60
574
Liberal “Mental Health” Reform: A “Fail-Proof” Way to Fail
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
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November 17, 2014
47
1220
Why an Assassinated Psychologist — Ignored by U.S. Psychologists — Is Being Honored
Bruce Levine, PhD
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November 16, 2014
4
983
From Blaming the Patient to Blaming the Brain
Vivek Datta, MD, MPH
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November 14, 2014
49
654
The Scarlet Label: Close Encounters With ‘Borderline Personality Disorder’ (Part 2)
Jacqueline Simon Gunn, PsyD
&
Brent Potter, PhD
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November 13, 2014
125
5116
Psychiatric Drugs: More Dangerous Than You Ever Imagined (A New Video)
Peter Breggin, MD
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November 11, 2014
49
10240
Housing First: An Evidence-Based Approach Beyond the Medical Model
Justin Brown
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November 11, 2014
6
563
Trauma and Schizophrenia: The Ultimate Political Battle
Noel Hunter, PsyD
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November 10, 2014
93
1997
My Favorite Fears and How They May Serve Us
Malaika Puffer
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November 9, 2014
24
379
Pain Management in Modern Times: Does This Sound Familiar?
James Schroeder, PhD
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November 9, 2014
13
461
The Indian Health Service’s Psychiatric Drug Habit & the ‘Heavy Influence of Biomedical Models’
David Walker, PhD
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November 6, 2014
16
568
What Does an 800 lb Gorilla in the Room Say at an ADHD Conference? ...
Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
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November 5, 2014
25
679
Reforming Prisons, Housing, Medication & Community-Based Support: Part I of a Common-Sense, Common Ground...
Justin Brown
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November 4, 2014
14
211
40,000 Suicides Annually and America Still Shrugs
Douglas Bloch
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November 4, 2014
41
625
Reflections on MIA’s Film Festival and Our Collective Human Future
Laura Delano
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November 3, 2014
19
0
Genetic Research in Psychiatry: A Brief Update
Jay Joseph, PsyD
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November 3, 2014
16
346
The Mentally Ill Do Not Exist: Challenging Popular Media’s Obsession
Scott Spicer, MPH, CPSS
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November 2, 2014
12
256
Is Listening the Key to Living?
Chaya Grossberg
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November 1, 2014
16
178
The Case of the Missing Schizophrenia
Laysha Ostrow, PhD
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November 1, 2014
16
230
More On the “Civil War” Between Mental Health Advocates
Justin Brown
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October 31, 2014
33
389
Toward a Selective Use Model of Psychiatric Medication
Andrew L. Yoder, MSW
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October 31, 2014
4
278
Please Stop Saying “Anti-psychiatry”
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October 30, 2014
83
1044
Providing Loving Receptivity Can Help People in Extreme States
Michael Cornwall, PhD
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October 30, 2014
23
1559
Coming Out: Iatrogenic Illness Awareness Month
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October 29, 2014
18
1892
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Melissa Bond
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October 28, 2014
10
300
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Philip Hickey, PhD
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October 28, 2014
45
19563
Wholesome Wave
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
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October 27, 2014
4
1028
Between Psychiatry and Anti-Psychiatry: Mad in America Opens a Dialogue
Allen Frances, MD
&
Justin Brown
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October 26, 2014
58
1216
Antipsychiatry Revisited: Toward Greater Clarity
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
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October 26, 2014
125
2157
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Kjetil Mellingen
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October 25, 2014
36
358
The Community Psychologist as Covert Operative in the Indian Health Service
David Walker, PhD
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October 24, 2014
9
458
The Federal Report on Financial Relationships Between Pharma Industry and Prescribing Physicians
Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
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October 23, 2014
5
648
The Scarlet Label: Close Encounters with ‘Borderline Personality Disorder’
Jacqueline Simon Gunn, PsyD
&
Brent Potter, PhD
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October 22, 2014
110
6801
Allen Frances – Civil War or Propaganda Battle?
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October 22, 2014
48
675
It’s the Coercion, Stupid!
David Cohen
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October 21, 2014
71
6459
Robin Williams or Patch Adams? Watch a Brief Message from David Oaks to the...
David W. Oaks
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October 20, 2014
6
307
Am I Having a Breakdown or Breakthrough? Further Reflections on a Depressive Relapse
Douglas Bloch
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October 20, 2014
8
1155
Mental Illness as Metaphor
Andrew L. Yoder, MSW
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October 20, 2014
5
2542
Are We Discovering More ADHD?
Craig B. Wiener, EdD
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October 18, 2014
6
334
The Blinding of Gloria X. in New Jersey State Hospital – Just Another Mental...
Seth Farber, PhD
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October 17, 2014
37
1454
May the ‘Force’ NEVER EVER Be With You! The Case for Abolition
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October 17, 2014
171
1117
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Philip Hickey, PhD
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October 17, 2014
20
1220
The Making of “Guilty Except for Insanity: Maddening Journeys Through an Asylum”
Jan Haaken, PhD
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October 16, 2014
26
1136
A Discussion of Labels, Part One: Disability
Melissa Bond
-
October 16, 2014
13
291
Turning Distress into Joy, Part V and Final: Meaning & Transcendence
James Schroeder, PhD
-
October 15, 2014
27
188
Rethinking Psychiatry
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
October 14, 2014
61
816
Back in the Dark House Again: The Recurrent Nature of Clinical Depression
Douglas Bloch
-
October 13, 2014
29
1101
A New Model of Service
Andrew L. Yoder, MSW
-
October 10, 2014
16
157
A Macabre Celebration: 80 Years of Convulsive ‘Therapy’
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
October 9, 2014
122
452
Why I Am Willing to Die on the Governor’s Doorstep
Aubrey Ellen Shomo
-
October 8, 2014
22
542
Healing From Intergenerational Trauma: Facing the Unfaceable
Lauren Spiro
-
October 8, 2014
15
558
You Call Me Crazy. I Call Myself a “9”
Brenda Vezina
-
October 7, 2014
8
513
Is it Better to Be a Life Coach or a Psychotherapist?
Daniel Mackler
-
October 6, 2014
35
6988
To See a Professional or Not
Monica Cassani
-
October 6, 2014
17
232
Stumble Biscuits and the Murk of Benzo Disability
Melissa Bond
-
October 5, 2014
23
1742
Nutrition Above the Neck: Why is This Topic Met With Hostility?
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
October 5, 2014
45
1204
Psychiatry Disrupted
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
October 4, 2014
44
640
PsychoQuad Goes to the Movies: The Power of Sex, Bettie Page and Art Overthrow...
David W. Oaks
-
October 4, 2014
96
386
Towards a Hermeneutic Shift in Psychiatry
Pat Bracken, MD
-
October 3, 2014
50
2584
Mentally Ill or Conflict Repressed? Is Conflict a Lost Art?
Chaya Grossberg
-
October 2, 2014
19
300
On Being Sane in an Insane Place—The Rosenhan Experiment in the Laboratory of Plautus’...
Michael Fontaine, PhD
-
October 2, 2014
40
1774
My Loss of Cultural Competence Among the Nacirema-Orue
David Walker, PhD
-
October 2, 2014
27
298
Outside the Bubble and Into the “New” Economy
Laysha Ostrow, PhD
-
October 1, 2014
9
141
NICE Guidelines for Bipolar Disorder- a Missed Opportunity
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
September 30, 2014
22
728
The Alternatives Conference Helps Our Movement Grow
Susan Rogers
-
September 30, 2014
21
305
The Persecution of Heretics
David Healy, MD
-
September 29, 2014
11
460
The Problems of Non-Consensual Reality
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
September 29, 2014
105
2362
Not Another Brick in The Wall
Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
-
September 29, 2014
16
294
It Gets Better: Neuropsych Doctor Confirms Psych Drug Iatrogenesis, PTSD, Brain Injury
Monica Cassani
-
September 28, 2014
21
747
Global Warming and the Mad Movement: Can You Help?
David W. Oaks
-
September 28, 2014
51
267
Pharma-funded Research
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
September 26, 2014
18
237
How to Spread the News, Part 2
Kjetil Mellingen
-
September 25, 2014
63
323
Detecting the True ‘Culture’ of Indian Health Service Mental Health Programs
David Walker, PhD
-
September 24, 2014
7
694
Turning Distress into Joy, Part IV: Gratitude
James Schroeder, PhD
-
September 23, 2014
14
530
Doctor Munchausen: Hear no, See no – What?
David Healy, MD
-
September 22, 2014
17
203
Our Movement Needs an Alternative to the “Alternatives” Conference
Ted Chabasinski, JD
-
September 20, 2014
194
440
Why “Stabilizing” People is Entirely the Wrong Idea
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
September 19, 2014
26
358
Psychosis and Dissociation, Part 2: On Diagnosis, and Beyond
Noel Hunter, PsyD
-
September 18, 2014
17
733
Second Generation Neuroleptics and Acute Kidney Injury in Older Adults
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
September 18, 2014
18
296
WHOMHP!
David Walker, PhD
-
September 17, 2014
29
370
How Can We Spread the News?
Kjetil Mellingen
-
September 16, 2014
110
294
Social Justice and the Benzodiazepine Death Camp
Melissa Bond
-
September 15, 2014
29
459
Pierce v. Pemiscot Hospital: Federal Judge Takes a Psychiatric Inmate’s Rights Seriously
Jim Gottstein, JD
-
September 11, 2014
43
627
Turning Distress into Joy, Part III: Helping Others
James Schroeder, PhD
-
September 10, 2014
10
272
Who Is Isaiah Rider???
Nancy Rubenstein del Giudice
-
September 10, 2014
28
913
From Burning Man to Bellevue Hospital
Sascha Altman DuBrul
-
September 9, 2014
1
355
The Law’s Flaw
Wayne Munchel
-
September 9, 2014
20
216
Dr. Pies Still Spinning
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
September 8, 2014
61
304
Patient Centred-Care Doesn’t Go Far Enough: We Need Patient-Perspective Care
Tim Carey, PhD
-
September 8, 2014
75
676
Creating Alternatives to the Medical Model
Tamasin Knight, MBChB, MPH
-
September 7, 2014
6
642
On Spiritual Emergence and Other Extraordinary Experiences
Naas Siddiqui, BA, CPS, MA
-
September 7, 2014
19
506
Believe it or not . . .
Tracey Cannon
-
September 5, 2014
49
318
Forced Treatment Ineffective: Advocacy Essential
Scott Spicer, MPH, CPSS
-
September 5, 2014
33
324
If Not Meds, Then WHAT?
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
September 4, 2014
189
975
Hope for Everyone
Kjetil Mellingen
-
September 3, 2014
35
730
Do We Need More Hospital Beds?
motto
-
September 2, 2014
51
533
How Reliable is the DSM-5?
Rachel Cooper, PhD
-
September 2, 2014
19
19348
Peer Support in Mental Health: Exploitive, Transformative, or Both?
Larry Davidson, PhD
-
September 1, 2014
74
3228
A Critique of Genetic Research on Schizophrenia – Expensive Castles in the Air
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
September 1, 2014
41
2614
Does Long-Term Use of “Antipsychotic” Drugs Result in More Disability, and More Psychosis?
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
August 31, 2014
102
11727
Stranger
Steven Morgan
-
August 29, 2014
13
412
Autism, Antidepressants, and Pregnancy: The Basics
Adam Urato, MD
-
August 27, 2014
9
1186
Positive Explanations for Psychological Problems
Kjetil Mellingen
-
August 27, 2014
47
593
The Lessons of Ancient Philosophy
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
August 26, 2014
42
710
On Religious and Psychiatric Atheism: The Success of Epicurus, the Failure of Thomas Szasz
Michael Fontaine, PhD
-
August 26, 2014
224
8256
Embodying Peace in Times of War
Lauren Spiro
-
August 26, 2014
11
269
Turning Distress into Joy, Part II: Channeling
James Schroeder, PhD
-
August 26, 2014
11
264
My Top 11 Ways to Reunite for a Mental Health Revolution!
David W. Oaks
-
August 25, 2014
61
617
It Gets Better: Living Well While Being Sick
Monica Cassani
-
August 25, 2014
2
285
Looking forward to the Good Ol’ Days
Tim Carey, PhD
-
August 23, 2014
33
220
How About a Diagnostic Alternative for Use in Talk Therapy?
Jonathan Raskin
-
August 23, 2014
0
498
More Bogus Conclusions From More Bogus Research
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
August 21, 2014
27
246
Shh… Just Whisper it, But There Might Just Be a Revolution Underway
Peter Kinderman
-
August 18, 2014
33
1021
Extend Your Child’s ADHD Summer Drug Holiday to Infinity and Beyond!
Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
-
August 16, 2014
30
943
MHASF Launches a Warm Line
Chaya Grossberg
-
August 15, 2014
6
653
Fear is Life Force … (in Clinical Circles it’s Often Called Anxiety) – An...
Monica Cassani
-
August 15, 2014
12
380
Life & Death: Robin Williams, Suicide “Prevention,” and the World as We Know...
Sera Davidow
-
August 14, 2014
67
2189
Suicide Prevention for All: Making the World a Safer Place to Be Human
Leah Harris
-
August 13, 2014
30
390
Turning Distress Into Joy, Part I: Forgiveness
James Schroeder, PhD
-
August 13, 2014
31
291
Antidepressants and Overall Wellbeing
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
August 13, 2014
27
374
Diagnosing the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Martyn Pickersgill, PhD
-
August 12, 2014
0
201
Doctor Munchausen and Sense about Science
David Healy, MD
-
August 12, 2014
9
180
Rethinking Therapy: Making Our Worlds as We Would Like Them to Be
Tim Carey, PhD
-
August 12, 2014
7
315
It Gets Better: A Portrait of Poly Psychopharmacology
Monica Cassani
-
August 11, 2014
14
843
Managing Spiritual Emergency: In Spiritist Psychiatric Hospitals and Community Centers In Brazil
Emma Bragdon, PhD
-
August 11, 2014
25
1070
Trauma, Psychosis, and Dissociation
Noel Hunter, PsyD
-
August 6, 2014
57
24116
People Who Find Psychiatric Drugs Helpful
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
August 6, 2014
71
550
Taking an Entry Point: On Investigating the Psychiatric-Pharmaceutical Complex
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
August 4, 2014
45
557
Open Letter to Family Doctors and Mental Health Practitioners From an Average Kid Acting...
Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
-
August 4, 2014
6
233
Father Munchausen, I Presume!
David Healy, MD
-
August 4, 2014
12
189
Proposal From Italy: An International Collection of Recovery Stories
Giuseppe Tibaldi
-
August 4, 2014
33
195
The Cocktail Party
Alesandra Rain
-
August 1, 2014
71
725
‘To Gift the Mind To Chemistry’, and To Take It Back: Dylan Tighe To...
Laura Delano
-
August 1, 2014
7
816
Crash Course in Urban Shamanism
Will Hall
-
July 28, 2014
24
3305
Anti-Psychiatry
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
July 28, 2014
427
2277
Medicalizing Poverty
Wayne Munchel
-
July 28, 2014
20
1373
The Logic of the ADHD Diagnosis
Craig B. Wiener, EdD
-
July 28, 2014
15
580
Code Black: When Time Doesn’t Heal
Vanessa Krasinski, MSN, RN
-
July 27, 2014
3
219
Is Psychiatry the Tea Party of Medical Science?
Bertel Rüdinger
-
July 27, 2014
71
297
Simon Says: Happiness Won’t Cure Mental Illness
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
July 27, 2014
15
389
Prescription Privileges for Psychologists: Is Our Consent Fully Informed?
James Schroeder, PhD
-
July 23, 2014
13
2764
On Waking Up From the “American Dream”
Laura Delano
-
July 23, 2014
55
778
Healing from an Addiction to Patterned Ways of Thinking
Lauren Spiro
-
July 22, 2014
14
255
An Anti-Violence Mental Health Plan
Mark Ragins, MD
-
July 22, 2014
95
671
Playing the Odds, Revisited
Stuart Shipko
-
July 21, 2014
42
5463
The Use of Neuroleptic Drugs As Chemical Restraints
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
July 21, 2014
82
3568
Illegal-Psychiatric Drug Hypocrisy, & Why Michael Pollan is Smarter than Me
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
July 20, 2014
89
820
How Can Professionals Learn to Reduce Fears of Psychotic Experiences Rather Than Emphasize Pathology?
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
July 19, 2014
35
609
Los Angeles Increases Outpatient Involuntary Treatment in Spite of UN Declaring Force “Torture”
Monica Cassani
-
July 19, 2014
19
615
Consent and Psychiatry: Problematizing the Problematic
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
July 19, 2014
62
1163
Suicide: A Permanent Solution to a Temporary Problem
Douglas Bloch
-
July 18, 2014
20
1724
Changing the Role of Case Management
Peter Zook
-
July 18, 2014
24
241
The Use of Neuroleptic Drugs As Chemical Restraints in Nursing Homes
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
July 17, 2014
24
661
What Is Biological Psychiatry? Pt. 3: Thoughts on Hastening Its Demise
Richard D. Lewis
-
July 16, 2014
49
242
Doctor Munchausen, I Presume!
David Healy, MD
-
July 14, 2014
107
519
Some Thoughts on Insanity Defense
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
July 12, 2014
27
2122
On Fighting Institutional Psychiatry With the “Attrition Model”
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
July 12, 2014
132
3721
SELF: Sharing Experience Lived Firsthand
Vanessa Krasinski, MSN, RN
-
July 12, 2014
14
251
Connecticut State in Mental Health Denial
Sheila Matthews
-
July 11, 2014
62
230
ADHD: A Return to Psychology
Craig B. Wiener, EdD
-
July 10, 2014
19
453
Avoid the Hexperts
Deron Drumm
-
July 9, 2014
17
427
Thoughts on Psychiatric Incarceration When Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity
motto
-
July 9, 2014
34
921
Please Don’t Empower Me Anymore
David Healy, MD
-
July 7, 2014
24
515
Suicidal Behavior After FDA Warnings
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
July 7, 2014
14
1194
The Meeting Was Sponsored by Merchants of Death
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
-
July 7, 2014
10
853
Response to “The End of Rethinking Psychiatry?”
Jason Renaud
-
July 7, 2014
93
1615
Jon Stewart’s Gaywatch
Peter Gajdics
-
July 7, 2014
16
273
Independence From the Therapeutic State
Eugene Epstein
-
July 4, 2014
21
916
Why I Became a Critical Psychiatrist
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
July 4, 2014
13
601
Who Decides Which People are Mentally Ill . . . Who Gets That Control?
Sheila Matthews
-
July 3, 2014
34
349
What Is Biological Psychiatry? Part 2: Anatomy of Power and Control
Richard D. Lewis
-
July 3, 2014
25
447
It Gets Better!
Bertel Rüdinger
-
July 3, 2014
24
337
News on Creative Maladjustment
Al Galves, PhD
-
July 2, 2014
1
187
The Media Missed the Story: Civil Rights and the Helping Families in Mental Health...
Christian Exoo
-
July 2, 2014
71
1075
Continuing the Antidepressant Debate: the Clinical Relevance of Drug-Placebo Differences
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
July 2, 2014
13
488
Talking About Psychosis, Part 1: Why Do It?
Mark Ragins, MD
-
July 2, 2014
40
675
Psychocracy and Community
Rev. Dr. Steven Epperson
-
July 1, 2014
30
1881
Living in an Age of Melancholy: When Society Becomes Depressed
Douglas Bloch
-
June 30, 2014
38
7788
Lingering Doubts About Psychiatry’s Scientific Status
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
June 26, 2014
111
1222
The End of Rethinking Psychiatry?
motto
-
June 26, 2014
113
876
The Paradox of Praise
James Schroeder, PhD
-
June 25, 2014
12
774
Believe and Know . . . (as it pertains to psych drug withdrawal syndrome...
Monica Cassani
-
June 25, 2014
18
490
MIA’s New Store & More
Robert Whitaker
-
June 25, 2014
7
260
The Sandy Hook Advisory Commission and the Evidence of a “Convicted Offender”
Sheila Matthews
-
June 24, 2014
2
227
Goodbye to Ken Braiterman
Corinna West
-
June 24, 2014
4
463
Sense about Science: Follow the Patient
David Healy, MD
-
June 24, 2014
19
164
New APA President: Same Old Cheerleading
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
June 24, 2014
18
324
Upon Further Review: Did the Black Box Warning on SSRIs Lead to Increased Suicide...
MIA Editors
-
June 23, 2014
29
1224
“Psychiatric Prejudice” – A New Way of Silencing Criticism
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
June 23, 2014
46
1380
What is a Warm Line and What Should I Expect When I Call One?
Chaya Grossberg
-
June 22, 2014
7
52485
How Much Does it Matter for Patients to Believe They Will Get Well?
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
June 18, 2014
37
489
Heteronormative Violence of Mainstream Psychiatry: A Cautionary Tale
Peter Gajdics
-
June 18, 2014
39
926
An Open Letter to Persons Self-Identifying as Mentally Ill
Andrew L. Yoder, MSW
-
June 18, 2014
39
1494
Psychiatry’s Response: Attack and PR
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
June 18, 2014
272
907
A Look at Madness Through the Lens of Culture
Phil Borges
-
June 17, 2014
8
1870
What Is Biological Psychiatry and Why Is It So Important To Know?
Richard D. Lewis
-
June 16, 2014
122
2131
From Self Care to Collective Caring
Leah Harris
-
June 16, 2014
6
4156
Blame the Clients?
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
June 16, 2014
143
1021
The Story of “Teenagers Against Psychiatric Drugs”
Jaquelin Kalach
-
June 15, 2014
17
362
Why I Work in the System
Malaika Puffer
-
June 15, 2014
22
647
Why Do We Say That Mental Health Detention is Discrimination?
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
June 13, 2014
69
1375
The Proliferation and Elimination of Mental Illness: Clinging to the Slopes of Everest
James Schroeder, PhD
-
June 11, 2014
139
989
More Delays on Sandy Hook Reports
Sheila Matthews
-
June 11, 2014
19
160
Should Our Tax Dollars Be Spent on Promoting Drugs?
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
June 10, 2014
17
228
Pro-Force Attitudes a Symptom of Post Traumatic Stress?
Sera Davidow
-
June 9, 2014
65
790
Reflections on a Pathologized Adolescence and a Vision for the Future
Laura Delano
-
June 8, 2014
52
1397
A Daughter’s Call for Safety and Sanity in Mental Health
Leah Harris
-
June 6, 2014
22
377
News Flash: 4.5 Million Children Forced Daily by “Caretakers” to Do Cocaine-like Drugs
Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
-
June 6, 2014
58
689
Psychiatry DID Promote the Chemical Imbalance Theory
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
June 6, 2014
86
7177
Who’s Delusional? And How Do We Support Them?
Paris Williams, PhD
-
June 5, 2014
30
1198
Did Psychiatric Drugs Play a Role in the Prom Day Killer’s Violent Behavior?
Sheila Matthews
-
June 5, 2014
21
216
Tickets, Updates, and More on MIA’s International Film Festival
Laura Delano
-
June 5, 2014
4
410
The Politics of Healing
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
June 4, 2014
15
781
Ode to Biological Psychiatry
Daniel Mackler
-
June 3, 2014
182
1663
The Relationship Between Systems Change and Being Present with Others
Lauren Spiro
-
June 3, 2014
3
195
Do We Underestimate the Benefits of Antidepressants?
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
May 30, 2014
34
993
Hearing Voices, Emancipation, Shamanism and CBT: Thoughts After Douglas Turkington’s Training
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
May 29, 2014
11
1208
What Should be The #1 Priority of Our Schools?
Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
-
May 28, 2014
26
3249
Final Lecture
Larry M. Leitner, PhD
-
May 27, 2014
39
442
Creating More Equal Societies Decreases Mental Illness: What Should We Do?
Duncan Wright, MD
-
May 25, 2014
33
631
Psychiatric Survivors Are Everywhere
Chaya Grossberg
-
May 24, 2014
33
998
Time for a Policy Against Psychiatric Bullying
Maria Bradshaw
-
May 24, 2014
18
4693
Deconstructing Psychiatric Diagnoses: An Attempt At Humor
Daniel Mackler
-
May 24, 2014
42
682
Psych Drugs Kill vs Psych Drugs Save Lives. What if Both Are True?
Monica Cassani
-
May 24, 2014
46
1114
From Psychiatric Coercion to Libertarianism: A Personal Journey
Tristano Ajmone
-
May 23, 2014
7
551
Connecticut Fails to Meet Deadline on Sandy Hook Mental Health Bill
Sheila Matthews
-
May 22, 2014
13
181
Drugging Toddlers for Inattention, Impulsivity, and Hyperactivity
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
May 22, 2014
38
387
University of Minnesota Psychiatry: A Pattern of Research Abuse
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
-
May 21, 2014
9
553
From Protesting to Taking Over: Using Education to Change Mental Health Care
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
May 19, 2014
13
480
Are You Ready for Multiple Lawsuits By Victims of Psychiatric Misconduct?
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
-
May 18, 2014
9
345
What’s Wrong With You? Nothing.What Has Happened to You? Something.
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
May 17, 2014
99
7077
Adam Lanza’s Psychiatrist’s Ethics Violations Raise Questions About the Legislature’s Controversial Mental Health Increases
Sheila Matthews
-
May 15, 2014
26
576
Childhood Social Functioning Predicts Adult Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder. Or Does It?
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
May 15, 2014
37
551
Calling for Rep. McCann’s resignation while there is still time to run a different...
Aubrey Ellen Shomo
-
May 14, 2014
0
127
Psychiatry’s Manufactured Consent: Chemical Imbalance Theory and the Antidepressant Explosion
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
May 14, 2014
18
4622
Behind Locked Doors: How I Got My Hospital Records, and What I Did With...
motto
-
May 13, 2014
95
5350
Rethinking Diagnosis
Eric Maisel, PhD
-
May 10, 2014
51
452
There is Big Medicine in Everyone
Monica Cassani
-
May 10, 2014
7
258
Electroshock Causes More Harm Than Good
Mary Maddock
-
May 9, 2014
28
1051
Social Services and Psychiatry
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
May 9, 2014
25
160
Complexity
motto
-
May 8, 2014
17
163
Dear DSM-5: I Still Have Some Questions
James Schroeder, PhD
-
May 8, 2014
9
4833
PROTEST PSYCHIATRY – My Newest Film, Free!
Daniel Mackler
-
May 7, 2014
30
491
Consumers Beware!
Vera Sharav
-
May 7, 2014
6
516
Hearing Voices Workshop Comes to Vermont
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
May 7, 2014
14
354
Dr. Lieberman’s Swansong
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
May 6, 2014
29
393
Psychiatry: We Need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Mental Health
Leah Harris
-
May 5, 2014
17
1283
Screening Pregnant Women for Depression
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
-
May 5, 2014
14
818
Legislators: Don’t try to sneak this through as an amendment. (HB1386)
Aubrey Ellen Shomo
-
May 4, 2014
0
119
David W. Oaks’ Statement of Support for Protest of 2014 American Psychiatric Association Meeting
MindFreedom
-
May 4, 2014
1
187
Breaking The Silence – Supporting Young People who Hear Voices in the US
Rai Waddingham
-
May 3, 2014
5
693
The Final Visit to the Psychiatrist (Part 2 of Goodbye Psychiatry)
Monica Cassani
-
May 2, 2014
6
492
I Am Alive
Laura Delano
-
May 1, 2014
25
837
Why I am Going to the APA Protest in NYC on May 4, 2014
motto
-
May 1, 2014
4
321
The APA Is a Fraudulent Enterprise
Jim Gottstein, JD
-
May 1, 2014
12
4444
Goodbye Psychiatry
Monica Cassani
-
May 1, 2014
10
378
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
253
Neuroplasticity: My Newest Friend
Lauren Spiro
-
April 30, 2014
2
408
Cold Turkey
motto
-
April 30, 2014
14
1400
My Thoughts on an Alternative to HB1386 in Colorado (Open Letter)
Aubrey Ellen Shomo
-
April 29, 2014
1
177
Sluggish Cognitive Tempo – A New Diagnosis?
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
April 29, 2014
22
773
Partner Bill of Rights: Speaking to the Cycle of Abuse
James Schroeder, PhD
-
April 28, 2014
9
206
The Hot Stove Project: Learning From People who Think Differently
Lois Oppenheim, PhD
&
Alice Maher, MD
-
April 27, 2014
20
647
Sweeping Benzos Under the Carpet
Barry Haslam
-
April 26, 2014
7
802
More Support and Understanding Needed for People Wanting to Try a No-Meds Approach
Jean Davison
-
April 26, 2014
48
279
We Need to Go Back to Our Roots in the Civil Rights Movement
Ted Chabasinski, JD
-
April 26, 2014
89
370
My Healing Protocol Detailed
Monica Cassani
-
April 25, 2014
7
2513
How Doing Nothing Cured My Friend of Psychosis
Chaya Grossberg
-
April 24, 2014
3
1203
To Senator Harkin: My CRPD Story
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
April 24, 2014
23
423
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
266
“Open Access” for the Activist Community
Nev Jones, PhD
-
April 23, 2014
6
216
Creating Sustainability, Disarming Trauma and Loving One Another
Iden Campbell, CPRP
-
April 23, 2014
3
168
‘Angels and Demons’: the Politics of Psychoactive Drugs
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
April 22, 2014
30
4009
Antidepressants, Pregnancy, and Autism: Really Time to Worry
Adam Urato, MD
-
April 22, 2014
15
399
‘ADHD’ and Dangerous Driving
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
April 22, 2014
24
562
The Manufacture and ‘Maintenance’ of Oppression: A Very Profitable Business
Richard D. Lewis
-
April 22, 2014
13
1180
Defeating Goliath: Mental Health is a Social Justice Issue, and People with Lived Experience...
Leah Harris
-
April 21, 2014
102
2434
Lullaby
David Healy, MD
-
April 21, 2014
16
255
The End of Psychiatry
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
April 20, 2014
49
1507
Invisible Pain
motto
-
April 18, 2014
68
1307
Too Corrupt, Insane & Ridiculous to Be Reformed? Even Establishment Psychiatrists Distance Themselves From...
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
April 17, 2014
48
1572
The Power of Words: What the Wall Street Journal Didn’t Tell You
Scott Bryant-Comstock
-
April 17, 2014
11
243
Replacing Psychiatrists and Psychotherapists
Eric Maisel, PhD
-
April 17, 2014
41
380
I Actually Woke up This Morning Thinking I’d Arrived, I’m Well . . .
Monica Cassani
-
April 16, 2014
12
923
What it Means to be a Human, With all the Beauty and Complexity That...
Carina Håkansson, PhD
-
April 15, 2014
14
315
Justina Pelletier: The Debate Continues
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
April 15, 2014
29
356
Open Letter Re: This Morning‘s Feature on Depression
Julie Leonovs
-
April 15, 2014
55
848
America’s Sweetheart
Nancy Rubenstein del Giudice
-
April 14, 2014
19
1196
9 Ways to Stop the Next Village Shalom Shooting
Corinna West
-
April 14, 2014
3
225
Psychiatric Teams Have a Responsibility to Think About the Psychosis/Sexual Abuse Link
Jay Watts, DClinPsy
-
April 14, 2014
14
1348
Enslaved to Abilify
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
April 14, 2014
61
26827
The Great Turning
Iden Campbell, CPRP
-
April 13, 2014
27
306
Historic Moment for the Right to Legal Capacity
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
April 12, 2014
43
373
Regulatory Capture
Maria Bradshaw
-
April 11, 2014
11
1116
A National Scandal: Psychological Therapies for Psychosis are Helpful, But Unavailable
Peter Kinderman
&
Anne Cooke
-
April 11, 2014
43
803
Markingson Case Supporters: Please Join Our Call-In Campaign
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
-
April 11, 2014
3
188
Rep. McCann: Taking Away the Jury Trial is Undemocratic. (Open Letter)
Aubrey Ellen Shomo
-
April 11, 2014
14
140
My Story of Benzo Withdrawal and Activism
Barry Haslam
-
April 10, 2014
22
6450
Who Cares About Kelsey?
Sera Davidow
-
April 8, 2014
25
1667
Antidepressants Make Things Worse in the Long Term
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
April 8, 2014
24
7884
It’s About the Trauma: How to Truly Address the Roots of Violence and Suffering...
Leah Harris
-
April 7, 2014
81
1481
Important Considerations for Implementing Assisted Outpatient Treatment: A Collaborative Advocacy Agenda
Mark Ragins, MD
-
April 6, 2014
44
405
Advice to the Newbies: Give Your Heart, & Hold Your Theories Lightly
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
April 6, 2014
4
267
The Can Collector’s Club: Clarifying Where Mental Health Begins
James Schroeder, PhD
-
April 6, 2014
9
174
Justina Pelletier: The Case Continues
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
April 4, 2014
52
6787
First They Ignore You: Impressions From Today’s Hearing on H.R. 3717
Leah Harris
-
April 3, 2014
57
375
It’s Time For A Stronger Political Ground Game To Compete With NAMI & Company...
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
April 3, 2014
125
696
Legislator’s Rush to Implement Increased Mental Health Services Based on No Data from Shooting...
Sheila Matthews
-
April 3, 2014
45
287
Murphy Bill: Violates Civil Rights, Increases Government Intrusion and Control, and Ignores Scientific Research
Gina Nikkel, PhD
-
April 3, 2014
18
487
Mental Illness & Violence
Mary Jackson
-
April 3, 2014
20
189
Why Don’t They Know? A Letter to My Doctor
Lisa D.
-
April 2, 2014
52
11420
Recent Success for the Bay Area’s Campaign Against Expanding Forced Treatment
Will Hall
-
April 1, 2014
6
244
Open Letter to Senator Creigh Deeds
Leah Harris
-
March 31, 2014
19
464
So They Say Your Child has ADHD? April Fools!
Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
-
March 31, 2014
3
935
The Fat Lady Has Sung
Robert Whitaker
-
March 30, 2014
58
1745
We Are the People
Oryx Cohen, M.P.A.
-
March 30, 2014
68
333
Are Neuroleptics “Anti-Psychotic”? Harrow’s 20-Year Outcomes
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
March 29, 2014
40
1217
Staying in the New Paradigm: More Thoughts on the Human Rights Committee Recommendation
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
March 29, 2014
2
280
UN: US Should “Generally Prohibit” Non-consensual Psychiatric Treatment
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
March 29, 2014
1
853
Antidepressants and Preterm Birth: More Concerning Findings
Adam Urato, MD
-
March 28, 2014
3
533
Overtreatment, Bereavement, and Antidepressants
Jonathan Leo, PhD / Jeffrey Lacasse, PhD
-
March 27, 2014
5
535
Benzodiazepines: Disempowering and Dangerous
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
March 27, 2014
4
454
Katharine Hepburn is Glamorous – Suicide is Not
Maria Bradshaw
-
March 26, 2014
22
938
Made It! – Successfully Navigating Both Mainstream and Alternative Treatment for Mental Illness
Idakatherine Graver
-
March 24, 2014
4
415
De-escalating Folks When Psychotic and Potentially Violent
Monica Cassani
-
March 23, 2014
18
2241
Launch of the Council for Evidence-Based Psychiatry
James Davies, PhD
-
March 22, 2014
23
1738
Are Vitamins Killing us Softly?
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
March 19, 2014
1
1032
Robert Whitaker: Looking Back and Looking Ahead
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
March 18, 2014
8
144
Why You Can’t Get Informed Consent From a Doctor
Chaya Grossberg
-
March 18, 2014
15
345
Overcoming the Stigma of Depression
Douglas Bloch
-
March 17, 2014
18
9802
What Will Cause Psychiatry to Change?
Andrew L. Yoder, MSW
-
March 17, 2014
18
235
Six Ways You Can Really Help Prevent Suicide
Leah Harris
-
March 17, 2014
27
2227
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Drugs and the Therapeutic State
Jack Carney, DSW
-
March 17, 2014
6
622
Involuntary Mental Health Commitments
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
March 16, 2014
33
4355
Hospitalization: A Crisis in Crisis Care
motto
-
March 15, 2014
12
222
U.N. Questions U.S. on Forced Psychiatric Drugging
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
March 15, 2014
27
572
DSM-5 And Somatic Symptom Disorder
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
March 15, 2014
15
397
Herbs, Supplements, Foods That Can Aid in Withdrawal Symptoms
Chaya Grossberg
-
March 14, 2014
18
40112
The Overmedication of Vulnerable Youth with Psychiatric Medication: Boon for the Pharma Industry
Vicki Martin, MD
-
March 13, 2014
6
1900
Dear NAMI: My Apologies. I’ve Been Unfair.
Sera Davidow
-
March 12, 2014
54
6121
Benzodiazepines: Dangerous Drugs
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
March 12, 2014
29
5148
Neutralising Suffering: How the Medicalisation of Distress Obliterates Meaning and Creates Profit
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
March 11, 2014
18
805
Over Our Dead Bodies
Maria Bradshaw
-
March 11, 2014
8
380
Are We Losing Our Parenting Will?
James Schroeder, PhD
-
March 11, 2014
8
299
Do We Need to See Inside the Box?
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
March 9, 2014
42
420
Will Psychiatry’s Harmful Treatment of Our Children Bring About Its Eventual Demise?
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
March 8, 2014
54
1034
I Love … Stigma? Reaching Out to College Students & Beyond
Sera Davidow
-
March 8, 2014
92
525
A Discussion of Justina Pelletier and Boston Children’s Hospital
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
March 6, 2014
34
1852
Building Bridges Between Mental Health and Addictions Communities
Oryx Cohen, M.P.A.
-
March 6, 2014
9
576
Psychiatry Admits It’s Been Wrong in Big Ways, But Can It Change? A Chat...
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
March 5, 2014
109
3041
Finding and Funding Our Way, Outside the System
Chaya Grossberg
-
March 4, 2014
36
216
Launching MIA Reports
Robert Whitaker
-
March 4, 2014
12
541
A Blood Test for Schizophrenia with 83% Accuracy?
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
March 4, 2014
26
3714
Uses and Abuses of “Recovery” – A Review
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
March 2, 2014
41
531
Six First Steps for Building Communities of Emotional Wellness
motto
-
March 1, 2014
23
526
[Un]Settling In for the Long Haul: The Interplay of Complacency, Stagnation, and Psychotropic...
James Schroeder, PhD
-
February 28, 2014
20
222
The Hallucination in the Room
Rossa Forbes
-
February 25, 2014
51
434
DSM‘s Somatoform Disorders: Millions More Might Be Diagnosed
Monica Cassani
-
February 25, 2014
22
676
ADHD, Bigfoot, and the Missing Links in Research
Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
-
February 24, 2014
6
1429
Neuroleptics and Tardive Dyskinesia in Children
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
February 24, 2014
29
1392
Depression and Suicide in the Elderly
Douglas Bloch
-
February 24, 2014
5
702
Me & The Meds: The Story of a Dysfunctional Relationship
Rai Waddingham
-
February 23, 2014
27
613
SSRI ‘Indication Creep’ Relies on Negligent Doctors
Maria Bradshaw
-
February 21, 2014
11
930
The Origins of Mental Health Services
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
February 20, 2014
8
381
Unwarranted Criticism of “Psychiatry Gone Astray”
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
-
February 20, 2014
17
4272
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
February 20, 2014
31
17745
Current Research on Outpatient Commitment Laws (“Laura’s Law” in California)
Jasenn Zaejian, PhD
-
February 18, 2014
27
1024
A New Silver Bullet? The Lurasidone Story
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
February 17, 2014
72
9132
The Great “Crazy” Cover-up: Harm Results from Rewriting the History of DSM
Paula J. Caplan, PhD
-
February 17, 2014
26
1379
Risperdal for a 2-year-old? Turning the Tide, One Interaction at a Time
James Schroeder, PhD
-
February 17, 2014
30
1119
Should PsychRights Ask the U.S. Supreme Court to Hear an Appeal of the Alaska...
Jim Gottstein, JD
-
February 15, 2014
42
837
Reading Foucault and Human Rights
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
February 15, 2014
18
1386
Making the Invisible, Visible
Maria Bradshaw
-
February 12, 2014
23
778
Traditional Healing and Psychosis vs. the Promises of Modern Science
motto
-
February 12, 2014
29
4819
Genetic Protection Against Schizophrenia?
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
February 12, 2014
13
417
Something Rotten in the State of British Psychiatry?
Philip Thomas, MD
-
February 11, 2014
57
753
Have You Ever Taken an Experimental Antipsychotic Called Bifeprunox?
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
-
February 11, 2014
1
770
Electroshocking Children: Why It Should Be Stopped
John Breeding, PhD
-
February 11, 2014
20
19434
12 Vital Questions of Mental Health
Eric Maisel, PhD
-
February 10, 2014
10
299
How Competing in the Olympics is Like Mental Health Recovery
Corinna West
-
February 10, 2014
3
317
Blogging Your Survival Story: 11 Tips
Chaya Grossberg
-
February 9, 2014
20
270
Paradigm Shift
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
February 9, 2014
122
538
If You Are the Big, Big Tree; We Are the Small Axe
Stephen Weatherhead, DClinPsy
-
February 9, 2014
6
1241
Conversations About Death . . . in Pursuit of Life
James Schroeder, PhD
-
February 5, 2014
13
213
The ADHD Diagnosis is a War of Semantics, Waged on Children
Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
-
February 4, 2014
43
1682
Are Micronutrients a Waste of Time? – A Randomized Controlled Trial
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
February 3, 2014
52
12332
“Decolonizing Global Mental Health: The Psychiatrization of the Majority World” (Book Review)
Philip Thomas, MD
-
February 3, 2014
24
2458
Mark Your Calendars— Announcing Mad in America’s First International Film Festival!
Laura Delano
-
January 31, 2014
23
627
The Problem of Blame
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
January 30, 2014
42
208
Challenging the Status Quo
Maria Bradshaw
-
January 29, 2014
6
567
We Shall Overcome: Remembering Pete Seeger
Jack Carney, DSW
-
January 29, 2014
3
339
Psychiatry Gone Astray
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
-
January 28, 2014
90
6100
Guilty
David Healy, MD
-
January 28, 2014
11
263
Conflict of Interest, DSM-5, and the APA
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
January 25, 2014
50
1276
All Real Living is Meeting
Carina Håkansson, PhD
-
January 24, 2014
40
330
Welcome to Planet ADHD: A Farce to be Reckoned With
Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
-
January 23, 2014
25
939
No More Tears? The Shame of Johnson & Johnson
Maria Bradshaw
-
January 22, 2014
12
9430
Justina Pelletier Supporters Say: Close Harvard’s Abusive Psych Ward at Boston Children’s Hospital
Ted Chabasinski, JD
-
January 21, 2014
22
1478
Dare to Dream: Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Keris Jän Myrick
-
January 20, 2014
3
397
Ear Acupuncture to Support Mental Health
motto
-
January 20, 2014
110
1510
My Journey – A Child Psychiatrist’s Struggle to Change the System
Vicki Martin, MD
-
January 19, 2014
29
272
Reclaiming Humanity
Greg Benson
-
January 17, 2014
114
287
Antidepressants, Pregnancy, and Autism: Time to Worry?
Adam Urato, MD
-
January 16, 2014
9
3096
Update: ABC World News Wants to Know About Benzos
Melissa Bond
-
January 15, 2014
19
893
Evidence That More Psychiatry Means More Suicide
Maria Bradshaw
-
January 12, 2014
144
7130
When I Grow Up, I Want to be a Psychiatrist: Redefining the Profession for...
James Schroeder, PhD
-
January 11, 2014
41
4069
Based on a True Story Filled with Lies
Olga Runciman, Cand Psych BSc
-
January 11, 2014
32
447
Tell the Feds What “Quality Care” Looks Like
Corinna West
-
January 10, 2014
1
193
Learning Family Recovery Skills: Krista Mackinnon on Madness Radio
Will Hall
-
January 10, 2014
17
443
Psychiatry Is Not Based On Valid Science
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
January 9, 2014
33
4131
North Carolina Police Shoot and Kill “Mentally Ill” Kid
Faith Rhyne
-
January 8, 2014
64
495
Prescribing Rights for Psychologists
Maria Bradshaw
-
January 7, 2014
13
1563
Non-Compliance in the New Year: The Power of ‘No’
Sera Davidow
-
January 6, 2014
38
375
In Search of a Hundred Miles of Gratitude
James Schroeder, PhD
-
January 6, 2014
3
216
If You Don’t Have Anything to Hide, You Don’t Have Anything to Worry About
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
January 3, 2014
71
814
The Meaning of Legal Capacity is Equality
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
January 2, 2014
9
786
The Promise of Open Dialogue
Mary Olson, PhD
-
January 1, 2014
69
7597
Dream
Chaya Grossberg
-
January 1, 2014
14
144
On Creating Universes, Killing Cats and Other Odd Things
Maria Bradshaw
-
January 1, 2014
42
294
NIMH Mad Libs
MIA Editors
-
December 29, 2013
6
1005
What’s Really Behind GSK’s New Business Model?
Maria Bradshaw
-
December 28, 2013
18
624
My Recovery from ‘Schizophrenia’ through Psychotherapy and Writing
Lia Govers
-
December 28, 2013
7
1308
Making Sense of Being Crazy in a Crazy World: A Community Poll
Sascha Altman DuBrul
-
December 27, 2013
0
381
Justina Pelletier Case Shows Public That Psychiatric Power is Out of Control
Ted Chabasinski, JD
-
December 27, 2013
154
1662
Resolving to Make This Year Mean More
James Schroeder, PhD
-
December 27, 2013
12
112
Returning Stuff
Chaya Grossberg
-
December 25, 2013
7
530
The Story of Legal Capacity: Specificity and Intersections
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
December 25, 2013
2
475
In Time for RXmas: Motivational Pharmacotherapy
Maria Bradshaw
-
December 23, 2013
21
397
Tim Murphy Mental Health Bill: More Expensive and Less Effective
Corinna West
-
December 20, 2013
15
346
Is There a Simple Way to Use Nutrition Knowledge to Decrease Onset of Psychosis?
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
December 20, 2013
8
877
Psychiatry Has its Head in the Sand: Royal College of Psychiatrists Rejects Discussion of...
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
December 20, 2013
40
618
Homelessness, Hospitalization and “Compliance”
motto
-
December 18, 2013
86
797
CAFÉ Study: Real Science or Marketing Exercise?
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
December 18, 2013
4
906
Epic Fail: The Legislation of Involuntary Mental Health Treatment
Faith Rhyne
-
December 18, 2013
53
495
Power to Communities, Healing Through Social Justice: INTAR 2014 in Liverpool, England
Philip Thomas, MD
&
Peter Stastny, MD
-
December 17, 2013
0
301
Do I Enjoy Prescribing Meds?
Mark Ragins, MD
-
December 16, 2013
185
513
Investigate the Markingson Suicide? Not So Fast, Says University President
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
-
December 16, 2013
3
356
10 Ways Mental Health Professionals Increase Misery in Suffering People
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
December 15, 2013
24
5621
Off-Label in New Zealand
Erik Monasterio, MD
-
December 15, 2013
7
403
How Canada’s Prisons Killed Ashley Smith: A National Crime and Shame
Don Weitz
-
December 14, 2013
16
8229
Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered
Maria Bradshaw
-
December 13, 2013
14
378
What is a Simple Way to Prevent the Onset of Physical Disease?
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
December 12, 2013
9
447
The Esalen Connection: Fifty Years of Re-Visioning Madness and Trying to Transform the World
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
December 12, 2013
27
1175
Mind the Gap: The Space Between Alternatives & Force
Sera Davidow
-
December 11, 2013
79
843
Setting the Intention to Heal: The Starting Point of Mental Health Recovery
Douglas Bloch
-
December 10, 2013
15
3487
Embracing Movement Diversity
Chaya Grossberg
-
December 10, 2013
4
218
Providing Sanctuary, Part 3; Support, Perfectionism, Structure and Flexibility
Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD
-
December 9, 2013
0
131
Is Addiction a Disease?
Deron Drumm
&
Kelvin Young
-
December 7, 2013
20
474
Governments Delivering Customers to Big Pharma
Maria Bradshaw
-
December 5, 2013
20
294
Neuroleptics for Children: Harvard’s Shame
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
December 4, 2013
28
874
The Church of GSKology, Part 2
David Healy, MD
-
December 4, 2013
2
158
How Can We Talk About Difficult Experiences Non-Violently?
Rufus May
-
December 3, 2013
3
420
DSM-5 Boycott Enters 2nd Phase: A Primer for the NO-DSM Diagnosis Campaign
Jack Carney, DSW
-
December 2, 2013
1
913
Against All Odds
Chaya Grossberg
-
December 1, 2013
19
339
Finding the Inner Wild
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
December 1, 2013
2
201
Inpatient Hospitalization: An Inside Perspective
motto
-
November 30, 2013
140
1665
Response To Sandy Hook Report
Greg Benson
-
November 29, 2013
15
187
A Small Revolution in Belgium: Psychologists to be Recognized Health Professionals
Nadia Mahjoub
-
November 29, 2013
5
750
Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Human Metamorphosis
Laura Delano
-
November 28, 2013
21
1339
KMSP-TV Investigative Report on Psychiatric Research Abuse at the University of Minnesota
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
-
November 27, 2013
6
252
An Opportunity for “Mad Caring”: David Oaks Needs Our Help
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
November 26, 2013
5
269
The Church of GSKology
David Healy, MD
-
November 25, 2013
8
201
American Psychosis
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
November 25, 2013
17
295
If I Had Remained Med Compliant…
Monica Cassani
-
November 24, 2013
18
1032
The Taper
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
November 22, 2013
3
829
eCPR: A Health Promotion Approach
Lauren Spiro
,
Daniel Fisher, MD, PhD
&
Leah Harris
-
November 22, 2013
13
1092
Patients’ Rights in Massachusetts
Cathy Levin
-
November 22, 2013
11
2612
Is Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) Effective?
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
November 21, 2013
112
8316
Statement to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on CRPD
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
November 19, 2013
52
588
Tapering Neuroleptics: Two Year Results
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
November 18, 2013
23
540
A Stranger in a Strange Land (Pt. 2): What Happened to You?
Andrew L. Yoder, MSW
-
November 18, 2013
47
169
Where There is No Word for “Alone”
Lauren Spiro
-
November 18, 2013
2
311
Threats, Coercion and Chemical Restraints for Distressed Children
Maria Bradshaw
-
November 17, 2013
42
759
The House of GSK
David Healy, MD
-
November 17, 2013
2
213
U.S. Renegade History, Psychiatric Survivors, & the Price of Acceptance
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
November 14, 2013
15
317
How to Escape Psychiatry as a Teen: Interview with a Survivor
Chaya Grossberg
-
November 14, 2013
42
841
Just Who is the Naked One Here?
Olga Runciman, Cand Psych BSc
-
November 10, 2013
34
598
Living in One of R. D. Laing’s Post-Kingsley Hall Households
Michael Guy Thompson
-
November 9, 2013
51
6802
Mis- (and Dis-) Information about UN Disability Convention
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
November 8, 2013
11
638
What Are You Doing, WHO?
Maria Bradshaw
-
November 8, 2013
2
196
What Are You Doing WHO?
Maria Bradshaw
-
November 8, 2013
2
169
Is Emotional Distress Criminal?
Deron Drumm
-
November 7, 2013
16
544
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457
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November 5, 2013
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175
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November 4, 2013
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602
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1187
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319
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587
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November 1, 2013
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243
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October 30, 2013
5
434
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October 29, 2013
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576
Photo ID Cards for “Mental Patients” Now a Reality
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October 29, 2013
115
2716
DSM-5’s “Speculative” 2002 Diagnostic System Based On Expected Gene Findings
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October 27, 2013
6
617
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October 27, 2013
14
154
It’s NOT all in Your Head
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October 27, 2013
37
1647
R.D. Laing & Anti-Psychopathology: The Myth of Mental Illness Redux
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October 26, 2013
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9518
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Madeline Goldstein
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October 23, 2013
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2607
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October 22, 2013
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330
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Monica Cassani
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October 22, 2013
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5881
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October 21, 2013
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2981
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Jay Joseph, PsyD
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October 21, 2013
28
1585
The Shameful Story that Runs and Runs: A Review of The Bitterest Pills
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October 20, 2013
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1508
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October 19, 2013
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232
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October 18, 2013
68
1354
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Maria Bradshaw
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October 18, 2013
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872
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October 18, 2013
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298
We Are Meant to Heal in a Community
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October 16, 2013
14
3887
Top Ten Reasons Alternatives 2013 is the “Cannot-Miss” Event of the Year
Oryx Cohen, M.P.A.
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October 16, 2013
17
190
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October 15, 2013
34
15098
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Sera Davidow
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Laura Delano
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October 14, 2013
20
969
UN Prohibition of Psychiatric Commitment: Review and Analysis
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October 13, 2013
13
1364
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October 13, 2013
0
175
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October 12, 2013
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October 12, 2013
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October 10, 2013
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681
Emotions: Keys to Our Freedom
Michael Cornwall, PhD
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October 10, 2013
17
781
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Ted Chabasinski, JD
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October 10, 2013
66
304
Dr. Mark and the Village
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October 8, 2013
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912
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October 8, 2013
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232
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October 7, 2013
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1527
The Bitterest Pills: The Troubling Story of Antipsychotic Drugs
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October 6, 2013
18
6088
Mental Illness, Right & Wrong, Drugs, and Violence
Elahe Hessamfar
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October 5, 2013
13
2073
2013 Conference of the International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry
Al Galves, PhD
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October 4, 2013
1
223
Psychiatric Profiling as Blood Libel
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
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October 2, 2013
48
1139
Mike Wallace Must Be Spinning In His Grave
Susan Rogers
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October 1, 2013
12
322
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October 1, 2013
103
2588
Psychiatric Language: Perception, Reality, & Breakfast
Maria Bradshaw
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September 30, 2013
12
395
ADHD in France and America
David Cohen
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September 30, 2013
20
1972
60 Minutes: Stop the Lies!
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September 29, 2013
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555
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September 27, 2013
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169
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September 26, 2013
9
164
A Time for Heretics
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September 25, 2013
25
203
One World, One People, One Struggle
Richard D. Lewis
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September 24, 2013
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595
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Wayne Munchel
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September 23, 2013
12
174
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Psychosis: A Valuable Contribution Despite Major Flaws
Ron Unger, LCSW
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September 22, 2013
5
476
Amazing Victory for Mental Health Activists: NIMH Director Accepts Ideas Once Seen as Radical
Bruce Levine, PhD
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September 22, 2013
10
3503
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MIA Editors
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September 21, 2013
13
1670
UN: Ensure No One is Detained in Any Kind of Mental Health Facility
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
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September 21, 2013
3
725
David Cohen on Madness Radio: The Meaning of Medications
Will Hall
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September 21, 2013
3
365
Are Supplements Simply Creating Expensive Urine?
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
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September 19, 2013
13
933
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Chaya Grossberg
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September 19, 2013
28
447
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185
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September 17, 2013
17
937
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September 15, 2013
38
964
Human Rights Report on Forced Drugging in the U.S.
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
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September 14, 2013
4
677
Voices, Then & Now
Ron Coleman
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September 14, 2013
4
288
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Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
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September 13, 2013
5
237
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Olga Runciman, Cand Psych BSc
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September 13, 2013
23
545
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September 13, 2013
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263
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Daniel Mackler
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September 11, 2013
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September 11, 2013
1
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September 11, 2013
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391
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September 10, 2013
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1950
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September 9, 2013
37
4143
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Sandra Steingard, MD
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September 9, 2013
48
29311
Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: How Big Pharma Has Corrupted Health Care
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
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September 9, 2013
37
9075
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September 8, 2013
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332
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September 8, 2013
10
236
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Maria Bradshaw
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September 7, 2013
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Forced Psychiatric Treatment (and Protection against it) in Germany in 2013
Peter Lehmann
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September 7, 2013
6
1901
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Michael Cornwall, PhD
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September 7, 2013
71
4241
The Temptation of Certainty: David Foster Wallace, Suicide and Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal
Vanessa Krasinski, MSN, RN
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September 6, 2013
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8044
No New Prozacs: A Dry Pipeline for New Psychiatric Drugs
Douglas Bloch
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September 5, 2013
11
379
Help Write a Psychiatric Survivor Manifesto
Corinna West
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September 4, 2013
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435
The Right to Profit vs. The Right to Know
Johanna Ryan
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September 3, 2013
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349
The Brain that Changes Itself: How Breakthroughs in Neuroplasticity Can De-Pathologize Mental Health
Lucinda Jewell
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September 3, 2013
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Chaya Grossberg
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September 2, 2013
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222
Dietary Patterns and Mental Health
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
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September 1, 2013
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In ‘Peer’ We Trust
Sera Davidow
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August 31, 2013
79
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Societies With Little Coercion Have Little Mental Illness
Bruce Levine, PhD
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August 30, 2013
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The Speech
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August 30, 2013
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201
Community Discussions NOW That Actually Want Our Perspective
Corinna West
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August 30, 2013
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Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
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August 28, 2013
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1001
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August 27, 2013
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Symptom or Experience: Does Language Matter?
Rai Waddingham
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August 27, 2013
44
1568
LERNing Through Research, Advocacy, and Experience
Laysha Ostrow, PhD
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August 27, 2013
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615
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August 27, 2013
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428
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Lauren Spiro
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August 26, 2013
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Guiding Voices, Trauma-Induced Voices
Chaya Grossberg
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August 25, 2013
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392
Changing Minds About Voices: Action Over Words
Sera Davidow
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August 25, 2013
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August 24, 2013
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384
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Ron Unger, LCSW
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August 24, 2013
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180
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Jim Gottstein, JD
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August 21, 2013
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378
Chinese Medicine for Emotional Healing
Will Fudeman
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August 21, 2013
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Is a Little Stigma Better Than None?
Chaya Grossberg
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August 17, 2013
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399
Long-Term Antipsychotics: Making Sense of the Evidence in the Light of the Dutch Follow-Up...
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August 13, 2013
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3041
The Power of the Written Word
Tamasin Knight, MBChB, MPH
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August 13, 2013
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296
Is Depression Unhappiness?
Monica Cassani
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August 12, 2013
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1321
Playing the Odds: Antidepressant ‘Withdrawal’ and the Problem of Informed Consent
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August 12, 2013
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Nancy Rubenstein del Giudice
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August 8, 2013
102
296
Raising Our Voices at TED 2013
Eleanor Longden, PhD
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August 8, 2013
29
620
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Ted Chabasinski, JD
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August 7, 2013
24
801
PTSD in Withdrawal
Matt Samet
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August 6, 2013
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Can Psychiatry “Re-Engage” with Pharma?
Sandra Steingard, MD
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August 4, 2013
76
511
A Hand to Hold: Community Mental Health in Times of Crisis
Faith Rhyne
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August 4, 2013
60
237
Faith Lost
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
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August 4, 2013
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August 3, 2013
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319
Why Involuntary Out-Patient Treatment Isn’t Necessary – A First Person Account
Michael Cornwall, PhD
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August 2, 2013
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548
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July 31, 2013
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29108
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Gretchen LeFever Watson
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July 31, 2013
45
794
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Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD
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July 24, 2013
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420
My Reply to Pete Earley: Do I Have Blood On My Hands?
Robert Whitaker
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July 23, 2013
332
2108
Harm Reduction & the Elephant in the Room: End DSM Dependency
Jack Carney, DSW
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July 23, 2013
9
660
Haloperidol is Neurotoxic
Sandra Steingard, MD
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July 21, 2013
198
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Dreams: Still the Royal Road to the Unconscious
Michael Cornwall, PhD
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July 20, 2013
40
3629
Western Psychiatry in Crisis: UK Psychiatry Re-Positions Itself
Lucy Johnstone, PsyD
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Jacqui Dillon
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July 19, 2013
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Many Ears Make Light Listening
Chaya Grossberg
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July 18, 2013
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159
Harrow + Wunderink + Open Dialogue = An Evidence-based Mandate for A New Standard...
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July 17, 2013
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6037
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Julie Leonovs
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July 16, 2013
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Jennifer Maurer
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July 11, 2013
54
606
Robert Whitaker’s Lecture at NAMI – A Parent’s Perspective
Kathy Brandt
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July 10, 2013
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902
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Robert Nikkel, MSW
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July 10, 2013
8
264
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July 10, 2013
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Claire Weber
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July 9, 2013
58
1078
Does NIMH Follow the Rules of Science? A Startling Study
Niall McLaren
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July 9, 2013
23
1049
Diagnosis: Without Shoes
Sera Davidow
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July 8, 2013
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373
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Sandra Steingard, MD
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July 7, 2013
54
2570
The Shoes Keep on Dropping… What Next?
Jack Carney, DSW
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July 7, 2013
4
755
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Laysha Ostrow, PhD
&
Nev Jones, PhD
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July 6, 2013
4
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Paris Williams, PhD
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July 4, 2013
15
1273
Cheers for Peers
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July 4, 2013
31
3083
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Matt Samet
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July 3, 2013
25
619
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Deron Drumm
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July 3, 2013
10
462
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Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
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July 2, 2013
4
423
Shaken But Unstirred – Can Nutrients Assist With Recovery From Earthquakes?
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
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June 30, 2013
3
455
Rethinking Mental Health, Part 1: From Positivism to a Holistic/Organismic Paradigm
Paris Williams, PhD
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June 29, 2013
25
3407
A Close Look at Andreasen et al.’s Advice to Increase the Dosage of Antipsychotics...
Jill Littrell, PhD
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June 29, 2013
86
435
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Steve Stone
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June 27, 2013
13
235
I Am Also Mad
Sandra Steingard, MD
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June 26, 2013
102
428
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Aubrey Ellen Shomo
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June 26, 2013
12
6542
We Name It as Torture
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
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June 26, 2013
15
2319
How I Overcame an Episode of SSRI-Induced Suicidal Depression
Douglas Bloch
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June 26, 2013
13
21871
Withdrawing From Psychiatric Drugs: What Psychiatrists Don’t Learn
Vivek Datta, MD, MPH
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June 24, 2013
74
10083
Spinning Straw into Gold: When Science Becomes Fiction
Marilyn Wedge, PhD
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June 24, 2013
3
763
Snail’s Pace Race
Chaya Grossberg
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June 23, 2013
3
280
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Laura Delano
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June 22, 2013
36
477
MIA’s New Directory of Providers For Psych Drug Withdrawal
motto
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June 22, 2013
8
398
Conference at Vatican Holds Great Promise: You Can’t Always Get What You Want…
Barry Duncan
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June 21, 2013
11
198
Antipsychotics and Brain Shrinkage: An Update
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
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June 19, 2013
70
24407
The Vatican, Ritalin, and a Canadian Study of Long-term ADHD Outcomes
Robert Whitaker
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June 18, 2013
103
3654
Tapering Off Medications When “Symptoms Have Remitted”: Does That Make Sense?
Ron Unger, LCSW
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June 18, 2013
2
238
Psychiatry’s Oppression of Young Anarchists — and the Underground Resistance
Bruce Levine, PhD
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June 16, 2013
51
4130
What is Mental Illness Today? Five Hard Questions
Hugh Middleton, MD
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June 13, 2013
6
1304
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Michael Rock
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June 11, 2013
3
136
We Have a Dream: Getting Engaged to a Doctor
David Healy, MD
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June 10, 2013
60
388
Avatar Therapy: A New Battle for the Tree of Life
Rufus May
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June 9, 2013
24
1021
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
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June 9, 2013
12
2781
Medication and Spirituality
Lynne Vanderpot, PhD
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June 9, 2013
7
2787
Can Psychosis be Treated With Nutrition?
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
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June 7, 2013
45
6396
Talk Therapy Can Cause Harm, Too
Jill Littrell, PhD
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June 6, 2013
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Hannah S. Decker
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June 6, 2013
7
2608
Critical Psychiatry Network Calls on Institute of Psychiatry to Cancel Charles Nemeroff
Philip Thomas, MD
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June 4, 2013
70
518
Madness and Play: Exploring the Boundary
Ron Unger, LCSW
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June 3, 2013
5
739
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Sandra Steingard, MD
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June 2, 2013
29
265
Miscarried Life
Sera Davidow
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May 31, 2013
39
570
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
539
A Soiled Phoenix Rises
Philip Thomas, MD
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May 30, 2013
27
693
Thoughts on the Global and U.S. Movements
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
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May 29, 2013
1
278
Open the Paradigm
PJ Moynihan
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May 29, 2013
11
561
Starvation: What Does it Do to the Brain?
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
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May 28, 2013
13
68954
Little Victories on Breezy
Matt Samet
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May 27, 2013
2
611
Next Steps: More Lessons Learned From the DSM-5 Boycott
Jack Carney, DSW
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May 24, 2013
4
485
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Chaya Grossberg
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May 23, 2013
13
171
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Corinna West
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May 23, 2013
1
294
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Philip Thomas, MD
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May 23, 2013
74
1111
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Bruce Levine, PhD
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May 21, 2013
8
251
Enough with the Questions!
Jay Watts, DClinPsy
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May 21, 2013
27
553
When “Recovery” Feels Like a Trap
Sean Donovan
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May 20, 2013
64
505
Hearing Voices Network Launches Debate on DSM-5 and Psychiatric Diagnoses
Jacqui Dillon
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May 20, 2013
29
1507
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Sandra Steingard, MD
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May 19, 2013
99
363
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Jack Carney, DSW
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May 17, 2013
26
404
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Paris Williams, PhD
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May 16, 2013
22
326
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Faith Rhyne
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Purpose is Inherently Divorced From Consensual Reality
Chaya Grossberg
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May 15, 2013
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375
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Richard D. Lewis
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May 15, 2013
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14924
Jeopardizing Your Wife to Prove a Point: Pellagra as an Example of Deficit
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
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May 15, 2013
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DxSummit Officially Launches
Jonathan Raskin
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May 15, 2013
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524
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Jennifer Maurer
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May 14, 2013
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245
Body Politics
Sera Davidow
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May 14, 2013
43
308
Leaving Marcellas
Michael Rock
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May 14, 2013
21
188
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Paul Baker
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May 14, 2013
0
275
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Vivek Datta, MD, MPH
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May 13, 2013
18
3523
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Sandra Steingard, MD
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May 13, 2013
17
824
UK Clinical Psychologists Call for the Abandonment of Psychiatric Diagnosis and the ‘Disease’ Model
Lucy Johnstone, PsyD
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May 13, 2013
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6661
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Jonathan Raskin
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May 13, 2013
12
1165
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Laura Delano
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May 12, 2013
63
1891
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May 12, 2013
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243
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Monica Cassani
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May 11, 2013
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8881
Spiritual Emergency Round 2: Smashing Warped Philosophies
Corinna West
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May 10, 2013
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278
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Douglas Bloch
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May 10, 2013
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11922
Chew on This: FDA Embraces Big Pharma; Takes Aim at Big Gum
David Ross, MEd, LPCC
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May 10, 2013
16
169
Colonization or Postpsychiatry?
Olga Runciman, Cand Psych BSc
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May 9, 2013
64
1018
Why Neuroscience Cannot Explain Madness
Philip Thomas, MD
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May 7, 2013
18
1733
CDC Reports ‘Substantial’ Increases in U.S. Suicide Rate for Middle-Aged Americans
Bruce Levine, PhD
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May 7, 2013
3
249
Classism in Disguise
Chaya Grossberg
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May 7, 2013
18
772
Witty A: Report to the President
David Healy, MD
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May 7, 2013
1
206
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Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
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May 7, 2013
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1479
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May 7, 2013
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494
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May 7, 2013
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804
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May 6, 2013
30
390
I Am A Witness… Fifty Years Later
motto
-
May 4, 2013
66
4896
How Much can a Psychiatrist Charge to Visit With a Dead Research Subject?
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
-
May 4, 2013
0
271
Conspiracy Theories Fill a Need
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
May 4, 2013
19
430
Shield Texans From Psychiatric Force: Oppose Texas House Bill 2212!
MindFreedom
-
May 3, 2013
11
649
The Hearing Voices Movement: Has it Really Been 25 years?
Paul Baker
-
May 2, 2013
8
1379
The “Mental Illness” Paradigm: An “Illness” That is out of Control
Paris Williams, PhD
-
May 2, 2013
50
3785
Inbetweenland Reflections
Jennifer Maria Padron
-
May 1, 2013
0
619
Family Members – Allies or Adversaries?
Deron Drumm
-
April 30, 2013
19
468
Brand Fascism
David Healy, MD
-
April 30, 2013
2
186
The Culture of Fear and the Lost Art of Organizing for Social Change
Jack Carney, DSW
-
April 29, 2013
36
544
The ‘Recovery’ Trap
Sera Davidow
-
April 28, 2013
79
1838
Birthing Bliss, Birthing Trauma, and the Role of the Perinatal Patient
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
April 26, 2013
4
485
Fear, Discrimination and Our Ever-Eroding Civil Rights
Sean Donovan
-
April 26, 2013
40
196
Psychology and Neuroscience Are a Misfit
Al Galves, PhD
-
April 26, 2013
6
355
The Unmedicated Life
Matt Samet
-
April 26, 2013
5
1099
Labeling
Chaya Grossberg
-
April 26, 2013
14
212
We Have Seen the Evidence Base, and it is Us
Janet Currie
-
April 25, 2013
6
367
I Talked About Mad in America on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show!
Sascha Altman DuBrul
-
April 24, 2013
0
163
Time for a new Understanding of Suicidal Feelings
Will Hall
-
April 24, 2013
11
1595
The Empire of Humbug: Not So Bad Pharma
David Healy, MD
-
April 24, 2013
0
126
The Words We Use…
Robert Nikkel, MSW
-
April 23, 2013
7
438
Finding the Meaning in Suffering: My Experience with Coming off Psychiatric Drugs (in a...
Laura Delano
-
April 23, 2013
79
6101
Carina Håkansson: Family Care Foundation
Kermit Cole
-
April 23, 2013
8
2346
Public Comment to the National Council on Disability on its Engagement with CRPD
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
April 22, 2013
3
261
Study the Past if You Would Define the Future [Confucius]
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
April 22, 2013
8
1524
All Sorts of Realities
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
April 22, 2013
23
161
Could a Different Approach to “Mental Health” Be Part of Solving the Climate Crisis?
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
April 21, 2013
44
223
Did Electroshock Save my Life?
Loretta Wilson
-
April 20, 2013
15
1115
Mad Flies and Bad Science
Philip Thomas, MD
-
April 17, 2013
19
796
The Empire of Humbug: Bad Pharma
David Healy, MD
-
April 16, 2013
0
119
To Honor or to Investigate?
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
-
April 15, 2013
5
508
Nutrition and Mental Health
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
April 15, 2013
28
1655
Optimal Use of Neuroleptics, Part 3: Duration of Untreated Psychosis
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
April 14, 2013
38
1080
One Year of Mad In America
motto
-
April 14, 2013
34
154
Fire In The Belly
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
April 13, 2013
8
608
Slices of Pies: A Dialogue with Ronald Pies
Sera Davidow
-
April 12, 2013
168
321
Too Much Pies
Sera Davidow
-
April 10, 2013
67
287
The Tragedy of Lou Lasagna
David Healy, MD
-
April 9, 2013
0
448
“That’s Just How It Is”
Matt Samet
-
April 9, 2013
24
669
Living Mindfully with Voices
Rufus May
-
April 9, 2013
7
578
Winners of the American Dream
Alice Keys, MD
-
April 7, 2013
62
443
Please Defend the Right to Bear Arms
Deron Drumm
-
April 7, 2013
77
233
Using Formulation to Change Team Cultures
Lucy Johnstone, PsyD
-
April 7, 2013
6
1721
False Arguments, Part. 2: Anti-Anti-Stigma
Sera Davidow
-
April 6, 2013
70
4109
Making Plans for the Long Flight – Re-visioning Icarus’ Next 10 Years
Sascha Altman DuBrul
-
April 5, 2013
6
170
The U.N. Asks the U.S. to Defend its Use of Forced Psychiatric Drugging
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
April 4, 2013
12
957
eCPR (Emotional CPR): A Tool & a Process of Peacemaking
Lauren Spiro
-
April 4, 2013
3
1247
Imperialist Psychiatrists, Psychopathic Corporatists — But I Repeat Myself
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
April 4, 2013
7
843
On World Autism Day: Why I Am Concerned About the Use of Antidepressants During...
Adam Urato, MD
-
April 2, 2013
25
459
A Recovery Story, in Dollars and Cents
Lyn Legere
-
April 1, 2013
8
265
Managing a Movement or Community
David Ross, MEd, LPCC
-
March 30, 2013
0
102
Optimal Use of Neuroleptics, Pt. II; The Monkeys Were Not Psychotic
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
March 30, 2013
45
277
Situational Schizophrenia
Marilyn Wedge, PhD
-
March 29, 2013
12
504
Can a Profession Be any More Confused?
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
March 28, 2013
18
424
After the Statement by the Special Rapporteur on Torture, Taking Stock of Where We...
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
March 28, 2013
5
726
Not So Bad Pharma
David Healy, MD
-
March 28, 2013
2
278
Life, Liberty, & the Pursuit of Happiness? Protesting the Legislation of Systematic Civil...
Laura Delano
-
March 27, 2013
26
1711
The DSM-5 Field Trials: Inter-Rater Reliability Ratings Take a Nose Dive
Jack Carney, DSW
-
March 26, 2013
0
8448
Do Antipsychotics Worsen Long-term Schizophrenia Outcomes? Martin Harrow Explores the Question.
Robert Whitaker
-
March 26, 2013
25
6093
To Medicate Or Not To Medicate: That Is Not The Question
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
March 25, 2013
8
501
Optimal Use of Neuroleptic Drugs: An Introduction
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
March 23, 2013
160
416
Death Grip: Then and Now
Matt Samet
-
March 21, 2013
6
779
He Who Pays the Piper
Alice Keys, MD
-
March 21, 2013
18
337
Ask Michael Moore About Psychiatric Drugs and Gun Violence
Jim Gottstein, JD
-
March 21, 2013
8
1024
The Petition Against DSM-5
Philip Thomas, MD
-
March 20, 2013
0
390
The 99th Mile: When Benzo Withdrawal Meets Parenthood
Melissa Bond
-
March 19, 2013
16
2736
“They Need to be Held Accountable”
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
-
March 16, 2013
3
658
The Trouble with Twin Studies
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
March 13, 2013
25
35088
Confronting the Addiction Voice on the Road to Recovery
James Moore
-
March 13, 2013
18
6628
Social Vacuum
Matt Samet
-
March 13, 2013
5
4848
The Systemic Crushing of Young Nonconformists and Anti-Authoritarians
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
March 11, 2013
55
1152
About Being Paul Revere
Alice Keys, MD
-
March 10, 2013
107
367
We Are Now Qualified to do Anything, with Nothing
Jennifer Maria Padron
-
March 6, 2013
5
588
My Story of Recovery: Prayer, Community, and Healing
Douglas Bloch
-
March 5, 2013
9
1148
Preventing Depression: SSRIs for At-Risk Populations?
Jonathan Leo, PhD / Jeffrey Lacasse, PhD
-
March 4, 2013
38
424
The Latest Gene Finding Claim in Psychiatry
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
March 4, 2013
43
548
Profiles in Creative Maladjustment: AL GALVES
MindFreedom
-
March 1, 2013
4
266
Diagnosis Dilemma
Alice Keys, MD
-
March 1, 2013
109
339
The Politics of Systems Change: Lessons Learned from the Launch of the DSM-5 Boycott
Jack Carney, DSW
-
February 26, 2013
17
571
Components for a Good Neuroleptic Withdrawal Program
Daniel Mackler
-
February 25, 2013
81
1698
We are Whole People, Not Broken Brains
Daniel Fisher, MD, PhD
-
February 24, 2013
50
2541
Reflections on a Psychiatric Indoctrination, or, How I Began to Free Myself from the...
Laura Delano
-
February 23, 2013
241
4654
Keynote Speech at Alternatives 2012 Conference: Remembering Our History, Thinking About our Future
Will Hall
-
February 23, 2013
3
340
Pinball Wizards and the Doomed Project of Psychiatric Diagnosis
Philip Thomas, MD
-
February 19, 2013
14
1490
How Do You Live at the Intersection of Love and Outrage?
Corinna West
-
February 18, 2013
8
792
Dan’s Journey Through OCD
Janet Singer
-
February 15, 2013
9
9058
Five Decades of Gene Finding Failures in Psychiatry
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
February 15, 2013
60
5753
Love Note for Valentine’s Day: Beware of Those Peddling ADHD Drugs
Gretchen LeFever Watson
-
February 14, 2013
3
369
Some Thoughts on the Origins of Mental Illnesses
Hugh Middleton, MD
-
February 14, 2013
37
921
We Are The Ones
Alice Keys, MD
-
February 13, 2013
23
203
Not so Black: Ablixa and Homicidal Side Effects
David Healy, MD
-
February 13, 2013
18
29449
Register now for the UnDiagnosing UnPlanned UnConference
Corinna West
-
February 13, 2013
9
832
Our Collective Stories Have Power
Leah Harris
-
February 12, 2013
9
234
Emotional CPR as a Way of Life
Lauren Spiro
-
February 12, 2013
5
1430
Prozac and SSRIs: Twenty-fifth Anniversary
David Healy, MD
-
February 11, 2013
3
427
Rejuvenating Abolitionism of Psychiatric Labels — Even Some Establishment Psychiatrists Embarrassed by New DSM-5
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
February 10, 2013
9
2164
Don’t Go Back to Sleep
Alice Keys, MD
-
February 8, 2013
17
209
That Naughty Little Pill
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
February 8, 2013
3
2288
Redemption Songs: Music and Madness
Faith Rhyne
-
February 8, 2013
25
527
A New Film Called ‘Beyond the Medical Model’
Sera Davidow
-
February 6, 2013
44
1341
DSM-5 Boycott Launched!
Jack Carney, DSW
-
February 5, 2013
30
3992
The SSRIs and Ten Years of Misleading Advertising: Who is Responsible?
Jonathan Leo, PhD / Jeffrey Lacasse, PhD
-
February 5, 2013
72
473
It’s Time to Wake Up and Stop the Violence
Oryx Cohen, M.P.A.
-
February 4, 2013
28
847
The Antidepressant Era: the Movie
David Healy, MD
-
February 1, 2013
2
643
Why Do the Stories Psychiatrists Tell Their Patients Matter?
Philip Thomas, MD
-
January 28, 2013
13
827
As We Scapegoat Schizophrenics Today, I Am Reminded of Nazi Germany
Ted Chabasinski, JD
-
January 26, 2013
26
937
5 Things You Can Do In 5 Minutes to UnDiagnose Emotional Distress
Corinna West
-
January 25, 2013
0
355
Scapegoating Persons Labelled Mentally Ill: The Politics of Marginalization
Jack Carney, DSW
-
January 25, 2013
15
1470
Krazy Kiwi Kids
Maria Bradshaw
-
January 23, 2013
6
357
A Breakthrough for Suicide (Attempt) Survivors at the AAS
David Webb
-
January 22, 2013
1
416
The Hearing Voices Movement: In Response to a Father – ‘My Daughter, the Schizophrenic’
Jacqui Dillon
-
January 21, 2013
100
3339
What is Critical Psychiatry?
Philip Thomas, MD
-
January 21, 2013
7
12514
Taking Martin Luther King Jr’s Call For Creative Maladjustment Seriously
MindFreedom
-
January 21, 2013
1
6855
Luscious Lipids
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
January 20, 2013
2
306
A Phenomenological View of Madness and Medicine
Dan Kriegman, PhD
-
January 20, 2013
3
583
NCMHR Does Not Speak for Me
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
January 19, 2013
14
348
What Happened After a Nation Methodically Murdered Its Schizophrenics? Rethinking Mental Illness and Its...
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
January 19, 2013
22
448
Youth Violence is a Family Therapy Issue
Marilyn Wedge, PhD
-
January 18, 2013
1
314
And That’s the News from the Department of Psychiatry
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
-
January 18, 2013
9
629
Day of Action to Stop Psychiatric Profiling: January 21, 2013
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
January 18, 2013
5
315
Free from Harm? Reflecting on the Dangers of the White House’s Proposed ‘Now...
Laura Delano
-
January 17, 2013
20
443
Psychiatry Is Not the Only Branch of Medicine to Lose Its Soul to Pharma
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
January 17, 2013
19
543
The Problem with PTSD
Vivek Datta, MD, MPH
-
January 17, 2013
6
938
“Baby Cry Too Much?”
Alice Keys, MD
-
January 17, 2013
2
184
Civilians
Matt Samet
-
January 16, 2013
7
586
False Arguments: A Three-Part Story
Sera Davidow
-
January 15, 2013
30
739
More Thinking about Alternatives to Psychiatric Diagnosis
Lucy Johnstone, PsyD
-
January 15, 2013
14
1732
Exporting Depression
Ethan Watters
-
January 12, 2013
8
1169
PsychRights’ Letter to the President’s Task Force on Gun Violence
Jim Gottstein, JD
-
January 11, 2013
9
383
Commentary on the National Comorbidity Survey Replication
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
January 10, 2013
2
194
How to Get Away with Academic Misconduct at the University of Minnesota
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
-
January 10, 2013
4
1088
The Hearing Voices Movement: Beyond Critiquing the Status Quo
Jacqui Dillon
-
January 10, 2013
13
2789
Backsliding in the Bay State
Jonathan Dosick
-
January 7, 2013
9
301
Thinking about Alternatives to Psychiatric Diagnosis
Lucy Johnstone, PsyD
-
January 7, 2013
33
3181
Re-examining the Biochemical Model after Newtown: The Effects of Stigma and the Need for...
Rossa Forbes
-
January 7, 2013
59
602
Introduction: The Gene Illusion Continues
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
January 6, 2013
15
631
Peace Making
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
January 5, 2013
4
132
A Message of Hope in Mental Health Care: There IS an Alternative
MindFreedom
-
January 4, 2013
8
1456
Defining Recovery
Alice Keys, MD
-
January 3, 2013
34
260
101 Uses for a Dead Journal
David Healy, MD
-
January 3, 2013
5
335
Walking
Matt Samet
-
January 2, 2013
8
1042
How You Have Changed Me
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
January 1, 2013
70
521
Time to Abolish Psychiatric Diagnosis?
Lucy Johnstone, PsyD
-
January 1, 2013
45
5568
May Your Psychache be Minimal
David Webb
-
January 1, 2013
20
886
Where Do Messages of Hopelessness in Mental Health Care Come From?
MindFreedom
-
December 31, 2012
50
3975
Media’s Failed Approach to Madness, Parts 1 & 2
Faith Rhyne
-
December 29, 2012
37
586
The Children Lead
Alice Keys, MD
-
December 29, 2012
31
157
David W. Oaks’ Message To the World: “Cracking the Nut of Normality”
MindFreedom
-
December 28, 2012
2
280
I Got a Break from Reality for Christmas!
Corinna West
-
December 25, 2012
15
309
I am the Number 60
Sera Davidow
-
December 21, 2012
23
3197
Grief, Peace; Not Profiling
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
December 21, 2012
1
128
Mass Murder in Newtown: Why and Where Next?
Jack Carney, DSW
-
December 20, 2012
13
378
We Are All Adam Lanza’s Mother (& other things we’re not talking about)
Jennifer Maurer
-
December 19, 2012
32
315
A Reflection on Mothers, Children, and Mental Illness
Faith Rhyne
-
December 18, 2012
31
2430
The Head Bone’s Connected to the Body Bone
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
December 18, 2012
6
548
Many Small Actions Bring Big Results
Alice Keys, MD
-
December 18, 2012
23
196
A Challenge to “I Am Adam Lanza’s Mother”
Laura Delano
-
December 18, 2012
119
3448
Faith
Matt Samet
-
December 17, 2012
6
1289
Thoughts About David Oaks
Robert Whitaker
-
December 17, 2012
13
1175
Rediscovering Traditions of Community Healing – Susan McKeown
Will Hall
-
December 16, 2012
0
218
Critical Psychiatry as Narrative
Philip Thomas, MD
-
December 15, 2012
2
628
The Price is Wrong
Maria Bradshaw
-
December 12, 2012
9
466
Trying Too Hard to Be Sane, or Trying Too Hard to Recover, Can Lead...
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
December 12, 2012
12
454
Identity Theft
Matt Samet
-
December 12, 2012
7
663
My Journey Home to Self
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
December 11, 2012
5
750
Boycott The DSM-5: Anachronistic Before Its Time
Jack Carney, DSW
-
December 10, 2012
10
862
Bottle Fish. Going and Doing. Being.
Alice Keys, MD
-
December 10, 2012
15
175
Building a Bridge to Hope
Lisbeth Riis Cooper
-
December 10, 2012
13
462
Psychiatry Beyond the Current Paradigm, and DSM-5
Hugh Middleton, MD
-
December 10, 2012
3
664
The Other Side
Matt Samet
-
December 9, 2012
9
3275
The Road to Perdition
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
-
December 7, 2012
2
2441
CRPD Defeated in Senate – What Now?
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
December 5, 2012
16
287
Do Diagnoses Injure People?
Alice Keys, MD
-
December 4, 2012
59
652
Big Brother Is Watching: A Strategy to End Kendra’s Law in New York State,...
Jack Carney, DSW
-
December 4, 2012
10
904
I Believe Most of us Have a Broken Heart, Not a “Mental Illness”
Jacks McNamara
-
December 4, 2012
9
359
We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For
Daniel Fisher, MD, PhD
-
December 4, 2012
21
1250
Big Brother Is Watching: Children and Older Adults, Part I
Jack Carney, DSW
-
December 3, 2012
3
408
A Recent Study of Atypical Neuroleptics: “The Results of our Study are Sobering”
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
December 3, 2012
52
793
Reparations: It is Conceivable
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
December 3, 2012
3
876
The Denial of Pain and Mortality: Or, the Art of Self-Prescribing and the Philosopher’s...
Vivek Datta, MD, MPH
-
December 3, 2012
10
228
Getting Involved in Prison Issues – Making Alliances With Mental Health Advocacy
Will Hall
-
December 1, 2012
0
259
Suckling Pigs, Stray Dogs, and Psychiatric Diagnoses
Vivek Datta, MD, MPH
-
November 29, 2012
13
275
How 7 Historic Figures Overcame Depression without Doctors
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
November 29, 2012
9
1076
Philosopher Raymond Tallis – Challenging Pop Neuroscience
Will Hall
-
November 29, 2012
2
802
“But It’s Just the Way Things Are”
Alice Keys, MD
-
November 29, 2012
35
246
One Solution to Prescription Drug Overdoses: Make Oxycontin and Similar Drugs Safer
Alison Bass
-
November 26, 2012
3
236
Five Types of Mental Health Advocates
Corinna West
-
November 23, 2012
50
10074
Were Research Subjects Mistreated in the CATIE Study?
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
-
November 21, 2012
1
352
Creativity and the Myth of the Self: A Way of Having Manic-Depression
Lucinda Jewell
-
November 21, 2012
8
589
Fact-Checking the General Counsel in the Markingson Case
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
-
November 19, 2012
1
457
“Multigenerational Poverty”
Alice Keys, MD
-
November 19, 2012
26
319
Three Reviews of Mental Health First Aid
Corinna West
-
November 17, 2012
7
3001
The University of Minnesota was not Involved? Some Further Thoughts on the “Corrective...
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
-
November 15, 2012
1
579
Entrepreneurs as Mental Health Advocates
Corinna West
-
November 15, 2012
2
559
“Do We Have to Wait Until He Kills Himself or Someone Else Before Anyone...
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
-
November 14, 2012
2
282
3 Reasons Asking “Why” Can Fuel Problem Behaviors
Howard Glasser
-
November 13, 2012
15
936
“I Was Just Following Orders”: a Seroquel Suicide, a Study Coordinator, and a “Corrective...
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
-
November 12, 2012
13
3985
See What You Want to See
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
November 12, 2012
34
384
How I feel After the Carter Center Social Inclusion Symposium
Corinna West
-
November 11, 2012
20
804
Involuntarily Voluntary
Laura Delano
-
November 10, 2012
14
504
Gradual Reduction is Best For Coming Off Meds: But In All Situations?
Will Hall
-
November 8, 2012
67
11843
Breaking Someone Out of the Behavioral Health Unit
Second Story Respite
-
November 7, 2012
2
398
Pulling for a New Reality: from Mental Illness to Mental Wellness
Lucinda Jewell
-
November 7, 2012
11
227
3 Reasons Medication Should Be a Last Resort for Your Child
Howard Glasser
-
November 6, 2012
19
2206
Where are the Social Workers: Preparing for a Post-Psychiatry World?
Jack Carney, DSW
-
October 31, 2012
8
572
Common Sense, Deferred: Lessons From the “Fresh Air” Fight, Part Two
Jonathan Dosick
-
October 28, 2012
9
284
Response to Fuller Torrey
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
October 26, 2012
67
837
In Search of Change: My Journey
Mo Yee Lee
-
October 26, 2012
3
115
Madness Radio Interview with Mike Cornwall on Jungian Approaches to Madness and Renewal
Will Hall
-
October 26, 2012
2
1289
Ending Human Rights Violations in the Mental Health System Institute Alternatives 2012
Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD
-
October 26, 2012
4
227
Dear Dr. Torrey: Please, Stop The Lies!
Robert Whitaker
-
October 26, 2012
46
1477
The Search for the Miracle Cure
Richard D. Lewis
-
October 17, 2012
42
776
On Deciphering Recovery for the American Psychiatric Association: Lecture on 13 Innovations to Improve...
Will Hall
-
October 16, 2012
30
588
What Are We Recovering From? Making a Case for Recovery
Lisbeth Riis Cooper
-
October 16, 2012
28
757
Why Do So Few People Know that CRPD Prohibits Forced Psychiatry?
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
October 14, 2012
12
806
The United Met States of Psychiatry
Laura Delano
-
October 14, 2012
51
479
Hearing Voices Research & Development Fund
Gina Nikkel, PhD
-
October 13, 2012
10
214
Behavior Modification and an Authoritarian Society
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
October 12, 2012
13
1003
There’s No Duct Tape for Benzo Withdrawal
Melissa Bond
-
October 11, 2012
56
20909
3 Reasons Why Children Are Drawn to Succeed at Video Games
Howard Glasser
-
October 11, 2012
1
362
“Mental Illness Awareness Week”
David Ross, MEd, LPCC
-
October 9, 2012
16
256
New Research Project to be Funded by the Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health...
Gina Nikkel, PhD
-
October 9, 2012
18
314
West Virginia’s Prescription Drug Abuse Problem: Intersection of Two Industries?
Alison Bass
-
October 8, 2012
0
144
Abbott’s Admissions of Criminality: Do They Accomplish Anything?
Jim Gottstein, JD
-
October 8, 2012
6
236
More on New York’s Kendra’s Law: Opponents Lining Up for Decisive Battle in 2015
Jack Carney, DSW
-
October 8, 2012
10
922
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October 7, 2012
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358
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October 4, 2012
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314
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585
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October 1, 2012
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780
Let’s All Support Stephen Sheller’s FDA Petition to Revoke the Pediatric Approval of Risperdal
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September 27, 2012
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Drug Development, “Lucrative Markets,” and the Future of Psychiatry
Sandra Steingard, MD
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September 27, 2012
42
216
Killer Brain Candy: One Woman’s Odyssey Through Benzodiazepine Addiction and Withdrawal or How Chicken...
Melissa Bond
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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
26
940
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181
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September 23, 2012
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336
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September 21, 2012
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September 20, 2012
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Are You Committed to Eliminating Labels and Medications With Emotional Distress?
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September 18, 2012
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449
Common Sense, Deferred: Lessons From the “Fresh Air” Fight, Part One
Jonathan Dosick
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September 17, 2012
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379
Neuroleptic Drugs: Patient vs. Provider Perspective
Vanessa Krasinski, MSN, RN
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September 17, 2012
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232
Finland: The Pre-Seminar
Sandra Steingard, MD
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September 15, 2012
25
198
Addiction, Biological Psychiatry and the Disease Model (Part 1)
Richard D. Lewis
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September 12, 2012
45
1990
Post-Prozac Nation: Did our Drugs Work?
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September 12, 2012
16
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Paul Andrews
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September 12, 2012
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September 10, 2012
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September 10, 2012
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518
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September 10, 2012
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317
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September 5, 2012
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September 2, 2012
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Bruce Levine, PhD
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August 29, 2012
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716
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August 27, 2012
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338
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311
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Stuart Shipko
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August 22, 2012
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561
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August 21, 2012
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August 20, 2012
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517
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Ted Chabasinski, JD
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August 18, 2012
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4835
Please Stop Saying “Medical Model.”
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August 12, 2012
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831
22 Human Rights Defenders Tell Senate: Ratify Disability Rights Treaty Without Limitations
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
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August 8, 2012
5
176
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Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
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August 7, 2012
4
272
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Jonathan Leo, PhD
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August 6, 2012
13
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Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
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August 6, 2012
5
278
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August 5, 2012
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179
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Daniel Fisher, MD, PhD
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August 3, 2012
40
5901
Jonah Lehrer was also Wrong About Antipsychotics
Jonathan Leo, PhD / Jeffrey Lacasse, PhD
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August 2, 2012
18
485
Brain Disease or Existential Crisis?
Paris Williams, PhD
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August 2, 2012
61
7174
The First Ever USA Olympic Gold Medal in Judo – and a Recovery Story
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August 2, 2012
6
580
My Peer Service Work
Jennifer Maria Padron
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August 1, 2012
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260
New Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care Project in the Works
Gina Nikkel, PhD
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August 1, 2012
13
232
“Aurora: Shrouded in Myths”
Jack Carney, DSW
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August 1, 2012
28
474
The Hidden Gorilla
David Healy, MD
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August 1, 2012
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1408
How My Anger Led Me to Forgiveness
Jennifer Maria Padron
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July 30, 2012
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326
Coming Off Medications Guide – Second Edition – Free Download
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July 27, 2012
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July 27, 2012
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754
Are the Olympics Harder than Mental Health Recovery?
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July 26, 2012
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388
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Daniel Fisher, MD, PhD
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July 25, 2012
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Peer Respite Centers and Medication Free Madness Sanctuaries: Why We Need Them Both Very...
Michael Cornwall, PhD
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July 24, 2012
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One Script to Rule Them All
David Healy, MD
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July 24, 2012
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Ted Chabasinski, JD
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July 23, 2012
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224
Conquering Benign Paternalism
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July 22, 2012
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July 21, 2012
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Free Blog Ideas
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July 20, 2012
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219
“Unfortunate experiments” in New Zealand and Minnesota
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
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July 20, 2012
2
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Chapter Twenty-Seven: Reignition
Laura Delano
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July 19, 2012
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755
Can Its New Board President Turn NAMI Around?
Jack Carney, DSW
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July 19, 2012
20
522
Billing the Victims of Unethical Medical Research
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
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July 18, 2012
9
393
A Child on the Shock Ward
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July 17, 2012
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A Collective Human Potential Movement
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July 16, 2012
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Are There Gifts In and From Our Madness That Our Culture Needs to Not...
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July 13, 2012
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The Triumph of Bad Science
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July 11, 2012
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July 11, 2012
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110
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Sandra Steingard, MD
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July 7, 2012
37
468
Teenagers on SSRIs
Jonathan Leo, PhD
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July 7, 2012
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243
Letters From the Front Lines
Mark Foster, DO
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July 5, 2012
4
192
Madness Radio: Eleanor Longden on Voices and Trauma
Will Hall
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July 5, 2012
2
414
New York Attorney General’s Office Should Take a Bow For GlaxoSmithKline’s Record Breaking Fine
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July 3, 2012
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Your Input Welcome For 2012 Alternatives Keynote Speech – SURVEY
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June 30, 2012
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130
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June 29, 2012
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June 28, 2012
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June 27, 2012
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308
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Jonathan Leo, PhD / Jeffrey Lacasse, PhD
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June 27, 2012
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184
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June 26, 2012
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220
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Bruce Levine, PhD
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June 25, 2012
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891
Chemical Imbalances and Other Black Unicorns
Vivek Datta, MD, MPH
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June 25, 2012
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A Post-Racial Public Mental Health System: If Not Now, When?
Jack Carney, DSW
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June 23, 2012
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Prayer and Hope, Part II.
Jennifer Maria Padron
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June 21, 2012
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The Psychopathology of American Life
Vivek Datta, MD, MPH
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June 19, 2012
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Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD
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June 19, 2012
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226
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June 18, 2012
3
1001
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June 18, 2012
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June 16, 2012
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556
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June 15, 2012
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Our Emotions – The Sole Creators of Every Word, Voice, Symbolic Image, Bodily Movement...
Michael Cornwall, PhD
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June 12, 2012
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Ron Unger, LCSW
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June 11, 2012
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June 11, 2012
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June 11, 2012
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The NY Times: When Stimulants Are Bad
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June 11, 2012
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Are We Not Human Beings with the Rights to be Treated as Human?
Daniel Fisher, MD, PhD
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June 10, 2012
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472
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June 9, 2012
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June 7, 2012
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June 7, 2012
44
690
SSRIs in The Atlantic: Forget the Science Bring on the Anecdotes
Jonathan Leo, PhD
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June 6, 2012
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370
How Can We Stop So Great an Injustice?
David Ross, MEd, LPCC
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June 4, 2012
72
148
Nothing About Us Without Us!
David Ross, MEd, LPCC
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June 3, 2012
6
434
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Ron Unger, LCSW
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June 3, 2012
12
694
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May 30, 2012
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May 29, 2012
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Dialogical Recovery of our Minds
Daniel Fisher, MD, PhD
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May 28, 2012
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May 28, 2012
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Do I Have Too Many Questions This Morning?
Alice Keys, MD
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May 28, 2012
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197
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May 27, 2012
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May 26, 2012
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May 26, 2012
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“You Can’t Go Home Again: New York’s Medicaid Health Homes”
Jack Carney, DSW
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May 24, 2012
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309
Our Recovery Community is One of the Richest in Our Country
Corinna West
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May 24, 2012
15
350
Pharmed Out: An Interview with Dr. Adriane Fugh-Berman
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
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May 24, 2012
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515
Letters from the Front Lines
Mark Foster, DO
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May 22, 2012
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153
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Jack Carney, DSW
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May 22, 2012
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401
Madness Radio: Daniel Hazen On Abolishing Prisons
Will Hall
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May 21, 2012
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257
How Many Deaths Will It Take Till We Know?
Alice Keys, MD
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May 21, 2012
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416
Boycott DSM5? Why Not?
Jack Carney, DSW
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May 21, 2012
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Risk Management vs. Dignity of Risk
Jonathan Dosick
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May 21, 2012
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1582
Shanghai’d in Recovery
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May 17, 2012
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547
CIAD & Community-Based Housing for Adult Home Residents in New York City: The Struggle...
Jack Carney, DSW
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May 17, 2012
2
383
Coercion
Sandra Steingard, MD
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May 17, 2012
219
833
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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168
E. Fuller Torrey’s Review of Anatomy of an Epidemic: What Does It Reveal About...
Robert Whitaker
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May 16, 2012
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7969
Whose Recovery Is This?! Helping Families Heal
Lisbeth Riis Cooper
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May 16, 2012
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226
The Big Chill: Psychiatric Medications Now Are on Trial For Murder
Michael Cornwall, PhD
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May 16, 2012
51
306
Is there Any Value In Psychiatric Diagnosis?
Tim Desmond, LMFT
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May 16, 2012
19
1832
Is Psychiatry “Salvageable”?
Alice Keys, MD
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May 15, 2012
108
686
Mad Pride and Spiritual Community: Thoughts on The Spiritual Gift of Madness
Sascha Altman DuBrul
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May 13, 2012
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1384
Start with a Solid Foundation
David Ross, MEd, LPCC
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May 13, 2012
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132
My “Head in a Bucket” Metaphor
Alice Keys, MD
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May 9, 2012
308
3051
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Alison Bass
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May 8, 2012
2
291
Recovery through Learning Creatura, a Language of Life
Daniel Fisher, MD, PhD
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May 7, 2012
11
353
Crazy Mother Proposes New Diagnostic Category
Maria Bradshaw
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May 7, 2012
36
535
On Recovering from Psychiatric Labels and Psychotropic Medications: An ‘Occupy APA’ Manifesto
Laura Delano
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May 6, 2012
56
1007
The Pond, Learning and Humility
Alice Keys, MD
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May 5, 2012
38
140
At the Door of the Sausage Factory
David Ross, MEd, LPCC
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May 4, 2012
37
184
Anti-Authoritarians and Schizophrenia: Do Rebels Who Defy Treatment Do Better?
Bruce Levine, PhD
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May 4, 2012
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88147
Are Some Psychiatrists Addicted to Deference?
Michael Cornwall, PhD
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May 2, 2012
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4204
Call Me “The Doctor”
Alice Keys, MD
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May 2, 2012
378
311
Take a ride on the Mood Elevator
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
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April 30, 2012
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223
Economic Determinism and Medicaid
Robert Nikkel, MSW
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April 29, 2012
11
139
Rethinking Madness: A Book Review
Ron Unger, LCSW
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April 29, 2012
13
664
Pandora’s Box
Alice Keys, MD
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April 29, 2012
39
246
10 Reasons Survivors Might Know More Medicine Than Psychiatrists
Corinna West
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April 29, 2012
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2460
National Peer Certification
Jennifer Maria Padron
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April 28, 2012
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525
Is the FDA violating its own mandate to approve safe drugs?
Alison Bass
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April 27, 2012
8
143
Jung’s First Dream, The Mad God Dionysus and a Madness Sanctuary called Diabasis
Michael Cornwall, PhD
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April 26, 2012
51
9246
It’s Not Going To Get Better Soon
Alice Keys, MD
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April 26, 2012
69
182
Why I don’t do “med checks”
Sandra Steingard, MD
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April 25, 2012
26
1103
The Pipeline
Alice Keys, MD
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April 25, 2012
12
143
The New York Times Magazine Article on Antidepressants
Jill Littrell, PhD
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April 25, 2012
10
811
The “I Am Not The Butcher” Speech
Corinna West
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April 24, 2012
9
305
Life for Psychiatrists after Reading Bob Whitaker: Let’s Take Back Substance Abuse Treatment
Jill Littrell, PhD
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April 24, 2012
19
379
Troubling Times
Alice Keys, MD
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April 23, 2012
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222
You Are What You Eat – Part 2
Sandra Steingard, MD
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April 22, 2012
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187
Guidelines for a Thoughtful Discussion
Robert Whitaker
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April 21, 2012
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283
Developing Policies and Practices for Medication Optimization
Robert Nikkel, MSW
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April 21, 2012
16
133
Part 2: The Values and Ethics of WRAP
Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD
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April 21, 2012
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469
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Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD
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April 21, 2012
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337
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Corinna West
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April 20, 2012
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381
Discipline, Not Drugs
Carolyn Crowder, PhD
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April 20, 2012
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175
Doctors Need Support
Alice Keys, MD
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April 19, 2012
71
154
The Mouse That Roared: CIAD & Friends vs. the State of New York
Jack Carney, DSW
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April 17, 2012
6
315
How entrepreneurial thinking can improve mental health advocacy
Corinna West
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April 16, 2012
5
283
The Rotted Fruit
Elliot Goldberg, LCSW
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April 16, 2012
3
128
An Opportunity to Walk the Talk — Occupy the American Psychiatric Association May 5th...
Jim Gottstein, JD
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April 15, 2012
22
589
Madness Radio: Toby Watson on Ethical Psychotherapy
Will Hall
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April 15, 2012
5
262
Chapter Twenty-Six: Reaching the End, and Making a Start
Laura Delano
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April 14, 2012
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438
How the “Brain Defect” Theory of Depression Stigmatizes Depression Sufferers
Bruce Levine, PhD
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April 14, 2012
24
2739
How drug companies continue to hide the true story of Tamiflu and other drugs...
Alison Bass
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April 12, 2012
2
663
When university attorneys play hardball with patients
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
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April 12, 2012
2
150
Should Children Have Consent Rights For Psychosurgery, ECT and Sterilization?
Michael Cornwall, PhD
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April 11, 2012
28
739
Letters from the Front Lines
Mark Foster, DO
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April 10, 2012
4
102
New Study on a Non-Toxic Intervention for Those at High Risk of Psychosis
Ron Unger, LCSW
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April 10, 2012
1
148
Why We Should Be Customers and Not Charity Cases
Corinna West
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April 8, 2012
8
197
Working the assembly line at the human experimentation factory
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
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April 8, 2012
2
349
You Are What You Eat
Sandra Steingard, MD
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April 8, 2012
15
221
Hope
Jennifer Maria Padron
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April 7, 2012
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Why We Need Mental Health Social Entrepreneurship
Corinna West
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April 3, 2012
3
3559
“Social Workers’ Malaise: What’s Our Mission?”
Jack Carney, DSW
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April 2, 2012
11
344
Playing Hide-and-Seek with Psychiatric Drug Studies
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
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April 1, 2012
5
622
Does It Matter if We Believe in Mental Illness?
Tim Desmond, LMFT
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March 30, 2012
23
225
Bipolar? When Quitting is the Answer
Howard Glasser
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March 29, 2012
9
840
Dialogical Recovery of Life
Daniel Fisher, MD, PhD
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March 28, 2012
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572
1984 & DSM5, Revisited: Where Are the Social Workers?
Jack Carney, DSW
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March 27, 2012
16
715
Dyskinesia, Dissociation, and the Long Term Consequences of “Antipsychotic” Drugs
Ron Unger, LCSW
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March 26, 2012
3
1596
How Technology Worship Keeps Americans Ignorant about Depression Treatment
Bruce Levine, PhD
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March 26, 2012
4
1764
What is in a Name: One Psychiatrist’s View of Psychiatric Diagnosis
Sandra Steingard, MD
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March 25, 2012
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497
“Come Out for Health Week”: March 26-30, 2012
Jennifer Maria Padron
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March 24, 2012
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303
Remembering Kate
Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD
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March 21, 2012
37
535
Thinking Holistically – Don’t Forget Tobacco
Elizabeth Stuyt, MD
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March 21, 2012
14
286
The Illegality of Forced Drugging and Electroshock
Jim Gottstein, JD
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March 21, 2012
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2456
Madness Radio: Sharna Olfman on Medicating Children Diagnosed Bipolar
Will Hall
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March 19, 2012
2
152
I Don’t Believe in Mental Illness, Do You?
Michael Cornwall, PhD
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March 19, 2012
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We Need Drugs
Elliot Goldberg, LCSW
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March 18, 2012
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569
Chapter Twenty-Five: “Paranoid Android”
Laura Delano
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March 17, 2012
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Why Can’t They Hear Our Truth? We Have a Cure.
Corinna West
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March 16, 2012
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1834
Snake Medicine: Transforming Our Stories
Lisbeth Riis Cooper
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March 16, 2012
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In Praise of Families
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March 16, 2012
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120
Poverty & Serious Mental illness: Connecting the Dots
Jack Carney, DSW
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March 12, 2012
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612
Empowerment is Vital to Dialogical Recovery
Daniel Fisher, MD, PhD
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March 9, 2012
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445
Poverty & Mental Illness: You Can’t Have One Without the Other
Jack Carney, DSW
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March 7, 2012
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17021
Generative Narratives and the Counterculture Psychiatrists
Sascha Altman DuBrul
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March 6, 2012
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294
Eyewitness to the Ruination of a Public Mental Health System
Michael Cornwall, PhD
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March 4, 2012
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Why I Prescribe
Sandra Steingard, MD
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March 3, 2012
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522
Thinking Holistically – attempting to change the Status Quo
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March 3, 2012
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How can parents help kids who don’t want help?
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March 3, 2012
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The George Costanza Excuse for Medical Ghostwriting
Jonathan Leo, PhD / Jeffrey Lacasse, PhD
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March 2, 2012
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We are for truly informed choice; not anti-medications
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419
A Pharmaceutical Company That Agrees With Irving Kirsch? Wellbutrin Advertised as 10% More Effective...
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February 29, 2012
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Better Broadband
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February 29, 2012
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Thinking Holistically
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February 28, 2012
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Vote NOW for solutions to emotional distress!
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February 27, 2012
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The Shame Game of “Patient Responsibility”
Elliot Goldberg, LCSW
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February 27, 2012
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Why Anti-Authoritarians Are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill
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February 26, 2012
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Sandra Steingard, MD
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February 25, 2012
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Chapter Twenty-Four: Off the Meds and Out of My Mind
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February 25, 2012
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So This Is Texas 2
Jennifer Maria Padron
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February 24, 2012
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The American Psychiatric Association’s Response to 60 Minutes: Where is the Science?
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29
1364
Interpreting Harrow’s 20-Year Results: Are the Drugs to Blame?
Robert Whitaker
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February 23, 2012
30
7163
The Cause and Solution for Emotional Distress
Corinna West
-
February 22, 2012
4
1011
Response to 60 Minutes
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
February 22, 2012
5
926
Letters from the Front Lines
Mark Foster, DO
-
February 21, 2012
6
121
Personal Steps toward a Revolution in Mental Health Care
Ron Unger, LCSW
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February 21, 2012
6
272
A Road Map to Hope
Lisbeth Riis Cooper
-
February 21, 2012
1
187
The Real Suicide Data from the TADS Study Comes to Light
Robert Whitaker
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February 20, 2012
18
4524
60 Minutes, The SSRIs, and The Dirty Little Secret
Jonathan Leo, PhD / Jeffrey Lacasse, PhD
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February 20, 2012
35
6565
Turning a Child’s Intensity to Greatness
Howard Glasser
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February 19, 2012
2
1027
What Do Psychiatrists Say When They Talk to Each Other?
Jill Littrell, PhD
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February 18, 2012
15
574
Responding to Madness With Loving Receptivity: a Practical Guide
Michael Cornwall, PhD
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February 14, 2012
39
3322
Mental Health Homes Open Their Proverbial Doors in New York: Caveats, Part II
Jack Carney, DSW
-
February 10, 2012
0
220
Dialogical Recovery from Monological Medicine
Daniel Fisher, MD, PhD
-
February 8, 2012
16
946
Mental Health Homes Open Their Proverbial Doors in New York: A Look into the...
Jack Carney, DSW
-
February 7, 2012
4
441
Unraveling the Biopsychiatric Knot: the Future History of the Radical Mental Health Movement
Sascha Altman DuBrul
-
February 7, 2012
4
1682
The Death of Leslie Carter
Elliot Goldberg, LCSW
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February 7, 2012
2
1083
The Role of Inflammation in the Success and Failure of Antidepressants
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
February 6, 2012
4
880
Remembering A Medication-Free Madness Sanctuary
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
February 3, 2012
25
2955
On a Paradox Revealed: Discontinuing Neuroleptics
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
February 2, 2012
9
347
Bring in the Peer!
Keris Jän Myrick
-
February 1, 2012
10
825
Madness Radio: Grainne Humphry on the Psychiatric Incarceration of John Hunt in Ireland
Will Hall
-
February 1, 2012
2
413
Return to Self an Alternative Medication?
Elliot Goldberg, LCSW
-
February 1, 2012
1
170
Letters from the Front Lines
Mark Foster, DO
-
February 1, 2012
3
196
The Power of Storytelling
Lisbeth Riis Cooper
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February 1, 2012
4
413
The Reality Is In Our Heads
Dan Kriegman, PhD
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January 31, 2012
3
487
Should Jilted Lovers Be Treated with Antidepressants?
Jonathan Leo, PhD / Jeffrey Lacasse, PhD
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January 31, 2012
4
4188
Revising the History of the Serotonin Theory of Depression?
Jonathan Leo, PhD / Jeffrey Lacasse, PhD
-
January 29, 2012
18
2785
Chapter Twenty-Three: On the Locked Unit, Locked in Myself
Laura Delano
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January 29, 2012
2
420
Bipolar Everywhere
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
January 28, 2012
20
1946
More on Recovery & Liberation: Oppression & Resilience
Jack Carney, DSW
-
January 26, 2012
7
484
Is It All in Your Head?
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
January 25, 2012
46
523
The Taint of Eugenics In NIMH-Funded Research Today
Robert Whitaker
-
January 25, 2012
28
1916
Tsunami of Frozen Grief Found in the Clinical Work
Elliot Goldberg, LCSW
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January 24, 2012
1
126
Excellent Article on Antipsychotic Drug Harm Reduction in Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health...
Will Hall
-
January 24, 2012
0
472
Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care Projects
Gina Nikkel, PhD
-
January 23, 2012
3
250
Psychiatry’s Grand Confession
Jonathan Leo, PhD / Jeffrey Lacasse, PhD
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January 23, 2012
54
9836
The Cure for Mood Disorders Is Dementia?
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
January 22, 2012
2
460
Introducing Myself
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
January 22, 2012
1
125
Get Off Prescription Drugs: Arriving at the Work
Elliot Goldberg, LCSW
-
January 20, 2012
2
272
The Importance of Being Useful
Carolyn Crowder, PhD
-
January 20, 2012
4
1316
Letters from the Front Lines
Mark Foster, DO
-
January 19, 2012
8
139
Recovery and Liberation: One and the Same?
Jack Carney, DSW
-
January 19, 2012
12
410
Pilgrim’s Progress: From Young Madman to Old Therapist
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
January 17, 2012
8
567
On Creative Maladjustment and Rethinking Psychiatry
Keris Jän Myrick
-
January 16, 2012
9
301
Diagnosing Dangers
Jim Gottstein, JD
-
January 15, 2012
30
393
Chapter Twenty-Two: To the Hospital on the Hill
Laura Delano
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January 14, 2012
15
313
A Visit into the Lithuanian Mental Health System
Daniel Mackler
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January 12, 2012
8
3286
Rethinking Brain Research In Psychiatry
Robert Whitaker
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January 12, 2012
22
710
Letters from the Front Lines
Mark Foster, DO
-
January 11, 2012
9
123
A Mother Bear’s Story
Lisbeth Riis Cooper
-
January 11, 2012
10
684
Evidence, Bias, and Anecdote
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
January 10, 2012
6
1032
New Video: Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs: A Harm Reduction Approach
Will Hall
-
January 9, 2012
3
505
A Counter Narrative for Psychic Diversity
Sascha Altman DuBrul
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January 7, 2012
1
856
Expect Recovery….
Gina Nikkel, PhD
-
January 6, 2012
3
246
Initiatory Madness
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
January 5, 2012
25
2057
Introduction: Anatomy of a Psychiatric Practice
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
January 3, 2012
9
574
The New York Times and all that…
Keris Jän Myrick
-
January 3, 2012
6
203
Happy New Year From The Icarus Project!
Sascha Altman DuBrul
-
January 2, 2012
0
903
Chapter Twenty-One: Countdown to Surrender
Laura Delano
-
January 1, 2012
4
617
Letters From the Front Lines
Mark Foster, DO
-
December 31, 2011
3
142
A Three Pronged Approach to Mental Health System Change
Jim Gottstein, JD
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December 30, 2011
12
2365
Answering the Critics: William Glazer, in Behavioral Healthcare Magazine
Robert Whitaker
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December 13, 2011
0
873
Cognitive Therapy Found Effective in Unmedicated Psychotic Patients . . . And Other News
Robert Whitaker
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December 10, 2011
2
329
Chapter Twenty: Russian Roulette
Laura Delano
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December 9, 2011
0
262
Answering the Critics: Massachusetts General Hospital Grand Rounds
Robert Whitaker
-
December 2, 2011
5
2902
Chapter Nineteen: Playing the Part
Laura Delano
-
December 1, 2011
0
241
Answering the Critics: Let’s Roll the Tape (Again)
Robert Whitaker
-
November 30, 2011
0
397
Answering the Critics: The Carlat Psychiatry Blog
Robert Whitaker
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November 22, 2011
0
1540
Chapter Eighteen: Sentenced to Life
Laura Delano
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November 11, 2011
1
535
Healing the Body and Mind
Mark Foster, DO
-
November 6, 2011
0
215
A Rorschach Test for Psych Drugs
Robert Whitaker
-
November 2, 2011
0
162
Anatomy of an Epidemic Down Under: Psychiatric Drugs and the Astonishing Rise of Disabling...
Robert Whitaker
-
September 16, 2011
2
472
September 15, 2011
Mark Foster, DO
-
September 15, 2011
0
156
Chapter Seventeen: Commencing to Self-Destruct
Laura Delano
-
September 5, 2011
0
265
Chapter Sixteen: Inside a House of Cards
Laura Delano
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August 11, 2011
0
248
August 4, 2011
Mark Foster, DO
-
August 4, 2011
0
125
In Defense of Psychiatric Medications, Part Two
Robert Whitaker
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August 2, 2011
2
258
Chapter Fifteen: A Haven from Self
Laura Delano
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July 20, 2011
0
245
July 12, 2011
Mark Foster, DO
-
July 12, 2011
1
935
The New York Times’ Defense of Antidepressants
Robert Whitaker
-
July 10, 2011
0
721
Chapter Fourteen: Crossing the Threshold
Laura Delano
-
June 30, 2011
1
275
Now Antidepressant-Induced Chronic Depression Has a Name: Tardive Dysphoria
Robert Whitaker
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June 30, 2011
6
2993
June 27, 2011
Mark Foster, DO
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June 27, 2011
0
140
Drug Companies ‘Just Say No’ to Psych Drugs
Robert Whitaker
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June 27, 2011
2
535
June 17, 2011
Mark Foster, DO
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June 17, 2011
0
156
Chapter Thirteen: In the Muck and The Mire
Laura Delano
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June 5, 2011
1
278
Summing Up the NIMH Trials: Evidence of an Effective Paradigm of Care?
Robert Whitaker
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May 28, 2011
0
175
Chapter Twelve: A Gift of Desperation
Laura Delano
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May 26, 2011
0
251
After 25 Posts on this Website, Dr. Mark Foster is Terminated by his Employer
Robert Whitaker
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May 25, 2011
0
1554
Chapter Eleven: Teetering on the Edge
Laura Delano
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May 10, 2011
0
260
Should the Medical Literature Be Cleansed of All STAR*D Articles?
Robert Whitaker
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May 5, 2011
0
222
April 30, 2011
Mark Foster, DO
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April 30, 2011
0
137
Anatomy of an Epidemic wins investigative journalism award
Robert Whitaker
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April 26, 2011
0
265
Chapter Ten: A ‘Victim of Circumstance’
Laura Delano
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April 20, 2011
0
279
April 11, 2011
Mark Foster, DO
-
April 11, 2011
0
121
Chapter Nine: Is It Me Or My Meds?
Laura Delano
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April 10, 2011
0
432
STAR*D: Adding Fiction to Fiction
Ed Pigott, PhD
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April 10, 2011
1
1155
Rethinking Mental Health Care: The Story of the Oregon Symposium and the Foundation that...
Robert Whitaker
-
March 30, 2011
0
270
March 29, 2011
Mark Foster, DO
-
March 29, 2011
0
175
An Introduction: The Story of Bias in the STAR*D Trial and More
Ed Pigott, PhD
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March 23, 2011
0
2079
March 15, 2011
Mark Foster, DO
-
March 15, 2011
0
163
Letters from the Front Lines
Mark Foster, DO
-
March 15, 2011
0
148
Chapter Eight: “Forget Happiness . . . I’ve Got Control”
Laura Delano
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March 10, 2011
1
265
March 4, 2011
Mark Foster, DO
-
March 4, 2011
0
117
Chapter Seven: Becoming Bipolar, Becoming Empowered
Laura Delano
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February 20, 2011
0
386
February 14, 2011
Mark Foster, DO
-
February 14, 2011
0
147
Andreasen Drops a Bombshell: Antipsychotics Shrink the Brain
Robert Whitaker
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February 14, 2011
4
687
Chapter Six: A Disease of Dis-Ease, and New Hope for a Cure
Laura Delano
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February 10, 2011
0
253
January 31, 2011
Mark Foster, DO
-
January 31, 2011
0
142
Speaking at MGH Grand Rounds, and More
Robert Whitaker
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January 21, 2011
1
617
January 17, 2011
Mark Foster, DO
-
January 17, 2011
0
162
January 7, 2011
Mark Foster, DO
-
January 7, 2011
0
116
Antipsychotics and the Scientific Method
Jonathan Leo, PhD / Jeffrey Lacasse, PhD
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January 7, 2011
0
248
Psychiatric Drugs and Violence: A Review of FDA Data Finds A Link
Robert Whitaker
-
January 5, 2011
2
624
December 22, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
-
December 22, 2010
0
150
December 15, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
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December 15, 2010
0
119
Chapter Five: Filling the Void
Laura Delano
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December 10, 2010
0
312
December 6, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
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December 6, 2010
0
91
Updates on the Epidemic
Robert Whitaker
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December 5, 2010
0
207
Do Psychiatric Drugs Impair Normal Brain Development?
Robert Whitaker
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December 4, 2010
0
203
The GlaxoSmithKline Ghostwriting Documents, Part Two
Robert Whitaker
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December 1, 2010
0
169
Chapter Four: Eye of the Storm
Laura Delano
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December 1, 2010
0
306
A Ghostwritten Psychiatric Textbook Hints at a Much Larger Problem
Robert Whitaker
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November 30, 2010
0
450
November 26, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
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November 26, 2010
0
125
Volunteers for Psychotherapy Is A Finalist for International Award
Robert Whitaker
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November 26, 2010
0
119
Chapter Three: At War With A Diagnosis
Laura Delano
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November 20, 2010
2
365
November 11, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
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November 11, 2010
0
131
November 1, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
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November 10, 2010
0
164
November 9, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
-
November 9, 2010
0
101
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
148
November 4, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
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November 4, 2010
0
127
The Successful Creation of a Societal Delusion . . . and the Increase in...
Robert Whitaker
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November 4, 2010
3
378
Tardive Dyskinesia in the Atypicals Era: Is The Risk Any Less Today Than Before?
Robert Whitaker
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November 2, 2010
0
452
New Rat Study: SSRIs Markedly Deplete Brain Serotonin
Robert Whitaker
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November 1, 2010
0
437
October 28, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
-
October 28, 2010
0
129
October 25, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
-
October 25, 2010
0
142
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
410
October 21, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
-
October 21, 2010
2
155
October 17, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
-
October 17, 2010
0
133
October 14, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
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October 14, 2010
0
138
Chapter Two: Opening Pandora’s Box
Laura Delano
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October 10, 2010
4
475
October 10, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
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October 10, 2010
0
149
SAMHSA, Alternatives, and A Psychiatrist’s Despair over the State of American Science
Robert Whitaker
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October 10, 2010
1
293
SAMHSA, Alternatives, and the Story of an Opportunity Lost
Robert Whitaker
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October 8, 2010
2
373
October 6, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
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October 6, 2010
0
245
Keeping Tabs on the Serotonin Theory of Depression
Jonathan Leo, PhD / Jeffrey Lacasse, PhD
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October 6, 2010
0
316
Chapter One: Journeying Back to Self
Laura Delano
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October 1, 2010
12
1860
September 25, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
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September 25, 2010
0
171
September 21, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
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September 21, 2010
3
153
September 18, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
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September 18, 2010
0
165
Introducing Our Blog
Jonathan Leo, PhD / Jeffrey Lacasse, PhD
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September 18, 2010
0
190
September 27, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
-
September 10, 2010
0
159
And Now For the Rest of the Story
Robert Whitaker
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August 31, 2010
0
195
The STAR*D Scandal: A New Paper Sums It All Up
Robert Whitaker
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August 27, 2010
0
1335
Charlie Rose and the Mentally Ill Brain
Robert Whitaker
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August 12, 2010
2
384
News Roundup From June
Robert Whitaker
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July 5, 2010
0
172
”Broken Brains” and “Beautiful Minds”
Robert Whitaker
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July 2, 2010
0
328
Medicating Children: A “Whistleblower’s Lawsuit” Raises a Novel Legal Question
Robert Whitaker
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June 2, 2010
0
188
Yet Another Disappointment: First Catie, and Now the 12-Month Results from TEOSS
Robert Whitaker
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May 25, 2010
0
624
Update on the Star*D Report
Robert Whitaker
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May 19, 2010
0
286
A Schizophrenia Mystery Solved?
Robert Whitaker
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May 8, 2010
1
1894
Time Magazine and Anatomy of an Epidemic
Robert Whitaker
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April 24, 2010
0
250
Hypotheses, Scientific Evidence, and On Being Compared to an AIDS Denier
Robert Whitaker
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April 14, 2010
1
243
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
269
Fact Checking the New Yorker, Part Two
Robert Whitaker
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March 15, 2010
0
242
Fact Checking the New Yorker
Robert Whitaker
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March 15, 2010
0
634