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0
487
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3042
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981
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11
1381
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13
1082
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10
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46
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1067
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13
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21
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5
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6
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6
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28
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December 11, 2021
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December 7, 2021
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5610
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November 23, 2021
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November 20, 2021
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November 19, 2021
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November 18, 2021
10
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November 16, 2021
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“For Life”: New Opera Tells the Stories of Those Harmed by Psychiatric Drugs
MIA Editors
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November 15, 2021
22
3605
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Daniel Rosenbaum
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November 11, 2021
5
2821
Reason and Madness: How Psychiatry Marginalizes Those Who Contradict Western Norms
Robert Murphy
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November 9, 2021
10
3713
“Make Psychiatry Healthy”: Analysis of a Leaflet From the Danish Psychiatric Association
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
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November 4, 2021
37
3261
Why Not Seek Treatment Through the Mental Health System?
Christine Burnett
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November 2, 2021
21
3924
The New York Times Confidently Misinterprets a New ECT Study
Michael Sturman
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November 1, 2021
20
3811
#FreeBritney Takes the Capitol: Rallygoers Seek Momentum for Guardianship Reform
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October 28, 2021
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October 26, 2021
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October 21, 2021
9
3229
A Dystopian Vision of Psychiatry’s Future
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October 21, 2021
16
5225
Peer Respite: Why It Should be Everyone’s Concern
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October 19, 2021
16
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October 18, 2021
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5242
Fate of a Whistleblower: I Spoke Out About Abrupt Med Withdrawal
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October 14, 2021
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A New Liberation Movement, Focused on Relationship
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October 12, 2021
8
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October 7, 2021
9
2924
RIP: Scottish Psychiatric Survivor Activist Chrys Muirhead
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October 1, 2021
10
2917
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Max E. Guttman, LCSW
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September 28, 2021
9
2871
Soteria House and Peer Respite Summit
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September 27, 2021
7
1846
Mad Activists: The Language We Use Reflects Our Desire for Change
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September 23, 2021
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Robert Murphy
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September 21, 2021
3
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Gisela Sartori
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September 17, 2021
3
1661
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Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
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September 13, 2021
7
6452
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September 9, 2021
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6229
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September 8, 2021
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Amy Biancolli
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September 7, 2021
7
3061
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September 3, 2021
9
2199
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Joanna Moncrieff, MD
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September 2, 2021
39
8042
Interview: Moving Toward a Human Rights Approach to Student Mental Health
Miranda Spencer
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September 1, 2021
1
1832
The Sins of Conservatorship: Why Britney Spears Compared It to Slavery
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August 31, 2021
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August 30, 2021
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August 21, 2021
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August 19, 2021
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August 11, 2021
0
1629
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August 8, 2021
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August 6, 2021
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1242
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August 2, 2021
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July 31, 2021
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July 29, 2021
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July 26, 2021
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July 25, 2021
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10619
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July 22, 2021
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July 19, 2021
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July 17, 2021
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Discomfort Is the New Comfort Zone
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July 13, 2021
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July 13, 2021
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July 8, 2021
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July 6, 2021
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July 5, 2021
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July 2, 2021
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David W. Oaks
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June 29, 2021
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June 28, 2021
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June 26, 2021
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12840
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June 24, 2021
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Kevin Gallagher
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June 22, 2021
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June 21, 2021
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June 20, 2021
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Gail Hornstein, Ph.D.
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June 19, 2021
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2487
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Stephen Farghali
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June 16, 2021
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June 15, 2021
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June 14, 2021
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June 8, 2021
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Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
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June 7, 2021
10
2449
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Enrico Gnaulati, PhD
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June 6, 2021
15
2699
Modern Psychiatry’s Allure: It Tells People What They Want to Hear
Lawrence Kelmenson, MD
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June 3, 2021
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4417
Mental Health Survival Kit, Chapter 4: Withdrawing from Psychiatric Drugs (Part 3)
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
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May 31, 2021
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2153
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Marcello Maviglia
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Donald Hume
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May 29, 2021
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It’s All About Rights—or Should We Say “Unequal Privileges”
Ron Bassman, PhD
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May 25, 2021
5
1517
Mental Health Survival Kit, Chapter 4: Withdrawing from Psychiatric Drugs (Part 2)
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
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May 24, 2021
23
2343
Shining a Light on Numbers Needed to Treat (NNT)
Les Ruthven
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May 23, 2021
13
3437
The ERNI Declaration: Making Sense of Distress Without “Disease”
Paul Blackburn
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May 22, 2021
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Michael Cornwall, PhD
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May 20, 2021
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3781
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May 17, 2021
21
3287
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Miranda Spencer
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May 17, 2021
1
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May 15, 2021
15
3228
Radical Acts of Community Healing and Self-Love
Karin Jervert
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May 13, 2021
18
2055
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Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
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May 10, 2021
14
2529
We Do Not Have Everything We Need
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May 8, 2021
46
2963
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Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
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May 3, 2021
23
2651
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Fletcher Taylor
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May 2, 2021
10
1641
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Julia Rucklidge, PhD
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May 1, 2021
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Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
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April 26, 2021
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2460
Access Denied: Victims of Prescribed Harm Are Abandoned by Psychiatry
Rose Y.
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April 24, 2021
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6964
Mental Health Survival Kit, Chapter 2: Is Psychiatry Evidence Based? (Part 7)
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
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April 19, 2021
18
3244
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April 13, 2021
7
7780
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April 12, 2021
8
2474
Interview: Is Forced Treatment Deterring Youth from Seeking Mental Health Care?
Miranda Spencer
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April 11, 2021
19
2393
Mental Health at the End of the World
Megan Wildhood
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April 10, 2021
21
2746
Questions About Forced ECT: A Letter for Minnesota Governor Tim Walz
Sarah Price Hancock
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April 7, 2021
12
2756
Mental Health Survival Kit, Chapter 2: Is Psychiatry Evidence Based? (Part 5)
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
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April 5, 2021
35
3485
Overprescribing Madness
Martin Whitely
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April 4, 2021
15
3469
Psycho-Bizarreness Theory: A Rational, Anti-Psychiatric Theory of Madness
Yacov Rofé
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Yochay Rofé
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April 3, 2021
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4860
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Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
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March 29, 2021
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3059
An American History of Addiction, Part 6: The Reagan Reaction
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March 28, 2021
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2615
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March 25, 2021
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Iva Paska, PhD
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March 23, 2021
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1768
Mental Health Survival Kit, Chapter 2: Is Psychiatry Evidence Based? (Part 3)
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
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March 22, 2021
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2823
Online Exhibition: Art-Making During the Pandemic
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March 21, 2021
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1391
Federal Mental Health Agencies: Remember Ivory!
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March 18, 2021
13
2468
How Psychiatry Turned General Difficulties in Adaptation into “Real Illnesses Just Like Diabetes”
Philip Hickey, PhD
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March 16, 2021
41
4309
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Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
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March 15, 2021
17
3714
How to Support Healing from Psychosis Versus Imposing Social Control
Tim Dreby, MFT
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March 12, 2021
48
4074
Informed Consent Must Reflect Information from Online Withdrawal Forums
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March 10, 2021
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2258
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March 8, 2021
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4387
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March 7, 2021
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5998
Patients as Partners: A Social Empowerment Approach to Health and Mental Health
Hugh Polk, MD
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March 4, 2021
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Torture at Lake Alice “Hospital”, New Zealand
Philip Hickey, PhD
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March 2, 2021
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March 1, 2021
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February 28, 2021
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The BBC, Harrow, and a Public Left in the Dark
Robert Whitaker
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February 25, 2021
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February 23, 2021
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Sandra Steingard, MD
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February 22, 2021
14
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February 22, 2021
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Jennifer Honig
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February 21, 2021
18
3651
The Great Slowdown: Why Breaking Down Is Waking Up
James Scurry
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February 20, 2021
5
2482
The Role of Love in Mental Health
Trishna Patnaik
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February 19, 2021
21
2513
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Robert Yoho
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February 18, 2021
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February 15, 2021
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Kendra’s Law Must Be a Beginning, Not an End
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February 11, 2021
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Left-Wing Behavioral Genetics? A Closer Look at the Genetic Evidence in “The Cult of...
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February 9, 2021
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February 8, 2021
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2172
Dr. Pies’ Non-Apology
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February 5, 2021
33
1491
Intensive Home Treatment for Acute Mental Disorders: An Alternative to Hospitalization
David Heath
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February 4, 2021
90
3089
CRPD Consultation on Deinstitutionalization: A Reparations Approach
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
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February 2, 2021
29
3347
Insane Medicine, Chapter 9: The Worried Parent (Part 1)
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February 1, 2021
23
3300
Some Principles of Human Design for a Post-COVID World
Peter Sterling
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January 31, 2021
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3049
An American History of Addiction, Part 5: Vietnam, Veterans, and Vermin
Kevin Gallagher
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January 30, 2021
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1842
Psychiatrists and Open Dialogue
Kermit Cole
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January 29, 2021
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January 28, 2021
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4475
Attention! One Morning with a Roving Mind
Peter Sterling
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January 23, 2021
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2196
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January 21, 2021
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January 20, 2021
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David Straub
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January 17, 2021
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7042
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January 17, 2021
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January 10, 2021
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January 9, 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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December 31, 2020
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December 20, 2020
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To the Young Person Who Doesn’t Identify with Their Disability Diagnosis Anymore
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December 17, 2020
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December 15, 2020
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1600
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December 14, 2020
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December 13, 2020
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December 10, 2020
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December 7, 2020
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No, Autism Is Not Over-Diagnosed
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December 5, 2020
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3665
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December 3, 2020
5
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December 2, 2020
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Dual Diagnosis Anonymous: Peer Support for Those Who Need It
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November 27, 2020
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November 24, 2020
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November 23, 2020
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November 12, 2020
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November 9, 2020
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Who’s to Blame for the Lost Soul of Psychiatry?
Philip Hickey, PhD
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November 5, 2020
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November 3, 2020
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1907
Insane Medicine, Chapter 2: The Scientism of Psychiatry (Part 2)
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November 2, 2020
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October 30, 2020
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October 29, 2020
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Christopher Lane, PhD
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October 28, 2020
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October 27, 2020
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October 26, 2020
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Max E. Guttman, LCSW
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October 24, 2020
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October 23, 2020
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October 22, 2020
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October 21, 2020
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October 20, 2020
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6848
Insane Medicine, Chapter One: The Medical Model of Mental Health Is Finished
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6226
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October 7, 2020
33
5100
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October 6, 2020
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6061
The First Studies of Antidepressant Withdrawal
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October 4, 2020
22
8133
How Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy Changed My Life
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October 3, 2020
31
5597
You’ve Got to Be Crazy to Go to a Psychiatrist
Lawrence Kelmenson, MD
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October 1, 2020
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6532
Addiction Treatment: How Many Meds Does It Take to Get Sober?
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September 29, 2020
34
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How Mindful Awareness Can Reduce Suffering
Trishna Patnaik
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September 28, 2020
1
1388
Suicidal Thoughts, Psychiatric Diagnosis, and What Really Helps: Part Two
Paula J. Caplan, PhD
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September 25, 2020
42
3933
Suicidal Thoughts, Psychiatric Diagnosis, and What Really Helps: Part One
Paula J. Caplan, PhD
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September 24, 2020
82
5354
A Conversation with Nev Jones
Sandra Steingard, MD
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September 22, 2020
51
3513
VICE, MIA and The Movement Against Psychiatry
Robert Whitaker
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September 21, 2020
117
8195
Why Is the APA Proposing Sweeping Changes to Training Requirements?
Ben Greenberg, PsyD
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September 20, 2020
14
5245
Malcharist: Fact or Fiction? Big Pharma, Psychiatry’s Key Opinion Leaders and their Ghostwriters
Leemon McHenry
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September 16, 2020
15
2746
The Mirror Repeats: The Art of Phoebe Sparrow Wagner
Larry Taylor
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September 15, 2020
23
2469
Stop Saying This, Part Four: Does Time Heal All Wounds?
Megan Wildhood
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September 9, 2020
11
2887
CAUTION: Spin Ahead! There is No Evidence That Psychostimulants Reduce the Risk for Infection...
Yaakov Ophir, PhD
&
Yaffa Shir-Raz, PhD
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September 8, 2020
24
2957
Hearing Voices: Let the Community Lead
Dmitriy Gutkovich
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September 6, 2020
10
2214
A Positive Change for Mad in America Continuing Education
Robert Nikkel, MSW
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September 3, 2020
2
1023
An Obituary for My Colonizer: Reflections on the Legacy of DJ Jaffe
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September 2, 2020
38
2899
Can We Allow Suffering?
Karin Jervert
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September 1, 2020
43
4660
UN Special Rapporteur Dainius Pūras: Biomedical Approach “Still Has an Important Role to Play”
Jon Sedarati, MSc
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August 30, 2020
27
2342
Dear “Psychology Today”: Believe Incest Survivors
Anna Holtzman
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August 29, 2020
30
9451
Deep Sleep “Therapy” in Australia in the 1960s & ’70s: Could Something Like This...
Philip Hickey, PhD
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August 27, 2020
67
6772
Inequities in Mental Health Services: It’s Time for a Reckoning and Rectification
Karen Zilberstein
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August 25, 2020
4
2170
SSRI Withdrawal’s Elephant in the Room: Tardive Akathisia
Stuart Shipko
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August 22, 2020
114
16424
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Eric Coates
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August 20, 2020
12
4262
An American History of Drugs and Addiction, Part Two: Immigrating to a Temperance Culture
Kevin Gallagher
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August 18, 2020
3
2479
Who Is a Danger to Others: The “Mentally Ill” or the Powerful?
Caroline Colwill
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August 15, 2020
164
3775
Ecotherapy/Nature Therapy/Green Therapy
Trishna Patnaik
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August 11, 2020
8
2045
Behavioural Geneticist Robert Plomin: “There Are No Disorders, There Are Just Quantitative Dimensions”
Jon Sedarati, MSc
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August 9, 2020
53
7191
A Tale of Two Paradigms
Robert Nikkel, MSW
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August 8, 2020
31
3366
Stop Saying This, Part Three: “Everything in Moderation” and More
Megan Wildhood
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August 6, 2020
51
3652
Identity, Oppression, and the Culture of “The Mentally Ill”
Lael Ewy
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August 4, 2020
90
6511
Kicking Over a Straw Woman
Patrick Hahn
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August 2, 2020
52
5152
A Recovery Movement Jedi Master, Bill Anthony, Died Recently
Mark Ragins, MD
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August 1, 2020
10
2878
Drs. Pies and Ruffalo Still Rattling Their Wooden Swords
Philip Hickey, PhD
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July 28, 2020
102
3100
An American History of Addiction: Ardent Spirits
Kevin Gallagher
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July 23, 2020
13
4248
Professional Mental Health Leaders: Experts in Humanity or in Marketing?
Caroline Colwill
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July 19, 2020
71
3097
Whose Finger is Taking the Pulse of America’s Shock Treatment Controversy?
Sarah Price Hancock
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July 16, 2020
49
5791
Stop Saying This, Part Two: “Reframing” and More
Megan Wildhood
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July 12, 2020
47
5033
Is COVID-19 Making Everybody Crazy?
Paula J. Caplan, PhD
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July 10, 2020
29
10620
Racism and Radical Psychiatry
Lucas Richert
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July 8, 2020
146
2852
Suicide & Candy Corn: The Utility and Challenges of Risk Assessments
Sera Davidow
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June 21, 2020
68
4569
Kerry O’Malley: A Personal Struggle Against Forced Medication
Brett Collins
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June 20, 2020
10
4212
Is It Time to Rethink Mental Illness in Light of the Pandemic?
Caroline Colwill
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June 18, 2020
36
3089
Defunding the Police: Replacing Guns With Prescription Pads Is Not the Answer
Noel Hunter, PsyD
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June 17, 2020
46
6584
Does Stranger Mean Danger?
Dan Kriegman, PhD
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June 15, 2020
15
2078
Stop Saying This: Phrases That Sound Helpful, But Are Actually Gaslighting, Part 1
Megan Wildhood
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June 14, 2020
37
17142
Black Suicidality and Mental Health #BlackLivesMatter
Samantha Lilly
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June 12, 2020
4
2173
End Police “Wellness Checks.” Now.
Will Hall
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June 11, 2020
63
20174
We Must Not Be Silent On George Floyd & Systemic Racism.
Sera Davidow
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June 9, 2020
257
4173
Withdrawing Kids from Psych Drugs: Why, How, and When
Nicole Beurkens, PhD, CNS
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June 8, 2020
12
2971
Recovery: Stressing the Social Basis of the Process
Alain Topor
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Inger Beate Larsen
&
Tore Dag Bøe
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June 6, 2020
28
4415
Canadian Mental Health Legislation and the CRPD
Irit Shimrat
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June 5, 2020
44
3250
Supporting Children and Parents to Withdraw from Psychiatric Medication
Nicole Beurkens, PhD, CNS
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June 4, 2020
13
2799
“We Are All Mad!” A Call for the Development of an International Network Among...
Marcello Maviglia
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June 1, 2020
83
2414
Jinxed: The Persecution of Evan Durst Kreeger
Jim Gottstein, JD
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May 31, 2020
97
14134
Three Recent Genetics Books and Twin Studies’ Indefensible “Equal Environment Assumption”
Jay Joseph, PsyD
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May 29, 2020
19
4982
12 Essential Facts About Psychiatry
Jon Sedarati, MSc
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May 28, 2020
81
14592
Four Decades of Allying to Make Safe Spaces for All Voices: The Hearing Voices...
Kermit Cole
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May 27, 2020
5
1254
Should You Ever Ask Someone “Are You Suicidal?”
Sera Davidow
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May 26, 2020
78
9722
Electric Shock Update: Allegations of Regulatory Misconduct Filed with the FDA
Lauren Tenney, PhD, MPhil, MPA, Psychiatric Survivor
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May 24, 2020
33
3573
Should We Diagnose Donald Trump?
Dan Kriegman, PhD
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May 23, 2020
53
2512
Does Pharma Need the Entrepreneur?
Stephen Farghali
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May 21, 2020
17
1606
Beyond the Buzzwords: What Does Trauma-Informed Care Truly Mean?
Rachel Levy, LCSW
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May 20, 2020
33
7862
What COVID-19 Has to Teach Us About Psychiatric Oppression
Sera Davidow
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May 19, 2020
167
4356
DSM Led Us Far Astray. Life Story Is the Path to Truth.
Eric Kuelker, PhD, RPsych
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May 18, 2020
86
5279
When Telling A Psychiatrist You Are Not Mentally Ill Is Grounds for Commitment
Gail Tasch
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May 17, 2020
31
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Loneliness Is Deadlier Than COVID
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May 13, 2020
44
5839
Why Compassionate Activism?
Mitzy Sky
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May 12, 2020
7
2703
Dialogue Is Just What the Doctor Ordered: Town Halls in a Time of Crisis
Kermit Cole
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May 11, 2020
14
961
Re-establishing My Credentials: Psychiatric Survivor Activists Are Needed Now!
David W. Oaks
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May 10, 2020
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3134
The President’s Fitness: Can Professionals Help Decide?
Paula J. Caplan, PhD
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May 8, 2020
160
3081
“Be Kind to Yourself… For Us!”
Hugh Polk, MD
&
Ann Green, PMHNP
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May 7, 2020
15
1132
Induction to Virus Psychosis
Maria Quarato
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May 7, 2020
9
1219
Mental Health Is Our Common Wealth
Kermit Cole
&
Justin Karter
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May 4, 2020
20
1422
Jordan B. Peterson’s Support of Corporal Punishment for Children: A Critique
Jon Sedarati, MSc
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May 4, 2020
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The Launch of Mad in Sweden Culture Section
May 3, 2020
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May 3, 2020
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May 3, 2020
“Depression Among the Elderly Must be Prioritized”
May 3, 2020
Mad in America and Activism
Ron Bassman, PhD
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May 1, 2020
65
2410
Window of Opportunity: Reflections on “Dialogue in a Time of Crisis”
Kermit Cole
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April 30, 2020
1
1025
Allen Frances: Still Spinning the Story
Philip Hickey, PhD
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April 24, 2020
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5720
Is Your Brain Adequately Nourished to Cope With COVID-19 Stress?
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
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April 22, 2020
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3031
Too Good to Be True: How TMS Damaged My Brain
James Hall
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April 21, 2020
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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
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16340
Lockdown Reading to End DSM Psychiatry?
Magdalene D'Silva, BA/LLB, LLM, MA
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April 17, 2020
77
6870
Just Like Viruses, Emotions are Contagious
Enrico Gnaulati, PhD
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April 16, 2020
19
1836
Missing a Pivotal Outcome in a Large Cold Turkey Trial of Desvenlafaxine
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
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April 16, 2020
6
1381
Exploring Dialogical Responses in a Time of Crisis: Are We Living in the...
Kermit Cole
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April 14, 2020
37
4292
A Bridge Over Troubled Water: What’s This About Being a Hopeless Reformer?
Robert Nikkel, MSW
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April 12, 2020
103
2413
Exploring How Muslim Therapists Work With Jinn Possession
Kawthar Alli
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April 11, 2020
18
8332
Blurring the Line Between “Us” and “Them”
Diana Spore
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April 10, 2020
29
1655
What Do Psychiatrists Treat if Not the Soul (i.e., the Psyche)?
Fr. John
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April 9, 2020
42
3563
We Are All in This Together
Lucy Johnstone, PsyD
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April 7, 2020
162
5022
A Peek Inside the Modern Asylum
Ekaterina Netchitailova, PhD
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April 5, 2020
29
11278
Social Determinants of Health and the Continued Individualization of Suffering
Kevin Gallagher
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April 4, 2020
20
3716
Supreme Court Decides Case on Insanity Defense
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
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April 3, 2020
7
1896
Making a Mad Community, from Attic to Attic: Part Two
Jessica M
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March 31, 2020
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Jessica M
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March 31, 2020
0
115
US Considering Policies That Will Lead to Mass Death Of Psychiatric Patients
Will Hall
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March 29, 2020
51
3026
The Persistent, Misdirected Search for Causes of Trauma-based Suffering
Paula J. Caplan, PhD
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March 27, 2020
45
4199
Joint Statement on COVID-19 and Persons with Psychosocial Disabilities
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
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March 26, 2020
75
4424
The Perils of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising
Katherine Werner Blasi
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March 25, 2020
8
1690
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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
1956
Psychiatry and the Stupidification of America
Lawrence Kelmenson, MD
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March 18, 2020
53
6076
From FACT to POD: How a FACT Team Integrated Open Dialogue
Marion DeBoer
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March 16, 2020
13
1377
National Boards of Health Are Unresponsive to Children Driven to Suicide by Depression Pills
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
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March 15, 2020
29
3934
The Psychiatric Narrative & The Boston Globe: Violence, Force, & Derogatory Labels
Vesper Moore
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March 14, 2020
50
2626
A Book Review of “Acceptance: The Defining Voice of Validation”
Paula J. Caplan, PhD
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March 13, 2020
7
2673
Please Stop Saying Depression Is Like Diabetes
Megan Wildhood
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March 12, 2020
47
5132
How Radical Women Changed Psychiatry in the 1970s
Lucas Richert
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March 9, 2020
19
4555
6 Ways Trauma Might Inform Your Current Life
Noel Hunter, PsyD
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March 8, 2020
29
6490
UN Report: Involuntary Psychiatric Interventions “May Well Amount to Torture”
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
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March 5, 2020
117
11840
Psychiatry Needs a New Metaphor
Scott Hall
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March 4, 2020
34
3507
The Most Dangerous Thing You Will Ever Do
Peter Breggin, MD
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March 2, 2020
76
24917
What Can We Learn From the Asylum?
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
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February 29, 2020
79
2745
Why Did I Stay?
February 29, 2020
Rethinking “Delusions”: Envisioning a Humanistic Approach to Troublesome Beliefs
Ron Unger, LCSW
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February 27, 2020
24
3762
What Does the Therapist Know? And Why Does It Matter?
Ann Green, PMHNP
&
Hugh Polk, MD
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February 25, 2020
14
2706
Working With the Four Dialogues: Using Chairwork in Clinical Practice
Scott Kellogg, PhD
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February 22, 2020
10
4197
Observations From an Open Circle
Milan Röhricht
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February 20, 2020
29
1340
Our Movement Has a Cover-up Problem Too
Will Hall
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February 18, 2020
81
3399
Turning the Corner: How Are We Educating Psychiatrists in Medical Schools?
Robert Nikkel, MSW
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February 17, 2020
29
1654
Exploding the “Separated-at-Birth” Twin Study Myth
Jay Joseph, PsyD
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February 16, 2020
5
7906
“Sublime Madness”: Anarchists, Psychiatric Survivors, Emma Goldman & Harriet Tubman
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
February 15, 2020
32
3063
Why Must People Pathologize Eating Problems?
Paula J. Caplan, PhD
&
Jo Watson
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February 15, 2020
38
5112
Spiritual Emergency: Crisis or Transformation?
Julia Sellers
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February 14, 2020
11
7114
The Chemical Imbalance Theory of Depression: Where Is It Going?
Philip Hickey, PhD
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February 13, 2020
56
8489
The Review on Antidepressant Withdrawal That Cochrane Won’t Publish
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
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February 11, 2020
33
10277
A Kirist Response to Psychiatry
Eric Maisel, PhD
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February 7, 2020
29
3999
NY Times to Bonnie Burstow: May You Not Rest in Peace
Robert Whitaker
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February 5, 2020
123
7333
Psychiatry, Capitalism, and the Recuperation of Psychedelics
Mia Khan
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February 4, 2020
31
6065
Big Pharma Meets Big Diagnosis, Big Courts, and Big Psychiatric Hospitals
Paula J. Caplan, PhD
-
January 31, 2020
92
8648
Reimagining Healthcare
Audrey Stillerman, MD
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January 30, 2020
23
3415
Where Are the Results of These Five Clinical Trials of Antidepressant Drugs?
Till Bruckner, PhD
-
January 28, 2020
11
4529
Ready, Fire, Aim: Mainstream Psychiatry Reacts to the UN Special Rapporteur
Niall McLaren
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January 26, 2020
41
5674
How President Trump and Dr. Drew Got It Wrong on Deinstitutionalization
Michael Simonson
&
Leah Harris
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January 24, 2020
37
5145
MIACE 2020: New Approaches to Working With People Who Are Suicidal
Robert Nikkel, MSW
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January 21, 2020
26
3164
Stalked by Stress, Abandoned to Predation: The Appeal of Suicide in a Modern World
Sarah Knutson
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January 16, 2020
59
5417
Making Peer Counseling Radically Accessible
Tim Desmond, LMFT
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January 14, 2020
33
4530
The Day I Became Schizophrenic
Eric Coates
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January 12, 2020
62
6066
Power Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry
Sera Davidow
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January 11, 2020
74
4674
The Real Myth of the Schizophrenogenic Mother
Patrick Hahn
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January 10, 2020
53
15460
Remembering Bonnie Burstow
Don Weitz
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January 9, 2020
32
8006
No, Dr. Friedman: The Solution to Teen Suicide is Not So Simple
Jacob Hess, PhD
-
January 8, 2020
24
3962
Surviving Psychiatry: A Typical Case of Serious Psychiatric Drug Harms
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
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January 7, 2020
22
8472
Real Doctors Are Peddling Fake Diseases: Here’s How to Spot Them
Lawrence Kelmenson, MD
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January 4, 2020
68
5851
Overcoming the Madness in Us All
Peter Breggin, MD
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January 3, 2020
36
8813
Cast Aside No One
Melissa Toni
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January 2, 2020
97
2299
The Invisibles: Children in Foster Care
Paula J. Caplan, PhD
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December 30, 2019
18
4442
Zel Dolinsky: I Have a Right to “Death With Dignity”
Robert Whitaker
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December 28, 2019
97
8658
Merry, Beautiful, Unique: YOU
Ekaterina Netchitailova, PhD
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December 25, 2019
15
1429
Anatomy of a Suicide: Stress and the Human Condition
Sarah Knutson
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December 24, 2019
21
43209
Medical Ghostwriting: When an “Author” Is Not Necessarily an “Author”
Jonathan Leo, PhD
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December 21, 2019
4
4371
The House of Cards with Informed Consent Standards
Robert Nikkel, MSW
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December 20, 2019
19
2100
Twin Studies and Ken Burns’ Upcoming Documentary on “The Gene: An Intimate History”
Jay Joseph, PsyD
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December 19, 2019
25
5796
Are Regulatory Bodies Prioritising Drug Company Interests Over Public Safety?
John Read
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December 17, 2019
31
2506
Is Australia’s Psychiatric System Redeemable?
Niall McLaren
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December 15, 2019
48
5548
The Field of Mental Health Has Gone Astray, But We Can Fix It
Birgit Valla
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December 13, 2019
45
4113
Dr. Huda Has Written His Book: ‘The Medical Model in Mental Health’
Philip Hickey, PhD
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December 11, 2019
64
5693
What Does ‘Relapse’ Mean? Definitions Used in Antipsychotic Trials Are Unclear
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
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December 10, 2019
15
2007
The Matrix: Disentangling Anti-Psychiatry
T.N. Tampiyappa, FRANZCP
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December 7, 2019
120
8645
In Memory of Julie Greene
MIA Editors
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December 6, 2019
62
6251
A Tribute to Stephen Gilbert, Warrior Behind Enemy Lines
MIA Editors
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December 3, 2019
32
2043
Lighting a Spark to Heal Trauma: An Interview with Jesse Zook Mann
Chaya Grossberg
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December 1, 2019
21
3742
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Lauren Spiro
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November 28, 2019
11
3933
Seven Strategies to Avoid Retraumatization While Working with Psychosis
Tim Dreby, MFT
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November 26, 2019
18
3177
MIA at Eight Years: Are We Fulfilling Our Mission?
Robert Whitaker
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November 22, 2019
69
4905
Anthropologists Contemplate the Future Role of Psychiatry
Sandra Steingard, MD
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November 19, 2019
19
3625
Hearing Voices Network Launches Family & Friends Support Group
David Adams
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November 16, 2019
4
4374
High Time for Anarchism in Mental Health
Itay Kander
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November 14, 2019
57
6731
Deep Brain Stimulation and Deeply Biased Researchers, Revisited
Andrew Scull, PhD
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November 13, 2019
19
3211
“We Need a New Paradigm” — Rethinking Psychiatry’s Hospitalization Survey
Rachel Levy, LCSW
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November 9, 2019
8
2091
Capitalism Makes Solutions Impossible: A Review of ‘Rebel Minds’
Megan Wildhood
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November 8, 2019
20
3510
The Revolt Against Psychiatry: A Book Review
Susan Rosenthal
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November 6, 2019
44
3906
Got a Gene for That? The Latest from the Chronicles of Gene Worshiping
Noel Hunter, PsyD
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November 5, 2019
21
2604
Holistic Approaches: A Proven Treatment for Psychotropic Drug Withdrawal
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
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November 2, 2019
5
13263
Responding to Workplace Mistreatment and Bullying
Will Hall
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October 31, 2019
23
2287
From Moses to Jesus to Prozac: A Theory on “Chemical Imbalances” and Faith
Lawrence Kelmenson, MD
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October 30, 2019
58
6148
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
2757
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Jann Schlimme
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October 24, 2019
43
4086
There Is No Such Thing as a Side Effect
Eric Coates
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October 23, 2019
28
5112
Building a Culture of Mental Well-Being
Aryan Aggarwal
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October 20, 2019
1
5447
When Mad Voices Are Locked Out of Academia
Chris Maylea, MHSMP, JD, DSW
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October 19, 2019
124
8622
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Patrick Hahn
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October 17, 2019
14
27896
Peer Specialists in the Mental Health Workforce: A Critical Reassessment
Darby Penney
&
Peter Stastny, MD
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October 16, 2019
74
11167
The Sisyphus Cycle: How Everyday Stress Leads to Suicide
Sarah Knutson
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October 12, 2019
29
9406
Dog Assisted Psychotherapy Most Effective With Children
October 12, 2019
Deep Brain Stimulation and Depression
Andrew Scull, PhD
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October 10, 2019
27
3462
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October 10, 2019
6
4105
Fighting Unjustified Commitment in Wisconsin: Leslie’s Story
Gail Tasch
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October 9, 2019
40
4307
Countervailing Forces Against Ritalin Use in France
Marilyn Wedge, PhD
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October 6, 2019
5
2727
Forced-Treatment Advocacy Group Cherry-Picks Data to Support Agenda (Again)
Michael Simonson
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September 30, 2019
28
2488
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
12860
Marci Webber Granted a Conditional Discharge
Robert Whitaker
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September 25, 2019
104
6806
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James Barnes, MSc, MA
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September 21, 2019
38
5550
10 Reasons Why Psychiatry Lives On—Obvious, Dark, and Darkest
Bruce Levine, PhD
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September 17, 2019
138
14542
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Robert Whitaker
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September 14, 2019
255
7740
Lingering Side Effects of Quitting Antidepressants
Jane Tholen
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September 13, 2019
16
19323
Trump and Cuomo: Red Flags Are Red Herrings
Lauren Tenney, PhD, MPhil, MPA, Psychiatric Survivor
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September 11, 2019
29
2900
How Psychological Injuries Cause Physical Illness—And How Therapy Can Heal It
Eric Kuelker, PhD, RPsych
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September 10, 2019
56
41377
William James’s Letter to His Depressed Daughter
Jeffrey Rubin, PhD
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September 5, 2019
12
6964
Pies’ Polemic and the Question of Theories in Psychiatry, Again
Niall McLaren
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September 4, 2019
53
5019
A ‘Blueprint’ for Genetic Determinism
Jay Joseph, PsyD
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September 3, 2019
22
9707
How Healthcare Foundations Destroy Grassroots Advocates
Corinna West
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September 1, 2019
11
1969
System Change Webinars: Promoting Radical Change
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August 29, 2019
36
961
Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal in Spain
Francisco Jose Sans Lacussan
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August 27, 2019
31
9722
The Problem Lies in the Term ‘Mental Illness’
Ekaterina Netchitailova, PhD
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August 25, 2019
208
6033
Poverty: The Newest Medically Treatable Brain Disease
Lawrence Kelmenson, MD
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August 23, 2019
79
5489
Monarch eTNS Inspires “Stop the Psychiatric Abuse of Children!” (SPAC!)
Peter Breggin, MD
&
Michael Cornwall, PhD
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August 20, 2019
24
6162
Creating Our Mental Health
Ann Green, PMHNP
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Hugh Polk, MD
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August 18, 2019
9
2234
The Mystic of Ireland: An Homage to Ivor Browne
Tomás Hardiman
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August 17, 2019
12
6240
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Sascha Altman DuBrul
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August 16, 2019
51
3668
In Defense of Anger
Megan Wildhood
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August 15, 2019
42
5196
No Graphic Detail: The Injustice of Being Silenced
Sera Davidow
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August 12, 2019
60
3172
We Must Hear Marianne Williamson’s Message About the Overuse of Antidepressants
Kenneth F. McCallion
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August 11, 2019
20
3248
Brave New Apps: The Arrival of Surveillance Psychiatry
Jonah Bossewitch, PhD
-
August 9, 2019
20
3430
Blaming the “Mentally Ill”: This is Hate Speech
Robert Whitaker
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August 8, 2019
238
7456
Antidepressants and the National Suicide Epidemic
Patrick Hahn
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August 6, 2019
33
4761
How “Safe Messaging” Gaslights Suicidal People
Jess Stohlmann-Rainey
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August 4, 2019
25
10789
Helping People Come Off Medication—Bad for Business?
Peter Groot, PhD
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August 1, 2019
26
2964
Psychiatric Eugenics Then and Now—You Betcha It’s Still Happening
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
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July 31, 2019
119
13483
Rock Bottom: When You Are in Your Darkest Moment
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
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July 30, 2019
12
3798
We’ve Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health
MIA Editors
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July 28, 2019
10
4059
An “Even-Handed” History of Psychiatry as Damning as the “Polemics”?
Sandra Steingard, MD
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July 27, 2019
13
2887
We Lost a Giant Today: A Tribute to Janet Foner
Lauren Spiro
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David W. Oaks
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July 25, 2019
10
4337
Responding to “The Case Against AOT”—Next Steps for Change
Robert Nikkel, MSW
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July 24, 2019
31
1730
The Chemical Imbalance Theory: Dr. Pies Returns, Again
Philip Hickey, PhD
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July 22, 2019
81
6605
U.S. Politicians Now “Trauma Informed”—Should We Be Hopeful?
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
July 20, 2019
15
2066
An Open Letter to Howard Stern, the “Poster Boy for Psychotherapy”
Enrico Gnaulati, PhD
-
July 19, 2019
11
3405
End Kendra’s Law Now: Racist, Classist Practices in Involuntary Psychiatry Persist
Lauren Tenney, PhD, MPhil, MPA, Psychiatric Survivor
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July 17, 2019
9
4506
Talking About Psych Diagnoses and Drugs: A Primer for Parents & Professionals
Paula J. Caplan, PhD
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July 13, 2019
14
3381
System Change Toward a Green Movement in Mental Health
Robert Nikkel, MSW
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July 12, 2019
12
1273
Equal Legal Capacity or ‘Supported Decision-Making’?
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
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July 10, 2019
38
2081
On Cognitive Liberty: A Principle to Rally Behind
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
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July 7, 2019
192
5086
Being-Towards-Suicide
Milan Röhricht
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July 7, 2019
57
2786
Why Mad in Italy?
Marcello Maviglia
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July 6, 2019
51
2350
Inside an Online Charter School: Labeling Kids “Disabled” for Profit
Julie Greene, MFA
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July 2, 2019
47
2741
A Guide to Long-Acting Neuroleptics: Education or Promotion?
Sandra Steingard, MD
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June 28, 2019
61
3348
The Pill Shaming Phenomenon: What’s It Really About?
Sera Davidow
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Caroline Mazel-Carlton
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June 26, 2019
182
12294
The Voices My Daughter Hears
Tricia Stafford
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June 25, 2019
33
3775
Madness, Sexuality and Legacies of Strategic Sanism
Sarah Carr, PhD
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June 23, 2019
22
3974
Introducing Voices for Choices
Jim Flannery
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June 22, 2019
12
1523
“Three Identical Strangers” and the Nature-Nurture Debate
Jay Joseph, PsyD
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June 21, 2019
14
26815
To Warn or Not to Warn? A Critique of MIA’s Use of Diagnostic Terminology
Paula J. Caplan, PhD
-
June 18, 2019
211
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Tom Paine, Christianity, and Modern Psychiatry
Bruce Levine, PhD
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June 14, 2019
36
2625
ECT Litigation Update: Are Patients Being Warned of Brain Damage Risk?
David Karen, Esq.
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June 13, 2019
12
4750
Two Years Tapering an Antidepressant – A Life-Changing Experience That I Didn’t Want
James Moore
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June 12, 2019
39
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The Three Types of Psychiatric Drugs – A Doctor’s Guide for Consumers
Lawrence Kelmenson, MD
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June 9, 2019
122
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A Smashing Victory — And an Insidious New Threat
Peter Breggin, MD
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June 9, 2019
24
6320
When ‘For Your Own Good’ Actually Means ‘For My Own Good’
Sera Davidow
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June 4, 2019
71
9088
Public Purse a Cash Cow for Pharma: Could Taxpayer Dollars Be Better Spent?
Robert Nikkel, MSW
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June 1, 2019
49
1410
Tough Love for Thomas Szasz: A Book Review
Michael Fontaine, PhD
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May 31, 2019
111
3985
I’m Introverted, Not Depressed!
Enrico Gnaulati, PhD
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May 29, 2019
23
4384
Blaming the System May Be the Best Therapy
Megan Wildhood
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May 25, 2019
47
5329
Helping Children to Overcome OCD: 6 Creative Strategies for Parents
Ben Furman, MD
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May 22, 2019
35
22152
FDA Approves Using Electricity All Night Long on Children’s Brains
Michael Cornwall, PhD
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May 21, 2019
57
7028
Are Antidepressants Enabling the Population to Tolerate the Intolerable?
Melody Ullah
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May 18, 2019
27
5728
My Son and the “Mental Health” System
Alan Moster
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May 17, 2019
60
5799
Recovery Versus Mad Pride: Exploring the Contradictions
Ron Unger, LCSW
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May 14, 2019
130
6290
Stop Shocking and Torturing Women – My Sisters
Don Weitz
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May 12, 2019
28
2963
Reflections on 25,000 Hours of Being With People in Extreme States
Michael Cornwall, PhD
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May 11, 2019
69
6450
Thought About Killing Yourself Lately? It’s Not All In Your Head
Eric Greene
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May 10, 2019
48
5344
On Human Nature and Its Implications for the Mind-Body Problem
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
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May 9, 2019
15
2739
Forced Drugging with Antipsychotics is Against the Law: Decision in Norway
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
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May 4, 2019
19
9240
Lou Reed: That Which Does Not Kill Us Can Radicalize Us
Bruce Levine, PhD
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May 3, 2019
55
6550
A Deeper Dive into System Change in the Mental Health Paradigm
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May 3, 2019
37
4017
Lithium: A Survivor’s Guide for Parents
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May 1, 2019
55
6083
Remembering Deron Drumm: The Vision and the Hope for Healing and Connection
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April 28, 2019
7
2614
25 Lenses Through Which to View How Life is Experienced
Eric Maisel, PhD
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April 27, 2019
30
4493
On Whose Authority?
Ann Green, PMHNP
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Hugh Polk, MD
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April 27, 2019
26
2468
In Defense of Anti-Psychiatry
Philip Hickey, PhD
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April 25, 2019
281
16165
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Ron Unger, LCSW
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April 24, 2019
41
5896
“Dad, You Were Right”: I Got Better When I Stopped Treatment
Julie Greene, MFA
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April 23, 2019
123
5669
Media Errors in Covering “Mental Health” – Advice to Fellow Writers and Editors
Sandy Allen
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April 21, 2019
14
4527
Update on Marci Webber: Will the Nightmare Ever End?
Cindy Perlin
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April 20, 2019
47
4752
The Lonely Wave: On the Failure of Group Therapy
Cody B.
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April 19, 2019
54
7650
The New Yorker Peers into the Psychiatric Abyss… And Loses Its Nerve
Robert Whitaker
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April 18, 2019
415
15619
Struggling Parents, Burdened Social Services: What We Can Change
Karen Zilberstein
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April 16, 2019
23
1903
The Science and Pseudoscience of Women’s Mental Health: Conversation with Kelly Brogan
Sharna Olfman, PhD
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April 13, 2019
5
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ECT Explained by a CET (Certified Engineering Technologist)
Fr. John
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April 11, 2019
32
5495
Why “Middle-Grounders” May Be as Dangerous as APA Presidents
Bruce Levine, PhD
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April 9, 2019
231
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The Hints That Psychotherapy Clients Drop
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April 7, 2019
5
2118
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Megan Wildhood
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April 6, 2019
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“I Love My Diagnosis”: The Benefits of Mental Illness
Fred Moss, MD
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April 4, 2019
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Lasting Damage from Prescribed Drugs
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April 1, 2019
77
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A Faux Test for a Faux Disease Promoted by Real Psychiatrists
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March 30, 2019
33
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“Breakthrough” Treatment for Postpartum Depression: Game Changer or Misguided Magic Bullet?
Kim Witczak
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March 28, 2019
37
3281
Introducing Multi-Lens Therapy
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March 26, 2019
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I Believe There’s a Gene for Psychosis… And We All Have It!
Lawrence Kelmenson, MD
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March 24, 2019
46
2455
Postpartum Depression: Is Brexanolone the Answer?
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
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March 24, 2019
9
4339
Right-Wing Psychiatry, Love-Me Liberals and the Anti-Authoritarian Left
Bruce Levine, PhD
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March 22, 2019
60
5714
“Page Not Found” Ends Up “Telling All” About Psychiatry
Peter Breggin, MD
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March 20, 2019
58
6930
Recovery Porn: Tell Me Your Story, I’ll Tell You Your Value
Sera Davidow
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March 17, 2019
102
8660
Together for Sustainable Change: The Launch of Mad in Sweden
Lasse Mattila
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March 16, 2019
9
3373
Real, Not Sham, Mental Health Coverage
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March 16, 2019
22
2346
Saving Psychotherapy
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March 15, 2019
23
2533
I Get to Decide What’s Helpful for Me
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March 13, 2019
9
3522
Kick Big Pharma Out of the Classroom
Jo Ann Cook
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March 7, 2019
35
5215
Will the European Elections Be a Chance for Mental Health?
Ophélie Martin
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March 6, 2019
40
2072
“Let’s Not Go Overboard About ECT”
Peter Breggin, MD
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March 3, 2019
99
5747
How “Mental Health Awareness” Exploits Schoolchildren
Jo Ann Cook
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March 1, 2019
55
7452
Why Many Doctors Are Authoritarians – and Harmful
Bruce Levine, PhD
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February 28, 2019
82
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Why Are So Many Americans Seeking Medication for Distress?
Lawrence Kelmenson, MD
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February 27, 2019
151
4072
Psychiatric Medications: Who Decides?
Ann Green, PMHNP
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Hugh Polk, MD
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February 24, 2019
26
3339
I Don’t Believe in Autism
Anders Lee
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February 24, 2019
50
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Psychiatry, Society and Stigma: Placing the Blame Where It Belongs
Lee Coleman, MD
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February 23, 2019
204
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Assessing Outcomes at the Alternative to Meds Center: Survey Results Prove Promising
Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
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February 21, 2019
29
5597
Nasal Spray for Depression? Not So Fast
Kim Witczak
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February 20, 2019
59
7786
Loneliness Cure: Red or Blue Pill?
Vicki Lännerholm, PsyD, LPC
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February 15, 2019
31
4814
Institutional Corruption in the Cochrane Collaboration
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
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February 14, 2019
21
4269
Funder Fragility and Forced Collaboration
Corinna West
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February 13, 2019
15
1431
‘Full Moral Status’ Part II: How to Achieve Safety, Parity, and Change
Krista Hartmann
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February 10, 2019
47
2041
“I’m Not Going, You Can’t Make Me!”: A Community Approach to School Refusal
Ben Furman, MD
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February 9, 2019
36
3634
The War on Antidepressants: Why We Need to End it for Public Benefit
Michael P. Hengartner, PhD
-
February 8, 2019
52
4638
Orthodox Madness
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February 6, 2019
60
7494
ASIST Suicide Prevention Training: “Safe” for Who?
Sera Davidow
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February 5, 2019
75
14550
Spiritual Texts in the Psych Ward
Chaya Grossberg
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February 3, 2019
27
2217
How Long Does Antidepressant Withdrawal Last?
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
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February 2, 2019
17
6910
Why the ‘Psychological Injury Model’ Will Ultimately Triumph
Eric Kuelker, PhD, RPsych
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January 31, 2019
179
29774
Traumatic Immobility: Depression as a Stress Response
Sarah Knutson
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January 27, 2019
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37662
“Not all NAMIs!”: Why Even the Best Local NAMI Chapter is Still a Problem
Sera Davidow
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January 25, 2019
137
6643
“ADHD: A Return to Psychology” Video Series
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January 24, 2019
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2093
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Will Hall
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January 21, 2019
153
2730
Fake Science and Checking Sources
Sylvain Rousselot
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January 20, 2019
27
2177
Antidepressant Withdrawal: An Unknown Disorder?
Fiammetta Cosci, MD, PhD
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January 19, 2019
24
7497
The Never Ending Story: How 2nd Story Respite House Was Saved
Adrian Bernard
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January 18, 2019
12
1862
Open Dialogue: Does the Current Research Data Support Further Investment?
Sandra Steingard, MD
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January 14, 2019
159
5162
Suicide, Ketamine, the Propaganda Model and the New York Times
Bruce Levine, PhD
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January 13, 2019
17
4733
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: An Infographic on Bipolar Drugs
Craig Wagner
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January 10, 2019
56
9543
Tumbling Further Down the Rabbit Hole of Antidepressant Withdrawal Research
James Davies, PhD
&
John Read
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January 8, 2019
18
2282
How Love Can Reformat Our Lives
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January 8, 2019
187
5726
Mad in America: 2018 by the Numbers
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January 5, 2019
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2583
The Mystery of Madness Throughout the Ages
Ekaterina Netchitailova, PhD
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January 2, 2019
260
4447
7 Tips to Help a Distracted Child
Marilyn Wedge, PhD
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January 1, 2019
26
2092
Why We’re Establishing an Institute for Scientific Freedom
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December 30, 2018
45
8598
The Minds of Men: A Stunning New Film About Covert Mind Control
Peter Breggin, MD
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December 29, 2018
35
6041
On Voice Hearing Simulations: Why They Should Be (Mostly) Banned
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December 26, 2018
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3383
Pathways to Enhance Well-Being: Free Resource on Alternative Wellness Practices
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December 26, 2018
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7 Tasks for a Parent Whose Child Is Diagnosed with a Mental Illness
Chaya Grossberg
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December 25, 2018
15
3428
Reclaiming Humanity at the Dawn of Posthumanism: Conversation with Darcia Narvaez
Sharna Olfman, PhD
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December 21, 2018
28
4353
Antidepressant Dependence Discussed at the Seat of Welsh Government – Video
James Moore
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December 20, 2018
30
2725
What Do Twin Studies Prove About Genetic Influences on Psychiatric Disorders? Absolutely Nothing
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December 18, 2018
27
12290
The Meaningfulness of Anxiety
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December 15, 2018
36
6574
Childhood Bipolar Disorder, Deconstructed
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December 12, 2018
29
5134
What’s “Grand” About Electroshock and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation?
Robert Nikkel, MSW
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December 11, 2018
430
4676
The Madness of Our Mental Health System
John Ashfield, PhD
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December 8, 2018
51
5716
When Will We Wake? Reflections on Suicide and Psychotropic Medications
Beatrice Birch
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December 7, 2018
58
3106
Smoke and Flames: Silence In A World On Fire
Will Hall
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December 5, 2018
198
5506
Anatomy of an Opioid Epidemic
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December 2, 2018
44
3445
Mindfulness and Complex Trauma: The Rewards and the Risks
Monica Cassani
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November 27, 2018
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Are Emotional Disorders Really Disorders of Love?
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November 26, 2018
168
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The Real Attention Deficit Disorder
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November 24, 2018
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5010
Filling the Crack in the Liberty Bell
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November 23, 2018
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What Would Real Informed Consent on Psychiatric Drugs Look Like?
Robert Nikkel, MSW
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November 20, 2018
44
2399
Trauma Outside the Box: How the ‘Trauma-Informed’ Trend Falls Short
Noel Hunter, PsyD
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November 17, 2018
64
20481
Litigation Update: ECT Device Manufacturer Issues “Permanent Brain Damage” Warning
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November 15, 2018
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Heroes of Science: Survival of a Whistleblower
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November 13, 2018
31
3502
Learning From Each Other As Psychiatric Survivors
Chaya Grossberg
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November 13, 2018
36
2853
Escaping from AOT: The Importance of the Incident with the Candle
Eric Coates
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November 11, 2018
28
2297
Mortification of the Self: The Impact of Stigma on Identity
Vladimir Musicki, PhD
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November 9, 2018
51
9635
Hearing Voices: Where We Locate Them Shapes Our Experience
Greg Shankland
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November 8, 2018
18
2440
Bad-Science Warning: The “Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart” (MISTRA)
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November 6, 2018
7
16303
The “Time to Strike” is Now: A Call for Anti-ECT Activism
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
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November 2, 2018
89
4674
The Language of Internalized Oppression
Sera Davidow
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November 1, 2018
123
7369
Allen Frances and the Increasing Use of Antidepressants
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October 30, 2018
86
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Psychiatric Marginalization of Anti-Authoritarians – Excerpt from New Book
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October 27, 2018
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MIA Update: Our Parent Resources Initiative and More
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October 26, 2018
5
2211
Suicide Hotlines, Risk Assessment and Rights: Whose Safety Matters?
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October 25, 2018
33
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Huge Breakthrough in Lawsuits Against ECT Shock Device Manufacturers
Peter Breggin, MD
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October 23, 2018
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10375
How Our Government Helps Drug-Dealing Doctors Kill Us
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October 21, 2018
47
4404
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October 19, 2018
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55 Steps to Informed Consent
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October 17, 2018
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October 16, 2018
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9108
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October 12, 2018
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12601
The Cochrane Collaboration Has Failed Us All
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October 11, 2018
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TCI ASIA Pacific: Engaging the Global Mental Health Movement in Dialogue
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October 9, 2018
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How Well Do Neuroleptics Work?
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October 9, 2018
77
3613
Healthy Guilt and Doing Right By Those We Have Wronged
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October 7, 2018
31
2607
Fighting the Suppression of Dissent: A Guidebook for Those Who Refuse to Conform
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October 5, 2018
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3146
Healthy Planet/Healthy Mind with Zach Bush, MD
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October 4, 2018
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11936
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October 3, 2018
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October 2, 2018
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September 30, 2018
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September 29, 2018
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26097
What’s Blocking Progress in Behavioral Healthcare?
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September 28, 2018
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1889
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September 27, 2018
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5553
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September 24, 2018
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2606
Having Empathy Doesn’t Mean That You Also Have Compassion!
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September 22, 2018
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12855
The Decline of Danvers State Hospital
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September 21, 2018
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7037
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September 20, 2018
305
3394
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September 19, 2018
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September 16, 2018
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September 15, 2018
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September 12, 2018
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September 5, 2018
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September 3, 2018
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7512
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August 26, 2018
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August 25, 2018
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August 22, 2018
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1898
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2788
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3140
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2292
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1481
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3069
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4062
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2138
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4203
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4456
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2828
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May 16, 2018
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May 11, 2018
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May 9, 2018
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May 9, 2018
165
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May 8, 2018
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1151
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May 5, 2018
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2817
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3108
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May 4, 2018
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May 2, 2018
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3253
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April 29, 2018
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59198
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April 28, 2018
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2510
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April 25, 2018
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2705
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April 24, 2018
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5103
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4024
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2061
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April 19, 2018
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5459
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April 18, 2018
112
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April 16, 2018
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2255
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April 11, 2018
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April 7, 2018
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March 31, 2018
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March 29, 2018
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1681
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March 22, 2018
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7591
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March 21, 2018
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March 20, 2018
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March 20, 2018
15
1835
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March 18, 2018
12
2273
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March 16, 2018
14
4151
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March 16, 2018
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1533
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8612
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8027
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March 7, 2018
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1601
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March 4, 2018
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3448
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March 2, 2018
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3851
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February 26, 2018
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February 25, 2018
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9794
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February 24, 2018
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13946
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February 23, 2018
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2199
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February 22, 2018
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7500
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February 21, 2018
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4225
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February 20, 2018
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14106
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February 18, 2018
193
5015
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February 16, 2018
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2248
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8274
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February 13, 2018
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9414
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February 10, 2018
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16849
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February 7, 2018
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1770
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1225
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February 1, 2018
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2969
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January 31, 2018
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5772
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6329
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January 25, 2018
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2530
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January 23, 2018
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4345
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January 22, 2018
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January 19, 2018
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2632
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January 18, 2018
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1851
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January 15, 2018
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2930
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3429
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January 12, 2018
31
9153
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January 11, 2018
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3721
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January 10, 2018
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January 8, 2018
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7154
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January 5, 2018
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6332
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January 3, 2018
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January 2, 2018
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3997
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3650
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7217
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December 24, 2017
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2705
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6665
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2333
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19234
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56
2041
APA: Drop the Stigmatizing Term “Schizophrenia”
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December 10, 2017
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6082
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December 8, 2017
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9866
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December 7, 2017
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7513
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2291
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4423
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1368
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7423
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November 26, 2017
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3241
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November 24, 2017
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3548
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November 22, 2017
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1650
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November 21, 2017
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1810
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November 19, 2017
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November 19, 2017
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4609
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November 16, 2017
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5295
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November 13, 2017
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5560
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2825
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4104
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7504
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3454
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3745
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October 29, 2017
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5863
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October 27, 2017
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October 26, 2017
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3138
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4353
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2939
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October 22, 2017
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10617
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October 19, 2017
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1027
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3535
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October 13, 2017
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2672
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October 5, 2017
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October 3, 2017
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September 22, 2017
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12295
Language of Mental Illness “Others” People: It’s a Human Rights Violation
Monica Cassani
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September 19, 2017
38
3134
Health Disparity Project Cuts Out the Recovery Movement
Corinna West
-
September 19, 2017
7
1250
The Salvation of Psychiatry
Robert Berezin, MD
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September 17, 2017
52
2747
Trauma-Ignored Care? Going to the MAT on Opioids
Wayne Munchel
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September 15, 2017
30
1802
If Psychiatrists Took Truth Serum, What Would They Say?
Lawrence Kelmenson, MD
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September 14, 2017
119
5873
Part V: The Michelle Carter Texting Trial Becomes a Witch Hunt
Peter Breggin, MD
-
September 13, 2017
22
5472
Introducing “Ten Tips for Parents”
Eric Maisel, PhD
-
September 10, 2017
8
1635
The Unintended Consequences of Colorado’s “Social Experiment”
Elizabeth Stuyt, MD
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September 8, 2017
91
13912
Pharma Responds: Antidepressants Really Work. Really?
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
September 7, 2017
74
5083
Michelle Carter Part IV: Did She Tell Conrad to “Get back in the truck”?
Peter Breggin, MD
-
September 6, 2017
13
14937
The Downfall of Peer Support: Are You Kidding Me?
Patrick Hendry, NCPS
-
September 5, 2017
85
6044
The Invisible Holocaust and the Gene Hypothesis
Eric Coates
-
September 3, 2017
79
4950
The Continuing Evolution of Mad in America Continuing Education
Robert Nikkel, MSW
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September 1, 2017
9
933
So, You Still Say Trump is Crazy?
Sera Davidow
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August 31, 2017
57
5996
Hurricane Harvey, Trump and US Mental Health: We Are All Mad, 100%!
David W. Oaks
-
August 30, 2017
16
1173
Michelle Carter Part III: DA Goes After Her Expert Witness to Stop His Blog
Peter Breggin, MD
-
August 30, 2017
20
10216
Greed Disguised as Science: How a Multitude of Factors Led to the Opioid Crisis
Elizabeth Capps
&
Kurt Michael
-
August 28, 2017
5
2096
Psychiatry’s 12-Step Program for Producing Heroin Addicts
Lawrence Kelmenson, MD
-
August 25, 2017
81
10957
House on Fire: A ‘Mental Health Literacy’ Parable
Brett Deacon, PhD
-
August 24, 2017
29
6370
Some Thoughts About Conferences
Kim Auth
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August 23, 2017
129
2113
The Winding Road and the Importance of Going Sideways
David Steingart, LCSW
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August 20, 2017
17
2395
How to Avoid Severe SSRI Withdrawal Symptoms?
Stuart Shipko
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August 19, 2017
58
65350
Spiritual Side Effects of Psychiatric Medication: From Helpful to Harmful
Lynne Vanderpot, PhD
-
August 16, 2017
44
19588
“Virtual Autism” May Explain Explosive Rise in ASD Diagnoses
Marilyn Wedge, PhD
-
August 15, 2017
88
692818
Prescription for Murder ABCD
David Healy, MD
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August 11, 2017
6
1981
Death By Placebo
Lawrence Kelmenson, MD
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August 9, 2017
84
4026
Part II: Michelle Starts Prozac and Sees the Devil
Peter Breggin, MD
-
August 7, 2017
35
26916
Psychoanalyst, Show Some Modesty
Stewart Justman, PhD
-
August 5, 2017
11
1519
Michelle Carter: Did She Text Her Boyfriend to Death?
Peter Breggin, MD
-
August 3, 2017
27
51140
Adam Maier-Clayton: Assisted Suicide and Mental Illness
Susan Stefan, JD
-
August 2, 2017
37
12197
Would Discovering the Biology of “Mental Illness” Explain its Cause?
Lawrence Kelmenson, MD
-
August 1, 2017
56
3522
Senate Slated to Rubber-Stamp “Mental Health Czar” This Tuesday
David W. Oaks
-
July 30, 2017
14
1196
Voices in our Heads: The Prefrontal Cortex as Parasite
Eric Coates
-
July 29, 2017
37
6630
If You Don’t Have a Brain…
Peter Breggin, MD
-
July 28, 2017
22
6386
Is Xanax Really the Bad Guy?
Jocelyn Pedersen
-
July 24, 2017
16
11435
Has Psychiatry Gone Uniquely Astray?
Henry Bauer
-
July 23, 2017
65
3613
9 Questions the US Senate Should Ask Dr. McCance-Katz
David W. Oaks
-
July 22, 2017
18
1568
Makers of Risperdal Sued for Breast Development in Boys
Barbara Liston
-
July 21, 2017
18
25391
People of Great Britain! Our Beast Descends Upon Your Children
Peter Breggin, MD
-
July 20, 2017
25
4109
Methylphenidate: How to Avoid Importing the American Disaster?
Patrick Landman, MD
-
July 18, 2017
9
1814
While Psychiatry Slept (Part II)
George Mecouch, DO
-
July 16, 2017
24
2918
“Heartbeats of Hope: The Empowerment Way to Recover” – A Book Review
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
July 14, 2017
41
2367
Hearing Voices in the USA
Sera Davidow
-
July 13, 2017
15
2861
Why World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day?
Jocelyn Pedersen
-
July 11, 2017
67
3864
Three Suicides: Honoring Lives Lost to Benzodiazepines
Angie Peacock
-
July 10, 2017
21
22248
Tapering Strips for Benzodiazepines
Peter Groot, PhD
-
July 10, 2017
12
7584
“Benzo Blue”: a Song of Protest and a Search for Liberation
Richard D. Lewis
-
July 9, 2017
35
3119
Senate Quietly Rubber-Stamps Trump’s “Mental Health Czar”
David W. Oaks
-
July 7, 2017
33
1895
New Resources from the WHO’s QualityRights Initiative
Michelle Funk
,
Natalie Drew
&
Marie Baudel
-
July 6, 2017
7
1370
Uniting Critical Voices: Where can we Collaborate?
Gary Sidley, PhD
-
July 5, 2017
104
2232
So You Say You Want a Revolution Part Two
Robert Nikkel, MSW
-
July 3, 2017
15
1145
Landmark Victory against the “Oak Ridge Torturers” — Do We Cheer or Cry?
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
July 2, 2017
59
4046
No Psychiatrist Needs to Use ECT
Niall McLaren
-
June 27, 2017
113
8998
Do Psychiatrists Harm their Patients out of Stupidity?
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
June 25, 2017
308
28890
French and American Approaches to “ADHD”
Redmond O'Hanlon, DPhil
-
June 24, 2017
2
4101
Data Shows That Nutrients Reduce Aggression: Why is Policy Not Changing?
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
&
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
-
June 23, 2017
49
5177
Robert Whitaker Refutes Jeffrey Lieberman; But Is Psychiatry Reformable?
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
June 22, 2017
112
5304
An Open Letter to the President’s Commission on Combating Addiction and the Opioid Crisis
Richard Lawhern, PhD
-
June 21, 2017
8
1066
MIA RADIO: Expanding the Audience for “Critical Psychiatry” Perspectives
Robert Whitaker
-
June 21, 2017
24
1857
Aggregate vs. Anecdote for Med Lovers
Corinna West
-
June 20, 2017
24
2503
INTAR India 2016: Reflections
Bhargavi Davar, PhD
-
June 18, 2017
4
1197
Healing from Psychiatry: A Community Art Book
motto
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June 17, 2017
7
1661
Antipsychiatry – Say What?
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
June 15, 2017
396
8093
Breaking Through the Wall of Schizophrenia
Marilyn Wedge, PhD
-
June 14, 2017
19
3827
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Sascha Altman DuBrul
-
June 13, 2017
16
3501
‘Mad’ Psychologist Speaks Out
Helen W.
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June 10, 2017
104
6934
Killjoy: The Story of a Misguided ‘Mental Health’ Bot
Sera Davidow
-
June 8, 2017
25
3121
While Psychiatry Slept
George Mecouch, DO
-
June 7, 2017
47
3898
Human Right to Health – More than Economic Justice
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
June 6, 2017
53
1802
Trauma in Common?
Robert Nikkel, MSW
-
June 2, 2017
33
1613
From Madness to Mastery: Gaining Competence with Altered States
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
May 31, 2017
19
2473
Psychosocial Disability and Legal Capacity: Don’t Bargain with Human Rights
Maria Nyman
-
May 30, 2017
25
3379
Conferring Legitimacy on the Counterhegemonic
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
May 28, 2017
44
2774
Psychiatry’s Troublesome History: How Far Have We Come?
Twilah Hiari
-
May 27, 2017
34
2737
Back to Basics: What’s Wrong with NAMI
Sera Davidow
-
May 26, 2017
127
20103
Call to Action: MA Bill H.3594 for Informed Benzodiazepine Use
Sonja Styblo
-
May 25, 2017
26
5271
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Peter Breggin, MD
-
May 24, 2017
12
4879
The Violence-Inducing Effects of Psychiatric Medication
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
May 21, 2017
28
6879
The Mental Health Professionals Who Perpetrate Against Us
Monica Cassani
-
May 18, 2017
50
3178
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Kurt Michael
-
May 17, 2017
77
3227
Crazywise: Revisioning Narratives of Psychosis
Sascha Altman DuBrul
-
May 16, 2017
12
3992
Alcoholism — Is it a Disease?
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
May 16, 2017
29
2293
The Diseasing of Defiance
Eric Maisel, PhD
-
May 15, 2017
16
4565
New UN Report: Steps Forward, But No End to Impunity
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
May 14, 2017
12
2154
Smash the Blue Lights: Autism Speaks is a ‘Danger to Self and Others’
Sera Davidow
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May 13, 2017
53
8274
Oliver Sacks Helps Me Explain Hypersensitivity
Monica Cassani
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May 12, 2017
6
1854
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Philip Hickey, PhD
-
May 12, 2017
31
3506
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Au Valencia
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May 10, 2017
3
1931
Change in Chicago: Playing Go
David Healy, MD
-
May 9, 2017
3
1011
Inconvenient Truths About Antipsychotics: A Response to Goff et al
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
May 7, 2017
44
9743
Responding to Claims that the Benefits of Antipsychotics Outweigh the Risks
Miriam Larsen-Barr, DClinPsy
-
May 6, 2017
66
6426
Unusual Beliefs and Behaviors vs. Objective Realities and Truths
James Schroeder, PhD
-
May 5, 2017
296
4194
Change in Chicago: The Dolin Verdict
Johanna Ryan
-
May 2, 2017
3
1917
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Jim Gottstein, JD
-
May 2, 2017
4
3701
“Let’s Talk Withdrawal” Podcast
James Moore
-
April 29, 2017
28
5759
Public Petition: Support for People Affected by Prescribed Drug Dependence
Marion Brown
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April 28, 2017
7
1320
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David W. Oaks
-
April 27, 2017
63
4539
Our Letter to Lancet Psychiatry
Robert Whitaker
-
April 26, 2017
7
3645
The Unforeseen Relationship: Psychiatric Medication and Spirituality
Lynne Vanderpot, PhD
-
April 25, 2017
64
9685
‘Enough is Enough’ Series: LSD Reconsidered
Robert Berezin, MD
-
April 23, 2017
46
2767
Opening a Dialogue about Early Psychosis Programs in the US
Robert Nikkel, MSW
-
April 22, 2017
40
1651
What if the Folly is in Us, Too?
Gordon Warme, MD
-
April 20, 2017
62
2942
Anti-Authoritarian Options for Suicidal Anti-Authoritarians
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
April 19, 2017
21
2863
The Downfall of Peer Support: MHA & National Certification
Sera Davidow
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April 18, 2017
130
12099
Would You Want Your Therapist to be Honest?
Chaya Grossberg
-
April 15, 2017
33
3177
“Doubly Brutish”: Forensic Psychiatry and Force
Aimee Inomata, PhD
-
April 14, 2017
6
1591
Emotional Pain and the Possibility of Finding Hope
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
April 13, 2017
30
5865
Unusual Beliefs and Mental Well-Being
Rev. Dr. Steven Epperson
-
April 9, 2017
49
4027
Dear Boston Globe, Part VI: Congratulations. Bad Things Happen.
Sera Davidow
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April 9, 2017
26
2349
From One Parent to Another
Tabita Green
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April 8, 2017
17
1445
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Twilah Hiari
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April 6, 2017
41
5413
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Peter Lehmann
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April 5, 2017
8
2108
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Elizabeth Szlek
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April 4, 2017
168
3137
The Third Director: Interrogating the Mental Health Discourse in Marat/Sade
Peter Simons
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April 3, 2017
3
2489
The Torture in Treatment
Ronda Richardson
-
April 1, 2017
142
6129
The Sunrise Center 2017
Terry Simpson
-
March 31, 2017
17
1526
Emotional Strategies and Skills for Aspiring Mental Health Workers
Mark Ragins, MD
-
March 29, 2017
35
3980
Why I Don’t Like the Idea that Mental Disorder is a Disease
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
March 28, 2017
48
3923
‘CRAZY’: New Documentary about Forced Psychiatric Treatment
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
March 27, 2017
3
5125
Mainstream Western Psychiatry: Science or Non-science?
Niall McLaren
-
March 25, 2017
28
7840
What Role Does Talk Therapy Have in Recovery from Psychosis?
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
March 24, 2017
16
3596
Not Going Quietly
Rufus May
-
March 23, 2017
32
3676
Beyond Survival
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
March 22, 2017
15
2343
Discussing Nutrient Formulas Without Naming Them: Who Benefits?
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
March 19, 2017
33
2711
Optimizing Mental Wellness Through Nutrient Therapy: A Gastroenterologist’s Perspective
Rebecca Carey, MD, MS, CNSC
-
March 18, 2017
48
13902
Introducing the ‘Parent Resources’ Page
Eric Maisel, PhD
-
March 16, 2017
5
1080
Burn Baby Burn (Psychopharmacology Part 3)
David Healy, MD
-
March 15, 2017
17
1738
Where Do We Go From Here?
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
March 15, 2017
76
4089
Leading Psychiatrists Follow Top-Dog Bankers’ Guide to Career Advancement
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
March 14, 2017
3
1508
Into the Woods: A Path Through Anxiety
Albert Buhr
-
March 14, 2017
8
2010
Spirituality and ‘Mental Illness’
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
March 13, 2017
22
5747
Psychiatric Hegemony: A Marxist Theory of Mental Illness
Susan Rosenthal
-
March 11, 2017
108
40176
Aliveness and Social Justice: Teaching the Principles and Practices of Open Dialogue
Mary Olson, PhD
-
March 10, 2017
12
3048
SSRIs: Minimal Effectiveness and High Risk
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
March 9, 2017
93
7413
Tweeting while Medicine Burns (Psychopharmacology Part 2)
David Healy, MD
-
March 7, 2017
8
1627
Victims of Success: An Update from Mad in America Continuing Education
Robert Nikkel, MSW
-
March 7, 2017
2
735
Letter to my Classmates on our 40th Reunion
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
March 6, 2017
14
3173
Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany (A Book Review)
Niall McLaren
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March 5, 2017
10
3250
Lyme is ‘All in Your Head’ – A Wake-up Call to Mental Health Professionals
Lori Dennis
-
March 4, 2017
35
118687
Tweeting While Psychiatry Burns
David Healy, MD
-
March 3, 2017
8
2469
A Curse for a Cursed Profession
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
March 2, 2017
34
2553
Our Coming to Mad in Aotearoa
Mad in Aotearoa
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February 28, 2017
3
940
Transformations to Liberation
Jenna Rai Miller, LPC
-
February 27, 2017
6
1752
A New Paradigm for Psychiatry: Answering the Call from the UN
Robert Berezin, MD
-
February 26, 2017
62
4428
Psychosis for Mental Health?
Noel Hunter, PsyD
-
February 25, 2017
39
5660
The Sedated Society: the Real Story of our Prescribing Epidemic
James Davies, PhD
-
February 23, 2017
27
4958
Editorial Misconduct: Finnish Medical Journal Rejects Paper on Suicide Risk
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
-
February 22, 2017
25
10690
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-
February 21, 2017
31
3842
Mickey Nardo: Tangled up in Life
David Healy, MD
-
February 20, 2017
9
2194
Committed: The Battle Over Involuntary Psychiatric Care
Sandra Steingard, MD
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February 20, 2017
67
4431
Disobedience: What Can We Risk?
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
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February 19, 2017
64
3306
SMILES Study: Depression and Nutrition
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
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February 18, 2017
20
10396
Generalists and Partialists
David Healy, MD
-
February 17, 2017
8
1000
Why I Resigned From The Mighty
Twilah Hiari
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February 16, 2017
45
25620
“Active Minds” — What Conversation Are We Changing?
Danny Kochanowski
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February 14, 2017
52
2689
7 Years Off Psych Drugs: A Message to Those Labeled by Psychiatry (video)
Monica Cassani
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February 12, 2017
19
5591
Trump and the Diagnosis Free-for-All
Sera Davidow
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February 11, 2017
237
8524
Vital Minds: Four Stories of Recovery
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
February 9, 2017
15
4327
Intentional Peer Support: Creating Relationships, Creating Change
Beth Filson
&
Shery Mead
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February 8, 2017
10
5134
Integrative Mental Health: 27 Non-drug Options that Work
Craig Wagner
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February 7, 2017
62
7947
Sir Robin Murray and Our Collective Mea Culpa
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
February 6, 2017
40
2857
Understanding Extreme States: An Interview with Lloyd Ross
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&
Matt Stevenson
-
February 5, 2017
25
5556
ISEPP Calling for Organizations to Join in Petition
Chuck Ruby, PhD
-
February 4, 2017
8
1627
Scapegoating: Why Humanity Desperately Needs Hope to Cling to
Noel Hunter, PsyD
-
February 3, 2017
24
2009
CRPD Absolute Prohibition Campaign and Course
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
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February 2, 2017
7
2240
Killing “Schizophrenics”: Contemporary U.S. Psychiatry Versus Nazi Psychiatry
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
February 2, 2017
43
5686
Spoiling Split: Hollywood’s Latest Run at ‘Alternative Facts’
Sera Davidow
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February 1, 2017
61
2878
Venomagnosia
David Healy, MD
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January 31, 2017
18
1588
Psychiatry Interrogated: A Book Review
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
January 30, 2017
11
2067
Chemical or Psychological Psychotherapy?
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
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January 29, 2017
58
5160
Preventing Suicide in the UK – a Policy and Practice Divide
Thurstine Basset
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January 28, 2017
2
1246
SAMHSA’s Rose-Colored Lens
Robert Nikkel, MSW
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January 27, 2017
59
1640
Service Dogs, Allergies and Trauma: Making Spaces Inclusive
Chaya Grossberg
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January 26, 2017
12
5351
CYP Testing to Help Prevent Dangerous Adverse Drug Reactions
Selma Eikelenboom-Schieveld, MD, PhD
-
January 24, 2017
66
8286
Mental Health First Aid: Another Psychiatric Expansionist Tool
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
January 23, 2017
52
3766
Soteria Shelter Program in Hungary: Crisis as Danger and Opportunity
Dániel Ács
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January 21, 2017
18
3498
Peer-run Organizations Help People with Criminal Justice Involvement Return to the Community
Susan Rogers
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January 19, 2017
7
1370
Allen Frances and the “Overdiagnosing” of Children
Philip Hickey, PhD
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January 18, 2017
53
7668
The DSM and the Medical Model: New Video
Steve Spiegel
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January 17, 2017
92
5457
Ruby Wax: From Shark Bait to the Doyenne of Disease
Paul Wilson
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January 15, 2017
20
2381
Healing Madness
Eve A. Wood, MD
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January 14, 2017
93
4997
MIA in the Year 2017
Robert Whitaker
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January 13, 2017
92
3100
The NIMH in 2017: Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places
Robert Nikkel, MSW
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January 12, 2017
31
1447
How Psychiatric Drugs Really Work
Peter Breggin, MD
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January 11, 2017
80
9003
The Biological Evidence for “Mental Illness”
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
January 10, 2017
140
8376
What We Are Talking About When We Talk About Community Mental Health
Sandra Steingard, MD
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January 9, 2017
13
2012
Understanding Extreme States: An Interview with Stephen Harrod Buhner
Matt Stevenson
&
Stephen Buhner
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January 6, 2017
43
13928
Pioneering New Zealand Antipsychotic Medication Study Focuses on Patient Experiences
Will Hall
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January 4, 2017
17
3741
Time to ‘Drop the Disorder’
Jo Watson
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January 3, 2017
41
6817
Carrie Fisher, Bipolar Disorder, and the Spread of False Information
Noel Hunter, PsyD
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January 2, 2017
213
16519
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Philip Hickey, PhD
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January 2, 2017
50
17501
Why I’m Not Celebrating Being PMDD-Free
Twilah Hiari
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December 31, 2016
36
24060
Carrie Fisher: Bipolar Meds and Heart Disease
Corinna West
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December 31, 2016
478
37320
Soldiers as Guinea Pigs: the Case of Mefloquine and Tafenoquine
Stuart McCarthy
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December 28, 2016
22
3392
Starting the New Year with a Bang: A Medley of Antipsychiatry Resolutions
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
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December 28, 2016
101
3246
The Real “Mental Illness” Epidemic: Withdrawal from Antidepressants
Stuart Shipko
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December 27, 2016
66
9816
The Right to Refuse Psychiatric Treatment
Merete Nesset
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December 22, 2016
87
6108
Opening the Door to a New Year: Some Christmas Thoughts and Wishes
Carina Håkansson, PhD
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December 21, 2016
11
1436
Shock, Lies… and a Duvet
Olga Runciman, Cand Psych BSc
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December 19, 2016
24
2708
Seven Reasons Why the US’s New Mental Health Law Is Dangerous
Noel Hunter, PsyD
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December 17, 2016
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13710
Dear Boston Globe, Part V: Thanks for Nothing
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December 17, 2016
36
2930
An Outsider’s Observation
Marion Brown
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December 15, 2016
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2929
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Bonnie Burstow, PhD
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December 14, 2016
30
2722
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December 10, 2016
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14115
INTAR India 2016: Community Development and Human Liberation
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December 9, 2016
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December 8, 2016
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2215
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December 7, 2016
8
2433
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December 6, 2016
74
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December 6, 2016
32
3361
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December 4, 2016
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2987
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Gary Gibbs, DO
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December 3, 2016
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14112
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December 2, 2016
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November 29, 2016
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12160
Is the Mental Health System Yet Another Form of Institutional Racism?
Noel Hunter, PsyD
-
November 28, 2016
66
5299
Have You Ever Wondered Why Labels on Supplements are so Vague?
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
&
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
-
November 27, 2016
20
3872
My Baby, Psychosis & Me: A lesson in how not to make a documentary...
Rai Waddingham
-
November 26, 2016
21
2534
How the Technologically-Immersive Culture is Wrecking Our Youth’s Health & Well-Being
James Schroeder, PhD
-
November 25, 2016
14
1957
The ACE Survey is Unusable Data
Corinna West
-
November 21, 2016
21
5544
Troubled by Individual and Collective Psychosis? Maybe Compassion and Dialogue Could Help!
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
November 19, 2016
40
1606
Understanding Extreme States: An Interview with Paris Williams
Matt Stevenson
&
Paris Williams, PhD
-
November 17, 2016
107
4801
Is Society or Psychiatry to Blame for the “Seriously Mentally Ill” Dying 25 Years...
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
November 16, 2016
58
4403
Antidepressants Increase the Risk of Suicide and Violence at All Ages
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
-
November 16, 2016
29
14141
Curing Schizophrenia via Intensive Psychotherapy
Ira Steinman, MD
-
November 15, 2016
22
5249
In a Post-Trump Election World: What is Insanity?
Noel Hunter, PsyD
-
November 10, 2016
147
3931
Going On or Off Psych Drugs: One Reason or Many?
Chaya Grossberg
-
November 9, 2016
6
1563
Neuroleptic Drugs, Akathisia, and Suicide & Violence
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
November 8, 2016
19
6280
What’s the Harm in Taking an Antidepressant?
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
November 6, 2016
30
18026
Dual-award Winning Play and Film About Human Beings, not Psychopathology
Paula J. Caplan, PhD
-
November 5, 2016
1
1415
Exploring Psychiatry’s “Black Hole”: The International Institute on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal
Kermit Cole
-
November 4, 2016
33
16339
Mad in Brasil: Part of a Global Effort to Create a New Paradigm of...
Paulo Amarante & Fernando Freitas
-
November 2, 2016
7
1124
A Bill to Explore the Relationship Between Veteran Suicides and Prescription Medication
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
November 1, 2016
9
2737
Study 329 Trick, Treat or Treximet
David Healy, MD
-
October 31, 2016
2
1488
ADHD: A Destructive Psychiatric Hoax
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
October 30, 2016
360
40522
Psychiatry: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Terry Lynch, MD
-
October 30, 2016
39
4400
The Hidden Epidemic Exposed: The New Tardive Dyskinesia (TD) Resource Center
Peter Breggin, MD
-
October 28, 2016
11
11218
The Helping Room
Steven Morgan
-
October 27, 2016
43
5390
Antidepressants and Pregnancy: The Risks and Potential Harm to Normal Fetal Development
Robert Nikkel, MSW
-
October 25, 2016
2
1332
Go Figure: Murder or Accident?
David Healy, MD
-
October 24, 2016
8
1810
The Case for Neuroleptics Reducing Recovery from 80% to 5%
Jim Gottstein, JD
-
October 22, 2016
71
4185
Mad in the Spanish-Speaking World
MIA-Hispanohablante Editors
-
October 21, 2016
6
873
The Difficulty of Challenging Deeply Personal Narratives
Tabita Green
-
October 20, 2016
75
3193
Go Figure: Study 329
David Healy, MD
-
October 17, 2016
4
1178
What Do Santa Claus and the Chemical Imbalance Have in Common?
Tim Carey, PhD
-
October 16, 2016
160
6316
Picking Our Battles in the War on Prejudice and Discrimination
Susan Rogers
-
October 15, 2016
14
1087
$11.9 Million Paxil Suicide Verdict: The Inside Story
Peter Breggin, MD
-
October 14, 2016
11
8801
Turning the Tables: Using the Academy in the Battle Against Psychiatry
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
October 12, 2016
164
4641
Opening A Dialogue In Mental Health
Jonny Martell, MBBS
-
October 11, 2016
15
3879
Study 329 Taper Phase
David Healy, MD
-
October 10, 2016
6
1570
Rejecting the “Medications for Schizophrenia” Narrative: Part II
Matt Stevenson
-
October 6, 2016
61
4295
CHOICES Back on Track
Jim Gottstein, JD
-
October 5, 2016
7
1472
Why Social Isolation Leads to Inflammation
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
October 4, 2016
18
4057
Healing Silence
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
October 1, 2016
22
3709
The Mental Health Reform Act of 2016 (SB 2680) Would Be a Huge Step...
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
September 30, 2016
60
2722
Powerful Advocacy has Shut Down Halloween “Attractions” that Ramp Up Prejudice
Susan Rogers
-
September 30, 2016
36
1867
Evolution or Revolution? Why Western Psychiatry Won’t Change by Incremental Steps
Gary Sidley, PhD
-
September 30, 2016
72
3614
Study 329 Continuation Phase
David Healy, MD
-
September 28, 2016
3
839
Psychiatry’s Current Greatest Controversy: Fraud, Bullsh*t or What?
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
September 24, 2016
37
4078
Rejecting the “Medications for Schizophrenia” Narrative: A Survivor’s Response to Pies and Whitaker
Matt Stevenson
-
September 23, 2016
154
8785
It’s Possible — and Beneficial — to Stop Feeling Guilt and Shame
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
September 23, 2016
53
7139
Dear Son: A Mother’s Experience of Psychiatry, Racism and Human Rights
Mitzy Sky
-
September 20, 2016
14
1710
Depression, Antidepressants, and Expectancy
William Schultz
-
September 19, 2016
7
1565
Enough is Enough Series, #5 – The ADHD Fiction is Exposed. The French Have...
Robert Berezin, MD
-
September 16, 2016
76
2487
The Algorithm Will See You Now: A Geek Tragedy
David Healy, MD
-
September 14, 2016
5
681
Helpful and Hopeful Thoughts
Kjetil Mellingen
-
September 13, 2016
76
809
Searching for a Rose Garden: Challenging Psychiatry, Fostering Mad Studies
Liat Ben-Moshe, PhD
-
September 12, 2016
81
1555
My Daughter and Prozac
David Guttman
-
September 8, 2016
89
38815
Confessions of a Trespasser
Robert Whitaker
-
September 7, 2016
166
2818
Psychiatric Ethics
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
September 6, 2016
51
703
How Psychiatry Almost Stopped Burning Man: A Story of Hell and Liberation
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
September 6, 2016
17
1142
Backing Away from Psychiatry
Ronda Richardson
-
September 1, 2016
34
2396
Dear Boston Globe, Part IV: A Taste of Your Own Medicine
Sera Davidow
-
September 1, 2016
68
1132
Optimizing Children’s Mental Health is a Social Justice Issue
Tabita Green
-
August 31, 2016
9
1968
The Real Narrative of Life
Robert Berezin, MD
-
August 30, 2016
26
408
The ADHD Dilemma: Looking Beyond Big Pharma
Claudia Gold, MD
-
August 29, 2016
26
1150
Can Co-production Really Transform UK Mental Health Services?
Sarah Carr, PhD
-
August 29, 2016
7
1976
Fighting For Change: An Epiphany From Inside the “Movement”
Jen Constantine
-
August 25, 2016
24
357
Not So Rare But Rarely Diagnosed: From Demonic Possession to Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis
Nesrin Shaheen
-
August 24, 2016
26
15320
A Diluted Murphy Bill Clears the House and Goes to the Senate
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
August 23, 2016
72
1011
Who and What Killed Prince and Michael Jackson? Will the Role of Benzos Ever...
Richard D. Lewis
-
August 23, 2016
52
4876
What Does Your Illness Mean?
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
August 21, 2016
14
880
Researching the Link Between SSRIs and Violence
Catherine Clarke
-
August 20, 2016
38
1307
Pushing for an Informed Consent Benzo Bill in Texas
Stephen LaCorte, JD
-
August 18, 2016
24
2899
Life Lessons and Trauma Informed Care
Matthew Morris
-
August 18, 2016
12
315
Life in the Era of Push-button Psychiatry
Julie Greene, MFA
-
August 17, 2016
49
984
Mourning? – Yes; Forgiveness? – No. Healing from Trauma
Robert Berezin, MD
-
August 17, 2016
60
2774
Inner Fire: Healing and Recovery Without Meds
Beatrice Birch
-
August 16, 2016
49
3585
Escaping the Grip of Forensic Psychiatry
Aimee Inomata, PhD
-
August 14, 2016
84
1418
I am Insane
Reid Bertino
-
August 12, 2016
121
6469
Sadness: The Problem and The Solution
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
August 11, 2016
9
1051
Off Psychiatric Drugs After Fourteen Years
Naas Siddiqui, BA, CPS, MA
-
August 10, 2016
88
4031
#Diversity? — What “Solidarity” Really Looks Like
Iden Campbell, CPRP
-
August 9, 2016
35
588
More on the Power of Diversity: The “Hidden Recovered”
Ron Bassman, PhD
-
August 9, 2016
42
495
Centering Lived Experience
Kenneth Blatt, MD
-
August 9, 2016
35
619
Why Mental Health Organizations Should Endorse the Movement for Black Lives
Will Hall
-
August 3, 2016
154
1440
Interview: Researcher Runs Trial on Antidepressant Withdrawal
Justin Karter
-
August 3, 2016
6
3892
Dear Boston Globe, Part III: We Came. We Protested. You Still Didn’t Listen.
Sera Davidow
-
August 3, 2016
112
1162
It’s Time for a Revolution Within the Revolution: Coming Out of the Closet on...
Iden Campbell, CPRP
-
August 1, 2016
147
729
What Do the DSM, Elvis Presley, and Dionysus Have in Common?
Michael Fontaine, PhD
-
July 31, 2016
40
4075
The Struggle, and the Challenge: Young Adults in Crisis and the Use of Medication
Kenneth Blatt, MD
-
July 31, 2016
97
404
Six Lessons on Open Dialogue From the Collaborative Pathway Experiment
Chris Gordon, MD
-
July 29, 2016
27
1446
I Will Not Abandon You
Lauren Spiro
-
July 29, 2016
7
486
You Can Have Any Kind of Treatment You Want, Providing it’s Our Kind
Alec Grant, PhD
-
July 28, 2016
20
761
Drug Choice, Scientology, Ego Needs & Other Divides: Real Politics 101, Part Three
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
July 27, 2016
84
2248
They Call This “Help”
Otto Douglas
-
July 26, 2016
44
3134
Hearing Voices, Living Fully: Living with the Voices in My Head
Claire Bien, M.Ed.
-
July 26, 2016
8
2127
The Case Against Antipsychotics
Robert Whitaker
-
July 25, 2016
130
17874
Mental Health Advocacy in California: Perspectives of Advocates and Decision-Makers
Laysha Ostrow, PhD
-
July 25, 2016
3
1152
Violence Caused by Antidepressants: An Update after Munich
Peter Breggin, MD
-
July 25, 2016
25
6921
Psychiatry is Edging Dangerously Close to Eugenics
Robert Berezin, MD
-
July 20, 2016
151
7933
The Sociological Study of Mental Illness: A Historical Perspective
Andrew Scull, PhD
-
July 20, 2016
30
5634
Foster Youths Meet Psychiatry: First – Do No pHarm
Wayne Munchel
-
July 18, 2016
36
468
Falling Through the Cracks
Merry Citoli
-
July 17, 2016
36
2328
“Invisible” Resistance: Taking Charge in the Face of Difficulty and Institutional Rule
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
July 16, 2016
83
553
‘We’re Not Buying It!” — Survey on Emotional Distress and Diagnosis Reveals Mistrust of...
Lois Holzman, PhD
-
July 14, 2016
33
601
Schizophrenia Twin Research as Reported in The Gene: An Intimate History — Getting the...
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
July 12, 2016
21
2640
Dear Boston Globe, Part II: You Forgot the Facts
Sera Davidow
-
July 7, 2016
123
852
My Fixed Delusion
Michael Rock
-
July 6, 2016
135
1364
Yogurt Cooperative in Spain Provides a Different Form of Help: Meaningful Work
Anna Thomson
&
David Baksh
-
July 6, 2016
25
436
Announcing an International Symposium and Institute on Psychiatric Drug Risks and Withdrawal
Carina Håkansson, PhD
-
July 6, 2016
18
1794
The Murphy Bill, HR 2646 — a Heinous Piece of Legislation — is Coming...
Val Marsh, MSW
-
July 5, 2016
122
2388
Principled and Loving Support: The Greatest Gift We Can Give
Lauren Spiro
-
July 3, 2016
11
330
A Decade of Searching for the Needle in the Haystack
Chaya Grossberg
-
July 2, 2016
38
416
In the Matter of the Hospitalization of Mark V
Jim Gottstein, JD
-
July 1, 2016
69
449
Consequences of Taking the Yellow Brick Road: Lithium Carbonate 1984-1996
Julie Greene, MFA
-
July 1, 2016
52
2015
Benzos: A Dance With the Devil
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
July 1, 2016
26
14323
Royal College of Psychiatrists Still not Interested in Discussing Important Evidence on Long-term Antipsychotic...
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
June 30, 2016
68
859
“The Overdiagnosis of ADHD”
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
June 28, 2016
68
2864
A CALL TO ACTION: The Murphy Bill Passed the E&C Committee but the Fight Is...
Val Marsh, MSW
-
June 27, 2016
100
682
Reared-Apart Twin Study Mythology: The Latest Contribution (Part Two)
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
June 27, 2016
4
1435
Dear Boston Globe: You Are the Failure You Describe
Sera Davidow
-
June 27, 2016
106
1394
My Operation Tomorrow: Mental Health Justice, Speaking Out for Our Rights, and Creative Maladjustment
David W. Oaks
-
June 22, 2016
13
394
Feral Psychiatry: More on the Garth Daniels Case
Niall McLaren
-
June 21, 2016
50
2596
Forced “Treatment” is Torture
Peter Breggin, MD
-
June 19, 2016
140
25067
Important New Book— “Outside Mental Health: Voices and Visions of Madness”
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
June 19, 2016
14
784
Abolishing Forced Treatment in Psychiatry is an Ethical Imperative
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
-
June 17, 2016
255
7953
Pain’s Promise, and the Problem with Pills
James Schroeder, PhD
-
June 15, 2016
12
324
Why Parents Give Amphetamines and Other Risky Psychiatric Drugs to the Children They Love
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
June 14, 2016
73
7149
Rising Rates of Suicide: Are Pills the Problem?
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
June 13, 2016
40
1591
Well-Being Therapy: A Guide to Long-term Recovery
Giovanni Fava
-
June 13, 2016
14
728
No, It’s Not Because He Was ‘Mentally Ill’: Why Tragedy Struck in Orlando
Sera Davidow
-
June 13, 2016
187
1141
My Pharmaceutical Reincarnation
Theresa Trevor
-
June 11, 2016
25
3632
Mad Memo #1: Dear Supreme Commander (You!) of Global Nonviolent Revolution!
David W. Oaks
-
June 10, 2016
40
421
What Would a Trauma-Informed Society Look Like?
Noel Hunter, PsyD
-
June 6, 2016
88
3321
Eat Breathe Thrive: Chelsea Roff on Eating Disorders, Trauma, and Healing with Yoga and...
Vanessa Krasinski, MSN, RN
-
June 3, 2016
8
1474
Moving Forward in the Science of Psychiatric Medication Discontinuation/Reduction
Laysha Ostrow, PhD
-
June 2, 2016
22
802
Reared-Apart Twin Study Mythology: The Latest Contribution (Part One)
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
June 2, 2016
2
1310
A World That Would Have Us Doubt: Rape, the System, and Swim Fans
Sera Davidow
-
June 2, 2016
99
1159
Nutrition, Sleep, and Mental Health
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
June 1, 2016
34
1991
Effective Tactics for the “Rehumanizing Resistance”: Real Politics 101, Part Two
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
May 31, 2016
148
990
Reclaiming My Voice
Emily Lupsor
-
May 29, 2016
22
888
Please Join Groundbreaking Research on Psychiatric Medications
Will Hall
-
May 27, 2016
25
1201
Stop The War On Chronic Pain Patients
Richard Lawhern, PhD
-
May 26, 2016
167
16725
Prescribing Antidepressants for Girls: Intergenerational Adverse Consequences
Claudia Gold, MD
-
May 25, 2016
9
445
Who Will Guard the Guardians of Psychiatry?
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
May 24, 2016
28
935
Twin Method Assumptions are Indefensible, but are Useful to the Rich and Powerful
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
May 24, 2016
23
1568
The Evidence-Based Mind of Psychiatry on Display
Robert Whitaker
-
May 23, 2016
153
6609
A Moment Passed Too Often
Steve Imperato
-
May 22, 2016
9
497
Are They “Symptoms” or “Strategies?”
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
May 22, 2016
35
508
A Worldwide Epidemic – The Misuse of Anti-Depressant Medications
David Fox
-
May 20, 2016
35
2471
In Honor of Fear and Pain
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
May 18, 2016
10
1125
Mental Health in Black and White
Twilah Hiari
-
May 16, 2016
29
815
Do We Really Need Mental Health Professionals?
Gary Sidley, PhD
-
May 16, 2016
138
1352
Are Psychiatrists Playing God?
Peter Breggin, MD
-
May 15, 2016
64
4573
The Elusive Emotional Wounds of Omission That Our Culture Inflicts On Us – and...
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
May 15, 2016
57
1715
Daughter of a Psychiatrist
Mariel Chance
-
May 14, 2016
77
4332
Truth and Reconciliation: An Evening of Sharing and Healing
Rachel Levy, LCSW
-
May 14, 2016
8
1095
Consciousness Revealed – Revolutionary Implications for Psychiatry
Robert Berezin, MD
-
May 14, 2016
27
543
Report from the Parliament: Can Psychiatry At Least Be Curious?
Robert Whitaker
-
May 13, 2016
47
1144
Real Politics 101, Part One: “First-Order Psychiatry” vs. the “Rehumanizing Resistance”
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
May 12, 2016
51
879
Reflections on Myth Machines, “Mental Illness,” and the Perils of Good Intentions
Robert Nikkel, MSW
-
May 11, 2016
26
387
Making the Case Against Antidepressants in Parliament
Robert Whitaker
-
May 10, 2016
41
3365
ADHD: The Hoax Unravels
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
May 10, 2016
64
4969
On the Corner of Distress & Poverty: What Happens to Our Minds When There...
Sera Davidow
-
May 9, 2016
40
577
Not Seen
Elizabeth Hill
-
May 8, 2016
58
672
The FDA Is Hiding Reports Linking Psych Drugs to Homicides
Andrew Thibault
-
May 6, 2016
55
9968
Psychiatry: Worth Keeping If “Slowed Down”?
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
May 6, 2016
171
622
Feral Psychiatry: The Case of Garth Daniels
Niall McLaren
-
May 5, 2016
123
7784
Restoring Study 329: Letter to BMJ
Jon Jureidini, MD
-
May 3, 2016
6
665
An Important Documentary: Letters from Generation Rx
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
May 3, 2016
20
4327
My Time at Bellevue
Vlado C.
-
May 1, 2016
24
5218
The Presidential Primary & Forced Outpatient Psych Drugs
David W. Oaks
-
May 1, 2016
30
388
The Anorexia Nervosa Genetics Initiative
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
April 29, 2016
36
619
Why Evidence-based Practices Might not Actually Help People
Corinna West
-
April 29, 2016
18
1422
Mental Health First Aid: Your Friendly Neighborhood Mental Illness Maker
Sera Davidow
-
April 28, 2016
110
8090
Unhelpful Utterances: 6 Comments We Should No Longer Hear From Mental Health Professionals
Gary Sidley, PhD
-
April 26, 2016
65
991
Female Peer Specialists Paid Less than Males, Study Finds
Malia Fontecchio, MSW
-
April 26, 2016
45
325
How Biological Psychiatry Can Harm: A Mother’s View
Claudia Gold, MD
-
April 26, 2016
12
278
A “Hot-Potato” Topic and a “Rational” Book
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
April 25, 2016
28
937
The MD and the Imaginary Eating Disorder
Twilah Hiari
-
April 24, 2016
49
1524
The Psychiatry Sandcastle Continues to Crumble
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
April 22, 2016
46
762
My Response to the FDA’s ECT Rule Change
Christopher James Dubey
-
April 21, 2016
26
1507
Science-Based Service User Input, PLEASE?
Corinna West
-
April 19, 2016
6
1001
Dear Self-Proclaimed Progressives, Liberals and Humanitarians: You’ve Really Messed This One Up
Sera Davidow
-
April 18, 2016
264
2948
MIA Continuing Education Moves into its Next Phase
Robert Nikkel, MSW
-
April 18, 2016
4
220
Limits to Medicine: Re-visiting Ivan Illich
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
April 18, 2016
11
1229
My Journey of Recovery
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
April 17, 2016
29
817
Beneath the Fog
Michael Baker
-
April 16, 2016
61
1054
Finding Clarity Through Clutter
Matthew Morris
-
April 15, 2016
13
720
ACES Connection – Or Disease Mongering, Round 2?
Corinna West
-
April 14, 2016
21
1665
Victim Blaming: Childhood Trauma, Mental Illness & Diagnostic Distractions?
Liz Mullinar
&
Matthew Britts
-
April 13, 2016
92
10790
Dismissing the Patriarchal Prescriptions
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
April 9, 2016
36
786
Our Day in Mental Health Court
Serafina B.
-
April 8, 2016
49
877
Update: Massachusetts Benzodiazepine Bill Hearing
motto
-
April 7, 2016
11
3171
Study 329: Response to Keller & Colleagues
David Healy, MD
-
April 6, 2016
3
356
Psychiatric Diagnosis is a Fraud: The Destructive and Damaging Fiction of Biological ‘Diseases’
Robert Berezin, MD
-
April 5, 2016
81
26243
Comments by Shock Survivors and Their Loved Ones
Lauren Tenney, PhD, MPhil, MPA, Psychiatric Survivor
-
April 4, 2016
26
47235
Simple Things
Deena Hoblit
-
April 2, 2016
24
535
A New Mental Health System? Interview with Jim van Os
Will Hall
-
March 31, 2016
48
3062
Congress Proposes Research on the Link Between Psychiatric Drugs and Suicide
Chuck Ruby, PhD
-
March 30, 2016
17
1468
The Experiential Democracy Project: A Depth Approach to the Legislative Process
Kirk Schneider, PhD
-
March 29, 2016
3
1063
Call to Action: Massachusetts Benzodiazepine Bill is Going to Committee
motto
-
March 28, 2016
4
427
In Search of an Evidence-based Role for Psychiatry
John Read
,
Olga Runciman, Cand Psych BSc
&
Jacqui Dillon
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March 28, 2016
93
899
My Shock Survivor Story
Corinna West
-
March 25, 2016
7
468
Doctor O’s Adventures in Wonderland
Opeyemi Parham
-
March 25, 2016
16
1163
Only 72 Hours Left to Say #FDAStopTheShockDevice
Lauren Tenney, PhD, MPhil, MPA, Psychiatric Survivor
-
March 25, 2016
7
711
Trinkets and Lunches and Dollars for Docs Really Do Pay Off
Edward Opton, JD, PhD
-
March 23, 2016
10
506
Do 5 Million Americans Really Have Bipolar Disorder?
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
March 23, 2016
25
4618
Allen Frances on Anti-Psychiatry
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
March 23, 2016
54
1008
Bridging the Benzo Divide: Iatrogenic Dependence and/or Addiction?
Richard D. Lewis
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March 21, 2016
183
3232
Public Engagement Fail: Creating Community Solutions
Corinna West
-
March 21, 2016
2
534
Comments on Jeffrey Lieberman and Ogi Ogas’ Wall Street Journal Article on the Genetics...
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
March 21, 2016
71
1462
Medical Science Argues Against Forced Treatment Too
Robert Whitaker
-
March 19, 2016
25
1729
“All for the Best of the Patient”
Dorrit Cato Christensen
-
March 18, 2016
46
1261
Call To Action: Massachusetts Bill H4062 for Informed Benzodiazepine Use is Official
motto
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March 18, 2016
15
919
Dr. Pies and Dr. Frances Make a Compelling Case that Their Profession is Doing...
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March 17, 2016
14
502
Love is Dialogical: The Open Dialogue UK International Conference and Training
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March 15, 2016
36
2285
TV Drug Ads, Abilify & Big Pharma Mobsters
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March 14, 2016
23
875
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March 14, 2016
47
1455
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March 13, 2016
12
543
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Ron Unger, LCSW
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March 13, 2016
10
224
Regarding the Impossibility of Recovery
Carrie Foulkes
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March 11, 2016
29
1380
Has the FDA Abandoned Its Off-Label Promotion Ban?
Jim Gottstein, JD
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March 10, 2016
7
321
Bipolarized and Crimes Against Nature
Rachel Levy, LCSW
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March 8, 2016
39
1349
The Drug-Free Solution to Ending Depression
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March 7, 2016
49
776
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March 7, 2016
2
301
Psychiatry Bashing
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March 7, 2016
62
1886
Appealing to our Elected Representatives
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March 7, 2016
37
649
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March 6, 2016
9
2697
Schizophrenia in the Golden Ass
Michael Fontaine, PhD
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March 6, 2016
13
1268
Advice on Coping With Voices
Luisa Castagnaro, MA
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March 4, 2016
16
806
To the Heart of the Matter, Part III: The Critical Nature of Authenticity and...
James Schroeder, PhD
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March 4, 2016
22
191
A Conversation about Having Conversations about Psychiatry
Amber Gum, PhD
&
Mariaelena Bartesaghi, PhD
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March 2, 2016
151
668
New Research into Antipsychotic Discontinuation And Reduction: the RADAR programme
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
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March 2, 2016
30
1367
The Mental Health Tribunal
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March 1, 2016
11
522
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Robert Berezin, MD
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March 1, 2016
31
1284
Organized Denial: Psychiatry’s Quiet Desperation
Stuart Shipko
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March 1, 2016
18
1614
Future of Mental Health Series: Oryx Cohen on his film “Healing Voices”
Eric Maisel, PhD
-
February 29, 2016
0
205
Testifying in Vermont: Forced Drugs
Sandra Steingard, MD
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February 28, 2016
125
1430
Short Notes from a Muddled Island (with apologies to Bill Bryson)
Hugh Middleton, MD
-
February 28, 2016
1
161
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Ally Nugent
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February 27, 2016
69
490
Call to Action: Support a Bill for Informed Benzodiazepine Use
motto
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February 26, 2016
11
791
Foxes Guarding the Henhouse: the Role of the Chief Psychiatrist
John Read
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February 26, 2016
17
719
Promoting Mental Health: Supporting Early Relationships Does Not Mean Blaming Parents
Claudia Gold, MD
-
February 25, 2016
7
174
Troubling Mental Health Nurse Education
Alec Grant, PhD
-
February 23, 2016
30
760
Einstein, Social Justice and The New Relativity
Sarah Knutson
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February 23, 2016
15
1223
The Future of Mental Health Interview Series: Eleanor Longden
Eric Maisel, PhD
-
February 22, 2016
3
949
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Anne Cooke
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Peter Kinderman
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Rai Waddingham
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February 21, 2016
34
979
All in the Brain? An Open Letter Re: Stephen Fry’s Assumptions About Mental Illness
Richard Bentall, PhD
-
February 20, 2016
50
2867
Recovery: Compromise or Liberation?
Jay Watts, DClinPsy
-
February 20, 2016
43
5059
The Curious Case of over 50 Consecutive ECTs in Melbourne
John Read
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February 19, 2016
30
1887
40 Days to Tell the #FDAStoptheShockDevice
Lauren Tenney, PhD, MPhil, MPA, Psychiatric Survivor
-
February 17, 2016
6
718
Depressed, Anxious, or Substance-Abusing? But Don’t Buy You Are “Defective”?
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
February 17, 2016
17
715
My 6-year Anniversary Off Psych Drugs: How I Made It Through the Darkest Times
Monica Cassani
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February 16, 2016
0
745
Exploiting The Placebo Effect: Deceiving People For Their Own Good?
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
February 16, 2016
23
337
Future of Mental Health Interview Series: Interview with Joanna Moncrieff on The Myth of...
Eric Maisel, PhD
-
February 15, 2016
15
315
Doing It Alone Together: Core Issues In Dutch Self-Managed Residential Programs
Max Huber
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February 15, 2016
2
609
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Sarah Knutson
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February 15, 2016
27
849
Supporting Resources: “The Case for 100% Voluntary”
Sarah Knutson
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February 15, 2016
1
490
Feeling Good with Narcotics Now “Evidence” of Opioid Deficiency: The Chemical Imbalance Theory of...
Vivek Datta, MD, MPH
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February 15, 2016
29
2091
Lost & Found: Drowning The Mermaid, and Our Collective Power
Sera Davidow
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February 14, 2016
55
260
Bloodtime
Jyl Anais
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February 12, 2016
17
534
Gender Wage Gap and Depression/Anxiety
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
February 12, 2016
24
642
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Corinna West
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February 11, 2016
12
458
Dr.s Leo & Lacasse Respond to Dr. Pies’ Response
Jonathan Leo, PhD / Jeffrey Lacasse, PhD
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February 11, 2016
6
690
Baby Blues, Postpartum Depression & Psychosis: Countering the Danger of Antidepressants
Robert Berezin, MD
-
February 10, 2016
22
624
The Social Consequences of a Diagnosis on the Autism Spectrum
Lois Holzman, PhD
-
February 9, 2016
21
485
Allen Frances Seeks the “Middle Way”
Philip Hickey, PhD
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February 9, 2016
44
280
The Future of Mental Health Interview Series, Part III
Eric Maisel, PhD
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February 8, 2016
3
187
Insight Forty Years Later: A Dream of Progress
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February 7, 2016
41
371
“Is It Her Hormones?” A Case of Psychiatry Missing the Mark
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
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February 6, 2016
8
759
“Schizophrenia Breakthrough” – Or a Case of Ignoring the Most Important Evidence?
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
February 6, 2016
19
798
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Naas Siddiqui, BA, CPS, MA
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February 6, 2016
31
772
And Now for Something Completely the Same: The Latest, Greatest Breakthrough in Understanding the...
Dan Kriegman, PhD
-
February 6, 2016
18
958
We Need Your Help!
Robert Whitaker
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February 4, 2016
40
453
A New York Times Debate: Is the ADHD Diagnosis Helpful or Harmful?
Marilyn Wedge, PhD
-
February 4, 2016
6
372
The CHRUSP Call to Action, and Its Significance
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
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February 4, 2016
20
658
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February 3, 2016
38
8356
Hello World! An American Nut Challenges Trump About Status of “Bull Goose Loony.” We...
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February 1, 2016
11
340
Further Evidence of the Adverse Effects of Antidepressants, and Why These Have Taken so...
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
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February 1, 2016
30
1159
Inflammation and Psychosis
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
February 1, 2016
29
2684
The Future of Mental Health Interview Series, Part II
Eric Maisel, PhD
-
February 1, 2016
1
191
The Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health: Finding Our Way in a World of...
Yana Jacobs
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January 30, 2016
9
213
Why Screening Everyone for Depression is a Terrible Idea
Vivek Datta, MD, MPH
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January 29, 2016
58
1632
Support CRPD Absolute Prohibition of Commitment and Forced Treatment
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
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January 29, 2016
19
751
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Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
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January 28, 2016
15
295
Rethinking Psychiatry Teaches about Despair, Resilience, and the Great Turning
Rachel Levy, LCSW
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January 28, 2016
25
607
What Disability Benefit Trends Tell Us About Psychiatric Treatments and the Economy
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
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January 28, 2016
27
786
Me, Allen Frances, and Climbing Out of a Pigeonhole
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January 27, 2016
121
2279
My Diagnosis of ADHD and the Downfall That Followed
Renee M.
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January 26, 2016
14
17725
Anxiety: The Price We Pay for Consciousness
Brian Koehler, PhD
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January 26, 2016
11
1727
The Genetics of Schizophrenia: A Left Brain Theory about a Right Brain Deficit in...
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January 25, 2016
20
4934
The Future of Mental Health Interview Series
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January 25, 2016
7
297
Suicidal Tendencies, Part I: I’m Suicidal Because I’m Mentally Ill Because I’m Suicidal
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4716
At the Intersection Between Black Pride and Mad Pride
Justin Brown
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January 24, 2016
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1053
How I’ve Found Nonviolent Communication Helpful, Part 2; In the Mental Health System
Rufus May
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January 24, 2016
25
837
Madness and the Family: What Helps, and What Makes Things Worse?
Ron Unger, LCSW
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January 21, 2016
45
447
Are “Psychiatric Disorders” Brain Diseases?
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
January 19, 2016
41
1242
Schizophrenia and Genetics: A Closer Look at the Evidence
Jay Joseph, PsyD
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January 18, 2016
27
7896
We Need to be Studying the Mind, Not the Brain
Al Galves, PhD
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January 16, 2016
34
3372
Middle School Invasion: When the Pharmaceutical Companies Come to Town
Sera Davidow
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January 16, 2016
46
884
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Laysha Ostrow, PhD
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January 15, 2016
0
355
Smashing the Neurotransmitter Myth: How & Why Antidepressants Cause Suicides & Mass Murders
Robert Berezin, MD
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January 15, 2016
74
1173
Challenging the Ongoing ICD 10 Revision: How You Can Help
Akiko Hart
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January 14, 2016
4
339
Duty to Warn – 14 Lies That Our Psychiatry Professors in Medical School Taught...
Gary Kohls, MD
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January 14, 2016
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How the “Relational Perspective Paradigm” Informs Justice-Oriented Clinical Practice
Norbert A. Wetzel, ThD, MFT
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January 14, 2016
4
1216
Delay of Diagnosis: The Placebo Effect of Behavioral Diagnosis
Patrick Landman, MD
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January 13, 2016
22
426
How I’ve Found Nonviolent Communication Helpful
Rufus May
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January 11, 2016
7
564
If a Tree Falls in the Forest
Sandra Steingard, MD
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January 11, 2016
82
601
The Gauntlet of Protracted Benzodiazepine Withdrawal
Robert Pfaff
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January 10, 2016
95
20354
False Arguments, Part 3: Why Do People Hear Voices? (And Why Do We Need...
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January 10, 2016
31
2101
When a Book is Like a Person: Lessons from Book Repair
Rev. Dr. Steven Epperson
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January 10, 2016
7
2503
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January 8, 2016
19
904
Privilege, the Construction of Sanity and Answering the Afiya Phone Line
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January 7, 2016
2
243
President Obama Links Mental Health Conditions and Gun Violence! He Needs to Hear from...
Susan Rogers
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January 6, 2016
28
837
The FDA Wants to Approve ECT Without Testing
Peter Breggin, MD
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January 6, 2016
52
1521
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David Lawrence
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January 5, 2016
0
885
Serotonin Is Still Alive and Well in Psychiatry Land
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
January 5, 2016
7
415
Setting the Record Straight: The Psychiatric Legacy of Robert Spitzer
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
January 5, 2016
34
1082
A New Year’s Letter to Our Readers: The Past, Present, and Future of MIA
Robert Whitaker
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January 4, 2016
31
313
Is an Ominous New Era of Diagnosing Psychosis by Biotype on the Horizon?
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
January 4, 2016
62
818
Psychiatry and Crime
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
January 4, 2016
35
2612
To the Heart of the Matter, Part II: Perceptions of Public and Personal Stigma
James Schroeder, PhD
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December 31, 2015
107
245
Shock Device Safe As Eyeglasses? 89 Days to Say No
Lauren Tenney, PhD, MPhil, MPA, Psychiatric Survivor
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December 30, 2015
25
2379
Timberrr! Psychiatry’s Evidence Base For Antipsychotics Comes Crashing to the Ground
Robert Whitaker
-
December 29, 2015
52
5088
Madness and the Family, Part III: Practical Methods for Transforming Troubled Family Systems
Paris Williams, PhD
-
December 28, 2015
24
2756
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Sera Davidow
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December 27, 2015
24
348
Deafening Silence: What Happens When the Whistle Blows and Nobody Hears?
Richard D. Lewis
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December 27, 2015
64
1145
Human Rights Updates
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
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December 27, 2015
22
1521
Strange Gifts and the Search for Santa Claus
Heather Duke
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December 25, 2015
5
520
Culturally Numb
Deron Drumm
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December 22, 2015
18
497
Antidepressants, Pregnancy, and Autism: Why Wouldn’t Antidepressant Chemicals Affect a Developing Baby’s Brain?
Adam Urato, MD
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December 22, 2015
28
863
Madness and the Family (Part Two): Towards a Unified Theory of Family Dynamics and...
Paris Williams, PhD
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December 20, 2015
47
1521
Book Review: The Importance of Suffering
Redmond O'Hanlon, DPhil
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December 20, 2015
7
1742
Enough is Enough Series: 2-Year-olds on Anti-psychotics and Biological Markers for Psychosis
Robert Berezin, MD
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December 18, 2015
42
366
Healing Voices Documentary Review in the Huffington Post
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
December 17, 2015
30
1174
Book Review: “Overmedicated and Undertreated”
Edward Opton, JD, PhD
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December 16, 2015
7
903
Antidepressants & The Undead
David Healy, MD
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December 15, 2015
55
746
They May not Be Coming for Your Guns, But They Are Definitely Coming for...
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
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December 15, 2015
15
917
Madness and the Family (Part One): The History and Research of Family Dynamics and...
Paris Williams, PhD
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December 13, 2015
112
4171
Support for SB 614 with Amendment to Supervision Qualifications
Malia Fontecchio, MSW
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December 10, 2015
22
257
The Deeper Genome: New Research Findings in Genomics and Epigenomics
Brian Koehler, PhD
-
December 9, 2015
16
788
Murphy’s Legislation Threatens Civil Rights of the “Mentally Ill”
Jim Probert
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December 9, 2015
10
212
Please Respond to the New York Times: “What Should Be Done to Prevent Mass...
Susan Rogers
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December 8, 2015
60
228
Is Motivation Worth More Than Expertise?
David Healy, MD
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December 8, 2015
6
420
More on Neuroessentialism: Theoretical and Clinical Considerations
William Schultz
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December 7, 2015
17
583
Ernst Rüdin’s Unpublished Family Study of “Manic-Depressive Insanity” and the Genetics of Bipolar Disorder
Jay Joseph, PsyD
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December 7, 2015
9
742
Mad Love
Jennifer Maria Padron
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December 7, 2015
2
270
Your Weight is Forbidden Fruit
Julie Greene, MFA
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December 6, 2015
16
552
Shut Up and Put Up: A Military Culture of Retaliation – Including Diagnosis – When...
Elayne Clift
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December 6, 2015
10
379
For Me, Self-Love Requires Both Mercy and Defiance
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
December 6, 2015
28
1660
The Modern Day Witch-hunt
Noel Hunter, PsyD
-
December 5, 2015
27
47251
Why I Have (Mostly) Given Up on Diagnosis
Randy Paterson, PhD, RPsych
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December 4, 2015
10
362
The Ghost of Research Future
Johanna Ryan
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December 3, 2015
13
512
Needle In a Haystack: Identifying the Next School Shooter Before He Shoots
Jack Carney, DSW
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November 30, 2015
65
523
My Response to Dr. Pies’ Response
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
November 30, 2015
13
500
Rep. Tim Murphy May Be in Violation of Professional Psychological Ethics & the Law
Jasenn Zaejian, PhD
-
November 29, 2015
20
1090
The Mental Health Channel & Beyond: What Does it Really Mean to Present a...
Sera Davidow
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November 27, 2015
95
386
Think About Mental Health Wellness for Your End-of-year Donations
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
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November 25, 2015
5
395
Where’s the Outrage?
Pat Risser
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November 25, 2015
82
839
Psychiatry’s Last Tango? — A Response to Bonnie Burstow
Redmond O'Hanlon, DPhil
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November 24, 2015
33
791
Electroshocking Veterans and Their Fetuses
Lauren Tenney, PhD, MPhil, MPA, Psychiatric Survivor
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November 24, 2015
32
2325
Sanity, Friendship, Community
Michael Guy Thompson
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November 22, 2015
13
405
Hypermodern Hyperactives
Patrick Landman, MD
-
November 21, 2015
4
347
Don’t Harm Them Twice (Part II): What Can Be Done?
J. Doe
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November 20, 2015
68
1283
MIA Continuing Education: An Update
Robert Nikkel, MSW
-
November 20, 2015
5
198
Stranger Than Kindness
Mark Radcliffe, PhD, RMN
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November 19, 2015
9
335
Crisis is (un)Learning
Sera Davidow
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November 18, 2015
15
740
Appendix A: Section IX of United States of America vs. GlaxoSmithKline, PLC: GSK’S...
Philip Hickey, PhD
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November 18, 2015
1
498
“Let Food Be Thy Medicine” — So Let’s Teach Physicians How to Cook!
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
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November 17, 2015
6
993
My Response To Dr. Pies
Philip Hickey, PhD
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November 17, 2015
56
1177
Study 329: Big Risk
David Healy, MD
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November 16, 2015
5
336
Beyond ADHD: Moving Past the DSM Paradigm of Mental Illness
Claudia Gold, MD
-
November 16, 2015
6
584
Study 329: Psychiatry’s Thalidomide Moment, Part 2
Redmond O'Hanlon, DPhil
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November 16, 2015
2
424
A Mental Patient’s View of the Body
Issa Ibrahim
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November 15, 2015
10
919
We Are Failing Our Kids: A Few Remedies
Tabita Green
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November 14, 2015
15
373
RAISE-ing Some Questions
Wayne Munchel
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November 13, 2015
22
503
Don’t Harm Them Twice: When the Language Surrounding Benzodiazepines Adds Insult to Injury (Part...
J. Doe
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November 12, 2015
47
4669
The Revolution in Psychotherapy
David Elkins, PhD
-
November 12, 2015
11
828
“Murphy Bill” Continues to Exclude Voices of Millions with Mental Health Conditions as It...
National Coalition for Mental Health Recovery
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November 12, 2015
28
553
Prescription Privileges for Psychologists, Part II: Is Our Consent Fully Informed?
James Schroeder, PhD
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November 12, 2015
10
764
Medication Mechanization: Microchip Sensors in Abilify to Increase Medication Compliance
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
November 10, 2015
89
5410
CU President Raises Mental Health “Awareness” in Defiance of Mental Health Facts
Corinna West
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November 10, 2015
8
235
The Art of Mourning
Jennifer Maria Padron
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November 9, 2015
5
220
Dear Man: Sexism, Misogyny, & Our ‘Movement’
Sera Davidow
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November 8, 2015
201
1324
Sound Heals the Wild Beast
Jennifer Maria Padron
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November 6, 2015
0
259
Suffering: Who Needs It?
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
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November 6, 2015
11
310
Study 329: Transparency in Limbo at the British Medical Journal
David Healy, MD
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November 6, 2015
3
463
Saving Congressman Murphy from Fraudulent Information
Dennis Embry, PhD
-
November 6, 2015
20
234
Losing Our Minds to ‘Science’: Treatment Survivors Speak Out Against the Murphy Bill (H.R....
Sarah Knutson
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November 5, 2015
109
782
Danger Ahead if HR 2646 (the “Murphy Bill”) Passes!
Susan Rogers
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November 4, 2015
18
562
The Recovery After an Initial Schizophrenia Episode (RAISE) Study: Notes from the Trenches
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
November 4, 2015
43
1378
Why Mainstream Psychiatry Fears a Balanced Understanding of Psychosis
Ron Unger, LCSW
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November 3, 2015
27
860
A Square Peg in a Round Hole: The Construction of Depression as a Disease
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
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November 2, 2015
36
613
Twin Studies are Still in Trouble: A Response to Turkheimer
Jay Joseph, PsyD
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November 2, 2015
5
3686
The Making of Codex Alternus: What We Can Learn About Research on Non-Traditional Psychiatric...
Dion Zessin
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November 1, 2015
11
867
World Health Organization Publishes Blog About My 40 Years in The Mad Movement
David W. Oaks
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October 31, 2015
57
285
Transmuting Historical Trauma
Naas Siddiqui, BA, CPS, MA
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October 30, 2015
20
1534
Diagnosisgate: A Major Media Blackout Mystery
Paula J. Caplan, PhD
-
October 30, 2015
34
4982
‘I’d Rather Die Than Go Back to Hospital’: Why We Need a Non-medical Crisis...
Anne Cooke
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October 28, 2015
22
7382
Study 329: 50 Shades of Gray
David Healy, MD
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October 28, 2015
3
272
A Tribute to Bonnie Nelson
Nancy Rubenstein del Giudice
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October 28, 2015
6
982
Mad Economy: Let’s Change the World!
Karen Taylor, RMN
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October 23, 2015
18
432
The Alternative to Drugs: The Real Treatment for Human Suffering
Robert Berezin, MD
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October 23, 2015
104
570
Dr. Pies and Psychiatry’s ‘Solid Center’
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
October 22, 2015
25
1457
Slow Psychiatry: Integrating Need-Adapted Approaches with Drug-Centered Pharmacology
Sandra Steingard, MD
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October 19, 2015
86
1178
Ernst Rüdin: The Founding Father of Psychiatric Genetics
Jay Joseph, PsyD
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October 19, 2015
6
6460
“My Ego Strength is Too Developed for Me to Ever Become Psychotic!”
Michael Cornwall, PhD
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October 18, 2015
61
2210
Study 329: Conflicts of Interest
David Healy, MD
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October 18, 2015
3
328
Antipsychotics Withdrawal, Part 3
Corinna West
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October 17, 2015
29
5047
Suicide Tsunami
Sheralyn Rose, PhD
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October 17, 2015
10
352
Keeping Meili Off Psychiatric Drugs
Stephen Shenfield
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October 16, 2015
17
589
The UK National Health Service Peer-Supported Open Dialogue Project
Tom Stockmann, MD
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October 15, 2015
20
1372
Destination, Dignity: Creating the Future We Want
Iden Campbell, CPRP
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October 15, 2015
45
214
Study 329 in Japan
David Healy, MD
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October 14, 2015
0
0
Siddhartha, 1984, the Murphy Bill, and More
Cindi Fisher
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October 13, 2015
22
521
On the Link Between Psychiatric Drugs and Violence
Philip Hickey, PhD
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October 13, 2015
36
1266
A Harm Reduction Approach to the Mental Health System
Noel Hunter, PsyD
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October 12, 2015
28
2298
On the Tyranny of Good Will: Why We Call Ourselves Psychiatric Survivors
Mary Maddock
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October 12, 2015
18
1265
Race, Gun Violence & Mental Health: #BlackLivesMatter
David W. Oaks
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October 10, 2015
26
1126
Human Beings Are More Than a Combination of Letters, or; Why We Needed a...
Carina Håkansson, PhD
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October 10, 2015
3
269
Being Myself
Iden Campbell, CPRP
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October 9, 2015
10
2194
Top Psychiatrist’s Stunning Announcement About Gun Violence
Paula J. Caplan, PhD
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October 9, 2015
76
3365
Videos from the 2014 “Transforming Mad Science and Re-Imagining Mental Health Care” ISEPP/UCLA Conference
David Cohen
-
October 9, 2015
26
597
Integration of Physical and Mental Health
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
October 9, 2015
25
287
Study 329: By the Standards of the Time
Johanna Ryan
-
October 8, 2015
19
445
A Confession, and a Dilemma
Tracey Libby
-
October 7, 2015
24
230
ADHD: More of It, Better Diagnosis, or Both?
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
October 7, 2015
14
378
A Reflective Checklist to Reduce Psychotropic Drugs for Vulnerable Children
Dave Traxson
-
October 7, 2015
9
548
Breaking News About the Oregon Shooter
Peter Breggin, MD
-
October 5, 2015
93
2590
Benzodiazepines: Psychiatry’s Weakest Link
Richard D. Lewis
-
October 5, 2015
38
3267
Is There Risk in Screening for Mental Health Disorders?
Claudia Gold, MD
-
October 5, 2015
27
405
The New York Times Celebrates Twin Research Yet Again
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
October 5, 2015
9
889
Psychiatry and the Pressure to Prescribe
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
October 5, 2015
19
770
Passage
Elizabeth Hill
-
October 3, 2015
53
697
Co-Optation, Failed Analogies, and ‘How to Touch a Hot Stove’
Sera Davidow
-
October 3, 2015
246
847
Why Did 158+ People Attend an Antipsychiatry Book Launch? (A Reflection)
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
October 3, 2015
15
457
Study 329: Minions no Longer
David Healy, MD
-
October 2, 2015
5
276
A Liberation Journey with Images
Lauren Spiro
-
October 2, 2015
20
526
“Mental Disorders in the Classical World” (A Review)
Michael Fontaine, PhD
-
October 2, 2015
14
1786
Hey; Don’t Just Shoot the Messenger!
Hugh Middleton, MD
-
October 1, 2015
26
695
Life Events Cause Psychosis: The Further Adventures of an Aspiring Psychonaut
Corinna West
-
October 1, 2015
9
481
Should Consumer/Survivors Help Psychiatrists Become Better Psychiatrists?
Lucy Costa
-
September 29, 2015
41
830
10 of the Worst Political Abuses of the Psychiatric and Psychological Professions in American...
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
September 29, 2015
47
1656
Study 329: The Data Wars Cross the Rubicon
David Healy, MD
-
September 28, 2015
9
330
Terry Lynch: The Doctor Who Stands for Truth
Jim Maddock
&
Mary Maddock
-
September 25, 2015
20
1692
You, Your Kids, or the Doctor… Who’s Running the Show?
Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
-
September 25, 2015
5
399
The APA’s New Image
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
September 25, 2015
42
657
New Video and Campaign Calls for REAL Change in Mental Health Policy
Campaign for Real Change in Mental Health Policy
-
September 24, 2015
18
291
What is #toppmote2015 and Why Does it Matter?
Peter Kinderman
-
September 24, 2015
2
396
Involuntary Hospitalization: What’s Love Got to do With it?
Noel Hunter, PsyD
-
September 23, 2015
36
1917
What Happened to those Who Were Suicidal in Study 329? And to the Learned...
David Healy, MD
-
September 21, 2015
2
304
Ronald Pies Doubles Down (And Why We Should Care)
Robert Whitaker
-
September 21, 2015
119
2636
Love, Liberty, and Psychiatric Hospitalization
Norman Hoffman, MD
-
September 20, 2015
69
384
Psychiatry: The Hoax Exposed
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
September 20, 2015
57
1312
Hello World! 5 Reasons We Must Say ‘No’ to Normality & Psychiatry
David W. Oaks
-
September 19, 2015
5
423
Yesterday I Looked Forward to Taking Psych Drugs
Corinna West
-
September 19, 2015
14
549
The Questions Are Not the Problem
Tim Carey, PhD
-
September 19, 2015
7
271
Psychiatry & Organized Crime
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
September 18, 2015
24
954
Study 329: MK, HK, SK and GSK
David Healy, MD
-
September 18, 2015
3
191
When There’s No Place Like Home….
motto
-
September 18, 2015
118
301
Trauma Outpaces our Ability to Adapt: It is the Source of Our Suffering
Robert Berezin, MD
-
September 17, 2015
22
724
On Making Non Sense
Kit Riley
-
September 17, 2015
21
658
Psychiatry’s Thalidomide Moment
Redmond O'Hanlon, DPhil
-
September 16, 2015
11
797
Benzo Drugs, UK Fudge, Cover Up and Consequences
Barry Haslam
-
September 16, 2015
13
761
Say What? Understanding That What We Say—and How We Say It—Changes Lives
James Schroeder, PhD
-
September 16, 2015
28
341
The Inherent Unreliability of the ADHD Label
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
September 15, 2015
91
560
Can Probiotics be Used for the Treatment of Mental Health Problems?
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
&
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
-
September 15, 2015
16
3202
The Use of Antipsychotic Medications in Children
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
September 14, 2015
30
2777
The Troubled Life of Study 329: Consequences of Failure to Retract
David Healy, MD
-
September 9, 2015
13
751
The Fourth and Fifth Laws of Behavioral Genetics
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
September 8, 2015
12
2683
Mental Health: Misnomer & Metaphor
Jack Carney, DSW
-
September 8, 2015
35
1152
Enhanced Interrogation: Is It Psychology’s Only Scandal? by Lois Holzman
Lois Holzman, PhD
-
September 5, 2015
0
381
A Not-So-Charmed Life
Redmond O'Hanlon, DPhil
-
September 5, 2015
30
4741
Stigmatization of Psychiatry and Psychiatrists: Some Remedial Suggestions
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
September 5, 2015
73
917
From Self-Harm to Self-Empowerment: Liberation Through Words
Jeanene Harlick
-
September 3, 2015
46
1279
Yes, the Tide is Turning Against Psychiatry
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
September 3, 2015
128
2153
Do NAMI and MHA Suffer From Anosognosia?
Sera Davidow
-
September 2, 2015
105
2701
Study 329: The Timelines
David Healy, MD
-
September 2, 2015
6
242
Destination, Dignity: Focus on a Broken Criminal Justice System
Susan Rogers
-
September 2, 2015
6
430
Meta-Autonomy & Meta-Equality
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
September 2, 2015
3
792
Hiding the Evidence of Society’s Side Effects
motto
-
September 1, 2015
8
321
Shooting the Odds, Part III
Stuart Shipko
-
September 1, 2015
22
2862
House of Cards: Bad Science Creates False and Dangerous Beliefs
Robert Berezin, MD
-
September 1, 2015
9
417
Book Review: Depression Delusion by Terry Lynch, MD, MA
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
August 31, 2015
60
1328
Study329.org: The Panorama Files
David Healy, MD
-
August 27, 2015
22
220
Cannabis for Treating Psychiatric Problems? A Clear Yes, Maybe.
Will Hall
-
August 27, 2015
76
5933
What if ACEs (Adverse Childhood Events) Were the Basis of Mental Health Treatment?
Wayne Munchel
-
August 26, 2015
83
1772
New Documentary, “Creatively Maladjusted”: Diagnosed-Psychotic Quad Activist Goes Global Revolutionary!
David W. Oaks
-
August 26, 2015
5
466
Incarcerated, “Delusional,” and Sentenced to Abuse
motto
-
August 25, 2015
22
774
How Following the Trail of “Cutting Edge” and “Convenient” Can Distort Reality
James Schroeder, PhD
-
August 24, 2015
33
490
A Network Meeting in North America
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
August 24, 2015
18
306
Compassion and the Voice of the Tormentor
Timothy N.
-
August 21, 2015
20
581
A Response to the Hyper-focus on Brain-based Research and “Disease”
Noel Hunter, PsyD
&
William Schultz
-
August 20, 2015
36
762
Delusions
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
August 20, 2015
43
991
Is Mandatory Trial Registration Decontaminating the Psychiatric Literature?
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
August 19, 2015
9
1038
A Milestone in the Battle for Truth in Drug Safety: Study 329’s Final Chapter...
David Healy, MD
-
August 18, 2015
18
254
A Debate on Twin Research Has Broken Out in American Criminology
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
August 18, 2015
5
1022
Flibanserin: The Female Viagra is a Failed Me-too Antidepressant
Emily Wheeler
-
August 17, 2015
39
6125
My Father-in-law on Risperdal — A Case Study Gets Personal
Steve McCrea
-
August 16, 2015
34
3299
The Murphys Have Their Way With Words
Sera Davidow
-
August 15, 2015
30
565
The Boy in the Closet — How I Lost my Best Friend to a...
motto
-
August 15, 2015
25
412
My Successful Campaign for Dedicated Benzo Withdrawal Services
Barry Haslam
-
August 15, 2015
20
871
Psychiatry’s “Institutional Corruption”—A Chat with Robert Whitaker and Lisa Cosgrove
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
August 12, 2015
106
1965
On Relaxing Off-Label Meds: Do the Opposite. Especially for Children. Especially Antipsychotics
Steven Francesco
-
August 12, 2015
15
534
Senate Bill 1945: The New Fraud – Getting into the “Mental Health Reform Act...
Lauren Tenney, PhD, MPhil, MPA, Psychiatric Survivor
-
August 11, 2015
13
870
#1 Wacko Memo: Disability & Mental Health Revolution to Stop Global Warming!
David W. Oaks
-
August 11, 2015
28
500
What Do We Owe When a Shock Survivor Dies? – On the Death of...
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
August 11, 2015
16
1522
Do We Need to Medicate More Children? – A Response to Calls to Remove...
Dan Kriegman, PhD
-
August 10, 2015
14
1095
Binge Eating and Genetics
William Schultz
-
August 10, 2015
13
472
Why was James Holmes, the Movie Theater Killer, Spared the Death Penalty?
Robert Berezin, MD
-
August 9, 2015
41
718
Healing is a Shocking Process: Protracted Psych Drug Withdrawal Syndrome (Iatrogenic Brain Injury)
Monica Cassani
-
August 8, 2015
38
6259
Thoughts on the Nature of Emotions
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
August 7, 2015
10
356
The Ubiquity of Unhappiness: An Introduction to Cultural Psychiatry
Jeremy Wallace, MD
-
August 7, 2015
11
574
“Knowing Together” vs. “Knowing Apart”: The Importance of Extending Our Network
Carina Håkansson, PhD
-
August 5, 2015
27
343
Impoverished Youth; Our Neighbors in Distress, and at Risk
motto
-
August 5, 2015
7
591
Lost in Medication
David Healy, MD
-
August 4, 2015
18
331
Intermittent Explosive Disorder: The ‘Illness’ That Goes On Growing
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
August 4, 2015
76
63265
Should Physicians Read Journals? Given Current Standards, Maybe Not
Randy Paterson, PhD, RPsych
-
July 29, 2015
27
379
Lithium and Suicide: What Does the Evidence Show?
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
July 27, 2015
23
12495
Stimulate Your Vagus Nerve and Thus Chill Out: Simple, Natural, Uninvasive Methods
Monica Cassani
-
July 27, 2015
7
1821
#ADA25 Birthday, Mental Health, Justin Dart and My Crazy Hashtags
David W. Oaks
-
July 26, 2015
6
297
Five Strikes Against Assisted Outpatient Treatment Laws
motto
-
July 25, 2015
29
1121
Revised UN Prison Rules
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
July 24, 2015
4
627
ADHD: A Destructive and Disempowering Label; Not an Illness
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
July 24, 2015
21
1752
Survey on Emotional Distress and Mental Health Diagnosis: An International Campaign to Include “Regular...
Lois Holzman, PhD
-
July 22, 2015
14
629
Teen Bipolar Disorder and the Abnormal Brain: Making Sense of New Research
Claudia Gold, MD
-
July 21, 2015
32
718
Why the DSM Differential Diagnosis is So Disappointing
James Schroeder, PhD
-
July 21, 2015
24
817
Gut Microbiota & Mental Health
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
July 20, 2015
25
1342
The Sweet Spot Between Ignorance and Certainty: A Place Where Dialogue and Healing...
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
July 19, 2015
12
434
One Family’s Encounter with Modern Psychiatry and a Call for Social Change
Tabita Green
-
July 17, 2015
113
1597
Benzodiazepines: Miracle Drugs?
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
July 16, 2015
94
1807
Rx Resilience: Cultivating the Ability to Bounce Back
Jennifer Bahr, ND
-
July 15, 2015
7
803
The Lonely Way: Reflections from a Young Psychologist
Victor Morasse
-
July 15, 2015
59
1662
The Disease Loop – Mental Health Infographics
Corinna West
-
July 13, 2015
5
2059
Dialogues as a Way of Transforming Consciousness: Results from Three Teleconference Dialogues of Discovery...
Lauren Spiro
-
July 12, 2015
4
459
Always a Mystery: Why do Drugs Come and Go?
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
July 8, 2015
91
508
Women, ECT, and Memory
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
July 7, 2015
28
1676
Tearing Apart the DSM-5 in Social Work Class
Sascha Altman DuBrul
-
July 6, 2015
29
2991
For a Well Mind, Try Revolution? Creative Maladjustment Week 2015
David W. Oaks
-
July 6, 2015
1
293
Psychiatric Drugs are False Prophets with Big Profits. Psychiatry Has Been Hijacked
Robert Berezin, MD
-
July 5, 2015
55
766
Who Needs Radicalisation?
Matthew Morris
-
July 5, 2015
5
252
Why the Shades of Awakening Online Series Matters
Sean Blackwell
-
July 5, 2015
39
831
Tell PCORI What Research Funding We Really Need
Corinna West
-
July 4, 2015
3
252
Reasons Not to Believe in Lithium
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
June 30, 2015
84
14772
Lessons from Soteria-Alaska
Jim Gottstein, JD
-
June 29, 2015
63
3764
It’s as Bad as You Think: The Gap Between the Rich and the Poor...
Philip Thomas, MD
-
June 29, 2015
34
629
Mistakes Were Made (by all of us)
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
June 28, 2015
105
628
Can Madness Save the World?
Paris Williams, PhD
-
June 26, 2015
31
2404
Children, Youth and Mental Health in British Columbia: A Presentation to the Legislature
Rev. Dr. Steven Epperson
-
June 26, 2015
32
1263
Are DSM Psychiatric Disorders “Heritable”?
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
June 24, 2015
39
6062
CBT: Part of the Solution, Part of the Problem, an Illusion, or All...
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
June 24, 2015
54
1596
A Witness to Fraud
Lauren Tenney, PhD, MPhil, MPA, Psychiatric Survivor
-
June 24, 2015
18
643
When the Tail Wags the Dog, Eventually the Dog Bites
Norman Hoffman, MD
-
June 24, 2015
54
521
The Mind and Body Connection: The Correlation between Stress and Inflammation
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
June 23, 2015
15
759
Men on Hooks: The Origin of Modern Psychiatric Diagnostic Systems
George Atwood, PhD
-
June 22, 2015
20
372
The First “Working To Recovery” Camp: June, 2015
Karen Taylor, RMN
-
June 22, 2015
13
650
Decision-Making and Moral Injury
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
June 22, 2015
26
1120
What Do Dreams Mean? Dreams Provide a Window Into Our Character
Robert Berezin, MD
-
June 22, 2015
1
488
What You Believe Makes a Difference
Al Galves, PhD
-
June 21, 2015
35
522
Regarding Representative Tim Murphy’s Helping Families In Mental Health Crisis Act
Noel Hunter, PsyD
-
June 19, 2015
11
2087
Electroshock Survivors Taught Me Eight Lessons in International Protests
David W. Oaks
-
June 18, 2015
6
366
Upon the U.K. Launch of Psychiatry and the Business of Madness: A Reflection
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
June 16, 2015
29
349
Bullying+Lying = Fear+Complying
motto
-
June 15, 2015
10
262
To the Heart of the Matter: Stigma, Labeling, and the Delicate Search for the...
James Schroeder, PhD
-
June 13, 2015
70
847
The Medical Model Discovers Heroin Addiction
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
June 12, 2015
38
879
The Time to Curb Forced Drugging is Now: In Your State, and Nationally
Edward Opton, JD, PhD
-
June 10, 2015
12
312
Towards a Healthcare Magna Carta, Part One
David Healy, MD
-
June 8, 2015
18
335
How Should We Understand the Link Between ADHD and Early Death?
Claudia Gold, MD
-
June 8, 2015
9
463
Psychiatry On The Defensive, But Ceding No Ground
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
June 8, 2015
31
259
‘Empathy’ is a False God: ‘Responsiveness’ is the Real Deal
Robert Berezin, MD
-
June 8, 2015
31
1494
With the Public Defrauded, the Illegitimacy of Forced Psychiatry Crystallizes
Lauren Tenney, PhD, MPhil, MPA, Psychiatric Survivor
-
June 7, 2015
22
421
Competition, Collaboration & Collusion: The Triple Threat for Our Kids
motto
-
June 7, 2015
18
385
“Let’s Roll” With Mad in America Continuing Education
Robert Nikkel, MSW
-
June 6, 2015
5
277
Book Review: Parenting Your Child with ADHD: A No-Nonsense Guide for Nurturing Self-Reliance...
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
June 5, 2015
1
215
Responsibility – Legal and Spiritual
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
June 5, 2015
7
561
Thinking Upstream: Winning Real Mental Health Reform By Joining the Anti-Corruption Movement
Will Hall
-
June 5, 2015
56
1136
What the Research Has Told Us About Peer-Run Respite Houses: The Second Story Story
Yana Jacobs
-
June 4, 2015
11
1696
May 16, 2015: 25 Shock Treatment Protests in 9 Countries! What Now?
Ted Chabasinski, JD
-
June 4, 2015
115
1112
3 Facts All Parents Should Know About ADHD Stimulant Drugs
Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
-
June 3, 2015
28
9684
The ADHD Label and Mortality
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
June 3, 2015
20
357
From Independent to Institutionalized
David Hidajattoellah
-
June 3, 2015
8
212
Chemicals Have Consequences: Antidepressants, Pregnancy, and the New York Times
Adam Urato, MD
-
June 2, 2015
30
1666
Children are Vulnerable Targets on the Algorithm Superhighway
motto
-
June 1, 2015
34
239
Has a New Twin Study Meta-Analysis Finally “Settled” the Nature-Nurture Debate?
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
June 1, 2015
15
3213
Psychiatrists May be Ready to Learn About Treating With Micronutrients
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
May 29, 2015
85
1676
Who’s the “Menace to Society”? Robert Whitaker or Jeffrey Lieberman?
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
May 27, 2015
2
3704
Neuroleptic Drugs And Mortality
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
May 27, 2015
23
671
The Murphy Bill: People are Afraid
Noel Hunter, PsyD
-
May 26, 2015
94
905
Reflections on ‘Montage of Heck’: The Life and Art of Kurt Cobain
Robert Berezin, MD
-
May 26, 2015
23
1781
A Declaration of Interdependence for the Era of the Murphy Bill
Ron Bassman, PhD
-
May 25, 2015
9
481
Reflections on a Beautiful Mind
Robert Whitaker
-
May 25, 2015
58
13583
Adventures at the APA
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
May 22, 2015
51
263
Announcing Mad in America’s New Resource Section on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal
Laura Delano
-
May 21, 2015
60
1249
Questions About Jeffrey Lieberman’s “Notorious Past and Bright Future of Psychiatry”
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
May 21, 2015
50
799
Book Review: Psychiatry in Context: Experience, Meaning & Communities, by Phil Thomas
Eleanor Longden, PhD
-
May 19, 2015
2
556
ECT: Safe and Effective for Agitation and Aggression in Cases of Dementia?
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
May 19, 2015
21
1037
Reviving the Spirit of Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest!
David W. Oaks
-
May 16, 2015
28
674
Psychiatry Reconsidered … Once Again
Hugh Middleton, MD
-
May 14, 2015
23
206
The American Indian Youth Suicide Epidemic: Mental Health Professionals as Superheroes
David Walker, PhD
-
May 14, 2015
46
428
Listening to the Voiceless Citizens
motto
-
May 13, 2015
10
184
What Kind of Forced Treatment Would You Prefer?
Olga Runciman, Cand Psych BSc
-
May 13, 2015
24
754
Thank You Notes: #ForTheKids
Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
&
Michael Gilbert, PsyD
-
May 12, 2015
5
258
Free Your Mind! These Online Documentaries About Festivals Give Me Hope
David W. Oaks
-
May 11, 2015
1
260
What Would CRPD-Compliant Mental Health Legislation Look Like?
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
May 11, 2015
11
1117
Is My Therapist Good or Not?
Daniel Mackler
-
May 11, 2015
91
6691
The Once and Future Abilify: Depot Injections for Everyone?
Johanna Ryan
-
May 11, 2015
23
3503
Psychiatry: Smoke and Mirrors
motto
-
May 11, 2015
18
397
Physician, Heal Thyself (Luke 4:23)
Dan Kriegman, PhD
-
May 11, 2015
4
591
It’s a Circus Under This ‘Big Tent’
Sera Davidow
-
May 10, 2015
60
392
What is Love? An Ode to Motherhood on Mother’s Day
Robert Berezin, MD
-
May 10, 2015
8
198
Thoughts on “Antipsychiatry”
Nancy Rubenstein del Giudice
-
May 9, 2015
73
1205
Psychiatry Through the Lens of Institutional Corruption
Robert Whitaker
-
May 7, 2015
117
2308
Psych Meds Put 49 Million Americans at Risk for Cancer
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
May 6, 2015
31
3138
My Story and My Fight Against Antidepressants, Part II
David Fox
-
May 6, 2015
50
11248
Voiceless in America
motto
-
May 5, 2015
16
1602
Book Review: Tales From The Madhouse, by Gary Sidley
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
May 5, 2015
5
353
When the Hunger for Real Knowledge is Enough, Change Will Come
Carina Håkansson, PhD
-
May 4, 2015
24
257
Sheller’s Appeal Demonstrates FDA’s Indifference to Drug Harm
Jim Gottstein, JD
-
May 4, 2015
21
294
Musings on the Yale Conference
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
May 4, 2015
15
211
Lieberman’s Intellectual Cowardice in His Critique of Szasz, or: What to Do About Page...
Joseph Tarantolo, MD
-
May 3, 2015
62
889
Baltimore is Burning: Who Defines ‘Violence’?
Sera Davidow
-
May 1, 2015
120
571
Sounds of Silence from Inside the Jail
motto
-
May 1, 2015
17
589
RCTs: Really Concerning Trends in Research and Marketing
Tim Carey, PhD
-
May 1, 2015
25
263
Kudos to Art Levine for Exposing Government Complicity in Illegal Psychiatric Drugging of Children
Jim Gottstein, JD
-
April 30, 2015
14
406
Forced Psychiatry is Torture
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
April 30, 2015
33
8609
Response to “The Marketing of Serotonin” on BMJ
David Healy, MD
-
April 28, 2015
22
236
The Sociological Study of Mental Illness: A Historical Perspective
Andrew Scull, PhD
-
April 28, 2015
21
26327
Hearing Voices: Misconception, Misdirection & Moving Forward
Sera Davidow
-
April 27, 2015
30
1042
The Spurious Chemical Imbalance Theory is Still Alive and Well
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
April 27, 2015
37
4491
A Challenge to Dr. Lieberman
Robert Whitaker
-
April 26, 2015
112
1723
The Latest News from Twin Research: The Genetic Influence on Political Voting Choices is...
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
April 26, 2015
7
894
Real Psychiatry and Darwinian Evolution are One and the Same: Molecular Psychiatry has Missed...
Robert Berezin, MD
-
April 26, 2015
36
168
Want to Be Drug Free? It’s Time to Live More Simply
James Schroeder, PhD
-
April 26, 2015
17
238
Getting Our Anti/Critical Psychiatry Authors Read: A Case for Book Activism
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April 23, 2015
270
950
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April 22, 2015
12
1665
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David Healy, MD
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April 21, 2015
11
2186
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April 21, 2015
42
756
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April 20, 2015
36
1269
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Tim Carey, PhD
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April 20, 2015
64
354
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April 20, 2015
6
1660
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April 20, 2015
37
385
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April 19, 2015
48
825
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April 18, 2015
21
1528
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April 17, 2015
27
1260
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Emma Bragdon, PhD
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April 17, 2015
14
3364
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Philip Hickey, PhD
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April 16, 2015
51
1327
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April 15, 2015
13
348
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Janet Foner
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April 15, 2015
32
1453
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Amy Upham
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April 14, 2015
54
1138
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Philip Thomas, MD
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April 13, 2015
15
2313
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Bruce Levine, PhD
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April 12, 2015
26
729
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Sera Davidow
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April 11, 2015
33
264
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Peter Breggin, MD
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April 9, 2015
74
2373
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Bonnie Burstow, PhD
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April 8, 2015
125
943
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Daniel Mackler
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April 8, 2015
75
2626
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Randy Paterson, PhD, RPsych
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April 7, 2015
35
541
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John Read
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April 7, 2015
163
2170
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Sarah Knutson
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April 7, 2015
23
664
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April 5, 2015
51
432
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Robert Nikkel, MSW
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April 5, 2015
22
328
Upon Leaving Soteria-Alaska
Susan Musante
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April 5, 2015
14
2426
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Suzanne Beachy
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April 4, 2015
51
998
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April 3, 2015
4
439
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Chaya Grossberg
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April 2, 2015
51
448
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Ted Chabasinski, JD
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April 2, 2015
11
855
Psychiatric Diagnoses: Labels, Not Explanations
Philip Hickey, PhD
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April 2, 2015
69
1082
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Art Levine
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April 2, 2015
10
1037
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Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
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April 1, 2015
13
444
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Edward Opton, JD, PhD
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March 31, 2015
9
753
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March 31, 2015
28
1083
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Julie Wood
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March 30, 2015
17
4305
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David Healy, MD
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March 30, 2015
18
1617
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March 30, 2015
7
743
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March 30, 2015
34
1156
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Noel Hunter, PsyD
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March 29, 2015
14
1419
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March 27, 2015
37
1131
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March 26, 2015
17
386
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Bonnie Schell
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March 26, 2015
25
807
Clipping Care, Not Profit
Philip Thomas, MD
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March 25, 2015
6
155
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Randy Paterson, PhD, RPsych
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March 24, 2015
83
537
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Andrew Scull, PhD
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March 23, 2015
17
434
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Philip Hickey, PhD
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March 23, 2015
73
3206
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Joanne Cacciatore, PhD
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March 22, 2015
43
1234
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Afiya Respite House
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March 22, 2015
18
338
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Paula J. Caplan, PhD
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March 21, 2015
50
867
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Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
&
Michael Gilbert, PsyD
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March 19, 2015
0
613
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Hugh Middleton, MD
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March 19, 2015
8
271
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Robert Whitaker
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March 19, 2015
112
6037
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March 19, 2015
48
14170
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Robert Nikkel, MSW
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March 18, 2015
9
193
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Robert Berezin, MD
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March 17, 2015
222
15242
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Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
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March 17, 2015
5
902
Financial Stress: Auditing Our Money Woes
James Schroeder, PhD
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March 17, 2015
15
188
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Philip Hickey, PhD
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March 16, 2015
43
1123
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Melissa Bond
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March 16, 2015
18
377
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David Walker, PhD
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March 14, 2015
18
2333
Do the Math
Sandra Steingard, MD
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March 13, 2015
32
254
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Joanna Moncrieff, MD
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March 13, 2015
23
919
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Bonnie Schell
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March 11, 2015
32
496
Driving Us Crazy: A Festival About Madness in Society, and in All of Us
Carina Håkansson, PhD
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March 10, 2015
5
297
Peer Supports Under Siege: A Call for Help and Solidarity (And how this...
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March 9, 2015
90
505
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Anne Cooke
&
Peter Kinderman
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March 9, 2015
19
1389
A Disease Called Childhood
Marilyn Wedge, PhD
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March 9, 2015
9
1147
Me, My Brain, and Baked Beans
Peter Kinderman
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March 8, 2015
38
1443
May 16, 2015: International Day of Protest Against Shock Treatment
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March 8, 2015
47
2008
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March 7, 2015
16
1015
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Peter Breggin, MD
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March 6, 2015
61
5373
Immune Response is Secondary to Trauma
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March 6, 2015
25
1406
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Chaya Grossberg
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March 5, 2015
20
364
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Robert Berezin, MD
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March 4, 2015
7
423
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Bevin Croft
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March 3, 2015
17
956
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Leah Harris
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March 3, 2015
55
15268
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Philip Hickey, PhD
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March 2, 2015
8
4478
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March 2, 2015
13
350
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Sandra Steingard, MD
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March 1, 2015
46
1329
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Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
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March 1, 2015
38
2511
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March 1, 2015
33
378
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March 1, 2015
29
439
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Michael Cornwall, PhD
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February 27, 2015
117
572
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February 27, 2015
35
426
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Ron Unger, LCSW
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February 26, 2015
11
265
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Richard D. Lewis
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February 23, 2015
113
389
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February 23, 2015
165
1909
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Sera Davidow
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February 22, 2015
48
1248
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Eric Maisel, PhD
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February 22, 2015
14
526
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Will Hall
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February 20, 2015
46
2220
Over the Falls Without a Barrel: The Patent Cliff and Prescriber Impartiality
Randy Paterson, PhD, RPsych
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February 19, 2015
44
316
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Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
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February 19, 2015
6
675
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February 16, 2015
132
664
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Bruce Levine, PhD
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February 15, 2015
24
900
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164
1965
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Scott Shannon, MD
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February 13, 2015
37
6946
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February 12, 2015
26
24053
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Susan Rogers
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February 11, 2015
19
898
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David Walker, PhD
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February 11, 2015
16
1332
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David Healy, MD
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February 10, 2015
5
405
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Monica Cassani
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February 9, 2015
13
1184
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Ron Bassman, PhD
-
February 9, 2015
16
739
Psychiatric Regret
Marilyn Wedge, PhD
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February 9, 2015
23
750
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Becca Shaw Glaser
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February 8, 2015
13
1145
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Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
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February 6, 2015
45
18196
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David W. Oaks
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February 6, 2015
8
781
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February 5, 2015
25
3091
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James Schroeder, PhD
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February 5, 2015
30
707
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46
960
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February 3, 2015
20
354
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February 3, 2015
12
1192
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February 2, 2015
127
3495
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February 1, 2015
41
1053
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February 1, 2015
13
187
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Ron Unger, LCSW
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January 31, 2015
0
247
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Will Hall
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January 30, 2015
9
486
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January 29, 2015
19
1012
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Jeremy Wallace, MD
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January 29, 2015
31
821
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January 29, 2015
22
350
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January 28, 2015
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940
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January 28, 2015
27
2194
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January 27, 2015
14
391
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January 27, 2015
30
4895
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January 26, 2015
32
1063
Psychotherapy Is the Real Deal: It is the Effective Treatment
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January 26, 2015
38
1214
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January 25, 2015
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1385
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Natalie Tobert, PhD
-
January 24, 2015
26
4011
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Hilary Bryant
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January 23, 2015
15
461
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David Healy, MD
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January 22, 2015
5
151
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Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
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January 19, 2015
28
995
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374
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January 17, 2015
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588
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January 16, 2015
7
465
Human Experiences in Academic Boxes
Natalie Tobert, PhD
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January 14, 2015
116
652
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Philip Hickey, PhD
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January 14, 2015
23
928
The Eight Lessons of Suicide
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January 13, 2015
11
4976
The Substance of Substance Use: Talking About Marijuana, Alcohol, and Other Drugs
Will Hall
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January 13, 2015
4
843
War on Civilization: What Would Happen if Patients Radicalize?
David Healy, MD
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January 12, 2015
13
480
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January 12, 2015
63
2729
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Carina Håkansson, PhD
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January 11, 2015
27
434
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January 11, 2015
69
63969
How Quantitative Mental Health Turns Oppression Into “Depression”
David Walker, PhD
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January 11, 2015
19
1632
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January 10, 2015
29
1406
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January 9, 2015
19
769
Just Me: A Series of Reflections on Trauma, Motherhood, and Psychiatry
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January 9, 2015
22
822
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Lucy Johnstone, PsyD
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January 8, 2015
21
1769
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Robert Berezin, MD
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January 8, 2015
32
793
Dr. Feelgood: Traveling ‘On the Path of Least Resistance’
Richard D. Lewis
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January 7, 2015
42
311
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Bruce Levine, PhD
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January 6, 2015
35
1282
“Do I Have to Feel so Badly About Myself?” – The Legacies of Guilt,...
Peter Breggin, MD
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January 5, 2015
27
1480
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Jay Joseph, PsyD
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January 5, 2015
10
1919
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Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
January 5, 2015
41
922
ECT for Agitation and Aggression in Dementia
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January 2, 2015
47
2321
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January 1, 2015
20
2852
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December 31, 2014
27
460
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Will Hall
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December 31, 2014
24
1062
Depression: It’s Not Your Serotonin
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
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December 30, 2014
69
12743
Biology and Genetics are Irrelevant Once True Causes are Recognized
Jay Joseph, PsyD
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December 29, 2014
10
692
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Robert Nikkel, MSW
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December 29, 2014
22
246
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Sandra Steingard, MD
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December 25, 2014
79
1647
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Matt Samet
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December 24, 2014
8
874
My Mysterious Son
Dick Russell
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December 23, 2014
29
1875
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Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
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December 22, 2014
8
713
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Jill Littrell, PhD
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December 22, 2014
46
396
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Vivek Datta, MD, MPH
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December 21, 2014
34
7421
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December 20, 2014
27
845
The Truth About Antidepressant Research: An Invitation to Dialogue
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
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December 19, 2014
32
1507
Enough is Enough Series: An Hallucinogen for Depression? Psychiatry is Testing Ketamine (‘Special...
Robert Berezin, MD
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December 18, 2014
50
852
Assessing the Cost of Psychiatric Drugs to the Elderly and Disabled Citizens of the...
Robert Nikkel, MSW
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December 18, 2014
3
430
Sick‘s Wild Ride – From Treatment to TEDMED
Elizabeth Kenny
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December 17, 2014
18
522
Healing is in Our Stories
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December 17, 2014
17
746
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December 16, 2014
38
426
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Carina Håkansson, PhD
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December 15, 2014
9
312
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December 15, 2014
4
17394
Coercion in Care
Kerstin Ogard
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December 13, 2014
45
2566
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David Walker, PhD
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December 12, 2014
33
279
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Lauren Spiro
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December 12, 2014
8
231
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&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
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December 9, 2014
9
997
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Philip Hickey, PhD
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December 9, 2014
30
649
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December 8, 2014
14
2434
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5
1064
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Philip Thomas, MD
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December 4, 2014
22
1859
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December 4, 2014
25
240
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December 2, 2014
32
181
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63
774
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December 2, 2014
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1753
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December 2, 2014
9
363
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December 2, 2014
16
8927
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Katie Tierney Higgins, RN
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December 1, 2014
20
1261
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Vivek Datta, MD, MPH
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December 1, 2014
42
51719
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November 30, 2014
5
434
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November 25, 2014
10
526
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November 25, 2014
7
1455
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November 24, 2014
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243
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November 23, 2014
6
272
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November 22, 2014
20
418
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James Fitzgerald
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November 21, 2014
9
762
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November 20, 2014
24
1733
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November 20, 2014
5
222
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Tim Carey, PhD
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November 19, 2014
6
582
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&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
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November 18, 2014
9
3379
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November 18, 2014
60
602
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November 17, 2014
47
1243
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November 16, 2014
4
1059
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November 14, 2014
49
664
The Scarlet Label: Close Encounters With ‘Borderline Personality Disorder’ (Part 2)
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125
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November 11, 2014
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Housing First: An Evidence-Based Approach Beyond the Medical Model
Justin Brown
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November 11, 2014
6
604
Trauma and Schizophrenia: The Ultimate Political Battle
Noel Hunter, PsyD
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November 10, 2014
93
2049
My Favorite Fears and How They May Serve Us
Malaika Puffer
-
November 9, 2014
24
392
Pain Management in Modern Times: Does This Sound Familiar?
James Schroeder, PhD
-
November 9, 2014
13
477
The Indian Health Service’s Psychiatric Drug Habit & the ‘Heavy Influence of Biomedical Models’
David Walker, PhD
-
November 6, 2014
16
577
What Does an 800 lb Gorilla in the Room Say at an ADHD Conference? ...
Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
-
November 5, 2014
25
699
Reforming Prisons, Housing, Medication & Community-Based Support: Part I of a Common-Sense, Common Ground...
Justin Brown
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November 4, 2014
14
225
40,000 Suicides Annually and America Still Shrugs
Douglas Bloch
-
November 4, 2014
41
671
Reflections on MIA’s Film Festival and Our Collective Human Future
Laura Delano
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November 3, 2014
19
0
Genetic Research in Psychiatry: A Brief Update
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
November 3, 2014
16
361
The Mentally Ill Do Not Exist: Challenging Popular Media’s Obsession
Scott Spicer, MPH, CPSS
-
November 2, 2014
12
266
Is Listening the Key to Living?
Chaya Grossberg
-
November 1, 2014
16
185
The Case of the Missing Schizophrenia
Laysha Ostrow, PhD
-
November 1, 2014
16
235
More On the “Civil War” Between Mental Health Advocates
Justin Brown
-
October 31, 2014
33
404
Toward a Selective Use Model of Psychiatric Medication
Andrew L. Yoder, MSW
-
October 31, 2014
4
287
Please Stop Saying “Anti-psychiatry”
Corinna West
-
October 30, 2014
83
1066
Providing Loving Receptivity Can Help People in Extreme States
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
October 30, 2014
23
1592
Coming Out: Iatrogenic Illness Awareness Month
Ally Nugent
-
October 29, 2014
18
1932
Spiritual Bypass and the Chill Pill
Melissa Bond
-
October 28, 2014
10
309
More on Benzos and Cognitive Damage
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
October 28, 2014
45
19605
Wholesome Wave
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
October 27, 2014
4
1049
Between Psychiatry and Anti-Psychiatry: Mad in America Opens a Dialogue
Allen Frances, MD
&
Justin Brown
-
October 26, 2014
58
1263
Antipsychiatry Revisited: Toward Greater Clarity
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
October 26, 2014
125
2188
Our Powerful Mind, and Hope
Kjetil Mellingen
-
October 25, 2014
36
370
The Community Psychologist as Covert Operative in the Indian Health Service
David Walker, PhD
-
October 24, 2014
9
466
The Federal Report on Financial Relationships Between Pharma Industry and Prescribing Physicians
Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
-
October 23, 2014
5
663
The Scarlet Label: Close Encounters with ‘Borderline Personality Disorder’
Jacqueline Simon Gunn, PsyD
&
Brent Potter, PhD
-
October 22, 2014
110
6901
Allen Frances – Civil War or Propaganda Battle?
Corinna West
-
October 22, 2014
48
687
It’s the Coercion, Stupid!
David Cohen
-
October 21, 2014
71
6556
Robin Williams or Patch Adams? Watch a Brief Message from David Oaks to the...
David W. Oaks
-
October 20, 2014
6
321
Am I Having a Breakdown or Breakthrough? Further Reflections on a Depressive Relapse
Douglas Bloch
-
October 20, 2014
8
1181
Mental Illness as Metaphor
Andrew L. Yoder, MSW
-
October 20, 2014
5
2559
Are We Discovering More ADHD?
Craig B. Wiener, EdD
-
October 18, 2014
6
347
The Blinding of Gloria X. in New Jersey State Hospital – Just Another Mental...
Seth Farber, PhD
-
October 17, 2014
37
1481
May the ‘Force’ NEVER EVER Be With You! The Case for Abolition
Richard D. Lewis
-
October 17, 2014
171
1163
Benzodiazepine Use and Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
October 17, 2014
20
1234
The Making of “Guilty Except for Insanity: Maddening Journeys Through an Asylum”
Jan Haaken, PhD
-
October 16, 2014
26
1156
A Discussion of Labels, Part One: Disability
Melissa Bond
-
October 16, 2014
13
306
Turning Distress into Joy, Part V and Final: Meaning & Transcendence
James Schroeder, PhD
-
October 15, 2014
27
198
Rethinking Psychiatry
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
October 14, 2014
61
852
Back in the Dark House Again: The Recurrent Nature of Clinical Depression
Douglas Bloch
-
October 13, 2014
29
1133
A New Model of Service
Andrew L. Yoder, MSW
-
October 10, 2014
16
166
A Macabre Celebration: 80 Years of Convulsive ‘Therapy’
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
October 9, 2014
122
476
Why I Am Willing to Die on the Governor’s Doorstep
Aubrey Ellen Shomo
-
October 8, 2014
22
574
Healing From Intergenerational Trauma: Facing the Unfaceable
Lauren Spiro
-
October 8, 2014
15
565
You Call Me Crazy. I Call Myself a “9”
Brenda Vezina
-
October 7, 2014
8
530
Is it Better to Be a Life Coach or a Psychotherapist?
Daniel Mackler
-
October 6, 2014
35
7041
To See a Professional or Not
Monica Cassani
-
October 6, 2014
17
243
Stumble Biscuits and the Murk of Benzo Disability
Melissa Bond
-
October 5, 2014
23
1782
Nutrition Above the Neck: Why is This Topic Met With Hostility?
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
October 5, 2014
45
1229
Psychiatry Disrupted
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
October 4, 2014
44
660
PsychoQuad Goes to the Movies: The Power of Sex, Bettie Page and Art Overthrow...
David W. Oaks
-
October 4, 2014
96
412
Towards a Hermeneutic Shift in Psychiatry
Pat Bracken, MD
-
October 3, 2014
50
2621
Mentally Ill or Conflict Repressed? Is Conflict a Lost Art?
Chaya Grossberg
-
October 2, 2014
19
309
On Being Sane in an Insane Place—The Rosenhan Experiment in the Laboratory of Plautus’...
Michael Fontaine, PhD
-
October 2, 2014
40
1818
My Loss of Cultural Competence Among the Nacirema-Orue
David Walker, PhD
-
October 2, 2014
27
310
Outside the Bubble and Into the “New” Economy
Laysha Ostrow, PhD
-
October 1, 2014
9
151
NICE Guidelines for Bipolar Disorder- a Missed Opportunity
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
September 30, 2014
22
733
The Alternatives Conference Helps Our Movement Grow
Susan Rogers
-
September 30, 2014
21
318
The Persecution of Heretics
David Healy, MD
-
September 29, 2014
11
473
The Problems of Non-Consensual Reality
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
September 29, 2014
105
2413
Not Another Brick in The Wall
Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
-
September 29, 2014
16
307
It Gets Better: Neuropsych Doctor Confirms Psych Drug Iatrogenesis, PTSD, Brain Injury
Monica Cassani
-
September 28, 2014
21
767
Global Warming and the Mad Movement: Can You Help?
David W. Oaks
-
September 28, 2014
51
283
Pharma-funded Research
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
September 26, 2014
18
242
How to Spread the News, Part 2
Kjetil Mellingen
-
September 25, 2014
63
344
Detecting the True ‘Culture’ of Indian Health Service Mental Health Programs
David Walker, PhD
-
September 24, 2014
7
722
Turning Distress into Joy, Part IV: Gratitude
James Schroeder, PhD
-
September 23, 2014
14
560
Doctor Munchausen: Hear no, See no – What?
David Healy, MD
-
September 22, 2014
17
208
Our Movement Needs an Alternative to the “Alternatives” Conference
Ted Chabasinski, JD
-
September 20, 2014
194
444
Why “Stabilizing” People is Entirely the Wrong Idea
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
September 19, 2014
26
370
Psychosis and Dissociation, Part 2: On Diagnosis, and Beyond
Noel Hunter, PsyD
-
September 18, 2014
17
756
Second Generation Neuroleptics and Acute Kidney Injury in Older Adults
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
September 18, 2014
18
304
WHOMHP!
David Walker, PhD
-
September 17, 2014
29
380
How Can We Spread the News?
Kjetil Mellingen
-
September 16, 2014
110
324
Social Justice and the Benzodiazepine Death Camp
Melissa Bond
-
September 15, 2014
29
476
Pierce v. Pemiscot Hospital: Federal Judge Takes a Psychiatric Inmate’s Rights Seriously
Jim Gottstein, JD
-
September 11, 2014
43
652
Turning Distress into Joy, Part III: Helping Others
James Schroeder, PhD
-
September 10, 2014
10
279
Who Is Isaiah Rider???
Nancy Rubenstein del Giudice
-
September 10, 2014
28
935
From Burning Man to Bellevue Hospital
Sascha Altman DuBrul
-
September 9, 2014
1
361
The Law’s Flaw
Wayne Munchel
-
September 9, 2014
20
227
Dr. Pies Still Spinning
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
September 8, 2014
61
319
Patient Centred-Care Doesn’t Go Far Enough: We Need Patient-Perspective Care
Tim Carey, PhD
-
September 8, 2014
75
713
Creating Alternatives to the Medical Model
Tamasin Knight, MBChB, MPH
-
September 7, 2014
6
661
On Spiritual Emergence and Other Extraordinary Experiences
Naas Siddiqui, BA, CPS, MA
-
September 7, 2014
19
511
Believe it or not . . .
Tracey Cannon
-
September 5, 2014
49
342
Forced Treatment Ineffective: Advocacy Essential
Scott Spicer, MPH, CPSS
-
September 5, 2014
33
337
If Not Meds, Then WHAT?
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
September 4, 2014
189
993
Hope for Everyone
Kjetil Mellingen
-
September 3, 2014
35
760
Do We Need More Hospital Beds?
motto
-
September 2, 2014
51
550
How Reliable is the DSM-5?
Rachel Cooper, PhD
-
September 2, 2014
19
19436
Peer Support in Mental Health: Exploitive, Transformative, or Both?
Larry Davidson, PhD
-
September 1, 2014
74
3288
A Critique of Genetic Research on Schizophrenia – Expensive Castles in the Air
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
September 1, 2014
41
2674
Does Long-Term Use of “Antipsychotic” Drugs Result in More Disability, and More Psychosis?
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
August 31, 2014
102
11753
Stranger
Steven Morgan
-
August 29, 2014
13
425
Autism, Antidepressants, and Pregnancy: The Basics
Adam Urato, MD
-
August 27, 2014
9
1245
Positive Explanations for Psychological Problems
Kjetil Mellingen
-
August 27, 2014
47
617
The Lessons of Ancient Philosophy
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
August 26, 2014
42
743
On Religious and Psychiatric Atheism: The Success of Epicurus, the Failure of Thomas Szasz
Michael Fontaine, PhD
-
August 26, 2014
224
8398
Embodying Peace in Times of War
Lauren Spiro
-
August 26, 2014
11
275
Turning Distress into Joy, Part II: Channeling
James Schroeder, PhD
-
August 26, 2014
11
273
My Top 11 Ways to Reunite for a Mental Health Revolution!
David W. Oaks
-
August 25, 2014
61
636
It Gets Better: Living Well While Being Sick
Monica Cassani
-
August 25, 2014
2
297
Looking forward to the Good Ol’ Days
Tim Carey, PhD
-
August 23, 2014
33
241
How About a Diagnostic Alternative for Use in Talk Therapy?
Jonathan Raskin
-
August 23, 2014
0
515
More Bogus Conclusions From More Bogus Research
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
August 21, 2014
27
254
Shh… Just Whisper it, But There Might Just Be a Revolution Underway
Peter Kinderman
-
August 18, 2014
33
1056
Extend Your Child’s ADHD Summer Drug Holiday to Infinity and Beyond!
Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
-
August 16, 2014
30
970
MHASF Launches a Warm Line
Chaya Grossberg
-
August 15, 2014
6
668
Fear is Life Force … (in Clinical Circles it’s Often Called Anxiety) – An...
Monica Cassani
-
August 15, 2014
12
394
Life & Death: Robin Williams, Suicide “Prevention,” and the World as We Know...
Sera Davidow
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August 14, 2014
67
2268
Suicide Prevention for All: Making the World a Safer Place to Be Human
Leah Harris
-
August 13, 2014
30
404
Turning Distress Into Joy, Part I: Forgiveness
James Schroeder, PhD
-
August 13, 2014
31
298
Antidepressants and Overall Wellbeing
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
August 13, 2014
27
383
Diagnosing the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Martyn Pickersgill, PhD
-
August 12, 2014
0
207
Doctor Munchausen and Sense about Science
David Healy, MD
-
August 12, 2014
9
200
Rethinking Therapy: Making Our Worlds as We Would Like Them to Be
Tim Carey, PhD
-
August 12, 2014
7
330
It Gets Better: A Portrait of Poly Psychopharmacology
Monica Cassani
-
August 11, 2014
14
866
Managing Spiritual Emergency: In Spiritist Psychiatric Hospitals and Community Centers In Brazil
Emma Bragdon, PhD
-
August 11, 2014
25
1094
Trauma, Psychosis, and Dissociation
Noel Hunter, PsyD
-
August 6, 2014
57
24269
People Who Find Psychiatric Drugs Helpful
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
August 6, 2014
71
565
Taking an Entry Point: On Investigating the Psychiatric-Pharmaceutical Complex
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
August 4, 2014
45
575
Open Letter to Family Doctors and Mental Health Practitioners From an Average Kid Acting...
Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
-
August 4, 2014
6
241
Father Munchausen, I Presume!
David Healy, MD
-
August 4, 2014
12
196
Proposal From Italy: An International Collection of Recovery Stories
Giuseppe Tibaldi
-
August 4, 2014
33
199
The Cocktail Party
Alesandra Rain
-
August 1, 2014
71
758
‘To Gift the Mind To Chemistry’, and To Take It Back: Dylan Tighe To...
Laura Delano
-
August 1, 2014
7
834
Crash Course in Urban Shamanism
Will Hall
-
July 28, 2014
24
3395
Anti-Psychiatry
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
July 28, 2014
427
2333
Medicalizing Poverty
Wayne Munchel
-
July 28, 2014
20
1435
The Logic of the ADHD Diagnosis
Craig B. Wiener, EdD
-
July 28, 2014
15
594
Code Black: When Time Doesn’t Heal
Vanessa Krasinski, MSN, RN
-
July 27, 2014
3
224
Is Psychiatry the Tea Party of Medical Science?
Bertel Rüdinger
-
July 27, 2014
71
305
Simon Says: Happiness Won’t Cure Mental Illness
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
July 27, 2014
15
392
Prescription Privileges for Psychologists: Is Our Consent Fully Informed?
James Schroeder, PhD
-
July 23, 2014
13
2803
On Waking Up From the “American Dream”
Laura Delano
-
July 23, 2014
55
796
Healing from an Addiction to Patterned Ways of Thinking
Lauren Spiro
-
July 22, 2014
14
268
An Anti-Violence Mental Health Plan
Mark Ragins, MD
-
July 22, 2014
95
691
Playing the Odds, Revisited
Stuart Shipko
-
July 21, 2014
42
5558
The Use of Neuroleptic Drugs As Chemical Restraints
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
July 21, 2014
82
3691
Illegal-Psychiatric Drug Hypocrisy, & Why Michael Pollan is Smarter than Me
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
July 20, 2014
89
858
How Can Professionals Learn to Reduce Fears of Psychotic Experiences Rather Than Emphasize Pathology?
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
July 19, 2014
35
628
Los Angeles Increases Outpatient Involuntary Treatment in Spite of UN Declaring Force “Torture”
Monica Cassani
-
July 19, 2014
19
643
Consent and Psychiatry: Problematizing the Problematic
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
July 19, 2014
62
1214
Suicide: A Permanent Solution to a Temporary Problem
Douglas Bloch
-
July 18, 2014
20
1851
Changing the Role of Case Management
Peter Zook
-
July 18, 2014
24
259
The Use of Neuroleptic Drugs As Chemical Restraints in Nursing Homes
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
July 17, 2014
24
688
What Is Biological Psychiatry? Pt. 3: Thoughts on Hastening Its Demise
Richard D. Lewis
-
July 16, 2014
49
255
Doctor Munchausen, I Presume!
David Healy, MD
-
July 14, 2014
107
538
Some Thoughts on Insanity Defense
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
July 12, 2014
27
2179
On Fighting Institutional Psychiatry With the “Attrition Model”
Bonnie Burstow, PhD
-
July 12, 2014
132
3764
SELF: Sharing Experience Lived Firsthand
Vanessa Krasinski, MSN, RN
-
July 12, 2014
14
262
Connecticut State in Mental Health Denial
Sheila Matthews
-
July 11, 2014
62
236
ADHD: A Return to Psychology
Craig B. Wiener, EdD
-
July 10, 2014
19
475
Avoid the Hexperts
Deron Drumm
-
July 9, 2014
17
435
Thoughts on Psychiatric Incarceration When Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity
motto
-
July 9, 2014
34
949
Please Don’t Empower Me Anymore
David Healy, MD
-
July 7, 2014
24
532
Suicidal Behavior After FDA Warnings
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
July 7, 2014
14
1223
The Meeting Was Sponsored by Merchants of Death
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
-
July 7, 2014
10
890
Response to “The End of Rethinking Psychiatry?”
Jason Renaud
-
July 7, 2014
93
1661
Jon Stewart’s Gaywatch
Peter Gajdics
-
July 7, 2014
16
296
Independence From the Therapeutic State
Eugene Epstein
-
July 4, 2014
21
939
Why I Became a Critical Psychiatrist
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
July 4, 2014
13
612
Who Decides Which People are Mentally Ill . . . Who Gets That Control?
Sheila Matthews
-
July 3, 2014
34
355
What Is Biological Psychiatry? Part 2: Anatomy of Power and Control
Richard D. Lewis
-
July 3, 2014
25
459
It Gets Better!
Bertel Rüdinger
-
July 3, 2014
24
354
News on Creative Maladjustment
Al Galves, PhD
-
July 2, 2014
1
192
The Media Missed the Story: Civil Rights and the Helping Families in Mental Health...
Christian Exoo
-
July 2, 2014
71
1107
Continuing the Antidepressant Debate: the Clinical Relevance of Drug-Placebo Differences
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
July 2, 2014
13
506
Talking About Psychosis, Part 1: Why Do It?
Mark Ragins, MD
-
July 2, 2014
40
712
Psychocracy and Community
Rev. Dr. Steven Epperson
-
July 1, 2014
30
1944
Living in an Age of Melancholy: When Society Becomes Depressed
Douglas Bloch
-
June 30, 2014
38
7856
Lingering Doubts About Psychiatry’s Scientific Status
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
June 26, 2014
111
1257
The End of Rethinking Psychiatry?
motto
-
June 26, 2014
113
896
The Paradox of Praise
James Schroeder, PhD
-
June 25, 2014
12
815
Believe and Know . . . (as it pertains to psych drug withdrawal syndrome...
Monica Cassani
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June 25, 2014
18
520
MIA’s New Store & More
Robert Whitaker
-
June 25, 2014
7
266
The Sandy Hook Advisory Commission and the Evidence of a “Convicted Offender”
Sheila Matthews
-
June 24, 2014
2
232
Goodbye to Ken Braiterman
Corinna West
-
June 24, 2014
4
501
Sense about Science: Follow the Patient
David Healy, MD
-
June 24, 2014
19
172
New APA President: Same Old Cheerleading
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
June 24, 2014
18
343
Upon Further Review: Did the Black Box Warning on SSRIs Lead to Increased Suicide...
MIA Editors
-
June 23, 2014
29
1250
“Psychiatric Prejudice” – A New Way of Silencing Criticism
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
June 23, 2014
46
1396
What is a Warm Line and What Should I Expect When I Call One?
Chaya Grossberg
-
June 22, 2014
7
52726
How Much Does it Matter for Patients to Believe They Will Get Well?
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
June 18, 2014
37
512
Heteronormative Violence of Mainstream Psychiatry: A Cautionary Tale
Peter Gajdics
-
June 18, 2014
39
939
An Open Letter to Persons Self-Identifying as Mentally Ill
Andrew L. Yoder, MSW
-
June 18, 2014
39
1563
Psychiatry’s Response: Attack and PR
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
June 18, 2014
272
942
A Look at Madness Through the Lens of Culture
Phil Borges
-
June 17, 2014
8
1918
What Is Biological Psychiatry and Why Is It So Important To Know?
Richard D. Lewis
-
June 16, 2014
122
2165
From Self Care to Collective Caring
Leah Harris
-
June 16, 2014
6
4202
Blame the Clients?
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
June 16, 2014
143
1038
The Story of “Teenagers Against Psychiatric Drugs”
Jaquelin Kalach
-
June 15, 2014
17
373
Why I Work in the System
Malaika Puffer
-
June 15, 2014
22
667
Why Do We Say That Mental Health Detention is Discrimination?
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
June 13, 2014
69
1413
The Proliferation and Elimination of Mental Illness: Clinging to the Slopes of Everest
James Schroeder, PhD
-
June 11, 2014
139
1009
More Delays on Sandy Hook Reports
Sheila Matthews
-
June 11, 2014
19
165
Should Our Tax Dollars Be Spent on Promoting Drugs?
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
June 10, 2014
17
240
Pro-Force Attitudes a Symptom of Post Traumatic Stress?
Sera Davidow
-
June 9, 2014
65
826
Reflections on a Pathologized Adolescence and a Vision for the Future
Laura Delano
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June 8, 2014
52
1412
A Daughter’s Call for Safety and Sanity in Mental Health
Leah Harris
-
June 6, 2014
22
398
News Flash: 4.5 Million Children Forced Daily by “Caretakers” to Do Cocaine-like Drugs
Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
-
June 6, 2014
58
720
Psychiatry DID Promote the Chemical Imbalance Theory
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
June 6, 2014
86
7261
Who’s Delusional? And How Do We Support Them?
Paris Williams, PhD
-
June 5, 2014
30
1235
Did Psychiatric Drugs Play a Role in the Prom Day Killer’s Violent Behavior?
Sheila Matthews
-
June 5, 2014
21
224
Tickets, Updates, and More on MIA’s International Film Festival
Laura Delano
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June 5, 2014
4
426
The Politics of Healing
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
June 4, 2014
15
807
Ode to Biological Psychiatry
Daniel Mackler
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June 3, 2014
182
1690
The Relationship Between Systems Change and Being Present with Others
Lauren Spiro
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June 3, 2014
3
201
Do We Underestimate the Benefits of Antidepressants?
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
May 30, 2014
34
1013
Hearing Voices, Emancipation, Shamanism and CBT: Thoughts After Douglas Turkington’s Training
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
May 29, 2014
11
1239
What Should be The #1 Priority of Our Schools?
Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
-
May 28, 2014
26
3284
Final Lecture
Larry M. Leitner, PhD
-
May 27, 2014
39
465
Creating More Equal Societies Decreases Mental Illness: What Should We Do?
Duncan Wright, MD
-
May 25, 2014
33
644
Psychiatric Survivors Are Everywhere
Chaya Grossberg
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May 24, 2014
33
1012
Time for a Policy Against Psychiatric Bullying
Maria Bradshaw
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May 24, 2014
18
4737
Deconstructing Psychiatric Diagnoses: An Attempt At Humor
Daniel Mackler
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May 24, 2014
42
698
Psych Drugs Kill vs Psych Drugs Save Lives. What if Both Are True?
Monica Cassani
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May 24, 2014
46
1160
From Psychiatric Coercion to Libertarianism: A Personal Journey
Tristano Ajmone
-
May 23, 2014
7
595
Connecticut Fails to Meet Deadline on Sandy Hook Mental Health Bill
Sheila Matthews
-
May 22, 2014
13
188
Drugging Toddlers for Inattention, Impulsivity, and Hyperactivity
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
May 22, 2014
38
409
University of Minnesota Psychiatry: A Pattern of Research Abuse
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
-
May 21, 2014
9
563
From Protesting to Taking Over: Using Education to Change Mental Health Care
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
May 19, 2014
13
491
Are You Ready for Multiple Lawsuits By Victims of Psychiatric Misconduct?
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
-
May 18, 2014
9
347
What’s Wrong With You? Nothing.What Has Happened to You? Something.
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
May 17, 2014
99
7144
Adam Lanza’s Psychiatrist’s Ethics Violations Raise Questions About the Legislature’s Controversial Mental Health Increases
Sheila Matthews
-
May 15, 2014
26
593
Childhood Social Functioning Predicts Adult Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder. Or Does It?
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
May 15, 2014
37
560
Calling for Rep. McCann’s resignation while there is still time to run a different...
Aubrey Ellen Shomo
-
May 14, 2014
0
140
Psychiatry’s Manufactured Consent: Chemical Imbalance Theory and the Antidepressant Explosion
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
May 14, 2014
18
4663
Behind Locked Doors: How I Got My Hospital Records, and What I Did With...
motto
-
May 13, 2014
95
5404
Rethinking Diagnosis
Eric Maisel, PhD
-
May 10, 2014
51
464
There is Big Medicine in Everyone
Monica Cassani
-
May 10, 2014
7
281
Electroshock Causes More Harm Than Good
Mary Maddock
-
May 9, 2014
28
1069
Social Services and Psychiatry
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
May 9, 2014
25
169
Complexity
motto
-
May 8, 2014
17
168
Dear DSM-5: I Still Have Some Questions
James Schroeder, PhD
-
May 8, 2014
9
4860
PROTEST PSYCHIATRY – My Newest Film, Free!
Daniel Mackler
-
May 7, 2014
30
528
Consumers Beware!
Vera Sharav
-
May 7, 2014
6
527
Hearing Voices Workshop Comes to Vermont
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
May 7, 2014
14
375
Dr. Lieberman’s Swansong
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
May 6, 2014
29
411
Psychiatry: We Need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Mental Health
Leah Harris
-
May 5, 2014
17
1316
Screening Pregnant Women for Depression
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
-
May 5, 2014
14
888
Legislators: Don’t try to sneak this through as an amendment. (HB1386)
Aubrey Ellen Shomo
-
May 4, 2014
0
128
David W. Oaks’ Statement of Support for Protest of 2014 American Psychiatric Association Meeting
MindFreedom
-
May 4, 2014
1
202
Breaking The Silence – Supporting Young People who Hear Voices in the US
Rai Waddingham
-
May 3, 2014
5
709
The Final Visit to the Psychiatrist (Part 2 of Goodbye Psychiatry)
Monica Cassani
-
May 2, 2014
6
515
I Am Alive
Laura Delano
-
May 1, 2014
26
856
Why I am Going to the APA Protest in NYC on May 4, 2014
motto
-
May 1, 2014
4
335
The APA Is a Fraudulent Enterprise
Jim Gottstein, JD
-
May 1, 2014
12
4497
Goodbye Psychiatry
Monica Cassani
-
May 1, 2014
10
399
I’m Going, Are You? How to Get Involved in the Annual Protest of...
Lauren Tenney, PhD, MPhil, MPA, Psychiatric Survivor
-
April 30, 2014
6
256
Neuroplasticity: My Newest Friend
Lauren Spiro
-
April 30, 2014
2
422
Cold Turkey
motto
-
April 30, 2014
14
1406
My Thoughts on an Alternative to HB1386 in Colorado (Open Letter)
Aubrey Ellen Shomo
-
April 29, 2014
1
182
Sluggish Cognitive Tempo – A New Diagnosis?
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
April 29, 2014
22
797
Partner Bill of Rights: Speaking to the Cycle of Abuse
James Schroeder, PhD
-
April 28, 2014
9
213
The Hot Stove Project: Learning From People who Think Differently
Lois Oppenheim, PhD
&
Alice Maher, MD
-
April 27, 2014
20
664
Sweeping Benzos Under the Carpet
Barry Haslam
-
April 26, 2014
7
823
More Support and Understanding Needed for People Wanting to Try a No-Meds Approach
Jean Davison
-
April 26, 2014
48
301
We Need to Go Back to Our Roots in the Civil Rights Movement
Ted Chabasinski, JD
-
April 26, 2014
89
379
My Healing Protocol Detailed
Monica Cassani
-
April 25, 2014
7
2557
How Doing Nothing Cured My Friend of Psychosis
Chaya Grossberg
-
April 24, 2014
3
1221
To Senator Harkin: My CRPD Story
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
April 24, 2014
23
446
An Open Letter to the Colorado House Health, Insurance and Environment Committee RE: HB1386
Lauren Tenney, PhD, MPhil, MPA, Psychiatric Survivor
-
April 23, 2014
9
277
“Open Access” for the Activist Community
Nev Jones, PhD
-
April 23, 2014
6
224
Creating Sustainability, Disarming Trauma and Loving One Another
Iden Campbell, CPRP
-
April 23, 2014
3
182
‘Angels and Demons’: the Politics of Psychoactive Drugs
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
April 22, 2014
30
4125
Antidepressants, Pregnancy, and Autism: Really Time to Worry
Adam Urato, MD
-
April 22, 2014
15
420
‘ADHD’ and Dangerous Driving
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
April 22, 2014
24
574
The Manufacture and ‘Maintenance’ of Oppression: A Very Profitable Business
Richard D. Lewis
-
April 22, 2014
13
1197
Defeating Goliath: Mental Health is a Social Justice Issue, and People with Lived Experience...
Leah Harris
-
April 21, 2014
102
2456
Lullaby
David Healy, MD
-
April 21, 2014
16
267
The End of Psychiatry
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
April 20, 2014
49
1555
Invisible Pain
motto
-
April 18, 2014
68
1356
Too Corrupt, Insane & Ridiculous to Be Reformed? Even Establishment Psychiatrists Distance Themselves From...
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
April 17, 2014
48
1609
The Power of Words: What the Wall Street Journal Didn’t Tell You
Scott Bryant-Comstock
-
April 17, 2014
11
252
Replacing Psychiatrists and Psychotherapists
Eric Maisel, PhD
-
April 17, 2014
41
388
I Actually Woke up This Morning Thinking I’d Arrived, I’m Well . . .
Monica Cassani
-
April 16, 2014
12
958
What it Means to be a Human, With all the Beauty and Complexity That...
Carina Håkansson, PhD
-
April 15, 2014
14
325
Justina Pelletier: The Debate Continues
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
April 15, 2014
29
380
Open Letter Re: This Morning‘s Feature on Depression
Julie Leonovs
-
April 15, 2014
55
869
America’s Sweetheart
Nancy Rubenstein del Giudice
-
April 14, 2014
19
1228
9 Ways to Stop the Next Village Shalom Shooting
Corinna West
-
April 14, 2014
3
240
Psychiatric Teams Have a Responsibility to Think About the Psychosis/Sexual Abuse Link
Jay Watts, DClinPsy
-
April 14, 2014
14
1365
Enslaved to Abilify
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
April 14, 2014
61
26892
The Great Turning
Iden Campbell, CPRP
-
April 13, 2014
27
331
Historic Moment for the Right to Legal Capacity
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
April 12, 2014
43
392
Regulatory Capture
Maria Bradshaw
-
April 11, 2014
11
1140
A National Scandal: Psychological Therapies for Psychosis are Helpful, But Unavailable
Peter Kinderman
&
Anne Cooke
-
April 11, 2014
43
838
Markingson Case Supporters: Please Join Our Call-In Campaign
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
-
April 11, 2014
3
198
Rep. McCann: Taking Away the Jury Trial is Undemocratic. (Open Letter)
Aubrey Ellen Shomo
-
April 11, 2014
14
142
My Story of Benzo Withdrawal and Activism
Barry Haslam
-
April 10, 2014
22
6531
Who Cares About Kelsey?
Sera Davidow
-
April 8, 2014
25
1714
Antidepressants Make Things Worse in the Long Term
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
April 8, 2014
24
7926
It’s About the Trauma: How to Truly Address the Roots of Violence and Suffering...
Leah Harris
-
April 7, 2014
81
1528
Important Considerations for Implementing Assisted Outpatient Treatment: A Collaborative Advocacy Agenda
Mark Ragins, MD
-
April 6, 2014
44
415
Advice to the Newbies: Give Your Heart, & Hold Your Theories Lightly
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
April 6, 2014
4
281
The Can Collector’s Club: Clarifying Where Mental Health Begins
James Schroeder, PhD
-
April 6, 2014
9
181
Justina Pelletier: The Case Continues
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
April 4, 2014
52
6830
First They Ignore You: Impressions From Today’s Hearing on H.R. 3717
Leah Harris
-
April 3, 2014
57
391
It’s Time For A Stronger Political Ground Game To Compete With NAMI & Company...
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
April 3, 2014
125
715
Legislator’s Rush to Implement Increased Mental Health Services Based on No Data from Shooting...
Sheila Matthews
-
April 3, 2014
45
303
Murphy Bill: Violates Civil Rights, Increases Government Intrusion and Control, and Ignores Scientific Research
Gina Nikkel, PhD
-
April 3, 2014
18
501
Mental Illness & Violence
Mary Jackson
-
April 3, 2014
20
198
Why Don’t They Know? A Letter to My Doctor
Lisa D.
-
April 2, 2014
52
11499
Recent Success for the Bay Area’s Campaign Against Expanding Forced Treatment
Will Hall
-
April 1, 2014
6
247
Open Letter to Senator Creigh Deeds
Leah Harris
-
March 31, 2014
19
483
So They Say Your Child has ADHD? April Fools!
Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
-
March 31, 2014
3
957
The Fat Lady Has Sung
Robert Whitaker
-
March 30, 2014
58
1784
We Are the People
Oryx Cohen, M.P.A.
-
March 30, 2014
68
350
Are Neuroleptics “Anti-Psychotic”? Harrow’s 20-Year Outcomes
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
March 29, 2014
40
1247
Staying in the New Paradigm: More Thoughts on the Human Rights Committee Recommendation
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
March 29, 2014
2
296
UN: US Should “Generally Prohibit” Non-consensual Psychiatric Treatment
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
March 29, 2014
1
906
Antidepressants and Preterm Birth: More Concerning Findings
Adam Urato, MD
-
March 28, 2014
3
562
Overtreatment, Bereavement, and Antidepressants
Jonathan Leo, PhD / Jeffrey Lacasse, PhD
-
March 27, 2014
5
553
Benzodiazepines: Disempowering and Dangerous
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
March 27, 2014
4
468
Katharine Hepburn is Glamorous – Suicide is Not
Maria Bradshaw
-
March 26, 2014
22
968
Made It! – Successfully Navigating Both Mainstream and Alternative Treatment for Mental Illness
Idakatherine Graver
-
March 24, 2014
4
422
De-escalating Folks When Psychotic and Potentially Violent
Monica Cassani
-
March 23, 2014
18
2291
Launch of the Council for Evidence-Based Psychiatry
James Davies, PhD
-
March 22, 2014
24
1787
Are Vitamins Killing us Softly?
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
March 19, 2014
1
1053
Robert Whitaker: Looking Back and Looking Ahead
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
March 18, 2014
8
150
Why You Can’t Get Informed Consent From a Doctor
Chaya Grossberg
-
March 18, 2014
15
356
Overcoming the Stigma of Depression
Douglas Bloch
-
March 17, 2014
18
9844
What Will Cause Psychiatry to Change?
Andrew L. Yoder, MSW
-
March 17, 2014
18
249
Six Ways You Can Really Help Prevent Suicide
Leah Harris
-
March 17, 2014
27
2286
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Drugs and the Therapeutic State
Jack Carney, DSW
-
March 17, 2014
6
646
Involuntary Mental Health Commitments
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
March 16, 2014
33
4382
Hospitalization: A Crisis in Crisis Care
motto
-
March 15, 2014
12
230
U.N. Questions U.S. on Forced Psychiatric Drugging
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
March 15, 2014
27
601
DSM-5 And Somatic Symptom Disorder
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
March 15, 2014
15
411
Herbs, Supplements, Foods That Can Aid in Withdrawal Symptoms
Chaya Grossberg
-
March 14, 2014
18
40307
The Overmedication of Vulnerable Youth with Psychiatric Medication: Boon for the Pharma Industry
Vicki Martin, MD
-
March 13, 2014
6
1934
Dear NAMI: My Apologies. I’ve Been Unfair.
Sera Davidow
-
March 12, 2014
54
6209
Benzodiazepines: Dangerous Drugs
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
March 12, 2014
29
5185
Neutralising Suffering: How the Medicalisation of Distress Obliterates Meaning and Creates Profit
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
March 11, 2014
18
824
Over Our Dead Bodies
Maria Bradshaw
-
March 11, 2014
8
395
Are We Losing Our Parenting Will?
James Schroeder, PhD
-
March 11, 2014
8
303
Do We Need to See Inside the Box?
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
March 9, 2014
42
432
Will Psychiatry’s Harmful Treatment of Our Children Bring About Its Eventual Demise?
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
March 8, 2014
54
1101
I Love … Stigma? Reaching Out to College Students & Beyond
Sera Davidow
-
March 8, 2014
92
534
A Discussion of Justina Pelletier and Boston Children’s Hospital
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
March 6, 2014
34
1886
Building Bridges Between Mental Health and Addictions Communities
Oryx Cohen, M.P.A.
-
March 6, 2014
9
597
Psychiatry Admits It’s Been Wrong in Big Ways, But Can It Change? A Chat...
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
March 5, 2014
109
3119
Finding and Funding Our Way, Outside the System
Chaya Grossberg
-
March 4, 2014
36
223
Launching MIA Reports
Robert Whitaker
-
March 4, 2014
12
556
A Blood Test for Schizophrenia with 83% Accuracy?
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
March 4, 2014
26
3734
Uses and Abuses of “Recovery” – A Review
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
March 2, 2014
41
577
Six First Steps for Building Communities of Emotional Wellness
motto
-
March 1, 2014
23
546
[Un]Settling In for the Long Haul: The Interplay of Complacency, Stagnation, and Psychotropic...
James Schroeder, PhD
-
February 28, 2014
20
237
The Hallucination in the Room
Rossa Forbes
-
February 25, 2014
51
438
DSM‘s Somatoform Disorders: Millions More Might Be Diagnosed
Monica Cassani
-
February 25, 2014
22
696
ADHD, Bigfoot, and the Missing Links in Research
Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
-
February 24, 2014
6
1492
Neuroleptics and Tardive Dyskinesia in Children
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
February 24, 2014
29
1420
Depression and Suicide in the Elderly
Douglas Bloch
-
February 24, 2014
5
719
Me & The Meds: The Story of a Dysfunctional Relationship
Rai Waddingham
-
February 23, 2014
27
623
SSRI ‘Indication Creep’ Relies on Negligent Doctors
Maria Bradshaw
-
February 21, 2014
11
985
The Origins of Mental Health Services
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
February 20, 2014
8
389
Unwarranted Criticism of “Psychiatry Gone Astray”
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
-
February 20, 2014
17
4309
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
February 20, 2014
37
18038
Current Research on Outpatient Commitment Laws (“Laura’s Law” in California)
Jasenn Zaejian, PhD
-
February 18, 2014
27
1046
A New Silver Bullet? The Lurasidone Story
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
February 17, 2014
72
9181
The Great “Crazy” Cover-up: Harm Results from Rewriting the History of DSM
Paula J. Caplan, PhD
-
February 17, 2014
26
1425
Risperdal for a 2-year-old? Turning the Tide, One Interaction at a Time
James Schroeder, PhD
-
February 17, 2014
30
1143
Should PsychRights Ask the U.S. Supreme Court to Hear an Appeal of the Alaska...
Jim Gottstein, JD
-
February 15, 2014
42
867
Reading Foucault and Human Rights
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
February 15, 2014
18
1484
Making the Invisible, Visible
Maria Bradshaw
-
February 12, 2014
23
798
Traditional Healing and Psychosis vs. the Promises of Modern Science
motto
-
February 12, 2014
29
4937
Genetic Protection Against Schizophrenia?
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
February 12, 2014
13
430
Something Rotten in the State of British Psychiatry?
Philip Thomas, MD
-
February 11, 2014
57
772
Have You Ever Taken an Experimental Antipsychotic Called Bifeprunox?
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
-
February 11, 2014
1
829
Electroshocking Children: Why It Should Be Stopped
John Breeding, PhD
-
February 11, 2014
20
19572
12 Vital Questions of Mental Health
Eric Maisel, PhD
-
February 10, 2014
10
307
How Competing in the Olympics is Like Mental Health Recovery
Corinna West
-
February 10, 2014
3
324
Blogging Your Survival Story: 11 Tips
Chaya Grossberg
-
February 9, 2014
20
288
Paradigm Shift
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
February 9, 2014
122
557
If You Are the Big, Big Tree; We Are the Small Axe
Stephen Weatherhead, DClinPsy
-
February 9, 2014
6
1252
Conversations About Death . . . in Pursuit of Life
James Schroeder, PhD
-
February 5, 2014
13
222
The ADHD Diagnosis is a War of Semantics, Waged on Children
Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
-
February 4, 2014
43
1741
Are Micronutrients a Waste of Time? – A Randomized Controlled Trial
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
February 3, 2014
52
12382
“Decolonizing Global Mental Health: The Psychiatrization of the Majority World” (Book Review)
Philip Thomas, MD
-
February 3, 2014
24
2498
Mark Your Calendars— Announcing Mad in America’s First International Film Festival!
Laura Delano
-
January 31, 2014
23
685
The Problem of Blame
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
January 30, 2014
42
214
Challenging the Status Quo
Maria Bradshaw
-
January 29, 2014
6
587
We Shall Overcome: Remembering Pete Seeger
Jack Carney, DSW
-
January 29, 2014
3
372
Psychiatry Gone Astray
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
-
January 28, 2014
90
6178
Guilty
David Healy, MD
-
January 28, 2014
11
269
Conflict of Interest, DSM-5, and the APA
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
January 25, 2014
50
1314
All Real Living is Meeting
Carina Håkansson, PhD
-
January 24, 2014
40
344
Welcome to Planet ADHD: A Farce to be Reckoned With
Michael W. Corrigan, EdD
-
January 23, 2014
25
969
No More Tears? The Shame of Johnson & Johnson
Maria Bradshaw
-
January 22, 2014
12
9519
Justina Pelletier Supporters Say: Close Harvard’s Abusive Psych Ward at Boston Children’s Hospital
Ted Chabasinski, JD
-
January 21, 2014
22
1526
Dare to Dream: Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Keris Jän Myrick
-
January 20, 2014
3
406
Ear Acupuncture to Support Mental Health
motto
-
January 20, 2014
110
1542
My Journey – A Child Psychiatrist’s Struggle to Change the System
Vicki Martin, MD
-
January 19, 2014
29
280
Reclaiming Humanity
Greg Benson
-
January 17, 2014
114
294
Antidepressants, Pregnancy, and Autism: Time to Worry?
Adam Urato, MD
-
January 16, 2014
9
3128
Update: ABC World News Wants to Know About Benzos
Melissa Bond
-
January 15, 2014
19
924
Evidence That More Psychiatry Means More Suicide
Maria Bradshaw
-
January 12, 2014
144
7183
When I Grow Up, I Want to be a Psychiatrist: Redefining the Profession for...
James Schroeder, PhD
-
January 11, 2014
41
4085
Based on a True Story Filled with Lies
Olga Runciman, Cand Psych BSc
-
January 11, 2014
32
454
Tell the Feds What “Quality Care” Looks Like
Corinna West
-
January 10, 2014
1
200
Learning Family Recovery Skills: Krista Mackinnon on Madness Radio
Will Hall
-
January 10, 2014
17
456
Psychiatry Is Not Based On Valid Science
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
January 9, 2014
34
4232
North Carolina Police Shoot and Kill “Mentally Ill” Kid
Faith Rhyne
-
January 8, 2014
64
505
Prescribing Rights for Psychologists
Maria Bradshaw
-
January 7, 2014
13
1590
Non-Compliance in the New Year: The Power of ‘No’
Sera Davidow
-
January 6, 2014
38
391
In Search of a Hundred Miles of Gratitude
James Schroeder, PhD
-
January 6, 2014
3
226
If You Don’t Have Anything to Hide, You Don’t Have Anything to Worry About
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
January 3, 2014
71
829
The Meaning of Legal Capacity is Equality
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
January 2, 2014
9
810
The Promise of Open Dialogue
Mary Olson, PhD
-
January 1, 2014
69
7680
Dream
Chaya Grossberg
-
January 1, 2014
14
147
On Creating Universes, Killing Cats and Other Odd Things
Maria Bradshaw
-
January 1, 2014
42
306
NIMH Mad Libs
MIA Editors
-
December 29, 2013
6
1027
What’s Really Behind GSK’s New Business Model?
Maria Bradshaw
-
December 28, 2013
18
633
My Recovery from ‘Schizophrenia’ through Psychotherapy and Writing
Lia Govers
-
December 28, 2013
7
1319
Making Sense of Being Crazy in a Crazy World: A Community Poll
Sascha Altman DuBrul
-
December 27, 2013
0
395
Justina Pelletier Case Shows Public That Psychiatric Power is Out of Control
Ted Chabasinski, JD
-
December 27, 2013
154
1707
Resolving to Make This Year Mean More
James Schroeder, PhD
-
December 27, 2013
12
118
Returning Stuff
Chaya Grossberg
-
December 25, 2013
7
557
The Story of Legal Capacity: Specificity and Intersections
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
December 25, 2013
2
496
In Time for RXmas: Motivational Pharmacotherapy
Maria Bradshaw
-
December 23, 2013
21
415
Tim Murphy Mental Health Bill: More Expensive and Less Effective
Corinna West
-
December 20, 2013
15
379
Is There a Simple Way to Use Nutrition Knowledge to Decrease Onset of Psychosis?
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
December 20, 2013
8
898
Psychiatry Has its Head in the Sand: Royal College of Psychiatrists Rejects Discussion of...
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
-
December 20, 2013
40
637
Homelessness, Hospitalization and “Compliance”
motto
-
December 18, 2013
86
812
CAFÉ Study: Real Science or Marketing Exercise?
Philip Hickey, PhD
-
December 18, 2013
4
948
Epic Fail: The Legislation of Involuntary Mental Health Treatment
Faith Rhyne
-
December 18, 2013
53
520
Power to Communities, Healing Through Social Justice: INTAR 2014 in Liverpool, England
Philip Thomas, MD
&
Peter Stastny, MD
-
December 17, 2013
0
315
Do I Enjoy Prescribing Meds?
Mark Ragins, MD
-
December 16, 2013
185
527
Investigate the Markingson Suicide? Not So Fast, Says University President
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
-
December 16, 2013
3
396
10 Ways Mental Health Professionals Increase Misery in Suffering People
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
December 15, 2013
24
5716
Off-Label in New Zealand
Erik Monasterio, MD
-
December 15, 2013
7
410
How Canada’s Prisons Killed Ashley Smith: A National Crime and Shame
Don Weitz
-
December 14, 2013
16
8282
Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered
Maria Bradshaw
-
December 13, 2013
14
392
What is a Simple Way to Prevent the Onset of Physical Disease?
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
December 12, 2013
9
459
The Esalen Connection: Fifty Years of Re-Visioning Madness and Trying to Transform the World
Michael Cornwall, PhD
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December 12, 2013
27
1214
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December 11, 2013
79
875
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December 10, 2013
15
3549
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December 10, 2013
4
227
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Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD
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December 9, 2013
0
139
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Deron Drumm
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December 7, 2013
20
486
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Maria Bradshaw
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December 5, 2013
20
300
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Philip Hickey, PhD
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December 4, 2013
28
907
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David Healy, MD
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December 4, 2013
2
164
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December 3, 2013
3
438
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December 2, 2013
1
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December 1, 2013
19
360
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December 1, 2013
2
223
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motto
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November 30, 2013
140
1676
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Greg Benson
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November 29, 2013
15
196
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Nadia Mahjoub
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November 29, 2013
5
774
Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Human Metamorphosis
Laura Delano
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November 28, 2013
21
1361
KMSP-TV Investigative Report on Psychiatric Research Abuse at the University of Minnesota
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
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November 27, 2013
6
258
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Ron Unger, LCSW
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November 26, 2013
5
290
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David Healy, MD
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November 25, 2013
8
210
American Psychosis
Sandra Steingard, MD
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November 25, 2013
17
305
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November 24, 2013
18
1058
The Taper
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November 22, 2013
3
866
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Lauren Spiro
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Daniel Fisher, MD, PhD
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November 22, 2013
13
1135
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Cathy Levin
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November 22, 2013
11
2625
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Philip Hickey, PhD
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November 21, 2013
112
8372
Statement to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on CRPD
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
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November 19, 2013
52
625
Tapering Neuroleptics: Two Year Results
Sandra Steingard, MD
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November 18, 2013
23
550
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Andrew L. Yoder, MSW
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November 18, 2013
47
177
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Lauren Spiro
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November 18, 2013
2
332
Threats, Coercion and Chemical Restraints for Distressed Children
Maria Bradshaw
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November 17, 2013
42
781
The House of GSK
David Healy, MD
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November 17, 2013
2
221
U.S. Renegade History, Psychiatric Survivors, & the Price of Acceptance
Bruce Levine, PhD
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November 14, 2013
15
338
How to Escape Psychiatry as a Teen: Interview with a Survivor
Chaya Grossberg
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November 14, 2013
42
865
Just Who is the Naked One Here?
Olga Runciman, Cand Psych BSc
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November 10, 2013
34
621
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Michael Guy Thompson
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November 9, 2013
51
6894
Mis- (and Dis-) Information about UN Disability Convention
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
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November 8, 2013
11
655
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Maria Bradshaw
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November 8, 2013
2
205
What Are You Doing WHO?
Maria Bradshaw
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November 8, 2013
2
176
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Deron Drumm
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November 7, 2013
16
571
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November 5, 2013
2
478
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Andrew L. Yoder, MSW
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November 5, 2013
9
187
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David Healy, MD
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November 4, 2013
11
627
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Sera Davidow
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November 3, 2013
30
1276
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November 3, 2013
29
337
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Anoiksis
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November 2, 2013
65
596
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November 1, 2013
18
250
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Jonathan Leo, PhD / Jeffrey Lacasse, PhD
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October 30, 2013
5
471
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Sarah Knutson
-
October 29, 2013
5
589
Photo ID Cards for “Mental Patients” Now a Reality
Michael Cornwall, PhD
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October 29, 2013
115
2763
DSM-5’s “Speculative” 2002 Diagnostic System Based On Expected Gene Findings
Jay Joseph, PsyD
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October 27, 2013
6
641
Elimination of Bias, Not Disclosure of Bias, Must be the Standard
Maria Bradshaw
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October 27, 2013
14
162
It’s NOT all in Your Head
Richard Lawhern, PhD
-
October 27, 2013
37
1671
R.D. Laing & Anti-Psychopathology: The Myth of Mental Illness Redux
Michael Guy Thompson
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October 26, 2013
57
9645
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Madeline Goldstein
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October 23, 2013
21
2626
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Chaya Grossberg
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October 22, 2013
6
335
The Unbearable Heaviness of Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal
Monica Cassani
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October 22, 2013
27
5900
How to Parent a Dead Child
Maria Bradshaw
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October 21, 2013
23
3025
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Jay Joseph, PsyD
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October 21, 2013
28
1620
The Shameful Story that Runs and Runs: A Review of The Bitterest Pills
Philip Thomas, MD
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October 20, 2013
21
1545
Talking Over Fences: Why I Am Helping to Organize Community Dialogues on Mental Health
Faith Rhyne
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October 19, 2013
31
238
A More Comprehensive Approach to Ethical and Effective Prescribing
Mark Ragins, MD
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October 18, 2013
68
1378
Could Your Doctor Be Mentally Ill or Suicidal?
Maria Bradshaw
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October 18, 2013
15
889
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Wayne Munchel
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October 18, 2013
9
317
We Are Meant to Heal in a Community
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October 16, 2013
14
3932
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
201
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October 15, 2013
34
15336
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Laura Delano
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20
1022
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October 13, 2013
13
1396
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October 13, 2013
0
183
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October 12, 2013
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October 10, 2013
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713
Emotions: Keys to Our Freedom
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October 10, 2013
17
802
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Ted Chabasinski, JD
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October 10, 2013
66
312
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October 8, 2013
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936
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235
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October 7, 2013
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1566
The Bitterest Pills: The Troubling Story of Antipsychotic Drugs
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October 6, 2013
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6176
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Elahe Hessamfar
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October 5, 2013
13
2082
2013 Conference of the International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry
Al Galves, PhD
-
October 4, 2013
1
230
Psychiatric Profiling as Blood Libel
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
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October 2, 2013
48
1188
Mike Wallace Must Be Spinning In His Grave
Susan Rogers
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October 1, 2013
12
333
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October 1, 2013
103
2632
Psychiatric Language: Perception, Reality, & Breakfast
Maria Bradshaw
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September 30, 2013
12
400
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David Cohen
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September 30, 2013
20
2005
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September 29, 2013
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564
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September 27, 2013
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179
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September 26, 2013
9
173
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September 25, 2013
25
212
One World, One People, One Struggle
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September 24, 2013
9
621
Of FEP’s, DUP’s and BS
Wayne Munchel
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September 23, 2013
12
185
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Ron Unger, LCSW
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September 22, 2013
5
502
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
3536
The United States of the Biomedical Model: Five Anecdotes
MIA Editors
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September 21, 2013
13
1722
UN: Ensure No One is Detained in Any Kind of Mental Health Facility
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
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September 21, 2013
3
772
David Cohen on Madness Radio: The Meaning of Medications
Will Hall
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September 21, 2013
3
381
Are Supplements Simply Creating Expensive Urine?
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
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September 19, 2013
13
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Chaya Grossberg
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September 19, 2013
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475
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194
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Maria Bradshaw
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September 17, 2013
17
956
At War With Ourselves
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September 15, 2013
38
983
Human Rights Report on Forced Drugging in the U.S.
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
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September 14, 2013
4
698
Voices, Then & Now
Ron Coleman
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September 14, 2013
4
306
As Lawyers and Bureaucrats Delay, The Body Count Rises
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
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September 13, 2013
5
245
Elephants and Flamingos
Olga Runciman, Cand Psych BSc
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September 13, 2013
23
554
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8
269
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Daniel Mackler
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September 11, 2013
1
368
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September 11, 2013
11
405
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September 10, 2013
8
1978
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September 9, 2013
37
4492
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September 9, 2013
48
29348
Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: How Big Pharma Has Corrupted Health Care
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD
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September 9, 2013
37
9169
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Steindór J. Erlingsson, PhD
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September 8, 2013
7
349
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September 8, 2013
10
260
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September 7, 2013
6
3403
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Peter Lehmann
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September 7, 2013
6
1953
Does the Psychiatric Diagnosis Process Qualify as a Degradation Ceremony?
Michael Cornwall, PhD
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September 7, 2013
71
4313
The Temptation of Certainty: David Foster Wallace, Suicide and Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal
Vanessa Krasinski, MSN, RN
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September 6, 2013
21
8137
No New Prozacs: A Dry Pipeline for New Psychiatric Drugs
Douglas Bloch
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September 5, 2013
11
389
Help Write a Psychiatric Survivor Manifesto
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September 4, 2013
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456
The Right to Profit vs. The Right to Know
Johanna Ryan
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September 3, 2013
11
355
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September 3, 2013
1
835
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Chaya Grossberg
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September 2, 2013
9
228
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Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
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September 1, 2013
3
861
In ‘Peer’ We Trust
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August 31, 2013
79
1161
Societies With Little Coercion Have Little Mental Illness
Bruce Levine, PhD
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August 30, 2013
37
16778
The Speech
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August 30, 2013
10
211
Community Discussions NOW That Actually Want Our Perspective
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August 30, 2013
3
184
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Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
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August 28, 2013
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1044
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Steindór J. Erlingsson, PhD
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August 27, 2013
4
281
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Rai Waddingham
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August 27, 2013
44
1608
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August 27, 2013
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632
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21
444
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2254
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August 25, 2013
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407
Changing Minds About Voices: Action Over Words
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August 25, 2013
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584
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Polly Trope
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August 24, 2013
14
394
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August 24, 2013
3
200
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Jim Gottstein, JD
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August 21, 2013
10
385
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August 21, 2013
18
814
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August 17, 2013
22
450
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August 13, 2013
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3109
The Power of the Written Word
Tamasin Knight, MBChB, MPH
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August 13, 2013
31
304
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August 12, 2013
47
1357
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August 12, 2013
0
144
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Nancy Rubenstein del Giudice
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August 8, 2013
102
303
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Eleanor Longden, PhD
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August 8, 2013
29
645
I Was Fifteen
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August 7, 2013
24
823
PTSD in Withdrawal
Matt Samet
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August 6, 2013
20
5368
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Sandra Steingard, MD
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August 4, 2013
76
525
A Hand to Hold: Community Mental Health in Times of Crisis
Faith Rhyne
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August 4, 2013
60
245
Faith Lost
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August 4, 2013
8
3248
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August 3, 2013
49
323
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Michael Cornwall, PhD
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August 2, 2013
67
561
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July 31, 2013
87
29209
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Gretchen LeFever Watson
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July 31, 2013
45
802
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Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD
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July 24, 2013
3
438
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Robert Whitaker
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July 23, 2013
332
2162
Harm Reduction & the Elephant in the Room: End DSM Dependency
Jack Carney, DSW
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July 23, 2013
9
684
Haloperidol is Neurotoxic
Sandra Steingard, MD
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July 21, 2013
198
10958
Dreams: Still the Royal Road to the Unconscious
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
July 20, 2013
40
3730
Western Psychiatry in Crisis: UK Psychiatry Re-Positions Itself
Lucy Johnstone, PsyD
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July 19, 2013
32
1131
Many Ears Make Light Listening
Chaya Grossberg
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July 18, 2013
19
169
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July 17, 2013
61
6105
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Julie Leonovs
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July 16, 2013
105
2165
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Jennifer Maurer
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July 11, 2013
54
625
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Kathy Brandt
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July 10, 2013
122
928
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Robert Nikkel, MSW
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July 10, 2013
8
284
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July 10, 2013
203
578
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Claire Weber
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July 9, 2013
58
1101
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Niall McLaren
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July 9, 2013
23
1069
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Sera Davidow
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July 8, 2013
27
385
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Sandra Steingard, MD
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July 7, 2013
54
2600
The Shoes Keep on Dropping… What Next?
Jack Carney, DSW
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July 7, 2013
4
788
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Laysha Ostrow, PhD
&
Nev Jones, PhD
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July 6, 2013
4
1628
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Paris Williams, PhD
-
July 4, 2013
15
1304
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Sera Davidow
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July 4, 2013
31
3215
The Blame Game
Matt Samet
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July 3, 2013
25
636
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Deron Drumm
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July 3, 2013
10
492
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Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
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July 2, 2013
4
441
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Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
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June 30, 2013
3
472
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Paris Williams, PhD
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June 29, 2013
25
3460
A Close Look at Andreasen et al.’s Advice to Increase the Dosage of Antipsychotics...
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June 29, 2013
86
446
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Steve Stone
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June 27, 2013
13
243
I Am Also Mad
Sandra Steingard, MD
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June 26, 2013
102
449
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Aubrey Ellen Shomo
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June 26, 2013
12
6635
We Name It as Torture
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
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June 26, 2013
15
2385
How I Overcame an Episode of SSRI-Induced Suicidal Depression
Douglas Bloch
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June 26, 2013
13
21951
Withdrawing From Psychiatric Drugs: What Psychiatrists Don’t Learn
Vivek Datta, MD, MPH
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June 24, 2013
74
10176
Spinning Straw into Gold: When Science Becomes Fiction
Marilyn Wedge, PhD
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June 24, 2013
3
786
Snail’s Pace Race
Chaya Grossberg
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June 23, 2013
3
288
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Laura Delano
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June 22, 2013
36
502
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motto
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June 22, 2013
8
410
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Barry Duncan
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June 21, 2013
11
205
Antipsychotics and Brain Shrinkage: An Update
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
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June 19, 2013
70
24510
The Vatican, Ritalin, and a Canadian Study of Long-term ADHD Outcomes
Robert Whitaker
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June 18, 2013
103
3748
Tapering Off Medications When “Symptoms Have Remitted”: Does That Make Sense?
Ron Unger, LCSW
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June 18, 2013
2
262
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Bruce Levine, PhD
-
June 16, 2013
51
4180
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Hugh Middleton, MD
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June 13, 2013
6
1354
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Michael Rock
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June 11, 2013
3
145
We Have a Dream: Getting Engaged to a Doctor
David Healy, MD
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June 10, 2013
60
391
Avatar Therapy: A New Battle for the Tree of Life
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June 9, 2013
24
1046
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
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June 9, 2013
12
2830
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Lynne Vanderpot, PhD
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June 9, 2013
7
2809
Can Psychosis be Treated With Nutrition?
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
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June 7, 2013
45
6434
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Jill Littrell, PhD
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June 6, 2013
168
4026
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7
2644
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June 4, 2013
70
538
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June 3, 2013
5
764
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June 2, 2013
29
283
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May 31, 2013
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588
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Jack Carney, DSW
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May 31, 2013
7
569
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May 30, 2013
27
714
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Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
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May 29, 2013
1
298
Open the Paradigm
PJ Moynihan
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May 29, 2013
11
576
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Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
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May 28, 2013
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May 27, 2013
2
626
Next Steps: More Lessons Learned From the DSM-5 Boycott
Jack Carney, DSW
-
May 24, 2013
4
507
My APA protest speech: “Keeping the Channel Open”
Chaya Grossberg
-
May 23, 2013
13
174
Help Create a Real Stigma Reduction Campaign
Corinna West
-
May 23, 2013
1
314
DSM-5 Statement by the Critical Psychiatry Network
Philip Thomas, MD
-
May 23, 2013
74
1134
The Green Shadow Cabinet and a Mental Health Declaration of Independence
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
May 21, 2013
8
268
Enough with the Questions!
Jay Watts, DClinPsy
-
May 21, 2013
27
575
When “Recovery” Feels Like a Trap
Sean Donovan
-
May 20, 2013
64
518
Hearing Voices Network Launches Debate on DSM-5 and Psychiatric Diagnoses
Jacqui Dillon
-
May 20, 2013
29
1526
Thoughts on the Meaning of Neuroscience
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
May 19, 2013
99
381
Occupy APA in San Francisco: Joined in Spirit
Jack Carney, DSW
-
May 17, 2013
26
432
Taking down the Giant: A Call for Increased Community Outreach
Paris Williams, PhD
-
May 16, 2013
22
354
Difference is Not Disease: Scientific Integrity, Human Diversity, and the Potentially Bleak Future of...
Faith Rhyne
-
May 16, 2013
173
1940
Purpose is Inherently Divorced From Consensual Reality
Chaya Grossberg
-
May 15, 2013
13
383
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: The Good, The Bad, The Limitations
Richard D. Lewis
-
May 15, 2013
126
14975
Jeopardizing Your Wife to Prove a Point: Pellagra as an Example of Deficit
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
May 15, 2013
6
1294
DxSummit Officially Launches
Jonathan Raskin
-
May 15, 2013
5
544
Man Jumps, News at…?
Jennifer Maurer
-
May 14, 2013
86
255
Body Politics
Sera Davidow
-
May 14, 2013
43
333
Leaving Marcellas
Michael Rock
-
May 14, 2013
21
203
BBC Interview with Lucy Johnstone from British Psychological Society
Paul Baker
-
May 14, 2013
0
282
Does DSM-5 Matter? Yes; but not for Psychiatrists
Vivek Datta, MD, MPH
-
May 13, 2013
18
3586
Why I Won’t Buy the DSM-5
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
May 13, 2013
17
837
UK Clinical Psychologists Call for the Abandonment of Psychiatric Diagnosis and the ‘Disease’ Model
Lucy Johnstone, PsyD
-
May 13, 2013
77
6768
The Myth of Mental Illness Revisited, NIMH Style
Jonathan Raskin
-
May 13, 2013
12
1183
“Mental Illness”, the DSM-5, and Dreams for a Post-Psychiatry World
Laura Delano
-
May 12, 2013
63
1916
Responding to Attacks on MIA — One Long Night of Zombie Whack-a-Mole
motto
-
May 12, 2013
30
252
Everything Matters: a Memoir From Before, During and After Psychiatric Drugs
Monica Cassani
-
May 11, 2013
52
8962
Spiritual Emergency Round 2: Smashing Warped Philosophies
Corinna West
-
May 10, 2013
4
289
Using Mindfulness Meditation to Cope with Suicidal Thoughts and Feelings
Douglas Bloch
-
May 10, 2013
12
11978
Chew on This: FDA Embraces Big Pharma; Takes Aim at Big Gum
David Ross, MEd, LPCC
-
May 10, 2013
16
177
Colonization or Postpsychiatry?
Olga Runciman, Cand Psych BSc
-
May 9, 2013
64
1064
Why Neuroscience Cannot Explain Madness
Philip Thomas, MD
-
May 7, 2013
18
1777
CDC Reports ‘Substantial’ Increases in U.S. Suicide Rate for Middle-Aged Americans
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
May 7, 2013
3
269
Classism in Disguise
Chaya Grossberg
-
May 7, 2013
18
781
Witty A: Report to the President
David Healy, MD
-
May 7, 2013
1
212
The Inane Search for Magic Bullets to Treat Mental Illness
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
May 7, 2013
7
1517
Recovering Myself
Amanda Back
-
May 7, 2013
6
504
Truth is Like a Lion: The 25th Hearing Voices Conference
Rufus May
-
May 7, 2013
15
824
So, You Want to Be An Activist?
Faith Rhyne
-
May 6, 2013
30
404
I Am A Witness… Fifty Years Later
motto
-
May 4, 2013
66
4996
How Much can a Psychiatrist Charge to Visit With a Dead Research Subject?
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
-
May 4, 2013
0
282
Conspiracy Theories Fill a Need
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
May 4, 2013
19
450
Shield Texans From Psychiatric Force: Oppose Texas House Bill 2212!
MindFreedom
-
May 3, 2013
11
668
The Hearing Voices Movement: Has it Really Been 25 years?
Paul Baker
-
May 2, 2013
8
1407
The “Mental Illness” Paradigm: An “Illness” That is out of Control
Paris Williams, PhD
-
May 2, 2013
50
3844
Inbetweenland Reflections
Jennifer Maria Padron
-
May 1, 2013
0
632
Family Members – Allies or Adversaries?
Deron Drumm
-
April 30, 2013
19
495
Brand Fascism
David Healy, MD
-
April 30, 2013
2
195
The Culture of Fear and the Lost Art of Organizing for Social Change
Jack Carney, DSW
-
April 29, 2013
36
591
The ‘Recovery’ Trap
Sera Davidow
-
April 28, 2013
79
1905
Birthing Bliss, Birthing Trauma, and the Role of the Perinatal Patient
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
April 26, 2013
4
533
Fear, Discrimination and Our Ever-Eroding Civil Rights
Sean Donovan
-
April 26, 2013
40
206
Psychology and Neuroscience Are a Misfit
Al Galves, PhD
-
April 26, 2013
6
366
The Unmedicated Life
Matt Samet
-
April 26, 2013
5
1114
Labeling
Chaya Grossberg
-
April 26, 2013
14
225
We Have Seen the Evidence Base, and it is Us
Janet Currie
-
April 25, 2013
6
377
I Talked About Mad in America on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show!
Sascha Altman DuBrul
-
April 24, 2013
0
171
Time for a new Understanding of Suicidal Feelings
Will Hall
-
April 24, 2013
11
1642
The Empire of Humbug: Not So Bad Pharma
David Healy, MD
-
April 24, 2013
0
136
The Words We Use…
Robert Nikkel, MSW
-
April 23, 2013
7
450
Finding the Meaning in Suffering: My Experience with Coming off Psychiatric Drugs (in a...
Laura Delano
-
April 23, 2013
79
6186
Carina Håkansson: Family Care Foundation
Kermit Cole
-
April 23, 2013
8
2441
Public Comment to the National Council on Disability on its Engagement with CRPD
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
April 22, 2013
3
286
Study the Past if You Would Define the Future [Confucius]
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
April 22, 2013
8
1544
All Sorts of Realities
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
April 22, 2013
23
170
Could a Different Approach to “Mental Health” Be Part of Solving the Climate Crisis?
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
April 21, 2013
44
239
Did Electroshock Save my Life?
Loretta Wilson
-
April 20, 2013
15
1134
Mad Flies and Bad Science
Philip Thomas, MD
-
April 17, 2013
19
814
The Empire of Humbug: Bad Pharma
David Healy, MD
-
April 16, 2013
0
125
To Honor or to Investigate?
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
-
April 15, 2013
5
521
Nutrition and Mental Health
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
&
Julia Rucklidge, PhD
-
April 15, 2013
28
1682
Optimal Use of Neuroleptics, Part 3: Duration of Untreated Psychosis
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
April 14, 2013
38
1106
One Year of Mad In America
motto
-
April 14, 2013
34
160
Fire In The Belly
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
April 13, 2013
8
628
Slices of Pies: A Dialogue with Ronald Pies
Sera Davidow
-
April 12, 2013
168
326
Too Much Pies
Sera Davidow
-
April 10, 2013
67
309
The Tragedy of Lou Lasagna
David Healy, MD
-
April 9, 2013
0
460
“That’s Just How It Is”
Matt Samet
-
April 9, 2013
24
703
Living Mindfully with Voices
Rufus May
-
April 9, 2013
7
594
Winners of the American Dream
Alice Keys, MD
-
April 7, 2013
62
463
Please Defend the Right to Bear Arms
Deron Drumm
-
April 7, 2013
77
244
Using Formulation to Change Team Cultures
Lucy Johnstone, PsyD
-
April 7, 2013
6
1764
False Arguments, Part. 2: Anti-Anti-Stigma
Sera Davidow
-
April 6, 2013
70
4188
Making Plans for the Long Flight – Re-visioning Icarus’ Next 10 Years
Sascha Altman DuBrul
-
April 5, 2013
6
177
The U.N. Asks the U.S. to Defend its Use of Forced Psychiatric Drugging
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
April 4, 2013
12
1004
eCPR (Emotional CPR): A Tool & a Process of Peacemaking
Lauren Spiro
-
April 4, 2013
3
1290
Imperialist Psychiatrists, Psychopathic Corporatists — But I Repeat Myself
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
April 4, 2013
7
870
On World Autism Day: Why I Am Concerned About the Use of Antidepressants During...
Adam Urato, MD
-
April 2, 2013
25
481
A Recovery Story, in Dollars and Cents
Lyn Legere
-
April 1, 2013
8
273
Managing a Movement or Community
David Ross, MEd, LPCC
-
March 30, 2013
0
113
Optimal Use of Neuroleptics, Pt. II; The Monkeys Were Not Psychotic
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
March 30, 2013
45
294
Situational Schizophrenia
Marilyn Wedge, PhD
-
March 29, 2013
12
512
Can a Profession Be any More Confused?
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
March 28, 2013
18
441
After the Statement by the Special Rapporteur on Torture, Taking Stock of Where We...
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
March 28, 2013
5
746
Not So Bad Pharma
David Healy, MD
-
March 28, 2013
2
288
Life, Liberty, & the Pursuit of Happiness? Protesting the Legislation of Systematic Civil...
Laura Delano
-
March 27, 2013
26
1729
The DSM-5 Field Trials: Inter-Rater Reliability Ratings Take a Nose Dive
Jack Carney, DSW
-
March 26, 2013
0
8573
Do Antipsychotics Worsen Long-term Schizophrenia Outcomes? Martin Harrow Explores the Question.
Robert Whitaker
-
March 26, 2013
25
6151
To Medicate Or Not To Medicate: That Is Not The Question
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
March 25, 2013
8
519
Optimal Use of Neuroleptic Drugs: An Introduction
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
March 23, 2013
160
426
Death Grip: Then and Now
Matt Samet
-
March 21, 2013
6
788
He Who Pays the Piper
Alice Keys, MD
-
March 21, 2013
18
351
Ask Michael Moore About Psychiatric Drugs and Gun Violence
Jim Gottstein, JD
-
March 21, 2013
8
1066
The Petition Against DSM-5
Philip Thomas, MD
-
March 20, 2013
0
401
The 99th Mile: When Benzo Withdrawal Meets Parenthood
Melissa Bond
-
March 19, 2013
16
2760
“They Need to be Held Accountable”
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
-
March 16, 2013
3
703
The Trouble with Twin Studies
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
March 13, 2013
25
35334
Confronting the Addiction Voice on the Road to Recovery
James Moore
-
March 13, 2013
18
6704
Social Vacuum
Matt Samet
-
March 13, 2013
5
4910
The Systemic Crushing of Young Nonconformists and Anti-Authoritarians
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
March 11, 2013
55
1174
About Being Paul Revere
Alice Keys, MD
-
March 10, 2013
107
390
We Are Now Qualified to do Anything, with Nothing
Jennifer Maria Padron
-
March 6, 2013
5
607
My Story of Recovery: Prayer, Community, and Healing
Douglas Bloch
-
March 5, 2013
9
1190
Preventing Depression: SSRIs for At-Risk Populations?
Jonathan Leo, PhD / Jeffrey Lacasse, PhD
-
March 4, 2013
38
440
The Latest Gene Finding Claim in Psychiatry
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
March 4, 2013
43
582
Profiles in Creative Maladjustment: AL GALVES
MindFreedom
-
March 1, 2013
4
275
Diagnosis Dilemma
Alice Keys, MD
-
March 1, 2013
109
342
The Politics of Systems Change: Lessons Learned from the Launch of the DSM-5 Boycott
Jack Carney, DSW
-
February 26, 2013
17
586
Components for a Good Neuroleptic Withdrawal Program
Daniel Mackler
-
February 25, 2013
81
1752
We are Whole People, Not Broken Brains
Daniel Fisher, MD, PhD
-
February 24, 2013
50
2625
Reflections on a Psychiatric Indoctrination, or, How I Began to Free Myself from the...
Laura Delano
-
February 23, 2013
241
4811
Keynote Speech at Alternatives 2012 Conference: Remembering Our History, Thinking About our Future
Will Hall
-
February 23, 2013
3
359
Pinball Wizards and the Doomed Project of Psychiatric Diagnosis
Philip Thomas, MD
-
February 19, 2013
14
1543
How Do You Live at the Intersection of Love and Outrage?
Corinna West
-
February 18, 2013
8
843
Dan’s Journey Through OCD
Janet Singer
-
February 15, 2013
9
9115
Five Decades of Gene Finding Failures in Psychiatry
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
February 15, 2013
60
5813
Love Note for Valentine’s Day: Beware of Those Peddling ADHD Drugs
Gretchen LeFever Watson
-
February 14, 2013
3
375
Some Thoughts on the Origins of Mental Illnesses
Hugh Middleton, MD
-
February 14, 2013
37
941
We Are The Ones
Alice Keys, MD
-
February 13, 2013
23
214
Not so Black: Ablixa and Homicidal Side Effects
David Healy, MD
-
February 13, 2013
18
29494
Register now for the UnDiagnosing UnPlanned UnConference
Corinna West
-
February 13, 2013
9
887
Our Collective Stories Have Power
Leah Harris
-
February 12, 2013
9
246
Emotional CPR as a Way of Life
Lauren Spiro
-
February 12, 2013
5
1451
Prozac and SSRIs: Twenty-fifth Anniversary
David Healy, MD
-
February 11, 2013
3
451
Rejuvenating Abolitionism of Psychiatric Labels — Even Some Establishment Psychiatrists Embarrassed by New DSM-5
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
February 10, 2013
9
2197
Don’t Go Back to Sleep
Alice Keys, MD
-
February 8, 2013
17
217
That Naughty Little Pill
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
February 8, 2013
3
2336
Redemption Songs: Music and Madness
Faith Rhyne
-
February 8, 2013
25
551
A New Film Called ‘Beyond the Medical Model’
Sera Davidow
-
February 6, 2013
44
1386
DSM-5 Boycott Launched!
Jack Carney, DSW
-
February 5, 2013
30
4029
The SSRIs and Ten Years of Misleading Advertising: Who is Responsible?
Jonathan Leo, PhD / Jeffrey Lacasse, PhD
-
February 5, 2013
72
494
It’s Time to Wake Up and Stop the Violence
Oryx Cohen, M.P.A.
-
February 4, 2013
28
871
The Antidepressant Era: the Movie
David Healy, MD
-
February 1, 2013
2
657
Why Do the Stories Psychiatrists Tell Their Patients Matter?
Philip Thomas, MD
-
January 28, 2013
13
847
As We Scapegoat Schizophrenics Today, I Am Reminded of Nazi Germany
Ted Chabasinski, JD
-
January 26, 2013
26
966
5 Things You Can Do In 5 Minutes to UnDiagnose Emotional Distress
Corinna West
-
January 25, 2013
0
368
Scapegoating Persons Labelled Mentally Ill: The Politics of Marginalization
Jack Carney, DSW
-
January 25, 2013
15
1517
Krazy Kiwi Kids
Maria Bradshaw
-
January 23, 2013
6
385
A Breakthrough for Suicide (Attempt) Survivors at the AAS
David Webb
-
January 22, 2013
1
429
The Hearing Voices Movement: In Response to a Father – ‘My Daughter, the Schizophrenic’
Jacqui Dillon
-
January 21, 2013
100
3392
What is Critical Psychiatry?
Philip Thomas, MD
-
January 21, 2013
7
12637
Taking Martin Luther King Jr’s Call For Creative Maladjustment Seriously
MindFreedom
-
January 21, 2013
1
6954
Luscious Lipids
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
January 20, 2013
2
322
A Phenomenological View of Madness and Medicine
Dan Kriegman, PhD
-
January 20, 2013
3
614
NCMHR Does Not Speak for Me
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
January 19, 2013
14
372
What Happened After a Nation Methodically Murdered Its Schizophrenics? Rethinking Mental Illness and Its...
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
January 19, 2013
22
465
Youth Violence is a Family Therapy Issue
Marilyn Wedge, PhD
-
January 18, 2013
1
325
And That’s the News from the Department of Psychiatry
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
-
January 18, 2013
9
666
Day of Action to Stop Psychiatric Profiling: January 21, 2013
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
January 18, 2013
5
337
Free from Harm? Reflecting on the Dangers of the White House’s Proposed ‘Now...
Laura Delano
-
January 17, 2013
20
463
Psychiatry Is Not the Only Branch of Medicine to Lose Its Soul to Pharma
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
January 17, 2013
19
548
The Problem with PTSD
Vivek Datta, MD, MPH
-
January 17, 2013
6
955
“Baby Cry Too Much?”
Alice Keys, MD
-
January 17, 2013
2
190
Civilians
Matt Samet
-
January 16, 2013
7
614
False Arguments: A Three-Part Story
Sera Davidow
-
January 15, 2013
30
765
More Thinking about Alternatives to Psychiatric Diagnosis
Lucy Johnstone, PsyD
-
January 15, 2013
14
1780
Exporting Depression
Ethan Watters
-
January 12, 2013
8
1253
PsychRights’ Letter to the President’s Task Force on Gun Violence
Jim Gottstein, JD
-
January 11, 2013
9
394
Commentary on the National Comorbidity Survey Replication
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
January 10, 2013
2
206
How to Get Away with Academic Misconduct at the University of Minnesota
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
-
January 10, 2013
4
1121
The Hearing Voices Movement: Beyond Critiquing the Status Quo
Jacqui Dillon
-
January 10, 2013
13
2828
Backsliding in the Bay State
Jonathan Dosick
-
January 7, 2013
9
322
Thinking about Alternatives to Psychiatric Diagnosis
Lucy Johnstone, PsyD
-
January 7, 2013
33
3221
Re-examining the Biochemical Model after Newtown: The Effects of Stigma and the Need for...
Rossa Forbes
-
January 7, 2013
59
618
Introduction: The Gene Illusion Continues
Jay Joseph, PsyD
-
January 6, 2013
15
649
Peace Making
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
January 5, 2013
4
142
A Message of Hope in Mental Health Care: There IS an Alternative
MindFreedom
-
January 4, 2013
8
1493
Defining Recovery
Alice Keys, MD
-
January 3, 2013
34
269
101 Uses for a Dead Journal
David Healy, MD
-
January 3, 2013
5
347
Walking
Matt Samet
-
January 2, 2013
8
1076
How You Have Changed Me
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
January 1, 2013
70
541
Time to Abolish Psychiatric Diagnosis?
Lucy Johnstone, PsyD
-
January 1, 2013
45
5630
May Your Psychache be Minimal
David Webb
-
January 1, 2013
20
919
Where Do Messages of Hopelessness in Mental Health Care Come From?
MindFreedom
-
December 31, 2012
50
4047
Media’s Failed Approach to Madness, Parts 1 & 2
Faith Rhyne
-
December 29, 2012
37
619
The Children Lead
Alice Keys, MD
-
December 29, 2012
31
164
David W. Oaks’ Message To the World: “Cracking the Nut of Normality”
MindFreedom
-
December 28, 2012
2
287
I Got a Break from Reality for Christmas!
Corinna West
-
December 25, 2012
15
322
I am the Number 60
Sera Davidow
-
December 21, 2012
23
3213
Grief, Peace; Not Profiling
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
December 21, 2012
1
129
Mass Murder in Newtown: Why and Where Next?
Jack Carney, DSW
-
December 20, 2012
13
403
We Are All Adam Lanza’s Mother (& other things we’re not talking about)
Jennifer Maurer
-
December 19, 2012
32
329
A Reflection on Mothers, Children, and Mental Illness
Faith Rhyne
-
December 18, 2012
31
2494
The Head Bone’s Connected to the Body Bone
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
December 18, 2012
6
575
Many Small Actions Bring Big Results
Alice Keys, MD
-
December 18, 2012
23
203
A Challenge to “I Am Adam Lanza’s Mother”
Laura Delano
-
December 18, 2012
119
3519
Faith
Matt Samet
-
December 17, 2012
6
1312
Thoughts About David Oaks
Robert Whitaker
-
December 17, 2012
13
1214
Rediscovering Traditions of Community Healing – Susan McKeown
Will Hall
-
December 16, 2012
0
232
Critical Psychiatry as Narrative
Philip Thomas, MD
-
December 15, 2012
2
658
The Price is Wrong
Maria Bradshaw
-
December 12, 2012
9
473
Trying Too Hard to Be Sane, or Trying Too Hard to Recover, Can Lead...
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
December 12, 2012
12
468
Identity Theft
Matt Samet
-
December 12, 2012
7
682
My Journey Home to Self
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM
-
December 11, 2012
5
801
Boycott The DSM-5: Anachronistic Before Its Time
Jack Carney, DSW
-
December 10, 2012
10
887
Bottle Fish. Going and Doing. Being.
Alice Keys, MD
-
December 10, 2012
15
182
Building a Bridge to Hope
Lisbeth Riis Cooper
-
December 10, 2012
13
510
Psychiatry Beyond the Current Paradigm, and DSM-5
Hugh Middleton, MD
-
December 10, 2012
3
679
The Other Side
Matt Samet
-
December 9, 2012
9
3339
The Road to Perdition
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
-
December 7, 2012
2
2487
CRPD Defeated in Senate – What Now?
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
December 5, 2012
16
304
Do Diagnoses Injure People?
Alice Keys, MD
-
December 4, 2012
59
703
Big Brother Is Watching: A Strategy to End Kendra’s Law in New York State,...
Jack Carney, DSW
-
December 4, 2012
10
965
I Believe Most of us Have a Broken Heart, Not a “Mental Illness”
Jacks McNamara
-
December 4, 2012
9
370
We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For
Daniel Fisher, MD, PhD
-
December 4, 2012
21
1302
Big Brother Is Watching: Children and Older Adults, Part I
Jack Carney, DSW
-
December 3, 2012
3
448
A Recent Study of Atypical Neuroleptics: “The Results of our Study are Sobering”
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
December 3, 2012
52
810
Reparations: It is Conceivable
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
-
December 3, 2012
3
897
The Denial of Pain and Mortality: Or, the Art of Self-Prescribing and the Philosopher’s...
Vivek Datta, MD, MPH
-
December 3, 2012
10
246
Getting Involved in Prison Issues – Making Alliances With Mental Health Advocacy
Will Hall
-
December 1, 2012
0
274
Suckling Pigs, Stray Dogs, and Psychiatric Diagnoses
Vivek Datta, MD, MPH
-
November 29, 2012
13
284
How 7 Historic Figures Overcame Depression without Doctors
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
November 29, 2012
9
1115
Philosopher Raymond Tallis – Challenging Pop Neuroscience
Will Hall
-
November 29, 2012
2
829
“But It’s Just the Way Things Are”
Alice Keys, MD
-
November 29, 2012
35
258
One Solution to Prescription Drug Overdoses: Make Oxycontin and Similar Drugs Safer
Alison Bass
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November 15, 2012
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November 14, 2012
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November 8, 2012
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October 31, 2012
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598
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291
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Sandra Steingard, MD
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October 26, 2012
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October 26, 2012
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October 26, 2012
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October 26, 2012
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October 16, 2012
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621
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October 16, 2012
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780
Why Do So Few People Know that CRPD Prohibits Forced Psychiatry?
Tina Minkowitz, Esq.
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October 14, 2012
12
826
The United Met States of Psychiatry
Laura Delano
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October 14, 2012
51
489
Hearing Voices Research & Development Fund
Gina Nikkel, PhD
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October 13, 2012
10
221
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Bruce Levine, PhD
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October 12, 2012
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1039
There’s No Duct Tape for Benzo Withdrawal
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October 11, 2012
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David Ross, MEd, LPCC
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October 9, 2012
16
270
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October 9, 2012
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327
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Alison Bass
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October 8, 2012
0
150
Abbott’s Admissions of Criminality: Do They Accomplish Anything?
Jim Gottstein, JD
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October 8, 2012
6
248
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October 8, 2012
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947
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October 7, 2012
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888
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368
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758
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October 4, 2012
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318
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October 2, 2012
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606
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810
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Jim Gottstein, JD
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September 27, 2012
8
803
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Sandra Steingard, MD
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September 27, 2012
42
234
Killer Brain Candy: One Woman’s Odyssey Through Benzodiazepine Addiction and Withdrawal or How Chicken...
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Psychosis as a Spiritual Crisis: An Opportunity For Growth
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September 25, 2012
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945
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September 25, 2012
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September 23, 2012
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344
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September 21, 2012
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September 20, 2012
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1355
Are You Committed to Eliminating Labels and Medications With Emotional Distress?
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September 18, 2012
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471
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Jonathan Dosick
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September 17, 2012
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392
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Vanessa Krasinski, MSN, RN
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September 17, 2012
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240
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September 15, 2012
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203
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September 12, 2012
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2037
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September 12, 2012
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Paul Andrews
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September 12, 2012
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Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
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August 6, 2012
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August 2, 2012
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August 1, 2012
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August 1, 2012
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July 30, 2012
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July 19, 2012
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July 19, 2012
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556
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Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
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July 18, 2012
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424
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July 7, 2012
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July 5, 2012
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July 5, 2012
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June 7, 2012
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June 7, 2012
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Jonathan Leo, PhD
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June 6, 2012
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391
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David Ross, MEd, LPCC
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June 4, 2012
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159
Nothing About Us Without Us!
David Ross, MEd, LPCC
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June 3, 2012
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May 24, 2012
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Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
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May 24, 2012
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May 22, 2012
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Jack Carney, DSW
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May 22, 2012
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May 21, 2012
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Alice Keys, MD
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May 21, 2012
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Jack Carney, DSW
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May 21, 2012
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Jack Carney, DSW
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May 17, 2012
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Sandra Steingard, MD
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May 17, 2012
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Fast-Moving Bill in Congress Would Weaken FDA Oversight of New Drugs and Devices
Alison Bass
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May 16, 2012
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175
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Robert Whitaker
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Lisbeth Riis Cooper
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Michael Cornwall, PhD
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May 16, 2012
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316
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Tim Desmond, LMFT
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May 16, 2012
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Alice Keys, MD
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May 15, 2012
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709
Mad Pride and Spiritual Community: Thoughts on The Spiritual Gift of Madness
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May 13, 2012
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May 13, 2012
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Alice Keys, MD
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May 9, 2012
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Alison Bass
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May 8, 2012
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Daniel Fisher, MD, PhD
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May 7, 2012
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365
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Maria Bradshaw
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May 7, 2012
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Laura Delano
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May 6, 2012
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Alice Keys, MD
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May 5, 2012
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148
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May 4, 2012
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198
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Bruce Levine, PhD
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Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
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April 30, 2012
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Robert Nikkel, MSW
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April 29, 2012
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148
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Ron Unger, LCSW
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April 29, 2012
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Alice Keys, MD
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April 29, 2012
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254
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Corinna West
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April 28, 2012
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April 27, 2012
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April 26, 2012
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April 25, 2012
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Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD
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Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD
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April 17, 2012
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April 15, 2012
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April 15, 2012
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April 10, 2012
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April 8, 2012
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3
3643
“Social Workers’ Malaise: What’s Our Mission?”
Jack Carney, DSW
-
April 2, 2012
11
365
Playing Hide-and-Seek with Psychiatric Drug Studies
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
-
April 1, 2012
5
636
Does It Matter if We Believe in Mental Illness?
Tim Desmond, LMFT
-
March 30, 2012
23
231
Bipolar? When Quitting is the Answer
Howard Glasser
-
March 29, 2012
9
881
Dialogical Recovery of Life
Daniel Fisher, MD, PhD
-
March 28, 2012
10
586
1984 & DSM5, Revisited: Where Are the Social Workers?
Jack Carney, DSW
-
March 27, 2012
16
766
Dyskinesia, Dissociation, and the Long Term Consequences of “Antipsychotic” Drugs
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
March 26, 2012
3
1624
How Technology Worship Keeps Americans Ignorant about Depression Treatment
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
March 26, 2012
4
1798
What is in a Name: One Psychiatrist’s View of Psychiatric Diagnosis
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
March 25, 2012
58
514
“Come Out for Health Week”: March 26-30, 2012
Jennifer Maria Padron
-
March 24, 2012
3
309
Remembering Kate
Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD
-
March 21, 2012
37
557
Thinking Holistically – Don’t Forget Tobacco
Elizabeth Stuyt, MD
-
March 21, 2012
14
300
The Illegality of Forced Drugging and Electroshock
Jim Gottstein, JD
-
March 21, 2012
34
2517
Madness Radio: Sharna Olfman on Medicating Children Diagnosed Bipolar
Will Hall
-
March 19, 2012
2
157
I Don’t Believe in Mental Illness, Do You?
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
March 19, 2012
112
37556
We Need Drugs
Elliot Goldberg, LCSW
-
March 18, 2012
10
584
Chapter Twenty-Five: “Paranoid Android”
Laura Delano
-
March 17, 2012
2
349
Why Can’t They Hear Our Truth? We Have a Cure.
Corinna West
-
March 16, 2012
32
1870
Snake Medicine: Transforming Our Stories
Lisbeth Riis Cooper
-
March 16, 2012
7
369
In Praise of Families
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
March 16, 2012
7
125
Poverty & Serious Mental illness: Connecting the Dots
Jack Carney, DSW
-
March 12, 2012
6
657
Empowerment is Vital to Dialogical Recovery
Daniel Fisher, MD, PhD
-
March 9, 2012
23
453
Poverty & Mental Illness: You Can’t Have One Without the Other
Jack Carney, DSW
-
March 7, 2012
13
17067
Generative Narratives and the Counterculture Psychiatrists
Sascha Altman DuBrul
-
March 6, 2012
7
304
Eyewitness to the Ruination of a Public Mental Health System
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
March 4, 2012
31
1451
Why I Prescribe
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
March 3, 2012
44
540
Thinking Holistically – attempting to change the Status Quo
Elizabeth Stuyt, MD
-
March 3, 2012
7
198
How can parents help kids who don’t want help?
Corinna West
-
March 3, 2012
10
9086
The George Costanza Excuse for Medical Ghostwriting
Jonathan Leo, PhD / Jeffrey Lacasse, PhD
-
March 2, 2012
2
506
We are for truly informed choice; not anti-medications
Corinna West
-
March 1, 2012
11
427
A Pharmaceutical Company That Agrees With Irving Kirsch? Wellbutrin Advertised as 10% More Effective...
Jonathan Leo, PhD / Jeffrey Lacasse, PhD
-
February 29, 2012
6
1852
Better Broadband
Howard Glasser
-
February 29, 2012
4
166
Thinking Holistically
Elizabeth Stuyt, MD
-
February 28, 2012
17
280
Vote NOW for solutions to emotional distress!
Corinna West
-
February 27, 2012
2
140
The Shame Game of “Patient Responsibility”
Elliot Goldberg, LCSW
-
February 27, 2012
0
544
Why Anti-Authoritarians Are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill
Bruce Levine, PhD
-
February 26, 2012
341
142038
The Emperor’s Antipsychotic Drugs
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
February 25, 2012
5
697
Chapter Twenty-Four: Off the Meds and Out of My Mind
Laura Delano
-
February 25, 2012
9
446
So This Is Texas 2
Jennifer Maria Padron
-
February 24, 2012
0
388
The American Psychiatric Association’s Response to 60 Minutes: Where is the Science?
Jonathan Leo, PhD / Jeffrey Lacasse, PhD
-
February 24, 2012
29
1397
Interpreting Harrow’s 20-Year Results: Are the Drugs to Blame?
Robert Whitaker
-
February 23, 2012
30
7276
The Cause and Solution for Emotional Distress
Corinna West
-
February 22, 2012
4
1021
Response to 60 Minutes
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
February 22, 2012
5
952
Letters from the Front Lines
Mark Foster, DO
-
February 21, 2012
6
126
Personal Steps toward a Revolution in Mental Health Care
Ron Unger, LCSW
-
February 21, 2012
6
293
A Road Map to Hope
Lisbeth Riis Cooper
-
February 21, 2012
1
199
The Real Suicide Data from the TADS Study Comes to Light
Robert Whitaker
-
February 20, 2012
18
4585
60 Minutes, The SSRIs, and The Dirty Little Secret
Jonathan Leo, PhD / Jeffrey Lacasse, PhD
-
February 20, 2012
35
6647
Turning a Child’s Intensity to Greatness
Howard Glasser
-
February 19, 2012
2
1095
What Do Psychiatrists Say When They Talk to Each Other?
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
February 18, 2012
15
585
Responding to Madness With Loving Receptivity: a Practical Guide
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
February 14, 2012
39
3389
Mental Health Homes Open Their Proverbial Doors in New York: Caveats, Part II
Jack Carney, DSW
-
February 10, 2012
0
238
Dialogical Recovery from Monological Medicine
Daniel Fisher, MD, PhD
-
February 8, 2012
16
975
Mental Health Homes Open Their Proverbial Doors in New York: A Look into the...
Jack Carney, DSW
-
February 7, 2012
4
477
Unraveling the Biopsychiatric Knot: the Future History of the Radical Mental Health Movement
Sascha Altman DuBrul
-
February 7, 2012
4
1710
The Death of Leslie Carter
Elliot Goldberg, LCSW
-
February 7, 2012
2
1364
The Role of Inflammation in the Success and Failure of Antidepressants
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
February 6, 2012
4
893
Remembering A Medication-Free Madness Sanctuary
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
February 3, 2012
25
3013
On a Paradox Revealed: Discontinuing Neuroleptics
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
February 2, 2012
9
351
Bring in the Peer!
Keris Jän Myrick
-
February 1, 2012
10
868
Madness Radio: Grainne Humphry on the Psychiatric Incarceration of John Hunt in Ireland
Will Hall
-
February 1, 2012
2
427
Return to Self an Alternative Medication?
Elliot Goldberg, LCSW
-
February 1, 2012
1
177
Letters from the Front Lines
Mark Foster, DO
-
February 1, 2012
3
204
The Power of Storytelling
Lisbeth Riis Cooper
-
February 1, 2012
4
436
The Reality Is In Our Heads
Dan Kriegman, PhD
-
January 31, 2012
3
512
Should Jilted Lovers Be Treated with Antidepressants?
Jonathan Leo, PhD / Jeffrey Lacasse, PhD
-
January 31, 2012
4
4208
Revising the History of the Serotonin Theory of Depression?
Jonathan Leo, PhD / Jeffrey Lacasse, PhD
-
January 29, 2012
18
2825
Chapter Twenty-Three: On the Locked Unit, Locked in Myself
Laura Delano
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January 29, 2012
2
424
Bipolar Everywhere
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
January 28, 2012
20
1975
More on Recovery & Liberation: Oppression & Resilience
Jack Carney, DSW
-
January 26, 2012
7
504
Is It All in Your Head?
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
January 25, 2012
46
551
The Taint of Eugenics In NIMH-Funded Research Today
Robert Whitaker
-
January 25, 2012
28
1980
Tsunami of Frozen Grief Found in the Clinical Work
Elliot Goldberg, LCSW
-
January 24, 2012
1
131
Excellent Article on Antipsychotic Drug Harm Reduction in Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health...
Will Hall
-
January 24, 2012
0
489
Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care Projects
Gina Nikkel, PhD
-
January 23, 2012
3
259
Psychiatry’s Grand Confession
Jonathan Leo, PhD / Jeffrey Lacasse, PhD
-
January 23, 2012
54
9942
The Cure for Mood Disorders Is Dementia?
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
January 22, 2012
2
476
Introducing Myself
Jill Littrell, PhD
-
January 22, 2012
1
132
Get Off Prescription Drugs: Arriving at the Work
Elliot Goldberg, LCSW
-
January 20, 2012
2
280
The Importance of Being Useful
Carolyn Crowder, PhD
-
January 20, 2012
4
1362
Letters from the Front Lines
Mark Foster, DO
-
January 19, 2012
8
148
Recovery and Liberation: One and the Same?
Jack Carney, DSW
-
January 19, 2012
12
436
Pilgrim’s Progress: From Young Madman to Old Therapist
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
January 17, 2012
8
588
On Creative Maladjustment and Rethinking Psychiatry
Keris Jän Myrick
-
January 16, 2012
9
308
Diagnosing Dangers
Jim Gottstein, JD
-
January 15, 2012
30
407
Chapter Twenty-Two: To the Hospital on the Hill
Laura Delano
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January 14, 2012
15
327
A Visit into the Lithuanian Mental Health System
Daniel Mackler
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January 12, 2012
8
3321
Rethinking Brain Research In Psychiatry
Robert Whitaker
-
January 12, 2012
22
731
Letters from the Front Lines
Mark Foster, DO
-
January 11, 2012
9
129
A Mother Bear’s Story
Lisbeth Riis Cooper
-
January 11, 2012
10
710
Evidence, Bias, and Anecdote
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
January 10, 2012
6
1073
New Video: Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs: A Harm Reduction Approach
Will Hall
-
January 9, 2012
3
527
A Counter Narrative for Psychic Diversity
Sascha Altman DuBrul
-
January 7, 2012
1
875
Expect Recovery….
Gina Nikkel, PhD
-
January 6, 2012
3
254
Initiatory Madness
Michael Cornwall, PhD
-
January 5, 2012
25
2093
Introduction: Anatomy of a Psychiatric Practice
Sandra Steingard, MD
-
January 3, 2012
9
583
The New York Times and all that…
Keris Jän Myrick
-
January 3, 2012
6
211
Happy New Year From The Icarus Project!
Sascha Altman DuBrul
-
January 2, 2012
0
927
Chapter Twenty-One: Countdown to Surrender
Laura Delano
-
January 1, 2012
4
642
Letters From the Front Lines
Mark Foster, DO
-
December 31, 2011
3
146
A Three Pronged Approach to Mental Health System Change
Jim Gottstein, JD
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December 30, 2011
12
2421
Answering the Critics: William Glazer, in Behavioral Healthcare Magazine
Robert Whitaker
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December 13, 2011
0
902
Cognitive Therapy Found Effective in Unmedicated Psychotic Patients . . . And Other News
Robert Whitaker
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December 10, 2011
2
349
Chapter Twenty: Russian Roulette
Laura Delano
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December 9, 2011
0
280
Answering the Critics: Massachusetts General Hospital Grand Rounds
Robert Whitaker
-
December 2, 2011
5
2986
Chapter Nineteen: Playing the Part
Laura Delano
-
December 1, 2011
0
248
Answering the Critics: Let’s Roll the Tape (Again)
Robert Whitaker
-
November 30, 2011
0
420
Answering the Critics: The Carlat Psychiatry Blog
Robert Whitaker
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November 22, 2011
0
1593
Chapter Eighteen: Sentenced to Life
Laura Delano
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November 11, 2011
1
559
Healing the Body and Mind
Mark Foster, DO
-
November 6, 2011
0
218
A Rorschach Test for Psych Drugs
Robert Whitaker
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November 2, 2011
0
175
Anatomy of an Epidemic Down Under: Psychiatric Drugs and the Astonishing Rise of Disabling...
Robert Whitaker
-
September 16, 2011
2
491
September 15, 2011
Mark Foster, DO
-
September 15, 2011
0
165
Chapter Seventeen: Commencing to Self-Destruct
Laura Delano
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September 5, 2011
0
274
Chapter Sixteen: Inside a House of Cards
Laura Delano
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August 11, 2011
0
259
August 4, 2011
Mark Foster, DO
-
August 4, 2011
0
135
In Defense of Psychiatric Medications, Part Two
Robert Whitaker
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August 2, 2011
2
273
Chapter Fifteen: A Haven from Self
Laura Delano
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July 20, 2011
0
254
July 12, 2011
Mark Foster, DO
-
July 12, 2011
1
944
The New York Times’ Defense of Antidepressants
Robert Whitaker
-
July 10, 2011
0
752
Chapter Fourteen: Crossing the Threshold
Laura Delano
-
June 30, 2011
1
283
Now Antidepressant-Induced Chronic Depression Has a Name: Tardive Dysphoria
Robert Whitaker
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June 30, 2011
6
3087
June 27, 2011
Mark Foster, DO
-
June 27, 2011
0
157
Drug Companies ‘Just Say No’ to Psych Drugs
Robert Whitaker
-
June 27, 2011
2
558
June 17, 2011
Mark Foster, DO
-
June 17, 2011
0
166
Chapter Thirteen: In the Muck and The Mire
Laura Delano
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June 5, 2011
1
290
Summing Up the NIMH Trials: Evidence of an Effective Paradigm of Care?
Robert Whitaker
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May 28, 2011
0
189
Chapter Twelve: A Gift of Desperation
Laura Delano
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May 26, 2011
0
262
After 25 Posts on this Website, Dr. Mark Foster is Terminated by his Employer
Robert Whitaker
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May 25, 2011
0
1593
Chapter Eleven: Teetering on the Edge
Laura Delano
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May 10, 2011
0
267
Should the Medical Literature Be Cleansed of All STAR*D Articles?
Robert Whitaker
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May 5, 2011
0
235
April 30, 2011
Mark Foster, DO
-
April 30, 2011
0
150
Anatomy of an Epidemic wins investigative journalism award
Robert Whitaker
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April 26, 2011
0
283
Chapter Ten: A ‘Victim of Circumstance’
Laura Delano
-
April 20, 2011
0
295
April 11, 2011
Mark Foster, DO
-
April 11, 2011
0
132
Chapter Nine: Is It Me Or My Meds?
Laura Delano
-
April 10, 2011
0
451
STAR*D: Adding Fiction to Fiction
Ed Pigott, PhD
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April 10, 2011
1
1238
Rethinking Mental Health Care: The Story of the Oregon Symposium and the Foundation that...
Robert Whitaker
-
March 30, 2011
0
284
March 29, 2011
Mark Foster, DO
-
March 29, 2011
0
187
An Introduction: The Story of Bias in the STAR*D Trial and More
Ed Pigott, PhD
-
March 23, 2011
0
2155
March 15, 2011
Mark Foster, DO
-
March 15, 2011
0
179
Letters from the Front Lines
Mark Foster, DO
-
March 15, 2011
0
158
Chapter Eight: “Forget Happiness . . . I’ve Got Control”
Laura Delano
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March 10, 2011
1
273
March 4, 2011
Mark Foster, DO
-
March 4, 2011
0
129
Chapter Seven: Becoming Bipolar, Becoming Empowered
Laura Delano
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February 20, 2011
0
399
February 14, 2011
Mark Foster, DO
-
February 14, 2011
0
164
Andreasen Drops a Bombshell: Antipsychotics Shrink the Brain
Robert Whitaker
-
February 14, 2011
4
716
Chapter Six: A Disease of Dis-Ease, and New Hope for a Cure
Laura Delano
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February 10, 2011
0
259
January 31, 2011
Mark Foster, DO
-
January 31, 2011
0
154
Speaking at MGH Grand Rounds, and More
Robert Whitaker
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January 21, 2011
1
645
January 17, 2011
Mark Foster, DO
-
January 17, 2011
0
171
January 7, 2011
Mark Foster, DO
-
January 7, 2011
0
126
Antipsychotics and the Scientific Method
Jonathan Leo, PhD / Jeffrey Lacasse, PhD
-
January 7, 2011
0
271
Psychiatric Drugs and Violence: A Review of FDA Data Finds A Link
Robert Whitaker
-
January 5, 2011
2
644
December 22, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
-
December 22, 2010
0
167
December 15, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
-
December 15, 2010
0
126
Chapter Five: Filling the Void
Laura Delano
-
December 10, 2010
0
321
December 6, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
-
December 6, 2010
0
102
Updates on the Epidemic
Robert Whitaker
-
December 5, 2010
0
224
Do Psychiatric Drugs Impair Normal Brain Development?
Robert Whitaker
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December 4, 2010
0
220
The GlaxoSmithKline Ghostwriting Documents, Part Two
Robert Whitaker
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December 1, 2010
0
177
Chapter Four: Eye of the Storm
Laura Delano
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December 1, 2010
0
329
A Ghostwritten Psychiatric Textbook Hints at a Much Larger Problem
Robert Whitaker
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November 30, 2010
0
500
November 26, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
-
November 26, 2010
0
137
Volunteers for Psychotherapy Is A Finalist for International Award
Robert Whitaker
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November 26, 2010
0
127
Chapter Three: At War With A Diagnosis
Laura Delano
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November 20, 2010
2
378
November 11, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
-
November 11, 2010
0
143
November 1, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
-
November 10, 2010
0
176
November 9, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
-
November 9, 2010
0
109
Coffee Mugs or the Medical Literature: Why Do Doctors Make the Decisions They Do?
Jonathan Leo, PhD / Jeffrey Lacasse, PhD
-
November 9, 2010
0
166
November 4, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
-
November 4, 2010
0
135
The Successful Creation of a Societal Delusion . . . and the Increase in...
Robert Whitaker
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November 4, 2010
3
406
Tardive Dyskinesia in the Atypicals Era: Is The Risk Any Less Today Than Before?
Robert Whitaker
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November 2, 2010
0
475
New Rat Study: SSRIs Markedly Deplete Brain Serotonin
Robert Whitaker
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November 1, 2010
0
452
October 28, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
-
October 28, 2010
0
141
October 25, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
-
October 25, 2010
0
148
Do Antidepressants Worsen the Long-term Course of Depression? Giovanni Fava Pushes the Debate Forward.
Robert Whitaker
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October 25, 2010
0
446
October 21, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
-
October 21, 2010
2
169
October 17, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
-
October 17, 2010
0
147
October 14, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
-
October 14, 2010
0
143
Chapter Two: Opening Pandora’s Box
Laura Delano
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October 10, 2010
4
489
October 10, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
-
October 10, 2010
0
158
SAMHSA, Alternatives, and A Psychiatrist’s Despair over the State of American Science
Robert Whitaker
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October 10, 2010
1
305
SAMHSA, Alternatives, and the Story of an Opportunity Lost
Robert Whitaker
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October 8, 2010
2
396
October 6, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
-
October 6, 2010
0
255
Keeping Tabs on the Serotonin Theory of Depression
Jonathan Leo, PhD / Jeffrey Lacasse, PhD
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October 6, 2010
0
336
Chapter One: Journeying Back to Self
Laura Delano
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October 1, 2010
12
1957
September 25, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
-
September 25, 2010
0
186
September 21, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
-
September 21, 2010
3
156
September 18, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
-
September 18, 2010
0
176
Introducing Our Blog
Jonathan Leo, PhD / Jeffrey Lacasse, PhD
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September 18, 2010
0
205
September 27, 2010
Mark Foster, DO
-
September 10, 2010
0
173
And Now For the Rest of the Story
Robert Whitaker
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August 31, 2010
0
211
The STAR*D Scandal: A New Paper Sums It All Up
Robert Whitaker
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August 27, 2010
0
1380
Charlie Rose and the Mentally Ill Brain
Robert Whitaker
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August 12, 2010
2
404
News Roundup From June
Robert Whitaker
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July 5, 2010
0
182
”Broken Brains” and “Beautiful Minds”
Robert Whitaker
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July 2, 2010
0
356
Medicating Children: A “Whistleblower’s Lawsuit” Raises a Novel Legal Question
Robert Whitaker
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June 2, 2010
0
202
Yet Another Disappointment: First Catie, and Now the 12-Month Results from TEOSS
Robert Whitaker
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May 25, 2010
0
650
Update on the Star*D Report
Robert Whitaker
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May 19, 2010
0
295
A Schizophrenia Mystery Solved?
Robert Whitaker
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May 8, 2010
1
1938
Time Magazine and Anatomy of an Epidemic
Robert Whitaker
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April 24, 2010
0
257
Hypotheses, Scientific Evidence, and On Being Compared to an AIDS Denier
Robert Whitaker
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April 14, 2010
1
257
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
282
Fact Checking the New Yorker, Part Two
Robert Whitaker
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March 15, 2010
0
270
Fact Checking the New Yorker
Robert Whitaker
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March 15, 2010
0
655