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Irish Open Dialogue Shut Down—Despite Expert Report Stating It Should Be Scaled Up

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Prescription Drugs Are the Leading Cause of Death

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What Is “Care” in a Psychiatric Medical Camp for the Unhoused in India?

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1147

Witless and Dangerous? Challenging the Assumptions of the ‘Schizo’ Paradigm

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1576

Tapering Strips: A Practical Tool for Personalised and Safe Tapering of Withdrawal-Causing Prescription Drugs

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2339

From the Dopamine Theory to the Outcomes Paradox

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2688

The Significance of Semiotics in Social Work

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2721

On the Brink of Murder Because of an Antidepressant

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2601

Bad Science Revisited: “The Bell Curve” Turns 30

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Szasz and the Liberation of the “Mental Patient”

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1417

The Experience of Survivors of Psychiatry in Brazil

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Medical Journals Refuse to Retract Fraudulent Trial Reports That Omitted Suicidal Events in Children

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From a Paranoid Schizophrenia Diagnosis to a Peer Researcher in Nigeria

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5288

Beyond Greenspaces and Mental Health: The Power of the Wild

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1160

Can Madness Save the World? Where R.D. Laing—and Star Trek—Meet

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Putting JAMA Psychiatry and MIA to the Genetic Test

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Animal Theory of Emotion: Emotion Is Not a Disorder

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2057

Charles Spencer’s Story of Boarding School Abuse Is Haunting

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1755

Interpersonal Caring as an Act of Resistance Among Socially Marginalized

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In Defense of Open Dialogue Research

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1420

Never Waste a Good Depression: Family Therapy Challenges the Seductive Shortcut of Psychiatric Drugs

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Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS): How the Last Step to Recovery Became the Final Step...

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How Psychiatrists Responded to the Launch of Our New ECT Survey

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5729

The Integration of Peer Support Principles in Community Mental Health Policy and Practice: Toward...

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2648

Benzodiazepines in Canada: Is a Withdrawal Crisis Looming?

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2263

The Psychiatric Peddlers in Your Schools

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4476

Reflections on the Silicon Valley Teen Suicides-by-Train: Fifteen Years Later

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2747

The “Madness” of Inpatient Psychiatry

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4691

Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 8)

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Irish Psychiatry Says Chemical Imbalance Is a Figure of Speech—So, What Now?

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Enlarging the Treatment Lens for Postpartum Depression

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How the Medical Profession Pathologizes Emotions and the Damage to Patients

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5126

Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 7)

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Trauma and Resources Within Social Context

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2452

As a Psychologist, I’ve Seen Many Children Misdiagnosed as Autistic—It’s a Clinical Catastrophe

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9846

The Social-Emotional Distress Field, or How I Divorced “Mental Health”

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Are “Trauma/Addiction Experts” and Psychiatrists Misleading Us?

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 6)

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RADAR and the Dignity of Risk-Taking

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“Get Over It”? A Response to Empower Parents to Repair Instead of Victim Blame

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The Dangers of Precision Medicine: Mental Health Is Not a Battlefield

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“Impairment: Says Who?”: The Fundamental Question of Mental Health Treatment

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 5)

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Toxic Interactions: Social Circumstances and Well-Being

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Accounting for Mental Disorder: Time for a Paradigm Shift

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 4)

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Arrested Development: Britney Spears’ Memoir Is a Survivor’s Tale of Generational Trauma, Psychiatric Abuse,...

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Giving Caregivers a Platform: Sherita, Mother of Tony

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What Helped—and What Didn’t Help—My Recovery

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It’s Health’s Illusions I Recall, I Really Don’t Know Health at All

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 3)

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A Psychotic Experience can Help to Process Difficult Memories

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De-privatizing Our Relationships

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 2)

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Mad in America’s 10 Most Popular Articles in 2023

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Dr. Gordon Warme: The Curious Case of an Unconventional Psychiatrist

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Conservatorship: The Racket That Ruined My Father’s Last Years

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 1)

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Not Just a Dream: Finding the Mental Health Community I’d Been Longing For

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2023 in Review: A Paradigm Shift Is Underway

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Therapy by Script Undermines Healing; Connection Is the Key

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Reimagining Crisis Support: A Conversation with Tina Minkowitz

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 1, Part 3)

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How the Medical Model Corrupted Mennonite Values

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‘Delusions’ and ‘Paranoia’: What Are They, Really, and How Can We Engage Them in...

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The Power Dynamics of Psychedelic Therapy

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2896

Q&A: What Is Executive Function, and How Can Parents and Teachers Help Kids Focus?

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 1, Part 2)

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Systemic Insanity

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4321

Beyond Pills: UK Parliament Must Support Social and Psychological Services Instead

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2076

Mental Disorder Has Roots in Trauma and Inequality, Not Biology

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You Have the Legal Right to Informed Consent

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920

A Remarkable Feat: A Psychiatric Patient Changed the Law on Restraints

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 1, Part 1)

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Decolonizing Psychiatry in Pakistan: A Reckoning with our Colonial Past and a Call for...

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1296

The Drug Taper Paradox

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The Lie That Antidepressants Protect Against Suicide Is Deadly

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4489

Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Preface)

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Pigs in the Hospital: The Collapse of Venezuela’s Mental Health System

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Psychiatry, Violence, and the State: California’s Systematic Failure of Its Unhoused Population

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Withdrawing From Psychiatric Drugs: How to Produce Smaller Doses Than Those the Drug Companies...

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The Psychiatric Diagnostic Evaluation: Medical Expertise or Smoke And Mirrors?

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2182

Over-stressing Stress: American Psychological Association Report Omits Oppression

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The New WHO and UN Guidance: Psychiatry Must Entirely Change

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How the Psychosocial Approach Provides an Alternative to the Biomedical Model

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Why Do Only Some People Experience Severe Antidepressant Withdrawal?

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Six)

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I Secret Shopped #988 and Three Cop Cars Showed Up Outside My House

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The Challenge of Presenting Antidepressant Risks and Benefits

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Five)

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Madness and Method: Exploring the Realm of Unconventional Reasoning

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Healing From Psychiatric Drug Harm, Part 2: Rational Approaches to Recovery

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Medication-free Ward in Tromsø, Norway May Soon Close

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Antidepressant Withdrawal: A Clinician’s Middle View

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Four)

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The American Journal of Psychiatry’s Answer to MIA: A Silence that Speaks Volumes

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The War on Suicide Is Making Things Worse

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5643

Dostoevsky: A Psychologist We Can All Learn From

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Three)

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Grant, Interrupted: An Introduction and Report Back from Oregon

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Reality According to Whom? Listening to My Wife—and The Problems with ‘Psychosis’

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Two)

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Reflections on the RADAR Study

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5697

Survivors and Families Working Together For Change: A New Project 

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2219

Medication Overload, Part II: The Explosion of Drugs for Kids

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part One)

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1743

Not Before Time: Lived Experience Led Justice and Repair

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The Mental Health Crisis of Today’s Youth—The Hidden Culprit Every Parent and Therapist Should...

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Global Psychiatry’s Attempt to Excommunicate the Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to...

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Ten Years Later: Still Shooting the Odds

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5988

Students Don’t Need Spying, They Need Trust

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1289

Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 15: Withdrawal of Psychiatric Drugs

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1657

What the RADAR Trial Tells Us About Antipsychotic Reduction and Discontinuation

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6998

Remembrances of Linda Andre, Leader in the Fight Against ECT

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2431

Report on Improving Mental Health Outcomes

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4556

Awais Aftab Responds to the STAR*D Scandal . . . And Digs a New Hole...

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4200

Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 14: Psychotherapy and the Role of Psychologists

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909

Giving Caregivers a Platform: Chandra, Mother of Sophia

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1176

Update on Retracting the Fraudulent STAR*D Results

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1380

Book Review: A History of Fatigue from the Middle Ages to the Present

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1545

Inside the Neuroscience Community: Peter Sterling Responds to Awais Aftab

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2820

Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 13: Forced Treatment

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1045

A New Vision for Mental Health Care at Soteria Jerusalem

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1201

Cochrane Reviews of Psychiatric Drugs Are Untrustworthy

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1748

Critical Psychiatry Textbook Chapter 12: Electroshock

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1872

Medication Overload, Part I: A Mountain of Drugs in America’s Cabinets

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1452

Why I Resigned from Mental Health America

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4657

Unattached Burdens: IFS Helps Us Understand What Psychiatry Ignores

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5088

What’s Eating Oregon? Peer Respites, The Lund Report & Beyond

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3295

Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 11: Dementia

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1105

Book Review of Crash: A Memoir of Overmedication and Recovery by Ann Bracken

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2363

“The Best Minds”: How the Dazzling New Book Falls Short

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10409

Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 10: Anxiety Disorders

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2031

Good Damage: How Community-Led Healing Challenges the Campus Mental Health System

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994

The Media’s False Narrative About Depression Pills, Suicides, and Saving Lives

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8012

Paying Attention to ADHD Prescriptions in Your Community

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2395

Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 9: ADHD (Part Three)

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1890

Healing From Psychiatric Drug Harm, Part 1: First Steps

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3959

Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 9: ADHD (Part Two)

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2384

Fighting Outpatient Commitment in Massachusetts

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4826

How to Advocate Effectively for Loved Ones Harmed by Psychiatric Drugs

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12944

Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 9: ADHD (Part One)

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2767

Driving Our Children into Suicide with Escitalopram and Other Happy Pills

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3288

Everyone’s Afraid of an Angry Woman: Honoring Sinéad O’Connor

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 8: Depression and Mania (Affective Disorders) (Part Fourteen)

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2630

The Clinical Uses of Stoic Acceptance

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2399

How Does Untreated “Burnout” Manifest?

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 8: Depression and Mania (Affective Disorders) (Part Thirteen)

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1113

ChatGPT Changes Its Mind: Maybe Antidepressants Do More Harm Than Good

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“Borderline Personality Disorder” and Survivor Injustice

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 8: Depression and Mania (Affective Disorders) (Part Twelve)

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3860

My Sister Lucy’s Death and Life: Picturing an Alternate Timeline of Recovery

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3371

Akathisia and Prescribed Harm as Traumatic Chemical Brain Injury (TCBI)

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3633

Can ChatGPT Defend the Long-term Use of Antipsychotics?

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 8: Depression and Mania (Affective Disorders) (Part Eleven)

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1890

Psychiatry Killed Tuva Andersson, Whose Problem Was Anxiety

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7290

What Does ChatGPT Say About MIA?

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3105

Sleepwalking My Life on Seroquel

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4439

Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 8: Depression and Mania (Affective Disorders) (Part Ten)

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3192

With the Launch of Mad in Denmark, a Global Network for Radical Change Grows...

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1098

The Psychiatrization of Consumers after Harm from Plastic and Cosmetic Procedures

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2219

What Does it Mean to Be Borderpolar?

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Q&A: How Can We See ADHD From Another Angle, and What Can We Do...

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3012

Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 8: Depression and Mania (Affective Disorders) (Part Nine)

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Psychiatry’s Denial of the Horrors of Tardive Dyskinesia

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‘The Invisible Cage Called Freedom’: My Work, My Kids, My Mental Health

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790

Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics at the Crossroads: Mary Boyle Interviews Jay Joseph

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Splitting Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 8: Depression and Mania (Affective Disorders) (Part Eight)

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1101

Stigma: But What if I Don’t Want to Be Like Everyone Else?

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 8: Depression and Mania (Affective Disorders) (Part Seven)

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1288

Changing Brains, Changing Minds: Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and the Marital Relationship

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2063

Akathisia: Historical Perspective for Healing

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 8: Depression and Mania (Affective Disorders) (Part Six)

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3695

Cochrane’s Demise: Misleading Denigration of Benzodiazepines for Acute Psychosis

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 8: Depression and Mania (Affective Disorders) (Part Five)

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Psychiatrists: The Criminals Behind the Scenes of the Conservatorship Business

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Not Everyone Agreed With FDA Approval of Antipsychotic Rexulti for Agitation

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Antidepressants Have Destroyed My Sexual Function and Range of Emotions

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An Unacknowledged Role of Doctors: Suppressing Women

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 8: Depression and Mania (Affective Disorders) (Part Four)

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Making Crazy: Rob Wipond’s “Your Consent Is Not Required”

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Neurodiversity Is a Scientific Revolution

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Giving Caregivers a Platform: Elianna, Mother of Brandon

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 8: Depression and Mania (Affective Disorders) (Part Three)

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2328

The Medicalization of the American Mind

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DOOCE: A Case Study on the Failure of Psychiatry

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It’s Time for Soteria: An Australian Perspective

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 8: Depression and Mania (Affective Disorders) (Part Two)

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The Systemic Harms of Psychiatry

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Psychiatrogenesis (Whither Psychiatry or Reform)

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 8: Depression and Mania (Affective Disorders) (Part One)

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5056

White Paper Presents Case Against Forced Treatment

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8190

Self-test for Adult Symptom Deficiency Disorder (ASDD)

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3089

Can Listening to Heavy Metal Be Therapeutic?

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 7: Psychosis (Part Six)

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In Defense of Incoherent Psychiatry

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Can’t Be Trusted: A Book Review Review

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2700

Q&A: What Is Informed Consent, and What Should I Know to Help My Child?

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1521

The Hidden Injuries of Oppression

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3376

Listen to the Victims: Senate Holds Hearing on Guardianship

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2119

Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 7: Psychosis (Part Five)

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1780

Chronic Stress and “Mental Illness”

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4834

To Promote Mental Health, We Must Teach It

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2066

Lost Poetry: Psychiatry and Creativity

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 7: Psychosis (Part Four)

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1983

Life-Enhancing Anxiety: Key to a Revitalized World

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 7: Psychosis (Part Three)

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2044

LGBTQIA+ Peer Respites: The Personal Is Political

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1998

Medically-Assisted Suicide Is Not a Win for Mental Health

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2550

Emotional Crisis Response: The Peer-Run Respite/Soteria House Approach Compared to the Conventional Approach

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2929

Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 7: Psychosis (Part Two)

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4329

Mad Poetry Slam!

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1492

Acute Religious Experiences: Madness, Psychosis, and Religious Studies

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3140

Tolstoy’s Hermit: Jay Schulkin

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2439

Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 7: Psychosis (Part One)

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4742

Compassion and Understanding Versus Drugs and Disease: Where Does Humanistic Psychology Stand Now?

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 6: Psychiatric Drug Trials Are Not Reliable

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How Peer Reviewers and Editors Protected a Failed Paradigm for Psychiatric Drug Testing

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 5: Psychiatric Diagnoses Are Not Reliable (Part Two)

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2448

New York Can’t—or Won’t—Provide Data on New Forced Treatment Plan

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2767

Beyond Psychiatry: A Trauma-Centric View of Mental Health

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Everyone Has a Story

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1984

About Not Listening to People

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 5: Psychiatric Diagnoses Are Not Reliable (Part One)

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One Flew Over the Scientific Consensus’ Nest—The Story of Dr. Ophir and ADHD

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 4: Are Psychiatric Disorders Caused by a Chemical Imbalance? ...

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3011

Black Movement Leaders: Lost & Found

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2024

We’re Obsessed with Labelling Suffering, But Our Power to Think about it Matters More

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Remembering Fernando Freitas in Brazil

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 3: Are Psychiatric Disorders Detectable in a Brain Scan?

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2647

Summer Mad Camp 2023

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 2: Are Psychiatric Disorders Mainly Genetic or Environmental? (Part Two)

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Fernando de Freitas: A “Dear Friend” Who Was a Warrior for Radical Change

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We Must Not Remove Legal Protections for People at Risk of Forced ECT

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 2: Are Psychiatric Disorders Mainly Genetic or Environmental? (Part One)

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“Hidden Valley Road” and Schizophrenia: Do Genes Tell the Story?

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 1: Why a Critical Textbook of Psychiatry?

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New York’s Mayor: We’re out of Ideas, so It’s “Back to the Cuckoo’s Nest”...

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2289

Seriously Misleading Network Meta-analysis in Lancet of Acceptability of Depression Pills

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Problem-Solving Through Skills-Building: Motivating Kids to Change

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1642

Mad in America’s 10 Most Popular Articles in 2022

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5142

Ghosts Popping out Everywhere: The Shifting Times We Live in and the Process of...

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When Violence Hits Home, Can We Keep Growing?

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A Brain for Our Emancipation

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Consumer Advisory Board Chair: NYC Mayor Adams Did Not Consult With Us on New...

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Psychotherapy: Less Expensive and Better Than Pills, It’s What the Patients Want but Don’t...

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Dubious Science: Downplaying the Risks of Antidepressants in Pregnancy

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Data on Your Mind: Good Public Health or Mental Health Surveillance?

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2236

Celia Brown, R.I.P.: Psychiatric Survivor, Pioneer, and Global Activist for Change

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Tardive Dyskinesia, Chronic Lyme Disease, and Infection

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Number Needed to Treat with a Psychiatric Drug to Benefit One Patient Is an...

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The Schizophrenia Genetics Illusion—A Century of Failure and Hype

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On the Brink of Psychosis

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10031

Interview: The Need for Trauma-Informed Schools

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2545

The Mental Health Industry Speaks Volumes About Our Society’s Priorities

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Shedding the Limits of “Severe Mental Illness” Labels

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New App Aims to Predict Whether People with Psychosis Are Worth Hiring

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Denmark Is the Only European Country Where the Usage of Depression Pills Has Dropped

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Feel Hopeless About Reforming a Broken System? Incremental Change Is Still Change

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Improving Therapy Outcomes: The Case for Deliberate Practice

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Growing Good Mental Health with Choice Theory

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6 Good Things That Happened When I Stopped Believing in ‘Mental Health’

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Are We Witnessing the Emergence of a New Paradigm?

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Why Detox Facilities and Psych Wards Are Not the Place to Come Off Psychiatric...

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The “S” Word: How the Culture of Fear Has Failed Youth in Crises

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From the Health Minister Down, Nobody Is Seriously Interested in the Quality Control of...

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The Problem of High Functioning Anxiety

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Re-humanising Mental Health Systems: A Discussion with Jaakko Seikkula on the Open Dialogue Approach

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A New-Old Way of Coping with Grief

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The Spravato Controversy: A Row Over the Drug’s Efficacy Compels a Reassessment of...

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The Answers Are in Our Weak Spots

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Grief, Intense Feelings, and Pathologization: Can We Conceive a Different Approach?

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Mental Health & Our Schools, Part 2

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1973

20 Concrete Steps to Achieving System Change

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An Illness, or Risky Experimentation?

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4401

A Return to Dignity from Psychiatric and Childhood Abuse

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Why We Urgently Need New Approaches to Mental Health

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What Video Games Can Teach Us About Effective Parenting

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Meaningless Distractibility, or Meaningful Mind-Wandering?

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The Psychiatrist’s Dilemma: In Defense of Placebo Psychiatry

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“Beware, Scientology Related”: How ADHD Experts Silence Criticism

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#RestoreTheirRights: An Update on Guardianship Action

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The Culture Is the Poison: Why Psychedelics Are Dangerous Medicine in a Neoliberal Society

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A Developmental Response to Trauma and Trauma Language

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Call for Teen Art in All Media!

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Major Depression: The “Chemical Imbalance” Pillar Is Crumbling—Is the Genetics Pillar Next?

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Behavior Therapy Helped My Patients Through Antidepressant Withdrawal

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The Phobic Avoidance of Attending to Real World Mental Health Outcomes

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A Therapist Tried to Explain CBT When I Was 11 Years Old, Ineffectively

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The Mad in the World Network: A Global Voice for Change

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Ken Burns’ “Hiding in Plain Sight…”: Candid Interviews, Canned Conclusions

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Condensing “Anatomy of an Epidemic” into a High-Level Summary Document

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Away From Psychiatrization: Towards Socio-Ecological Wellbeing in the Community

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Loss, Grief, and Betrayal: Psychiatric Survivors Reflect on the Impact of New Serotonin Study

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The Powerful Allure of Psychedelics in Today’s Disenchanted World

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Psychiatry Textbooks Are Filled with Errors and Propaganda

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Catherine’s Story: A Child Lost to Psychiatry 

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Response to Criticism of Our Serotonin Paper

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Psychiatry’s Failure Crisis: Are You Moderately or Radically Enlightened?

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New WHO QualityRights e-training: Advancing Mental Health, Eliminating Stigma, and Promoting Inclusion

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Are Antidepressant Drugs Being Prescribed Too Widely? A Review of “Evidence-biased Antidepressant Prescription”

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A Diagnosis and Its Damages: Orna Ophir’s “Schizophrenia: An Unfinished History”

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The Transformative Potential of Psychosis

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July is Both Disability Pride Month and Mad Pride Month: Happy Bastille Day!

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MIA Webinars: Past, Present and Future

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The UK’s IAPT Service Is an Abject Failure

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Expanded Mental Health Services Won’t Stop Mass Shootings

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Peer Values Versus Violence: A View from Lived Experience

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Cargo Cult Psychiatry

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The Power of Activism

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Open Season on Mental Patients

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Behaviorists Must Confront Psychiatry’s Pseudoscience

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Psychiatry’s Medical Model: How It Traumatizes, Retraumatizes & Perverts Healing

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The New York Times Comments Section: A Literary Rorschach Test for the Masses

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A Hopelessly Flawed Seminar in “The Lancet” About Suicide

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4540

Icarus, Let Me In: Songs For a Better Story

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1370

A Different Psychiatry Is Needed for Discontinuing Antidepressants

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The Shady World of Shock Treatment

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4344

The Alternative to Psychiatry Has Been Discovered—We’re Just Not Using It

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Peer Support Research: Is It Time Yet?

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2027

The Emperor’s New Clothes: The Upcoming NICE Depression Guidelines

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2287

Review of the Conference on Withdrawal and Side Effects: IIPDW

- 5
807

Psychiatry in Aeromedicine: Who Is Denied the Privilege of Piloting an Aircraft?

- 10
3328

From Horse Ranch to Home Ground: Healing Families via Telehealth

- 5
866

Unity in Diversity: Rethinking Mental Health and Our Connection to Nature

- 4
1584

What Is the Role of the Prosumer in the Mental Health System?

- 15
1673

ADHD: The Money Trail

- 9
4934

Inner Fire Is the Only Place I Would Go for Emotional Distress

- 7
2111

Mad by Design: An Ancient Paradigm of Psychiatric Thought

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3397

Thomas Insel and the Future of the Mental Health System

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7583

Ending Coercive “Help”: A Review of “Reimagining Crisis Support”

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2534

And Finally

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An American History of Addiction, Part 10: My Strange Path to Recovery

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1166

An American History of Addiction, Part 9: How I Became an “Addict”

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1398

Apples and Oranges in Peer Support Research

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2323

Saving Lives or Cementing Stigma? A Review of “Just Like You…”

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Mad in (S)pain

- 0
1235

The Dramatic Results of John Weir Perry’s Diabasis House Program

- 14
6121

The Grief Pill is Coming!

- 13
11135

Mad in Finland

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1397

Responding to Daniel Morehead, MD, Psychiatry’s Latest Champion

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2210

Mad in the UK

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1786

The Functions of the Mental Health System Under Capitalism

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11282

Thomas Jobe: The Legacy of Research He Leaves Behind

- 9
4107

Former NIMH Director’s New Book: Why, With More Treatment, Have Suicides and Mental Distress...

- 32
9032

Engaging “Madness”: A Guide for Significant Others and Families

- 12
2080

Mad in Sweden

- 0
1279

Why Do We Lock People Up?

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3214

Why Do People Self-Harm, and How Can We Stop It?

- 30
3051

The ENIGMA-MDD Project: Searching for the Neuropathology of “Major Depressive Disorder”

- 40
2092

Fifty-Eight Years Beyond the Community Mental Health Act, 1963

- 31
1086

Mad in Canada

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1316

Desperate Remedies

- 7
3792

The Looting of “Outsider Art” by Psychiatry Continues Today

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2876

Anti-Psychiatry, Szasz, Torrey, Biederman & the Death of Freethinking

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4979

Mad in México

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1161

Psychiatry Upgraded the Declaration of Independence

- 10
1283

Illnesses or Loose Collections of Vaguely Described Problems?

- 23
1523

The Censors Are Coming for Mental Health

- 23
2765

Mad in the Netherlands

- 2
1707

Robert Spitzer on DSM-III: A Recently Recovered Interview

- 18
6388

Collateral Damage: The Negative Impact of Antidepressants on New Zealand Youth

- 1
2067

Toxic Marketing: The Business of Selling TMS

- 32
9428

Mad in Italy

- 3
1482

Malignant Do-Gooderism: The Tragedies of Allopathic Psychiatry

- 4
2206

Fear and Loathing in the ECT Debate

- 11
3041

Regulators Are Approving Drugs Without Clear Evidence That They Work

- 5
1481

Mad in Norway

- 0
1568

Susan Inman Is at It Again

- 22
2705

The Danger of Marginalizing People

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2019

Why Is Psychiatry So Defensive About Criticism? Part 2

- 44
2805

Consternation of the Bees

- 7
975

Mad in Brasil

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986

Save the Date! Kids in Crisis: The Overprescribing of Psychiatric Medication

- 0
1745

The New DSM Is Coming and That Isn’t Good News

- 42
77730

Evidence Distortion in Medicine Explained in One Single Chart

- 3
1959

Why Is Psychiatry So Defensive About Criticism?

- 57
4016

Why Is Child Sexual Abuse So Common in Institutions?

- 7
2770

Home Alone: Finding Connection During the Pandemic

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1148

Grief: A Shamanic Perspective

- 5
4293

New NICE Guidelines for ECT Are Dangerously Inadequate, Say 50 Patients and Professionals

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1777

When It Comes to Mental Health Problems, The Disability Framework Fails: A Response to...

- 34
2214

“Mental Health” Is a Euphemism for Policing Social Deviance

- 28
5177

Can Anything Good Come Out of Therapy?

- 60
5497

Addressing the Social Determinants of Mental Health—or Perhaps Not

- 34
3082

When Tapering Antidepressants, is Going Slow Always the Best Strategy?

- 50
6324

The Psychiatric Hospital Is an Institution of Social Control

- 22
5054

Getting A Diagnosis Meant That My Sister Never Had the Chance to Resolve Her...

- 24
6913

Mental Health Care Must Support Consent and Basic Human Rights

- 9
3010

When It Comes to Mental Health Problems, The Disability Framework Fails

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4000

Institutionalized 18 Years Ago, I May Never Be Released

- 10
4611

Book Review: “Opening Up: The Parenting Journey”

- 4
1708

Psychotherapy Has an Enduring Effect on Depression—in Contrast to Depression Pills

- 18
4557

ADHD as Cargo Cult Science

- 16
7447

Tower of Babel: The Meaning and Purpose of Voicehearing and Psychosis

- 5
2768

The DSM Files: Investigating the Incoherence of Psychiatry’s Bible

- 10
5526

Emotional Contagion Spreads Madness—What Can We Do About It?

- 15
3306

“For Life”: New Opera Tells the Stories of Those Harmed by Psychiatric Drugs

- 22
3437

What Is Climate Distress—And What Can Therapists Do About It?

- 5
2380

Reason and Madness: How Psychiatry Marginalizes Those Who Contradict Western Norms

- 10
3317

“Make Psychiatry Healthy”: Analysis of a Leaflet From the Danish Psychiatric Association

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3067

Why Not Seek Treatment Through the Mental Health System?

- 21
3654

The New York Times Confidently Misinterprets a New ECT Study

- 20
3545

#FreeBritney Takes the Capitol: Rallygoers Seek Momentum for Guardianship Reform

- 4
1281

How and Why Neurotypicals Misunderstand and Mistreat Autistic People

- 37
45148

Remembering Darby Penney — A Fierce Advocate for Justice and Human Rights

- 9
2894

A Dystopian Vision of Psychiatry’s Future

- 16
4769

Peer Respite: Why It Should be Everyone’s Concern

- 16
3267

RIP: Ed White – Advocate, Researcher and Supporter

- 6
4811

Fate of a Whistleblower: I Spoke Out About Abrupt Med Withdrawal

- 5
3774

A New Liberation Movement, Focused on Relationship

- 8
1860

I Set Up a Suicide Crisis Centre to Provide the Opposite of What I...

- 9
2768

RIP: Scottish Psychiatric Survivor Activist Chrys Muirhead

- 10
2626

What Happens When A Peer Is Accused of Relapsing?

- 8
2398

Soteria House and Peer Respite Summit

- 7
1649

Mad Activists: The Language We Use Reflects Our Desire for Change

- 19
8077

The Importance of Empathic Listening for Making Meaning of Distress

- 3
2167

Honoring Jane Whittington: 1950-2021

- 3
1441

The Cochrane Tapes Reveal a Horrendous Show Trial Against a Critic of Psychiatry

- 7
6060

What We Have Always Known but Psychiatry Forgot

- 37
5991

What Can We Learn from Alcohol? A Paradigm Shift in How We View Distress

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Review: “(Mis)Diagnosed: How Bias Distorts Our Perception of Mental Health”

- 7
2762

Remembering Don Weitz, 1930-2021

- 9
1843

Psychedelics—The New Psychiatric Craze

- 39
7267

Interview: Moving Toward a Human Rights Approach to Student Mental Health

- 1
1559

The Sins of Conservatorship: Why Britney Spears Compared It to Slavery

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3393

The Great Triumph of Roxanne Stewart-Johnson: Psychiatric Refugee

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2728

The Case of Joshua Spriestersbach: If This Is a Horror Story, What Does it...

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4640

Garbage in, Garbage out: The Newest Cochrane Meta-Analysis of Depression Pills in Children

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4481

ISEPP to American Psychological Association: Condemn Forced Treatment

- 0
1454

Psychiatry Is the Cause, Not the Solution

- 42
6043

EVENT: Town Hall on Children and Psychiatric Drugs

- 3
1028

Mental Health Survival Kit, Chapter 5 (Part 6): Patient Stories and Conclusion

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2886

An American History of Addiction, Part 8: A Turning Point, But Where Do We...

- 3
1440

How I Learned the Social and Environmental Causes of Madness

- 2
2001

Speak Out! Britney’s Fight Is Our Fight

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1946

Mental Health Survival Kit, Chapter 5: Survival Kit for Young Psychiatrists in a Sick...

- 4
1651

Psychiatric Drugs “Help” By Causing Brain Dysfunction

- 25
9393

In Memoriam: Paula Joan Caplan

- 15
4952

Mental Health Survival Kit, Chapter 5: Survival Kit for Young Psychiatrists in a Sick...

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1984

Psychiatric Drugs Increase Suicide. CAMPP’s Film “Prescripticide” Exposes the Harms

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5080

Discomfort Is the New Comfort Zone

- 16
2505

Cindi Fisher on Hunger Strike: Free My Sidd

- 7
1906

Mental Health Survival Kit, Chapter 5: Survival Kit for Young Psychiatrists in a Sick...

- 15
2406

How Do We Know When a Treatment Works? A Primer on the Scientific Method

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1852

Britney: In the Name of Health

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1538

Flying Over Australia’s Cuckoo’s Nest: A Review of “Overprescribing Madness”

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1931

Mental Health Survival Kit, Chapter 5: Survival Kit for Young Psychiatrists in a Sick...

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1336

A Self-Help Version of EMDR Could Make Healing from Trauma Easier

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12218

Will US Agency New Head End Stonewalling About Money for Involuntary Outpatient Mental Health?

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Mental Health Survival Kit, Chapter 5: Survival Kit for Young Psychiatrists in a Sick...

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2048

The Politics of Distress: A Discussion With Dr. James Davies on His New Book,...

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11703

How Far Has Psychiatry Really Come? Historical Practices Versus Modern-Day Psychiatry

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3603

An American History of Drugs and Addiction, Part 7: The Harm Reduction Revolution

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1442

Mental Health Survival Kit, Chapter 4: Withdrawing from Psychiatric Drugs (Part 6)

- 4
2585

EMDR in a Nutshell: Healing from Trauma

- 58
5025

The Transformational Qualities of Hearing Voices Groups

- 5
2157

FDA Approves Failed Alzheimer’s Drug

- 2
1695

Psychotherapy Is Safer and Less Expensive Than Drug Treatment

- 2
1572

Mental Health Survival Kit, Chapter 4: Withdrawing from Psychiatric Drugs (Part 5)

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2972

A Review of “Mud Flower: Surviving Schizophrenia and Suicide Through Art”

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1694

Mental Health Survival Kit, Chapter 4: Withdrawing from Psychiatric Drugs (Part 4)

- 10
2158

Lessons from the Pandemic: Panic Attacks Are Not Random

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2490

Modern Psychiatry’s Allure: It Tells People What They Want to Hear

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Mental Health Survival Kit, Chapter 4: Withdrawing from Psychiatric Drugs (Part 3)

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1952

Does Official Recognition of Peers Undermine Their Work?

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1751

It’s All About Rights—or Should We Say “Unequal Privileges”

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1367

Mental Health Survival Kit, Chapter 4: Withdrawing from Psychiatric Drugs (Part 2)

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2102

Shining a Light on Numbers Needed to Treat (NNT)

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2734

The ERNI Declaration: Making Sense of Distress Without “Disease”

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Remembering Jay Mahler

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3316

Mental Health Survival Kit, Chapter 4: Withdrawing from Psychiatric Drugs (Part 1)

- 21
2959

Welcome to Mad in America’s Family Resources Section!

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909

Current Anti-Stigma Campaigns Hinder Withdrawal from Psychotropic Medication

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3005

Radical Acts of Community Healing and Self-Love

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1836

Mental Health Survival Kit, Chapter 3: Psychotherapy: The Human Approach to Emotional Pain

- 14
2291

We Do Not Have Everything We Need

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2727

Mental Health Survival Kit, Chapter 2: Is Psychiatry Evidence Based? (Part 9)

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How Can Mental Health Research Become More Relevant to Those it is Meant to...

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1487

Nutrition Is the Foundation of Resilience

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Mental Health Survival Kit, Chapter 2: Is Psychiatry Evidence Based? (Part 8)

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2253

Access Denied: Victims of Prescribed Harm Are Abandoned by Psychiatry

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Mental Health Survival Kit, Chapter 2: Is Psychiatry Evidence Based? (Part 7)

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3001

Philosophy & Madness: A Discussion with Wouter Kusters

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6962

Mental Health Survival Kit, Chapter 2: Is Psychiatry Evidence Based? (Part 6)

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2249

Interview: Is Forced Treatment Deterring Youth from Seeking Mental Health Care?

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2170

Mental Health at the End of the World

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2458

Questions About Forced ECT: A Letter for Minnesota Governor Tim Walz

- 12
2471

Mental Health Survival Kit, Chapter 2: Is Psychiatry Evidence Based? (Part 5)

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3251

Overprescribing Madness

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3233

Psycho-Bizarreness Theory: A Rational, Anti-Psychiatric Theory of Madness

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4440

Mental Health Survival Kit, Chapter 2: Is Psychiatry Evidence Based? (Part 4)

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2811

An American History of Addiction, Part 6: The Reagan Reaction

- 3
2219

Beyond Benzos: Jordan B. Peterson’s Trip to Hell and Back

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A Difference That Can Make a Difference: Mental Distress as a Call of Being

- 3
1663

Mental Health Survival Kit, Chapter 2: Is Psychiatry Evidence Based? (Part 3)

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2660

Online Exhibition: Art-Making During the Pandemic

- 2
1228

Federal Mental Health Agencies: Remember Ivory!

- 13
2309

How Psychiatry Turned General Difficulties in Adaptation into “Real Illnesses Just Like Diabetes”

- 41
4133

Mental Health Survival Kit, Chapter 2: Is Psychiatry Evidence Based? (Part 2)

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3447

How to Support Healing from Psychosis Versus Imposing Social Control

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3829

Informed Consent Must Reflect Information from Online Withdrawal Forums

- 5
2124

Mental Health Survival Kit, Chapter 2: Is Psychiatry Evidence Based? (Part 1)

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4056

Our Culture Is Abusive

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5134

Patients as Partners: A Social Empowerment Approach to Health and Mental Health

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1685

Torture at Lake Alice “Hospital”, New Zealand

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2960

Mental Health Survival Kit, Chapter 1: This Book Might Save Your Life

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6732

Remembering Jennifer Kinzie (1979-2021)

- 13
8017

The BBC, Harrow, and a Public Left in the Dark

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6638

Book Review: “Prescription for Sorrow” by Patrick D. Hahn

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2377

In Memoriam: Birgitta Alakare

- 14
5037

Insane Medicine: Epilogue

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1966

Online Experts on Withdrawal

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3386

The Great Slowdown: Why Breaking Down Is Waking Up

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2309

The Role of Love in Mental Health

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2330

Welcome to Planet Psychiatry

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3877

Insane Medicine, Chapter 10: The Paradigm Shift Is Inevitable

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3280

Kendra’s Law Must Be a Beginning, Not an End

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2924

Left-Wing Behavioral Genetics? A Closer Look at the Genetic Evidence in “The Cult of...

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9378

Insane Medicine, Chapter 9: The Worried Parent (Part 2)

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1842

Dr. Pies’ Non-Apology

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1397

Intensive Home Treatment for Acute Mental Disorders: An Alternative to Hospitalization

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2812

CRPD Consultation on Deinstitutionalization: A Reparations Approach

- 29
3009

Insane Medicine, Chapter 9: The Worried Parent (Part 1)

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2839

Some Principles of Human Design for a Post-COVID World

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2801

An American History of Addiction, Part 5: Vietnam, Veterans, and Vermin

- 5
1487

Psychiatrists and Open Dialogue

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1013

Mainstream Mental Health Is Hazardous for Your Mental Health

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4190

Attention! One Morning with a Roving Mind

- 2
2012

Dr. Pies and The Chemical Imbalance Deception

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5057

Grief and Its Potential Lessons

- 7
1776

The Genesis of a New Approach to Mental Healthcare: 4Sight

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702

Insane Medicine, Chapter 8: Treatment Traps and How to Get Out of Them (Part...

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3580

Eyewitness to Psychiatry Functioning as a Conspiracy Theory-Based Cult

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6282

Can Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Hurt You?

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20610

The History of Madness Network News and the Early Anti-Psychiatry Movement

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5893

An American History of Addiction, Part 4: “Drugs Are Bad”

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1192

Now I See a Person: A New Model for Breaking Free of Mental Health...

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2750

Is Anti-Psychiatry Harmful?

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5203

Insane Medicine, Chapter 8: Treatment Traps and How to Get Out of Them (Part...

- 13
4936

Finding One’s Way Through Withdrawal

- 7
2846

Looking Under the Lamppost: Confinements of the Prevailing Mental Health Paradigm

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1249

Insane Medicine, Chapter 7: Industrialised Psychotherapy Markets Western Folk Psychology (Part 2)

- 9
4657

The Professionalization of Mental Health Services Is Ruining Friendship

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11818

Appealing the FDA’s Denial of ECT’s Harms

- 40
3224

Celebrating the Anti-Psychiatry Movement

- 48
4812

Insane Medicine, Chapter 7: Industrialised Psychotherapy Markets Western Folk Psychology (Part 1)

- 12
4997

Out of the Bubble: Now or Never?

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3260

Insane Medicine, Chapter 6: Neoliberalism and the Compare-and-Compete Society

- 18
5358

Stop Saying This, An Encore!

- 13
2061

To the Young Person Who Doesn’t Identify with Their Disability Diagnosis Anymore

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3169

No, Jill Biden Should Not Be Called “Doctor”… But Only Because No One Should

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Dr. Pies: Still Going Wrong

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1475

Insane Medicine, Chapter 5: The Manufacture of Childhood Depression (Part 2)

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2550

Literally Indescribable: Are Antidepressants Addictive?

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4577

Finding Meaning in Suffering: How Existentialism Can Help

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6584

Insane Medicine, Chapter 5: The Manufacture of Childhood Depression (Part 1)

- 14
3955

No, Autism Is Not Over-Diagnosed

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Exploring Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: A Town Hall Discussion Series

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3222

The Ups and Downs of Online Therapy

- 5
1597

New FDA Study Shows Benzodiazepines Can Cause Long-Term Injury

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34286

Insane Medicine, Chapter 4: The Manufacture of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) (Part 2)

- 27
4319

Social Adversity, Mental Distress, and the Theatre of the Oppressed

- 3
2247

Dual Diagnosis Anonymous: Peer Support for Those Who Need It

- 9
1564

A Psychiatrist Critiques Psychiatry, and Does a Great Job!

- 34
3155

Insane Medicine, Chapter 4: The Manufacture of Autism Spectrum Disorders (Part 1)

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10064

Does the NASW Code of Ethics Prohibit Peer Work?

- 55
2462

Immigration Detention: The Mental Health Impacts

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Stop Saying This, Part 6: It Takes Two, Life’s Not Fair, and More

- 9
2506

Insane Medicine, Chapter 3: The Manufacture of ADHD (Part 2)

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4886

Understanding Mental Illnesses, and Ourselves

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3071

Insane Medicine, Chapter 3: The Manufacture of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) (Part 1)

- 25
7398

Who’s to Blame for the Lost Soul of Psychiatry?

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3735

Stepping Into One’s Inner Radiant Space

- 23
1810

Insane Medicine, Chapter 2: The Scientism of Psychiatry (Part 2)

- 25
3968

When Psych Diagnosis Means Life-or-Death

- 14
1619

The Need for Acknowledgment of Context Within Approaches to Mental Distress

- 14
3214

The Reckoning in Psychiatry Over Protracted Antidepressant Withdrawal

- 19
10763

The Spin Doctors: “ADHD” Research

- 26
3055

Insane Medicine, Chapter 2: The Scientism of Psychiatry (Part 1)

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5505

The Double Standard at the Heart of Peer Services

- 32
3164

An American History of Addiction, Part 3: Mr. Booze

- 3
1748

Original Soteria House Members to Speak!

- 7
2711

Stop Saying This, Part Five: Fake It Till You Make It

- 6
2379

De-Weaponizing Empathy

- 20
6277

Insane Medicine, Chapter One: The Medical Model of Mental Health Is Finished

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10046

Psychiatric Oppression Under Victoria’s Mental Health Laws

- 10
2222

What is Open Dialogue Today?

- 7
3787

How Academic Psychiatry Minimized SSRI Withdrawal

- 8
6373

The Smoldering Wick: Suicide and Faith

- 16
1920

Insane Medicine: How the Mental Health Industry Creates Damaging Treatment Traps and How You...

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10049

Four Children

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2690

We Are the 100%: World Mad Pride, Disability, & Revolution

- 54
5186

How Many Times Must the “PTSD” Label’s Harm Be Exposed?

- 33
4553

How Little We Really Know About Psychiatric Drugs

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5715

The First Studies of Antidepressant Withdrawal

- 22
7805

How Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy Changed My Life

- 30
5215

You’ve Got to Be Crazy to Go to a Psychiatrist

- 37
5909

Addiction Treatment: How Many Meds Does It Take to Get Sober?

- 34
3405

How Mindful Awareness Can Reduce Suffering

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1234

Suicidal Thoughts, Psychiatric Diagnosis, and What Really Helps: Part Two

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3605

Suicidal Thoughts, Psychiatric Diagnosis, and What Really Helps: Part One

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4861

A Conversation with Nev Jones

- 51
3125

VICE, MIA and The Movement Against Psychiatry

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7882

Why Is the APA Proposing Sweeping Changes to Training Requirements?

- 14
5101

Malcharist: Fact or Fiction? Big Pharma, Psychiatry’s Key Opinion Leaders and their Ghostwriters

- 15
2540

The Mirror Repeats: The Art of Phoebe Sparrow Wagner

- 23
2196

Stop Saying This, Part Four: Does Time Heal All Wounds?

- 11
2546

CAUTION: Spin Ahead! There is No Evidence That Psychostimulants Reduce the Risk for Infection...

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2737

Hearing Voices: Let the Community Lead

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2061

A Positive Change for Mad in America Continuing Education

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An Obituary for My Colonizer: Reflections on the Legacy of DJ Jaffe

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2704

Can We Allow Suffering?

- 43
4352

UN Special Rapporteur Dainius Pūras: Biomedical Approach “Still Has an Important Role to Play”

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2111

Dear “Psychology Today”: Believe Incest Survivors

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8984

Deep Sleep “Therapy” in Australia in the 1960s & ’70s: Could Something Like This...

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5826

Inequities in Mental Health Services: It’s Time for a Reckoning and Rectification

- 4
1943

SSRI Withdrawal’s Elephant in the Room: Tardive Akathisia

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14388

Do We All Need Tinfoil Hats? Considering Schizophrenia

- 12
3829

An American History of Drugs and Addiction, Part Two: Immigrating to a Temperance Culture

- 3
2115

Who Is a Danger to Others: The “Mentally Ill” or the Powerful?

- 164
3566

Ecotherapy/Nature Therapy/Green Therapy

- 8
1757

Behavioural Geneticist Robert Plomin: “There Are No Disorders, There Are Just Quantitative Dimensions”

- 53
6515

A Tale of Two Paradigms

- 31
3202

Stop Saying This, Part Three: “Everything in Moderation” and More

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3429

Identity, Oppression, and the Culture of “The Mentally Ill”

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5984

Kicking Over a Straw Woman

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3900

A Recovery Movement Jedi Master, Bill Anthony, Died Recently

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2632

Drs. Pies and Ruffalo Still Rattling Their Wooden Swords

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2867

An American History of Addiction: Ardent Spirits

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3819

Professional Mental Health Leaders: Experts in Humanity or in Marketing?

- 71
2997

Whose Finger is Taking the Pulse of America’s Shock Treatment Controversy?

- 48
5254

Stop Saying This, Part Two: “Reframing” and More

- 47
4451

Is COVID-19 Making Everybody Crazy?

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10197

Racism and Radical Psychiatry

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2656

Suicide & Candy Corn: The Utility and Challenges of Risk Assessments

- 68
4260

Kerry O’Malley: A Personal Struggle Against Forced Medication

- 10
3945

Is It Time to Rethink Mental Illness in Light of the Pandemic?

- 36
2916

Defunding the Police: Replacing Guns With Prescription Pads Is Not the Answer

- 46
6368

Does Stranger Mean Danger?

- 15
1816

Stop Saying This: Phrases That Sound Helpful, But Are Actually Gaslighting, Part 1

- 37
16752

Black Suicidality and Mental Health #BlackLivesMatter

- 4
1939

End Police “Wellness Checks.” Now.

- 63
19493

We Must Not Be Silent On George Floyd & Systemic Racism.

- 257
3910

Withdrawing Kids from Psych Drugs: Why, How, and When

- 12
2364

Recovery: Stressing the Social Basis of the Process

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3972

Canadian Mental Health Legislation and the CRPD

- 44
3035

Supporting Children and Parents to Withdraw from Psychiatric Medication

- 13
2527

“We Are All Mad!” A Call for the Development of an International Network Among...

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2217

Jinxed: The Persecution of Evan Durst Kreeger

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Three Recent Genetics Books and Twin Studies’ Indefensible “Equal Environment Assumption”

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12 Essential Facts About Psychiatry

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Should We Diagnose Donald Trump?

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Does Pharma Need the Entrepreneur?

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Beyond the Buzzwords: What Does Trauma-Informed Care Truly Mean?

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DSM Led Us Far Astray. Life Story Is the Path to Truth.

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When Telling A Psychiatrist You Are Not Mentally Ill Is Grounds for Commitment

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Loneliness Is Deadlier Than COVID

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Why Compassionate Activism?

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Dialogue Is Just What the Doctor Ordered: Town Halls in a Time of Crisis

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The President’s Fitness: Can Professionals Help Decide?

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“Be Kind to Yourself… For Us!”

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Mental Health Is Our Common Wealth

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Jordan B. Peterson’s Support of Corporal Punishment for Children: A Critique

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Window of Opportunity: Reflections on “Dialogue in a Time of Crisis”

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Allen Frances: Still Spinning the Story

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Exploring Dialogical Responses in a Time of Crisis: Are We Living in the...

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A Bridge Over Troubled Water: What’s This About Being a Hopeless Reformer?

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Exploring How Muslim Therapists Work With Jinn Possession

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What Do Psychiatrists Treat if Not the Soul (i.e., the Psyche)?

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We Are All in This Together

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A Peek Inside the Modern Asylum

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Social Determinants of Health and the Continued Individualization of Suffering

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Supreme Court Decides Case on Insanity Defense

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Making a Mad Community, from Attic to Attic: Part Two

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Making a Mad Community, from Attic to Attic: Part One

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US Considering Policies That Will Lead to Mass Death Of Psychiatric Patients

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The Persistent, Misdirected Search for Causes of Trauma-based Suffering

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Joint Statement on COVID-19 and Persons with Psychosocial Disabilities

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The Perils of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising

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Mad in Brasil TV

Tending Hearts and Minds: Changing the Mental Health Paradigm in Our Schools

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Psychiatry and the Stupidification of America

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From FACT to POD: How a FACT Team Integrated Open Dialogue

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National Boards of Health Are Unresponsive to Children Driven to Suicide by Depression Pills

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The Psychiatric Narrative & The Boston Globe: Violence, Force, & Derogatory Labels  

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A Book Review of “Acceptance: The Defining Voice of Validation”

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Please Stop Saying Depression Is Like Diabetes

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How Radical Women Changed Psychiatry in the 1970s

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6 Ways Trauma Might Inform Your Current Life

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UN Report: Involuntary Psychiatric Interventions “May Well Amount to Torture”

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Psychiatry Needs a New Metaphor

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The Most Dangerous Thing You Will Ever Do

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What Can We Learn From the Asylum?

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Why Did I Stay?

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What Does the Therapist Know? And Why Does It Matter?

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Working With the Four Dialogues: Using Chairwork in Clinical Practice

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Observations From an Open Circle

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Our Movement Has a Cover-up Problem Too

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Turning the Corner: How Are We Educating Psychiatrists in Medical Schools?

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Exploding the “Separated-at-Birth” Twin Study Myth

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“Sublime Madness”: Anarchists, Psychiatric Survivors, Emma Goldman & Harriet Tubman

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Why Must People Pathologize Eating Problems?

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Spiritual Emergency: Crisis or Transformation?

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The Chemical Imbalance Theory of Depression: Where Is It Going?

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A Kirist Response to Psychiatry

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NY Times to Bonnie Burstow: May You Not Rest in Peace

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Psychiatry, Capitalism, and the Recuperation of Psychedelics

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Big Pharma Meets Big Diagnosis, Big Courts, and Big Psychiatric Hospitals

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Reimagining Healthcare

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Where Are the Results of These Five Clinical Trials of Antidepressant Drugs?

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Ready, Fire, Aim: Mainstream Psychiatry Reacts to the UN Special Rapporteur

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How President Trump and Dr. Drew Got It Wrong on Deinstitutionalization

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MIACE 2020: New Approaches to Working With People Who Are Suicidal

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Stalked by Stress, Abandoned to Predation: The Appeal of Suicide in a Modern World

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Making Peer Counseling Radically Accessible

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The Day I Became Schizophrenic

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Power Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry

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The Real Myth of the Schizophrenogenic Mother

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Remembering Bonnie Burstow

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No, Dr. Friedman: The Solution to Teen Suicide is Not So Simple

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Surviving Psychiatry: A Typical Case of Serious Psychiatric Drug Harms

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Real Doctors Are Peddling Fake Diseases: Here’s How to Spot Them

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Overcoming the Madness in Us All

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Cast Aside No One

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The Invisibles: Children in Foster Care

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Zel Dolinsky: I Have a Right to “Death With Dignity”

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Merry, Beautiful, Unique: YOU

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Anatomy of a Suicide: Stress and the Human Condition

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Medical Ghostwriting: When an “Author” Is Not Necessarily an “Author”

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The House of Cards with Informed Consent Standards

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Twin Studies and Ken Burns’ Upcoming Documentary on “The Gene: An Intimate History”

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Are Regulatory Bodies Prioritising Drug Company Interests Over Public Safety?

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Is Australia’s Psychiatric System Redeemable?

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The Field of Mental Health Has Gone Astray, But We Can Fix It

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Dr. Huda Has Written His Book: ‘The Medical Model in Mental Health’

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What Does ‘Relapse’ Mean? Definitions Used in Antipsychotic Trials Are Unclear

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The Matrix: Disentangling Anti-Psychiatry

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A Tribute to Stephen Gilbert, Warrior Behind Enemy Lines

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Lighting a Spark to Heal Trauma: An Interview with Jesse Zook Mann

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The Darker the Night, the Brighter the Light: Five Lessons Learned This Month

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Seven Strategies to Avoid Retraumatization While Working with Psychosis

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MIA at Eight Years: Are We Fulfilling Our Mission?

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Anthropologists Contemplate the Future Role of Psychiatry

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Hearing Voices Network Launches Family & Friends Support Group

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High Time for Anarchism in Mental Health

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Deep Brain Stimulation and Deeply Biased Researchers, Revisited

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“We Need a New Paradigm” — Rethinking Psychiatry’s Hospitalization Survey

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Capitalism Makes Solutions Impossible: A Review of ‘Rebel Minds’

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The Revolt Against Psychiatry: A Book Review

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Got a Gene for That? The Latest from the Chronicles of Gene Worshiping

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Holistic Approaches: A Proven Treatment for Psychotropic Drug Withdrawal

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Responding to Workplace Mistreatment and Bullying

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From Moses to Jesus to Prozac: A Theory on “Chemical Imbalances” and Faith

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Power Threat Meaning Framework and Tapering Strips in Brasil

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Berlin Manifesto for Humane Psychiatry Released

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There Is No Such Thing as a Side Effect

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Building a Culture of Mental Well-Being

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Hereditary Madness? The Genain Sisters’ Tragic Story

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Peer Specialists in the Mental Health Workforce: A Critical Reassessment

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The Sisyphus Cycle: How Everyday Stress Leads to Suicide

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Dog Assisted Psychotherapy Most Effective With Children

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UN Expert Calls for Major Shift in Suicide Prevention Efforts on World Mental Health...

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Fighting Unjustified Commitment in Wisconsin: Leslie’s Story

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Countervailing Forces Against Ritalin Use in France

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Forced-Treatment Advocacy Group Cherry-Picks Data to Support Agenda (Again)

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A Doctor Cures His Bipolar Diagnosis Without Psychiatry: Review of ‘I’

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Marci Webber Granted a Conditional Discharge

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The Problems with the DSM Mask a Dark Reality We’re All Complicit In

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10 Reasons Why Psychiatry Lives On—Obvious, Dark, and Darkest

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Is Remaking Psychiatric Care Possible?

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Lingering Side Effects of Quitting Antidepressants

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Trump and Cuomo: Red Flags Are Red Herrings

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How Psychological Injuries Cause Physical Illness—And How Therapy Can Heal It

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William James’s Letter to His Depressed Daughter

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Pies’ Polemic and the Question of Theories in Psychiatry, Again

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A ‘Blueprint’ for Genetic Determinism

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How Healthcare Foundations Destroy Grassroots Advocates

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System Change Webinars: Promoting Radical Change

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Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal in Spain

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The Problem Lies in the Term ‘Mental Illness’

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Poverty: The Newest Medically Treatable Brain Disease

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Monarch eTNS Inspires “Stop the Psychiatric Abuse of Children!” (SPAC!)

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Creating Our Mental Health

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The Mystic of Ireland: An Homage to Ivor Browne

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Collaborative Strategies for Re-Visioning the Public Mental Health System

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In Defense of Anger

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No Graphic Detail: The Injustice of Being Silenced

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We Must Hear Marianne Williamson’s Message About the Overuse of Antidepressants

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Brave New Apps: The Arrival of Surveillance Psychiatry

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Blaming the “Mentally Ill”: This is Hate Speech

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Antidepressants and the National Suicide Epidemic

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How “Safe Messaging” Gaslights Suicidal People

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Helping People Come Off Medication—Bad for Business?

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Psychiatric Eugenics Then and Now—You Betcha It’s Still Happening

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Rock Bottom: When You Are in Your Darkest Moment

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We’ve Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health

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An “Even-Handed” History of Psychiatry as Damning as the “Polemics”?

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We Lost a Giant Today: A Tribute to Janet Foner

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Responding to “The Case Against AOT”—Next Steps for Change

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The Chemical Imbalance Theory: Dr. Pies Returns, Again

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U.S. Politicians Now “Trauma Informed”—Should We Be Hopeful?

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An Open Letter to Howard Stern, the “Poster Boy for Psychotherapy”

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End Kendra’s Law Now: Racist, Classist Practices in Involuntary Psychiatry Persist

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Talking About Psych Diagnoses and Drugs: A Primer for Parents & Professionals

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System Change Toward a Green Movement in Mental Health

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Equal Legal Capacity or ‘Supported Decision-Making’?

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On Cognitive Liberty: A Principle to Rally Behind

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Why Mad in Italy?

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Inside an Online Charter School: Labeling Kids “Disabled” for Profit

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A Guide to Long-Acting Neuroleptics: Education or Promotion?

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The Pill Shaming Phenomenon: What’s It Really About?

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The Voices My Daughter Hears

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Madness, Sexuality and Legacies of Strategic Sanism

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Introducing Voices for Choices

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“Three Identical Strangers” and the Nature-Nurture Debate

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To Warn or Not to Warn? A Critique of MIA’s Use of Diagnostic Terminology

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Tom Paine, Christianity, and Modern Psychiatry

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ECT Litigation Update: Are Patients Being Warned of Brain Damage Risk?

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Two Years Tapering an Antidepressant – A Life-Changing Experience That I Didn’t Want

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The Three Types of Psychiatric Drugs – A Doctor’s Guide for Consumers

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A Smashing Victory — And an Insidious New Threat

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When ‘For Your Own Good’ Actually Means ‘For My Own Good’

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Public Purse a Cash Cow for Pharma: Could Taxpayer Dollars Be Better Spent?

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Tough Love for Thomas Szasz: A Book Review

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I’m Introverted, Not Depressed!

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Blaming the System May Be the Best Therapy

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Helping Children to Overcome OCD: 6 Creative Strategies for Parents

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FDA Approves Using Electricity All Night Long on Children’s Brains

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Are Antidepressants Enabling the Population to Tolerate the Intolerable?

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My Son and the “Mental Health” System

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Recovery Versus Mad Pride: Exploring the Contradictions

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Stop Shocking and Torturing Women – My Sisters

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Reflections on 25,000 Hours of Being With People in Extreme States

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Thought About Killing Yourself Lately? It’s Not All In Your Head

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On Human Nature and Its Implications for the Mind-Body Problem

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Forced Drugging with Antipsychotics is Against the Law: Decision in Norway

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Lou Reed: That Which Does Not Kill Us Can Radicalize Us

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A Deeper Dive into System Change in the Mental Health Paradigm

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Lithium: A Survivor’s Guide for Parents

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Remembering Deron Drumm: The Vision and the Hope for Healing and Connection

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25 Lenses Through Which to View How Life is Experienced

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On Whose Authority?

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“Dad, You Were Right”: I Got Better When I Stopped Treatment

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Media Errors in Covering “Mental Health” – Advice to Fellow Writers and Editors

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Update on Marci Webber: Will the Nightmare Ever End?

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The Lonely Wave: On the Failure of Group Therapy

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The New Yorker Peers into the Psychiatric Abyss… And Loses Its Nerve

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Struggling Parents, Burdened Social Services: What We Can Change

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The Science and Pseudoscience of Women’s Mental Health: Conversation with Kelly Brogan

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ECT Explained by a CET (Certified Engineering Technologist)

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Why “Middle-Grounders” May Be as Dangerous as APA Presidents

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The Hints That Psychotherapy Clients Drop

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The Therapeutic Role of Blame

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“I Love My Diagnosis”: The Benefits of Mental Illness

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Lasting Damage from Prescribed Drugs

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A Faux Test for a Faux Disease Promoted by Real Psychiatrists

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“Breakthrough” Treatment for Postpartum Depression: Game Changer or Misguided Magic Bullet?

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Introducing Multi-Lens Therapy

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I Believe There’s a Gene for Psychosis… And We All Have It!

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Postpartum Depression: Is Brexanolone the Answer?

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Right-Wing Psychiatry, Love-Me Liberals and the Anti-Authoritarian Left

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“Page Not Found” Ends Up “Telling All” About Psychiatry

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Recovery Porn: Tell Me Your Story, I’ll Tell You Your Value

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Together for Sustainable Change: The Launch of Mad in Sweden

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Real, Not Sham, Mental Health Coverage

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Saving Psychotherapy

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I Get to Decide What’s Helpful for Me

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Kick Big Pharma Out of the Classroom

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Will the European Elections Be a Chance for Mental Health?

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“Let’s Not Go Overboard About ECT”

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How “Mental Health Awareness” Exploits Schoolchildren

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Why Many Doctors Are Authoritarians – and Harmful

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Why Are So Many Americans Seeking Medication for Distress?

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Psychiatric Medications: Who Decides?

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I Don’t Believe in Autism

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Psychiatry, Society and Stigma: Placing the Blame Where It Belongs

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Assessing Outcomes at the Alternative to Meds Center: Survey Results Prove Promising

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Nasal Spray for Depression? Not So Fast

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Loneliness Cure: Red or Blue Pill?

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Institutional Corruption in the Cochrane Collaboration

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Funder Fragility and Forced Collaboration

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‘Full Moral Status’ Part II: How to Achieve Safety, Parity, and Change

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“I’m Not Going, You Can’t Make Me!”: A Community Approach to School Refusal

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The War on Antidepressants: Why We Need to End it for Public Benefit

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Orthodox Madness

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ASIST Suicide Prevention Training: “Safe” for Who?

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Spiritual Texts in the Psych Ward

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How Long Does Antidepressant Withdrawal Last?

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Why the ‘Psychological Injury Model’ Will Ultimately Triumph

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Traumatic Immobility: Depression as a Stress Response

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“Not all NAMIs!”: Why Even the Best Local NAMI Chapter is Still a Problem

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“ADHD: A Return to Psychology” Video Series

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Martin Luther King Jr. and the Psychiatric Violence Survivor Movement

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Fake Science and Checking Sources

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Antidepressant Withdrawal: An Unknown Disorder?

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The Never Ending Story: How 2nd Story Respite House Was Saved

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Open Dialogue: Does the Current Research Data Support Further Investment?

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Suicide, Ketamine, the Propaganda Model and the New York Times

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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: An Infographic on Bipolar Drugs

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Tumbling Further Down the Rabbit Hole of Antidepressant Withdrawal Research

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Mad in America: 2018 by the Numbers

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The Mystery of Madness Throughout the Ages

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7 Tips to Help a Distracted Child

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Why We’re Establishing an Institute for Scientific Freedom

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The Minds of Men: A Stunning New Film About Covert Mind Control

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On Voice Hearing Simulations: Why They Should Be (Mostly) Banned

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Pathways to Enhance Well-Being: Free Resource on Alternative Wellness Practices

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7 Tasks for a Parent Whose Child Is Diagnosed with a Mental Illness

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Reclaiming Humanity at the Dawn of Posthumanism: Conversation with Darcia Narvaez

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Antidepressant Dependence Discussed at the Seat of Welsh Government – Video

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What Do Twin Studies Prove About Genetic Influences on Psychiatric Disorders? Absolutely Nothing

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The Meaningfulness of Anxiety

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Childhood Bipolar Disorder, Deconstructed

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What’s “Grand” About Electroshock and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation?

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The Madness of Our Mental Health System

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Smoke and Flames: Silence In A World On Fire

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Anatomy of an Opioid Epidemic

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Mindfulness and Complex Trauma: The Rewards and the Risks

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Are Emotional Disorders Really Disorders of Love?

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The Real Attention Deficit Disorder

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Filling the Crack in the Liberty Bell

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What Would Real Informed Consent on Psychiatric Drugs Look Like?

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Trauma Outside the Box: How the ‘Trauma-Informed’ Trend Falls Short

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Litigation Update: ECT Device Manufacturer Issues “Permanent Brain Damage” Warning

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Heroes of Science: Survival of a Whistleblower

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Learning From Each Other As Psychiatric Survivors

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Escaping from AOT: The Importance of the Incident with the Candle

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Mortification of the Self: The Impact of Stigma on Identity

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Hearing Voices: Where We Locate Them Shapes Our Experience

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Bad-Science Warning: The “Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart” (MISTRA)

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The “Time to Strike” is Now: A Call for Anti-ECT Activism

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The Language of Internalized Oppression

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Allen Frances and the Increasing Use of Antidepressants

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Psychiatric Marginalization of Anti-Authoritarians – Excerpt from New Book

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MIA Update: Our Parent Resources Initiative and More

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Suicide Hotlines, Risk Assessment and Rights: Whose Safety Matters?

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Huge Breakthrough in Lawsuits Against ECT Shock Device Manufacturers

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How Our Government Helps Drug-Dealing Doctors Kill Us

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55 Steps to Informed Consent

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Trauma Blocks the Frontal Lobes – “Verbal Physiotherapy” Can Unblock Them

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Results of World’s Largest Antidepressant Study Look Dismal

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The Cochrane Collaboration Has Failed Us All

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TCI ASIA Pacific: Engaging the Global Mental Health Movement in Dialogue

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How Well Do Neuroleptics Work?

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Healthy Guilt and Doing Right By Those We Have Wronged

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Fighting the Suppression of Dissent: A Guidebook for Those Who Refuse to Conform

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Healthy Planet/Healthy Mind with Zach Bush, MD

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Helping Children With Angry Outbursts

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We Need To Talk About Self-Care

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New Video Series: ‘Parenting Today’

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Alternatives to Suicide: Strategies for Staying Alive

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What’s Blocking Progress in Behavioral Healthcare?

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The Science and Pseudoscience of Mental Health Podcast

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Memoirs of a Dissident Psychiatrist

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Mad in the UK

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When Rain Comes, Words Are Unnecessary: Our Search for a Better Way

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Suicides Are Increasing – And So Are Antidepressant Prescriptions

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Uncomfortable Relations: Reflections on Learning From Psychiatric Survivors

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A Time For Rain: Teaching Our Children About Sadness

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Resistance Matters: The Activism of Don Weitz

- 42
2556

Prescripticide: A Proposal for Action and a Request for Your Help

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5723

Deadly Serious: Talking Openly About Suicide

- 16
5511

The Creativity and Suicide of Robin Williams: A Phenomenological Study

- 45
5594

Hegemonic Sanity and Suicide

- 19
10045

Suicidal Tendencies, Part III: So, When Do I Get to Call the Cops?

- 60
4914

Thar’s A New Sheriff in Town!

- 165
3015

Results of the 2018 Mad in America Reader Survey

- 176
3055

The Scientism of Childhood and Adolescent Depression

- 89
5314

In Defense of Healthy Mania

- 35
1743

Can Children Have Bipolar Disorder?

- 60
2700

Ensuring Integrity of Studies: Analysis of the Dan Markingson Case

- 20
3827

Why Mandating Mental Health Education in Schools is a Band-Aid on a Gaping Wound

- 0
2877

Psychiatric Retraumatization: A Conversation About Trauma and Madness in Mental Health Services

- 58
9436

Escaping from AOT: Letter to the Judge

- 52
2877

The Story of a Professional Delusion: Do Psychiatrists Believe Their Own Words?

- 125
9741

12 Mental Health Design Principles to Replace This Thing

- 45
2239

Mad in Asia: Towards Multiple Narratives for Inclusion

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1128

The REST Project Support Service for Benzo and Sleeping Tablet Dependence: My Story

- 11
1757

In Defense of Healthy Depression

- 32
3213

“The Lion King” Psychiatrized: What If Psychiatry Had Gotten Its Hands on Simba?

- 84
5367

The Creation of an Illness: Video Games and Defining Addiction

- 21
3255

“The Angry Consumer”: Embracing Difficult Conversations

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5868

The Drugging of Migrant Children: A Symptom of a Systemic Issue

- 11
2167

Selling Nicotine on a Psych Ward

- 12
1312

Drug Treatment in Medicine and Psychiatry: Papering Over Important Differences

- 55
2872

How to Help Someone Who is Suicidal

- 40
3903

Reappropriating Bipolar Beyond Pathology

- 168
4542

Still Seeking a Chemical Cure After All These Years: Lauren Slater’s Blue Dreams

- 140
3159

The “Essential Principles” of Psychiatric Practice: More Psychiatric Cheerleading

- 49
2069

Busting 7 Myths About the Practice of Psychotherapy

- 196
3788

Is Psychosis Natural?

- 69
3919

Learning to Speak Psychotic

- 45
6001

Randomized Controlled Trials of Psychiatric Drugs Tell of Harm Done

- 59
5799

Suicide in a Culture of Mandated Happiness – Who’s to Blame?

- 61
6809

Spotlight on Institutional Psychiatry

- 82
2273

TED Betrays Its Own Brand By Flagging Nutrition Talk

- 41
10003

Rising Rates of Suicide: When Do We Acknowledge That Something Isn’t Working?!

- 183
19366

So What’s This About Another Webinar Series on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal?

- 24
1291

Dear Roseanne, The Blood is At Your Doorstep

- 61
4000

Perspectives on “Reality” from an Alternative Epistemology

- 1
1727

The Secret to Psychiatry’s “Success,” as Revealed by a Psychiatrist

- 193
6197

This Is Your Personality Test Result On Capitalism

- 3
3372

ISPS Australia’s Response to Schizophrenia Awareness Week: Drop the Label!

- 83
2603

Towards the Re-politicization of “Mental Illness”

- 172
3312

Neurofeedback is Not For Everyone: The Dangers of Neurology

- 76
44799

Questioning the Integrity of Psychiatry

- 79
4206

The Next Deadly Epidemic: Adult ADHD and Stimulants?

- 55
4233

UN Meeting on Human Rights in Mental Health: A Response

- 42
2608

ADHD: Disempowerment By Diagnosis

- 32
3496

Distinguishing Dissociative Disorders from Psychotic Disorders: Compounding Alienation

- 36
4571

The Long-term Consequences of Antidepressant Use: An Interview with Michael Hengartner

- 2
5642

May is Power Threat Meaning Month

- 79
4377

The Myth of Mental Wellness: Can We Really Improve our “Mental Health”?

- 165
4190

Three Antipsychiatry Scholarships: The Revolution Continues

- 94
4529

Molecular Fingerprints? On the Science and Ethics of Transcriptomic Research

- 8
1033

A Commentary on the Finnish Analysis of Outcomes of First Episode Schizophrenia

- 33
2729

20-year Outcomes for First-episode Psychosis: Impact of Neuroleptic Drug Discontinuation

- 19
2894

Usage of Depression Pills Almost Halved Among Children in Denmark

- 40
3940

The Interim Report on the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act: A Response

- 31
3030

“The Power Threat Meaning Framework”: A New Perspective on Mental Distress

- 140
5626

The Unsung Psychiatric Impact of Strep Throat

- 19
58548

How to Get So You’re Running the Psych Ward

- 34
3241

Verne Troyer’s Passing: What’s Prejudice Got to Do With It?

- 22
2333

How Should We Treat Depression in Pregnancy?

- 44
2597

The Woeful Underfunding of Psychotherapy by Health Insurers

- 10
4837

ECT Shock Treatment Class Action – Case Update April 2018

- 20
3911

On Being Mad in Public

- 37
1988

“Psychiatric Meds Saved Your Life,” and Mine

- 84
5236

Metacognitive Training (MCT): A New Treatment Approach for Delusions

- 112
4516

Your Pharmacist is Tattling On You!

- 65
13530

Book Review: The Other Mrs. Smith by Bonnie Burstow

- 45
2083

Debunking The Latest Gene Study

- 42
3531

Letter to The New York Times: Many People Taking Antidepressants Discover They Can’t Quit

- 11
6036

“How Did This Happen?” – Being Injured By Pharmaceuticals Once Again

- 2
2260

Neurodiversity is Dead. Now What?

- 93
24457

The Scientism of Autism

- 80
12968

Apply Yourself, Your Whole Self, and Nothing But Yourself

- 16
1799

Leon J. Kamin (1927-2017): A Nemesis of Genetic Determinism and Scientific Racism

- 14
7394

“How Long a Time”: Ten Cold Hard Truths For Ending Psychiatric Abuse

- 155
5077

How the Human Stress Response Explains Away “Bipolar Disorder”

- 54
16213

The Concerned Parents’ Project: 31 Questions

- 3
2863

10 Things I Learned in 5 Years Consulting With People Coming Off Psych Drugs

- 26
8192

National Institute of Mental Health Violates Law on Posting Clinical Trial Results

- 7
1507

Institutionalization: An Unacknowledged Cause of Psychiatric Outpatients’ Deterioration

- 297
6365

A Tale of Two Studies

- 26
7305

Psychiatry and a Near Mass Shooting at Cornell

- 29
6344

The Antidepressant Wars in the Post-Truth Era

- 20
2058

Changing Mental Health, One Published Case Report At A Time

- 15
1738

School Shootings: Who to Listen to Instead of Mainstream Shrinks

- 12
2085

Antidepressant Anarchy in the UK

- 14
3902

Whose Interests Does the Royal College of Psychiatrists Really Serve?

- 9
1403

How Would We Know If We Overthrew the Mental Health System?

- 86
3387

So What is Mental Disorder? Part 2: The Social Problem

- 79
2642

Stop the Shocks: Torture in Massachusetts

- 10
8270

Creating “Mental Illness” – An Interview with Christopher Lane

- 22
7749

Rewarding the Companies That Cheated the Most in Antidepressant Trials

- 21
8300

A Personal Perspective on the Development of the Survivors’ Movement in Israel

- 20
1449

“Aha” Moments: In the World of Electroshock

- 101
3318

Suicidal Tendencies, Part II: The Real ‘Stigma’ of Suicide

- 48
3695

8 Years of Mental Health Research Distilled to 4 Infographics

- 71
15608

Psychiatrist Says: More Psychiatry Means More Shootings

- 105
30086

Promoting Healing After Psychosis

- 29
9424

Challenging the New Hype About Antidepressants

- 63
13532

Dr. Pies Defending Psychiatry’s Position on Auditory Hallucinations

- 63
2138

Taking Big Pharma to Court: Why Lawsuits Have Little Effect on Drug Companies

- 9
7172

A Mother’s Worst Nightmare Continues

- 18
3732

The Scientism of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

- 61
11438

Psychiatry’s War on Free Will

- 193
4710

I Used to Be Psychotic and Then I Heard a Voice Again

- 7
2110

Why Should Suicide (Or Voluntary Death) Be a Civil Right?

- 100
7005

Confirmed: Las Vegas Shooter on Benzos

- 42
9089

Who Gets to Define “Peer Support?”

- 189
15200

Reflections on the Torture Parents and the Pedophile Olympic Doctor

- 38
1679

What Would a Truly Integrated System of Care Look Like?

- 34
1191

Shock Class Action – Case Update

- 49
3251

Beyond the Medicalization of Insomnia

- 10
2540

Is Binge Eating Disorder Just Another Made-Up Disease?

- 108
3993

Anger – What Is It REALLY a Symptom Of?

- 27
2827

Antidepressants Save People From Suicide, Right?

- 44
5560

So What is Mental Disorder? Part 1: Reasoning and Meaning

- 117
4287

Abolish Psychiatry and the Mental Health System: Really?

- 281
5982

Rethinking the Nature of Our Woes

- 7
2451

Painted Boxes: Death of an Activist

- 181
4192

If “Mental Illnesses” Aren’t Real Illnesses, What Are They?

- 246
13156

All in the Family: 4 Steps Toward Healing Adverse Childhood Experiences

- 12
2503

From Picket Lines to Worry Lines

- 66
1725

What Should We Really Call Psychiatric Drugs?

- 87
25216

What National Health Surveys Tell Us About Nutrition and Mental Health

& - 18
2638

Speaking Out Against Electric Shocks

- 74
2806

Our Sexualized Culture and the Prejudiced Roots of Psychiatry

- 19
3286

Publication of the Power Threat Meaning Framework

- 31
8907

The Medicalization of Conversation

- 30
3366

The Scientism of Psychiatry

- 115
10257

It’s Unlikely That ‘Antidepressants’ Have a True Effect on Depression

- 39
6917

Stealing Blankets from the Hospital: 
How Life Really Works on a Psych Ward

- 28
5939

To Make Adolescence Permanent, Just Label it “Bipolar Disorder”

- 75
5699

2017: A Wake-up Call on Mental Health and Human Rights

- 27
3616

Florida’s “Free Kill” Law – A Death Trap for the State’s Populace and Visitors

- 20
3402

Micronutrients for ADHD Symptoms in Children

& - 85
5438

People Are Dying Prematurely Due to Polypharmacy

- 45
6980

The Upcoming MDMA Research Will Transform Mental Health Care

- 132
5848

Dickens’ Christmas Carol: A Psychiatric Primer of Character and Redemption

- 26
2483

When Minds Crack, The Light Might Get In: A Spiritual Perspective on Madness

- 55
5915

Human Connection is the Antidote to a Culture of Isolation

- 17
2265

Launch of Online Forum for Young People Who Hear Voices

- 10
2182

Freud: The First Anti-Psychiatrist

- 422
11772

The Three Most Important Facts About Psychiatric Drugs

- 49
18252

How Would We Know If We Really Reformed the Mental Health System?

- 56
1969

APA: Drop the Stigmatizing Term “Schizophrenia”

- 53
5683

Reexamining Schizophrenia as a Brain Disease

- 52
9435

Psychotherapy is THE Biological Treatment

- 59
7341

New Book Takes Aim at the Mental Health Industrial Complex

- 120
3651

From “Recovery” to “Transformation and Recovery”

- 48
2202

A Massachusetts Benzo Bill That Mandates Informed Consent

- 24
4348

The Disillusioned Psychiatrist

- 102
13597

Stop Shock Now: Psychiatry’s War Against Women and the Elderly

- 33
4136

A Call for Obligatory Diagnostic Reporting and Appeals Mechanisms

- 24
1316

Real People, Real Side Effects: Stories of Sexual Dysfunction

- 15
4292

Rebranding Psychiatry

- 86
3030

How Psychiatry Evolved Into A Religion

- 36
7067

Are Mental Disorders Brain Diseases ‘In Waiting’?

- 57
3085

Psychiatry: The Brain is a Malignant Tumor!

- 38
3436

Steps Forward: Integrative Mental Health is Gaining Ground

- 33
1593

The Angry Congressman: Tim Murphy’s Lack of Insight

- 32
1740

The Orwellian New Digital Abilify Will Subjugate Vulnerable People Across the US

- 72
9319

Creeping Fascism: University “Unfit to Study” Policies

- 72
4399

Learning About Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal

- 17
5110

Duration of Untreated Psychosis Revisited: Response to the Goff Paper

- 66
2979

More Bad News About Smartphones – When Will We Heed the Warnings?

- 17
5395

Why Disease and Illness Are Concepts of the Body

- 46
2698

Crazy or Wise? Learning From Those Who Have Transcended Psychological Crisis

- 28
3971

Mental Illness Vs. “Bad” Behavior

- 52
7423

Psychiatry’s Greatest Harm: Its Lies Have Poisoned Our Entire Culture

- 94
12018

Bias and Deception in Behavioral Research

- 12
3012

Tranquilizing Humanity into Oblivion: A Warning from Nathan S. Kline

- 38
3673

A Brave New World – Somatic Psychiatry in the Spotlight

- 57
3310

Dualism and the Mind-Body ‘Problem’

- 65
3465

Mortality of People Using Mental Health Services and Medications

- 22
5672

The State of Animal Psychiatric Research

- 22
959

Ending ECT: From a Lawsuit to a Novel – The Moment is Now!

- 110
3019

UN to USA: Forced Treatment is Prohibited

- 30
3994

Warning to Parents: Psychiatry is How Kids Get High and Die in the USA

- 42
2777

“Prisons Without Bars” – Forced Institutionalization of People with Disabilities

- 42
9615

Schizophrenia Genetic Research – Running on Empty

- 22
7089

Channeling Dead German Poets: Taking Other People’s Alternate Realities Seriously

- 21
1880

To See An Atom: Psychosis and Ecology

- 12
2768

Companies That Fueled the Opioid Epidemic Should Fund Efforts to End It

- 17
978

Child Abuse, Mental Health and Mental Illness

- 52
3386

Rethinking the Validity of Schizophrenia on World Mental Health Day

- 50
2574

Our Movement Has Failed (So Far) – Here’s How To Change That

- 170
3611

The Continuing Education Course on Withdrawal from Psychiatric Drugs is Here!

- 8
1896

The Misuse of Collaboration and Therapy to Deter People From Discontinuing Medication

- 23
1977

Seven Points to Ponder for World Mental Health Day

- 8
2782

World Mental Health Day 2017: Challenging the Messages – A Call to Action

- 23
4364

Knowledge of Mental States and Behaviour: Insights From Heidegger and Others

- 31
1886

Your Child’s Mind Space

- 6
835

Elimination of the Bereavement Exclusion: History and Implications

- 30
3367

Dogs and Serotonin

- 13
2025

And They Said it Wouldn’t Last – Rethinking Psychiatry Celebrates its 7th Year

- 11
1581

Stimulants: The Long View

- 12
2398

Electroconvulsive Therapy Class Action Filed

- 17
3243

How Should We Think About Mental States? The Contribution of Wittgenstein

- 84
5051

72 Hour Hold for Inalienable Personhood

- 15
2565

Rise of Involuntary Mental Health: What is Your Resistance Strategy?

- 61
3868

Dear Mental Health Professionals: Please Stop Defending Yourselves and Listen

- 78
17459

In Memoriam: Matt Stevenson

- 210
15985

Does a Psychiatric Diagnosis Have the Impact of a Medical Curse?

- 97
11663

Why Philosophy Matters?

- 32
2291

Thou Shall Not Criticize Our Drugs

- 51
10292

Psychiatry Ignores an Elephant in the Room

- 24
6644

Part VI: How Adult Society Betrayed Michelle Carter and Conrad Roy

- 12
11942

Language of Mental Illness “Others” People: It’s a Human Rights Violation

- 38
2893

Health Disparity Project Cuts Out the Recovery Movement

- 7
1198

The Salvation of Psychiatry

- 52
2630

Trauma-Ignored Care? Going to the MAT on Opioids

- 30
1720

If Psychiatrists Took Truth Serum, What Would They Say?

- 118
5674

Part V: The Michelle Carter Texting Trial Becomes a Witch Hunt

- 22
5158

Introducing “Ten Tips for Parents”

- 8
1583

The Unintended Consequences of Colorado’s “Social Experiment”

- 91
13684

Pharma Responds: Antidepressants Really Work. Really?

- 74
5019

Michelle Carter Part IV: Did She Tell Conrad to “Get back in the truck”?

- 13
14558

The Downfall of Peer Support: Are You Kidding Me?

- 85
4991

The Invisible Holocaust and the Gene Hypothesis

- 79
4793

The Continuing Evolution of Mad in America Continuing Education

- 9
880

So, You Still Say Trump is Crazy?

- 57
5769

Hurricane Harvey, Trump and US Mental Health: We Are All Mad, 100%!

- 16
1087

Michelle Carter Part III: DA Goes After Her Expert Witness to Stop His Blog

- 20
9943

Greed Disguised as Science: How a Multitude of Factors Led to the Opioid Crisis

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2033

Psychiatry’s 12-Step Program for Producing Heroin Addicts

- 81
10737

House on Fire: A ‘Mental Health Literacy’ Parable

- 29
5901

Some Thoughts About Conferences

- 129
2065

The Winding Road and the Importance of Going Sideways

- 17
2259

How to Avoid Severe SSRI Withdrawal Symptoms?

- 58
61323

Spiritual Side Effects of Psychiatric Medication: From Helpful to Harmful

- 42
16252

“Virtual Autism” May Explain Explosive Rise in ASD Diagnoses

- 78
689614

Prescription for Murder ABCD

- 6
1843

Death By Placebo

- 84
3853

Part II: Michelle Starts Prozac and Sees the Devil

- 35
26514

Psychoanalyst, Show Some Modesty

- 11
1412

Michelle Carter: Did She Text Her Boyfriend to Death?

- 27
50408

Adam Maier-Clayton: Assisted Suicide and Mental Illness

- 34
11583

Would Discovering the Biology of “Mental Illness” Explain its Cause?

- 56
3447

Senate Slated to Rubber-Stamp “Mental Health Czar” This Tuesday

- 14
1152

Voices in our Heads: The Prefrontal Cortex as Parasite

- 36
6136

If You Don’t Have a Brain…

- 22
6170

Is Xanax Really the Bad Guy?

- 15
10863

Has Psychiatry Gone Uniquely Astray?

- 65
3523

9 Questions the US Senate Should Ask Dr. McCance-Katz

- 18
1478

Makers of Risperdal Sued for Breast Development in Boys

- 18
24836

People of Great Britain! Our Beast Descends Upon Your Children

- 25
3937

Methylphenidate: How to Avoid Importing the American Disaster?

- 9
1755

While Psychiatry Slept (Part II)

- 24
2782

“Heartbeats of Hope: The Empowerment Way to Recover” – A Book Review

- 41
2246

Hearing Voices in the USA

- 15
2545

Why World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day?

- 67
3736

Three Suicides: Honoring Lives Lost to Benzodiazepines

- 21
20944

Tapering Strips for Benzodiazepines

- 12
7041

“Benzo Blue”: a Song of Protest and a Search for Liberation

- 35
2891

Senate Quietly Rubber-Stamps Trump’s “Mental Health Czar”

- 33
1860

New Resources from the WHO’s QualityRights Initiative

, & - 7
1183

Uniting Critical Voices: Where can we Collaborate?

- 104
2131

So You Say You Want a Revolution Part Two

- 15
1096

Landmark Victory against the “Oak Ridge Torturers” — Do We Cheer or Cry?

- 59
3879

No Psychiatrist Needs to Use ECT

- 113
8396

Do Psychiatrists Harm their Patients out of Stupidity?

- 306
27170

French and American Approaches to “ADHD”

- 2
3624

Data Shows That Nutrients Reduce Aggression: Why is Policy Not Changing?

& - 49
4919

Robert Whitaker Refutes Jeffrey Lieberman; But Is Psychiatry Reformable?

- 112
5019

An Open Letter to the President’s Commission on Combating Addiction and the Opioid Crisis

- 8
989

MIA RADIO: Expanding the Audience for “Critical Psychiatry” Perspectives

- 23
1670

Aggregate vs. Anecdote for Med Lovers

- 24
2403

INTAR India 2016: Reflections

- 4
984

Healing from Psychiatry: A Community Art Book

- 7
1599

Antipsychiatry – Say What?

- 396
7465

Breaking Through the Wall of Schizophrenia

- 19
3713

The Next Generation of the Mad Movement in NYC Looks Like This

- 16
3141

‘Mad’ Psychologist Speaks Out

- 104
6677

Killjoy: The Story of a Misguided ‘Mental Health’ Bot

- 25
2937

While Psychiatry Slept

- 47
3682

Human Right to Health – More than Economic Justice

- 53
1655

Trauma in Common?

- 33
1575

From Madness to Mastery: Gaining Competence with Altered States

- 19
2334

Psychosocial Disability and Legal Capacity: Don’t Bargain with Human Rights

- 25
2994

Conferring Legitimacy on the Counterhegemonic

- 44
2603

Psychiatry’s Troublesome History: How Far Have We Come?

- 34
2530

Back to Basics: What’s Wrong with NAMI

- 127
17793

Call to Action: MA Bill H.3594 for Informed Benzodiazepine Use

- 26
5084

How FDA Avoided Finding Adult Antidepressant Suicidality

- 12
4729

The Violence-Inducing Effects of Psychiatric Medication

- 28
6682

The Mental Health Professionals Who Perpetrate Against Us

- 50
3030

A Clashing of Worlds (and Perspectives) on the Problem of Suicide

- 77
3175

Crazywise:  Revisioning Narratives of Psychosis

- 12
3532

Alcoholism — Is it a Disease?

- 29
2190

The Diseasing of Defiance

- 16
4370

New UN Report: Steps Forward, But No End to Impunity

- 12
1999

Smash the Blue Lights: Autism Speaks is a ‘Danger to Self and Others’

- 53
7976

Oliver Sacks Helps Me Explain Hypersensitivity

- 6
1651

Nassir Ghaemi and The Psychological Fallacy

- 31
3280

Neuroqueering Judaism: Reflections on Mad Passover

- 3
1755

Change in Chicago: Playing Go

- 3
926

Inconvenient Truths About Antipsychotics: A Response to Goff et al

- 44
9300

Responding to Claims that the Benefits of Antipsychotics Outweigh the Risks

- 66
6128

Unusual Beliefs and Behaviors vs. Objective Realities and Truths

- 296
3943

Change in Chicago: The Dolin Verdict

- 3
1750

Wendy Dolin Takes on GlaxoSmithKline And Wins — For Now at Least

- 4
3401

“Let’s Talk Withdrawal” Podcast

- 28
5458

Public Petition: Support for People Affected by Prescribed Drug Dependence

- 7
1217

Trump Appoints Leader who Campaigned for Involuntary Outpatient Drugging

- 63
4370

Our Letter to Lancet Psychiatry

- 7
3431

The Unforeseen Relationship: Psychiatric Medication and Spirituality

- 63
8166

‘Enough is Enough’ Series: LSD Reconsidered

- 46
2618

Opening a Dialogue about Early Psychosis Programs in the US

- 40
1614

What if the Folly is in Us, Too?

- 62
2705

Anti-Authoritarian Options for Suicidal Anti-Authoritarians

- 21
2714

The Downfall of Peer Support: MHA & National Certification

- 130
11625

Would You Want Your Therapist to be Honest?

- 33
3064

“Doubly Brutish”: Forensic Psychiatry and Force

- 6
1538

Emotional Pain and the Possibility of Finding Hope

- 30
5413

Unusual Beliefs and Mental Well-Being

- 46
3797

Dear Boston Globe, Part VI: Congratulations. Bad Things Happen.

- 26
2169

From One Parent to Another

- 17
1407

When Modern Medicine Made Me More Autistic

- 39
5077

Celebrating Dorothea Buck’s 100th Birthday

- 8
1894

Finding the Way to Mental Health

- 168
3037

The Third Director: Interrogating the Mental Health Discourse in Marat/Sade

- 3
2012

The Torture in Treatment

- 142
5935

The Sunrise Center 2017

- 17
1447

Emotional Strategies and Skills for Aspiring Mental Health Workers

- 35
3815

Why I Don’t Like the Idea that Mental Disorder is a Disease

- 48
3726

‘CRAZY’: New Documentary about Forced Psychiatric Treatment

- 3
4834

Mainstream Western Psychiatry: Science or Non-science?

- 28
7618

What Role Does Talk Therapy Have in Recovery from Psychosis?

- 16
3418

Not Going Quietly

- 31
3535

Beyond Survival

- 15
2169

Discussing Nutrient Formulas Without Naming Them: Who Benefits?

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2535

Optimizing Mental Wellness Through Nutrient Therapy: A Gastroenterologist’s Perspective

- 48
13779

Introducing the ‘Parent Resources’ Page

- 5
1030

Burn Baby Burn (Psychopharmacology Part 3)

- 17
1554

Where Do We Go From Here?

- 76
3954

Leading Psychiatrists Follow Top-Dog Bankers’ Guide to Career Advancement

- 3
1382

Into the Woods: A Path Through Anxiety

- 8
1931

Spirituality and ‘Mental Illness’

- 22
5611

Psychiatric Hegemony: A Marxist Theory of Mental Illness

- 108
36945

Aliveness and Social Justice: Teaching the Principles and Practices of Open Dialogue

- 12
2747

SSRIs: Minimal Effectiveness and High Risk

- 93
7177

Tweeting while Medicine Burns (Psychopharmacology Part 2)

- 8
1551

Victims of Success: An Update from Mad in America Continuing Education

- 2
678

Letter to my Classmates on our 40th Reunion

- 14
2832

Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany (A Book Review)

- 10
2827

Lyme is ‘All in Your Head’ – A Wake-up Call to Mental Health Professionals

- 34
117876

Tweeting While Psychiatry Burns

- 8
2323

A Curse for a Cursed Profession

- 34
2466

Our Coming to Mad in Aotearoa

- 3
882

Transformations to Liberation

- 6
1699

A New Paradigm for Psychiatry: Answering the Call from the UN

- 62
4269

Psychosis for Mental Health?

- 39
5442

The Sedated Society: the Real Story of our Prescribing Epidemic

- 27
4747

Editorial Misconduct: Finnish Medical Journal Rejects Paper on Suicide Risk

- 23
10209

Farewell Mickey Nardo, 1 (not very) Boring Old Man

- 31
3689

Mickey Nardo: Tangled up in Life

- 9
2045

Committed: The Battle Over Involuntary Psychiatric Care

- 67
4173

Disobedience: What Can We Risk?

- 64
3044

SMILES Study: Depression and Nutrition

& - 20
10102

Generalists and Partialists

- 8
919

Why I Resigned From The Mighty

- 44
24966

“Active Minds” — What Conversation Are We Changing?

- 52
2618

7 Years Off Psych Drugs: A Message to Those Labeled by Psychiatry (video)

- 19
5422

Trump and the Diagnosis Free-for-All

- 237
8202

Vital Minds: Four Stories of Recovery

- 15
4101

Intentional Peer Support: Creating Relationships, Creating Change

& - 10
4496

Integrative Mental Health: 27 Non-drug Options that Work

- 62
7691

Sir Robin Murray and Our Collective Mea Culpa

- 40
2641

Understanding Extreme States: An Interview with Lloyd Ross

& - 25
5174

ISEPP Calling for Organizations to Join in Petition

- 8
1481

Scapegoating: Why Humanity Desperately Needs Hope to Cling to

- 24
1928

CRPD Absolute Prohibition Campaign and Course

- 7
1973

Killing “Schizophrenics”: Contemporary U.S. Psychiatry Versus Nazi Psychiatry

- 43
5438

Spoiling Split: Hollywood’s Latest Run at ‘Alternative Facts’ 

- 61
2731

Venomagnosia

- 18
1456

Psychiatry Interrogated:  A Book Review

- 11
2020

Chemical or Psychological Psychotherapy?

- 58
4805

Preventing Suicide in the UK – a Policy and Practice Divide

- 2
1206

SAMHSA’s Rose-Colored Lens

- 59
1545

Service Dogs, Allergies and Trauma: Making Spaces Inclusive

- 12
5203

CYP Testing to Help Prevent Dangerous Adverse Drug Reactions

- 66
7872

Mental Health First Aid: Another Psychiatric Expansionist Tool

- 52
3564

Soteria Shelter Program in Hungary: Crisis as Danger and Opportunity

- 18
3131

Peer-run Organizations Help People with Criminal Justice Involvement Return to the Community

- 7
1323

Allen Frances and the “Overdiagnosing” of Children

- 53
7013

The DSM and the Medical Model: New Video

- 92
5232

Ruby Wax: From Shark Bait to the Doyenne of Disease

- 20
2278

Healing Madness

- 92
4788

MIA in the Year 2017

- 92
2956

The NIMH in 2017: Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places

- 31
1391

How Psychiatric Drugs Really Work

- 80
8758

The Biological Evidence for “Mental Illness”

- 140
8150

What We Are Talking About When We Talk About Community Mental Health

- 13
1846

Understanding Extreme States: An Interview with Stephen Harrod Buhner

& - 43
13203

Pioneering New Zealand Antipsychotic Medication Study Focuses on Patient Experiences

- 17
3602

Time to ‘Drop the Disorder’

- 41
6393

Carrie Fisher, Bipolar Disorder, and the Spread of False Information

- 213
16032

Carrie Fisher, Dead at Age 60

- 50
17303

Why I’m Not Celebrating Being PMDD-Free

- 35
23062

Carrie Fisher: Bipolar Meds and Heart Disease

- 478
37034

Soldiers as Guinea Pigs: the Case of Mefloquine and Tafenoquine

- 22
3097

Starting the New Year with a Bang: A Medley of Antipsychiatry Resolutions

- 101
3107

The Real “Mental Illness” Epidemic: Withdrawal from Antidepressants

- 66
9404

The Right to Refuse Psychiatric Treatment

- 87
5780

Opening the Door to a New Year: Some Christmas Thoughts and Wishes

- 11
1393

Shock, Lies… and a Duvet

- 24
2602

Seven Reasons Why the US’s New Mental Health Law Is Dangerous

- 95
13701

Dear Boston Globe, Part V: Thanks for Nothing

- 36
2759

An Outsider’s Observation

- 24
2746

Learnings from Earthworms: The Ecstasy of an Antipsychiatry “Breakthrough”

- 30
2629

A Mother’s Very, Very Worst Nightmare

- 33
13753

INTAR India 2016: Community Development and Human Liberation

- 14
1545

Post-Election Considerations for Users and Survivors of Psychiatry

- 117
2168

Collaborative Network Approach

- 8
2219

My Response to a Defender of Psychiatry

- 74
5314

INTAR 2016: A Global Call for a New Paradigm In Psychiatry

- 32
3174

“Navigating” Recovery: Difficult When the Map is a Psychiatric Fraud!

- 33
2878

What is Holistic Psychiatry?

- 17
13883

A Racist Movement Cannot Move

, & - 395
6460

Warning: A Psychiatric tsuNAMI is Upon U.S.

- 168
11937

Is the Mental Health System Yet Another Form of Institutional Racism?

- 66
5018

Have You Ever Wondered Why Labels on Supplements are so Vague?

& - 20
3687

My Baby, Psychosis & Me: A lesson in how not to make a documentary...

- 21
2456

How the Technologically-Immersive Culture is Wrecking Our Youth’s Health & Well-Being

- 14
1769

The ACE Survey is Unusable Data

- 20
5163

Troubled by Individual and Collective Psychosis? Maybe Compassion and Dialogue Could Help!

- 40
1557

Understanding Extreme States: An Interview with Paris Williams

& - 107
4382

Is Society or Psychiatry to Blame for the “Seriously Mentally Ill” Dying 25 Years...

- 58
4203

Antidepressants Increase the Risk of Suicide and Violence at All Ages

- 29
13628

Curing Schizophrenia via Intensive Psychotherapy

- 22
4990

In a Post-Trump Election World: What is Insanity?

- 147
3771

Going On or Off Psych Drugs: One Reason or Many?

- 6
1523

Neuroleptic Drugs, Akathisia, and Suicide & Violence

- 19
5915

What’s the Harm in Taking an Antidepressant?

- 30
17714

Dual-award Winning Play and Film About Human Beings, not Psychopathology

- 1
1185

Exploring Psychiatry’s “Black Hole”: The International Institute on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal

- 33
15990

Mad in Brasil: Part of a Global Effort to Create a New Paradigm of...

- 7
919

A Bill to Explore the Relationship Between Veteran Suicides and Prescription Medication

- 9
2533

Study 329 Trick, Treat or Treximet

- 2
1268

ADHD: A Destructive Psychiatric Hoax

- 359
36153

Psychiatry: Between a Rock and a Hard Place

- 39
4214

The Hidden Epidemic Exposed: The New Tardive Dyskinesia (TD) Resource Center

- 11
11055

The Helping Room

- 43
5179

Antidepressants and Pregnancy: The Risks and Potential Harm to Normal Fetal Development

- 2
1194

Go Figure: Murder or Accident?

- 8
1691

The Case for Neuroleptics Reducing Recovery from 80% to 5%

- 71
3791

Mad in the Spanish-Speaking World

- 6
807

The Difficulty of Challenging Deeply Personal Narratives

- 75
3125

Go Figure: Study 329

- 4
1041

What Do Santa Claus and the Chemical Imbalance Have in Common?

- 160
5892

Picking Our Battles in the War on Prejudice and Discrimination

- 14
1008

$11.9 Million Paxil Suicide Verdict: The Inside Story

- 11
8560

Turning the Tables: Using the Academy in the Battle Against Psychiatry

- 164
4464

Opening A Dialogue In Mental Health

- 15
3685

Study 329 Taper Phase

- 6
1410

Rejecting the “Medications for Schizophrenia” Narrative: Part II

- 61
4125

CHOICES Back on Track

- 7
1341

Why Social Isolation Leads to Inflammation

- 18
3986

Healing Silence

- 22
3580

The Mental Health Reform Act of 2016 (SB 2680) Would Be a Huge Step...

- 60
2557

Powerful Advocacy has Shut Down Halloween “Attractions” that Ramp Up Prejudice

- 36
1704

Evolution or Revolution? Why Western Psychiatry Won’t Change by Incremental Steps

- 72
3444

Study 329 Continuation Phase

- 3
674

Psychiatry’s Current Greatest Controversy: Fraud, Bullsh*t or What?

- 37
3845

Rejecting the “Medications for Schizophrenia” Narrative: A Survivor’s Response to Pies and Whitaker

- 154
8019

It’s Possible — and Beneficial — to Stop Feeling Guilt and Shame

- 53
6917

Dear Son: A Mother’s Experience of Psychiatry, Racism and Human Rights

- 14
1508

Depression, Antidepressants, and Expectancy

- 7
1365

Enough is Enough Series, #5 – The ADHD Fiction is Exposed. The French Have...

- 76
2332

The Algorithm Will See You Now: A Geek Tragedy

- 5
562

Helpful and Hopeful Thoughts

- 76
762

Searching for a Rose Garden: Challenging Psychiatry, Fostering Mad Studies

- 81
1326

My Daughter and Prozac

- 89
37853

Confessions of a Trespasser

- 166
2588

Psychiatric Ethics

- 51
649

How Psychiatry Almost Stopped Burning Man: A Story of Hell and Liberation

- 17
1007

Backing Away from Psychiatry

- 34
2102

Dear Boston Globe, Part IV: A Taste of Your Own Medicine

- 68
980

Optimizing Children’s Mental Health is a Social Justice Issue

- 8
1712

The Real Narrative of Life

- 26
328

The ADHD Dilemma: Looking Beyond Big Pharma

- 26
949

Can Co-production Really Transform UK Mental Health Services?

- 7
1663

Fighting For Change: An Epiphany From Inside the “Movement”

- 24
300

Not So Rare But Rarely Diagnosed: From Demonic Possession to Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis

- 26
14394

A Diluted Murphy Bill Clears the House and Goes to the Senate

- 72
887

Who and What Killed Prince and Michael Jackson? Will the Role of Benzos Ever...

- 52
4563

What Does Your Illness Mean?

- 14
735

Researching the Link Between SSRIs and Violence

- 38
1143

Pushing for an Informed Consent Benzo Bill in Texas

- 24
2737

Life Lessons and Trauma Informed Care

- 12
273

Life in the Era of Push-button Psychiatry

- 49
838

Mourning? – Yes; Forgiveness? – No. Healing from Trauma

- 60
2570

Inner Fire: Healing and Recovery Without Meds

- 49
3226

Escaping the Grip of Forensic Psychiatry

- 84
1218

I am Insane

- 121
6235

Sadness: The Problem and The Solution

- 9
980

Off Psychiatric Drugs After Fourteen Years

- 90
3551

#Diversity? — What “Solidarity” Really Looks Like

- 35
487

More on the Power of Diversity: The “Hidden Recovered”

- 42
392

Centering Lived Experience

- 35
548

Why Mental Health Organizations Should Endorse the Movement for Black Lives

- 154
1246

Interview: Researcher Runs Trial on Antidepressant Withdrawal

- 6
3629

Dear Boston Globe, Part III: We Came. We Protested. You Still Didn’t Listen.

- 112
972

It’s Time for a Revolution Within the Revolution: Coming Out of the Closet on...

- 147
607

Did I Choose the Wrong Profession? 

- 29
3357

What Do the DSM, Elvis Presley, and Dionysus Have in Common?

- 40
3257

The Struggle, and the Challenge: Young Adults in Crisis and the Use of Medication

- 97
363

Six Lessons on Open Dialogue From the Collaborative Pathway Experiment

- 27
1281

​I Will Not Abandon You

- 7
388

You Can Have Any Kind of Treatment You Want, Providing it’s Our Kind

- 20
652

Drug Choice, Scientology, Ego Needs & Other Divides: Real Politics 101, Part Three

- 84
1953

They Call This “Help”

- 44
2691

Hearing Voices, Living Fully: Living with the Voices in My Head

- 8
1975

The Case Against Antipsychotics

- 130
17098

Mental Health Advocacy in California: Perspectives of Advocates and Decision-Makers

- 3
949

Violence Caused by Antidepressants: An Update after Munich  

- 25
6363

Psychiatry is Edging Dangerously Close to Eugenics

- 150
6666

The Sociological Study of Mental Illness: A Historical Perspective

- 30
2636

Foster Youths Meet Psychiatry: First – Do No pHarm

- 36
394

Falling Through the Cracks

- 36
2191

“Invisible” Resistance: Taking Charge in the Face of Difficulty and Institutional Rule

- 83
455

‘We’re Not Buying It!” — Survey on Emotional Distress and Diagnosis Reveals Mistrust of...

- 33
550

Schizophrenia Twin Research as Reported in The Gene: An Intimate History — Getting the...

- 21
2446

Dear Boston Globe, Part II: You Forgot the Facts

- 123
740

My Fixed Delusion

- 135
1152

Yogurt Cooperative in Spain Provides a Different Form of Help: Meaningful Work

& - 25
374

Announcing an International Symposium and Institute on Psychiatric Drug Risks and Withdrawal

- 18
1598

The Murphy Bill, HR 2646 — a Heinous Piece of Legislation — is Coming...

- 122
2192

Principled and Loving Support: The Greatest Gift We Can Give 

- 11
274

A Decade of Searching for the Needle in the Haystack

- 38
313

In the Matter of the Hospitalization of Mark V

- 69
356

Consequences of Taking the Yellow Brick Road: Lithium Carbonate 1984-1996

- 52
1864

Benzos: A Dance With the Devil

- 26
14072

Royal College of Psychiatrists Still not Interested in Discussing Important Evidence on Long-term Antipsychotic...

- 67
742

“The Overdiagnosis of ADHD”

- 68
2657

A CALL TO ACTION: The Murphy Bill Passed the E&C Committee but the Fight Is...

- 100
529

Reared-Apart Twin Study Mythology: The Latest Contribution (Part Two) 

- 4
1201

Dear Boston Globe: You Are the Failure You Describe

- 106
1159

My Operation Tomorrow: Mental Health Justice, Speaking Out for Our Rights, and Creative Maladjustment

- 13
340

Feral Psychiatry: More on the Garth Daniels Case

- 50
2298

Forced “Treatment” is Torture

- 140
24260

Important New Book— “Outside Mental Health: Voices and Visions of Madness”

- 14
690

Abolishing Forced Treatment in Psychiatry is an Ethical Imperative

- 255
7224

Pain’s Promise, and the Problem with Pills

- 12
285

Why Parents Give Amphetamines and Other Risky Psychiatric Drugs to the Children They Love

- 71
6624

Rising Rates of Suicide: Are Pills the Problem?

- 40
1403

Well-Being Therapy: A Guide to Long-term Recovery

- 14
657

No, It’s Not Because He Was ‘Mentally Ill’: Why Tragedy Struck in Orlando

- 187
944

My Pharmaceutical Reincarnation

- 25
3452

Mad Memo #1: Dear Supreme Commander (You!) of Global Nonviolent Revolution!

- 40
318

What Would a Trauma-Informed Society Look Like?

- 88
2992

Eat Breathe Thrive: Chelsea Roff on Eating Disorders, Trauma, and Healing with Yoga and...

- 8
1215

Moving Forward in the Science of Psychiatric Medication Discontinuation/Reduction

- 22
694

Reared-Apart Twin Study Mythology: The Latest Contribution (Part One)

- 2
1094

A World That Would Have Us Doubt: Rape, the System, and Swim Fans

- 99
974

Nutrition, Sleep, and Mental Health

& - 34
1802

Effective Tactics for the “Rehumanizing Resistance”: Real Politics 101, Part Two

- 148
816

Reclaiming My Voice

- 22
836

Please Join Groundbreaking Research on Psychiatric Medications

- 25
1043

Stop The War On Chronic Pain Patients

- 167
16475

Prescribing Antidepressants for Girls: Intergenerational Adverse Consequences

- 9
311

Who Will Guard the Guardians of Psychiatry?

- 28
800

Twin Method Assumptions are Indefensible, but are Useful to the Rich and Powerful

- 23
1229

The Evidence-Based Mind of Psychiatry on Display

- 153
6136

A Moment Passed Too Often

- 9
426

Are They “Symptoms” or “Strategies?”

- 35
446

A Worldwide Epidemic – The Misuse of Anti-Depressant Medications

- 35
2311

In Honor of Fear and Pain

- 10
1074

Mental Health in Black and White

- 28
707

Do We Really Need Mental Health Professionals?

- 138
1275

Are Psychiatrists Playing God?

- 64
4246

The Elusive Emotional Wounds of Omission That Our Culture Inflicts On Us – and...

- 57
1531

Daughter of a Psychiatrist

- 75
4043

Truth and Reconciliation: An Evening of Sharing and Healing

- 8
862

Consciousness Revealed – Revolutionary Implications for Psychiatry

- 27
450

Report from the Parliament: Can Psychiatry At Least Be Curious?

- 47
931

Real Politics 101, Part One: “First-Order Psychiatry” vs. the “Rehumanizing Resistance”

- 51
706

Reflections on Myth Machines, “Mental Illness,” and the Perils of Good Intentions

- 26
316

Making the Case Against Antidepressants in Parliament

- 41
3080

ADHD:  The Hoax Unravels

- 64
4758

On the Corner of Distress & Poverty: What Happens to Our Minds When There...

- 40
535

Not Seen

- 58
633

The FDA Is Hiding Reports Linking Psych Drugs to Homicides

- 55
9514

Psychiatry: Worth Keeping If “Slowed Down”?

- 171
535

Feral Psychiatry: The Case of Garth Daniels

- 123
7154

Restoring Study 329: Letter to BMJ

- 6
487

An Important Documentary: Letters from Generation Rx

& - 20
3973

My Time at Bellevue

- 24
4809

The Presidential Primary & Forced Outpatient Psych Drugs

- 30
339

The Anorexia Nervosa Genetics Initiative

- 36
559

Why Evidence-based Practices Might not Actually Help People

- 18
1238

Mental Health First Aid: Your Friendly Neighborhood Mental Illness Maker

- 110
7154

Unhelpful Utterances: 6 Comments We Should No Longer Hear From Mental Health Professionals

- 65
905

Female Peer Specialists Paid Less than Males, Study Finds

- 45
251

How Biological Psychiatry Can Harm: A Mother’s View

- 12
220

A “Hot-Potato” Topic and a “Rational” Book

- 28
776

The MD and the Imaginary Eating Disorder

- 49
1439

The Psychiatry Sandcastle Continues to Crumble

- 46
690

My Response to the FDA’s ECT Rule Change

- 26
1320

Science-Based Service User Input, PLEASE?

- 6
805

Dear Self-Proclaimed Progressives, Liberals and Humanitarians: You’ve Really Messed This One Up

- 263
2171

MIA Continuing Education Moves into its Next Phase

- 4
182

Limits to Medicine: Re-visiting Ivan Illich

- 11
978

My Journey of Recovery

- 29
742

Beneath the Fog

- 61
961

Finding Clarity Through Clutter

- 13
590

ACES Connection – Or Disease Mongering, Round 2?

- 21
1502

Victim Blaming: Childhood Trauma, Mental Illness & Diagnostic Distractions?

& - 92
9397

Dismissing the Patriarchal Prescriptions

- 36
642

Our Day in Mental Health Court

- 49
819

Update: Massachusetts Benzodiazepine Bill Hearing

- 11
2979

Study 329: Response to Keller & Colleagues

- 3
265

Psychiatric Diagnosis is a Fraud: The Destructive and Damaging Fiction of Biological ‘Diseases’

- 81
25184

Comments by Shock Survivors and Their Loved Ones

- 24
41449

Simple Things

- 24
447

A New Mental Health System? Interview with Jim van Os

- 48
2770

Congress Proposes Research on the Link Between Psychiatric Drugs and Suicide

- 17
1312

The Experiential Democracy Project: A Depth Approach to the Legislative Process

- 3
841

Call to Action: Massachusetts Benzodiazepine Bill is Going to Committee

- 4
360

In Search of an Evidence-based Role for Psychiatry

, & - 93
781

My Shock Survivor Story

- 7
374

Doctor O’s Adventures in Wonderland

- 16
952

Only 72 Hours Left to Say #FDAStopTheShockDevice

- 7
537

Trinkets and Lunches and Dollars for Docs Really Do Pay Off

- 10
420

Do 5 Million Americans Really Have Bipolar Disorder?

- 25
4397

Allen Frances on Anti-Psychiatry

- 54
907

Bridging the Benzo Divide: Iatrogenic Dependence and/or Addiction?

- 183
3028

Public Engagement Fail: Creating Community Solutions

- 2
464

Comments on Jeffrey Lieberman and Ogi Ogas’ Wall Street Journal Article on the Genetics...

- 71
1142

Medical Science Argues Against Forced Treatment Too

- 25
1390

“All for the Best of the Patient”

- 46
1065

Call To Action: Massachusetts Bill H4062 for Informed Benzodiazepine Use is Official

- 15
760

Dr. Pies and Dr. Frances Make a Compelling Case that Their Profession is Doing...

- 102
853

Life, Unarmed

- 14
437

Love is Dialogical: The Open Dialogue UK International Conference and Training

- 36
2003

TV Drug Ads, Abilify & Big Pharma Mobsters

- 23
707

Myths are Used to Justify Depriving People Diagnosed as Mentally Ill of Their Human...

- 47
1186

How Coalition or Community Engagement Work Damages Advocates

- 12
457

Getting Back to Dialogue – The Core of Healing!

- 10
199

Regarding the Impossibility of Recovery

- 29
1268

Has the FDA Abandoned Its Off-Label Promotion Ban?

- 7
244

Bipolarized and Crimes Against Nature

- 39
1131

The Drug-Free Solution to Ending Depression

- 49
721

The Future of Mental Health Interview Series: Marilyn Wedge on Reclaiming Childhood

- 2
241

Psychiatry Bashing

- 62
1644

Appealing to our Elected Representatives

- 37
532

“Bewitching Science” Revisited: Tales of Reunited Twins and the Genetics of Behavior

- 9
2221

Schizophrenia in the Golden Ass

- 13
1075

Advice on Coping With Voices

- 16
541

To the Heart of the Matter, Part III: The Critical Nature of Authenticity and...

- 22
146

A Conversation about Having Conversations about Psychiatry

& - 151
501

New Research into Antipsychotic Discontinuation And Reduction: the RADAR programme

- 30
1107

The Mental Health Tribunal

- 11
451

Smash the Biological Anxiety Myth: Say ‘No’ to Benzodiazepines

- 31
1169

Organized Denial: Psychiatry’s Quiet Desperation

- 18
1409

Future of Mental Health Series: Oryx Cohen on his film “Healing Voices”

- 0
161

Testifying in Vermont: Forced Drugs

- 125
1200

Short Notes from a Muddled Island (with apologies to Bill Bryson)

- 1
127

In Case You Missed This

- 69
423

Call to Action: Support a Bill for Informed Benzodiazepine Use

- 11
720

Foxes Guarding the Henhouse: the Role of the Chief Psychiatrist

- 17
641

Promoting Mental Health: Supporting Early Relationships Does Not Mean Blaming Parents

- 7
126

Troubling Mental Health Nurse Education

- 30
584

Einstein, Social Justice and The New Relativity

- 15
1053

The Future of Mental Health Interview Series: Eleanor Longden

- 3
883

Open Letter about BBC Coverage of Mental Health

, & - 34
842

All in the Brain? An Open Letter Re: Stephen Fry’s Assumptions About Mental Illness

- 50
2275

Recovery: Compromise or Liberation?

- 43
4493

The Curious Case of over 50 Consecutive ECTs in Melbourne

- 30
1556

40 Days to Tell the #FDAStoptheShockDevice

- 6
551

Depressed, Anxious, or Substance-Abusing? But Don’t Buy You Are “Defective”?

- 17
590

My 6-year Anniversary Off Psych Drugs: How I Made It Through the Darkest Times

- 0
638

Exploiting The Placebo Effect:  Deceiving People For Their Own Good?

- 23
285

Future of Mental Health Interview Series: Interview with Joanna Moncrieff on The Myth of...

- 15
251

Doing It Alone Together: Core Issues In Dutch Self-Managed Residential Programs

- 2
455

Rethinking Public Safety – The Case for 100% Voluntary

- 27
717

Supporting Resources: “The Case for 100% Voluntary”

- 1
440

Feeling Good with Narcotics Now “Evidence” of Opioid Deficiency: The Chemical Imbalance Theory of...

- 29
1916

Lost & Found: Drowning The Mermaid, and Our Collective Power

- 55
208

Bloodtime

- 17
477

Gender Wage Gap and Depression/Anxiety

- 24
489

Belief Systems, Nuance, and Productive Advocacy Ideas

- 12
350

Dr.s Leo & Lacasse Respond to Dr. Pies’ Response

- 6
551

Baby Blues, Postpartum Depression & Psychosis: Countering the Danger of Antidepressants

- 22
516

The Social Consequences of a Diagnosis on the Autism Spectrum

- 21
424

Allen Frances Seeks the “Middle Way”

- 44
229

The Future of Mental Health Interview Series, Part III

- 3
176

Insight Forty Years Later: A Dream of Progress

- 41
307

“Is It Her Hormones?” A Case of Psychiatry Missing the Mark

- 8
604

“Schizophrenia Breakthrough” – Or a Case of Ignoring the Most Important Evidence?

- 19
732

On Soul Loss and Mental Health Services at Yale

- 31
696

And Now for Something Completely the Same:  The Latest, Greatest Breakthrough in Understanding the...

- 18
796

We Need Your Help!

- 40
388

A New York Times Debate: Is the ADHD Diagnosis Helpful or Harmful?

- 6
314

The CHRUSP Call to Action, and Its Significance

- 20
509

Breaking News! The Cause of Schizophrenia Finally Discovered!(?)

- 38
8061

Hello World! An American Nut Challenges Trump About Status of “Bull Goose Loony.” We...

- 11
292

Further Evidence of the Adverse Effects of Antidepressants, and Why These Have Taken so...

- 30
1011

Inflammation and Psychosis

- 29
2537

The Future of Mental Health Interview Series, Part II

- 1
159

The Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health: Finding Our Way in a World of...

- 9
168

Why Screening Everyone for Depression is a Terrible Idea

- 58
1436

Support CRPD Absolute Prohibition of Commitment and Forced Treatment

- 19
607

Postpartum Depression Screening: Prevention or Problem?

- 15
249

Rethinking Psychiatry Teaches about Despair, Resilience, and the Great Turning

- 25
451

What Disability Benefit Trends Tell Us About Psychiatric Treatments and the Economy

- 27
631

Me, Allen Frances, and Climbing Out of a Pigeonhole

- 121
1991

My Diagnosis of ADHD and the Downfall That Followed

- 14
17267

Anxiety: The Price We Pay for Consciousness

- 11
1605

The Genetics of Schizophrenia: A Left Brain Theory about a Right Brain Deficit in...

- 20
4481

The Future of Mental Health Interview Series

- 7
264

Suicidal Tendencies, Part I: I’m Suicidal Because I’m Mentally Ill Because I’m Suicidal

- 97
3959

At the Intersection Between Black Pride and Mad Pride

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989

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If a Tree Falls in the Forest

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President Obama Links Mental Health Conditions and Gun Violence! He Needs to Hear from...

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Becoming a Hearing Voices Facilitator

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My Desperate Yet Demoralizing Plight to Get My Son a Diagnosis for Christmas

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Enough is Enough Series: 2-Year-olds on Anti-psychotics and Biological Markers for Psychosis

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Please Respond to the New York Times: “What Should Be Done to Prevent Mass...

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Is Motivation Worth More Than Expertise?

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For Me, Self-Love Requires Both Mercy and Defiance

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Think About Mental Health Wellness for Your End-of-year Donations

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Hypermodern Hyperactives

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Stranger Than Kindness

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Crisis is (un)Learning

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Beyond ADHD: Moving Past the DSM Paradigm of Mental Illness

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CU President Raises Mental Health “Awareness” in Defiance of Mental Health Facts

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The Art of Mourning

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Dear Man: Sexism, Misogyny, & Our ‘Movement’

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Sound Heals the Wild Beast

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Danger Ahead if HR 2646 (the “Murphy Bill”) Passes!

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Diagnosisgate: A Major Media Blackout Mystery

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A Tribute to Bonnie Nelson

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Mad Economy: Let’s Change the World!

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The Alternative to Drugs: The Real Treatment for Human Suffering

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Slow Psychiatry: Integrating Need-Adapted Approaches with Drug-Centered Pharmacology

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“My Ego Strength is Too Developed for Me to Ever Become Psychotic!”

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Study 329: Conflicts of Interest

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Antipsychotics Withdrawal, Part 3

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Suicide Tsunami

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Keeping Meili Off Psychiatric Drugs

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Destination, Dignity: Creating the Future We Want

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Study 329 in Japan

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Siddhartha, 1984, the Murphy Bill, and More

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On the Link Between Psychiatric Drugs and Violence

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A Harm Reduction Approach to the Mental Health System

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2150

On the Tyranny of Good Will: Why We Call Ourselves Psychiatric Survivors

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Race, Gun Violence & Mental Health: #BlackLivesMatter

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Human Beings Are More Than a Combination of Letters, or; Why We Needed a...

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Being Myself

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Top Psychiatrist’s Stunning Announcement About Gun Violence

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Videos from the 2014 “Transforming Mad Science and Re-Imagining Mental Health Care” ISEPP/UCLA Conference

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Integration of Physical and Mental Health

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Study 329: By the Standards of the Time

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A Confession, and a Dilemma

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ADHD: More of It, Better Diagnosis, or Both?

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A Reflective Checklist to Reduce Psychotropic Drugs for Vulnerable Children

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Breaking News About the Oregon Shooter

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Benzodiazepines: Psychiatry’s Weakest Link  

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Is There Risk in Screening for Mental Health Disorders? 

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The New York Times Celebrates Twin Research Yet Again

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Psychiatry and the Pressure to Prescribe

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623

Passage

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Co-Optation, Failed Analogies, and ‘How to Touch a Hot Stove’

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Study 329: Minions no Longer

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A Liberation Journey with Images

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“Mental Disorders in the Classical World” (A Review)

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Hey; Don’t Just Shoot the Messenger!

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Life Events Cause Psychosis: The Further Adventures of an Aspiring Psychonaut

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Should Consumer/Survivors Help Psychiatrists Become Better Psychiatrists?

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10 of the Worst Political Abuses of the Psychiatric and Psychological Professions in American...

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Study 329: The Data Wars Cross the Rubicon

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Terry Lynch: The Doctor Who Stands for Truth

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You, Your Kids, or the Doctor… Who’s Running the Show?

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The APA’s New Image

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New Video and Campaign Calls for REAL Change in Mental Health Policy 

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What is #toppmote2015 and Why Does it Matter?

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Involuntary Hospitalization: What’s Love Got to do With it?

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Ronald Pies Doubles Down (And Why We Should Care)

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Love, Liberty, and Psychiatric Hospitalization

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Psychiatry: The Hoax Exposed

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Hello World! 5 Reasons We Must Say ‘No’ to Normality & Psychiatry

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Yesterday I Looked Forward to Taking Psych Drugs

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The Questions Are Not the Problem

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Psychiatry & Organized Crime

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Study 329: MK, HK, SK and GSK

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When There’s No Place Like Home…. 

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Trauma Outpaces our Ability to Adapt: It is the Source of Our Suffering

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On Making Non Sense

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Psychiatry’s Thalidomide Moment

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Benzo Drugs, UK Fudge, Cover Up and Consequences

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Say What?  Understanding That What We Say—and How We Say It—Changes Lives

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The Inherent Unreliability of the ADHD Label

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Can Probiotics be Used for the Treatment of Mental Health Problems?

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The Use of Antipsychotic Medications in Children

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The Troubled Life of Study 329: Consequences of Failure to Retract

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The Fourth and Fifth Laws of Behavioral Genetics

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Mental Health: Misnomer & Metaphor

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Enhanced Interrogation: Is It Psychology’s Only Scandal? by Lois Holzman

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A Not-So-Charmed Life

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Stigmatization of Psychiatry and Psychiatrists: Some Remedial Suggestions

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From Self-Harm to Self-Empowerment: Liberation Through Words

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Yes, the Tide is Turning Against Psychiatry

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Do NAMI and MHA Suffer From Anosognosia?

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Study 329: The Timelines

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Destination, Dignity: Focus on a Broken Criminal Justice System

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Meta-Autonomy & Meta-Equality

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Hiding the Evidence of Society’s Side Effects

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Shooting the Odds, Part III

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House of Cards: Bad Science Creates False and Dangerous Beliefs

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Book Review: Depression Delusion by Terry Lynch, MD, MA

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Study329.org: The Panorama Files

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Cannabis for Treating Psychiatric Problems? A Clear Yes, Maybe.

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5634

What if ACEs (Adverse Childhood Events) Were the Basis of Mental Health Treatment? 

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New Documentary, “Creatively Maladjusted”: Diagnosed-Psychotic Quad Activist Goes Global Revolutionary!

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Incarcerated, “Delusional,” and Sentenced to Abuse  

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How Following the Trail of “Cutting Edge” and “Convenient” Can Distort Reality

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A Network Meeting in North America

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Compassion and the Voice of the Tormentor

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478

A Response to the Hyper-focus on Brain-based Research and “Disease”

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Delusions

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Is Mandatory Trial Registration Decontaminating the Psychiatric Literature?

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A Milestone in the Battle for Truth in Drug Safety: Study 329’s Final Chapter...

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A Debate on Twin Research Has Broken Out in American Criminology

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Flibanserin: The Female Viagra is a Failed Me-too Antidepressant

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My Father-in-law on Risperdal — A Case Study Gets Personal

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The Murphys Have Their Way With Words

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The Boy in the Closet — How I Lost my Best Friend to a...

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My Successful Campaign for Dedicated Benzo Withdrawal Services

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Psychiatry’s “Institutional Corruption”—A Chat with Robert Whitaker and Lisa Cosgrove

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On Relaxing Off-Label Meds: Do the Opposite. Especially for Children. Especially Antipsychotics

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Senate Bill 1945: The New Fraud – Getting into the “Mental Health Reform Act...

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#1 Wacko Memo: Disability & Mental Health Revolution to Stop Global Warming!

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387

What Do We Owe When a Shock Survivor Dies? – On the Death of...

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Do We Need to Medicate More Children? – A Response to Calls to Remove...

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Binge Eating and Genetics

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424

Why was James Holmes, the Movie Theater Killer, Spared the Death Penalty?

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Healing is a Shocking Process: Protracted Psych Drug Withdrawal Syndrome (Iatrogenic Brain Injury)

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Thoughts on the Nature of Emotions

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The Ubiquity of Unhappiness: An Introduction to Cultural Psychiatry

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“Knowing Together” vs. “Knowing Apart”: The Importance of Extending Our Network

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Impoverished Youth; Our Neighbors in Distress, and at Risk

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Lost in Medication

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Intermittent Explosive Disorder: The ‘Illness’ That Goes On Growing

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Should Physicians Read Journals? Given Current Standards, Maybe Not

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Lithium and Suicide: What Does the Evidence Show?

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Stimulate Your Vagus Nerve and Thus Chill Out: Simple, Natural, Uninvasive Methods

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#ADA25 Birthday, Mental Health, Justin Dart and My Crazy Hashtags

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Five Strikes Against Assisted Outpatient Treatment Laws

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Revised UN Prison Rules

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ADHD: A Destructive and Disempowering Label; Not an Illness

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Survey on Emotional Distress and Mental Health Diagnosis: An International Campaign to Include “Regular...

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Teen Bipolar Disorder and the Abnormal Brain: Making Sense of New Research

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Why the DSM Differential Diagnosis is So Disappointing

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Gut Microbiota & Mental Health

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The Sweet Spot Between Ignorance and Certainty: A Place Where Dialogue and Healing...

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One Family’s Encounter with Modern Psychiatry and a Call for Social Change

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Benzodiazepines: Miracle Drugs?

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Rx Resilience: Cultivating the Ability to Bounce Back

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The Lonely Way: Reflections from a Young Psychologist

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The Disease Loop – Mental Health Infographics

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1933

Dialogues as a Way of Transforming Consciousness: Results from Three Teleconference Dialogues of Discovery...

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Always a Mystery: Why do Drugs Come and Go?

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427

Women, ECT, and Memory

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1515

Tearing Apart the DSM-5 in Social Work Class

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2788

For a Well Mind, Try Revolution? Creative Maladjustment Week 2015

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234

Psychiatric Drugs are False Prophets with Big Profits. Psychiatry Has Been Hijacked

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Who Needs Radicalisation?

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Why the Shades of Awakening Online Series Matters

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Tell PCORI What Research Funding We Really Need

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Reasons Not to Believe in Lithium

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Mistakes Were Made (by all of us)

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525

Can Madness Save the World?

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Children, Youth and Mental Health in British Columbia: A Presentation to the Legislature

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Are DSM Psychiatric Disorders “Heritable”?

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CBT: Part of the Solution, Part of the Problem, an Illusion, or All...

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A Witness to Fraud

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When the Tail Wags the Dog, Eventually the Dog Bites

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415

The Mind and Body Connection: The Correlation between Stress and Inflammation

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Men on Hooks: The Origin of Modern Psychiatric Diagnostic Systems

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The First “Working To Recovery” Camp: June, 2015

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525

Decision-Making and Moral Injury

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933

What Do Dreams Mean? Dreams Provide a Window Into Our Character

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What You Believe Makes a Difference

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Regarding Representative Tim Murphy’s Helping Families In Mental Health Crisis Act

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Electroshock Survivors Taught Me Eight Lessons in International Protests

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Bullying+Lying = Fear+Complying

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The Medical Model Discovers Heroin Addiction

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The Time to Curb Forced Drugging is Now: In Your State, and Nationally

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Towards a Healthcare Magna Carta, Part One

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How Should We Understand the Link Between ADHD and Early Death?

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Psychiatry On The Defensive, But Ceding No Ground

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236

‘Empathy’ is a False God: ‘Responsiveness’ is the Real Deal

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1374

With the Public Defrauded, the Illegitimacy of Forced Psychiatry Crystallizes

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 Competition, Collaboration & Collusion: The Triple Threat for Our Kids

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“Let’s Roll” With Mad in America Continuing Education

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Book Review: Parenting Your Child with ADHD: A No-Nonsense Guide for Nurturing Self-Reliance...

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Responsibility – Legal and Spiritual

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Thinking Upstream: Winning Real Mental Health Reform By Joining the Anti-Corruption Movement

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What the Research Has Told Us About Peer-Run Respite Houses: The Second Story Story

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May 16, 2015: 25 Shock Treatment Protests in 9 Countries! What Now?

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3 Facts All Parents Should Know About ADHD Stimulant Drugs

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The ADHD Label and Mortality

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From Independent to Institutionalized

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Chemicals Have Consequences: Antidepressants, Pregnancy, and the New York Times

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Children are Vulnerable Targets on the Algorithm Superhighway

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201

Has a New Twin Study Meta-Analysis Finally “Settled” the Nature-Nurture Debate?

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Psychiatrists May be Ready to Learn About Treating With Micronutrients

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1477

Who’s the “Menace to Society”? Robert Whitaker or Jeffrey Lieberman?

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Neuroleptic Drugs And Mortality

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The Murphy Bill: People are Afraid

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770

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A Declaration of Interdependence for the Era of the Murphy Bill

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Reflections on a Beautiful Mind

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13112

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Announcing Mad in America’s New Resource Section on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal

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Questions About Jeffrey Lieberman’s “Notorious Past and Bright Future of Psychiatry”

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Book Review: Psychiatry in Context: Experience, Meaning & Communities, by Phil Thomas

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ECT: Safe and Effective for Agitation and Aggression in Cases of Dementia?

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Reviving the Spirit of Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest!

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Psychiatry Reconsidered … Once Again

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The American Indian Youth Suicide Epidemic: Mental Health Professionals as Superheroes

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Listening to the Voiceless Citizens

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What Kind of Forced Treatment Would You Prefer?

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Thank You Notes: #ForTheKids

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222

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What Would CRPD-Compliant Mental Health Legislation Look Like?

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Is My Therapist Good or Not?

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The Once and Future Abilify: Depot Injections for Everyone?

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Psychiatry: Smoke and Mirrors

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Physician, Heal Thyself (Luke 4:23)

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What is Love? An Ode to Motherhood on Mother’s Day

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Psychiatry Through the Lens of Institutional Corruption

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Psych Meds Put 49 Million Americans at Risk for Cancer

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Voiceless in America

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Sheller’s Appeal Demonstrates FDA’s Indifference to Drug Harm

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Lieberman’s Intellectual Cowardice in His Critique of Szasz, or: What to Do About Page...

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Sounds of Silence from Inside the Jail

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RCTs: Really Concerning Trends in Research and Marketing

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215

Kudos to Art Levine for Exposing Government Complicity in Illegal Psychiatric Drugging of Children

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Forced Psychiatry is Torture

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8126

Response to “The Marketing of Serotonin” on BMJ

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The Sociological Study of Mental Illness: A Historical Perspective

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The Spurious Chemical Imbalance Theory is Still Alive and Well

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Want to Be Drug Free?  It’s Time to Live More Simply

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Spiritist Psychiatric Hospitals in Brazil

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Psychiatry and the Business of Madness: An Ethical and Epistemological Accounting

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1330

Polypharmacy Poisoning, Dependence and Recovery from the Psychiatric Paradigm

- 54
948

Madness in Civilisation: A Cultural History of Insanity

- 15
2113

Medical Nemesis Revisited: Physician-Caused Anger, Despair & Death

- 26
546

Fighting for the RLCs Continued: Where’s the Evidence?

- 33
209

Protesting a Psychiatric Atrocity

- 74
2294

“Doing” Antipsychiatry on all Cylinders: Possibilities, Enigmas, Challenges

- 125
817

An Essay on Finnish Open Dialogue: A Five-Year Follow-Up

- 75
2371

Publication Bias and Meta-Analyses: Tainting the Gold Standard with Lead

- 35
413

Largest Survey of Antidepressants Finds High Rates of Adverse Emotional and Interpersonal Effects

- 163
1927

Reflections of a Lone Wolf Maddass in Search of a Better World

- 23
555

The Risk Society and the Germanwings Tragedy: Stigma on Both Sides of the Psychiatry...

- 51
315

So You Say You Want a Revolution?

- 22
272

Upon Leaving Soteria-Alaska

& - 14
2099

A Tale of Two Cousins

- 51
826

Cracked Open – Installment 3

- 4
396

84 Things I Could do Once Again When I Got Off Psychiatric Drugs

- 51
382

ECT Day of Protest: Time for You to Take Leadership

- 11
664

Psychiatric Diagnoses:  Labels, Not Explanations

- 69
913

The Torturous Evasions of the American Psychological Association

- 10
866

How Young is Too Young? Part 1: Prescribing Psychiatric Drugs – Infancy to Toddlerhood

- 13
383

Drugging Foster Kids: Let’s Do Something About It

- 9
633

Protesting ECT: A Moral/Existential Calling

- 28
985

Pilots Crashing on Antidepressants: A (Not So) Brief History

- 17
3886

Winging it: Antidepressants and Plane Crashes

- 18
1408

What I Learned at ISPS 2015

- 7
621

Towards a New Psychiatry: Say ‘No’ to the Fiction of Brain Diseases

- 34
1022

Towards a New Understanding of Psychosis – ISPS 2015

- 14
1165

A Long and Troubled Relationship

- 37
942

Creatively Managing Voice-Hearing Through Spiritual Writing

- 17
295

Eugenics & the 2014 Murphy Bill

- 25
651

Clipping Care, Not Profit

- 6
115

Publication Bias: Does Unpublished Data Make Science Pseudo?

- 83
447

A History of Anglo-American Psychiatry

- 17
347

Why Is There An Anti-psychiatry Movement?

- 73
2951

The Death of Common Sense: When Love and Grief Become ‘Disordered’

- 43
1036

Changing the World and Other Extreme Sports

- 18
278

Human Rights, Disclosing the Truth, and Psychiatric Diagnosis

- 50
706

Rethinking Mental Health and Drug “Therapy” for Children

& - 0
504

Wake Up and Smell the Coffee!

- 8
211

Shrinks: A Self-Portrait of a Profession

- 112
5484

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Does Not Exist

- 46
12913

Balancing Our Recovery Ecosystem

- 9
150

No, There is no Such Thing as ADHD

- 214
11671

Article on “Rethinking Criminal Responsibility”

- 5
668

Financial Stress:  Auditing Our Money Woes

- 15
139

The Drugging of Children in Foster Care

- 43
904

Cracked Open – Installment 2

- 18
324

Horse-Stealing Mania: The Hiawatha Asylum for Insane Indians

- 18
1676

Do the Math

- 32
222

Retreat From the Social: a Review of Hegel’s Theory of Madness

- 23
747

When Asylums Are the Only Hammer, Everybody Looks Like a Nail

- 32
418

Driving Us Crazy: A Festival About Madness in Society, and in All of Us

- 5
258

Peer Supports Under Siege: A Call for Help and Solidarity (And how this...

- 90
419

Causing a Stir: Launching “Understanding Psychosis and Schizophrenia” in New York City

& - 19
1144

A Disease Called Childhood

- 9
1074

Me, My Brain, and Baked Beans

- 38
1251

May 16, 2015: International Day of Protest Against Shock Treatment

- 47
1690

Speaking As A Survivor Researcher

- 16
801

Towards a Ban on Psychiatrically Diagnosing and Drugging Children

- 61
5066

Immune Response is Secondary to Trauma

- 25
1235

Psychiatric Survivor Entrepreneurs

- 20
272

Mourning: Death, Loss, Trauma, & Psychotherapy – The Universal Agent for Recovery and Change

- 7
351

Peer Respites Hold Promise for Reducing the System’s Reliance on Institutional Treatment

- 17
786

Why We Must Strike the Terms “High Functioning” and “Low Functioning” from Our Vocabulary 

- 55
14503

Antidepressant Drugs & Suicide Rates

- 8
4373

All About the Word: Language, Choice & That Damn Dress

- 13
267

Stimulants and Food

- 46
1274

Are We at a Tipping Point?

& - 38
2253

Hunting the Woozle, and Open Dialogue 

- 33
336

Cracked Open

- 29
392

Does MadinAmerica Promote the Spreading of Scientific Anarchy?

- 117
439

The Pro Choice Dilemma

- 35
380

Developing a Compassionate Voice as a Step Toward Living With Voices

- 11
241

Polarization or Accommodation To Transformation: What Would Malcolm X Say?

- 113
334

Take the ADHD “Test”: An Inside Look at ADHD’s Diagnosis

- 165
1832

Born to Sense: High Sensitivity+Trauma = Psychiatric Diagnosis?

- 48
1170

Envisioning the Future of Mental Health

- 14
474

Letter to the Mother of a “Schizophrenic”: We Must Do Better Than Forced Treatment...

- 46
1912

Over the Falls Without a Barrel: The Patent Cliff and Prescriber Impartiality

- 44
272

Eight Unanswered Questions about Psychiatric Research in Minnesota

- 6
606

A New Paradigm for Psychiatry

- 132
613

What the Government Knows About Suicide and Depression That We Are Not Being Told

- 24
816

Robert Whitaker Missed the Mark on Drugs and Disability: A Call for a Focus...

- 164
1593

Why I Created an Alternative to Psychiatric Hospitalization

- 37
6859

The Astonishing Zyprexa Cover-Up

- 25
23483

Return to Asylums? Let’s Not!

- 19
779

Quantitative Mental Health & Oppression, Part Two: The Case of the ‘American Indian’

- 16
1156

Persecution: Dangerous Liaisons

- 5
352

Today: 5 Years Free From the Psychiatric Drug Cocktail

- 13
1060

Occam’s Razor and the Elusive Pursuit of Social Justice

- 16
591

Psychiatric Regret

- 23
578

Activism, Suicide, and Survival: Healing the Unhealable

- 13
947

Stopping the Madness: Coming Off Psychiatric Medications

- 45
17879

Reflecting Back on a Campaign to Stop Forced Outpatient ECT

- 8
606

In Praise of the Nervous Breakdown

- 25
3028

Addressing the Mental Health Crisis:  What Really Matters

- 30
648

Drugs and Dementia

- 46
850

My Personal Journey to Our Upcoming Empathic Therapy Conference

- 20
318

What You Need to Know Before Starting a Drug for a Mental Health Problem

- 12
1007

Disability and Mood Disorders in the Age of Prozac

- 127
3020

My Journey Through My Daughter’s Madness, My Research, and My Book

- 41
975

Why Mental Health Systems Should Be Organized Under Alcohol and Drug Systems

- 13
155

Listening for the Person within “Madness”

- 0
200

Is This Depression? Or Melancholy? Or…

- 9
424

One Gutsy Woman

- 19
895

On Becoming Critical

- 31
645

Child Development and The Challenges to Parenthood: An Experiment in Time Travel

- 22
294

Healing the Body/Mind with the Willingness to Feel

- 6
764

The Dopamine Hypothesis of Schizophrenia – Version III

- 27
1875

From Surviving to Thriving: Unleashing Creativity

- 14
317

Who is Delusional? The Answer Is: We All Are

- 30
4418

Los Creativamente Inadaptados – The Alternatives to Psychiatry Movement in Chile/Argentina 2015

- 32
849

Psychotherapy Is the Real Deal: It is the Effective Treatment

- 38
1066

Bring Back the Asylum?

- 135
1169

Shamans and Psychiatrists: A Comparison

- 26
3800

I Am “Pro-Healing”

- 15
391

Persecution: Dangerous Liaisons

- 5
110

Dreams of a Quick Fix, Gone Awry

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792

In Memoriam: Leonard Roy Frank

- 18
2666

Can’t Breathe

- 28
317

The Worst Case Scenario for Global Warming — “Normalgeddon” — is Bad for...

- 37
493

Finding the Gifts Within Madness

- 7
350

Human Experiences in Academic Boxes

- 116
594

Psychiatrists Providing Psychotherapy?

- 23
872

The Eight Lessons of Suicide

- 11
4681

The Substance of Substance Use: Talking About Marijuana, Alcohol, and Other Drugs

- 4
700

War on Civilization: What Would Happen if Patients Radicalize?

- 13
359

A Call to Arms: The Future of Psychiatry is at Stake

- 63
2526

How Come the Word “Antipsychiatry” is so Challenging?

- 27
358

Antidepressant-Induced Mania

- 69
63231

How Quantitative Mental Health Turns Oppression Into “Depression”

- 19
1449

The Presumption of Incompetence: Why Traditional ADHD Treatments Fail 

- 29
1316

Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal

- 19
673

Just Me: A Series of Reflections on Trauma, Motherhood, and Psychiatry

- 22
649

Do You Still Need Your Psychiatric Diagnosis?

- 21
1560

Schizophrenia; the Tragedy of a Promise Unfulfilled

- 32
686

Dr. Feelgood: Traveling ‘On the Path of Least Resistance’

- 42
259

3 Troubling Reasons Psychiatry Retains Power Despite Lost Scientific Credibility

- 35
1056

“Do I Have to Feel so Badly About Myself?” – The Legacies of Guilt,...

- 27
1365

Quotations From the Genetics “Graveyard”: Nearly Half a Century of False Positive Gene Discovery...

- 10
1600

Psychiatry’s Poor Image: Reflecting on Psychiatrists’ “Apologias”

- 41
744

ECT for Agitation and Aggression in Dementia

- 47
2265

Resolution for the New Year: Lay Down the Burden of Proof

- 20
2523

Trapped

- 27
412

Do You Think It’s Real? Responding to Alternate Realities

- 24
960

Depression: It’s Not Your Serotonin

- 68
12323

Biology and Genetics are Irrelevant Once True Causes are Recognized

- 10
573

Rethinking Cost Containment in Publicly Funded Psychiatric Drug Budgets

- 22
205

Nitrous Oxide for Depression and Other Hazards of Modern Psychiatry

- 79
1558

Rainbows and Unicorns

- 8
755

My Mysterious Son

- 29
1665

What Does Santa Think About ADHD Drugs?

- 8
570

What Would Better Treatment for Those with Psychosis Look Like?

- 46
297

Psychiatry and the Problem of the Medical Model – Part 1

- 34
7137

There’s More to Sleep than Shuts the Eye: Waking Up to All that Sleep Does...

- 27
638

The Truth About Antidepressant Research: An Invitation to Dialogue

- 32
1330

Enough is Enough Series: An Hallucinogen for Depression? Psychiatry is Testing Ketamine (‘Special...

- 50
735

Assessing the Cost of Psychiatric Drugs to the Elderly and Disabled Citizens of the...

- 3
324

Sick‘s Wild Ride – From Treatment to TEDMED

- 18
474

Healing is in Our Stories

- 17
566

Dr. Datta – Still Repackaging Psychiatry

- 38
342

Finding Human Life on Earth

- 9
198

Studies of Reared-Apart (Separated) Twins: Facts and Fallacies

- 4
16673

Coercion in Care

- 45
2385

The Quantum Mechanics of Tessa’s Dance & Signal Peak

- 33
229

Racism 102:  It Is Not About Colorblindness

- 8
184

Nutrient Boosting of Medications

& - 9
844

The Chemical Imbalance Theory:  Still Being Promoted

- 30
597

Antidepressants and Pregnancy:  Who Says They Are Safe? 

- 14
1949

A Debate Between Allen Frances and Robert Whitaker

& - 133
9055

Changing Society’s Whole Approach to ‘Psychosis’

& - 5
907

Understanding Psychosis and Schizophrenia? What About Black People?

- 22
1590

Changing Trends of Childhood Disability, 2001-2011

- 25
209

Announcing the Mad in America Continuing Education Project

- 32
163

Tapering Neuroleptics: Three Year Outcomes

- 63
676

Ecstatic Dance Heals

- 6
1607

Racism 101

- 9
298

On the Other Side

- 16
8608

The Evidence of Our Convictions

- 20
1049

When Homosexuality Came Out (of the DSM)

- 42
50422

Understanding Psychosis and Schizophrenia – A Valuable, and Free, Online Report

- 5
352

Michael Brown and the ‘Peer’ Movement

- 103
548

Choice and Emotion: a Short Essay With Some Musing

- 10
444

A Positive Understanding of How Our Minds Work

- 7
1178

An Unplanned Path to Discovering My Truth

- 5
200

Going Deeper into “Madness”: ISPS 2015’s International Dialogue

- 6
213

Winning Friends and Influencing People

- 20
342

Paradigms Lost

- 9
573

Science and Pseudoscience in Psychiatric Training: What Psychiatrists Don’t Learn and What Psychiatrists Should...

- 24
1580

Implications of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement on Equitable Access to Healthcare

- 5
172

On The Ubiquity of Conflict

- 6
436

Julia’s TEDx Talk: Time to Get Serious About Nutrition

& - 9
3082

Psychiatry: Still Trying To Rewrite History

- 60
494

Liberal “Mental Health” Reform: A “Fail-Proof” Way to Fail

- 47
1050

Why an Assassinated Psychologist — Ignored by U.S. Psychologists — Is Being Honored

- 4
665

From Blaming the Patient to Blaming the Brain

- 49
601

The Scarlet Label: Close Encounters With ‘Borderline Personality Disorder’ (Part 2)

& - 125
4944

Psychiatric Drugs: More Dangerous Than You Ever Imagined (A New Video)

- 49
10026

Housing First: An Evidence-Based Approach Beyond the Medical Model

- 6
483

Trauma and Schizophrenia: The Ultimate Political Battle

- 93
1819

My Favorite Fears and How They May Serve Us

- 24
271

Pain Management in Modern Times:  Does This Sound Familiar?

- 13
385

The Indian Health Service’s Psychiatric Drug Habit & the ‘Heavy Influence of Biomedical Models’

- 16
524

What Does an 800 lb Gorilla in the Room Say at an ADHD Conference? ...

- 25
585

Reforming Prisons, Housing, Medication & Community-Based Support: Part I of a Common-Sense, Common Ground...

- 14
175

40,000 Suicides Annually and America Still Shrugs

- 41
542

Reflections on MIA’s Film Festival and Our Collective Human Future

- 19
0

Genetic Research in Psychiatry: A Brief Update

- 16
263

The Mentally Ill Do Not Exist: Challenging Popular Media’s Obsession

- 12
199

Is Listening the Key to Living?

- 16
150

The Case of the Missing Schizophrenia

- 16
206

More On the “Civil War” Between Mental Health Advocates

- 33
320

Toward a Selective Use Model of Psychiatric Medication

- 4
217

Please Stop Saying “Anti-psychiatry”

- 83
896

Providing Loving Receptivity Can Help People in Extreme States

- 23
1404

Coming Out: Iatrogenic Illness Awareness Month

- 18
1718

Spiritual Bypass and the Chill Pill

- 10
265

More on Benzos and Cognitive Damage

- 45
19465

Wholesome Wave

& - 4
822

Between Psychiatry and Anti-Psychiatry: Mad in America Opens a Dialogue

& - 58
1051

Antipsychiatry Revisited: Toward Greater Clarity

- 125
1944

Our Powerful Mind, and Hope

- 36
308

The Community Psychologist as Covert Operative in the Indian Health Service

- 9
412

The Federal Report on Financial Relationships Between Pharma Industry and Prescribing Physicians

- 5
579

The Scarlet Label: Close Encounters with ‘Borderline Personality Disorder’

& - 108
6222

Allen Frances – Civil War or Propaganda Battle?

- 48
616

It’s the Coercion, Stupid!

- 71
5991

Robin Williams or Patch Adams? Watch a Brief Message from David Oaks to the...

- 6
243

Am I Having a Breakdown or Breakthrough? Further Reflections on a Depressive Relapse

- 8
1015

Mental Illness as Metaphor

- 5
2481

Are We Discovering More ADHD?

- 6
287

The Blinding of Gloria X. in New Jersey State Hospital – Just Another Mental...

- 37
1280

May the ‘Force’ NEVER EVER Be With You! The Case for Abolition

- 171
954

Benzodiazepine Use and Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease

- 20
1168

The Making of “Guilty Except for Insanity: Maddening Journeys Through an Asylum”

- 26
979

A Discussion of Labels, Part One: Disability

- 13
240

Turning Distress into Joy, Part V and Final: Meaning & Transcendence

- 27
166

Rethinking Psychiatry

- 61
629

Back in the Dark House Again: The Recurrent Nature of Clinical Depression

- 29
994

A New Model of Service

- 16
118

A Macabre Celebration:  80 Years of Convulsive ‘Therapy’

- 122
390

Why I Am Willing to Die on the Governor’s Doorstep

- 22
446

Healing From Intergenerational Trauma: Facing the Unfaceable

- 15
529

You Call Me Crazy. I Call Myself a “9”

- 8
447

Is it Better to Be a Life Coach or a Psychotherapist?

- 35
6453

To See a Professional or Not

- 17
200

Stumble Biscuits and the Murk of Benzo Disability

- 23
1510

Nutrition Above the Neck: Why is This Topic Met With Hostility?

& - 45
1013

Psychiatry Disrupted

- 44
524

PsychoQuad Goes to the Movies: The Power of Sex, Bettie Page and Art Overthrow...

- 96
302

Towards a Hermeneutic Shift in Psychiatry

- 50
2366

Mentally Ill or Conflict Repressed? Is Conflict a Lost Art?

- 19
274

On Being Sane in an Insane Place—The Rosenhan Experiment in the Laboratory of Plautus’...

- 40
1549

My Loss of Cultural Competence Among the Nacirema-Orue

- 27
240

Outside the Bubble and Into the “New” Economy

- 9
111

NICE Guidelines for Bipolar Disorder- a Missed Opportunity

- 22
664

The Alternatives Conference Helps Our Movement Grow

- 21
261

The Persecution of Heretics

- 11
386

The Problems of Non-Consensual Reality

- 105
2043

Not Another Brick in The Wall

- 16
227

It Gets Better: Neuropsych Doctor Confirms Psych Drug Iatrogenesis, PTSD, Brain Injury

- 21
661

Global Warming and the Mad Movement: Can You Help?

- 51
235

Pharma-funded Research

- 18
192

How to Spread the News, Part 2

- 63
262

Detecting the True ‘Culture’ of Indian Health Service Mental Health Programs

- 7
623

Turning Distress into Joy, Part IV:  Gratitude

- 14
436

Doctor Munchausen: Hear no, See no – What?

- 17
174

Our Movement Needs an Alternative to the “Alternatives” Conference

- 194
391

Why “Stabilizing” People is Entirely the Wrong Idea

- 26
281

Psychosis and Dissociation, Part 2: On Diagnosis, and Beyond

- 17
632

Second Generation Neuroleptics and Acute Kidney Injury in Older Adults

- 18
250

WHOMHP!

- 29
303

How Can We Spread the News?

- 110
191

Social Justice and the Benzodiazepine Death Camp

- 29
411

Pierce v. Pemiscot Hospital: Federal Judge Takes a Psychiatric Inmate’s Rights Seriously

- 43
541

Turning Distress into Joy, Part III:  Helping Others

- 10
236

Who Is Isaiah Rider???

- 28
752

From Burning Man to Bellevue Hospital

- 1
306

The Law’s Flaw

- 20
182

Dr. Pies Still Spinning

- 61
205

Patient Centred-Care Doesn’t Go Far Enough: We Need Patient-Perspective Care

- 75
531

Creating Alternatives to the Medical Model

- 6
537

On Spiritual Emergence and Other Extraordinary Experiences

- 19
432

Believe it or not . . .

- 49
228

Forced Treatment Ineffective: Advocacy Essential

- 33
264

If Not Meds, Then WHAT?

& - 189
841

Hope for Everyone

- 35
612

Do We Need More Hospital Beds?

- 51
428

How Reliable is the DSM-5?

- 19
18643

Peer Support in Mental Health: Exploitive, Transformative, or Both?

- 74
2905

A Critique of Genetic Research on Schizophrenia – Expensive Castles in the Air

- 41
2381

Does Long-Term Use of “Antipsychotic” Drugs Result in More Disability, and More Psychosis?

- 102
11557

Stranger

- 13
353

Autism, Antidepressants, and Pregnancy: The Basics

- 9
1056

Positive Explanations for Psychological Problems

- 47
518

The Lessons of Ancient Philosophy

- 42
627

On Religious and Psychiatric Atheism: The Success of Epicurus, the Failure of Thomas Szasz

- 223
7580

Embodying Peace in Times of War

- 11
187

Turning Distress into Joy, Part II:  Channeling

- 11
222

My Top 11 Ways to Reunite for a Mental Health Revolution!

- 61
529

It Gets Better: Living Well While Being Sick

- 2
238

Looking forward to the Good Ol’ Days

- 33
170

How About a Diagnostic Alternative for Use in Talk Therapy?

- 0
398

More Bogus Conclusions From More Bogus Research

- 27
202

Shh… Just Whisper it, But There Might Just Be a Revolution Underway

- 33
894

Extend Your Child’s ADHD Summer Drug Holiday to Infinity and Beyond!

- 30
850

MHASF Launches a Warm Line

- 6
592

Fear is Life Force … (in Clinical Circles it’s Often Called Anxiety) – An...

- 12
337

Life & Death: Robin Williams, Suicide “Prevention,” and the World as We Know...

- 67
1948

Suicide Prevention for All: Making the World a Safer Place to Be Human

- 30
350

Turning Distress Into Joy, Part I:  Forgiveness

- 31
247

Antidepressants and Overall Wellbeing

- 27
333

Diagnosing the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

- 0
163

Doctor Munchausen and Sense about Science

- 9
117

Rethinking Therapy: Making Our Worlds as We Would Like Them to Be

- 7
268

It Gets Better: A Portrait of Poly Psychopharmacology

- 14
773

Managing Spiritual Emergency: In Spiritist Psychiatric Hospitals and Community Centers In Brazil

- 25
979

Trauma, Psychosis, and Dissociation

- 57
23436

People Who Find Psychiatric Drugs Helpful

- 71
469

Taking an Entry Point: On Investigating the Psychiatric-Pharmaceutical Complex

- 45
493

Open Letter to Family Doctors and Mental Health Practitioners From an Average Kid Acting...

- 6
205

Father Munchausen, I Presume!

- 12
141

Proposal From Italy: An International Collection of Recovery Stories

- 33
174

The Cocktail Party

- 71
680

‘To Gift the Mind To Chemistry’, and To Take It Back: Dylan Tighe To...

- 7
714

Crash Course in Urban Shamanism

- 23
2929

Anti-Psychiatry

- 427
2024

Medicalizing Poverty

- 20
1205

The Logic of the ADHD Diagnosis

- 15
515

Code Black: When Time Doesn’t Heal

- 3
182

Is Psychiatry the Tea Party of Medical Science?

- 71
274

Simon Says:  Happiness Won’t Cure Mental Illness

- 15
342

Prescription Privileges for Psychologists: Is Our Consent Fully Informed?

- 13
2614

On Waking Up From the “American Dream”

- 55
721

Healing from an Addiction to Patterned Ways of Thinking

- 14
221

An Anti-Violence Mental Health Plan

- 95
555

Playing the Odds, Revisited

- 42
5087

The Use of Neuroleptic Drugs As Chemical Restraints

- 82
3304

Illegal-Psychiatric Drug Hypocrisy, & Why Michael Pollan is Smarter than Me

- 89
693

How Can Professionals Learn to Reduce Fears of Psychotic Experiences Rather Than Emphasize Pathology?

- 35
498

Los Angeles Increases Outpatient Involuntary Treatment in Spite of UN Declaring Force “Torture”

- 19
485

Consent and Psychiatry: Problematizing the Problematic 

- 62
1032

Suicide: A Permanent Solution to a Temporary Problem

- 19
1192

Changing the Role of Case Management

- 24
180

The Use of Neuroleptic Drugs As Chemical Restraints in Nursing Homes

- 24
533

What Is Biological Psychiatry? Pt. 3: Thoughts on Hastening Its Demise

- 49
217

Doctor Munchausen, I Presume!

- 107
397

Some Thoughts on Insanity Defense

- 27
1715

On Fighting Institutional Psychiatry With the “Attrition Model”

- 132
3459

SELF: Sharing Experience Lived Firsthand

- 14
212

Connecticut State in Mental Health Denial

- 62
201

ADHD: A Return to Psychology

- 19
398

Avoid the Hexperts

- 17
352

Thoughts on Psychiatric Incarceration When Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity

- 34
774

Please Don’t Empower Me Anymore

- 24
475

Suicidal Behavior After FDA Warnings

- 14
1004

The Meeting Was Sponsored by Merchants of Death

- 10
723

Response to “The End of Rethinking Psychiatry?”

- 93
1360

Jon Stewart’s Gaywatch

- 16
170

Independence From the Therapeutic State

- 21
760

Why I Became a Critical Psychiatrist

- 13
553

Who Decides Which People are Mentally Ill . . . Who Gets That Control?

- 34
311

What Is Biological Psychiatry? Part 2: Anatomy of Power and Control

- 25
326

It Gets Better!

- 24
279

News on Creative Maladjustment

- 1
168

The Media Missed the Story: Civil Rights and the Helping Families in Mental Health...

- 71
937

Continuing the Antidepressant Debate: the Clinical Relevance of Drug-Placebo Differences

- 13
423

Talking About Psychosis, Part 1: Why Do It?

- 40
596

Psychocracy and Community

- 30
1621

Living in an Age of Melancholy: When Society Becomes Depressed

- 38
7485

Lingering Doubts About Psychiatry’s Scientific Status

- 111
1061

The End of Rethinking Psychiatry?

- 113
791

The Paradox of Praise

- 12
676

Believe and Know . . . (as it pertains to psych drug withdrawal syndrome...

- 18
405

MIA’s New Store & More

- 7
228

The Sandy Hook Advisory Commission and the Evidence of a “Convicted Offender”

- 2
178

Goodbye to Ken Braiterman

- 4
395

Sense about Science: Follow the Patient

- 19
134

New APA President: Same Old Cheerleading

- 18
257

Upon Further Review: Did the Black Box Warning on SSRIs Lead to Increased Suicide...

- 29
1067

“Psychiatric Prejudice” – A New Way of Silencing Criticism

- 46
1288

What is a Warm Line and What Should I Expect When I Call One?

- 6
50320

How Much Does it Matter for Patients to Believe They Will Get Well?

- 37
369

Heteronormative Violence of Mainstream Psychiatry: A Cautionary Tale

- 39
619

An Open Letter to Persons Self-Identifying as Mentally Ill

- 39
1256

Psychiatry’s Response: Attack and PR

- 272
757

A Look at Madness Through the Lens of Culture

- 8
1671

What Is Biological Psychiatry and Why Is It So Important To Know?

- 122
1930

From Self Care to Collective Caring

- 6
3790

Blame the Clients?

- 143
896

The Story of “Teenagers Against Psychiatric Drugs”

- 17
319

Why I Work in the System

- 22
537

Why Do We Say That Mental Health Detention is Discrimination?

- 69
1171

The Proliferation and Elimination of Mental Illness: Clinging to the Slopes of Everest

- 139
830

More Delays on Sandy Hook Reports

- 19
132

Should Our Tax Dollars Be Spent on Promoting Drugs?

- 17
176

Pro-Force Attitudes a Symptom of Post Traumatic Stress?

- 65
652

Reflections on a Pathologized Adolescence and a Vision for the Future

- 52
1294

A Daughter’s Call for Safety and Sanity in Mental Health

- 22
321

News Flash: 4.5 Million Children Forced Daily by “Caretakers” to Do Cocaine-like Drugs 

- 58
571

Psychiatry DID Promote the Chemical Imbalance Theory

- 86
6667

Who’s Delusional? And How Do We Support Them?

- 30
1015

Did Psychiatric Drugs Play a Role in the Prom Day Killer’s Violent Behavior?

- 21
167

Tickets, Updates, and More on MIA’s International Film Festival

- 4
365

The Politics of Healing

- 15
622

Ode to Biological Psychiatry

- 182
1470

The Relationship Between Systems Change and Being Present with Others

- 3
169

Do We Underestimate the Benefits of Antidepressants?

- 34
920

Hearing Voices, Emancipation, Shamanism and CBT: Thoughts After Douglas Turkington’s Training

- 11
1099

What Should be The #1 Priority of Our Schools?

- 26
3015

Final Lecture

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359

Creating More Equal Societies Decreases Mental Illness: What Should We Do?

- 33
575

Psychiatric Survivors Are Everywhere

- 33
910

Time for a Policy Against Psychiatric Bullying

- 17
4384

Deconstructing Psychiatric Diagnoses: An Attempt At Humor

- 42
625

Psych Drugs Kill vs Psych Drugs Save Lives. What if Both Are True?

- 46
993

From Psychiatric Coercion to Libertarianism: A Personal Journey

- 7
427

Connecticut Fails to Meet Deadline on Sandy Hook Mental Health Bill

- 13
156

Drugging Toddlers for Inattention, Impulsivity, and Hyperactivity

- 38
339

University of Minnesota Psychiatry: A Pattern of Research Abuse

- 9
501

From Protesting to Taking Over: Using Education to Change Mental Health Care

- 13
455

Are You Ready for Multiple Lawsuits By Victims of Psychiatric Misconduct?

- 9
322

What’s Wrong With You? Nothing.What Has Happened to You? Something.

- 99
6803

Adam Lanza’s Psychiatrist’s Ethics Violations Raise Questions About the Legislature’s Controversial Mental Health Increases

- 26
493

Childhood Social Functioning Predicts Adult Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder. Or Does It?

- 37
491

Calling for Rep. McCann’s resignation while there is still time to run a different...

- 0
100

Psychiatry’s Manufactured Consent: Chemical Imbalance Theory and the Antidepressant Explosion

- 18
4344

Behind Locked Doors: How I Got My Hospital Records, and What I Did With...

- 95
5130

Rethinking Diagnosis

- 51
410

There is Big Medicine in Everyone

- 7
200

Electroshock Causes More Harm Than Good

- 28
921

Social Services and Psychiatry

- 25
134

Complexity

- 17
112

Dear DSM-5: I Still Have Some Questions

- 9
4656

PROTEST PSYCHIATRY – My Newest Film, Free!

- 30
377

Consumers Beware!

- 6
442

Hearing Voices Workshop Comes to Vermont

- 14
266

Dr. Lieberman’s Swansong

- 29
317

Psychiatry: We Need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Mental Health

- 17
1122

Screening Pregnant Women for Depression

- 14
618

Legislators: Don’t try to sneak this through as an amendment. (HB1386)

- 0
79

David W. Oaks’ Statement of Support for Protest of 2014 American Psychiatric Association Meeting

- 1
140

Breaking The Silence – Supporting Young People who Hear Voices in the US

- 5
609

The Final Visit to the Psychiatrist (Part 2 of Goodbye Psychiatry)

- 6
415

I Am Alive

- 25
754

Why I am Going to the APA Protest in NYC on May 4, 2014

- 4
276

The APA Is a Fraudulent Enterprise

- 12
4016

Goodbye Psychiatry

- 10
301

I’m Going, Are You? How to Get Involved in the Annual Protest of...

- 6
214

Neuroplasticity: My Newest Friend

- 2
325

Cold Turkey

- 14
1347

My Thoughts on an Alternative to HB1386 in Colorado (Open Letter)

- 1
129

Sluggish Cognitive Tempo – A New Diagnosis?

- 22
708

Partner Bill of Rights: Speaking to the Cycle of Abuse

- 9
170

The Hot Stove Project: Learning From People who Think Differently

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539

Sweeping Benzos Under the Carpet

- 7
701

More Support and Understanding Needed for People Wanting to Try a No-Meds Approach

- 48
223

We Need to Go Back to Our Roots in the Civil Rights Movement

- 89
314

My Healing Protocol Detailed

- 7
2286

How Doing Nothing Cured My Friend of Psychosis

- 3
1141

To Senator Harkin: My CRPD Story

- 23
362

An Open Letter to the Colorado House Health, Insurance and Environment Committee RE: HB1386

- 9
230

“Open Access” for the Activist Community

- 6
186

Creating Sustainability, Disarming Trauma and Loving One Another

- 3
139

‘Angels and Demons’: the Politics of Psychoactive Drugs

- 30
3560

Antidepressants, Pregnancy, and Autism: Really Time to Worry

- 15
340

‘ADHD’ and Dangerous Driving

- 24
522

The Manufacture and ‘Maintenance’ of Oppression: A Very Profitable Business

- 13
1071

Defeating Goliath: Mental Health is a Social Justice Issue, and People with Lived Experience...

- 102
2288

Lullaby

- 16
217

The End of Psychiatry

- 49
1366

Invisible Pain

- 68
1174

Too Corrupt, Insane & Ridiculous to Be Reformed? Even Establishment Psychiatrists Distance Themselves From...

- 48
1390

The Power of Words: What the Wall Street Journal Didn’t Tell You

- 11
210

Replacing Psychiatrists and Psychotherapists

- 41
351

I Actually Woke up This Morning Thinking I’d Arrived, I’m Well . . .

- 12
791

What it Means to be a Human, With all the Beauty and Complexity That...

- 14
266

Justina Pelletier: The Debate Continues

- 29
282

Open Letter Re: This Morning‘s Feature on Depression

- 55
789

America’s Sweetheart

- 19
965

9 Ways to Stop the Next Village Shalom Shooting

- 3
181

Psychiatric Teams Have a Responsibility to Think About the Psychosis/Sexual Abuse Link

- 14
1225

Enslaved to Abilify

- 60
26434

The Great Turning

- 27
239

Historic Moment for the Right to Legal Capacity

- 43
310

Regulatory Capture

- 11
1006

A National Scandal: Psychological Therapies for Psychosis are Helpful, But Unavailable

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660

Markingson Case Supporters: Please Join Our Call-In Campaign

- 3
148

Rep. McCann: Taking Away the Jury Trial is Undemocratic. (Open Letter)

- 14
109

My Story of Benzo Withdrawal and Activism

- 22
5969

Who Cares About Kelsey?

- 25
1375

Antidepressants Make Things Worse in the Long Term

- 24
7689

It’s About the Trauma: How to Truly Address the Roots of Violence and Suffering...

- 81
1280

Important Considerations for Implementing Assisted Outpatient Treatment: A Collaborative Advocacy Agenda

- 44
375

Advice to the Newbies: Give Your Heart, & Hold Your Theories Lightly

- 4
213

The Can Collector’s Club: Clarifying Where Mental Health Begins

- 9
129

Justina Pelletier: The Case Continues

- 52
6499

First They Ignore You: Impressions From Today’s Hearing on H.R. 3717

- 57
298

It’s Time For A Stronger Political Ground Game To Compete With NAMI & Company...

- 125
567

Legislator’s Rush to Implement Increased Mental Health Services Based on No Data from Shooting...

- 45
228

Murphy Bill: Violates Civil Rights, Increases Government Intrusion and Control, and Ignores Scientific Research

- 18
394

Mental Illness & Violence

- 20
156

Why Don’t They Know? A Letter to My Doctor

- 52
11173

Recent Success for the Bay Area’s Campaign Against Expanding Forced Treatment

- 6
200

Open Letter to Senator Creigh Deeds

- 19
331

So They Say Your Child has ADHD? April Fools!

- 3
802

The Fat Lady Has Sung

- 58
1556

We Are the People

- 68
265

Are Neuroleptics “Anti-Psychotic”? Harrow’s 20-Year Outcomes

- 40
1065

Staying in the New Paradigm: More Thoughts on the Human Rights Committee Recommendation

- 2
223

UN: US Should “Generally Prohibit” Non-consensual Psychiatric Treatment

- 1
700

Antidepressants and Preterm Birth: More Concerning Findings

- 3
456

Overtreatment, Bereavement, and Antidepressants

- 5
460

Benzodiazepines: Disempowering and Dangerous

- 4
412

Katharine Hepburn is Glamorous – Suicide is Not

- 22
781

Made It! – Successfully Navigating Both Mainstream and Alternative Treatment for Mental Illness

- 4
382

De-escalating Folks When Psychotic and Potentially Violent

- 18
2092

Launch of the Council for Evidence-Based Psychiatry

- 23
1474

Are Vitamins Killing us Softly?

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936

Robert Whitaker: Looking Back and Looking Ahead

- 8
106

Why You Can’t Get Informed Consent From a Doctor

- 15
305

Overcoming the Stigma of Depression

- 18
9578

What Will Cause Psychiatry to Change?

- 18
184

Six Ways You Can Really Help Prevent Suicide

- 27
2057

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Drugs and the Therapeutic State

- 6
505

Involuntary Mental Health Commitments

- 33
4287

Hospitalization: A Crisis in Crisis Care

- 12
186

U.N. Questions U.S. on Forced Psychiatric Drugging

- 27
481

DSM-5 And Somatic Symptom Disorder

- 15
355

Herbs, Supplements, Foods That Can Aid in Withdrawal Symptoms

- 18
39049

The Overmedication of Vulnerable Youth with Psychiatric Medication: Boon for the Pharma Industry

- 6
1765

Dear NAMI: My Apologies. I’ve Been Unfair.

- 53
5774

Benzodiazepines: Dangerous Drugs

- 29
4994

Neutralising Suffering: How the Medicalisation of Distress Obliterates Meaning and Creates Profit

- 18
688

Over Our Dead Bodies

- 8
331

Are We Losing Our Parenting Will?

- 8
254

Do We Need to See Inside the Box?

- 42
372

Will Psychiatry’s Harmful Treatment of Our Children Bring About Its Eventual Demise?

- 54
866

I Love … Stigma? Reaching Out to College Students & Beyond

- 92
476

A Discussion of Justina Pelletier and Boston Children’s Hospital

- 34
1678

Building Bridges Between Mental Health and Addictions Communities

- 9
476

Psychiatry Admits It’s Been Wrong in Big Ways, But Can It Change? A Chat...

- 109
2820

Finding and Funding Our Way, Outside the System

- 36
170

Launching MIA Reports

- 12
430

A Blood Test for Schizophrenia with 83% Accuracy?

- 26
3582

Uses and Abuses of “Recovery” – A Review

- 41
382

Six First Steps for Building Communities of Emotional Wellness

- 23
427

[Un]Settling In for the Long Haul: The Interplay of Complacency, Stagnation, and Psychotropic...

- 20
163

The Hallucination in the Room

- 51
403

DSM‘s Somatoform Disorders: Millions More Might Be Diagnosed

- 22
592

ADHD, Bigfoot, and the Missing Links in Research

- 6
1066

Neuroleptics and Tardive Dyskinesia in Children

- 29
1270

Depression and Suicide in the Elderly

- 5
605

Me & The Meds: The Story of a Dysfunctional Relationship

- 27
574

SSRI ‘Indication Creep’ Relies on Negligent Doctors

- 11
759

The Origins of Mental Health Services

- 8
344

Unwarranted Criticism of “Psychiatry Gone Astray”

- 17
4051

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

- 31
16305

Current Research on Outpatient Commitment Laws (“Laura’s Law” in California)‎

- 27
852

A New Silver Bullet? The Lurasidone Story

- 72
8851

The Great “Crazy” Cover-up: Harm Results from Rewriting the History of DSM

- 26
1106

Risperdal for a 2-year-old? Turning the Tide, One Interaction at a Time

- 30
1058

Should PsychRights Ask the U.S. Supreme Court to Hear an Appeal of the Alaska...

- 42
686

Reading Foucault and Human Rights

- 18
962

Making the Invisible, Visible

- 23
652

Traditional Healing and Psychosis vs. the Promises of Modern Science

- 29
4135

Genetic Protection Against Schizophrenia?

- 13
358

Something Rotten in the State of British Psychiatry?

- 57
681

Have You Ever Taken an Experimental Antipsychotic Called Bifeprunox?

- 1
655

Electroshocking Children: Why It Should Be Stopped

- 20
18475

12 Vital Questions of Mental Health

- 10
263

How Competing in the Olympics is Like Mental Health Recovery

- 3
281

Blogging Your Survival Story: 11 Tips

- 20
215

Paradigm Shift

- 122
420

If You Are the Big, Big Tree; We Are the Small Axe

- 6
1180

Conversations About Death . . . in Pursuit of Life

- 13
170

The ADHD Diagnosis is a War of Semantics, Waged on Children

- 43
1476

Are Micronutrients a Waste of Time? – A Randomized Controlled Trial

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11988

“Decolonizing Global Mental Health: The Psychiatrization of the Majority World” (Book Review)

- 24
2199

Mark Your Calendars— Announcing Mad in America’s First International Film Festival!

- 23
472

The Problem of Blame

- 42
166

Challenging the Status Quo

- 6
472

We Shall Overcome: Remembering Pete Seeger

- 3
274

Psychiatry Gone Astray

- 90
5674

Guilty

- 11
223

Conflict of Interest, DSM-5, and the APA

- 50
1112

All Real Living is Meeting

- 40
266

Welcome to Planet ADHD: A Farce to be Reckoned With

- 25
828

No More Tears? The Shame of Johnson & Johnson

- 12
8873

Justina Pelletier Supporters Say: Close Harvard’s Abusive Psych Ward at Boston Children’s Hospital

- 22
1252

Dare to Dream: Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

- 3
342

Ear Acupuncture to Support Mental Health

- 110
1380

My Journey – A Child Psychiatrist’s Struggle to Change the System

- 29
235

Reclaiming Humanity

- 114
256

Antidepressants, Pregnancy, and Autism: Time to Worry?

- 9
2906

Update: ABC World News Wants to Know About Benzos

- 19
748

Evidence That More Psychiatry Means More Suicide

- 144
6839

When I Grow Up, I Want to be a Psychiatrist: Redefining the Profession for...

- 41
3942

Based on a True Story Filled with Lies

- 32
412

Tell the Feds What “Quality Care” Looks Like

- 1
173

Learning Family Recovery Skills: Krista Mackinnon on Madness Radio

- 17
377

Psychiatry Is Not Based On Valid Science

- 33
3648

North Carolina Police Shoot and Kill “Mentally Ill” Kid

- 64
423

Prescribing Rights for Psychologists

- 13
1439

Non-Compliance in the New Year: The Power of ‘No’

- 38
301

In Search of a Hundred Miles of Gratitude

- 3
181

If You Don’t Have Anything to Hide, You Don’t Have Anything to Worry About

- 71
741

The Meaning of Legal Capacity is Equality

- 9
619

The Promise of Open Dialogue

- 69
7305

Dream

- 14
128

On Creating Universes, Killing Cats and Other Odd Things

- 42
263

NIMH Mad Libs

- 6
882

What’s Really Behind GSK’s New Business Model?

- 18
588

My Recovery from ‘Schizophrenia’ through Psychotherapy and Writing

- 7
1239

Making Sense of Being Crazy in a Crazy World: A Community Poll

- 0
329

Justina Pelletier Case Shows Public That Psychiatric Power is Out of Control

- 154
1482

Resolving to Make This Year Mean More

- 12
88

Returning Stuff

- 7
451

The Story of Legal Capacity: Specificity and Intersections

- 2
386

In Time for RXmas: Motivational Pharmacotherapy

- 21
295

Tim Murphy Mental Health Bill: More Expensive and Less Effective

- 15
289

Is There a Simple Way to Use Nutrition Knowledge to Decrease Onset of Psychosis?

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749

Psychiatry Has its Head in the Sand: Royal College of Psychiatrists Rejects Discussion of...

- 40
516

Homelessness, Hospitalization and “Compliance”

- 86
750

CAFÉ Study: Real Science or Marketing Exercise?

- 4
745

Epic Fail: The Legislation of Involuntary Mental Health Treatment

- 53
381

Power to Communities, Healing Through Social Justice: INTAR 2014 in Liverpool, England

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262

Do I Enjoy Prescribing Meds?

- 185
450

Investigate the Markingson Suicide? Not So Fast, Says University President

- 3
291

10 Ways Mental Health Professionals Increase Misery in Suffering People

- 24
5251

Off-Label in New Zealand

- 7
364

How Canada’s Prisons Killed Ashley Smith: A National Crime and Shame

- 16
7899

Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered

- 14
321

What is a Simple Way to Prevent the Onset of Physical Disease?

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386

The Esalen Connection: Fifty Years of Re-Visioning Madness and Trying to Transform the World

- 27
966

Mind the Gap: The Space Between Alternatives & Force

- 79
662

Setting the Intention to Heal: The Starting Point of Mental Health Recovery

- 15
3173

Embracing Movement Diversity

- 4
196

Providing Sanctuary, Part 3; Support, Perfectionism, Structure and Flexibility

- 0
108

Is Addiction a Disease?

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431

Governments Delivering Customers to Big Pharma

- 20
253

Neuroleptics for Children: Harvard’s Shame

- 28
736

The Church of GSKology, Part 2

- 2
132

How Can We Talk About Difficult Experiences Non-Violently?

- 3
328

DSM-5 Boycott Enters 2nd Phase: A Primer for the NO-DSM Diagnosis Campaign

- 1
777

Against All Odds

- 19
277

Finding the Inner Wild

- 2
143

Inpatient Hospitalization: An Inside Perspective

- 140
1552

Response To Sandy Hook Report

- 15
151

A Small Revolution in Belgium: Psychologists to be Recognized Health Professionals

- 5
658

Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Human Metamorphosis

- 21
1244

KMSP-TV Investigative Report on Psychiatric Research Abuse at the University of Minnesota

- 6
229

An Opportunity for “Mad Caring”: David Oaks Needs Our Help

- 5
165

The Church of GSKology

- 8
167

American Psychosis

- 17
238

If I Had Remained Med Compliant…

- 18
868

The Taper

- 3
738

eCPR: A Health Promotion Approach

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850

Patients’ Rights in Massachusetts

- 11
2496

Is Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) Effective?

- 112
8125

Statement to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on CRPD

- 52
465

Tapering Neuroleptics: Two Year Results

- 23
496

A Stranger in a Strange Land (Pt. 2): What Happened to You?

- 47
122

Where There is No Word for “Alone”

- 2
247

Threats, Coercion and Chemical Restraints for Distressed Children

- 42
604

The House of GSK

- 2
170

U.S. Renegade History, Psychiatric Survivors, & the Price of Acceptance

- 15
239

How to Escape Psychiatry as a Teen: Interview with a Survivor

- 42
779

Just Who is the Naked One Here?

- 34
535

Living in One of R. D. Laing’s Post-Kingsley Hall Households

- 51
6325

Mis- (and Dis-) Information about UN Disability Convention

- 11
543

What Are You Doing, WHO?

- 2
155

What Are You Doing WHO?

- 2
133

Is Emotional Distress Criminal?

- 16
452

Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness: A Counter-Narrative of Psychic Diversity

- 2
382

A Stranger in a Strange Land (Pt. 1)

- 9
140

GlaxoSmithKline’s Journey to Transparency

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469

P.S. Sometimes I still Hurt Myself… P.P.S. So do you…

- 30
853

I Wonder if There is Some Axis II Going on Here? Further Thoughts on...

- 29
245

Schizophrenia Becomes Psychosis Susceptibility Syndrome

- 65
529

Pick Up a Pen, I Dare You

- 18
194

Bogus Journal Articles Distract From the Real Problem in Academic Medicine

- 5
313

“Tuff” Love: A Public Safety Alternative

- 5
482

Photo ID Cards for “Mental Patients” Now a Reality

- 115
2481

DSM-5’s “Speculative” 2002 Diagnostic System Based On Expected Gene Findings

- 6
478

Elimination of Bias, Not Disclosure of Bias, Must be the Standard

- 14
134

It’s NOT all in Your Head

- 37
1515

R.D. Laing & Anti-Psychopathology: The Myth of Mental Illness Redux

- 57
8484

A Caregiver’s Story- And How I Became an Addict

- 21
2552

Teens and Psych Drugs

- 6
294

The Unbearable Heaviness of Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal

- 27
5724

How to Parent a Dead Child

- 23
2678

Twin Studies and the “Nonreplication Curse” in Psychiatric Molecular Genetic Research

- 28
1337

The Shameful Story that Runs and Runs: A Review of The Bitterest Pills

- 21
1356

Talking Over Fences: Why I Am Helping to Organize Community Dialogues on Mental Health

- 31
161

A More Comprehensive Approach to Ethical and Effective Prescribing

- 68
1190

Could Your Doctor Be Mentally Ill or Suicidal?

- 15
801

A Recovery Movement Deterred?

- 9
216

We Are Meant to Heal in a Community

- 14
3466

Top Ten Reasons Alternatives 2013 is the “Cannot-Miss” Event of the Year

- 17
160

Setbacks

- 32
13278

Moving ‘Beyond the Medical Model’: HELP WANTED

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831

UN Prohibition of Psychiatric Commitment: Review and Analysis

- 13
1184

5 Reasons To Meditate

- 0
146

My Story and My Fight Against Antidepressants

- 98
62723

Experiencing the Possibility of Change in the Digital Age

- 1
240

Internal Guidance

- 10
567

Emotions: Keys to Our Freedom

- 17
499

Our Backs Are Against the Wall, so There’s no Way to Go But Forward

- 66
251

Dr. Mark and the Village

- 24
806

“Why Wunderink Matters”

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212

Twenty Years Since My Last Suicide Attempt: Reflections

- 16
1342

The Bitterest Pills: The Troubling Story of Antipsychotic Drugs

- 18
5699

Mental Illness, Right & Wrong, Drugs, and Violence

- 13
2027

2013 Conference of the International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry

- 1
191

Psychiatric Profiling as Blood Libel

- 48
933

Mike Wallace Must Be Spinning In His Grave

- 12
267

Of Course I’m Anti-Psychiatry.Aren’t You?

- 103
2380

Psychiatric Language: Perception, Reality, & Breakfast

- 12
356

ADHD in France and America

- 20
1822

60 Minutes: Stop the Lies!

- 21
505

NARPA Reflections: The Necessity of Disability

- 2
138

A Great Strategy Meeting is a Meeting of Minds

- 9
132

A Time for Heretics

- 25
160

One World, One People, One Struggle

- 9
441

Of FEP’s, DUP’s and BS

- 12
127

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Psychosis: A Valuable Contribution Despite Major Flaws

- 5
344

Amazing Victory for Mental Health Activists: NIMH Director Accepts Ideas Once Seen as Radical

- 10
3351

The United States of the Biomedical Model: Five Anecdotes

- 13
1485

UN: Ensure No One is Detained in Any Kind of Mental Health Facility

- 3
568

David Cohen on Madness Radio: The Meaning of Medications

- 3
293

Are Supplements Simply Creating Expensive Urine?

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824

Are You Abled or Disabled? How Do You Know?

- 28
362

Want Our Message Nationwide? Join the National Dialogue NOW

- 5
135

Psychiatry & Suicide Prevention: A 30-year Failed Experiment

- 17
838

At War With Ourselves

- 38
910

Human Rights Report on Forced Drugging in the U.S.

- 4
595

Voices, Then & Now

- 4
231

As Lawyers and Bureaucrats Delay, The Body Count Rises

- 5
191

Elephants and Flamingos

- 23
382

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The DSM-5

- 8
222

Reflections on Being a Therapist

- 124
48641

An Intersubjective Approach to Treating Young Children With Autism and Related Challenges

- 1
310

Trauma Informed Care Meets Pharma Informed Care

- 11
327

On Access Intimacy, Mental Health, and Rosebud the Psych Service Goat

- 8
1820

On the Urge to Take My Life, and My Decision to Take It Back...

- 37
3341

Taking “Anti-Psychotics” When You Are Not Psychotic

- 48
29080

Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: How Big Pharma Has Corrupted Health Care

- 37
8548

A Journey Into Madness and Back Again: Part 3

- 7
253

Creating Dialog on Approaches for “Psychosis” in New Jersey

- 10
153

Technology and Suicide

- 6
3349

Forced Psychiatric Treatment (and Protection against it) in Germany in 2013

- 6
1687

Does the Psychiatric Diagnosis Process Qualify as a Degradation Ceremony?

- 71
3881

The Temptation of Certainty: David Foster Wallace, Suicide and Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal

- 21
7462

No New Prozacs: A Dry Pipeline for New Psychiatric Drugs

- 11
347

Help Write a Psychiatric Survivor Manifesto

- 16
345

The Right to Profit vs. The Right to Know

- 11
302

The Brain that Changes Itself: How Breakthroughs in Neuroplasticity Can De-Pathologize Mental Health

- 1
723

5 Tasks if Your Child is Diagnosed With a Mental Illness

- 9
178

Dietary Patterns and Mental Health

& - 3
698

In ‘Peer’ We Trust

- 79
978

Societies With Little Coercion Have Little Mental Illness

- 37
16260

The Speech

- 10
168

Community Discussions NOW That Actually Want Our Perspective

- 3
131

The Slow Torture of Mary Weiss

- 6
826

A Journey Into Madness and Back Again: Part 1

- 4
236

Symptom or Experience: Does Language Matter?

- 44
1347

LERNing Through Research, Advocacy, and Experience

& - 9
515

My Mood, My Choice

- 21
356

The Today Show and ECT: The Full Story & Informed Consent

- 26
2038

Guiding Voices, Trauma-Induced Voices

- 28
330

Changing Minds About Voices: Action Over Words

- 116
470

Cured Meat: an Underground Art Take on Mental Healthcare

- 14
347

Understanding Madness as Revolution, Then Working Toward Peace

- 3
105

What Is the Emergency?

- 10
311

Chinese Medicine for Emotional Healing

- 18
765

Is a Little Stigma Better Than None?

- 22
311

Long-Term Antipsychotics: Making Sense of the Evidence in the Light of the Dutch Follow-Up...

- 46
2790

The Power of the Written Word

- 31
244

Is Depression Unhappiness?

- 47
1157

Playing the Odds: Antidepressant ‘Withdrawal’ and the Problem of Informed Consent

- 290
29543

Challenges and Visions for the “Mental Heatlh” System

- 0
85

Badgers Included

- 102
235

Raising Our Voices at TED 2013

- 29
523

I Was Fifteen

- 24
736

PTSD in Withdrawal

- 19
4758

Can Psychiatry “Re-Engage” with Pharma?

- 76
427

A Hand to Hold: Community Mental Health in Times of Crisis

- 60
208

Faith Lost

- 8
3044

On “Schizophrenia”

- 49
280

Why Involuntary Out-Patient Treatment Isn’t Necessary – A First Person Account

- 67
482

Why the Rise of Mental Illness? Pathologizing Normal, Adverse Drug Effects, and a Peculiar...

- 87
28482

Advancing the Use of Safe and Effective ADHD Treatment Options

- 45
726

Providing Sanctuary

- 3
347

My Reply to Pete Earley: Do I Have Blood On My Hands?

- 330
1740

Harm Reduction & the Elephant in the Room: End DSM Dependency

- 9
533

Haloperidol is Neurotoxic

- 198
10497

Dreams: Still the Royal Road to the Unconscious

- 40
3304

Western Psychiatry in Crisis: UK Psychiatry Re-Positions Itself

, & - 32
998

Many Ears Make Light Listening

- 19
128

Harrow + Wunderink + Open Dialogue = An Evidence-based Mandate for A New Standard...

- 61
5603

What We Talk About When We Talk About Bipolar Disorder

- 105
1955

Opening the Dialogue: Can Families and Survivors Heal Together?

- 54
492

Robert Whitaker’s Lecture at NAMI – A Parent’s Perspective

- 122
768

If I’d Known Then What I Know Now

- 8
215

5 Things You’ve Taught me about Civility, Empathy, and Asking the Hard Questions

- 203
495

NAMI and Robert Whitaker

- 58
962

Does NIMH Follow the Rules of Science? A Startling Study

- 23
957

Diagnosis: Without Shoes

- 27
295

A Paradox Revealed – Again

- 54
2384

The Shoes Keep on Dropping… What Next?

- 4
600

Discrimination in Higher Education: Users & Survivors in Academia Speak Out

& - 4
1528

Rethinking Mental Health, Part 2: From a Disease-Based Model of Support to One...

- 15
1114

Cheers for Peers

- 31
2570

The Blame Game

- 25
527

Avoiding Stress After Diagnosis

- 10
371

Weighing Treatment Options – What Informs Choices?

- 4
312

Shaken But Unstirred – Can Nutrients Assist With Recovery From Earthquakes?

& - 3
360

Rethinking Mental Health, Part 1: From Positivism to a Holistic/Organismic Paradigm

- 25
3039

A Close Look at Andreasen et al.’s Advice to Increase the Dosage of Antipsychotics...

- 86
336

Seclusion & Restraint in Ohio

- 13
201

I Am Also Mad

- 102
343

Remembering a Restraint

- 12
6084

We Name It as Torture

- 15
2067

How I Overcame an Episode of SSRI-Induced Suicidal Depression

- 13
21491

Withdrawing From Psychiatric Drugs: What Psychiatrists Don’t Learn

- 73
9788

Spinning Straw into Gold: When Science Becomes Fiction

- 3
485

Snail’s Pace Race

- 3
233

Reflections on the New Mad in America Withdrawal Directory and the “Mental Health” Vanguard

- 36
403

MIA’s New Directory of Providers For Psych Drug Withdrawal

- 8
346

Conference at Vatican Holds Great Promise: You Can’t Always Get What You Want…

- 11
161

Antipsychotics and Brain Shrinkage: An Update

- 70
23934

The Vatican, Ritalin, and a Canadian Study of Long-term ADHD Outcomes

- 103
3159

Tapering Off Medications When “Symptoms Have Remitted”: Does That Make Sense?

- 2
174

Psychiatry’s Oppression of Young Anarchists — and the Underground Resistance

- 51
3901

What is Mental Illness Today? Five Hard Questions

- 6
1127

Dispatches from a Reluctant Guide on the Path to Disability

- 3
94

We Have a Dream: Getting Engaged to a Doctor

- 60
347

Avatar Therapy: A New Battle for the Tree of Life

- 24
874

See No Evil, Hear No Evil

- 12
2622

Medication and Spirituality

- 7
2730

Can Psychosis be Treated With Nutrition?

& - 45
6213

Talk Therapy Can Cause Harm, Too

- 168
3752

Why the Fuss Over the DSM-5, When Did the DSM Start to Matter, &...

- 7
2417

Critical Psychiatry Network Calls on Institute of Psychiatry to Cancel Charles Nemeroff

- 70
439

Madness and Play: Exploring the Boundary

- 5
577

Failures of the Medical Model

- 29
209

Miscarried Life

- 39
482

Love It, Hate It … Write Your Own Review of the DSM-5 on Amazon

- 7
414

A Soiled Phoenix Rises

- 27
589

Thoughts on the Global and U.S. Movements

- 1
213

Open the Paradigm

- 11
464

Starvation: What Does it Do to the Brain?

& - 11
66066

Little Victories on Breezy

- 2
571

Next Steps: More Lessons Learned From the DSM-5 Boycott

- 4
363

My APA protest speech: “Keeping the Channel Open”

- 13
133

Help Create a Real Stigma Reduction Campaign

- 1
255

DSM-5 Statement by the Critical Psychiatry Network

- 74
946

The Green Shadow Cabinet and a Mental Health Declaration of Independence

- 8
161

Enough with the Questions!

- 27
501

When “Recovery” Feels Like a Trap

- 64
448

Hearing Voices Network Launches Debate on DSM-5 and Psychiatric Diagnoses

- 29
1381

Thoughts on the Meaning of Neuroscience

- 99
284

Occupy APA in San Francisco: Joined in Spirit

- 26
316

Taking down the Giant: A Call for Increased Community Outreach

- 22
237

Difference is Not Disease: Scientific Integrity, Human Diversity, and the Potentially Bleak Future of...

- 173
1839

Purpose is Inherently Divorced From Consensual Reality

- 13
324

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: The Good, The Bad, The Limitations

- 126
14588

Jeopardizing Your Wife to Prove a Point: Pellagra as an Example of Deficit

& - 6
1091

DxSummit Officially Launches

- 5
437

Man Jumps, News at…?

- 86
188

Body Politics

- 43
262

Leaving Marcellas

- 21
152

BBC Interview with Lucy Johnstone from British Psychological Society

- 0
253

Does DSM-5 Matter? Yes; but not for Psychiatrists

- 18
3190

Why I Won’t Buy the DSM-5

- 17
768

UK Clinical Psychologists Call for the Abandonment of Psychiatric Diagnosis and the ‘Disease’ Model

- 77
6294

The Myth of Mental Illness Revisited, NIMH Style

- 12
1054

“Mental Illness”, the DSM-5, and Dreams for a Post-Psychiatry World

- 63
1292

Responding to Attacks on MIA — One Long Night of Zombie Whack-a-Mole

- 30
196

Everything Matters: a Memoir From Before, During and After Psychiatric Drugs

- 52
8402

Spiritual Emergency Round 2: Smashing Warped Philosophies

- 4
231

Using Mindfulness Meditation to Cope with Suicidal Thoughts and Feelings

- 12
11463

Chew on This: FDA Embraces Big Pharma; Takes Aim at Big Gum

- 16
126

Colonization or Postpsychiatry?

- 64
918

Why Neuroscience Cannot Explain Madness

- 18
1502

CDC Reports ‘Substantial’ Increases in U.S. Suicide Rate for Middle-Aged Americans

- 3
151

Classism in Disguise

- 18
709

Witty A: Report to the President

- 1
174

The Inane Search for Magic Bullets to Treat Mental Illness

& - 7
1244

Recovering Myself

- 6
442

Truth is Like a Lion: The 25th Hearing Voices Conference

- 15
682

So, You Want to Be An Activist?

- 30
339

I Am A Witness… Fifty Years Later

- 66
4432

How Much can a Psychiatrist Charge to Visit With a Dead Research Subject?

- 0
221

Conspiracy Theories Fill a Need

- 19
347

Shield Texans From Psychiatric Force: Oppose Texas House Bill 2212!

- 11
512

The Hearing Voices Movement: Has it Really Been 25 years?

- 8
1207

The “Mental Illness” Paradigm: An “Illness” That is out of Control

- 50
3365

Inbetweenland Reflections

- 0
537

Family Members – Allies or Adversaries?

- 19
406

Brand Fascism

- 2
146

The Culture of Fear and the Lost Art of Organizing for Social Change

- 36
412

The ‘Recovery’ Trap

- 79
1578

Birthing Bliss, Birthing Trauma, and the Role of the Perinatal Patient

- 4
361

Fear, Discrimination and Our Ever-Eroding Civil Rights

- 40
165

Psychology and Neuroscience Are a Misfit

- 6
305

The Unmedicated Life

- 5
1011

Labeling

- 14
158

We Have Seen the Evidence Base, and it is Us

- 6
318

I Talked About Mad in America on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show!

- 0
126

Time for a new Understanding of Suicidal Feelings

- 11
1334

The Empire of Humbug: Not So Bad Pharma

- 0
96

The Words We Use…

- 7
402

Finding the Meaning in Suffering: My Experience with Coming off Psychiatric Drugs (in a...

- 78
5574

Carina Håkansson: Family Care Foundation

- 8
1958

Public Comment to the National Council on Disability on its Engagement with CRPD

- 3
215

Study the Past if You Would Define the Future [Confucius]

& - 8
1415

All Sorts of Realities

- 23
132

Could a Different Approach to “Mental Health” Be Part of Solving the Climate Crisis?

- 44
149

Did Electroshock Save my Life?

- 15
1022

Mad Flies and Bad Science

- 19
698

The Empire of Humbug: Bad Pharma

- 0
92

To Honor or to Investigate?

- 5
423

Nutrition and Mental Health

& - 28
1491

Optimal Use of Neuroleptics, Part 3: Duration of Untreated Psychosis

- 38
935

One Year of Mad In America

- 34
128

Fire In The Belly

- 8
492

Slices of Pies: A Dialogue with Ronald Pies

- 168
296

Too Much Pies

- 67
212

The Tragedy of Lou Lasagna

- 0
412

“That’s Just How It Is”

- 24
606

Living Mindfully with Voices

- 7
499

Winners of the American Dream

- 62
360

Please Defend the Right to Bear Arms

- 77
213

Using Formulation to Change Team Cultures

- 6
1529

False Arguments, Part. 2: Anti-Anti-Stigma

- 70
3690

Making Plans for the Long Flight – Re-visioning Icarus’ Next 10 Years

- 6
131

The U.N. Asks the U.S. to Defend its Use of Forced Psychiatric Drugging

- 12
797

eCPR (Emotional CPR): A Tool & a Process of Peacemaking

- 3
1087

Imperialist Psychiatrists, Psychopathic Corporatists — But I Repeat Myself

- 7
705

On World Autism Day: Why I Am Concerned About the Use of Antidepressants During...

- 25
394

A Recovery Story, in Dollars and Cents

- 8
211

Managing a Movement or Community

- 0
75

Optimal Use of Neuroleptics, Pt. II; The Monkeys Were Not Psychotic

- 45
231

Situational Schizophrenia

- 12
451

Can a Profession Be any More Confused?

- 18
345

After the Statement by the Special Rapporteur on Torture, Taking Stock of Where We...

- 5
587

Not So Bad Pharma

- 2
236

Life, Liberty, & the Pursuit of Happiness? Protesting the Legislation of Systematic Civil...

- 26
1628

The DSM-5 Field Trials: Inter-Rater Reliability Ratings Take a Nose Dive

- 0
7663

Do Antipsychotics Worsen Long-term Schizophrenia Outcomes? Martin Harrow Explores the Question.

- 25
5831

To Medicate Or Not To Medicate: That Is Not The Question

- 8
405

Optimal Use of Neuroleptic Drugs: An Introduction

- 160
356

Death Grip: Then and Now

- 6
703

He Who Pays the Piper

- 18
291

Ask Michael Moore About Psychiatric Drugs and Gun Violence

- 8
868

The Petition Against DSM-5

- 0
338

The 99th Mile: When Benzo Withdrawal Meets Parenthood

- 16
2647

“They Need to be Held Accountable”

- 3
546

The Trouble with Twin Studies

- 25
33790

Confronting the Addiction Voice on the Road to Recovery

- 18
6263

Social Vacuum

- 5
4439

The Systemic Crushing of Young Nonconformists and Anti-Authoritarians

- 55
1020

About Being Paul Revere

- 107
304

We Are Now Qualified to do Anything, with Nothing

- 5
478

My Story of Recovery: Prayer, Community, and Healing

- 9
979

Preventing Depression: SSRIs for At-Risk Populations?

- 38
366

The Latest Gene Finding Claim in Psychiatry

- 43
430

Profiles in Creative Maladjustment: AL GALVES

- 4
224

Diagnosis Dilemma

- 109
292

The Politics of Systems Change: Lessons Learned from the Launch of the DSM-5 Boycott

- 17
458

Components for a Good Neuroleptic Withdrawal Program

- 81
1496

We are Whole People, Not Broken Brains

- 50
2214

Reflections on a Psychiatric Indoctrination, or, How I Began to Free Myself from the...

- 240
3900

Keynote Speech at Alternatives 2012 Conference: Remembering Our History, Thinking About our Future

- 3
272

Pinball Wizards and the Doomed Project of Psychiatric Diagnosis

- 14
1252

How Do You Live at the Intersection of Love and Outrage?

- 8
650

Dan’s Journey Through OCD

- 9
8788

Five Decades of Gene Finding Failures in Psychiatry

- 60
5373

Love Note for Valentine’s Day: Beware of Those Peddling ADHD Drugs

- 3
313

Some Thoughts on the Origins of Mental Illnesses

- 37
794

We Are The Ones

- 23
162

Not so Black: Ablixa and Homicidal Side Effects

- 18
29130

Register now for the UnDiagnosing UnPlanned UnConference

- 9
668

Our Collective Stories Have Power

- 9
189

Emotional CPR as a Way of Life

- 5
1303

Prozac and SSRIs: Twenty-fifth Anniversary

- 3
360

Rejuvenating Abolitionism of Psychiatric Labels — Even Some Establishment Psychiatrists Embarrassed by New DSM-5

- 9
2034

Don’t Go Back to Sleep

- 17
171

That Naughty Little Pill

- 3
2061

Redemption Songs: Music and Madness

- 25
445

A New Film Called ‘Beyond the Medical Model’

- 44
1164

DSM-5 Boycott Launched!

- 30
3727

The SSRIs and Ten Years of Misleading Advertising: Who is Responsible?

- 72
393

It’s Time to Wake Up and Stop the Violence

- 28
704

The Antidepressant Era: the Movie

- 2
595

Why Do the Stories Psychiatrists Tell Their Patients Matter?

- 13
692

As We Scapegoat Schizophrenics Today, I Am Reminded of Nazi Germany

- 26
799

5 Things You Can Do In 5 Minutes to UnDiagnose Emotional Distress

- 0
304

Scapegoating Persons Labelled Mentally Ill: The Politics of Marginalization

- 15
1292

Krazy Kiwi Kids

- 6
317

A Breakthrough for Suicide (Attempt) Survivors at the AAS

- 1
338

The Hearing Voices Movement: In Response to a Father – ‘My Daughter, the Schizophrenic’

- 100
3037

What is Critical Psychiatry?

- 7
11408

Taking Martin Luther King Jr’s Call For Creative Maladjustment Seriously

- 1
6365

Luscious Lipids

- 2
267

NCMHR Does Not Speak for Me

- 14
288

What Happened After a Nation Methodically Murdered Its Schizophrenics? Rethinking Mental Illness and Its...

- 22
347

Youth Violence is a Family Therapy Issue

- 1
236

And That’s the News from the Department of Psychiatry

- 9
504

Day of Action to Stop Psychiatric Profiling: January 21, 2013

- 5
249

Free from Harm? Reflecting on the Dangers of the White House’s Proposed ‘Now...

- 20
363

Psychiatry Is Not the Only Branch of Medicine to Lose Its Soul to Pharma

- 19
497

The Problem with PTSD

- 6
855

“Baby Cry Too Much?”

- 2
146

Civilians

- 7
541

False Arguments: A Three-Part Story

- 30
624

More Thinking about Alternatives to Psychiatric Diagnosis

- 14
1479

Exporting Depression

- 8
900

PsychRights’ Letter to the President’s Task Force on Gun Violence

- 9
261

Commentary on the National Comorbidity Survey Replication

- 2
156

How to Get Away with Academic Misconduct at the University of Minnesota

- 4
924

The Hearing Voices Movement: Beyond Critiquing the Status Quo

- 13
2580

Backsliding in the Bay State

- 9
260

Thinking about Alternatives to Psychiatric Diagnosis

- 33
2946

Re-examining the Biochemical Model after Newtown: The Effects of Stigma and the Need for...

- 59
506

Introduction: The Gene Illusion Continues

- 15
541

Peace Making

- 4
104

A Message of Hope in Mental Health Care: There IS an Alternative

- 8
1281

Defining Recovery

- 34
210

101 Uses for a Dead Journal

- 5
266

Walking

- 8
942

How You Have Changed Me

- 70
419

Time to Abolish Psychiatric Diagnosis?

- 45
5236

May Your Psychache be Minimal

- 20
798

Where Do Messages of Hopelessness in Mental Health Care Come From?

- 50
3468

Media’s Failed Approach to Madness, Parts 1 & 2

- 37
470

The Children Lead

- 31
122

David W. Oaks’ Message To the World: “Cracking the Nut of Normality”

- 2
232

I Got a Break from Reality for Christmas!

- 15
280

I am the Number 60

- 23
3120

Grief, Peace; Not Profiling

- 1
114

Mass Murder in Newtown: Why and Where Next?

- 13
313

We Are All Adam Lanza’s Mother (& other things we’re not talking about)

- 32
238

A Reflection on Mothers, Children, and Mental Illness

- 31
2198

The Head Bone’s Connected to the Body Bone

- 6
420

Many Small Actions Bring Big Results

- 23
151

A Challenge to “I Am Adam Lanza’s Mother”

- 119
2988

Faith

- 6
1185

Thoughts About David Oaks

- 13
1019

Rediscovering Traditions of Community Healing – Susan McKeown

- 0
158

Critical Psychiatry as Narrative

- 2
530

The Price is Wrong

- 9
440

Trying Too Hard to Be Sane, or Trying Too Hard to Recover, Can Lead...

- 12
344

Identity Theft

- 7
585

My Journey Home to Self

- 5
597

Boycott The DSM-5: Anachronistic Before Its Time

- 10
677

Bottle Fish. Going and Doing. Being.

- 15
144

Building a Bridge to Hope

- 13
345

Psychiatry Beyond the Current Paradigm, and DSM-5

- 3
568

The Other Side

- 9
3007

The Road to Perdition

- 2
2094

CRPD Defeated in Senate – What Now?

- 16
221

Do Diagnoses Injure People?

- 59
528

Big Brother Is Watching: A Strategy to End Kendra’s Law in New York State,...

- 10
827

I Believe Most of us Have a Broken Heart, Not a “Mental Illness”

- 9
312

We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For

- 21
1153

Big Brother Is Watching: Children and Older Adults, Part I

- 3
335

A Recent Study of Atypical Neuroleptics: “The Results of our Study are Sobering”

- 52
684

Reparations: It is Conceivable

- 3
687

The Denial of Pain and Mortality: Or, the Art of Self-Prescribing and the Philosopher’s...

- 10
184

Getting Involved in Prison Issues – Making Alliances With Mental Health Advocacy

- 0
206

Suckling Pigs, Stray Dogs, and Psychiatric Diagnoses

- 13
230

How 7 Historic Figures Overcame Depression without Doctors

- 9
868

Philosopher Raymond Tallis – Challenging Pop Neuroscience

- 2
697

“But It’s Just the Way Things Are”

- 35
194

One Solution to Prescription Drug Overdoses: Make Oxycontin and Similar Drugs Safer

- 3
203

Five Types of Mental Health Advocates

- 50
9776

Were Research Subjects Mistreated in the CATIE Study?

- 1
300

Creativity and the Myth of the Self: A Way of Having Manic-Depression

- 8
521

Fact-Checking the General Counsel in the Markingson Case

- 1
394

“Multigenerational Poverty”

- 26
290

Three Reviews of Mental Health First Aid

- 7
2782

The University of Minnesota was not Involved? Some Further Thoughts on the “Corrective...

- 1
503

Entrepreneurs as Mental Health Advocates

- 2
509

“Do We Have to Wait Until He Kills Himself or Someone Else Before Anyone...

- 2
249

3 Reasons Asking “Why” Can Fuel Problem Behaviors

- 15
797

“I Was Just Following Orders”: a Seroquel Suicide, a Study Coordinator, and a “Corrective...

- 13
3672

See What You Want to See

- 34
303

How I feel After the Carter Center Social Inclusion Symposium

- 20
687

Involuntarily Voluntary

- 14
435

Gradual Reduction is Best For Coming Off Meds: But In All Situations?

- 67
11683

Breaking Someone Out of the Behavioral Health Unit

- 2
329

Pulling for a New Reality: from Mental Illness to Mental Wellness

- 11
193

3 Reasons Medication Should Be a Last Resort for Your Child

- 19
2006

Where are the Social Workers: Preparing for a Post-Psychiatry World?

- 8
427

Common Sense, Deferred: Lessons From the “Fresh Air” Fight, Part Two

- 9
265

Response to Fuller Torrey

- 66
689

In Search of Change: My Journey

- 3
88

Madness Radio Interview with Mike Cornwall on Jungian Approaches to Madness and Renewal

- 2
1176

Ending Human Rights Violations in the Mental Health System Institute Alternatives 2012

- 4
198

Dear Dr. Torrey: Please, Stop The Lies!

- 46
1243

The Search for the Miracle Cure

- 42
702

On Deciphering Recovery for the American Psychiatric Association: Lecture on 13 Innovations to Improve...

- 30
460

What Are We Recovering From? Making a Case for Recovery

- 28
614

Why Do So Few People Know that CRPD Prohibits Forced Psychiatry?

- 12
695

The United Met States of Psychiatry

- 51
438

Hearing Voices Research & Development Fund

- 10
176

Behavior Modification and an Authoritarian Society

- 13
797

There’s No Duct Tape for Benzo Withdrawal

- 56
20385

3 Reasons Why Children Are Drawn to Succeed at Video Games

- 1
312

“Mental Illness Awareness Week”

- 16
208

New Research Project to be Funded by the Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health...

- 18
250

West Virginia’s Prescription Drug Abuse Problem: Intersection of Two Industries?

- 0
107

Abbott’s Admissions of Criminality: Do They Accomplish Anything?

- 6
163

More on New York’s Kendra’s Law: Opponents Lining Up for Decisive Battle in 2015

- 10
771

Neuroleptic Taper in a Clinical Practice

- 44
758

Fighting for Our Most Basic of Human Rights– The Right to be Human

- 36
304

Healing Voices Film

- 7
637

Dr. Friedman Criticizes the Overuse of the Atypical Antipsychotics

- 11
284

Our Task Is to Take Away the Power of Psychiatry

- 72
1263

Five Things I Learned at the Partnership with Patients Conference

- 3
499

How Psychologists Meet the Needs of the “Power Structure”: A Talk at the Psychologists...

- 24
651

2 Reasons Why Time-Outs Do Not Work

- 1
1277

Some Observations of Soteria-Alaska

- 40
3310

Transforming the Traditional Mental Health System Through Peer Staffed Respite Programs

- 10
665

Let’s All Support Stephen Sheller’s FDA Petition to Revoke the Pediatric Approval of Risperdal

- 8
664

Drug Development, “Lucrative Markets,” and the Future of Psychiatry

- 42
189

Killer Brain Candy: One Woman’s Odyssey Through Benzodiazepine Addiction and Withdrawal or How Chicken...

- 34
7709

Psychosis as a Spiritual Crisis: An Opportunity For Growth

- 26
871

4 Ways to Propel Success in Challenging Children

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146

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It Takes More Than a Pill to Heal From Depression

- 13
1909

Remembering the 2003 Fast For Freedom: Time for Another?

- 44
802

Are You Committed to Eliminating Labels and Medications With Emotional Distress?

- 23
361

Common Sense, Deferred: Lessons From the “Fresh Air” Fight, Part One

- 12
324

Neuroleptic Drugs: Patient vs. Provider Perspective

- 30
193

Finland: The Pre-Seminar

- 25
164

Addiction, Biological Psychiatry and the Disease Model (Part 1)

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1753

Post-Prozac Nation: Did our Drugs Work?

- 16
2232

Things Your Doctor Should Tell You About Antidepressants

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What I Learned From Producing Wellness Solutions 1.0

- 2
224

Why West Virginia Has the Second Highest Prescription Drug Overdoses in Nation

- 13
433

What To Do With Advocates Who Refuse To Learn About Drug Downsides

- 6
257

Icarus Project Celebrates Our 10th Anniversary with Visions of Paradigm Shifts in Mental Health...

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555

Martin Keller, Principal Investigator of Controversial Paxil Study, Leaves Brown University

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1105

Building Mental Health Exit Ramps: 5 Actions You Can Take in 10 Minutes

- 3
178

Five Nights in Finland

- 193
646

The Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs: A Sane Approach to Psychiatric...

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595

Launching the Beyond ‘Anatomy’ Forum

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294

Mad In America Forums and Other Updates

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248

Psychiatry as a Mixed Blessing

- 89
490

Anosognosia: How Conjecture Becomes Medical “Fact”

- 46
4864

How You and I Can Take Back Translational Medicine – THIS WEEK!

- 10
427

The History and Future of Our Psychiatric Survivor Movement

- 78
4332

Please Stop Saying “Medical Model.”

- 18
674

22 Human Rights Defenders Tell Senate: Ratify Disability Rights Treaty Without Limitations

- 5
148

Watchdogs or Show Dogs?

- 4
200

Study 329’s Authors: Should Those Who Live in Glass Houses Throw Stones?

- 13
713

When Medical Muckraking Fails

- 5
229

A Chance for Ohio

- 9
152

A New Understanding of “Psychosis”

- 40
5689

Jonah Lehrer was also Wrong About Antipsychotics

- 18
400

Brain Disease or Existential Crisis?

- 60
6533

The First Ever USA Olympic Gold Medal in Judo – and a Recovery Story

- 6
477

My Peer Service Work

- 1
224

New Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care Project in the Works

- 13
194

“Aurora: Shrouded in Myths”

- 28
372

The Hidden Gorilla

- 66
1198

How My Anger Led Me to Forgiveness

- 6
231

Coming Off Medications Guide – Second Edition – Free Download

- 5
1070

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Breaking the Silence

- 4
598

Are the Olympics Harder than Mental Health Recovery?

- 3
301

Community Dialogues for Recovery and Wellness

- 0
861

Peer Respite Centers and Medication Free Madness Sanctuaries: Why We Need Them Both Very...

- 38
874

One Script to Rule Them All

- 6
111

Kristina

- 6
184

Conquering Benign Paternalism

- 27
1178

It’s Not Just the Drugs; Misinformation Used to Push Drugs Can Also Make Mental...

- 17
434

Free Blog Ideas

- 10
166

“Unfortunate experiments” in New Zealand and Minnesota

- 2
265

Chapter Twenty-Seven: Reignition

- 26
619

Can Its New Board President Turn NAMI Around?

- 20
433

Billing the Victims of Unethical Medical Research

- 9
308

A Child on the Shock Ward

- 12
2216

A Collective Human Potential Movement

- 21
3171

Are There Gifts In and From Our Madness That Our Culture Needs to Not...

- 30
173

The Triumph of Bad Science

- 46
3092

Site Updates and Posting Policy

- 9
89

How Effective are Neuroleptic Drugs?

- 37
409

Teenagers on SSRIs

- 17
197

Letters From the Front Lines

- 4
172

Madness Radio: Eleanor Longden on Voices and Trauma

- 2
361

New York Attorney General’s Office Should Take a Bow For GlaxoSmithKline’s Record Breaking Fine

- 18
509

Your Input Welcome For 2012 Alternatives Keynote Speech – SURVEY

- 17
93

New York State’s Assisted Out-Patient Treatment Program: Racial Myths & Other Stereotypes

- 9
582

Entrepreneurship Is The Way Out of Our Mess

- 91
130

Tipping the Scales in Favor of Collaboration

- 16
283

Ghostwriting: Time for a Name Change

- 10
123

Listening to the Voices of Voice Hearers: World Hearing Voices Congress

- 3
164

Killed by the Huffington Post, Article Now on the Newsstands in Skeptic

- 16
731

Chemical Imbalances and Other Black Unicorns

- 40
671

A Post-Racial Public Mental Health System: If Not Now, When?

- 5
405

Prayer and Hope, Part II.

- 4
144

The Psychopathology of American Life

- 76
669

Personal Responsibility and Advance Directives

- 10
196

The Biochemical Basis for “Mental Illness” – Finally Solved!

- 3
947

Bringing Human Rights Home

- 21
105

The Icarus Project: One Very Good Reason I Sleep Better at Night!

- 15
478

Holistic Recovery From Schizophrenia: A Mother and Son’s Journey

- 75
41429

Our Emotions – The Sole Creators of Every Word, Voice, Symbolic Image, Bodily Movement...

- 52
921

Avoidance of Voices Can Be as Problematic as Listening Too Much

- 15
263

Better Living through Chemistry?

- 12
116

We did it! Kansas’ Health Insurance Application withdrawn!

- 2
141

The NY Times: When Stimulants Are Bad

- 50
1521

Are We Not Human Beings with the Rights to be Treated as Human?

- 12
390

The Place of Medication in a Recovery Oriented System of Care

- 79
234

US Senator Raises Concerns About Possible Stock Manipulation by Vertex Executives

- 0
81

Black Hats, White Hats, and Financial Reckonings

- 44
579

SSRIs in The Atlantic: Forget the Science Bring on the Anecdotes

- 22
311

How Can We Stop So Great an Injustice?

- 72
120

Nothing About Us Without Us!

- 6
389

Heaven, Hell, and Psychosis

- 12
602

Vertex Pharmaceutical Executives Cash in on False Hopes

- 3
99

3 minutes to Create Medication Optimization for the Whole US

- 16
123

Dialogical Recovery of our Minds

- 25
721

Does Anyone Want a Genetically Modified Brain? – Anti-Psychotic Medications May Have Been Causing...

- 155
592

Do I Have Too Many Questions This Morning?

- 74
152

Tunneling

- 3
271

The Denial of Mystery and the Use of Medication to Replace Personal and Social...

- 15
401

What You Can Do TODAY About Managed Care

- 7
274

“You Can’t Go Home Again: New York’s Medicaid Health Homes”

- 10
237

Our Recovery Community is One of the Richest in Our Country

- 15
309

Pharmed Out: An Interview with Dr. Adriane Fugh-Berman

- 7
449

Letters from the Front Lines

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125

DSM5 Boycott: Growing Some Legs

- 35
304

Madness Radio: Daniel Hazen On Abolishing Prisons

- 9
239

How Many Deaths Will It Take Till We Know?

- 182
337

Boycott DSM5? Why Not?

- 12
621

Risk Management vs. Dignity of Risk

- 25
1458

Shanghai’d in Recovery

- 43
429

CIAD & Community-Based Housing for Adult Home Residents in New York City: The Struggle...

- 2
323

Coercion

- 219
737

Fast-Moving Bill in Congress Would Weaken FDA Oversight of New Drugs and Devices

- 7
131

E. Fuller Torrey’s Review of Anatomy of an Epidemic: What Does It Reveal About...

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Whose Recovery Is This?! Helping Families Heal

- 2
180

The Big Chill: Psychiatric Medications Now Are on Trial For Murder

- 51
271

Is there Any Value In Psychiatric Diagnosis?

- 19
1655

Is Psychiatry “Salvageable”?

- 108
609

Mad Pride and Spiritual Community: Thoughts on The Spiritual Gift of Madness

- 12
1187

Start with a Solid Foundation

- 8
100

My “Head in a Bucket” Metaphor

- 308
2647

IOM report concludes that the FDA is not doing its job

- 2
199

Recovery through Learning Creatura, a Language of Life

- 11
306

Crazy Mother Proposes New Diagnostic Category

- 36
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On Recovering from Psychiatric Labels and Psychotropic Medications: An ‘Occupy APA’ Manifesto

- 56
905

The Pond, Learning and Humility

- 38
102

At the Door of the Sausage Factory

- 37
132

Anti-Authoritarians and Schizophrenia: Do Rebels Who Defy Treatment Do Better?

- 78
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Are Some Psychiatrists Addicted to Deference?

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3949

Call Me “The Doctor”

- 378
287

Take a ride on the Mood Elevator

- 4
191

Economic Determinism and Medicaid

- 11
100

Rethinking Madness: A Book Review

- 13
590

Pandora’s Box

- 39
195

10 Reasons Survivors Might Know More Medicine Than Psychiatrists

- 24
2257

National Peer Certification

- 18
434

Is the FDA violating its own mandate to approve safe drugs?

- 8
105

Jung’s First Dream, The Mad God Dionysus and a Madness Sanctuary called Diabasis

- 51
8202

It’s Not Going To Get Better Soon

- 69
125

Why I don’t do “med checks”

- 26
1020

The Pipeline

- 12
128

The New York Times Magazine Article on Antidepressants

- 10
733

The “I Am Not The Butcher” Speech

- 9
257

Life for Psychiatrists after Reading Bob Whitaker: Let’s Take Back Substance Abuse Treatment

- 19
336

Troubling Times

- 30
183

You Are What You Eat – Part 2

- 9
146

Guidelines for a Thoughtful Discussion

- 70
218

Developing Policies and Practices for Medication Optimization

- 16
109

Part 2: The Values and Ethics of WRAP

- 4
407

Part 1: The Development of WRAP

- 4
249

What a new role for psychiatrists might look like

- 24
291

Discipline, Not Drugs

- 5
128

Doctors Need Support

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115

The Mouse That Roared: CIAD & Friends vs. the State of New York

- 6
241

How entrepreneurial thinking can improve mental health advocacy

- 5
241

The Rotted Fruit

- 3
104

An Opportunity to Walk the Talk — Occupy the American Psychiatric Association May 5th...

- 22
483

Madness Radio: Toby Watson on Ethical Psychotherapy

- 5
206

Chapter Twenty-Six: Reaching the End, and Making a Start

- 21
381

How the “Brain Defect” Theory of Depression Stigmatizes Depression Sufferers

- 24
2473

How drug companies continue to hide the true story of Tamiflu and other drugs...

- 2
621

When university attorneys play hardball with patients

- 2
126

Should Children Have Consent Rights For Psychosurgery, ECT and Sterilization?

- 28
653

Letters from the Front Lines

- 4
74

New Study on a Non-Toxic Intervention for Those at High Risk of Psychosis

- 1
83

Why We Should Be Customers and Not Charity Cases

- 8
155

Working the assembly line at the human experimentation factory

- 2
311

You Are What You Eat

- 15
154

Hope

- 1
1715

Why We Need Mental Health Social Entrepreneurship

- 3
3316

“Social Workers’ Malaise: What’s Our Mission?”

- 11
239

Playing Hide-and-Seek with Psychiatric Drug Studies

- 5
557

Does It Matter if We Believe in Mental Illness?

- 23
154

Bipolar? When Quitting is the Answer

- 9
739

Dialogical Recovery of Life

- 10
468

1984 & DSM5, Revisited: Where Are the Social Workers?

- 16
596

Dyskinesia, Dissociation, and the Long Term Consequences of “Antipsychotic” Drugs

- 3
1484

How Technology Worship Keeps Americans Ignorant about Depression Treatment

- 4
1574

What is in a Name: One Psychiatrist’s View of Psychiatric Diagnosis

- 58
455

“Come Out for Health Week”: March 26-30, 2012

- 3
284

Remembering Kate

- 37
436

Thinking Holistically – Don’t Forget Tobacco

- 14
208

The Illegality of Forced Drugging and Electroshock

- 34
2227

Madness Radio: Sharna Olfman on Medicating Children Diagnosed Bipolar

- 2
125

I Don’t Believe in Mental Illness, Do You?

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36240

We Need Drugs

- 10
490

Chapter Twenty-Five: “Paranoid Android”

- 2
293

Why Can’t They Hear Our Truth? We Have a Cure.

- 32
1653

Snake Medicine: Transforming Our Stories

- 7
327

In Praise of Families

- 7
96

Poverty & Serious Mental illness: Connecting the Dots

- 6
502

Empowerment is Vital to Dialogical Recovery

- 23
414

Poverty & Mental Illness: You Can’t Have One Without the Other

- 13
16635

Generative Narratives and the Counterculture Psychiatrists

- 7
244

Eyewitness to the Ruination of a Public Mental Health System

- 31
1262

Why I Prescribe

- 44
408

Thinking Holistically – attempting to change the Status Quo

- 7
160

How can parents help kids who don’t want help?

- 10
8930

The George Costanza Excuse for Medical Ghostwriting

- 2
378

We are for truly informed choice; not anti-medications

- 11
385

A Pharmaceutical Company That Agrees With Irving Kirsch? Wellbutrin Advertised as 10% More Effective...

- 6
1497

Better Broadband

- 4
89

Thinking Holistically

- 17
181

Vote NOW for solutions to emotional distress!

- 2
109

The Shame Game of “Patient Responsibility”

- 0
484

Why Anti-Authoritarians Are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill

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The Emperor’s Antipsychotic Drugs

- 5
569

Chapter Twenty-Four: Off the Meds and Out of My Mind

- 9
386

So This Is Texas 2

- 0
297

The American Psychiatric Association’s Response to 60 Minutes: Where is the Science?

- 29
1170

Interpreting Harrow’s 20-Year Results: Are the Drugs to Blame?

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6738

The Cause and Solution for Emotional Distress

- 4
940

Response to 60 Minutes

- 5
829

Letters from the Front Lines

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94

Personal Steps toward a Revolution in Mental Health Care

- 6
215

A Road Map to Hope

- 1
162

The Real Suicide Data from the TADS Study Comes to Light

- 18
4148

60 Minutes, The SSRIs, and The Dirty Little Secret

- 35
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Turning a Child’s Intensity to Greatness

- 2
813

What Do Psychiatrists Say When They Talk to Each Other?

- 15
519

Responding to Madness With Loving Receptivity: a Practical Guide

- 39
2989

Mental Health Homes Open Their Proverbial Doors in New York: Caveats, Part II

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153

Dialogical Recovery from Monological Medicine

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830

Mental Health Homes Open Their Proverbial Doors in New York: A Look into the...

- 4
373

Unraveling the Biopsychiatric Knot: the Future History of the Radical Mental Health Movement

- 4
1501

The Death of Leslie Carter

- 2
723

The Role of Inflammation in the Success and Failure of Antidepressants

- 4
815

Remembering A Medication-Free Madness Sanctuary

- 22
2675

On a Paradox Revealed: Discontinuing Neuroleptics

- 9
322

Bring in the Peer!

- 10
746

Madness Radio: Grainne Humphry on the Psychiatric Incarceration of John Hunt in Ireland

- 2
362

Return to Self an Alternative Medication?

- 1
134

Letters from the Front Lines

- 3
176

The Power of Storytelling

- 4
353

Should Jilted Lovers Be Treated with Antidepressants?

- 4
4106

Revising the History of the Serotonin Theory of Depression?

- 18
2455

Chapter Twenty-Three: On the Locked Unit, Locked in Myself

- 2
368

Bipolar Everywhere

- 20
1792

More on Recovery & Liberation: Oppression & Resilience

- 7
388

Is It All in Your Head?

- 46
425

The Taint of Eugenics In NIMH-Funded Research Today

- 28
1766

Tsunami of Frozen Grief Found in the Clinical Work

- 1
97

Excellent Article on Antipsychotic Drug Harm Reduction in Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health...

- 0
369

Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care Projects

- 3
220

Psychiatry’s Grand Confession

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The Cure for Mood Disorders Is Dementia?

- 2
419

Introducing Myself

- 1
94

Get Off Prescription Drugs: Arriving at the Work

- 2
248

The Importance of Being Useful

- 4
1176

Letters from the Front Lines

- 8
109

Recovery and Liberation: One and the Same?

- 12
297

Pilgrim’s Progress: From Young Madman to Old Therapist

- 8
495

On Creative Maladjustment and Rethinking Psychiatry

- 9
277

Diagnosing Dangers

- 30
326

Chapter Twenty-Two: To the Hospital on the Hill

- 15
261

A Visit into the Lithuanian Mental Health System

- 8
2998

Rethinking Brain Research In Psychiatry

- 22
608

Letters from the Front Lines

- 9
99

A Mother Bear’s Story

- 10
535

Evidence, Bias, and Anecdote

- 6
854

New Video: Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs: A Harm Reduction Approach

- 3
446

A Counter Narrative for Psychic Diversity

- 1
763

Expect Recovery….

- 3
203

Initiatory Madness

- 25
1808

Introduction: Anatomy of a Psychiatric Practice

- 9
539

The New York Times and all that…

- 6
160

Happy New Year From The Icarus Project!

- 0
747

Chapter Twenty-One: Countdown to Surrender

- 4
499

Letters From the Front Lines

- 3
100

A Three Pronged Approach to Mental Health System Change

- 12
2047

Answering the Critics: William Glazer, in Behavioral Healthcare Magazine

- 0
695

Cognitive Therapy Found Effective in Unmedicated Psychotic Patients . . . And Other News

- 2
268

Chapter Twenty: Russian Roulette

- 0
230

Answering the Critics: Massachusetts General Hospital Grand Rounds

- 5
2522

Chapter Nineteen: Playing the Part

- 0
198

Answering the Critics: Let’s Roll the Tape (Again)

- 0
314

Answering the Critics: The Carlat Psychiatry Blog

- 0
1278

Chapter Eighteen: Sentenced to Life

- 1
437

Healing the Body and Mind

- 0
174

A Rorschach Test for Psych Drugs

- 0
119

Anatomy of an Epidemic Down Under: Psychiatric Drugs and the Astonishing Rise of Disabling...

- 2
389

September 15, 2011

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98

Chapter Seventeen: Commencing to Self-Destruct

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223

Chapter Sixteen: Inside a House of Cards

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198

August 4, 2011

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75

In Defense of Psychiatric Medications, Part Two

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209

Chapter Fifteen: A Haven from Self

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206

July 12, 2011

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The New York Times’ Defense of Antidepressants

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570

Chapter Fourteen: Crossing the Threshold

- 1
236

Now Antidepressant-Induced Chronic Depression Has a Name: Tardive Dysphoria

- 6
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June 27, 2011

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Drug Companies ‘Just Say No’ to Psych Drugs

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402

June 17, 2011

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Chapter Thirteen: In the Muck and The Mire

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216

Summing Up the NIMH Trials: Evidence of an Effective Paradigm of Care?

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115

Chapter Twelve: A Gift of Desperation

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211

After 25 Posts on this Website, Dr. Mark Foster is Terminated by his Employer

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1331

Chapter Eleven: Teetering on the Edge

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219

Should the Medical Literature Be Cleansed of All STAR*D Articles?

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172

April 30, 2011

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87

Anatomy of an Epidemic wins investigative journalism award

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218

Chapter Ten: A ‘Victim of Circumstance’

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224

April 11, 2011

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Chapter Nine: Is It Me Or My Meds?

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379

STAR*D: Adding Fiction to Fiction

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Rethinking Mental Health Care: The Story of the Oregon Symposium and the Foundation that...

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209

March 29, 2011

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125

An Introduction: The Story of Bias in the STAR*D Trial and More

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March 15, 2011

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Letters from the Front Lines

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Chapter Eight: “Forget Happiness . . . I’ve Got Control”

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222

March 4, 2011

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91

Chapter Seven: Becoming Bipolar, Becoming Empowered

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320

February 14, 2011

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Andreasen Drops a Bombshell: Antipsychotics Shrink the Brain

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Chapter Six: A Disease of Dis-Ease, and New Hope for a Cure

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219

January 31, 2011

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Speaking at MGH Grand Rounds, and More

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January 17, 2011

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January 7, 2011

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Antipsychotics and the Scientific Method

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Psychiatric Drugs and Violence: A Review of FDA Data Finds A Link

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December 22, 2010

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December 15, 2010

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Chapter Five: Filling the Void

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December 6, 2010

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Updates on the Epidemic

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146

Do Psychiatric Drugs Impair Normal Brain Development?

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160

The GlaxoSmithKline Ghostwriting Documents, Part Two

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142

Chapter Four: Eye of the Storm

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260

A Ghostwritten Psychiatric Textbook Hints at a Much Larger Problem

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355

November 26, 2010

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83

Volunteers for Psychotherapy Is A Finalist for International Award

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Chapter Three: At War With A Diagnosis

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305

November 11, 2010

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November 1, 2010

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115

November 9, 2010

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Coffee Mugs or the Medical Literature: Why Do Doctors Make the Decisions They Do?

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102

November 4, 2010

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The Successful Creation of a Societal Delusion . . . and the Increase in...

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278

Tardive Dyskinesia in the Atypicals Era: Is The Risk Any Less Today Than Before?

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348

New Rat Study: SSRIs Markedly Deplete Brain Serotonin

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358

October 28, 2010

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83

October 25, 2010

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Do Antidepressants Worsen the Long-term Course of Depression? Giovanni Fava Pushes the Debate Forward.

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October 21, 2010

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October 17, 2010

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October 14, 2010

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109

Chapter Two: Opening Pandora’s Box

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October 10, 2010

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SAMHSA, Alternatives, and A Psychiatrist’s Despair over the State of American Science

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243

SAMHSA, Alternatives, and the Story of an Opportunity Lost

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287

October 6, 2010

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183

Keeping Tabs on the Serotonin Theory of Depression

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Chapter One: Journeying Back to Self

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September 25, 2010

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115

September 21, 2010

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132

September 18, 2010

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Introducing Our Blog

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September 27, 2010

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And Now For the Rest of the Story

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The STAR*D Scandal: A New Paper Sums It All Up

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Charlie Rose and the Mentally Ill Brain

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News Roundup From June

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126

”Broken Brains” and “Beautiful Minds”

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216

Medicating Children: A “Whistleblower’s Lawsuit” Raises a Novel Legal Question

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131

Yet Another Disappointment: First Catie, and Now the 12-Month Results from TEOSS

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511

Update on the Star*D Report

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244

A Schizophrenia Mystery Solved?

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Time Magazine and Anatomy of an Epidemic

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Hypotheses, Scientific Evidence, and On Being Compared to an AIDS Denier

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Story-Telling in the Age of Corporate Medicine (or more on being called an AIDS...

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Fact Checking the New Yorker, Part Two

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Fact Checking the New Yorker

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