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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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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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Mad in America’s 10 Most Popular Articles in 2022

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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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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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Interview: The Need for Trauma-Informed Schools

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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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20 Concrete Steps to Achieving System Change

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An Illness, or Risky Experimentation?

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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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Icarus, Let Me In: Songs For a Better Story

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A Different Psychiatry Is Needed for Discontinuing Antidepressants

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The Shady World of Shock Treatment

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

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Review of the Conference on Withdrawal and Side Effects: IIPDW

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

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From Horse Ranch to Home Ground: Healing Families via Telehealth

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

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

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ADHD: The Money Trail

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

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Mad by Design: An Ancient Paradigm of Psychiatric Thought

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Thomas Insel and the Future of the Mental Health System

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

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And Finally

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

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

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Apples and Oranges in Peer Support Research

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

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Mad in (S)pain

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

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The Grief Pill is Coming!

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Mad in Finland

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

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Mad in the UK

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The Functions of the Mental Health System Under Capitalism

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Thomas Jobe: The Legacy of Research He Leaves Behind

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

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

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Mad in Sweden

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Why Do We Lock People Up?

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

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

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

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Mad in Canada

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Desperate Remedies

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The Looting of “Outsider Art” by Psychiatry Continues Today

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

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Mad in México

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Psychiatry Upgraded the Declaration of Independence

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Illnesses or Loose Collections of Vaguely Described Problems?

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The Censors Are Coming for Mental Health

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Mad in the Netherlands

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Robert Spitzer on DSM-III: A Recently Recovered Interview

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

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Toxic Marketing: The Business of Selling TMS

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Mad in Italy

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Malignant Do-Gooderism: The Tragedies of Allopathic Psychiatry

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Fear and Loathing in the ECT Debate

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Regulators Are Approving Drugs Without Clear Evidence That They Work

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Mad in Norway

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Susan Inman Is at It Again

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The Danger of Marginalizing People

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Why Is Psychiatry So Defensive About Criticism? Part 2

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Consternation of the Bees

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Mad in Brasil

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

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

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Evidence Distortion in Medicine Explained in One Single Chart

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Why Is Psychiatry So Defensive About Criticism?

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Why Is Child Sexual Abuse So Common in Institutions?

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Home Alone: Finding Connection During the Pandemic

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Grief: A Shamanic Perspective

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

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

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“Mental Health” Is a Euphemism for Policing Social Deviance

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Can Anything Good Come Out of Therapy?

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Addressing the Social Determinants of Mental Health—or Perhaps Not

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

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The Psychiatric Hospital Is an Institution of Social Control

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

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Mental Health Care Must Support Consent and Basic Human Rights

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

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Institutionalized 18 Years Ago, I May Never Be Released

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Book Review: “Opening Up: The Parenting Journey”

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

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ADHD as Cargo Cult Science

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Why Not Seek Treatment Through the Mental Health System?

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The New York Times Confidently Misinterprets a New ECT Study

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

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How and Why Neurotypicals Misunderstand and Mistreat Autistic People

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

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A Dystopian Vision of Psychiatry’s Future

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Peer Respite: Why It Should be Everyone’s Concern

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RIP: Ed White – Advocate, Researcher and Supporter

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

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A New Liberation Movement, Focused on Relationship

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

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RIP: Scottish Psychiatric Survivor Activist Chrys Muirhead

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What Happens When A Peer Is Accused of Relapsing?

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Soteria House and Peer Respite Summit

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

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The Importance of Empathic Listening for Making Meaning of Distress

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Honoring Jane Whittington: 1950-2021

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

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What We Have Always Known but Psychiatry Forgot

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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”

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Remembering Don Weitz, 1930-2021

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Psychedelics—The New Psychiatric Craze

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

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

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The Great Triumph of Roxanne Stewart-Johnson: Psychiatric Refugee

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

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

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ISEPP to American Psychological Association: Condemn Forced Treatment

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Psychiatry Is the Cause, Not the Solution

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EVENT: Town Hall on Children and Psychiatric Drugs

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

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

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How I Learned the Social and Environmental Causes of Madness

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Speak Out! Britney’s Fight Is Our Fight

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

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Psychiatric Drugs “Help” By Causing Brain Dysfunction

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In Memoriam: Paula Joan Caplan

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

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

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Discomfort Is the New Comfort Zone

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Cindi Fisher on Hunger Strike: Free My Sidd

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

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

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Britney: In the Name of Health

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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EMDR in a Nutshell: Healing from Trauma

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The Transformational Qualities of Hearing Voices Groups

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FDA Approves Failed Alzheimer’s Drug

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Psychotherapy Is Safer and Less Expensive Than Drug Treatment

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

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

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

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Lessons from the Pandemic: Panic Attacks Are Not Random

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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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Does Official Recognition of Peers Undermine Their Work?

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

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

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Shining a Light on Numbers Needed to Treat (NNT)

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

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Remembering Jay Mahler

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

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Welcome to Mad in America’s Family Resources Section!

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Current Anti-Stigma Campaigns Hinder Withdrawal from Psychotropic Medication

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Radical Acts of Community Healing and Self-Love

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

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We Do Not Have Everything We Need

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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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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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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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Philosophy & Madness: A Discussion with Wouter Kusters

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

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

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Mental Health at the End of the World

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

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

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Overprescribing Madness

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

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

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

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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

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

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Online Exhibition: Art-Making During the Pandemic

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Federal Mental Health Agencies: Remember Ivory!

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

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

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How to Support Healing from Psychosis Versus Imposing Social Control

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Informed Consent Must Reflect Information from Online Withdrawal Forums

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

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Our Culture Is Abusive

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

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Torture at Lake Alice “Hospital”, New Zealand

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

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Remembering Jennifer Kinzie (1979-2021)

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

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

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In Memoriam: Birgitta Alakare

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Insane Medicine: Epilogue

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Online Experts on Withdrawal

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2924

The Great Slowdown: Why Breaking Down Is Waking Up

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2149

The Role of Love in Mental Health

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Welcome to Planet Psychiatry

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Insane Medicine, Chapter 10: The Paradigm Shift Is Inevitable

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2850

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

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

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

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Dr. Pies’ Non-Apology

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

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CRPD Consultation on Deinstitutionalization: A Reparations Approach

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2592

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

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Some Principles of Human Design for a Post-COVID World

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2469

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

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Psychiatrists and Open Dialogue

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Mainstream Mental Health Is Hazardous for Your Mental Health

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3685

Attention! One Morning with a Roving Mind

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Dr. Pies and The Chemical Imbalance Deception

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Grief and Its Potential Lessons

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

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

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Eyewitness to Psychiatry Functioning as a Conspiracy Theory-Based Cult

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5229

Can Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Hurt You?

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

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

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

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Is Anti-Psychiatry Harmful?

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

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Finding One’s Way Through Withdrawal

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2588

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

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

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The Professionalization of Mental Health Services Is Ruining Friendship

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Appealing the FDA’s Denial of ECT’s Harms

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Celebrating the Anti-Psychiatry Movement

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

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Out of the Bubble: Now or Never?

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

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Stop Saying This, An Encore!

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

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

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Literally Indescribable: Are Antidepressants Addictive?

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4238

Finding Meaning in Suffering: How Existentialism Can Help

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

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3564

No, Autism Is Not Over-Diagnosed

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Exploring Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: A Town Hall Discussion Series

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The Ups and Downs of Online Therapy

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New FDA Study Shows Benzodiazepines Can Cause Long-Term Injury

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

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

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Dual Diagnosis Anonymous: Peer Support for Those Who Need It

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A Psychiatrist Critiques Psychiatry, and Does a Great Job!

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

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Does the NASW Code of Ethics Prohibit Peer Work?

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Immigration Detention: The Mental Health Impacts

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The Spin Doctors: “ADHD” Research

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

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Why Is the APA Proposing Sweeping Changes to Training Requirements?

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

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

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Hearing Voices: Let the Community Lead

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Can We Allow Suffering?

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

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

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

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Do We All Need Tinfoil Hats? Considering Schizophrenia

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

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

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

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A Tale of Two Paradigms

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

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Kicking Over a Straw Woman

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An American History of Addiction: Ardent Spirits

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

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

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

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Is COVID-19 Making Everybody Crazy?

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Racism and Radical Psychiatry

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

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Kerry O’Malley: A Personal Struggle Against Forced Medication

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

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

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Does Stranger Mean Danger?

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

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Black Suicidality and Mental Health #BlackLivesMatter

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End Police “Wellness Checks.” Now.

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

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

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Recovery: Stressing the Social Basis of the Process

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Canadian Mental Health Legislation and the CRPD

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Supporting Children and Parents to Withdraw from Psychiatric Medication

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

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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 You Ever Ask Someone “Are You Suicidal?”

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Electric Shock Update: Allegations of Regulatory Misconduct Filed with the FDA

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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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What COVID-19 Has to Teach Us About Psychiatric Oppression

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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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Re-establishing My Credentials: Psychiatric Survivor Activists Are Needed Now!

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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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Induction to Virus Psychosis

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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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The Launch of Mad in Sweden Culture Section

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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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Is Your Brain Adequately Nourished to Cope With COVID-19 Stress?

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Too Good to Be True: How TMS Damaged My Brain

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There’s Something Spreading Faster Than COVID-19, and It’s Not Fear. It’s Toxic Positivity

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Missing a Pivotal Outcome in a Large Cold Turkey Trial of Desvenlafaxine

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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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Blurring the Line Between “Us” and “Them”

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We Are All in This Together

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A Peek Inside the Modern Asylum

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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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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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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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Why Did I Stay?

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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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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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The Review on Antidepressant Withdrawal That Cochrane Won’t Publish

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

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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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Power Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry

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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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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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The Matrix: Disentangling Anti-Psychiatry

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

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

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Equal Legal Capacity or ‘Supported Decision-Making’?

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

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

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Will the European Elections Be a Chance for Mental Health?

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