Tuesday, June 6, 2023

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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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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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3848

Not Everyone Agreed With FDA Approval of Antipsychotic Rexulti for Agitation

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1524

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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2284

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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1885

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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4401

White Paper Presents Case Against Forced Treatment

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Self-test for Adult Symptom Deficiency Disorder (ASDD)

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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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2482

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

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The Hidden Injuries of Oppression

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2800

Listen to the Victims: Senate Holds Hearing on Guardianship

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

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Chronic Stress and “Mental Illness”

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To Promote Mental Health, We Must Teach It

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1738

Lost Poetry: Psychiatry and Creativity

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

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Life-Enhancing Anxiety: Key to a Revitalized World

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

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LGBTQIA+ Peer Respites: The Personal Is Political

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Medically-Assisted Suicide Is Not a Win for Mental Health

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1844

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

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

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3889

Mad Poetry Slam!

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1073

Acute Religious Experiences: Madness, Psychosis, and Religious Studies

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2423

Tolstoy’s Hermit: Jay Schulkin

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

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

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Beyond Psychiatry: A Trauma-Centric View of Mental Health

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Everyone Has a Story

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1761

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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Black Movement Leaders: Lost & Found

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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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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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1459

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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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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1973

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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3436

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

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1361

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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2388

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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2108

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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4283

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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2863

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

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2685

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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1301

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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1768

Toxic Marketing: The Business of Selling TMS

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6112

Mad in Italy

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1147

Malignant Do-Gooderism: The Tragedies of Allopathic Psychiatry

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1851

Fear and Loathing in the ECT Debate

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2384

Regulators Are Approving Drugs Without Clear Evidence That They Work

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1271

Mad in Norway

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1241

Susan Inman Is at It Again

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2317

The Danger of Marginalizing People

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1666

Why Is Psychiatry So Defensive About Criticism? Part 2

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Consternation of the Bees

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854

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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4365

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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32895

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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2848

RIP: Ed White – Advocate, Researcher and Supporter

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4336

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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2095

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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4269

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

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4142

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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2223

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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1748

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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1866

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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1882

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

- 5
2011

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

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3770

Our Culture Is Abusive

- 33
4575

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

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1594

Torture at Lake Alice “Hospital”, New Zealand

- 3
2750

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

- 77
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Remembering Jennifer Kinzie (1979-2021)

- 13
7735

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

- 77
6282

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

- 6
2219

In Memoriam: Birgitta Alakare

- 14
4786

Insane Medicine: Epilogue

- 4
1734

Online Experts on Withdrawal

- 18
3050

The Great Slowdown: Why Breaking Down Is Waking Up

- 5
2201

The Role of Love in Mental Health

- 21
2170

Welcome to Planet Psychiatry

- 54
3711

Insane Medicine, Chapter 10: The Paradigm Shift Is Inevitable

- 11
2984

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

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2552

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

- 33
8793

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

- 6
1640

Dr. Pies’ Non-Apology

- 33
1320

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

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2594

CRPD Consultation on Deinstitutionalization: A Reparations Approach

- 29
2724

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

- 23
2532

Some Principles of Human Design for a Post-COVID World

- 54
2565

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

- 5
1243

Psychiatrists and Open Dialogue

- 4
921

Mainstream Mental Health Is Hazardous for Your Mental Health

- 16
3913

Attention! One Morning with a Roving Mind

- 2
1864

Dr. Pies and The Chemical Imbalance Deception

- 82
3852

Grief and Its Potential Lessons

- 7
1658

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

- 0
650

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

- 29
3309

Eyewitness to Psychiatry Functioning as a Conspiracy Theory-Based Cult

- 29
5564

Can Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Hurt You?

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15814

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

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5057

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

- 1
1073

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

- 6
2496

Is Anti-Psychiatry Harmful?

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4674

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

- 13
4356

Finding One’s Way Through Withdrawal

- 7
2682

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

- 12
1108

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

- 8
4395

The Professionalization of Mental Health Services Is Ruining Friendship

- 57
11111

Appealing the FDA’s Denial of ECT’s Harms

- 38
2880

Celebrating the Anti-Psychiatry Movement

- 48
4435

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

- 12
4682

Out of the Bubble: Now or Never?

- 46
3084

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

- 18
5015

Stop Saying This, An Encore!

- 13
1900

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

- 15
3029

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

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Dr. Pies: Still Going Wrong

- 68
1367

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

- 10
2334

Literally Indescribable: Are Antidepressants Addictive?

- 24
4383

Finding Meaning in Suffering: How Existentialism Can Help

- 11
5271

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

- 12
3687

No, Autism Is Not Over-Diagnosed

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Exploring Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: A Town Hall Discussion Series

- 17
2903

The Ups and Downs of Online Therapy

- 5
1532

New FDA Study Shows Benzodiazepines Can Cause Long-Term Injury

- 42
29405

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

- 27
3693

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

- 3
1966

Dual Diagnosis Anonymous: Peer Support for Those Who Need It

- 9
1432

A Psychiatrist Critiques Psychiatry, and Does a Great Job!

- 34
2973

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

- 20
8738

Does the NASW Code of Ethics Prohibit Peer Work?

- 55
2088

Immigration Detention: The Mental Health Impacts

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710

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

- 9
2248

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

- 20
4158

Understanding Mental Illnesses, and Ourselves

- 24
2944

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

- 25
6410

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

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3523

Stepping Into One’s Inner Radiant Space

- 23
1700

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

- 25
3651

When Psych Diagnosis Means Life-or-Death

- 14
1494

The Need for Acknowledgment of Context Within Approaches to Mental Distress

- 14
3175

The Reckoning in Psychiatry Over Protracted Antidepressant Withdrawal

- 19
9852

The Spin Doctors: “ADHD” Research

- 26
2817

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

- 31
5123

The Double Standard at the Heart of Peer Services

- 32
3040

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

- 3
1586

Original Soteria House Members to Speak!

- 7
2491

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

- 6
2167

De-Weaponizing Empathy

- 20
5666

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

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Psychiatric Oppression Under Victoria’s Mental Health Laws

- 10
2026

What is Open Dialogue Today?

- 6
3347

How Academic Psychiatry Minimized SSRI Withdrawal

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5777

The Smoldering Wick: Suicide and Faith

- 16
1726

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

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9281

Four Children

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2589

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

- 54
4711

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

- 33
4107

How Little We Really Know About Psychiatric Drugs

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5505

The First Studies of Antidepressant Withdrawal

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7515

How Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy Changed My Life

- 30
4897

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

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5407

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

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3305

How Mindful Awareness Can Reduce Suffering

- 1
1102

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

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

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A Conversation with Nev Jones

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2876

VICE, MIA and The Movement Against Psychiatry

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Why Is the APA Proposing Sweeping Changes to Training Requirements?

- 14
5016

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

- 15
2375

The Mirror Repeats: The Art of Phoebe Sparrow Wagner

- 23
1975

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

- 11
2307

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

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2432

Hearing Voices: Let the Community Lead

- 9
1912

A Positive Change for Mad in America Continuing Education

- 2
822

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

- 38
2510

Can We Allow Suffering?

- 43
4014

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

- 27
1966

Dear “Psychology Today”: Believe Incest Survivors

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8557

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

- 67
4969

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

- 4
1799

SSRI Withdrawal’s Elephant in the Room: Tardive Akathisia

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12386

Do We All Need Tinfoil Hats? Considering Schizophrenia

- 12
3156

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

- 3
1817

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

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3430

Ecotherapy/Nature Therapy/Green Therapy

- 8
1616

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

- 53
6043

A Tale of Two Paradigms

- 31
3091

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

- 51
3267

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

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4677

Kicking Over a Straw Woman

- 50
3539

A Recovery Movement Jedi Master, Bill Anthony, Died Recently

- 10
2420

Drs. Pies and Ruffalo Still Rattling Their Wooden Swords

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2733

An American History of Addiction: Ardent Spirits

- 13
3533

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

- 71
2922

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

- 46
4862

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

- 47
4081

Is COVID-19 Making Everybody Crazy?

- 29
9751

Racism and Radical Psychiatry

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2543

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

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4069

Kerry O’Malley: A Personal Struggle Against Forced Medication

- 10
3700

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

- 36
2809

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

- 46
6195

Does Stranger Mean Danger?

- 15
1615

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

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16131

Black Suicidality and Mental Health #BlackLivesMatter

- 4
1770

End Police “Wellness Checks.” Now.

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18712

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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1815

Recovery: Stressing the Social Basis of the Process

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3612

Canadian Mental Health Legislation and the CRPD

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2878

Supporting Children and Parents to Withdraw from Psychiatric Medication

- 13
2282

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

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2076

Jinxed: The Persecution of Evan Durst Kreeger

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8548

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

- 19
4228

12 Essential Facts About Psychiatry

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Four Decades of Allying to Make Safe Spaces for All Voices: The Hearing Voices...

- 5
791

Should You Ever Ask Someone “Are You Suicidal?”

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6854

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

- 33
3199

Should We Diagnose Donald Trump?

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2222

Does Pharma Need the Entrepreneur?

- 17
1417

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

- 33
6455

What COVID-19 Has to Teach Us About Psychiatric Oppression

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3959

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

- 86
4867

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

- 29
5571

Loneliness Is Deadlier Than COVID

- 44
5412

Why Compassionate Activism?

- 7
2157

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

- 14
712

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

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2741

The President’s Fitness: Can Professionals Help Decide?

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2738

“Be Kind to Yourself… For Us!”

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982

Induction to Virus Psychosis

- 9
1034

Mental Health Is Our Common Wealth

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1142

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

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20846

The Launch of Mad in Sweden Culture Section

Recovery – From Personal Reform to Social Change

Injuries in the Children of Parents Living With Mental Illness

“Depression Among the Elderly Must be Prioritized”

Mad in America and Activism

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1958

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

- 1
794

Allen Frances: Still Spinning the Story

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4522

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

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2646

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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15569

Lockdown Reading to End DSM Psychiatry?

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5820

 Just Like Viruses, Emotions are Contagious

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1626

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

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1128

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

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3972

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

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2055

Exploring How Muslim Therapists Work With Jinn Possession

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6220

Blurring the Line Between “Us” and “Them”

- 29
1455

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

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3011

We Are All in This Together

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A Peek Inside the Modern Asylum

- 29
8869

Social Determinants of Health and the Continued Individualization of Suffering

- 20
3105

Supreme Court Decides Case on Insanity Defense

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1598

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

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46

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

- 0
39

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

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2682

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

- 37
3436

Joint Statement on COVID-19 and Persons with Psychosocial Disabilities

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4001

The Perils of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising

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1393

Mad in Brasil TV

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

- 11
1636

Psychiatry and the Stupidification of America

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5380

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

- 13
1165

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

- 29
3474

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

- 50
2369

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

- 7
2177

Please Stop Saying Depression Is Like Diabetes

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4435

How Radical Women Changed Psychiatry in the 1970s

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3499

6 Ways Trauma Might Inform Your Current Life

- 28
6046

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

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Psychiatry Needs a New Metaphor

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3028

The Most Dangerous Thing You Will Ever Do

- 76
20210

What Can We Learn From the Asylum?

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2489

Why Did I Stay?

Rethinking “Delusions”: Envisioning a Humanistic Approach to Troublesome Beliefs

- 24
3126

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

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2445

Working With the Four Dialogues: Using Chairwork in Clinical Practice

- 10
2692

Observations From an Open Circle

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1081

Our Movement Has a Cover-up Problem Too

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

- 29
1416

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

- 5
5856

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

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2522

Why Must People Pathologize Eating Problems?

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4307

Spiritual Emergency: Crisis or Transformation?

- 11
6146

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

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7799

The Review on Antidepressant Withdrawal That Cochrane Won’t Publish

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9631

A Kirist Response to Psychiatry

- 29
3523

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

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6425

Psychiatry, Capitalism, and the Recuperation of Psychedelics

- 31
5247

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

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Reimagining Healthcare

- 22
2565

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

- 11
4140

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

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5060

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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2846

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

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Making Peer Counseling Radically Accessible

- 33
3616

The Day I Became Schizophrenic

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5378

Power Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry

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4002

The Real Myth of the Schizophrenogenic Mother

- 53
11601

Remembering Bonnie Burstow

- 32
6580

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

- 24
3706

Surviving Psychiatry: A Typical Case of Serious Psychiatric Drug Harms

- 22
7724

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

- 67
5041

Overcoming the Madness in Us All

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8085

Cast Aside No One

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2084

The Invisibles: Children in Foster Care

- 16
3652

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

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Merry, Beautiful, Unique: YOU

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1160

Anatomy of a Suicide: Stress and the Human Condition

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42443

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

- 4
3578

The House of Cards with Informed Consent Standards

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1985

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

- 25
5243

Are Regulatory Bodies Prioritising Drug Company Interests Over Public Safety?

- 31
2260

Is Australia’s Psychiatric System Redeemable?

- 48
5075

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

- 45
3834

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

- 63
5229

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

- 15
1854

The Matrix: Disentangling Anti-Psychiatry

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8131

In Memory of Julie Greene

- 62
5605

A Tribute to Stephen Gilbert, Warrior Behind Enemy Lines

- 31
1717

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

- 21
3111

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

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3497

Seven Strategies to Avoid Retraumatization While Working with Psychosis

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2730

MIA at Eight Years: Are We Fulfilling Our Mission?

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Anthropologists Contemplate the Future Role of Psychiatry

- 19
3099

Hearing Voices Network Launches Family & Friends Support Group

- 4
3460

High Time for Anarchism in Mental Health

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5644

Deep Brain Stimulation and Deeply Biased Researchers, Revisited

- 19
2871

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

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1836

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

- 20
3024

The Revolt Against Psychiatry: A Book Review

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3589

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

- 21
2344

Holistic Approaches: A Proven Treatment for Psychotropic Drug Withdrawal

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12212

Responding to Workplace Mistreatment and Bullying

- 21
2124

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

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5259

Power Threat Meaning Framework and Tapering Strips in Brasil

In Defense of Healthy Pride

- 21
2472

Berlin Manifesto for Humane Psychiatry Released

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3327

There Is No Such Thing as a Side Effect

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4367

Building a Culture of Mental Well-Being

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5228

When Mad Voices Are Locked Out of Academia

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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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8495

Dog Assisted Psychotherapy Most Effective With Children

Deep Brain Stimulation and Depression

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3160

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

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3562

Fighting Unjustified Commitment in Wisconsin: Leslie’s Story

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3516

Countervailing Forces Against Ritalin Use in France

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2382

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

- 24
2063

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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15298

Trump and Cuomo: Red Flags Are Red Herrings

- 29
2540

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

- 56
39357

William James’s Letter to His Depressed Daughter

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6240

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

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4563

A ‘Blueprint’ for Genetic Determinism

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8316

How Healthcare Foundations Destroy Grassroots Advocates

- 11
1623

System Change Webinars: Promoting Radical Change

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Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal in Spain

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9245

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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4175

Collaborative Strategies for Re-Visioning the Public Mental Health System

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3259

In Defense of Anger

- 42
4258

No Graphic Detail: The Injustice of Being Silenced

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2905

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

- 20
2980

Brave New Apps: The Arrival of Surveillance Psychiatry

- 20
3131

Blaming the “Mentally Ill”: This is Hate Speech

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Antidepressants and the National Suicide Epidemic

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4488

How “Safe Messaging” Gaslights Suicidal People

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Helping People Come Off Medication—Bad for Business?

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2676

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

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Rock Bottom: When You Are in Your Darkest Moment

- 12
3219

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

- 10
3239

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

- 13
2592

We Lost a Giant Today: A Tribute to Janet Foner

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

- 31
1332

The Chemical Imbalance Theory: Dr. Pies Returns, Again

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

- 15
1827

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

- 9
3789

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

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2756

System Change Toward a Green Movement in Mental Health

- 12
1159

Equal Legal Capacity or ‘Supported Decision-Making’?

- 38
1647

On Cognitive Liberty: A Principle to Rally Behind

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Being-Towards-Suicide

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2413

Why Mad in Italy?

- 51
1889

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

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2459

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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2245

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

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3929

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

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5417

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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Anatomy of an Opioid Epidemic

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