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Updates on critical psychiatry postings across the Internet.

Not My Words, Not My Story | Julia Buxton

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From Asylum Magazine: One of the first things that struck me when I entered mental health services was how little interest staff took in me describing my experiences or how I felt.

“You Won’t Believe the Outrageous Ways Big Pharma Has Bribed Doctors to Shill Drugs”

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For the Influence, Martha Rosenberg looks into all of the ways Big Pharma attempts to market its drugs to physicians.  “They used to wine...

“Antidepressants Make it Harder to Empathize, Harder to Climax, and Harder to Cry”

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Psychiatrist Julie Holland explains how antidepressants can medicate away important feelings and experiences in a video for Big Think. Video →

Madness Network News – Call for Writing and Art! Submissions Due Mar. 30

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Madness Network News is looking for writing and art submissions from psychiatric survivors, mad people, inmates and ex-inmates. 

“Prince Died Amid Frantic Plans for Drug Addiction Treatment”

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Prince was found dead one day before he was scheduled to meet with Dr. Howard Kornfeld, a national authority on opioid addiction treatment. Within...

“’Blind Spot’ for Civilian PTSD”

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Speaking to Medscape about PTSD, Jeffrey Lieberman likens our current treatments with SSRIs, tricyclics and therapy to "treating tuberculous by putting people in sanitariums or polio with iron lungs, or Alzheimer's disease with these cholinomimetic drugs.” "They are symptom-improving, but they're not disease-modifying,” he adds. “They're just not sufficient
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“Can Madness Save the World?”

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Writing for CounterPunch, Paris Williams writes that when an individual is experiencing what has been termed “psychosis,” it is important to recognize that this may also be the manifestation of a breakdown in their larger social groups, the family, society, and even the species.

Is It Delusional Paranoia or Heightened Awareness?

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From Medium/Rev. Sheri Heller, LCSW: If we are to glean anything from our persecutory fears, let it be that we glean the benefits of distrusting that which should not be trusted.

12 Ways to Help Kids Cope With School Anxiety

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In this piece for USA Today, Candy Grande offers 12 non-drug approaches for helping kids cope with school-related anxiety, such as having a discussion about...

Sunday Reading: A Critical Psychiatry Book List

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-The Future of Mental Health Movement has started a list of the 100 best books, and is requesting suggestions for others to add.

‘Mental Health’, Extreme States and Shamans

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From holisticelephants: The extreme ‘symptoms’ in our modern age are trying to tell us about problems we need to solve as a community before society blows up like a volcano.

America Has Reached Peak Therapy. Why Is Our Mental Health Getting Worse?

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From TIME: The issue isn’t only that demand is outpacing supply; it’s that the supply was never very good to begin with, leaning on therapies and medications that only skim the surface of a vast ocean of need.

“Bipolar Writer Comments on Debate Over ‘Crisis in Psychiatry'”

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John Horgan, who announced that The NIMH's move away from the DSM was "a move sure to rock psychiatry, psychology and other fields that...

Top ‘ADHD Experts’ All Take Drug Company Money

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From ADHD is BS: All of the world's ten most influential 'ADHD experts' take funds from multiple ADHD drug manufacturers. Topping the list is American psychologist Prof Stephen V. Faraone who has commercial ties to 21 ADHD drug companies.

Why Are So Many Adults Today Haunted by Trauma?

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From Greater Good Magazine: According to Dr. Gabor Mate, capitalism plays an important role in childhood trauma. Because our political and social systems do not support...

How Our Ancestors’ Trauma May Influence Who We Are

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In this blog post, Dale M. Kushner explains how the field of epigenetics can illustrate the role of ancestral and transgenerational trauma in shaping our...

Services Needed for People Withdrawing From Antidepressants

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From Psychology Today/John Read, PhD: A new study documents the dissatisfaction of 1,200 patients with their doctor's knowledge and expertise regarding antidepressant withdrawal.

Can Psychiatrist and Psychologist Court Experts Be Trusted on Memory Science, Round Two

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The British Psychological Society Research Digest weighs in on a study previously reported in Mad in America, showing that psychologist and psychiatrist expert court...

Moving From Crisis Response to Crisis Prevention in U.S. Mental Health Systems

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From STAT: In Chicago, community organizers are lobbying for the 'Treatment not Trauma' approach, which is neither a psychiatric nor police model but a public health model of community wellness.

Why Do So Many Men Die by Suicide?

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From Slate: "In a survey my organization, Promundo, carried out with support from Axe, of 1,500 young men aged 18–30, we found that nearly 1 in 5...

Trans-Generational Dynamics and Mental Illness: A Family Constellation

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Family constellations are a fascinating, cutting-edge tool for exploring issues within families, groups, and individuals and can lead to a high degree of healing in a short amount of time.

“FDA Issues New Draft Guidelines For ‘Appearance’ of Conflicts of Interest”

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For STAT news, Pharmalot correspondent Ed Silverman reports on a new guideline being drafted by the FDA that adds new rules that could restrict...

Psychiatrist Who Revolutionized Family Therapy Dies at 96

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From The Washington Post: Salvador Minuchin, the psychiatrist who played an instrumental role in pioneering family therapy, died on October 30th at age 96. Minuchin was...

Is Disorder Healthy? Rethinking the Language of ‘Mental Illness’

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From Child in Mind: Tronick’s research, founded in dynamic systems theory, shows us how disorder followed by re-order is in fact the process by which we gain energy and grow.

‘Warmlines’ Helping to Fill a Gap in Mental Health Care

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From the San Francisco Chronicle: Unlike a hotline for those in immediate crisis, warmlines provide early intervention with emotional support that can prevent a crisis — and a more costly 911 call or emergency-room visit.