A Tribute to Peter Campbell, 1949-2022
Peter Campbell, one of the pioneers of the mental health user and survivor movement in the UK, is remembered in a blog post by the activist collective Recovery in the Bin.
Federal Physician Malpractice Database May Not Work as Intended
From Cairn's/Modern Healthcare: The National Practitioner Data Bank provides a flawed system to prevent doctors with histories of malpractice from skirting accountability, experts say.
Do You Still Believe in the “Chemical Imbalance Theory of Mental Illness”? | Bruce...
From CounterPunch: If you took SSRI antidepressants believing that these drugs helped correct a chemical imbalance, how does it feel to learn that this theory has long been disproven?
The Roots of Pathology: Authoritarianism Towards Babies | Darcia Narvaez
From Kindred Media: When traumatized early and subjected to existential fear, a child loses their center of gravity, surrenders spontaneity and begins to function as an automaton.
Undisclosed Industry Payments Rampant in Drug-Trial Papers
From Nature: At least a quarter of medical researchers involved in clinical trials in Australia did not declare funding from pharmaceutical companies, according to a recent study.
On the Right of People on Disability to Refuse Psychotropic Medications
The People With Disabilities Foundation won a judgment against SSA for illegally using a plaintiff’s right to refuse psychotropic medications as evidence she was "not disabled."
How Melissa Lucio Went From Abuse Survivor to Death Row
From The 19th: Some trauma victims are more likely to take responsibility for crimes even when they may be innocent.
That Time When the Psychiatric System Went Too Far… | Joanne Cacciatore
From Dr. Joanne Cacciatore: A few very persistent scholars have finally succeeding in declaring that extended expressions of grief indicate 'mental illness' — a move that offends many.
Dhru Purohit Podcast: Does Long-Term Use of Psychiatric Drugs Do More Harm Than Good?
From Dr. Hyman/The Dhru Purohit Podcast: We’ve all heard the term "chemical imbalance," but this theory is being increasingly questioned. Dhru Purohit and Robert Whitaker dig into the questions surrounding psychiatric drugs and psychiatry's "disease model."
An Open Letter to the Member Organizations of the Mental Health Professions
From the Coalition Against Medicalized Psychiatry and Psychology (CAMPP): By defending the medical model of human distress, the mental health professions have put themselves in an ethically untenable position that is not worthy of trust or respect.
Marci Webber Files Lawsuit Against Mental Facility Staff for Abuse and Medical Mistreatment
Ms. Webber says the long list of abuses and interference in her medical treatment plan demonstrate "a pattern or practice of mistreatment" of herself and other patients at the Illinois facilities where she has been confined.
Taking It Personally: Indignation as a Vehicle of Therapy | Alice Miller
From Alice Miller: Child Abuse and Mistreatment: The open display of indignation on the part of the therapist as witness ultimately sets off a process of liberation that has previously been impeded by society's injunction against blaming one's parents.
A Future with No Future: Depression, the Left, and the Politics of Mental Health
From LA Review of Books: Capitalism inflicts a double injury on depressed people: first, it causes, or contributes to, the state of depression, and secondly it erases any form of causality and individualizes the illness, implying that the depression in question is a personal problem (or property).
Pandemic Prescribing of Antidepressants
From Psychology Today: A huge global increase in SSRI use, especially over the last two years, raises concerns about safety and their environmental impact.
Calif. Man Seeks to Overturn Conviction, Alleging Adverse SSRI Reaction
Benjamin Bathen was convicted in 2018 of making criminal threats to his former therapist, but he says his behavior was caused by the medication she had urged him to take.
“The Truth About Marci Webber” Blog
A Facebook page has been set up to tell of what it is like in the Illinois mental hospital where Marci Webber is being held after staff fought her conditional release because she refuses to take any more psych drugs.
‘I Felt Disillusioned and Abandoned’: Mental Health in the Medical Field
From The Seattle Times: America has shown its weak hand in caring for the general public, and also for the workers who have devoted their time, energy and lives to keeping our society healthy.
‘My Name Is Chellis and I’m in Recovery From Western Civilization’
From What Is Sustainable and Spirituality & Practice: Therapist and activist Chellis Glendinning's 1994 book describes the link between the rampant psychological dysfunction in our society and the ecological crisis in our world.
Protesters Pretend to Be ‘Drowning Mice’ to Call Attention to Animal Abuse in Antidepressant...
From news.com.au: Also known as the “despair” test, the "forced swim" test is commonly used in pharmaceutical research to measure the supposed effectiveness of antidepressant medications.
Inquiry Investigates Deaths of 1,500 NHS Mental Health Patients in Essex
From The Guardian: The children and adults died in "unexpected, unexplained or self-inflicted" circumstances and after "unacceptable examples of dispassionate behaviours" by staff from 2000 to 2020.
Deaths of Despair: Why America’s Medical Industry Explains Working-Class Suicides
From The Guardian: The US healthcare system is helping to kill people in staggering numbers and is bleeding the rest of the country of its resources.
Hannah Arendt On Standing Up to the Banality of Evil
From Philosophy Break: Do we ever take the time to truly challenge the principles we’ve inherited, to ensure they stand up to our own individual scrutiny?
Is “Cry-It-Out” the Tip of a Dangerous Parenting Iceberg?
From Raised Good: Babies who learn early in life that their needs don’t matter are predisposed to experiencing a myriad of negative mental and emotional outcomes.
We Have Overwhelmingly Lost Touch With the Human Aspect of Medicine
From KevinMD: We are nurturing an environment of emotional phobia, where people can no longer identify and frankly fear their own emotions and the emotions of others.
Breaking Off My Chemical Romance: Reassessing Antidepressants
From The Nation: Some medical professionals are concluding what until recently felt too heretical to say out loud: Antidepressants may often cause more harm than good.
