#FreeBritney – A Discussion on Conservatorship and Psychiatric Power
From Inner Compass Initiative: Laura Delano, Attorney Jim Gottstein, and Professor David Cohen discuss the unchecked power the mental health system has to strip individuals of their basic rights, dignities, and liberties.
Unregistered Podcast: Robert Whitaker
From Unregistered Podcast: Thaddeus Russell speaks with journalist Robert Whitaker about the catastrophic mass deployment of psychoactive drugs by contemporary psychiatry.
‘Prescripticide’: Short Film by ISEPP
From ISEPP: The International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry looks at the devastating consequences of the unchallenged use of psychiatric drugs.
UN Warns of Rise of Psychological ‘Cybertorture’ to Bypass Physical Ban
From The Guardian: Psychological torture is being exploited by states to circumvent the more widely understood ban on physically inflicting pain, the UN torture rapporteur has said.
W.H.O. and U.N. Join Calls to Transcend the Medical Model
From Psychology Today: It will be harder for die-hard defenders of the medical model to dismiss such organizations as the UN and the WHO as extremist, anti-psychiatry radicals.
Britney Spears Speaks Out Against ‘Abusive’ Conservatorship: ‘I Want to Be Heard’
From CNN: The pop star says she was forced to perform, given no privacy, and made to use birth control, take medication and attend therapy against her will while the conservatorship has been in place over the last 13 years.
Seclusion, Restraint and Coercion: Abuse ‘Far Too Common’ in Mental Health Services Across the...
From The Telegraph: The WHO has called for 'considerable' changes in countries of all income levels, citing widespread use of forced admission and treatment; manual, physical and chemical restraint; physical, verbal, psychological and sexual abuse; and unsanitary living conditions.
Caught in a Trap: Psychiatric Sabotage by Liam Kirk
From Asylum Magazine: Liam Kirk explains what happened when he took part in the RADAR trial to try to come off anti-psychotic medication.
They Lost Their Loved Ones to Covid. Then They Heard From Them Again
From CNN: Research suggests at least 60 million Americans experience "after death communications," or ADCs, and that they occur across cultures, religious beliefs, ethnicities and income levels.
The New Opium of the People: Why Our Mental Health Sector Has Failed
From iai News: By sweeping the social causes of distress into the private corners of self, our mental health sector has helped stifle collective and community action.
Mikhaila Peterson Podcast: The Dangers of Psychiatric Medication
From Mikhaila Peterson: Mikhaila interviews Drs. Jim Wright and David Cohen on the reality behind psychiatric medications like the ones that nearly destroyed her and her father's lives.
The FDA Is Failing the American People
From MedPage Today: From this vantage, the FDA looks like an agency whose goal is to preserve pharmaceutical profits.
In Past Two Decades, Dramatic Rise in Elderly Taking Drugs That Can Lead to...
From The Washington Post: In 2017, an estimated 94 percent of older adults received a prescription for a drug that increased their risk of falling, up from 57 percent in 1999, and their rate of death caused by falls more than doubled during the same period.
Why Aren’t Patients Being Told Truth About Electric Shock Therapy?
From The Daily Mail: More than half of NHS hospital trusts contacted under a recent audit used ECT information leaflets with seven or more inaccurate statements about the controversial procedure.
‘Mental Health Film Comment’ Podcast: Miranda Spencer on ‘Framing Britney Spears’
From Mental Health Film Comment: MIA Staff Writer Miranda Spencer discusses Britney Spears' conservatorship and media portrayal of the star's emotional struggles.
Third Member of Prestigious FDA Panel Resigns Over Approval of Alzheimer’s Drug
From CNBC: The FDA approved the new drug from Biogen, priced at $56,000 per year, despite a near-unanimous "no" vote from a key advisory committee.
SAVE TRIESTE’S MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEM
From Change.org: The mental health system in Trieste, Italy, which for decades has been widely recognized as a model for good community care, is under threat of being dismantled by a new political faction.
In Memory of Sandra Escher, Pioneer on Voice-Hearing
Sandra Escher, who helped create a foundation for the Hearing Voices movement, recently passed away. She was the first researcher in the field of children who hear voices.
Autistic Young People in Britain Subjected to Lengthy State-Sanctioned Abuse
From i newspaper: What kind of society deems it acceptable to break citizens simply because they are autistic? And what kind of nation averts its gaze from grotesque mistreatment of a minority?
Global Psychiatry’s Crisis of Values: Dainius Pūras, MD
From Psychiatric Times: "If such a willingness to discount the feelings and testimonies [of patients] is widespread, I cannot help but think that psychiatry is really in a serious [moral] crisis."
The Wisdom of Trauma: Film Premiere June 8–14
From Science & Nonduality: Trauma is the invisible force that shapes our lives, and the root of our deepest wounds. Renowned physician Dr. Gabor Maté gives us a new vision of a trauma-informed society and points us to the path of individual and collective healing.
The Voice in Your Head: Reshaping Our Understanding of ‘Mental Illness’ – & Consciousness...
From The New Statesman: A movement of people who hear voices is reshaping our understanding of 'mental illness' – and consciousness itself.
From LA Jail, Two Inmates Pioneer Care for ‘Mentally Ill’ Peers
From The Christian Science Monitor: From the squalid conditions of the Los Angeles County jail has emerged a potential model for how to address 'mental illness' among incarcerated people. The secret? Care, on a daily basis.
FDA OKs New ‘Antipsychotic’ Drug Combo That ‘Limits the Pleasure of Food Intake’
From MedPage Today: A newly approved 'medication' for 'schizophrenia' and 'bipolar disorder' promises to reduce usual weight gain with olanzapine (Zyprexa) by making it less pleasant to eat food.
The Abusive Society: Why Abuse Seems to Reach Into Every Corner of Modern Life
From Medium: What Americans really need is to fix the cycles of abuse that have driven them to seek, and yet never find, safety in the unsafe world they have created.
