A Case for Parallel Mental Health Care
Can people turn against the psychiatric priesthood and find the answers within themselves and their own communities?
Greater Role for Experts by Experience in the Dialogue on Euthanasia in Cases of...
A letter from those experts by experience.
New Guidelines on How to Accurately Convey ADHD Information
The guidelines explain what research on ADHD has found, strengths and limitations, and more accurate ways to express what it means.
Investigators Who Blew the Whistle On STAR*D Fraud Call for Retraction of Five AJP...
A letter that Ed Pigott and Jay Amsterdam sent to Ned Kalin, editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Psychiatry.
ADHD and “Weak Muscle Disorder”
"ADHD" doesn’t explain inattentiveness, just like "weak muscle disorder" doesn’t explain muscle weakness, just describes something improvable.
Risks of Prescribing Psychiatric Drugs to Veterans
I wrote this article because of continued inaction to inform veterans and all Americans of the risk profiles of the drugs they’re prescribed.
Gigantic Hoax on Danish National TV: “Patients with an ADHD Diagnosis Die Five Years...
Danish TV issues a correction after learning that this purported study doesn't exist.
Preventing Suicide Among Older Adults
In an ideal world, the goal would be to have interconnected, trauma-informed, “helping” communities to prevent suicide in older adults.
SAFE: Survivors And Families Empowered—An Update
We hope to combat the increasing reliance on force, too often used with the justification “for your own good.”
What Helped and What Hindered My Recovery from PSSD and Protracted Withdrawal from Antidepressants?
To recover from protracted withdrawal, I did everything I could to survive the process and help my body and mind heal.
Is Mental Health a Choice—and Can Understanding Help Us Heal?
There’s a pattern and a purpose to what the mind does. You can’t change it, you have to understand it.
Right-Wing or Left-Wing: Who Really Owns the Critique of Over-Medicalisation?
Left-wing critique has always challenged powerful vested interests that prefer not to be disturbed.
Researchers Accuse Lancet Article and British Psychiatrists of Minimising Antidepressants’ Withdrawal Effects
A response to a seriously flawed review.
Assessing Community Mental Health Programs in India: Insights from Task-Shifting in Kerala
The MISA news team provides insight into community mental health initiatives in India.
How to Be a Happy, Successful Incurable Schizophrenic
If you are a young schizophrenic, I encourage you to accept the challenge of leading a happy, productive, meaningful life.
The Long-Disputed Science of Twin Studies
Twin studies and heritability estimates are used in support of biological determinism and in defense of the global inequality status quo.
STAR*D: The Harms of Orchestrated Psychiatric Fraud
STAR*D’s results are too bitter a pill for psychiatric leaders to swallow, so they have chosen to become a rogue medical specialty.
Human Suffering as Numbers and Graphs: The Problem with Measuring Outcomes in Therapy
Outcome monitoring is a product of bureaucratic healthcare: Human suffering reduced to efficiency optimization.
Elder Eyes Wide Shut
There is no universal moral code: Elder law and the injustice and inhumane practice of legal guardianship are a calculated effort by the court, the attorneys, and the healthcare system.
Do Depression Pills Improve Quality of Life?
In the upside-down world of psychiatry, the pills that destroy your sex life are called happy pills. I call them unhappy pills or anti-sex pills.
What I’ve Learned about Tapering Psychiatric Drugs—A Holistic Therapist’s Perspective
Liberation from pharmaceuticals is possible, but it is not an easy journey. I advocate for informed consent.
The Iatrogenic Gaze: How We Forgot That Psychiatry Could Be Harmful
The victims of psychiatric iatrogenesis believed they were taking a vitamin, only to later realize it was poison.
Working to Transmute the Pain: Why I Do the Work I Do
I sought help and followed the prescribed path. About twenty years later, I began to question, "What is happening? Why am I still stuck?"
Modern Psychiatry and the Human Soul and Spirit: Is Our Freedom at Stake?
The medications are there to disconnect us from our divine, creative Self, but the human being is remarkable and incredibly resilient.
A Polyvagal Understanding of Being Human
At the core of trauma is the alienation from ourselves, our bodies and our emotions caused by our modern lifestyle.