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The Fallacy of Modern Psychiatry: Treating Symptoms, Ignoring Causes

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To truly understand a personā€™s actions and behaviors, one must ask:Ā What was this person exposed to? What did they experience?
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Mental Illness Prophesies Societyā€™s Spiritual Sickness

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The rising prevalence of mental illness in the west is a warning to society to take a good, hard look at itself.
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Set, Setting, Forgetting: Silence on Abuse in Psychedelic Therapy Histories

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The failure to address therapist abuse in MDMA-AT perpetuates a dangerous silence that distorts the field's history and compromises future practice.
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Exile: My Cure for Psychosis

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Psychiatry infantilizes the patient.Ā Living in exile allows formerly psychotic people to achieve mature, healthy independence.Ā 

Rights, Responsibilities and Resourcesā€“Peer Support in Mental Health Services

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Service users and peer support experts should be taking inspiration from the Recovery movement and the defense of rights.
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The Schizophrenic and the Dreamer

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If delusions contain symbolic content, like dreams, then the language of the schizophrenic may be intelligible after all.

Mad Sisters: An Interview With Susan Grundy

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Susan Grundy on her lifelong caregiving journey for an older sister diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of 13.
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What Are Waking Dreams, and Why Should You Care?

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Indigenous culturesĀ around the worldĀ recognize and intentionally cultivate waking dreams for both personal and communityĀ well-being.

Benzodiazepines Linked to Suicide, Study Finds

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A new study finds that benzodiazepinesā€”alprazolam (Xanax), lorazepam (Ativan), and diazepam (Valium)ā€”are associated with an increased risk of suicidal events.

The Consciousness of Voices and Visions

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Alan Robinson reviews a 30-year journey working with his voices and visions in directing actors and creative writing.
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The Two Earliest Stories of Recovery in Oregon

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In the early 19th century, frontiersmen Pelton and Day experienced recovery from "mental illness" after traumatic experiences.
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Seriously Misleading Testimony by Psychiatry Professor in Oslo District Court About the Effect of...

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Lawsuits are a means to obtain changes in an inhumane psychiatry.
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Smoke ‘Em if You Got ‘Em: Rethinking Smoking as a Trauma Response

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For people with trauma-impacted brains, smoking is a tool to quiet an ever-present storm.

Psych Drugs May Increase Likelihood of Death in Schizophrenia

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The drugs, especially benzos and high doses of antipsychotics, led to an increased risk of death within five years. Antidepressants also did not reduce mortality.
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Beyond the Chemical Imbalance: Looking to the Past to Understand the Mental Health Crisis

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Our bodies and minds evolved to thrive in an environment that is vastly different from the one in which a majority of us now live.

Ward 362: On Meeting People in Sorrow

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There is no understanding that we have the need for comfort and support. Our feelings are not allowed; they are reduced to medical symptoms.
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A Bicultural Māori/European Vision for a Truly Healing Hospital

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Our therapies need to treat the root causes of mental distressā€”especially trauma and environmentā€”and not just numb the pain.
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The Trauma Craze: How the Expansion of Trauma Diagnoses Fueled Victimhood Culture

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Exploring the paradox of increasing trauma diagnoses in a safer world and the proliferation of trauma culture.
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Irrational Polypharmacy: How Integrated Mental Health Treatment Can Help

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Drug-first treatment overlooks the underlying circumstances that contributed to the development of mental health issues in the first place.
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Is Virtual Psychotherapy of Lesser Quality Than In-Person?

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Are therapists contributing to the depersonalization and loneliness that has hollowed out social life in our culture in general?

Is There Transformative Meaning in Madness?

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How do some people find and harness transformative meaning in their experiences conceptualised as psychosis by clinical psychiatry?

Service Users Report Psychiatric Professionals as the Least Helpful Factor in Quitting Antipsychotics

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A new study published in Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice finds that psychiatrists and other doctors are the most unhelpful factor for...

The Anatomy of Anxiety: An Interview With Ellen Vora

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Dr. Ellen Vora, author of 'The Anatomy of Anxiety', joins us to discuss trauma, grief, functional medicine and more.
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I Accuse Psychiatry of Murder

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My beloved friend Geoffrey could have contributed so much to the world if psychiatrists had not murdered him.
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How I Developed a Critical Perspective on Psychiatry

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I saw many people admitted to psychiatric wards having suffered a recent or past trauma, only to leave with prescriptions for multiple drugs.