Antidepressant Withdrawal Is Common and Debilitating
Those using antidepressants long-term were more likely to experience withdrawal and to have severe withdrawal symptoms.
The Roots of Emotional Illness: Emotional Conditioning
Psychodynamic psychotherapy gets at the root cause of the emotional distress—a person’s emotional conditioning in childhood.
Two Decades of PSSD: A Life Stolen by Antidepressants
Our two-year-long collaborative research project suggests that neuroimmune processes and related downstream mechanisms may play a role in PSSD.
More Evidence That Antidepressants Work Via Placebo Effect
Antidepressants were more effective for depressed patients who were more “optimistic.” Still, only 30% responded to SSRIs.
Kermit Cole: Dialogical Therapy and Quantum Theory Walk Into a Bar…
On the podcast this week we are joined by Kermit Cole who shares his thoughts on how humor can help in creating a shared experience that is helpful to the healing process. Kermit, in his experiences of being with people in psychotic states, has seen humor as a moment when a connection can be made. In many ways, this project is bringing Kermit back full circle to his work as a film director, early in his professional career.
It’s Time for Psychologists to Become Activists
From The British Psychological Society: "As a forensic psychologist, I left the NHS when I realised I was complicit in a system that silenced...
Szasz and The Manufacture of Madness Today
From Meer: "In 1970, Thomas Szasz, professor of psychiatry emeritus at State University of New York, published his seminal work, The Manufacture of Madness....
Are Psychiatrists More Mad Than Their Patients?
Misconceptions among psychiatric leaders are at variance with the scientific evidence. They suffer from a serious, collective delusion.
Criticisms That Establishment Psychiatry Can and Cannot Tolerate
Criticism that uniquely applies to establishment psychiatry but not to medicine in general threatens its existential legitimacy, and is not tolerated.
New York Makes it Easier to Commit People With Severe Mental Illnesses
From Politico: "ALBANY, New York — Gov. Kathy Hochul shored up her public safety agenda this week when state lawmakers agreed to loosen the...
And You Thought They Were Side Effects: How Psychiatry Turned Chemical Disruption Into Medical...
There’s no cure beneath the disruption, just a chemical hit that alters perception or behavior.
Chemically Imbalanced: Joanna Moncrieff on the Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth
Joanna Moncrieff joins Robert Whitaker to talk about her latest book, titled Chemically Imbalanced: The Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth. They discuss the serotonin story and the fact that there is no good evidence that a serotonergic deficiency is a primary cause of depression.
The Quiet Crisis in Mental Health: The Medicalization and Deskilling of Psychotherapy
The focus on the "worried well" and the exclusion of the "mad" serves to legitimize psychiatric control and surveillance.
Bristol Myers Squibb Schizophrenia Drug Fails Pivotal Test as an Add-On to Antipsychotics
From Med City News. "A Bristol Myers Squibb drug whose landmark FDA approval introduced the first novel mechanism for treating schizophrenia in decades has...
Jo Watson Interviews Cathy Wield, Author of “Unshackled Mind”
It’s never too late to seek another explanation for the problems you’re facing, to change your mind and get your life back.
Half of Those Who Take Antidepressants Are Labeled “Treatment Resistant”
Millions of people are trying multiple antidepressant drugs without success, and psychiatry labels them “treatment resistant.”
The United States is Witnessing the Return of Psychiatric Imprisonment
From The Guardian. “Across the country, a troubling trend is accelerating: the return of institutionalization – rebranded, repackaged and framed as “modern mental health...
The Garden of the Mind: Fictions Weeded Out by Psychiatry
Delusions are more than fleeting mental turmoil; they reveal the unconscious mind’s storytelling power.
America’s Unhealthy Relationship with Antidepressants
Exhaustive research topples the conceptual house of cards in which the antidepressant hegemony resides.
Interview with German activist Peter Lehmann: “I Lost My Fear and Gained Everything.”
Peter Lehmann is a central figure in the struggle for emancipation and dignity of people with lived experience of psychiatric treatment.
The Daily Mail Reviews Unshrunk
From the Daily Mail in the UK: Katinka Blackford Newman interviews Laura Delano about her memoir Unshrunk. "My life nearly fell apart because I...
The Moral World of Personality Disorder Assessment
Professionals in the field must recognize psychiatry's connection to social norms rather than portraying it as a neutral branch of medicine.
The Failure of “Spit For Science”: No Genetic or Neurological Pathways for Substance Abuse
Despite finding no meaningful correlation between genes and substance use, high-profile geneticists misleadingly conveyed optimistic results.
A Call for Comfort Brought the Police Instead. Now the Solution Is in Danger
From KFF Health News: "Overcome by worries, Lynette Isbell dialed a mental health hotline in April 2022. She wanted to talk to someone about...
Dreaming with Purpose: How the Mind’s Hidden GPS Can Guide Us Toward Personal and...
By honouring dreams, we honour our innate creativity, our shared humanity, our capacity to reimagine reality.
