Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 11: Dementia
"You should not talk to your doctor about dementia drugs because your doctor is likely to mislead and harm you. These drugs should not be used by anyone to prevent or treat dementia."
Popular Obesity Drugs Monitored for Suicidal Thinking
Concerns rise about the adverse effects and longer-term harms of GLP-1 injections like Ozempic and Wegovy.
What Causes Emptiness? | Jonice Webb, PhD
From Dr. Jonice Webb/Running on Empty: Many people who experience emptiness don’t even know they have it, much less what it is. They just know they feel "off"; like something just isn’t right with them.
How a Dialogue With the Humanities Can Enrich Psychological Science
From Psychology Today: If psychology is going to help those suffering from the symptoms of our cultural and spiritual malaise, it must reinvigorate the very resources our culture is ready to abandon.
Book Review of Crash: A Memoir of Overmedication and Recovery by Ann Bracken
A powerful, heartbreaking wake-up call about how the severely damaging effects of medications that claim to relieve suffering can threaten generations in a family.
America Has Reached Peak Therapy. Why Is Our Mental Health Getting Worse?
From TIME: The issue isn’t only that demand is outpacing supply; it’s that the supply was never very good to begin with, leaning on therapies and medications that only skim the surface of a vast ocean of need.
The Radical Politics of Madness: An Interview with Micha Frazer-Carroll
MIA's Justin Karter interviews Micha Frazer-Carroll about her new book, "Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health."
“The Best Minds”: How the Dazzling New Book Falls Short
"The Best Minds" could be seen as a book that is critical of conventional psychiatry, but it falls short on pointing out its true faults.
Reassessing Self-Sabotage | Terry Baranski
From CPTSD Foundation: With any kind of repetitive, maladaptive behavior, it’s critical to get to the root cause – rather than offering a surface-level description – if treatment is to succeed.
Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 10: Anxiety Disorders
Peter Gøtzsche discusses psychotherapy versus drugs as the preferred treatment for anxiety, panic attacks, and OCD.
Psychiatric Journals’ Pro-Pharma Publication Bias Hides Suicide Risk of Antidepressants
Selective publication bias in top psychiatry journals was not explained by the quality of the studies, but by financial ties to pharma.
Psychiatry’s Control-Freak Medical Model Versus Healing and Healers
Following psychiatry’s repeated failures, a sane society would not give it increased status and power. However, our insane society uncritically accepts, celebrates, and worships anything promoted as technologies of control.
‘The Myth of Normal’: Workaholism, Unresolved Trauma Causing Declining Societal Health
From CBC: "What is considered to be normal in our society in many cases is unhealthy and unnatural for [optimal] human development," says Canadian physician Gabor Maté, who is coauthor with his son Daniel of a new book on "Healing in a Toxic Culture."
States Look to Involuntarily ‘Hospitalize’ People to Confront Growing Mental Health Crisis
From PBS News Hour: California is taking steps to compel more 'mentally ill' people into 'care,' a practice experts and those with lived experience often say is "traumatic" and like a "hit-and-run."
Good Damage: How Community-Led Healing Challenges the Campus Mental Health System
Being re-grounded in my community reminds me that mourning and love are inseparable, and that “nothing about us, is for us, without us.”
Senior Psychiatrist Harmed by Antidepressants | An Interview With Peter Gordon
From Witt-Doerring Psychiatry: "It’s been absolute hell trying to get off this medication that I was told I wouldn’t find dependence-forming," says Scottish psychiatrist Dr. Peter Gordon.
The Media’s False Narrative About Depression Pills, Suicides, and Saving Lives
When the media tell of a serious harm of a psychiatric drug, they follow a standard script, including that they must also praise the drug.
Paying Attention to ADHD Prescriptions in Your Community
A national study showed that ADHD drug abuse among U.S. high and middle school students has been rising for the past 20 years.
Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 9: ADHD (Part Three)
ADHD is a disaster area, in terms of the diagnosis, clinical research, and the harms inflicted on hundreds of millions of healthy people.
Parental Rescue Fantasy: Exploration of the Psychological Concept
From Daniel Mackler: People who were failed in important ways as children often grow up with the hope of finding someone who will finally meet all their unmet childhood needs.
Busting the Deinstitutionalization Myth: We Actually Have More Beds Than Ever Before
New data upends common beliefs about asylum closures, deinstitutionalization, and rates of psychiatric coercion.
An Expert View on PSSD: ‘I Have a Hunch As to What Might Be...
From Independent.ie: “I suspect that the peripheral nerve endings in the skin are no longer functioning as they should,” said Dr. David Healy.
FDA Approves Antipsychotic That Provides No Meaningful Benefit But Increases Risk of Death
From the BMJ: Robert Whitaker writes on the FDA's approval of brexpiprazole for agitation in Alzheimer's patients. In clinical trials, the drug provided no...
Reducing Neuroleptic Medication Paid Participatory Research Workshop in London
Survivor Researcher Network is looking for 10-14 people with experience attempting to reduce or withdraw from neuroleptics to take part in a paid one-day workshop in Central London in September.
Healing From Psychiatric Drug Harm, Part 1: First Steps
I needed to teach my nervous system, via different types of neuromuscular reeducation, that it was safe to move again. Before I could walk, I had to crawl, literally.
