Are ‘Mental Disorders’ Diseases, or Strategies?
From Psychology Today/Justin Garson PhD: Calluses are designed responses to friction. Fevers are designed responses to infection. Are delusions a designed response to a painful reality?
Peer Values Versus Violence: A View from Lived Experience
Some of us have survived violent, coercive forms of socially condoned mental health treatments. But many of us grow past the pain, into healing and compassion.
Psychiatric Drugs Do Not Improve Disease or Reduce Mortality
Nassir Ghaemi: “Most psychiatric medications are purely symptomatic, with no known or proven effect on the underlying disease. They are like 50 variations of aspirin, used for fever or headache, rather than drugs that treat the causes of fever or headache.”
What Is Hatred? | Alice Miller
From Alice Miller: Child Abuse and Mistreatment: We tend to associate "hatred" with the notion of a dangerous curse we need to free ourselves of as quickly as we can. I take a very different view of this matter.
Cargo Cult Psychiatry
Cargo Cult Psychiatry uses the courts to force people, who are otherwise assumed to have the right to refuse treatment, to submit to their pseudoscientific approach to "mental health."
Pathological: The True Story of Six Misdiagnoses
From Psychology Today/Christopher Lane PhD: Sarah Fay's new memoir draws heavily from the DSM and its various editions to challenge their reliability and validity and asks clinicians to pause before assigning powerful diagnostic codes.
Philosophy Can Help Us Connect, Even in the Face of Psychosis
From Psyche: Philosophical concepts can help us to examine what can go wrong in our communicative exchanges and to re-examine our priorities in mental health.
Call Centers Struggling to Hire for New Nationwide Mental Health Crisis Line
From Slate: As 988 creeps closer to launching without sufficient staffing, experts worry that workers for the new crisis line could face the same challenges as their cousins at 911.
Jock McLaren – The Biopsychosocial Model is a Mirage, Time for a Biocognitive Model?
Dr. Niall McLaren joins us to talk of his experiences working in Australian psychiatry and explains why the models that purport to guide psychiatric diagnosis and treatment are not what they seem.
The Power of Activism
Getting support from other psychiatrized people, outside of the system, has the potential to be mutual. You are not being “treated” or talked down to. The contact is genuine and natural.
Antidepressant-Induced Serotonin Syndrome a Danger for the Elderly
Researchers found that 25% of elderly patients taking antidepressants had serotonin syndrome, which is potentially life-threatening.
How Drugmakers Influence Our Beliefs About ‘Mental Illness’
From Medium/Markham Heid: "Greater awareness” campaigns can often be little more than pharmaceutical marketing tactics that turn normal human feelings into illnesses.
Open Season on Mental Patients
No one is safe from psychiatry’s project of medicalizing every variation of human emotion and behaviour, especially people viewed with suspicion and contempt by the powerful.
Scientism and the Health Crisis in the Modern World
From Pathways to Family Wellness: Science has been waging war against subjective experience for a very long time, and this has taken its toll on Western culture.
Ecological Trauma and Common Addiction
From Rex Weyler: Breaking the cycle of abuse, trauma, and addiction requires a radically new relationship with society and with the more-than-human world.
Behaviorists Must Confront Psychiatry’s Pseudoscience
Despite the well-documented greater effectiveness of behavior therapy, psychiatry's choice of treatment for mental disorder heavily favors drugs.
Psychiatrists Thought This ‘Antipsychotic’ Was a Miracle Drug. They Were Wrong.
From Slate: There have been no great medical solutions, not for psychosis, not for our more common conditions like depression and anxiety.
Inmate Shuffle: How California Bounces Around Its ‘Mentally Ill’ Prisoners
From CalMatters: One in three California prisoners has 'a diagnosed mental illness.' For many of them, prison is not a place to heal. It is a place to disappear.
Tara Thiagarajan: Mental Well-being Better in Venezuela than in United States: Why?
Tara Thiagarajan is founder and chief scientist of Sapien Labs, a nonprofit organization that runs the Mental Health Million Project, we discuss its annual Mental State of the World Report, which uses an online survey to track mental wellbeing among internet-enabled populations around the world.
Illness as Mutiny of the Soul | Charles Eisenstein
From Charles Eisenstein: What if there is something so fundamentally wrong with the world, the lives, and the way of being offered us, that withdrawal is the only sane response?
Psychiatry’s Medical Model: How It Traumatizes, Retraumatizes & Perverts Healing
The beginning of healing from trauma requires stripping power away from disconnecting violators like psychiatry's medical model.
Industry Corruption in Systematic Review for Injectable Antipsychotics
Researchers highlight how systematic reviews are compromised by pharmaceutical industry ties by exposing a study of injectable antipsychotics.
To Prevent Mass Shootings, Stop Relying on the Myth of Motive; Start Doing Forensic...
From PACEs Connection: The right question is: What happened to this person? What happened to a beautiful baby boy to turn him into an 18-year-old killer spouting racist screed?
Stimulants Don’t Improve Academic Performance in Kids with ADHD
“Efforts to improve learning in children with ADHD should focus on obtaining effective academic instruction rather than stimulant medication.”
Simplifying Childhood May Protect Against Mental Health Issues
From Raised Good: Suffering with a "cumulative stress reaction" as a result of the snowballing effect of "too much," children develop their own coping strategies to feel safe.
