Making Therapy Harder: When Corporate Forces Interfere with Therapy
From PsiAN (Psychotherapy Action Network): The psychotherapy profession must take a firm stand against interference with therapy wherever possible, whether from agency expectations, insurance companies, or certain legal & governmental policies.
Why Do People Self-Harm, and How Can We Stop It?
The psychiatric treatments I underwent did nothing to help me come to terms with my troubled past. Self-harm did not serve me well either. We must re-learn what to expect from ourselves.
The ENIGMA-MDD Project: Searching for the Neuropathology of “Major Depressive Disorder”
There's an old saying in research: "garbage in; garbage out". Research based on invalid concepts or false assumptions will produce invalid conclusions.
Traumatic Narcissism: Relational Systems of Subjugation
From NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) Training Institute: Therapist and author Daniel Shaw explores controlling relationshipsâfrom cults to couples to families, to other situations involving authority and power, like the therapy relationship.
Fifty-Eight Years Beyond the Community Mental Health Act, 1963
Do not focus on "getting more beds" or "providing better treatment." Focus on homes with windows and giant gardens where survivors can be coached to rebel and dance with wild abandon.
Mad in Canada
Mad in Canada aims to bridge the âknowledge gapâ between practice and science, pushing patient care further up the list of priorities.
Antipsychotics Worsen Cognitive Functioning in First-Episode Psychosis
Withholding antipsychotics may be beneficial for memory, the researchers write.
Before the Fall: Evidence for a Golden Age, the ‘Ego Explosion’ & the Injured...
From Waking Times/Steve Taylor: Spirituality and Psychology: Rather than a progression, the last 6,000 years of war, oppression, misery and hardship are the result of a painful degeneration from an earlier, healthier state.
Bodily Autonomy: Busting 7 Myths That Undermine Individual Rights & Freedoms
From United Nations Population Fund: The 2021 State of World Population report, titled My Body is My Own, marks the first time a United Nations report focuses on the power and agency of individuals to make choices about their bodies without fear, violence or coercion.
Desperate Remedies
History shows us that the mentally ill are extraordinarily vulnerable to therapeutic experimentation, some particularly brutal and extreme, which continues to the present day.
ADHD Drugs Are Convenient to Get Online. Maybe Too Convenient
From Bloomberg Businessweek: Backed by SoftBank and promoted by Simone Biles, Cerebral has built the fastest-growing online mental health business. Former employees say the rapid expansion comes at the expense of patient care.
The Essential Role of an Enlightened Witness in Society | Alice Miller
From alice-miller.com: Formerly abused children will not need to avenge themselves violently for their wounds, or to poison their systems with drugs, if they are helped by empathetic others to grasp the naked truth of their own tragedy.
The Looting of “Outsider Art” by Psychiatry Continues Today
The German museum of the Prinzhorn Collection, which opened in 2001, exhibits the stolen art of those considered by the Nazis to be "degenerates."
The Social Unconscious and Character Formation in Neoliberal Culture: An Interview with Lynne Layton
MIAâs Javier Rizo interviews Lynne Layton about social psychoanalysis and how normative unconscious processes can help illuminate how oppressive systems get internalized and reproduced.
Anti-Psychiatry, Szasz, Torrey, Biederman & the Death of Freethinking
Americans appear to be increasingly terrified by the possibility of ostracism, including for failing to conform to psychiatry dogma. This prevents critical thinking.
The Future of Mental Health Diagnosis Goes Beyond the Manual
From WIRED: The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, the so-called "Bible of Psychiatry," is approaching its 70th year. It should be its last.
Mad in MĂ©xico
Mad in MĂ©xico, which launched in September of last year, exists to make âlos abandonadosâ heard. It aims to amplify those voices, empower them, embolden them.
The Forgotten People of COVID: U.S. Overdose Deaths Break All Records
From Dr. Suneel Dhand - MedStoic Lifestyle Medicine: The enormous toll on people's mental health over the last couple of years from our COVID-19 pandemic response hasn't been talked about nearly enough.
‘A General Theory of Love,’ Part 3: Mammals Require Attachment
From Don't Try This Alone: "In our culture we construe loneliness as weakness, as a character defect⊠But itâs based on brain evolution; thereâs no choice about it." ~ Dr. Tom Lewis, co-author of A General Theory of Love
Inside a Forensic Psychiatry Unit: Access to the CourtsâA Right and Survival Tool
Being stuck in the custody of a malicious treatment team could mean death. I had to resort to the Mother of All Tactics Hegemony (a lawsuit).
‘A General Theory of Love,’ Part 2: Limbic Resonance
From Don't Try This Alone: The development of an infantâs brain after birth depends on the motherâs close affectionate attention, using a deep eye contact called "limbic resonance."
Psychiatry Upgraded the Declaration of Independence
According to psychiatry, unhappiness is a medically treatable disease. No need to "pursue" happiness other than by swallowing pills called âantidepressants.â
Dying to Stay Alive: A Ketamine Disaster
Ketamine treatment, which was being hailed as a âmiracle cureâ, backfired so spectacularly that it very nearly cost me my life.
‘A General Theory of Love,’ Part 1: How Mammal Brains Work
From Don't Try This Alone: American society has declared war on emotions, and thatâs a tragedy because emotions, led by love, are what allow mammals (humans included) to survive.
Illnesses or Loose Collections of Vaguely Described Problems?
What's needed at this time are not glib, inane rejoinders, but an honest scrutiny by psychiatrists of their fundamental assumptions and methods.
