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The Sinister Return of Eugenics in the Age of Big Tech

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From The New Statesman: Eugenicist thinking was rejected after the Holocaust, but in the era of Big Tech, the idea that humans can be “engineered” has resurfaced in a new guise.

For the Love and Care of the People: An Interview with Vanessa Green on...

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An interview with Vanessa Green, executive director of Call BlackLine a nationally recognized hotline serving BIPOC and LGBTQI communities.

The Censors Are Coming for Mental Health

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To a profession that regularly uses coercion and force to keep clients medicated, any information that might dissuade from treatment is hazardous.

I Am a Psychiatrist and I Am Horrified by the American Psychiatric System

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From Medscape: How many more patients have to be neglected, abused, or refuse to seek help because of their lack of confidence in the quality of "mental health care"?

Psychiatrist Found Guilty in $110 Million Fraud Scheme

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From MDedge: The medical director of Good Decisions Sober Living in Palm Beach ordered patients to undergo excessive and medically unnecessary urine tests 3-4 times per week to the tune of $6,000 to $9,000 per test.

Mad in the Netherlands

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“We had a goal of being a gateway that provides access to international knowledge and information about psychiatry,” said founder and editor Monique Timmermans.
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Official Guidelines on Antidepressant Discontinuation Fail Practitioners and Patients

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A review of clinical practice guidelines for antidepressant discontinuation from across the English-speaking world reveals major pitfalls.

The Cruelties of Self-Help Culture

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From The New Statesman: I've been dreaming of a self-help book that is honest about the system we live in, the emotional challenges of surviving it, and the realities of failure, but that offers us practical ways to navigate the real challenges that most people face.

Building Relationship with Ourselves and Others: The Five A’s

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From PACEs Connection: Psychotherapist David Richo outlines the building blocks of authentic, nurturing relationships that allow us to become securely attached.
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Robert Spitzer on DSM-III: A Recently Recovered Interview

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Robert Spitzer, chair of the Task Force for DSM-III, discusses his decisions on inclusion, exclusion, expansion, and renaming disorders in the manual.

Spiritual Awakening: 23 Major Signs & Symptoms

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From Lonerwolf: When we undergo a spiritual awakening or ascension, we literally "wake up" to life and begin to question our old beliefs, habits, and social conditioning.

Columbia Psychiatry Chair Suspended After Tweet About Dark-Skinned Model

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From The New York Times: The post from Jeffrey Lieberman, which described the model as possibly a “freak of nature,” drew negative attention from medical professionals.
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Collateral Damage: The Negative Impact of Antidepressants on New Zealand Youth

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Health and wellbeing in young people are trending down in New Zealand. Are antidepressants to blame?

How Drug Companies Manipulate Patient Advocacy Groups

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From Lown Institute: Pharma funding and "grooming" of patient organizations has a profound impact on the drug approval process, as testimony from patient advocates has become more common.

Australians Taking Antidepressants in Record Numbers, but Coming Off Them Can Be ‘Frightening’

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From ABC News: Research shows many people experience severe and long-lasting withdrawal effects from antidepressants, and many patients feel their experience is downplayed by their doctors.

Toxic Marketing: The Business of Selling TMS

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Ads pushing transcranial magnetic stimulation are everywhere. As someone harmed by the treatment, I believe they are misleading and unethical.

Watch Now: ‘For Life’: A Mini-Opera on Psychiatry by Dawn Sonntag & Kermit Cole

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From Baldwin Wallace Voice Performance: "We pity you and your broken heart. But you’re not a doctor. You’re not smart! Accept it! Be grateful. Your son must comply. Who are you to question this art?"
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Mad in Italy

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Mad in Italy's main focus is research, publishing articles on failures of the disease model and the effectiveness of alternate, humanistic approaches. The goal is policy change; the means is data.

America’s Lack of Bereavement Leave Is Causing a Grief Crisis

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From Business Insider: In America today, as in other nations around the globe, people are being robbed of the time to properly experience their emotions.

Doctor Ordered to Undergo Psych Evaluation for Prescribing Off-Label Drugs for COVID

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From FLCCC Alliance: A highly accomplished Maine physician's mental health is being questioned because she went "off-script" to save her patients' lives.

Mold, Benadryl, & Antipsychotic Drugs: Report Raises Alarms About a Mass. Mental Facility

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From The Boston Globe: Potent drug cocktails have replaced physical restraints at Bridgewater State Hospital, a medium-security facility that was sued in 2014 over conditions and use of restraints and seclusion.

Depression: Compulsive Self-Deception | Alice Miller

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From alice-miller.com: Depression is not a form of suffering that relates to the present; instead it is caused by the separation from one’s own self, abandoned early on, never mourned for, and accordingly doomed to despair and death.
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Malignant Do-Gooderism: The Tragedies of Allopathic Psychiatry

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My personal struggle to stop my friend’s court-ordered psychiatric deterioration has reached the US Supreme Court.

Why We Shouldn’t Push a Positive Mindset on Those in Poverty

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From Psyche: Mindsets are not free-floating: they are neither optional strategies that everyone can freely adopt nor value-neutral ways of enhancing wellbeing.

The Medicalization of Women’s Suffering: An Interview with Dana Becker

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MIA’s Ayurdhi Dhar interviews Dana Becker about how therapeutic culture fails to adequately address women’s suffering.