Against Psychiatry
From IAI TV: Psychiatry has spent the last 100 years asking what's wrong with people, but might it be more informative to ask what's happened to them?
Weaving Conceptual and Empirical Work in Psychiatry
From Psychiatric Times: Having a crisp set of criteria for what constitutes a psychiatric dysfunction is impossible. There are too many social and conceptual nuances
Recovery: Stressing the Social Basis of the Process
Recovery involves engaging in new material and social contexts and in open dialogues where new ways of understanding and handling the situation are created.
Canadian Mental Health Legislation and the CRPD
Psychiatric survivors in Canada tell the UN that Canada is not complying with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).
How Antidepressants Destroyed My Life
From Marc Reinsdorffer: How I went from working as a frontend software developer in a exciting city to living in my parents basement for the last 1.5 years.
Weaving Beauty Into the Tapestry of the Pandemic
From Psychiatry Today: We want to be sure that just as when we treat psychiatric illness with medications or psychotherapy, there are no unintended consequences
Coronavirus Has Worsened the Mental Health Crisis. Medicare for All Can Help
From Jacobin: Even before the pandemic, our expensive, byzantine insurance system was failing to heal the emotional wounds of living in a capitalist society.
How to Keep Children’s Stress From Turning Into Trauma
From The New York Times: Parents can help children use the stress of coronavirus shutdowns as an opportunity for growth, experts say.
Review Documents Severe Withdrawal Effects of Psychiatric Drugs
Researchers find that most psychiatric drugs cause severe withdrawal despite attempt s to gradually decrease the dosage.
“We Are All Mad!” A Call for the Development of an International Network Among...
I can imagine all the “MAD” affiliates working together regarding specific initiatives or projects.
Mental Health Apps Draw New Users as Experts Call for More Oversight
From CNBC: Therapy apps are seeing a flood of new customers, but experts remain divided on the path ahead as privacy and efficacy concerns mount.
New Analysis: Antidepressants Still Linked to Suicide
“This is remarkable for drugs that are used to treat depressive symptoms,” write the researchers.
Why Mental Health Is a Human Right
From The New Statesman: Many risk factors for poor mental health are closely associated with inequalities in the conditions of daily life
Jinxed: The Persecution of Evan Durst Kreeger
I am very concerned that Evan is about to be devoured by psychiatry's maw. Things could be different if Evan were able to hire an attorney or attorneys to deal with all of these different legal actions coming at him and otherwise protect his interests such as sue the trustees for their unconscionable actions, but as I have indicated, his trustees have cut off his money so he can't hire such an attorney or attorneys.
Is the Pandemic Sparking Suicide?
From The New York Times: The mental health toll of the coronavirus pandemic is only beginning to show itself, and it is too early to predict the scale of the impact.
Chasing that Elusive Insight
The psychiatric concept of insight rests on the assumption that the psychiatrist, designated sane, knows what’s best. But if we question that assumption and consider that the medical model of mental illness may be incorrect, then the question of which party actually possesses insight becomes less clear.
Three Recent Genetics Books and Twin Studies’ Indefensible “Equal Environment Assumption”
Although Mitchell and Murray cited twin studies as the main source of evidence in support of their claims, these studies are based on a long-controversial assumption which they were unable to defend in their books, or on Twitter.
We Need to Rethink Involuntary Hospitalization During This Pandemic
From Scientific American: The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has worrisome implications for patients receiving involuntary psychiatric care.
12 Essential Facts About Psychiatry
With these twelve facts, you are equipped to defend against the misinformation propagated by academic psychiatry, Big Pharma, and the laypeople they target. You are encouraged to use this knowledge to (firmly but respectfully) challenge statements you hear in passing or from loved-ones such as “He is mentally ill,” “I have a chemical imbalance and these drugs help correct it,” or any other commonly accepted falsehoods that the above facts expose.
Could Sedating Medications Be Making COVID-19 Outcomes Worse?
From Hello Care: The use of psychotropic medications in residential aged care could be contributing to the poor outcomes of residents who contract COVID-19.
Think of Mental Disorders as the Mind’s ‘Sticky Tendencies’
From Aeon: We don’t just see the world around us as dry facts, but experience the world as having immanent meaning. The world has meaning FOR us.
Bringing Human Rights to Mental Health Care: An Interview with UN Envoy Dainius Pūras
MIA's Ana Florence interviews United Nations Special Rapporteur Dainius Pūras about his own journey as a psychiatrist and the future of rights-based approaches to mental health.
Should You Ever Ask Someone “Are You Suicidal?”
For every person “Are you suicidal?” may assist, there are many more of us who are scared into silence when those words are uttered. Why? Well, “Are you suicidal?” is, in fact, the king of the suicide risk assessment questionnaire. “Are you suicidal?” has become the red, neon, flashing sign that screams “Stop! Don’t talk to me!” Perhaps this might just explain why suicide risk assessments are well known not to work.
How Young Refugees’ Traumatic Pasts Shape Their Mental Health
From Nature: A detailed study shows that young migrants’ risk of developing psychiatric disorders rises stepwise with the number of traumas experienced.
The Curious Incident of the Neuroleptic Prescription
From Matanuska Forensic Science: Developing novel therapeutics to treat thought disorders is long overdue. Rather than defending drugs that do not work, let's learn from them
