From Freud to Fanon: How Daniel Gaztambide is Redefining Psychoanalytic Practice
In this interview, Daniel Gaztambide discusses how decolonial perspectives can transform psychoanalytic practice.
Is Mental Health a Choice—and Can Understanding Help Us Heal?
There’s a pattern and a purpose to what the mind does. You can’t change it, you have to understand it.
Antidepressants Linked to Lasting Sexual Dysfunction, Study Finds
New research highlights the challenges in quantifying the prevalence of Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD), a condition that continues to affect patients long after they stop taking antidepressants.
Right-Wing or Left-Wing: Who Really Owns the Critique of Over-Medicalisation?
Left-wing critique has always challenged powerful vested interests that prefer not to be disturbed.
Involuntary Care Doesn’t Work. What BC Should Do Instead
From The Tyee: An evidence-based approach clearly shows that the reliance on detention, force and coercion over the past two decades has not led to better outcomes.
Researchers Accuse Lancet Article and British Psychiatrists of Minimising Antidepressants’ Withdrawal Effects
A response to a seriously flawed review.
Assessing Community Mental Health Programs in India: Insights from Task-Shifting in Kerala
The MISA news team provides insight into community mental health initiatives in India.
How to Be a Happy, Successful Incurable Schizophrenic
If you are a young schizophrenic, I encourage you to accept the challenge of leading a happy, productive, meaningful life.
ADHD Drugs Linked to Psychosis and Mania
In one analysis, those on a high dose of prescription amphetamines were more than 13 times more likely to develop psychosis/mania.
Faith Healing in India: An Ancient Way of Tending to Madness
In contrast to the colonial legacy of medical psychiatry in India, indigenous and faith healing methods emphasize the interconnectedness of the mind, body, and spirit, using rituals, storytelling, and communal support to create a holistic healing environment.
The Long-Disputed Science of Twin Studies
Twin studies and heritability estimates are used in support of biological determinism and in defense of the global inequality status quo.
STAR*D: The Harms of Orchestrated Psychiatric Fraud
STAR*D’s results are too bitter a pill for psychiatric leaders to swallow, so they have chosen to become a rogue medical specialty.
Antidepressant Withdrawal: A Psychiatrist’s 30-Year Challenge to Conventional Wisdom
For thirty years, Dr. Giovanni Fava has sounded the alarm on the long-term effects of antidepressants and the risks of withdrawal, pushing back against pharmaceutical narratives.
Human Suffering as Numbers and Graphs: The Problem with Measuring Outcomes in Therapy
Outcome monitoring is a product of bureaucratic healthcare: Human suffering reduced to efficiency optimization.
Antidepressant Withdrawal Commonly Misdiagnosed as “Mental Illness”
A new study reveals that more than two-thirds of patients experiencing antidepressant withdrawal were misdiagnosed with psychiatric disorders.
MindFreedom’s Shield Program: Working to Free People from Psychiatric Incarceration and Forced Treatment
“We need the MindFreedom Shield to have someone in our corner when we are told that it doesn't matter what we want, that someone else can make a choice about our bodies that we will have to live with for the rest of our lives.”
Beyond Pharmacare
From Briarpatch Magazine: Prisoner advocates and family members of institutionalized people depict the overprescribing epidemic as attempts to “control behaviour” turning people into “zombies.”
Elder Eyes Wide Shut
There is no universal moral code: Elder law and the injustice and inhumane practice of legal guardianship are a calculated effort by the court, the attorneys, and the healthcare system.
Do Depression Pills Improve Quality of Life?
In the upside-down world of psychiatry, the pills that destroy your sex life are called happy pills. I call them unhappy pills or anti-sex pills.
What I’ve Learned about Tapering Psychiatric Drugs—A Holistic Therapist’s Perspective
Liberation from pharmaceuticals is possible, but it is not an easy journey. I advocate for informed consent.
Antidepressants Overprescribed to Post-Menopausal Women Despite Risks
A new study reveals that antidepressants, commonly prescribed to post-menopausal women, may increase risks of falls, cognitive decline, and cardiovascular issues, raising questions about their overuse in this population.
The U.S. Disconnecting & Numbing Epidemic: The Culprit and Our Options
From CounterPunch: We are increasingly being forced to become machine components alienated from our humanity so as to fit into a large machine.
The Iatrogenic Gaze: How We Forgot That Psychiatry Could Be Harmful
The victims of psychiatric iatrogenesis believed they were taking a vitamin, only to later realize it was poison.
Targeted: For Those Who Hear Voices, the ‘Broken Brain’ Explanation Is Harmful
From Aeon: If psychiatry’s medical vision is failing, what should we replace it with? How can we break out of this bind?
Working to Transmute the Pain: Why I Do the Work I Do
I sought help and followed the prescribed path. About twenty years later, I began to question, "What is happening? Why am I still stuck?"
