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May Cause Side Effectsā€“Radical Acceptance and Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: An Interview with Brooke Siem

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Brooke Siem discusses her experiences of being medicated with antidepressants as a teenager, her withdrawal from a cocktail of psychiatric drugs and her debut memoir, May Cause Side Effects.
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Dostoevsky: A Psychologist We Can All Learn From

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Psychology has greatly broadened its scope since Nietzscheā€™s day and yet his implied criticism is one the discipline is still wrestling with.
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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Three)

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Psychiatry forcefully maintains its delusions, even when the most reliable science has shown that their beliefs are wrong.

The Troubled-Teen Industry Offers Trauma, Not Therapy

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From The New York Times: Hundreds of thousands of young Americans have endured harms or assaults in residential boot camps, wilderness therapy and Christian and therapeutic boarding schools.
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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

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By embracing the widely popular technology-worship ā€œreligion,ā€ psychiatry is permitted to ignore the reality that its repeated failures are evidence that its fundamental paradigm is misguided.

Psychiatric Patients Restrained at Sky-High Rates at This L.A. Hospital

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From the L.A. Times: L.A. Generalā€™s Hawkins Mental Health Center has reported a restraint rate more than 50 times higher than the national average for inpatient psychiatric facilities.

Grant, Interrupted: An Introduction and Report Back from Oregon

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We hope the Oregon Health Authority can overcome its critics and get back on track to doing what it set out to do: creating peer support respites led by grassroots groups.

People Not Professionals

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From Aeon: Peer support provides a cathartic space for refuge that transcends the constraints of expert-delivered formal services in favor of a more equitable relationship.

Branding Diseasesā€”How Drug Companies Market Psychiatric Conditions: An Interview with Ray Moynihan

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MIAā€™s Ayurdhi Dhar interviews Ray Moynihan about the marketing of disorders, broadening of diagnoses, and harmful treatments.

Reality According to Whom? Listening to My Wifeā€”and The Problems with ā€˜Psychosisā€™

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Sam Ruck shares an excerpt from his book "Healing Companions," which describes his life with, and love for, his wife and her ā€œalters.ā€Ā 

In the Name of ā€˜Modernization,ā€™ Newsom Admin. Wants to Disappear Unhoused and Disabled People...

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From Disability Visibility Project: The CARE Act is predicated on a big lie perpetrated by policymakers and marketed to the public: that houselessness is caused by ā€˜severe and untreatedā€™ mental illness and substance use.
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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Two)

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Peter GĆøtzsche discusses how critics of psychiatry are silenced in top medical journals and in the media.

Neuroscientist Argues the Left Side of Our Brains Have Taken Over Our Minds

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From CBC: "A way of thinking which is reductive, mechanistic has taken us over," says Iain McGilchrist. "We behave like people who have right hemisphere damage."

The Feeling Child | An Interview With Alice Miller

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A good therapy should help the patient evolve from a "silent child" to a feeling and "talking child."
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Reflections on the RADAR Study

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We still do not have adequate data to guide us on how to best reduce relapse risk; however, I think there are reasons to taper slowly.

Beyond the “Chemical Imbalance” Theory: An Interview With Prof. Joanna Moncrieff

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From Psychology Today/Justin Garson PhD: "I was surprised, first of all, by the level of public interest [in my paper debunking the serotonin theory of depression] and then by the defensiveness of the profession," says psychiatrist Joanne Moncrieff.

Survivors and Families Working Together For Change: A New ProjectĀ 

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Based on his lived experience, Ron Bassman describes his efforts to create an educational and support program that links families with survivors.

ā€œFunctional Disordersā€: One of Medicineā€™s Biggest Failures | Marion Brown

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From The BMJ: Is this a cop-out for the medical profession? Surely we need to look at what may be CAUSING the mind/body system to malfunction, and not miss out the important question of ā€˜could it be the medicineā€™?

Mental Health Staff Reluctant to Support Service Users in Tapering Antipsychotics, Study Finds

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Study reveals schizophrenia patients find little support from mental health staff in reducing side effects-heavy drugs.

How Mad Studies and the Psychological Humanities are Changing Mental Health: An Interview with...

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In this interview with MIA's Justin Karter, psychiatrist Bradley Lewis discusses the value of art, the humanities, and mad studies in shaping a richer understanding of psychological experiences.

Medication Overload, Part II: The Explosion of Drugs for Kids

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An analysis of the huge increase in drugs for children, the role of Big Pharma, and a look at the impact on families and communities.

Not My Words, Not My Story | Julia Buxton

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From Asylum Magazine: One of the first things that struck me when I entered mental health services was how little interest staff took in me describing my experiences or how I felt.
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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part One)

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Peter GĆøtzsche discusses the myths perpetuated by mainstream psychiatrists and the dishonest way they respond to critics.

What Celebrating Columbus Day Portends for Our Civilization | Jeremy Lent

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From Salon: The Columbus mindset is the same one that is driving our global civilization toward environmental (and social) catastrophe.
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Not Before Time: Lived Experience Led Justice and Repair

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A landmark report has been released exploring possibilities for acknowledging the harms people experience in mental health systems.