Recovery/Empowerment

Compendium of experience from 28 people around the world who have gone through withdrawal, along with the contributions of eight professionals on how they...

Alternative Mental Health.com offers a directory of alternative mental health practitioners, a bookstore, support groups, email lists, and a monthly newsletter in support of reducing...

Rufus May, Ph.d., also known as "The Doctor Who Hears Voices," is a clinical psychologist who has also been forcibly hospitalized, medicated, and diagnosed...

A widely used outpatient drug withdrawal program. The Road Back publishes the free book How to Get Off Psychoactive Drugs Safely.

A manual on creating a peer-run hospital diversion respite house, based on the experience of Rose House and the work of PEOPLE, Inc. (Available...

Video by Will Hall explaining some of the important things to consider when choosing to reduce medications.

Go to "Complementary and Alternative Medicine Treatments in Psychiatry" →                                ...

Article in the Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing Go to "Addressing Non-Adherence to Antipsychotic Medication: A Harm Reduction Approach"          ...

Article by Guy Holmes and Marese Hudson in Mind Go to "Coming Off Medication"                        ...

Website of Mind, U.K. Go to "Making Sense of Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs"                          ...

Handout by Will Hall, offered on the Icarus Project website, on what emotional trauma is and how to work to heal it. Go to "First...

In a pilot study at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, researchers found that Future-Directed Therapy (FDT) improved quality of life and relieved depressive...

In a study of 428 outpatients in Tennessee, researchers from the University of Chicago and the NIMH found that BRIDGES, an 8-week peer-run education...

"Becoming Dialogical" is a 2011 article by Jaakko Seikkula about the shifting focus in Open Dialogue from speech to the entire embodied human being...

In a meta-analysis funded by the World Health Organization and published in The Lancet, studies of 21,500 disabled individuals from Australia, Canada, New Zealand,...

New Hampshire's SHAPE program to promote physical fitness for the mentally ill has been so successful that the federal government has awarded $10 million...

Side effects, mistrust, stigma, forgetfulness and lack of insight have all been studied as reasons that up to 75% of people with a schizophrenia...

Researchers in Japan find that tapering or reducing benzodiazepines has a positive effect on quality of life, verbal and working memory, and psychiatric symptoms...

In a study of 597 outpatients who were perceived as likely nonadherers to oral antipsychotic interventions, Spanish researchers found that relapse was lower in...

In my last three blogs I posed the question- "If madness isn't what psychiatry says it is, then what is it?" Now I'm asking-...

Researchers in Germany found that in a sample of 98 patients, beliefs about illness and rehabilitation predicted outcome for depression independent of medical or...

In The American Journal of Psychiatry, a longitudinal study of 114 persons at high risk for depression found that those who reported more religiosity...

Mary O'Hagan, an international mental health leader with lived experience, writes on the paradox of increasing legal coercion of psychiatric patients, even as the...

On September 18, 2010, Mark Foster, a family physician in Littleton, Colorado, began his “Letters From the Front Lines” blog for this website. In...

In the last chapter of my book Anatomy of an Epidemic, I noted that if our society is going to stem the epidemic of...