Crooked Beauty
Crooked Beauty is a poetic documentary that chronicles artist-activist Jacks McNamara's transformative journey from childhood abuse to psych ward patient to pioneering mental health...
Robert Whitaker & Allen Frances on Al Jazeera TV: “Redefining Mental Illness”
Robert Whitaker notes on Al Jazeera's "Inside Story" that a helpful diagnostic text must be both reliable and valid, and the DSM is neither...
John Nash on the Accuracy of “A Beautiful Mind”
Professor John Nash discusses the discrepancies between the book & film "A Beautiful Mind" and his life. Â While he endorses the portrayal of mental...
Laura Delano at the APA Rally
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High Levels of Antipsychotics in Shooter
Denis Bay had high levels of antipsychotics and mood stabilizers in his blood when he shot his wife and two daughters. Â 911 dispatchers described...
A conversation with Dr Terry Lynch (From “Beyond Prozac” to “Selfhood” and Beyond)
Dr. Terry Lynch says that "Long ago I began to question the whole categorization of normal and abnormal, which is what doctors tend to...
Thomas Szasz: Does Mental Illness Exist?
A conversation with Thomas Szasz, published on March 28, 2014. Â He discusses the question of whether mental illness exists and whether it is possible...
What is Mental Illness Today? Five Hard Questions
Subscribers to Mad in America might be interested in a Keynote Lecture given by Professor Nikolas Rose in Nottingham on May 15th 2013. In this lecture Professor Rose very thoughtfully challenges a number of the assumptions which underpin conventional and contemporary psychiatric practice. He asks five hard questions:
- Is there (really) an epidemic of mental illness?
- Does the path to understanding mental disorder lie through the brain?
- What is the role of diagnosis and of diagnostic manuals?
- Should we seek early identification of those at risk of future mental pathology?
- What is the place of patients, users, survivors, & consumers of mental health systems?
Developing a Compassionate Voice as a Step Toward Living With Voices
I've previously written about the possible role of compassion focused therapy in helping people relate better to problematic voices, in my posts Could compassionate self talk replace hostile voices?, Feed Your Demons!, and A Paradox: Is Our System for Responding to Threats Itself a Threat? I'm happy to see more interest being taken in this kind of approach, and a video has just become available which, in 5 minutes, very coherently explains how a compassion focused approach can completely transform a person's relationship with their voices and so transform the person's life!
Does Everyone Have a Mental Illness?
Psychiatrist and author Allen J. Frances, former chair of the DSM-IV task force, outlines why he thinks the DSM-V will lead to millions of...
Generation Rx
DVD FOR SALE NOW AT WEBSITE Common Radius Films is a private documentary and media development company based in Vancouver, British Columbia. GENERATION RX...
“Benzodiazepine Withdrawal as Told by a Woman in the Midst of it…”
A stirringly told story of benzodiazepine withdrawal. Beyond Meds adds helpful information and links, as well.
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The History of Eugenics in the United States & How It Affects Psychiatric Care...
Robert Whitaker speaks in this video, recorded May 2, 2012, on "The History of Eugenics in the United States & How It Affects Psychiatric...
Care Farms of the Netherlands
Care Farms of the Netherlands is a beautiful and inspiring film. It tells the story
of an innovative program that combines agriculture with social care...
Bruce Levine speaks about Nelson Algren, Phil Ochs, Marginalization and the Mental Health Industry...
Bruce Levine speaks about Nelson Algren, Phil Ochs, Marginalization, the Mental Health Industry, and the Occupy Movement at the 23rd Annual Nelson Algren Birthday...
CNN: Are Medications An Effective PTSD Treatment?
"CNN's Carol Costello explores Operation Tohidu, an experimental rehabilitation program to help veterans with PTSD." Operation Tohidu founder, Dr. Mary Vieten claims PTSD is not a mental illness and "there is no reason to medicate someone who has been traumatized by their war experience." When asked what percentage of soldiers returning with PTSD do not need drugs she responds, "100%."
Psychiatry is “Committing Professional Suicide”
David Healy "likened psychiatry’s attitude toward its faltering legitimacy to the Vatican’s widely derided response to its child sex abuse scandal by priests —...
Open Dialogue
Trailer for "Open Dialogue," a 74-minute documentary film on the Western Lapland Open Dialogue Project, the program presently getting the best results in the...
Off Label (Film)
Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher’s Off Labeloffers the personal stories of eight individuals — a young medic who was stationed at Abu Ghraib, a woman...
Laura Delano, David Oaks, Ted Chabasinski and Adina Lambert in Philadelpha
Laura Delano at Occupy the American Psychiatric Association, May 5, 2012, in Philadelphia
David Oaks at Occupy the American Psychiatric Association, May 5, 2012
Ted Chabasinski...
CBS News – Antipsychotic Meds May Raise Kids’ Diabetes Risk
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Role of Litigation in a Strategic Approach to Mental Health System Change
Jim Gottstein's talk on the Role of Litigation in a Strategic Approach to Mental Health System Change at the annual rights conference of the...
Childhood Adversity and Psychosis: From Heresy to Certainty
Presentation by John Read at the Meanings of Madness Conference. (Presentation begins at 5 minutes in.)
Exploring Psychiatry’s “Black Hole”: The International Institute on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal
When Carina HĂĄkansson sent out an invitation for a symposium on "Pharmaceuticals: Risks and Alternatives," some of the world's top scientists, along with experts-by-experience, came from 13 countries to explore better ways to respond to people in crisis.
