Navigating Brilliance and Madness: Sascha Altman DuBrul at TEDx
From youtube: "Sascha Altman DuBrulhas been documenting and fomenting underground culture and radical peoples' movements since he was a teenager. From the anarchist squatter...
Animals and Mental Illness
The search for animal analogues for mental illness continues to inadvertently show that much if not most of what is thought of as mental...
Films by Jodie Goodnough
36,835 is a 9 hour and 41 minute performance exploring the overabundance of psychiatric medicine in the lives of Americans, particularly young women. Using...
My 6-year Anniversary Off Psych Drugs: How I Made It Through the Darkest Times
Last week was my anniversary off a huge psych drug cocktail I’d been on for 20 years. In this video I speak to the inner resources that kept me going. The fact is there is nothing in society to help those who love us to understand what we are going through.
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...
Exploring Psychiatry’s “Black Hole”: The International Institute on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal
When Carina Håkansson 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.
Steven Soderbergh’s “Side Effects”
Steven Soderbergh's upcoming film about a psychiatrist who prescribes "Ablixa" (a fictional medication) to a patient who then commits murder. The PR campaign includes...
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. 911 dispatchers described...
David Oaks Comes Home: “My Whole Life I Have Been Preparing for This Time”
David Oaks, whose 1998 challenge to "check out the research for yourself" led Robert Whitaker to write Mad in America and create this website,...
Peter Breggin’s Views on Psychiatry
In this, the first video of Peter R. Breggin's series "Simple Truths About Psychiatry," Dr. Breggin debunks the myth of biochemical imbalance and examines...
The Legal and Moral Issues of Drugging Children
Jim Gottstein’s presentation March 29, 2012 at the APA’s Humanistic Division. Mr. Gottstein talks about the the legal and moral issues of the massive number...
The Chemical Imbalance, Genetics & Biology of Bipolar Disorder: Myths of Psychiatry
This video from Bipolarwakingup.com explores why what most people think about the relationship between genetics, chemical imbalance theory and bipolar disorder is pure myth.
Psychiatric Drugs: More Dangerous Than You Ever Imagined (A New Video)
“Psychiatric Drugs are More Dangerous than You Ever Imagined” is the newest video in my series Simple Truths about Psychiatry. It provides a simple, direct and inescapable warning about this epidemic of harm induced by psychiatric drugs. The video sounds a necessary alarm about this growing tragedy, involving millions of people and their families, who never foresaw the disabling results of taking psychiatric drugs and giving them to their children.
Olga Runciman – Hearing Voices Network Denmark
Olga Runciman is Chair of the Danish Hearing Voices Network.
Originally a psychiatric nurse, she herself became a patient, and experienced the full force of...
Hallgrímur – A Man like me
Hallgrímur - A Man like me.
The Legal and Moral Issues of Drugging Children
Jim Gottstein’s presentation March 29, 2012 at the APA’s Humanistic Division. Mr. Gottstein talks about the the legal and moral issues of the massive number...
Watch the Stories of Harm the APA Refused to Hear: Introduction by Paula J....
Psychologist and activist Paula J. Caplan talks about the harm done to many people because they received a psychiatric diagnosis...and how the American Psychiatric...
Take These Broken Wings
"Take These Broken Wings," a 75-minute documentary on recovery from schizophrenia without medication. Featuring Joanne Greenberg (bestselling author of "I Never Promised You a...
Little Brother Big Pharma
In 1954, Thorazine was introduced as a treatment for mental disorders, thus began the modern era of psychiatry. This new drug was said to "prevent...
Psychiatry Must Stop Ignoring Trauma, with Dr. Bessel van der Kolk
Psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk explores his field's long, complex, and stubborn history with trauma. Dr. van der Kolk explains how psychiatry as a...
Pat Bracken on the Crisis in Psychiatry at the Forum for Existential Psychology and...
Psychiatrist Pat Bracken speaks on the current "crisis of legitimacy in psychiatry," and the growth of the international "service user" movement at the Forum...
Emotional Abuse Is Far Worse Than You Think
Though attention tends to be drawn to physical forms of violence, it may actually be the more invisible forms of violence - abuse and...
Antidepressant Nation
From Youtube:
"A Recent study on antidepressants has shown that the drugs have some serious side effects: those taking certain prescriptions could lose their sex...
