Dr Peter Gøtzsche on How Psychiatry has Gone Astray
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD is a Danish medical researcher, and leader of the Nordic Cochrane Center at Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has written...
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 Deegan on Recovery and Nonviolence
This video by Pat Deegan, inspired by the Newtown tragedy, was brought to our attention by BeyondMeds.com.
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Fox News on the DSM Controversy
Dr. Keith Ablow on the logical fallacies of the DSM.
A Psychiatrist’s Perspective on Antidepressants
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM: 4 principal tenets that may undermine your current understanding of the efficacy and safety of antidepressant medication.
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...
What DSM-5 Means for Diagnosing Mental Health Patients
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The American Psychiatric Association released a new edition of the DSM, which doctors use to diagnose and treat mental disorders. Judy Woodruff discusses...
Watch the Stories of Harm the APA Refused to Hear: Divina’s Story
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Paula J. Caplan's Introduction to "Watch the Stories of Harm the APA Refused to Hear"
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...
“King’s Park”: Stories from an American Mental Institution
On June 21, 1967, at the age of 17, Lucy Winer was committed to the female violent ward of Kings Park State Hospital following...
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...
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...
The Hearing Voices Movement: Has it Really Been 25 years?
In November 2012, Cardiff, Wales, more than two hundred and fifty people who hear voices, see visions and have other unusual and extreme experiences (referred to as “hearing voices” in the rest of this post), family members, friends, activists and allied experts by profession came together from around the world. The purpose of the three-day meeting was to celebrate the twenty fifth anniversary of the formation of hearing voices movement, to consider the lessons learnt so far and to envisage what we should be doing over the next 25 years. The excellent film, "Voices Matter", that you can now view on this site is a record of the event and I strongly recommend that you take a look.
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Toward a New Understanding of Mental Illness – Thomas Insel
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Thomas Insel's TedEducation presentation. "Today, thanks to better early detection, there are 63% fewer deaths from heart disease than...
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...
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...
Bohemian Polypharmacy
Bohemian Polypharmacy - a parody of Queen's classic song Bohemian Rhapsody - a song all about polypharmacy - taking more medicines than are clinically...
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...
New Video: Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs: A Harm Reduction Approach
I want to thank Bob Whitaker for inviting me to join the bloggers at Mad In America. As an introduction to my work I...
On Pharma, Corruption, and Psychiatric Drugs
"My studies in this area lead me to a very uncomfortable conclusion: Our citizens would be far better off if we removed all the psychotropic drugs from the market, as doctors are unable to handle them. It is inescapable that their availability creates more harm than good."
- Peter Gøtzsche, MD; Co-founder of the Cochrane Collaboration
Are You Ready for Multiple Lawsuits By Victims of Psychiatric Misconduct?
Professor Leigh Turner of the University of Minnesota Center for Bioethics blasts the Board of Regents for ignoring psychiatric research abuse.
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?
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...