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...
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.
Do Antidepressants Cure Depression? Are Psych Drugs Safe? Dr. Colin Ross on Psychetruth
Psychetruth Correspondent Corrina Rachel interviews psychiatrist Dr. Colin Ross about Psychiatry and if antidepressants work to cure depression. What are the facts we should...
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...
Generative Narratives and the Counterculture Psychiatrists
For outsiders like me who are really critical of mainstream psychiatry, the first thing to understand is that "community psychiatry" is a counterculture within the larger culture of biomedical psychiatry. When I say "counterculture" I don't mean these people had flowers in their hair or face piercings.
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...
Childhood Adversity and Psychosis: From Heresy to Certainty
Presentation by John Read at the Meanings of Madness Conference. (Presentation begins at 5 minutes in.)
Medicating ADHD: Diagnosis and the Long-Term Effects of the Medications
Robert Whitaker appears on Science for the Public on March 20, 2013, speaking about how the ADHD is diagnosed and why users of medications...
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%."
Is Big Pharma the Only Answer to Schizophrenia? – Interview with Dick Russell
Tyrel Ventura speaks with Dick Russell, author of My Mysterious Son about his struggles in raising a son with schizophrenia and the surprising success...
Hallucinations are not Necessarily Madness
Olive Sacks reflects on the brain's disposition to see or hear things.
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Q&A with Oliver Sacks: Hallucinations, neurological curiosities and a passion for...
Thomas Szasz: Does Mental Illness Exist?
A conversation with Thomas Szasz, published on March 28, 2014. He discusses the question of whether mental illness exists and whether it is possible...
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!
KMSP-TV Investigative Report on Psychiatric Research Abuse at the University of Minnesota
For a scathing, 11-minute overview of the death of Dan Markingson at the University of Minnesota, and new allegations of coercion into psychiatric clinical trials, you can't do much better than this excellent investigative report by Jeff Baillon.
Let’s Talk About Mental Health: Brattleboro Community Television
Brattleboro, Vermont psychiatrist Nels Kloster and mental health counselor Robert Stack discuss the coming year in mental health, and the changing perceptions regarding mental...
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...
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...
Encouraging Words on Recovery from Benzos
Bliss Johns, author of Recovery & Renewal and founder of the Recovery Road Charity, gives an eloquent few words of encouragement for those still in...
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...
“The Drugs Don’t Work: a Modern Medical Scandal”
Ben Goldacre reflects on his having been mislead as a psychiatrist in his forthcoming book Bad Pharma (excerpted here in the U.K. newspaper The Guardian), and...
PsychRights’ Medicaid Fraud Initiative Against Psychiatric Drugging of Children & Youth
Jim Gottstein's September 27, 2013 talk on PsychRights' Medicaid Fraud Initiative Against Psychiatric Drugging of Children & Youth, at the National Association of Rights...
The Mindful Way Through Depression: Zindel Segal at TEDxUTSC
One of the developers of Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy explains the history of its development.
