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...
Custody of Justina Pelletier to Be Decided Tomorrow
The custody of Justina Pelletier, a Connecticut 15-year-old whose odyssey of diagnosis with "Somatoform Disorder" has trapped her in Boston Children's Hospital since last February, will...
Robert Whitaker: “Imagining a Different Future in Mental Health”
Robert Whitaker on Imagining a Different Future in Mental Health, Philadelphia May 6, 2012
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...
Doctors Concerned by Antipsychotic Prescriptions
Dr Danielle Stowasser from the Australian National Prescribing Service discusses the large number of antipsychotic prescriptions being written for elderly people.
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...
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...
Robert Whitaker on Psychiatric, Cultural, and Economic Trends
In this interview at a conference a few weeks ago, Robert Whitaker speaks of the ways that ill-informed medication trends can become features of...
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...
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...
Healing Homes
"Healing Homes," a 79-minute documentary on recovery from psychosis without medication. An in-depth exploration of the Family Care Foundation, a Swedish organization which places...
Hallgrímur – A Man like me
Hallgrímur - A Man like me.
“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...
Joanna Moncrieff – The Myth of the Chemical Cure: The Politics of Psychiatric Drug...
UNE Center for Global Humanities and its founding director, Anouar Majid, host Joanna Moncrieff on "The Myth of the Chemical Cure: The Politics of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
