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...
“A Drop of Sunshine”
Film by Apama Sanyal
"Schizophrenia. It may be one word, but it immediately conjures up multiple connotations - mad, incurable, violent, suicidal, chemical imbalances, crazy,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
Fox News on the DSM Controversy
Dr. Keith Ablow on the logical fallacies of the DSM.
Childhood Adversity and Psychosis: From Heresy to Certainty
Presentation by John Read at the Meanings of Madness Conference. (Presentation begins at 5 minutes in.)
What DSM-5 Means for Diagnosing Mental Health Patients
From youtube:
The American Psychiatric Association released a new edition of the DSM, which doctors use to diagnose and treat mental disorders. Judy Woodruff discusses...
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...
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 —...
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...
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...
Vikram Patel on (something like) Peer Support
Though there might be discussion of his premises, Vikram Patel seems to be arguing for a global version of peer support.
The Mindful Way Through Depression: Zindel Segal at TEDxUTSC
One of the developers of Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy explains the history of its development.
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...
You May Be Suffering From Antidepressants (The Adbusters)
You May Be Suffering From Antidepressants (The Adbusters)
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Antidepressants Kill Over 500,000 People Annually
A new study shows psychiatric drugs kill over half a million Americans and Europeans every year who are over 65. Professor Peter Gøtzsche claims...
Environmental Risk Factors For Schizophrenia
Recent Review of Environmental Risk Factors for Schizophrenia from Fuller Seminary on Vimeo.
Recent Review of Environmental Risk Factors for Schizophrenia
From the 2012 Symposium...
Bohemian Polypharmacy
Bohemian Polypharmacy - a parody of Queen's classic song Bohemian Rhapsody - a song all about polypharmacy - taking more medicines than are clinically...
Rachel Waddingham’s Recovery From Psychiatric Labeling and Unnecessary Treatment
Rachel's recovery from psychiatric labelling and unnecessary treatment from CEP.
