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Health Communism

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Below we share the "Introduction" of the book Health Comunism (Verse, 2022) by Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant, English activists in disability and for health justice. The book advocates a new leftist policy aimed at cutting off the structural relations between capital and one of its main tools of domination and discipline: health.

Do psychologists inhibit awareness of oppressive social structures?

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A recent study published in the British Journal of Guidance & Counselling explores the psychosocial consequences of unemployment to reflect on and critique the role of psychology in the contemporary socio-politico context.

The Experience of Psychiatric Survivors in Brazil

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Another challenge is to find psychologists who have any reading about damage caused by psychiatric drugs and who do not interpret the option of not using them as "resistance to treatment".

The era of idiotic comfort

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In this essay Bernabé De Vinsenci reflects on what happens to bodies when a society becomes a madhouse.

Lived Experiences Of a Person With Multiple Sclerosis

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In this story, the author explores the complications of living with a neurological disability in India. Through his experience he shares his tryst with accessibility and raises questions about inaccessible infrastructure. He further highlights the unique cultural aspects that structure an individual’s experience of living with a disability in India.

The Mystic of Ireland: An Homage to Ivor Browne

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The great Ivor Browne, who many will know for his humane approach to human distress, died this week to widespread plaudits from the media. This is right and fitting for a man who gave so much to people, was responsible for liberating many from prison-like institutions and highlighting that distress very often comes from deep-seated trauma, not brain disorders.

The faulty reasoning that made ADHD a disease

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Leading ADHD researchers outline four mistakes that turned ADHD from a description of behavior into a medical disease.

Overdiagnosis in Children

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We publish the article by Dr. Ludovica Turchetti, speech therapist, on the devastating phenomenon that is becoming increasingly popular in recent years and which concerns the various psychiatric diagnoses in children.

Benzodiazepines in Canada: Is a Withdrawal Crisis Looming?

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On February 15th, Radio-Canada’s Enquête aired ‘Cauchemar sur ordonnance’ (translation: Nightmare on prescription), a documentary about the dangers of benzodiazepines and z-hypnotics.

Where does self-understanding come from?

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Almost every week we can read articles in the media where it is said that a person has found self-understanding about his ADHD or autism diagnosis. With this, they are able to accept their specialness and understand the reasons why they are a certain way. But what is that self-understanding that diagnoses give?

How I Recovered from a Dissociative Identity Disorder

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As a child I experienced traumas that were so intense that I had to displace them. This caused a dissociative identity disorder (DIS) very early in my life. This had everything to do with my experiences with sexual abuse, not only in my parental family, but also by a pedosexual neighbor. In addition, it also had a huge impact on me that I was regularly the target of a number of bullies.

Lotta Borg Skoglund excluded from the Medical Products Agency’s expert council

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The Swedish Medical Products Agency finds that Charlotte Borg Skoglund can no longer be an expert in the Agency's Scientific Council. This follows the Agency's review of Borg Skoglund's conflicts of interest.

The zero vision for suicide can prevent people from developing the...

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DEHUMANIZATION OF PEOPLE?: - We are looking for the cause of mental illness in the wrong place. We should look at the socio-political causes of despair, stress and alienation, rather than the pathology of the psyche, writes philosopher Farhan Shah.

The Path of Foolishness

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This book brings together different genres of literature such as essay, memoir, diary, chronicle, poetry, manual, manifesto and decalogue. The book uses these various non-fiction literary styles to present reason, sanity, and coherence as a system of oppression that privileges sane people. From there "cuerdismo" is derived.

Escaping the shackles of psychiatry: what I’ve seen and survived, as...

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Psychiatry, of all the medical specialities, is the one which is supposed to hold wisdom when it comes to human behaviour, but there is none so blind as those who fail to see themselves. Unfortunately, psychiatry has always harboured those who crave power.

Manual of Critical Psychiatry, Chapter 7: Psychosis (Part Three)

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In the coming months, Mad in Brasil will publish a serialized version of Peter Gøtzsche's book, Manual of Critical Psychiatry. In this blog, he discusses the lack of evidence of benefit and evidence of harm for psychosis drugs used in early intervention or first-episode psychosis. Every fortnight, a new section of the book will be published and all chapters are archived here .

“The novel came out like a fire inside me” – Interview...

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We interviewed Silvina Lupión Avivar who was born in Moreno, province of Buenos Aires. She is an initial level teacher, writer and actress. She is a member of the independent theater group “Entrelazarte” and a few months ago she published the novel “Psychiatric, Today You Are Not Going to Die.”

Let’s Repaint Our Blank Canvas

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“Disturbed” I feel, seeing not just a woman but a “person”. Acceptance is important If not, equality remains, remains an empty word.

Irish psychiatry says chemical imbalance is ‘a figure of speech,’ so...

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The chemical imbalance theory of depression – what was once considered the gold standard reason for why people take antidepressants, was, apparently, ‘a figure of speech’.

Have you ever been disqualified?

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"I am slowly but surely learning to remove the extra weight in my suitcase. Courageous and strong work is what my psychologist calls it, I agree. I'm a mess of emotions, but I agree, I'm brave and strong."