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On the Brink of Murder Because of an Antidepressant

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After being put on antidepressants, Katinka started hallucinating wildly, thinking in very violent images.
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Bad Science Revisited: “The Bell Curve” Turns 30

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Critiquing the wildly popular 1994 eugenicist book, which purported to link IQ and race, by reviewing the supposed genetic evidence.
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Szasz and the Liberation of the “Mental Patient”

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By setting standards of equality, competence, and accountability, Szasz worked for the liberation of the "mental patient.”

The Experience of Survivors of Psychiatry in Brazil

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The suffering caused by physical, sexual or psychological violence, common in women's lives, is pathologized by psychiatry.
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Medical Journals Refuse to Retract Fraudulent Trial Reports That Omitted Suicidal Events in Children

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The published articles underreported suicide-related events and provided false claims that the drugs were effective.
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From a Paranoid Schizophrenia Diagnosis to a Peer Researcher in Nigeria

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The mental health system needs to adopt the principle of holistic care, promoting fundamental rights and the relevance of family support.

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Undisclosed Financial Conflicts of Interest in the DSM-5: An Interview with Lisa Cosgrove and...

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On the Mad in America podcast we talk with Lisa Cosgrove and Brian Piper about their BMJ paper entitled "Undisclosed Financial Conflicts of Interest in the DSM-5 TR: Cross-Sectional Analysis"

Deprescribing Psychiatric Drugs to Reduce Harms and Empower Patients: Interview with Psychiatrist Swapnil Gupta

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Ayurdhi Dhar interviews psychiatrist Swapnil Gupta on psychiatric drug discontinuation, drug cocktail risks, patient choice, and the need for trust and transparency.

Is Madness an Evolved Signal? Justin Garson on Strategy Versus Dysfunction

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Philosopher Justin Garson discusses the potential benefit of looking at madness not as disease or defect, but as a designed feature.
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Depression: Psychiatry’s Discredited Theories and Drugs Versus a Sane Model and Approach

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Psychiatry’s depression outcomes are poor because its bio-chemical-electrical treatments are based on a depression model that science has flushed down the toilet.
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“A Dangerous Substance”: The Impact of Social Media on Youth Mental Health

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This is what social media does, she says. It draws people in. It hurts people. In the worst cases, it kills people.
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Searching for the “Psychiatric Yeti”: Schizophrenia Is Not Genetic

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After decades of study, billions of dollars spent, and thousands of studies conducted, the failure to identify any genes for schizophrenia should definitively put to rest the notion that schizophrenia is a genetic disorder, according to E. Fuller Torrey.

Fear of psychosis: important things to think about for loved ones...

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"I had a sister who was a couple of years older than me, who suffered from very bad anxiety in adolescence, and my mother always came and was afraid, she was afraid of that anxiety. And he always said that "take this, take diapam, take that, take this, now you have to go to Auroora" and I saw that it was terribly bad, that anxiety. Later I have come across that everyone is afraid of psychosis and that psychosis is a terrible misfortune for a person."

If coercion doesn’t work, why do counselors use it so much?

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It is not a problem that fear and powerlessness enter the work. It only becomes harmful if care providers do not recognize it or run away from it. Coercion is then the escape route par excellence.

The Swedish legal rot has been given a new chapter in...

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Yesterday came the Court of Appeal's final decision in the "ADHD case". The Court of Appeal does not grant leave to appeal, which means that the administrative court's decision to reject my appeal against the review board's decision to acquit SVT and Fråga doktorn's misleading ADHD element stands.

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