Spontaneous Improvement in Depression, With and Without Placebo
Researchers at Columbia University and Queens College reviewed 10 trials of antidepressants that used wait-listed controls in order to determine the contribution of spontaneous...
Remembering Kate
I first wrote this story of my mother back in 2000, six years after her death. I share it today as my first entry on this important blog, in the hope that people will see that there is another way. In future entries I want to share with you why I don't believe in mental illness and the use of psychotropic medications, and how I believe people who are experiencing emotional distress can get well, stay well, and live the lives they want to live.
Vermont Moves to Community Care After Hurricane Destroys State Hospital
Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin "is going to use this tragedy of losing our State Hospital during (hurricane) Irene as an opportunity to deliver the...
Anhedonia in Schizophrenia Reflects Beliefs, Not Deficits
Researchers at the University of Maryland investigated "the emotion paradox" in schizophrenia; the tendency of individuals with schizophrenia to report similar levels of positive...
Mindfulness-Based Therapy for Psychosis
Researchers in Amsterdam investigated the use of a mindfulness-based therapy for 16 people recovering from a recent experience of first-episode psychosis. 13 completed the...
Recovery Involves Social Support, Self-Reliance, and Trust
Researchers in Brazil followed sixteen individuals after a first-episode psychotic experience to understand their subjective experience of recovery. They found that the participants described...
Sensitivity to Threatening Faces Predicts Depression
Researchers in China found that among 27 young adults with early-onset major depressive disorder matched against 25 healthy controls, MRI detected elevated response in...
Schizophrenia: Manifestations, Incidence and Course in Different Cultures
Schizophrenia: Manifestations, Incidence and Course in Different Cultures.Jablensky, A. Psychological Medicine, supplement 20 (1992):1-95.
The second WHO study was called the Determinants of Outcome of Severe...
The Soteria Project.
During the 1970s, the head of schizophrenia studies at the NIMH, Loren Mosher, conducted an experiment that compared treatment in a homelike environment (called...
Environmental Factors Drive Mania
Harvard researchers investigated 6,214 cases of major depression for factors that would predict transition to bipolar disorder. Clinical characteristics such as age of onset...
Are There Schizophrenics for Whom Drugs May be Unnecessary or Contraindicated?
1978 study of 80 young males diagnosed with acute schizophrenia, finding that "many unmedicated-while-in-hospital patients showed greater long-term improvement, less pathology at follow-up, fewer...
No Evidence for Antipsychotics’ Efficacy
In a review of 681 studies comparing use of antipsychotic medication with placebo, milieu, or psychosocial treatment in first- or second-episode schizophrenia spectrum disorders,...
The Antidepressant Solution
Book by Joseph Glenmullen, a "Step-by-Step Guide to Safely Overcoming Antidepressant Withdrawal, Dependence and 'Addiction.'"
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Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs
Will Hall's Harm Reduction Guide, published by the Icarus Project and Freedom Center.
Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry
Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry is a "book of alternatives around the world. (Ex-) users and survivors of psychiatry, therapists, psychiatrists, lawyers, social scientists and relatives report...
Benzodiazepines: How They Work and How to Withdraw
Protocol for the Treatment of Benzodiazepine Withdrawal, written by Dr. C. Heather Ashton ("The Ashton Manual"), published and available free of charge on Benzo.org.
This...
Benzo.org
U.K. based website focussing on benzodiazepine addiction, withdrawal & recovery.
Psychrights
The Law Project for Psychiatric Rights (PsychRights) is a non-profit public interest law firm whose mission is to mount a strategic legal campaign against...
Coming Off Psychiatric Meds
Comingoff.com is a website that "...aims to give you up to date information about psychiatric medication, how it functions and the withdrawal process. It is...
Beyondmeds.com
Beyond Meds presents alternatives to psychiatry, along with information and support for withdrawal and recovery.
Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Protracted Withdrawal Syndrome Round-up
Beyond Meds has numerous resources on the topic of psychiatric drug withdrawal and is a starting point for withdrawal information on the web.
Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs: Successful Withdrawal From Neuroleptics, Antidepressants, Lithium, Carbamazepine and Tranquilizers
Compendium of experience from 28 people around the world who have gone through withdrawal, along with the contributions of eight professionals on how they...
International Guide to the World of Alternative Mental Health
Alternative Mental Health.com offers a directory of alternative mental health practitioners, a bookstore, support groups, email lists, and a monthly newsletter in support of reducing...
Rufus May
Rufus May, Ph.d., also known as "The Doctor Who Hears Voices," is a clinical psychologist who has also been forcibly hospitalized, medicated, and diagnosed...
The Road Back
A widely used outpatient drug withdrawal program. The Road Back publishes the free book How to Get Off Psychoactive Drugs Safely.
