Laura Delano, David Oaks, Ted Chabasinski and Adina Lambert in Philadelpha
Laura Delano at Occupy the American Psychiatric Association, May 5, 2012, in Philadelphia
David Oaks at Occupy the American Psychiatric Association, May 5, 2012
Ted Chabasinski...
Imagining A Different Future in Mental Health
Robert Whitaker speaks about how the data shows we could have far better outcomes for people diagnosed with mental illness by going to a selective...
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...
5 Tips on How to Start a Conversation About Mental Health
5 people with experience of mental health problems give us their top tips on how to start a conversation about mental health.
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Exploring Psychiatry’s “Black Hole”: The International Institute on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal
When Carina Håkansson sent out an invitation for a symposium on "Pharmaceuticals: Risks and Alternatives," some of the world's top scientists, along with experts-by-experience, came from 13 countries to explore better ways to respond to people in crisis.
You May Be Suffering From Antidepressants (The Adbusters)
You May Be Suffering From Antidepressants (The Adbusters)
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“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,...
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...
Richard Bentall on Treating Psychosis
Richard Bentall, clinical psychologist and author of Madness Explained presents new evidence for the limitations of anti-psychotic medication and of the psychiatric establishment.
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“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...
Encouraging Words on Recovery from Benzos
Bliss Johns, author of Recovery & Renewal and founder of the Recovery Road Charity, gives an eloquent few words of encouragement for those still in...
Care Farms of the Netherlands
Care Farms of the Netherlands is a beautiful and inspiring film. It tells the story
of an innovative program that combines agriculture with social care...
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...
Pat Deegan on Recovery and Nonviolence
This video by Pat Deegan, inspired by the Newtown tragedy, was brought to our attention by BeyondMeds.com.
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Canadian Study Links Cannabis and Psychosis in Youth
The Cannabis and Psychosis Awareness Project, a four-year study from Canada that was released on Tuesday, finds that smoking marijuana - particularly heavy use in...
Pressuring Parents to Drug Children
Jim Gottstein on Pressuring Parents to Drug Children
A Psychiatrist’s Perspective on Antidepressants
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM: 4 principal tenets that may undermine your current understanding of the efficacy and safety of antidepressant medication.
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...
Psychiatric Drugs: More Dangerous Than You Ever Imagined (A New Video)
“Psychiatric Drugs are More Dangerous than You Ever Imagined” is the newest video in my series Simple Truths about Psychiatry. It provides a simple, direct and inescapable warning about this epidemic of harm induced by psychiatric drugs. The video sounds a necessary alarm about this growing tragedy, involving millions of people and their families, who never foresaw the disabling results of taking psychiatric drugs and giving them to their children.
Developing a Compassionate Voice as a Step Toward Living With Voices
I've previously written about the possible role of compassion focused therapy in helping people relate better to problematic voices, in my posts Could compassionate self talk replace hostile voices?, Feed Your Demons!, and A Paradox: Is Our System for Responding to Threats Itself a Threat? I'm happy to see more interest being taken in this kind of approach, and a video has just become available which, in 5 minutes, very coherently explains how a compassion focused approach can completely transform a person's relationship with their voices and so transform the person's life!
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...
Healing Voices to Premier at the Boston Independent Film Festival in April
Full scene released exclusively on Mad in America from the upcoming feature-length documentary HEALING VOICES. It will premiere Saturday, April 16 at the Boston...
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...
