The makers of this documentary film say: “Silje Marie Strandberg was seriously mentally ill. She had a heavy schizoaffective and dissociative disorder diagnose. She heard voices, hallucinated, cut herself, had an eating disorder and repeatedly tried to kill herself. She…
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Prof. David Pilgrim writes (in the Journal of Mental Health ): “The above question was explored by Peter Sedgwick in his classic text PsychoPolitics at the very moment when ‘anti-psychiatry’ was giving way to ‘critical psychiatry’ and the emergence of a New Social Movement…
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Focus on people, not technology or the DSM, to treat mental illness … Dr. Tom Burns talks to Matthew Reisz in this interview-article from 2013 as posted on the Times Higher Education website: “A leading psychiatrist has criticised ‘ultra-scientific’ approaches to…
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From the blog-site of Auntie Psychiatry : Auntie Psychiatry writes: “This cartoon required a lot of background reading and study. I wanted to be as certain as possible about the validity of the phrase ‘Long-term drugging with antipsychotics causes brain shrinkage.’ My starting point…
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In an article in Aero magazine , Lisa Marchiano writes: “The London Times recently carried a story about an avalanche of self-harm among British school children. According to the article , “school nurses are dealing with panic attacks, self-cutting, overdoses and eating disorders rather than…
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Mary O’Hagan, author of Madness Made Me: A Memoir , has prepared a Wellbeing Manifesto (with a New Zealand orientation), subtitled “A submission to the Government Inquiry into Mental Health and Addiction”. The manifesto includes seven wellbeing priorities, plus a listing of foundational principles of wellbeing and twelve…
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From the blog-site of Auntie Psychiatry : Auntie Psychiatry writes: “I had the idea for this cartoon while listening to the Royal Society of Medicine podcast: Episode 1 . The spiel reads… “In this episode, Prof Sir Simon Wessely, Consultant Psychiatrist and Past President of the Royal College of…
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Written by Mary O’Hagan (2014), the publishers say: “After her journey through madness Mary O’Hagan realized the mental health system and society did more harm than good. ‘Madness Made Me’ is a myth-busting account of madness and our customary responses…
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The publishers describe this book (2014) as being an “… urgently important critique of the widespread medicalization of normality. Anyone living a full, rich life experiences ups and downs, stresses, disappointments, sorrows, and setbacks. Today, however, millions of people who…
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From an article by Monica Cassani (August 2013, Mad in America website): “I noticed in my wanderings through social media, after the article by Giles Fraser in The Guardian titled Taking Pills for Unhappiness Reinforces the Idea That Being Sad is Not Human , that all sorts of people came out crying ‘foul.’ How dare Giles, they…
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