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Many people taking antidepressants discover they cannot quit, write Benedict Carey and Robert Gebeloff, reporting for the New York Times : “Victoria Toline would hunch over the kitchen table, steady her hands and draw a bead of liquid from a vial with a…
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Medical doctor Tamasin Knight has previously received psychiatric treatment and went on to write the practical guidebook Beyond Belief: Alternative Ways of Working with Delusions, Obsessions and Unusual Experiences . The book queries and rejects the usefulness of traditional psychopathological labels and treatments. It argues instead for accepting the individual’s own reality…
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From an article by Luke Montagu (Viscount Hinchingbrook) in the Daily Mail, January 2017: “Six years after taking my last dose of antidepressants, I am still suffering from their effects. I have constant nerve pain all over my body, like a burning pins and needles…
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From the Nordic Journal of Music Therapy and their abstract of research concerning “Musical recovery: the role of group singing in regaining healthy relationships with music to promote mental health recovery”: “Music therapy has previously been identified as a way to foster processes of mental…
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Healing Homes is a feature-length documentary film, directed by Daniel Mackler, which chronicles the work of the Family Care Foundation (Gothenburg, Sweden) who, in this era of multi-drug cocktails and psychiatric diagnoses-for-life, run programmes to help people recover from psychosis without medication. The organisation, backed…
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In 2011, the Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of the Psychiatric Times, Ronald Pies, stated, “In truth, the ‘chemical imbalance’ notion was always a kind of urban legend—never a theory seriously propounded by well-informed psychiatrists”. So how have mental health professionals retained their…
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Black Rainbow is the powerful first-person story of one woman’s struggle with depression and how she managed to recover from it through the power of poetry. In 1997, Oxford graduate, working mother and Times journalist Rachel Kelly went from feeling mildly anxious…
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The publishers describe this book by Ayelet Waldman as: “The true story of how a renowned writer’s struggle with mood storms led her to try a remedy as drastic as it is forbidden: microdoses of LSD. Her revealing, fascinating journey…
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This comes from an article by Robert Whitaker (author of Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill ): “Åsgård psychiatric hospital in Tromsø, Norway is a rather tired-looking facility, its squat buildings mindful of institutional architecture from the Cold War era, and in terms of its geographic…
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Dr. Jay Watts, writing in The Guardian newspaper: “When people ask whether mental illness is real or not, my suspicion is that they really mean: does mental illness have a physical, material cause, in the same way as cancer or a broken…
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