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A UK trial has found that confronting an avatar on a computer screen helped people who hear voices to cope better with these auditory hallucinations. Patients who received this therapy became less distressed and heard voices less often compared with…
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In this blog post from the Mad In America website , psychiatrist Lawrence Kelmenson writes: “As modern psychiatry grows larger and larger, it becomes hungrier and hungrier for more clients. Its formula is to invent fake ‘illnesses’ that everyone meets criteria for, and to lure people to seek…
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Today asylums have largely been consigned to history but mental illness is more prevalent than ever, whilst our culture teems with therapeutic possibilities: from prescription medications and clinical treatment to complementary medicines, online support, and spiritual and creative practices. Against…
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Written by Eric Maisel (2017), the publishers say that: “Humane Helping is a comprehensive, practical guide that helps clinicians shift their practice from the mental disorder-and-chemical fix and expert-talk models to a more humane, helpful model that increases their ability…
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In this book (published 2013), Dr. Ben Goldacre (psychiatrist) argues that: “Drugs are tested by the people who manufacture them, in poorly designed trials, on hopelessly small numbers of weird, unrepresentative patients, and analysed using techniques which are flawed by…
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An article by Lizzy Kirk in the Mental Movement Magazine … “So, I’m starting this wonderful new chapter in my life – something that I never imagined I’d be doing, and I’m doing it without medication! It’s been nearly 2 months now since I…
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The Guardian newspaper says: “David Tennant gives a brilliant performance as RD Laing, the radical psychiatrist who rewrote the rules on mental health treatment.” The review continues: “David Tennant is on pugnacious, mercurial and beady-eyed form in this very interesting…
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The Mental Fight Club write: “The UK mental healthcare system is deemed by many to be failing its users, and lauded by many more as one of the best in the world. As a community of people who have journeyed…
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