Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry – A New Vision for Mental Health

Psychiatric Drugging of Children and Youth as a Form of Child Abuse: Not a Radical Proposition

Author: Editorial 21st September 2023 0 Comments

This research article by Dr. Bonnie Burstow has been published in Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry. The abstract says: “Although affirming that the psychiatric drugging of children constitutes both adultism (oppression based on treating adult behavior as normative) and sanism (oppression based…
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a coherent system

adultism, Bonnie Burstow, child abuse, children and adolescents, Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, pharmaceutical industry, psychiatry, sanism

Antidepressants increase the risk of suicide for some patients, scientists warn

Author: Editorial 19th April 2023 0 Comments

“Research into reports of people taking their own life showed drugs can be the motive and also give them the means” This report by Sarah Knapton has been published in The Telegraph. It begins: “Antidepressants raise the risk of suicide while also giving people the means…
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collaborative practice

antidepressants, depression, Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, John Read, Prozac, Research, suicide

Remembering a Quarter of a Million “Mental Patients” Murdered in the 1930s and 1940s

Author: Editorial 29th July 2022 0 Comments

This article by Dr. John Read has been published in Psychology Today. It begins: “In 1941, the staff of the Hadamar Psychiatric Institution—psychiatrists, nurses and secretaries—attended a ceremony and were each given a bottle of beer. The occasion was the murder of…
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a wellbeing society

chemical imbalance theory, Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, Genetics, holocaust, Jeffrey Masson, John Read, medical model, psychiatry, Psychology Today, schizophrenia

ECT depression therapy should be suspended, study suggests

Author: Editorial 12th June 2020 0 Comments

“The use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) to treat depression should be immediately suspended, a study says” Mark Easton reports for the BBC: “ECT involves passing electric currents through a patient’s brain to cause seizures or fits. Dr John Read, of the…
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a coherent system

BBC, depression, Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT), Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, Irving Kirsch, John Read, Mark Easton, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), Research