Psychiatric Drugs may Reduce Social and Emotional Capacities
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Listening to the Patient Voice: The Antidepressant Withdrawal Experience
“’A total of 97% of respondents were offered a prescription on their initial consultation with a doctor, 5% reported being offered talking therapy, and 0.6% were offered lifestyle advice (with some patients offered more than one option).’According to the researchers,…
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Soteria Past, Present, and Future: The Evidence For This Model of Care
In this video (see below) Robert Whitaker – an American journalist and author, writing primarily about medicine, science, and history – talks about the evidence base for Soteria houses. The video producers say: “There is a long record of evidence…
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Drowning in Doubts: Why I Think About Leaving Psychiatry
“90% of the people who enter my office are not mentally ill. They are having distressing emotional and psychological experiences. I would estimate 80% of these experiences are due to relational trauma, both current (abusive or unsatisfying relationships) and past…
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The ERNI Declaration: Making Sense of Distress Without “Disease”
This article was originally published on Mad in America. It begins: “ The ERNI (Emotions aRe Not Illnesses) declaration is based on the idea that distress does not equate to disease, dysfunction, dysregulation, or chemical imbalance. Signatories believe that there needs to be a shift from illness and…
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The BBC, Harrow, and a Public Left in the Dark
“Martin Harrow and Thomas Jobe began their study, which was funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, in the late 1970s. They enrolled 200 psychotic patients who had been treated conventionally in a mental hospital with antipsychotics and simply…
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Music Aids Mental Health: Science Shows Why
The Spin Doctors: “ADHD” Research
Interview: Researchers Deconstruct Ghostwritten Industry Trial for Antidepressant
“… articles go through a lot of drafts, maybe 10-15 drafts, that get passed around between the statisticians and the marketing people at the companies and then, after most of this has already been written, they go looking for the…
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“Diagnostic Dissent”: Experiences of Individuals Who Disagreed With Their Diagnosis
