psychiatry

The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic

Author: Editorial 22nd June 2020 0 Comments

“The Lives They Left Behind reveals the vast historical inadequacies of a psychiatric system that has yet to heal itself.” This book has been co-authored by Darby Penney and Peter Stastny, with photographs by Liza Rinzler. The publishers say: “When Willard…
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asylum, books, Darby Penney, Peter Stastny, psychiatry

Healing Voices

Author: Editorial 19th June 2020 0 Comments

“Healing Voices” is a documentary directed by PJ Moynihan and co-produced by PJ Moynihan and Oryx Cohen. It comes from Digital Eyes Film and is described as: “… an award-winning documentary which explores the experiences commonly labeled as ‘psychosis’ in…
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documentary, extreme states, films, hearing voices, psychiatry, psychosis, schizophrenia, videos

Unhinged: The Trouble with Psychiatry – A Doctor’s Revelations about a Profession in Crisis

Author: Editorial 15th June 2020 0 Comments

“Psychiatrists have settled for treating symptoms rather than causes, embracing the apparent medical rigor of DSM diagnoses and prescription in place of learning the more challenging craft of therapeutic counseling …” This book , written within an American context, comes from…
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counseling, counselling, Daniel Carlat, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders, psychiatry

Open letter regarding the reform and revision of diagnostic systems

Author: Editorial 10th June 2020 0 Comments

“We … recommend a paradigmatic revision of the empirical and conceptual frameworks used to think about mental health. A classification approach that pursues the neo-Kraepelinian goal (now nearly half a century old) of establishing biomarkers for individual conditions or symptoms…
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Diagnostic & Statistical Manual (DSM), diagnostic labelling, Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology(HiTOP), International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD), psychiatry, Research Domain Criteria(RDoC), Task Force on Diagnostic Alternatives (TFDA)

On a scale of 1-10, how crazy are you?

Author: Editorial 20th May 2020 0 Comments

In this TEDMed video (15 minutes), actor and playwright Elizabeth Kenny “performs an excerpt from her play – ‘Sick’ – dramatizing her horrifying journey through the American medical system”:

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bipolar, depression, Elizabeth Kenny, Psychiatric Drugs, psychiatry, psychosis, schizophrenia, Sick, theatre, videos

Unconventional Views About Mental Health

Author: Editorial 30th April 2020 0 Comments

“I am very concerned that senior, powerful, psychiatrists are trying to silence those who are vocal regarding psychotropic medications, and psychiatry’s ’medical model’. These issues can’t be ignored. Academic Psychiatry should acknowledge when new research raises serious issues (like withdrawal…
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academic psychiatry, Critical Psychiatry Network, Evgeny Legedin, Mad in the UK, Open Dialogue, psychiatry

My submission to Royal Commission on Mental Health Abuse

Author: Editorial 15th April 2020 0 Comments

“I don’t want anyone else to suffer the way I have. I don’t want forced psychiatry and forced psychiatric treatments in psychwards.” This 25 minute video (see below) from Janita Thurston is a submission to the Royal Commission established in…
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akathisia, Janita Thurston, mental health abuse, psychiatric diagnoses, Psychiatric Drugs, psychiatry, videos

Secrets of the drug trials

Author: Editorial 3rd April 2020 0 Comments

Panorama is a BBC TV programme that specialises in investigative journalism. In 2007 they broadcast “Secrets of the drug trials” (see video below), concerning which the BBC said: “Secret emails reveal that the UK’s biggest drug company distorted trial results…
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BBC Panorama, children and adolescents, depression, drug trials, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), pharmaceutical drugs, pharmaceutical industry, psychiatry, Seroxat, suicide

This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health

Author: Editorial 27th March 2020 0 Comments

Written by Nathan Filer, this book was originally called “The Heartland: Finding and Losing Schizophrenia”. The Goodreads review says: “Schizophrenia: whether it’s the associations it conjures or the people it brings to mind, it is a word we all have a view…
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audio, books, Diagnostic & Statistical Manual (DSM), diagnostic labelling, James Walters, language, Nathan Filer, psychiatry, schizophrenia

Postpsychiatry: Mental Health in a Postmodern World

Author: Editorial 25th March 2020 0 Comments

The subtitle of this book is “International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry”. It has been written by psychiatrists Pat Bracken and Philip Thomas. The publishers say: “How are we to make sense of madness and psychosis? For most of us the…
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anthropology, books, ethics, humanities, madness, Pat Bracken, Philip Thomas, philosophy, postmodern, psychiatry, psychosis

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