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Set within a North American context (USA), and with relevance to both mental health and physical healthcare, this documentary looks at the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry. The documentary’s producers say that it exposes “… the insidious ways that illness is…
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By Steven Morgan, as published on Mad in America : “I left the American South with a Jesus on my shoulder. My new world, a leftist college out West, did not take so kindly. Beliefs that earned me friends and community at home…
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Featuring a Mad In America radio interview (35 minutes) with Dr. Jay Joseph, a clinical psychologist and author who brings a critical perspective to claims in the media and the academic literature that disordered genes underlie psychiatric disorders. His most…
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“Diagnosis is not destiny – It’s not the best of me – It’s not the tiniest part of the remainder of the rest o’ me! So quit thinking I’m unstable just ’cause some shrink gave me a label!” The above…
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Dr. Robert Lefever, a retired GP who is now working as a counsellor, created the first rehabilitation centre in the world to treat all types of addiction. In this 9 minute video he sets out a direct challenge to standard…
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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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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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