Martin Harrow: The Galileo of Modern Psychiatry (1933 – 2023)
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Misreporting Results and Publication Bias Common in Psychiatry Research
Acute Religious Experiences: Madness, Psychosis and Religious Studies
The Schizophrenia Genetics Illusion—A Century of Failure and Hype
Study Highlights Benefits of Non-Medical Approaches to Voice Hearing
This article by Ashley Bobak has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “New research supports a new, dialogic, non-medicalized approach to helping people who hear upsetting voices. The “ Talking with Voices ” (TwV) approach, which frames voice hearing relationally and understands…
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Delusion and Reason: An Argument for a Phenomenological Model for Understanding Schizophrenic Delusion
This article by Gert Jensen, published in the Schizophrenia Bulletin, includes a very illuminating first-hand account of the subjective, lived experience of what is called ‘schizophrenia’. The article begins: “The nature of some schizophrenic delusions seems distinct from delusions present in…
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Schizophrenia and Genetics: The End of An Illusion
This book comes from Jay Joseph. The publishers say: “Schizophrenia is a widely investigated psychiatric condition, and though there have been claims of gene ”associations,’ decades of molecular genetic studies have failed to produce confirmed causative genes. In this book, Joseph…
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Shamans Among Us: Schizophrenia, Shamanism and the Evolutionary Origins of Religion
The Neurodiversity Paradigm in Psychiatry: Robert Chapman, PhD
Remembering a Quarter of a Million “Mental Patients” Murdered in the 1930s and 1940s
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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