Sweden – A New Vision for Mental Health

Adding Antipsychotics Worsens Outcomes in Psychotic Depression

Author: Editorial 3rd January 2024 0 Comments

“Outcomes were worse for all, with young people on combination therapy twice as likely to experience rehospitalization or death by suicide than those on antidepressants alone.“ This report by Peter Simons has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “Antipsychotics…
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Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, Ahmed Al-Wandi, antipsychotics, Axel Nordenskjöld, Axel Nordenskjöld at Örebro University, Mad in America, Mikael Landén, Sweden

Psychiatry Killed Tuva Andersson, Whose Problem Was Anxiety

Author: Editorial 13th July 2023 0 Comments

This article by Dr. Peter Gøtzsche has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “Tuva Andersson was 37 years old when she committed suicide in 2019 in her apartment where she lived alone in Sweden. Her mother, Karina Hjelm, wanted…
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anxiety, diagnostic labelling, forced treatment, Mad in America, Peter Gøtzsche, Polypharmacy, psychiatry, suicide, Sweden, Tuva Andersson

Coming off lithium ‘lifted the veil’ of tranquillising medication for a more fulfilling life

Author: Editorial 24th August 2022 0 Comments

This article by John Kelly has been published by Mad in Ireland. It begins: “You have bipolar disorder? No need to be so bloody sheepish about it!’ Insisted Mattias bullishly, on hearing why I had an appointment that required me to take time…
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bipolar, drug tapering, Ireland, John Kelly, lithium, Mad in Ireland, psychiatry, Sweden

Ordinary Life Therapy: Experiences from a Collaborative Systemic Practice

Author: Editorial 16th April 2020 0 Comments

This book has been written by Carina Håkansson. The publishers say: “Ordinary Life Therapy is anything but ordinary. The work described in this book is relational, collaborative, generative and constructionist. It is also clinically sound and exciting – an extraordinary…
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books, Carina Håkansson, Collaborative Systemic Practice, Family Care Foundation, institutional care, Sweden