“After nearly three decades as a member it is with a mixture of pleasure and disappointment that I submit this letter of resignation from the American Psychiatric Association.”
Author and clinical psychologist Bruce Levine sits down with Open Paradigm to discuss society’s relationship to drugs, psychiatry’s increasing credibility issue, and the cultural response… Read More »Psychiatry’s credibility – Interview with Bruce Levine
A new study published by UK researchers suggests that the long-standing and widely-accepted idea that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance and low serotonin… Read More »The Chemical Imbalance Myth of Depression
For decades, psychiatry in collusion with pharmaceutical companies and to a lesser degree device manufacturers, has turned the subject of mental health into a for-profit free-for-all where patients have become repeat customers.
Award winning doc exposing the inner workings of the pharmaceutical industry and how it created an epidemic of mental illness.
Pharmaceutical marketing goes beyond drug reps and TV ads. This activity covers how pharmaceutical companies use social psychology to affect therapeutic choices, and covers the use of key opinion leaders, medical science liaisons, medical meetings, geotargeting, geofencing, and other tactics used to market drugs to physicians.
Despite hundreds, if not thousands of contributions from psychiatrists in support of the chemical imbalance theory, some leading voices in the field deny there ever was a theory and the public have been misled. It was all somehow pharmaceutical marketing at fault.
Credibility As with just about any science, profession or activity, the research record on which the activity is based should be pure – not open… Read More »How psychiatry polluted itself
Is there anything not influenced by money? To answer this question, if there is anything, it isn’t very important. Commercial interests, Big Pharma, and device… Read More »Commercial interests have captured mental health
Dr. Peter Gøtzsche joins psychologist Nick Fortino on the 13th episode of the Psychology Is Podcast. This conversation focuses on the problems with current practices… Read More »Peter Gøtzsche | Critical Conversation about Psychiatry
Roger Whitaker, Journalist For more information, including links to the scientific evidence base for the statements in this video, as well as further resources: http://medicatingnormal.com/… Read More »How Much Might Big Pharma Pay An Academic Psychiatrist to Lie?
For more information, including links to the scientific evidence base for the statements in this video, as well as further resources: http://medicatingnormal.com/ Robert Whitaker on… Read More »Challenging the Chemical Imbalance Theory of Mental Disorders