The Myth of Low-Serotonin & Antidepressants
Psychiatrist and researcher Mark Horowitz dismantles one of psychiatry’s most profitable myths: that depression is caused by a “chemical imbalance” of low serotonin.
False Science
More and more off-label, criminal use of antipsychotics
Antipsychotic use is dramatically increasing and beyond psychosis symptoms The use of antipsychotics is rapidly increasing and most of it is ‘off-label’, non-approved use.
Bruce Levine on Psychiatry’s Cultural Deception and the Pathologizing of Normal Behavior
In this revealing interview, psychologist and critic Bruce Levine pulls back the curtain on psychiatry’s unholy alliance with pharmaceutical interests. He describes how Big Pharma’s… Read More »Bruce Levine on Psychiatry’s Cultural Deception and the Pathologizing of Normal Behavior
Canada delays implementing assisted suicide for the mentally ill
Canadian government backing down on assisted suicide for the mentally ill apparently due to public outcry on the subject.
Psychiatry defends 30 years of lies about depression
For more than 30 years, psychiatry has been complicit with pharmaceutical company marketing in forwarding the largest fraud in the history of medicine: the lie of the ‘chemical imbalance’ theory of depression.
More on misuse of antipsychotics
The Washington Post report found that government attempts to ban to indiscriminate use of antipsychotics for elderly dementia patients had resulted in their use being replaced by anticonvulsant medications that could be used for the treatment of epilepsy.
2. Rockefeller Foundation and the failure of psychiatry as a science
The Rockefeller Foundation foisted the unproven theory of ‘biological psychiatry’ on the medical profession by attempting to stage-manage psychiatry into the scientific activity it thought it should be. This attempt to transform psychiatry into a vaguely valid science failed.
The Chemical Imbalance Myth of Depression
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
3. Psychiatry’s lack of science masked by pharmaceuticals
The chance ‘discovery’ of psychotropic drugs saved psychiatry from oblivion by masking the subject’s lack of scientific foundation.
4. ‘Mental health’ is defined and controlled by profit-driven commercial interests
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.
1. The beginning of ‘modern’ psychiatry – a descent into hell
We find a subject based on speculation, unable to establish causes of mental illness and whose primary solution is to murder the very people it should be caring for.
Another ECT myth debunked, again
A 2022 study finds no protection against suicide 30 days after ECT treatment and worse, a 30% increased risk of suicide in the following year.