Rethinking Antidepressant Medications for Children and Adolescents: Safety and Efficacy
Clinical psychologist Dr. Roger McFillin dismantles the claim that SSRI antidepressants are safe or effective for children and adolescents.
False Science
5. No psychiatry, you can’t take over the world
All through psychiatry’s history there have been attempts to manipulate and control aspects of society way beyond any clinical address and based solely on the opinions of psychiatrists and others who control the subject.
Saving normal with Allen Frances, MD – Psychiatric diagnostic overreach.
Psychiatrist Allen Frances, from the DSM-IV task force and later wrote Saving Normal, discusses psychiatry’s slide into diagnostic overreach.
0. The really simple story of psychiatry
The real story of psychiatry No causes, no cures This is an examination of a subject that began around 150 years ago and promoted itself… Read More »0. The really simple story of psychiatry
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.
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
The Chemical Imbalance Myth of Depression – Another Lantern on Psychiatry’s Pharma-Driven Deception For decades, the public has been told a simple, comforting story: depression… Read More »The Chemical Imbalance Myth of Depression