Restraints & Solitary Confinement
Mental American Monster “In this part of the true horror, Mental American Monster The Sprawl of American Psychiatry, nineteenth century justifications of the use of… Read More »Restraints & Solitary Confinement
False Science
And just how is psychiatry improving mental health?
An examination of two countries that are among the highest psychiatric drug use per capita in the world finds that both have long statistical trends of increased suicides.
Psychiatry’s DSM – just a bunch of opinions
Psychiatry’s influential Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is only based on the consensus of opinions of a small number of American Psychiatric Association psychiatrists, rather than science.
Danish study finds the more psychiatric treatment, the greater risk of suicide
Despite attempts to explain away shocking outcomes, the bottom line is that persons receiving psychiatric interventions were found to more likely commit suicide
Cause of Death: Unknown – Big Pharma & the selling of mental illness
Award winning doc exposing the inner workings of the pharmaceutical industry and how it created an epidemic of mental illness.
Antipsychotics – a horrible replacement for even worse alternatives
When the first antipsychotic, chlorpromazine, emerged in the 1950s it was gleefully described by psychiatrists as a ‘chemical lobotomy’ – as though this was something to aim for.
Chemical imbalance – psychiatry as a pharma marketing tool
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.
ECT: Is this the best you can do?
It is estimated that the use of ECT (Electroconvulsive Therapy) in the USA alone provides around 1.8 billion dollars in annual income to psychiatry. It is big business and that business is being protected.
Neuroscience is failing psychiatry
“Unfortunately, it is still not possible to cite a single neuroscience or genetic finding that has been of use to the practicing psychiatrist in managing these illnesses despite attempts to suggest the contrary.”
The lunacy of lobotomy
If any activity in psychiatry conjures up pictures of lunatic psychiatrists running around performing sadistic human experimentation on terrified patients, it is lobotomy.
How psychiatry polluted itself
Psychiatry has spent years trashing its own credibility by polluting its research record to the point it simply cannot be taken at face value.
Euthanasia for the mentally ill – the slippery slope
Slippery slope? In the debates regarding euthanasia, you hear a lot about the “slippery slope”. Simply, this is where small steps are taken, and often… Read More »Euthanasia for the mentally ill – the slippery slope