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.
Patient Abuse
Psychiatric drugs: Australia, what are they doing to your children?
Psychiatric drug prescribing for children is markedly increasing An Australian study regarding psychiatric drug prescribing for children found significant increases in all classes of psychotropic… Read More »Psychiatric drugs: Australia, what are they doing to your children?
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
Michelle Himes v Somatics llc – suit against ECT machine manufacturer
Anna is a childhood psychiatric drug and a teenage electroshock survivor. She founded Life After ECT to ensure people injured by electroconvulsive therapy have easy access to resources that can… Read More »Michelle Himes v Somatics llc – suit against ECT machine manufacturer
Electroconvulsive therapy: ‘I have no memory of a year of my life’
“It’s very difficult to talk about because I have very little memory of this period,” she said. “There are huge gaps around things that I really should remember as a… Read More »Electroconvulsive therapy: ‘I have no memory of a year of my life’
Psychiatric drugs are incredibly destructive and neurotoxic
Dr Peter Breggin is an American psychiatrist and author. He was instrumental in stopping lobotomies being carried out in the USA and has, on multiple occasions, represented plaintiffs in legal… Read More »Psychiatric drugs are incredibly destructive and neurotoxic
The Dark side of Science: The Lobotomy, the worst surgery in history?
A lobotomy, or leucotomy as it was originally known, was a form of psychosurgery, a neurosurgical treatment of a mental disorder that involves severing connections in the brain’s prefrontal cortex… Read More »The Dark side of Science: The Lobotomy, the worst surgery in history?
Statement of Gloria Barr for Lake Alice Child and Adolescent Unit hearing
Ms Barr gives evidence about her perspectives on the Lake Alice staff, the use of electroconvulsive therapy without anaesthetic on children and her experiences while working in the Child and… Read More »Statement of Gloria Barr for Lake Alice Child and Adolescent Unit hearing
Psychiatric treatment or torture? The Oak Ridge experiment
THE FIFTH ESTATE. Convicted sex offenders at an Ontario psychiatric facility were sent to be therapists for women with mental illness at another forensic institution… Read More »Psychiatric treatment or torture? The Oak Ridge experiment
Peter Gøtzsche | Critical Conversation about Psychiatry
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
NZ Government Guilty of Torture – A Nations Shame – extended cut Newshub expose’
The extended cut version of New Zealand National Shame for the inactions leaving all of the victims of Lake Alice and other State run and… Read More »NZ Government Guilty of Torture – A Nations Shame – extended cut Newshub expose’
Confronting coercion in psychiatry
WHO Regional Office for Europe. Restrictive interventions, such as seclusion and restraint, are widely prevalent practices in mental health and social services in countries everywhere.… Read More »Confronting coercion in psychiatry
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