“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.”
Share Your Experience with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and information on litigation opportunities.
Psychiatry has been hesitant to provide a full account of possible side effects from electroconvulsive therapy and so they are given here.
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.
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
Where it had been promoted that withdrawal from paroxetene was safe and easy, in fact up to 7% of patients could experience withdrawal symptoms with some of these severe and prolonged.
BBC News. 19 October 2016. People who say their lives have been ruined by commonly prescribed antidepressants, known as SSRIs, are taking their case to… Read More »The ‘extreme’ side-effects of antidepressants
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.
The chance ‘discovery’ of psychotropic drugs saved psychiatry from oblivion by masking the subject’s lack of scientific foundation.
ECT psychiatrists and device manufacturers aren’t telling patients the truth about ECT side effects and this is now resulting in legal consequences Still pushing marketing over science
Award winning doc exposing the inner workings of the pharmaceutical industry and how it created an epidemic of mental illness.
Dr John Read is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of East London. He also researches the negative effects of bio-genetic causal explanations on prejudice, the experiences of recipients of anti-psychotic and anti-depressant medication, electroconvulsive therapy, and the role of the pharmaceutical industry.