In a moving talk, journalist Johann Hari shares fresh insights on the causes of depression and anxiety from experts around the world — as well… Read More »This could be why you’re depressed or anxious | Johann Hari
DR MARK KOMRAD Per Lanterna: A psychiatry ethicist’s viewpoint on the rising trend of psychiatric euthanasia based on government edict and historical comparisons. This informative… Read More »The Role of Psychiatrists in the U.S. Eugenics & Sterilization Movements and the Nazi Holocaust
Dr. Joanna Moncrieff overturns the claim that psychiatric drugs work by correcting chemical imbalance, and analyzes the professional, commercial and political vested interests that have… Read More »The Myth of Chemical Cure: How and why we Misunderstand Psychiatric Medicine
Back in the day, those labelled ‘undesirables’ were put into mental asylums and kept in isolation. Today, those houses of horror have been refurbed for… Read More »History of New Zealand’s asylums and a look at where are they now
Schizophrenics in the United States currently fare worse than patients in the world’s poorest countries. Medical journalist Robert Whitaker argues that modern treatments for the… Read More »Long Term Effects of Anti-Depressant Medication with Robert Whitaker
Akathisia is a dangerous, possibly deadly extrapyramidal side-effect caused by certain medications, but most often, psychiatric medications. Akathisia is not a psychological condition nor a… Read More »Akathisia–How Bad Can Good Be?
BBC. William Sargant was a mental health professional from the United Kingdom, and was of questionable moral standing, in more ways than one. Here, one… Read More »William Sargant, Medical Science, and British Intelligence
Public Service Message – ‘The Quiz’ Question: Who commits more healthcare fraud and abuse? A. Hospital administrators? B. Medical doctors? C. Psychiatrists? Answer: Psychiatrists commit… Read More »Who Commits More Healthcare Fraud and Abuse? – ‘The Quiz’ – CCHR
Chronic Brain Impairment and Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal. Dr. Peter Breggin is speaking here at the Psychiatric Drugs Do More Harm Than Good conference in Copenhagen… Read More »Psych-Drugs Harm – Seven: Breggin – Brain Impairment and Withdrawal
DR JAMES DAVIES Author, anthropologist and psychotherapist, Dr. James Davies describes the origins of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) and the… Read More »The Origins of the DSM
In his talk, Peter will discuss the various ways in which psychiatry may be harming rather than helping its patients, citing evidence from his latest… Read More »Peter Gøtzsche – Overdiagnosed & Overmedicated
INTELLIGENCE SQUARED. Drug pushers. We tend to associate them with the bleak underworld of criminality. But some would argue that there’s another class of drug… Read More »Psychiatrists and the pharma industry are to blame for the current ‘epidemic’ of mental disorders