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ACTION ALERT to Free Alison Hymes! 22 Aug 2013 | 08:56 am
http://www.mindfreedom.org/mfi-faq/action-alert-to-free-alison-hymes Free Alison Hymes From Western State Hospital… We were asked to post the following updated alert for Alison by her friend, Frank. ...
A Disorder Is Manufactured 16 Aug 2013 | 10:02 pm
One of the most obvious and pervasive examples of the fraudulent medicalizing of everyday life can be seen in the pathologizing of childhood through the historically recent invention of the attention ...
Television Broadcaster ‘Off His Meds’? 3 Aug 2013 | 07:51 pm
NBC newscaster Brian Williams has been making irrational claims about Cleveland multiple kidnapper and rapist Ariel Castro. Brian Williams suggested Ariel Castro had a “mental illness”. Could it be th...
The Language Wars 29 Jul 2013 | 08:37 pm
The language wars are old and have a long history. Take psychiatry, for instance, where “sickness” starts with an insult applied to a human being. The human being thus insulted becomes a patient, and ...
Mental patient forswears hospitalization for punishment in prison 28 Jul 2013 | 09:24 pm
If anybody thinks the horrors of forced psychiatric treatment over blown, Las Vegas Channel 13 ABC News has a story about a man who prefers prison. In fact, so chagrined at his treatment was he that h...
Psychiatrists’ Say The Darnedest Things – 6/17/13 17 Jul 2013 | 07:49 pm
If I were going to include a periodic quote from the media on my blog, and I might eventually do so, the following might be a good place to start. As part of a HuffPost Book Club discussion on the bo...
Hoarding, That Honest Industry 14 Jul 2013 | 08:55 pm
If you’re a pack-rat, it’s time to fumigate for psychiatrists. On the tail of two hit reality television shows (just in case you were wondering where “mental disease” came from), “hoarding disorder” h...
Antipsychiatry and Forced Mental Health Treatment? 12 Jul 2013 | 10:28 pm
I recently read, for the first time, the long out of print Psychiatry and Antipsychiatry authored by David G. Cooper. The question I had, in dipping into this slender volume, it’s only 148 pages long,...
Future Psychiatry 8 Jul 2013 | 07:57 pm
Make way for the DSM-6 1/2 & 3/4. Some Oxford University mad shrink, a certain Kathleen Taylor, she calls herself a neurologist, thinks that religious fundamentalism and cult group membership could be...
Support For Victims of Psychiatric Torture 26 Jun 2013 | 08:54 pm
June 26 around the world is observed as an International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. One form of torture that is not widely recognized is non-consensual mental health treatment. Both the Ame...
