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You Can Help Stop Psychiatric Oppression!In his book entitled The Careless Society. Community and its Counterfeits, John McKnight succinctly describes the therapeutic ideology as follows:(1) The basic problem is you. If you want to know what you can do to protect yourself and your family, click here.
No, we are not $cientologists, and you will not find any $cientology-run links on this page. Please do not email us about Breggin, Szasz etc. being $cientologists. Impossible as it may seem, there are people other than $cientologists who are deeply concerned about these issues. If you are worried about $cientology front groups go here for a list. If you have documented proof that any of the authors we are linked to are $cientologists, email us with details.
The DSM-5 is now being preparedThe doctors who are working on DSM-5 -- the same ones who are paid by drug companies to diagnose mental diseases -- have been required to sign a non-disclosure agreement. That's right, the preparation of this document which affects millions of people's emotional and legal lives is being done by shadows hiding behind closed doors. Click here to read a New York Times article about the DSM-5 coverup.
Medication as Legalized Child AbuseGardiner Harris: Psychiatrists, Children, and the Drug Industry's Role From the New York Times. A good introductory article to the issue -- but see the articles below for the real horror story.How much did AstraZeneca Plc, Pfizer Inc. and Eli Lilly & Co. pay to have Seroquel, Geodon and Zyprexa found safe for children and teens? Proposed Universal Mental Health Screening George W. Bush's New Freedom in Mental Health Commission proposes mandatory screening of preschoolers and their parents for mental illness, expanding school-based mental health programs and requiring specific treatments for specific conditions, including the use of specific medications. Parents are already being charged with child abuse for refusing to put or keep their kid on meds. The Psycho State This letter is from Rep. Ron Paul, M.D. This is one reason a lot of people wanted to vote for him for President in 2008. More from Ron Paul on this subject Teen Screen Exposed Even the Amen Hallelujahs don't like Teen Screen!
Here's a kid whose heartbreaking story is covered in the national press as a "schizophrenic child". (much more here) Her father openly admits to beating her, starving her, taking her toys away, saying he "didn't know what else to do with her" to eradicate behaviors he didn't like -- which come off irresistably as the expressions of a highly intelligent child. And they wonder why she is violent? She's seven -- and she's on a cocktail of medications now that would gag a maggot. Ann Bauer: Psychiatric Meds Drove My Autistic Son Crazy Be very, very careful about any doctor who says your autistic child or young adult needs to be on psychiatric medication. She doesn't mention it in this article -- we found it in 'The Body Electric' which had been carefully buried and almost unreferenced in Salon -- but the only way her son can get even partial relief is to undergo periodic electroshock treatments. Look up neuroleptic toxicity and neuroleptic malignant syndrome for some hard facts. Note that Bauer has a reputation for rewriting her stories and just conveniently doesn't mention certain facts. So she might have "overlooked" that the so-called autistic catatonia her son was diagnosed with was caused by medications he was already taking. More autism links below. Dawn McKeen: The outer limits of schizophrenia treatment Treating children for schizophrenia before they show any signs of it? Ain't modern psychiatry great?
Rob Waters: Medicating Aliah From Mother Jones magazine. The psychiatric industry is altogether too enmeshed with the pharmaceutical industry, and anyone who gets close to the truth has their career destroyed. Meanwhile, children with little or nothing wrong with them are being given not just one drug, but six or eight at a time.
Robert Whitaker, author of Mad in America, believes that the drugs themselves cause mental illness.
Are Prozac and Other Psychiatric Drugs Causing the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America? April 2010 interview with investigative reporter Robert Whitaker, author of Mad in America, about the dramatic increase in mental illness disability and its surprising cause. You may also want to read Psychiatric Drugs - Chemical Warfare on Humans which is another interview with him in Natural News August 27, 2005. Even if psychiatric medications are helpful to you, they may be wrecking your health. Prozac Truth Be fully informed when taking any of the new psychiatric medications, or especially putting a child or loved one on them. Psychdata Blog reprints news articles from the U.S., England and Australia concerning the use and misuse of psychiatric drugs. Psychiatric Drug Facts By Peter R. Breggin, M.D. What your doctor may not know about how psychiatric drugs really work, adverse drug effects on the brain and mind, the role of the FDA, drug company practices, recent medical and legal developments, electroshock and psychosurgery. Ritalin Death: The Truth Behind ADHD A grieving father now dedicated to informing the public of the dangers of psychiatric meds. Pay particular attention to the page revealing the facts behind what so-called experts tell you about ADHD. Also check out ADHD Fraud, especially if you or your child are labeled. Along these same lines, please read Christopher Lane's article When Drug Trials Go Terribly Wrong - Lessons from a Bereaved Mother. Michael Morford: Drug up your kid today! This just in: Prozac is a better treatment than talking to your kid. Isn't life fabulous?!: The medical establishment is obsessed with stuffing kids full of nerve-deadening chemicals as a solution not only to ordinary life problems, but normal child and adolescent behavior. Click here to find out what YOU can do about these issues, to protect yourself and your family.
Psychiatry as a Tool of Social Controlthe type who strap on their manhood with their gunbelts, just can't afford to lose face to a 51-year-old widow woman? Shirley Allen, a self-sufficient Illinois widow, held police and mental health authorities at bay for thirty-nine days in September and October, 1997. The police, never wasting an opportunity for national publicity, bombasted her with the same tactics that failed at Mount Carmel Center four years earlier; shutting off her water, electricity and phone, using teargas, rubber bullets, police dogs, blasting music at the house day and night, eventually shutting off her power and water. Police said this was "for her own good." A neighbor who tried to bring her food and water was arrested. Ms. Allen, a retired nurse, was known for speaking her mind about mental health issues and National Guard activity in the region of the state where she lives. In an attempt to acquire her property, which includes two lucrative oil wells, her brother obtained a court order that she undergo "psychiatric evaluation", and the cops served the order with a side of teargas. The media portrayed Ms. Allen as a "mentally unstable" recluse, largely because she's got a gun and ain't afraid to use it. Things haven't changed much since the 1800s, when composer Hersilie ("Memoirs of a Madwoman") Rouy was institutionalized by her brother so he could get his hands on the fortune her stepdad had left her. Judi Chamberlain: Confessions of a Noncompliant Patient "I was presumed not to be able to take care of myself, not to be able to make decisions in my own best interest, and to need mental health professionals to run my life for me. For this total disregard of my wishes and feelings, I was expected to be appreciative and grateful. In fact, anything less was tacked as a further symptom of my illness..." Pat Crossman, LCSW: The Etiology of a Social Epidemic Explores the origins of so-called "attachment disorder" and the brutal, sometimes fatal "therapies" designed to cure it. But she goes further, exploring the origins of psychoanalysis and the place of psychiatry as a tool of social control. Interesting fact: Did you know that many of the women exhibited to medical students by Jean Charcot, the father of "hysteria", were exotic dancers who knew exactly what they were doing and were faking it for money? One of these grande hysterie clients, Marie (Blanche) Wittman (the lady in the famous painting!), revealed it all, but it's been hushed up. (There was a lot more to the goings-on at the Salpetriere than the psych-boys' club would have you believe. Even legitimate clients at the institute were encouraged -- or coerced -- to put on a show for the camera. Many of them were not mentally ill, others were -- but all found they got better treatment if they played up for the doctors. L.J. Davis: An Encyclopedia of Insanity Brilliant article on the idiocies perpetuated by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Did you know you could be sent up for shyness, bad handwriting or drinking too much coffee? P. Guillaume: The Double Bind This is, at gut level, about crazymaking behavior. Addresses exactly what happens in emotional abuse, and suggests that not all schizophrenia is biochemical but can be caused by the crazymaking behavior of others. One of the hard lessons we personally have learned in life is that other people can make you feel crazy. See also Al Siebert's article below. Mindfreedom Used to be Dendron. Internet human rights mailing list: Free, one-way, low-volume. Mostly, Mindfreedom helps people who have been condemned to electroshock therapy against their consent, but it is not just for that. To subscribe, go here. John Nash: Criticism of A Beautiful Mind The real "Beautiful Mind" guy has some harsh things to say about the Russell Crowe film. Click here for a true-life film narrated by Nash describing his real experience of schizophrenia. Julia Rawe: When Colleges Go On Suicide Watch Time Magazine. Universities are forcing students to "get help" or leave school, whether they actually have a mental disease or not. Some who are really having difficulty say they're helped by this, but others say it's all about the lawsuits. Audrey Shomo: Manifesto of a Noncompliant Mental Patient Why do people automatically assume that all mentally ill people need medication? Because that's what they've been told to expect. Al Siebert: Psychiatry's Lack of Insight: Four Double-Binds That Place Patients in a Living Nightmare Like P. Guillaume's article above, this is a list with examples of common practices that make clients feel crazy, whether or not they really are. How would you feel if somebody did this to you? See also The Double Bind, from the ToxicDrums website. Thomas Szasz Is the mental health industry merely another tool of social control? Is all this psychiatric malarkey just an excuse to marginalize people who are different, exiling them from mainstream society? How much of what we call "treatment" is helpful to genuinely troubled people, and how much is hate crimes? You can read The Szasz Blog for up-to-date information. John H. Richardson: What if all drugs were legalized? That's all drugs? Just decriminalize and regulate them instead>? Did you know this has recently been done in Mexico? Did you know that a plan to legalize marijuana was actually suggested by a top aide to President Bush? Multiple PersonalityOf course there really is such a thing. We're multiple, we know plenty of multiples, both trauma-based and naturally occurring groups. That doesn't mean that the psychiatric industry hasn't misused and exploited multiplicity for their own ends. Even the diagnosis called Multiple Personality Disorder/Dissociative Identity Disorder (MPD/DID) is viewed by many trauma survivors who are multiple as a disempowering insult to survivors. (scroll down, read comments from Irene) Emily's Story Therapists experiment on known multiples without their permission. Please write to us if anything like Emily's story has happened to you. Cynthia Hanson: Dangerous Therapy An indepth look at the Bennett Braun scandal, from Chicago Magazine. Mark Pendergrast: Multiple Personalities and Satanic Cults This is from his book Victims of Memory and describes Judith Peterson's brutalizing "therapy". Ann Zimmerman: Cult of Madness The Martha Hurt / Stephen Ash story. "...It was clear these doctors did to me exactly what they said my family did. They isolated me, fed me lies, and made me crazy." Some more background on Colin Ross here: he's finally being exposed as the Mr. Tinfoil Hat Guy we always knew he was. Multiple Personality at the Institute for Noetic Sciences
Anti-Psychiatry (Non-$cientology) LinksBe careful about anti-psych and cult awareness information pages. Some are legitimate, but others are shills for $cientology. CAIC (Cult Awareness Information Center) is a known Scientology front as is the Cult Awareness Network.Rick Ross is all right and you might find valuable information there on therapy/ counseling organizations, and self-improvement and human potential groups connected with business, not just religious organizations. He has a large section on personal relationships and domestic abuse (yes, there is such a thing as a cult of one person). More Scientology front groups here to watch out for. Say No To Psychiatry Why psychiatry in general is detrimental. Gives you some background. A little soapboxy at times but who can blame the guy. Stop Bad Therapy This site endorses the False Memory Syndrome Foundation, which we do NOT. We link to them only because they carry valuable information which might be helpful, including a full account of the Bennet Braun mess and why The Courage to Heal isn't the greatest book in the world. The Function of Expert Evidence in Differentiating Real from Fabricated Sexual Abuse Claims Some of the most unlikely cases turn out to be real; some of the most likely ones turn out not to be. Read this if you have or believe in recovered memories or if you doubt that recovered memories could ever be real. Lesbian Feminist Community Therapist Escaped Official Disbarment for Unethical Sex An eye-opening scandal! Has this happened to you? Roger Brown's Articles This sociologist has written a series of articles exposing organized crime and corruption in private and public child-saving institutions including Child Protective Services.
Cults, Toxic Friendships,
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Experience With False Memories By Anthony Temple. Speaking of cult awareness, read this one. |
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Title: Creating Hysteria Author: Joan Acocella Publisher: Jossey-Bass 1999 ISBN:: 0787947946 An expanded version of a controversial article originally written for The New Yorker in 1998. It's an excellent book, makes excellent sense, is a powerful expose of the crap that goes on in the mental health industry including the disempowerment of women, and draws entirely the wrong conclusions. We recommend that EVERYONE who is in therapy (multiple or not) read this book. Read it if you've noticed your doctor trying to dredge up questionable traumatic memories. If you feel like you're being pressed to accept a certain view of yourself, your people (if you are multiple), and your childhood that doesn't fit the truth that YOU know, if you feel you're being pushed to think of yourself as multiple when you know you are not, then it's time to look for a different therapist. Many therapists still use the tactics described in this book. Acocella may be completely mistaken in saying multiplicity doesn't exist, but she has her facts straight about what goes on in the mental health industry. |
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Title: Talking Back To Prozac: What Doctors Won't Tell You Author: Peter and Ginger Breggin Publisher: St. Martin's 1995 ISBN: 0312956061 Amazon.com sez: It's time to take a closer look at this supposedly "safe" drug. Peter Breggin picks through the studies used to justify Prozac's safety, often uncovering flaws and shoddy science. He details the FDA approval process, including who on the panel was paid by whom. The key players and the details will surprise you. |
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Title: They Say You're Crazy: How the World's Most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Who's Normal Author: Paula J. Caplan Publisher: Perseus, 1995 ISBN: 0201407582 Amazon.Com Sez: In a disturbing insider's look at how the mental health establishment decides who is normal and who is "sick," [Caplan] charges that the DSM board's decision-making process, dominated by a handful of conservative white male psychiatrists, is arbitrary, condescending, profit-driven and riddled with personal biases and political consideration. Facile labeling of personality problems, she shows, can cause personal suffering as well as material harm because DSM categories figure prominently in who wins child custody, who gets hospitalized against their will and whose psychotherapy is covered by insurance. |
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Title: Not Even Wrong: Adventures in Autism Author: Paul Collins Publisher: Bloomsbury USA ISBN: 1582343675 This book by the father of a child who may or may not be on the "spectrum" is unique among parental accounts because of its lack of tragedy. Instead of seeing his son as a victim of a horrible devastating illness, Collins refused to buy into the pronouncements of alleged experts. He saw his son's unique reading and mathematical abilities and his love of computers over people as part of what was right about the kid. His own scholarly gifts and interests in historical trivia lead him to go back in time to find individuals who may or may not have been autistic, some of them now well known like Henry Darger, some all but forgotten. Even after Collins finally lets himself get talked into believing that his son needs some kind of help to improve his ability to communicate his needs if nothing else, he repeats his belief that it's a mistake to try to force we autistics into so called normality. Parents of other autistic kids tell Collins about how their kid went through the pink monkey routine when they were mainstreamed, but did fine in an autistic program or school where they're allowed to communicate in their own way. Simply letting autistic people be autistic is such a revolutionary idea -- and we believe it is a future reality. A review of Not Even Wrong, by Jay Young If you are interested in books by autistic authors, try Amanda Baggs' Autistic Authors Booklist. |
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Title: The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders Author: Peter Conrad Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN: 080188585X A scholarly examination of how the psychiatric industry, in cooperation with the mass media, furthered the notion of ordinary life problems as mental diseases that require lifelong medication. |
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Title: The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder Author: Allan V. Horwitz Publisher: Oxford Univ. Press, 2007 ISBN: 0195313046 By accident or design, modern psychiatry doesn't do enough to distinguish between actual depressive disorders and simple feelings of sadness, grieving, or even just the blues. Like shyness, the normal feelings and behaviors associated with sadness are being pathologized. One reviewer says: "When we take a medication to make ordinary sadness go away, are we perhaps postponing our reckoning with experiences of sadness until a later time when such experiences may catch up with us?" |
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Title: Making Us Crazy: DSM The Psychiatric Bible and the Creation of Mental Disorders Author: Herb Kutchins Publisher: Free Press, 1997 ISBN: 0684822806 Cogent information on the creation of the DSM as a political tool, mostly for the benefit of insurance companies. See also Encyclopedia of Insanity, by L.J. Davies.
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Title: Shyness -- How Normal Behavior Became A Sickness Author: Christopher Lane Publisher: Yale 2007 ISBN: 0300124465 Remember the outcry when the cute little cartoons advertising Zoloft, an antidepressant (which can cause hallucinations and suicidal thoughts), were retooled to promote Zoloft's use as a medicine for social anxiety disorder? Or the Prozac commercial that magically changed the nametags at a cocktail party? First you invent the pill, right, then you invent the illness for which the pill is the cure -- you know that one. Using as his sources letters and memos written by mental health professionals, Lane builds a very convincing case for another instance of mental health industry fraud in which shy persons are told they have a mental disease. He also demonstrates how the public was fooled into thinking that these pills had been sufficiently tested and were relatively harmless. |
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Title: Against Therapy Author: Jeffrey Masson Publisher: Common Courage '93 ISBN: 1567510221 Please read this before opting for any kind of mainstream psychotherapy. You owe it to yourself and to your household, if any. 4/25/2002 6:58 a.m. I am really sorry about the 'Acrylic Fiber' results on this link! It has been fixed. Also by Jeffrey Masson: |
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Title: A Dark Science: Women, Sexuality, and Psychiatry in the Nineteenth Century Author: Jeffrey Masson Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux 1988 ISBN: 0374521239 Want to know the atmosphere and belief system in which modern psychiatry began? "Here translated for the first time are a series of shocking texts from the 19th century German psychiatric literature which, while almost completely unknown to modern readers, have had a devastating influence on attitudes toward women and children in the 20th century. The articles on the sexual "lies" and sexual "fantasies" of children were seminal, brutal and still resonate in today's literature, having taken a terrible toll on the intellectual ideas of modern psychiatry." |
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Title: For Your Own Good: Hidden Brutality in Child-Rearing, and the Roots of Violence Author: Dr. Alice Miller Publisher: Noonday ISBN: 0374522693 If you think you were never abused, read this book. Most people do suffer some form of physical, emotional or intellectual brutality in childhood. People who are acknowledged by society to have been abused tell horrific battle stories. Those of us who were "merely" slapped, spanked, and bullied as children are thus inclined to overlook our experiences as trivial. Most child abuse goes under the sobriquet of parental discipline. It affects our thoughts and feelings in later life, often in subtle ways we don't even notice. "It made me stronger" often simply means "it made me numb". This is not a whiny book, nor is it a Bradshaw feel-good hugfest. Child abuse exists and chances are you've been through it. Don't revisit it on your kids. And the next time someone says "You think you had it tough" and starts talking about some publicized extreme case, show them this book. This book is now available in its entirety on line. Click here to read For Your Own Good in free e-text.
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Title: A Brilliant Madness (American Experience) Produced by: James E. Dunford Directed by: Mark Samels Publisher: PBS Home Video 2002 ASIN: B000067S10 The real "Beautiful Mind" guy has some harsh cricitism of the Ron Howard film. This is a much better documentary of what really happened, partly narrated by Nash himself. |  |
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Title: Bedlam: Greed, Profiteering, and Fraud in a Mental Health System Gone Crazy Author: Joe Sharkey Publisher: St. Martin's 1994 ISBN: 0312104219 Based on the award-winning "Profitable Addictions" series of investigative reports by the Houston Chronicle, this book explains the classic psychiatric insurance scam by focusing on one institution, Fair Oaks Hospital in Summit, New Jersey. Amazon says: "Many in the psychiatric profession have abandoned the severely mentally ill while private, investor-owned hospitals offer bounties of up to $1500 to clergy, teachers, police and "crisis counselors" for recruiting -- one Texas legislator uses the term "body-snatching" -- troubled adults, adolescents and children covered by insurance policies that pay up to $30,000 for inpatient care. In 1993, the fraud practiced by Medicare- and Medicaid-subsidized hospital chains such as National Medical Enterprises, with 86 psychiatric hospitals and revenues of $1.74 billion in 1991, was revealed by the FBI. The psychiatric industry, Sharkey warns in this chilling, well-documented account, is lobbying for a large slice of the health reform pie and continues to "create mental illness with advertising."
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Title: The Myth of Mental Illness (Revised Edition, 1984) Author: Thomas Szasz Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0060911514 This book is forty years old (updated in '84) and is as relevant today as the day it came out. Szasz uses clear, simple language to expose the facts behind the stigmatization of those who are different. He insists that most of the things we call mental illnesses are merely variances in normal human behaviour, or normal emotional states like loneliness or insecurity that could be helped in ordinary ways. You may not agree with everything he says, but that's not why this book is listed here. |
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Title: Insanity: The Idea and Its Consequences Author: Thomas Szasz Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0815604602 Szasz restates his claims, presents his findings and explains his theories in plain language. He even gives you a bit on why he uses plain language. This book may be a better introduction than "The Myth of Mental Illness" if you've never read Szasz before. His theme is always the same: what we term mental illness is, by and large, behaviour which is explicable and reasonable given the society in which we live. Society's vigorous repression (through drugs, electroshock, etc.) of those who are different has become a form of institutionalised hate crime. We have come to regard the mental health industry as a kind of religion, as the standard against which normalcy is measured. |
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Title: The Medicalization of Everyday Life Author: Thomas Szasz Publisher: Syracuse Univ. Press ISBN: 0815608675 Once more, Szasz takes a look at our lives and times and how the pharmaceutical industry, in cooperation with the mainstream media and the legal system, have formed a government of social control. Medical and health decisions are made for us, "for our own good", every day. Find out what the system is doing to you and your kids -- how much of your life can you take back? |
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Title: Coercion as Cure, A Critical History of Psychotherapy Author: Thomas Szasz Publisher: Transaction 2007 ISBN: 0765803798 Like Masson, Szasz pulls no punches. This is what happens when we presume that a certain select group of people know more about ourselves than we do. This is not about the misuse of psychiatry; this is about the idea that psychiatry itself is a misuse of social and political power. Want more on Thomas Szasz? Visit http://www.szasz.com/. |
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Title: Wounded Innocents Author: Richard Wexler Publisher: Prometheus, 1995 ISBN: 0-87975-936-4 "The war against child abuse has become a war against children. In the name of "child protection" innocent families are disrupted nearly two million times every year and thousands of children are needlessly torn from their parents and thrown into foster care--even as children in real danger are ignored. While the problem of child abuse is serious and real, journalist Richard Wexler charges that our solutions to the problem have actually made it worse--in fact, hurting the very children that they were intended to help." From the Lifting the Veil review. Read about the New York City Admin. for Children's Services and what they do to families in the name of "protecting the children". |
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Martha Ainsworth, How to Find a Good Therapist. how to evaluate the true competence and effectiveness of a therapist or counselor based on very simple evidence you can gather with your own eyes and ears. See also How to Diagnose a Therapist from the Veritas Programming archives.
Heal Online Among many other causes, these people have a huge amount of information on behavior modification centers and disciplinary "boot camps" for children. Scroll down to the pink section in the middle of the page. Pay particular attention to the section on Teens' and Children's Legal Rights.
More on boot camps for kids here - Torturing Teens for Fun and Profit Cruelty, sadism, injury & death in locked residential facilities for troubled youth
Making Advance Directives Work For You By Dr. Daniel Fisher. Describes the purpose of the Advance Directive legal form and how to create one. These are extremely useful for people in crisis to prevent involuntary hospitalization, restraints and drugging. Power2U is a great website if you either are mentally ill, or labeled as mentally ill.
International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology. ICSPP is a network of people concerned with how mental health theories affect public policy, and all of us. Membership includes psychiatrists, psychologists, professional clinical counselors, social workers, educators, and lawyers as well as psychiatric survivors, concerned family members, and advocates. All are welcome.
No Force Coalition Canadian group dedicated to eliminating force in psychiatry.
Anti-Psychiatry Coalition A nonprofit volunteer group consisting of people who feel we have been harmed by psychiatry. Many links, the truth all comes out. It's nothing but stigmatizing children, elderly people and anyone who is different, simply for profit and greed.
More on the anti-psychiatry movement here.
WaynHome UnclWayn / Le'me T'fa Cologne / Psychiatric Survivors Advocacy & Liberation Movement archived site.
The Rorschach Test The facts behind it, how to take it.
Did you know that anyone can take the MMPI and score it themselves? You can use this book: Development and Use of the Mmpi-2 Content Scales (MMPI-2 Monograph Series).
Shoshanna's Psychiatric Survivor's Guide Hasn't been updated for a while -- still contains much valuable information.
Teens' and Children's Legal Rights
Empowering website for recovery from anorexia and eating disorders. We guarantee you it's unlike anything you have ever seen before, and it is very multiple-friendly.
Are some things labeled 'crazy' actually normal?
Did you know that hearing voices is not necessarily a sign of mental illness? People in non-western cultures have always known this, but a controversial British study has just now allowed mental health pros to begin to admit it! (Scroll down to "Finding Meaning in Voices")
Did you know that if you hear voices that bother you, talking back to them can help? Damn clever, these British people!
Embracing The Dark Voices Within More on Dr. Rufus May and his unusual sessions with clients who hear voices. None of this will be any surprise to people who remember the psychiatric ideas of Freida Fromm-Reichmann (Dr. Fried of I Never Promised You A Rose Garden). Do you think things might be finally turning around?
Dr. May's website is here. He has the whole 'Doctor Who Hears Voices' video up.
Interview with Dr. Lloyd Ross Here is another therapist who believes medication is unnecessary for schizophrenia if the client and doctor are willing to work hard in intensive psychotherapy. The filmmaker believes that full recovery without medication is possible, and research shows that it actually is quite common. He adds, "Dr. Ross is a gifted and courageous psychologist and a leading member of ICSPP.
We've had "musical hallucinations" our entire life and thought nothing of it; it's a jukebox or radio station on near-continuous, with everything from Bob Marley to bagpipe tunes. It's supposedly associated with elderly people and with hearing loss. We are slightly hard of hearing, so maybe this has something to do with it. Neil Young hears and dreams music. He's been waked up by dreams of heavy rock music and the sound of his own guitar and once dreamed an entire set of songs. Read more about 'hearing music' with a lovely Oliver Sacks story.
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