How I Woke up from Medication Spellbinding | An interview with Trudy S.
This video-interview is conducted by Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring (psychiatrist). A transcript of the interview is also available from the YouTube video address.
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Chemically Imbalanced: Everyday Suffering, Medication, and Our Troubled Quest for Self-Mastery
Now Norway is offering drug-free treatment to people with psychosis
A Straight Talking Introduction To Psychiatric Drugs (2nd Edition): The Truth About How They Work And How To Come Off Them
Are mental health disorders ever purely biological?
“Think about the basic framework of this proposition: an animal that has evolved for millions of years, roughly 350,000 in the present form, experiences its greatest century to date in terms of population expansion, while simultaneously billions of our brains…
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“It’s Not Just a Chemical Imbalance”: discussion of an opinion piece in the NYT written by Kelli Mari
In this 40 minute podcast , Prof. Laurence Simon discusses an article – “It’s Not Just a Chemical Imbalance” – written by Kelli Maria Korducki in the New York Times. The podcast comes from his The Stories We Live By series, which is subtitled “Retelling our own life stories that are creative…
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Antidepressants are not antidepressants – an alternative approach to drug action and implications for the use of antidepressants
“Antidepressants are not antidepressants – an alternative approach to drug action and implications for the use of antidepressants” is an article written by Dr. Joanna Moncrieff (psychiatrist) and published in the BJPsych Bulletin (Jan. 30th 2018) as part of their “Against…
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When doctors mislead; the chemical imbalance lie
In this conference paper by Leonie Fennell and Maria Bradshaw (March 2015, Wicklow, Dublin, Ireland), the authors write: “Introduction – The Telling & Selling of a Lie The instinct to protect your child is strong and primal in most human beings. When faced…
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Is everything you think you know about depression wrong?
In this extract from his new book , Johann Hari, who took antidepressants for 13 years, calls for a new approach: “In the 1970s, a truth was accidentally discovered about depression – one that was quickly swept aside, because its implications were too…
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Do you have a biochemical imbalance? Simple truths about psychiatry
Do you have a biochemical imbalance? Are any such imbalances the cause of things like depression, or anxiety or schizophrenia? Trailblazing psychiatrist Dr. Peter Breggin – in Part 1 of his “Simple Truths about Psychiatry” video series – looks at…
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