The BBC says (May 23rd, 2018): “Two years ago, Dr Chris van Tulleken discovered we are taking more prescription drugs than ever before – a billion prescriptions a year in the UK. He worked with a GP (General Practice) surgery…
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Released in 2008, this film is directed by Daniel Mackler and looks at how that people can recover fully from ‘schizophrenia’ without psychiatric medication … when (says the film director) “according to most of the mental health field, and of…
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As relevant to the medical model of mental healthcare and the issue of prescribed drugs … Three articles in the Daily Telegraph (June 30th and July 2nd 2016) have reported on how: 1) “More than one in three members of…
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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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Set within a North American context (USA), and with relevance to both mental health and physical healthcare, this documentary looks at the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry. The documentary’s producers say that it exposes “… the insidious ways that illness is…
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This BBC TV broadcast reports on the strategy to make living itself an illness and patients of everyone of us. The programme website says: “In the late seventies, Henry Gadsden, the CEO of a large pharmaceutical company, told a business…
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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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Crazy…or wise? The traditional wisdom of indigenous cultures often contradicts modern views about a mental health crisis. Is it a ‘calling’ to grow or just a ‘broken brain’? The documentary CRAZYWISE explores what can be learned from people around the…
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The video below comes from the 17th Annual Conference of the International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry, held November 14-17, 2014 in Los Angeles, California. Each of the invited speakers was asked to present his or her proposal to…
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