“Diagnostic Dissent”: Experiences of Individuals Who Disagreed With Their Diagnosis
psychosis
Healing Voices
“Healing Voices” is a documentary directed by PJ Moynihan and co-produced by PJ Moynihan and Oryx Cohen. It comes from Digital Eyes Film and is described as: “… an award-winning documentary which explores the experiences commonly labeled as ‘psychosis’ in…
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On a scale of 1-10, how crazy are you?
In this TEDMed video (15 minutes), actor and playwright Elizabeth Kenny “performs an excerpt from her play – ‘Sick’ – dramatizing her horrifying journey through the American medical system”:
Postpsychiatry: Mental Health in a Postmodern World
Listening to the Voices People Hear: Auditory Hallucinations Beyond a Diagnostic Framework
This research paper has been written by Dr. Eleanor Longden and published in the Journal of Humanistic Psychology. The abstract cited in ResearchGate says: “While voice hearing (auditory verbal hallucinations) is closely allied with psychosis/schizophrenia, it is well-established that the experience is…
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Bad things happen and can drive you crazy
“Of 701 people who had taken antipsychotics, far more (76%) believed their difficulties were the result of life events and circumstances than subscribed to a ‘medical model’ perspective (17%).” As published in the journal Psychiatry Research, the full title of…
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OPEN DIALOGUES: Increasing resources in severe crises
Here are a couple of extracts from a presentation by Prof. Jaakko Seikkula, developer in Finland of the ‘Open Dialogue’ approach to treating psychosis: “Challenges for treatment of psychotic problems – early notions: Clients become not heard – neither the patient…
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How Drug Company Money Has Corrupted Psychiatry
“After nearly three decades as a member it is with a mixture of pleasure and disappointment that I submit this letter of resignation from the American Psychiatric Association. The major reason for this action is my belief that I am…
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My Baby, Psychosis & Me: A lesson in how not to make a documentary about mental health
In this article – as posted on her Behind the Label website – Rachel Waddingham reviews a recent BBC documentary about “postpartum psychosis”. She writes: “Earlier this year, after my own miscarriage, I settled down on the sofa to watch ‘ My Baby, Psychosis & Me…
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Depression and Me
In “Depression and Me” – a 1 hour TV programme from the BBC – Alastair Campbell talks candidly about his experiences of living with depression. And after 30 years of taking antidepressant drugs that haven’t stopped his depressions, he also explores whether radical…
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