Dr. Lauren Mosher was clinical professor of psychiatry and an expert on ‘schizophrenia’. For 12 years he was chief of the Center for Studies of Schizophrenia in the (American) National Institute of Mental Health. He spent his professional career advocating…
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According to mainstream psychiatry (and the pharmaceutical companies that provide funding to psychiatry, especially in the USA’s mainly privatised system of healthcare), some prescribed drugs treat alleged chemical imbalances in the brain – imbalances which, it is claimed, are a…
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“Martin Harrow and Thomas Jobe began their study, which was funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, in the late 1970s. They enrolled 200 psychotic patients who had been treated conventionally in a mental hospital with antipsychotics and simply…
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“Mental illness is not an excuse for bad behaviour. But we need to acknowledge that it is very often the cause of it.” Writing in the Daily Telegraph , Bryony Gordon says: “A few years ago, when I had first plucked up the courage to…
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“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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This video – see below – comes from the American-based Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care , who say: “Since 2012, Open Excellence donors have been sharing the hope of the Hearing Voices approach, funding research and training new support group facilitators across the United States…
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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”: