Learning from mad knowledge more vital than ever
Critical Voices Network Ireland (CVNI) is a coalition of people with lived experience, survivors, supporters, practitioners, academics, and campaigning and advocacy groups, all interested in...
The WHO and the United Nations: let freedom ring for the mad
Two years ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) published a 300-page document titled “Guidance to Community Health Services” that called for a paradigm shift...
After antidepressants, a loss of sexuality
From The New York Times: “Doctors and patients have long known that antidepressants can cause sexual problems. No libido. Pleasureless orgasms. Numb genitals. Well over...
The New WHO and UN Guidance: Psychiatry Must Entirely Change
This is the dilemma: according to the preeminent health and rights bodies in the world, psychiatry has to change. How much? This much: “Denial...
Withdrawing from psychiatric drugs: how to produce smaller doses than those the drug companies...
Stopping psychiatric drugs is often difficult. And in many cases, it is done far too quickly. Therefore, the patient may develop unbearable withdrawal symptoms,...