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Friday, 29, March, 2024

I’m a psychologist – and I believe we’ve been told devastating lies about mental...

Society’s understanding of mental health issues locates the problem inside the person – and ignores the politics of their distress. Read Sanah Ahsan's full...

How can we get psychiatry to let go of its fragile knowledge base?

Psychiatry needs dialogic meetings that do not materialize or reduce their patients to "inanimate" objects with unscientific observations. Educator and author Svenn Erik Knutsen summarizes...

About recovery – what helped

  From Mad in Finland: In the psychiatric treatment system, one often had to believe oneself and one’s own feelings more than what kind of definitions,...

Why we need more Soteria Houses

From Compassionate Mental Health: “What are the features of a Soteria House? They are simple, safe, warm, homelike environments. Joseph Berke, who worked with Laing, Mosher and...

Give us a safe exit from antidepressants and other psych meds!

World Tapering Org is launching a global petition to make stopping antidepressants and other psych meds/drugs safer. We are calling for better guidelines for tapering...