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JAMA Psychiatry: No evidence that psychiatric treatments produce “successful outcomes”

In a viewpoint piece published in JAMA Psychiatry, researchers write that there is no evidence that psychiatric interventions lead to “successful” outcomes. Successful outcomes, they...

Involuntary commitment for “substance use disorder” leads to poor outcomes

New research reveals that involuntary commitment for substance use disorders is ineffective. The study, published in Community Mental Health, investigates the outcomes of patients discharged...

Global psychiatry’s attempt to excommunicate the former UN Special Rapporteur on the right to...

Between 2014 and 2020, the UN published three reports on mental health, prepared by the special rapporteur on the right to health (Dainius Puras)....

Insane Medicine, Chapter 4: The Manufacture of Autism Spectrum Disorders (Part 1)

Because the “scientists” who study, categorise, and establish guidelines for autism can’t find anything definitive, they resort to scientism. Over time, it becomes part of our cultural “common sense.”

Witless and Dangerous? – Challenging some assumptions of the ‘schizo’ paradigm

In Part 1, I looked at some evidence on ‘disappointing’ long-term outcomes for early intervention in psychosis (EIP) recipients, and also some findings on...