Tag: psychiatric drugs
Psychiatry, Fraud, and the Case for a Class-Action Lawsuit
Editor's Note: this post was written and published by our sister site Mad in America on 13th August 2022, and is republished here with...
Part two: response to criticism of our chemical imbalance paper
MITUK Editor: On July 20th, psychiatrist Professor Joanna Moncrieff, whose work appears regularly on this site, published a review article along with colleagues Dr...
The Politics of Distress: A discussion with Dr. James Davies on...
Our system fails because it colludes with social structures that themselves generate harmful ways of being in the world. The sector at best sedates these states while at the same time exonerates harmful social arrangements by over-emphasising the so-called internal and disordered causes of structural distress.
Philosophy & Madness: A Discussion with Wouter Kusters on his new...
It was as if all my knowledge about, and philosophical encircling around, the heart of madness suddenly broke a limit, gravitated to a central core, and then exploded into freeing fragments radiating outwards towards an infinity of madness, which was both abysmal as well as ecstatic at the same time.
Lasting Damage from Prescribed Drugs
Doctors must understand and explain that drugs change the brain, and other parts of the body, in ways that we do not fully understand, that are almost always harmful to some degree, and that may be irreversible.