The Antipsychiatry Reading Room
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The Antipsychiatry Reading Room
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"Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his
head examined."
-- Samuel Goldwyn.
"Biological psychology/psychiatry is a total perversion of medicine
and science, and a fraud."
— Neurologist Fred Baughman.
"The empire of
psychiatric power is more than three hundred years old and grows
daily more all-encompassing. But we have not yet begun to acknowledge
its existence, much less to understand its role in our
society."
-- Thomas Szasz.
"The mental health
establishment has snowed the American people: it launches the most
unimaginable brutal psychological and physical assault on human
beings in distress, calls this 'medical treatment', and then blames
the outcome on 'mental illness'.
-- Seth Farber, PhD.
"Going to a
psychiatrist has become one of the most dangerous things a person can
do."
-- Peter Breggin, MD.
"You can't just label these conditions and make people take
drugs that seem to go with the labels. Most of these conditions are
anomalous and can't be categorized. The most important thing is what
works for YOU."
-- Anonymous Neurologist.
"I don't care what they say: the mental health business is the stigmatization
business and nothing more or less. It's hardest to see the air we breathe. If
you think you have an open mind, test it by reading something by Thomas
S. Szasz, M.D."
-- John Friedberg, MD.
Help work to ban electroshock
now!
Call 212 NO
JOLTS
INSANE PSYCHIATRY
A Profession Run Amok
Against Biologic Psychiatry by David Kaiser, MD.
Alternative Views of "Mental Illness". An "In a Nutshell" presentation.
alt.flame.psychiatry
Frequently
Asked Questions (FAQ).
An Anti-Psychiatry Reading List.
Are personal and emotional problems diseases?
Articles Related to Mind Control, Thomas A Dorman, M.D.
A psychiatrist can no longer compromise his professional integrity by remaining
a member of the "American Psychopharmacological Association."
Read his letter
of resignation from the A P A.
Authentic Informed Consent for Electroshock.
Biopsychiatrist's Quotes by Sue Poole.
The Boom in Psychicatric Syndromes by Sheila M. Rothman.
Can Psychiatry Be Retrieved From a Biological Approach? Duncan Double, psychiatrist.
The Case Against Psychiatric Coercion, Dr. Thomas Szasz.
Consequences of the use of the medical model in addressing emotional troubles.
Confessions of a Psychiatrist, Hot bestseller!
Consumer group criticises surgeon general on E C T. British Medical Journal online.
A Critical Bibliography of the Biopsyhicatric Model of "Mental Illness."
The Dark Side of Psychiatric Drugs, USA Today.
Debunking "mental illness" / violence myth: Consensus Statement.
"Does Mental Illness Exist?" Obtain this pamphlet by Lawrence Stevens J.D.
The Downward Spiral of Medical Corruption!
Drug Withdrawal and Emotional Recovery, John Breeding, psychologist.
DSM - IV, Review of Making Us Crazy.
Eight Myths About Psychiatric Drugs
The Enforcer: Mental Health System Oppression.
Financial Strain Is Major Cause Of Psychiatric Illness: That link will take you to the BMJ site, where you must fill out three pages of questions to get to the article. The alternative is to download the article in PDF format.
The Hidden Side of Psychiatry. Gary Null, PhD.
Internet
Addiction?
You might get labeled a psychiatric case.
Is Mental Pain Mental Illness?
"It's
the system that's crazy."
Mad Movement authors Irit Shimrat and Persimmon Blackridge interviewed while
in Whitehorse, the Yukon, to read from their works.
The Journal of Mind and Behavior. Challenging the Therapeutic State.
Lawrence Stevens is a lawyer whose practice has included representing psychiatric "patients". He has published a series of pamphlets about various aspects of psychiatry, including psychiatric drugs, electroshock, and psychotherapy. www.antipsychiatry.org.
Life in US promotes "mental illness". UC Berkely study.
Logical Errors in Mental Health, by Rob Ryley.
The MacArthur Violence Risk Assessment Study reveals the myth of the violent mentally ill to be PR to fuel the agenda of those who are for more forced drugging. Actually a history of substance abuse is what makes a person more prone to violence than the usual.
The
Mentally Ill No More Likely to be Violent Than Anyone Else.
Madness and Automation: On Institutionalization, by Phoebe Sengers.
Madness
and the Medical Model: Social being and practical madness work,
by Andrew Phelps.
Manic episode was spiritual crisis, Ed Whitney, MD.
Sue Poole's Manifesto Essays.
MASS MURDERERS IN WHITE COATS: A chronology of psychiatry and Eugenics - Lenny Lapon.
Medical Power, Tim Konza, of ARM (Alliance for the Reform of Medicine).
Mental
Health Art?
If you're a psychiatrist/shock doc, or top-notch ECT-promoting psychiatric nurse,
here's what I'm rather loosely allowing as a work of art, that's called "Shock
Treatment". You can buy it for a mere 2000 dollars. A very appropriate and mentally
healthy amount, for that is right about what the "profession" rakes in from
one brain-sizzling electroshock session!
Mental Illness Subject Of Much Misconception
Mental Illness, a Powerful and Dangerous Idea.
The
National Council on Disability issued a report
on people labeled with psychiatric disabilities January 2000.
Surgeon General, you wasted your time. This is how it was done right.
Here are the ten key recommendations
from that report.
Network Against Coercive Psychiatry
Note: Dr. Seth Farber informs me that "The Network is in suspended operation."
Nonetheless this paper eloquently puts forward the truth about the "mental health"
system and why it must be resisted.
NO FORCED TREATMENT!
May 2, 1998 statement by Justin Dart, disability rights activist and Presidential
Medal of Freedom awardee.
NO JOLTS!
Join the Committee for Truth in Psychiatry and help fight the most horrid
medical quackery of the century. Printable enrollment form.
No Safe Place - Sexual abuse pandemic in "therapeutic" institutions. By Phyllis Chesler.
Protect yourself! Psychiatric Advance Directive templates.
Prozac.org.
From Dec. '99 Mother Jones.
An influential mental health nonprofit finds its 'grassroots' watered by pharmaceutical
millions.
Pseudoscience in Biological Psychiatry. Book Review.
Psych Bitter Humor. Now in print! Shrink Assault, by Lorenzo Samual contains all the humor posted on the mailing list and more.
Psychiatric Medications as Symptoms, Dr. David Kaiser.
Psychiatric Drugs Shorten Lifespan, by S. Moser.
Psychiatry As A Form Of Social Control.
Psychiatry is a Rudimentary Medical Art --Rather an inane ramble by a behaviorial 'science' academic, but interesting for what it admits.
The Psychology
Epidemic and Its Cure
Master's Seminary President calls attention to the errors of
"Christian Psychology".
"Required Reading for Revolters."
Rigid
Ways of Thinking.
Why no badly needed alternatives to the "mental health" system can
exist.
A sampling of what is said about psychiatry by dissident professionals, ex-'patients' and others.
Schizophrenia, Psychiatry and Mysticism, by Richard Gosden.
Senior Citizens Targeted for Incarceration in Mental Hospitals.
7
1/2 Days.
Reporter dresses shabbily, feigns feelings of hopelessness to psych E R.
He ends up finding no real help offered, an environment of boredom and squalor,
and leaves with a bill for $8,400.
Shrinking the Freedom of Thought: How Involuntary Psychiatric Treatment Violates Basic Human Rights.
SOCIOPOLITICAL REALITIES, by Sue Poole.
Stopping over-medication should be the mental health movement's first task.
Survivor Action Agenda - MadNation.
THREE POEMS --Actually, four. Two by me, Nugie (Red Buffalo), one by Tom Greening, dissident psychologist, and one by antipsychiatry activist Sue Poole.
Toxic
Psychiatry.
Dr. Peter Breggin's milestone book.
The idea of an Underground Railroad to safety for those in psycho-social crisis.
The Unjustified Rise of Psychiatry
Use/Abuse of Prozac by Barbara Amero.
Website links.
Sites critical of or presenting alternative solutions to those of mainstream
mental health.
The World's Worst Knock-Knock Joke.
