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Psychiatry Anti-Psychiatry Re-visited
David Coopers' discoveries in psychodynamics of Schizophrenia and his criticisms of psychiatry.
Justice In Mental Health Organization
Advocates for "justice in family, housing, employment and our social lives, with civil and legal rights as well."
Lichtenstein Creative Media (LCM) - Voices of an Illness
An award-winning three-part radio series covering personal stories of clinical depression, manic-depression, and schizophrenia.
Alternative Mental Health
A resource page about alternatives to the traditional, medical model-based, mental health system.
Therapy Abuse
A site for survivors of therapy abuse and supportive others.
Alternative Mental Health.com
Alternative Mental Health.com is a guide to alternative mental health(non-psychiatric, health-oriented). The site features a directory of practitioners, organizations and experts from several countries.
Till Death Do Us Part: The Marriage of Art and Madness
Graduate thesis exploring the relationship between art and madness.
Interview with Bryant Welch, JD, PhD
Risk management issues for mental health professionals.
Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology
Peter R. Breggin, M.D. founded The International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology (ICSPP) as a nonprofit research and educational network 25 years ago and warns the media and the public about the potential dangers of drugs, electroshock, psychosurgery, and the biological theories of psychiatry.
Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation
A research, training, and service organization dedicated to improving the lives of people who have psychiatric disabilities.
The Stigma of CineMania
Created to expose the role of the media in promoting the stigmas associated with mental illness.
The Future of Psychiatry
A research account into the logical status of theories used in psychiatry which concludes that psychiatry is not a science.
Soul Sadness
Information on depression disorders, suicide and suicides survivors, links to experience and learning sites, personal experiences, forums.
Panic Disorder
Dr. Michael Menaster, a San Francisco psychiatrist, on "panic disorder"; symptoms, possible causes and treatments.
The Battle for the Human Soul
Is there such a thing as mental illness?
KEN: Monthly Mental Health Activities and Events
The Knowledge Exchange Network promotes the mental health aspect of national health events and awareness days in its new monthly Highlights section.
Mental Illness Education Project: Fighting Stigma
The social stigma of mental illness makes it harder for those affected to cope with and accept the illness, undermines treatment and recovery, and exacerbates the problems of family members who participate in care. Stigma also diminishes the support given to the professionals who endeavor to provide that care.
Mind, Body and Society
Enquiry and research on the interplay between mind, body, and society. Includes sections on consciousness, psychosis, imagination, health, sickness, and death.
National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy
An organization opposed to psychiatric abuses and involuntary treatment.
Report Psychiatric Abuse
Citizens' Commission on Human Rights (CCHR)Database of psychiatric crimes; form for reporting psychiatric abuses; video presentation.
The Potential for Psychiatric Harm in Legal and Ethical Practices
A future book project to tell the stories of people harmed by the mental health system to make providers aware that they can often make problems worse.
The First Grrrl
She spent years championing the rights of the disabled and the forgotten. When she became the underdog in her own life, she struggled just as fiercely to save herself.
Simmons Longitudinal Study
A mental health study in the United States where a group of respondents have been followed since preschool in order to track their adaptation and development across their life span.
Crazy Therapies
Review of a guide to recognizing an incompetent, immoral or quack therapist.
Stepping into the Light
Fighting the Stigma of Mental Illness:a forum on mental illness, presenting accurate, up to date information
Support Groups Chats For Mental Health
Information and communities for depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and other metal conditions. Includes news, editorials and chat.
The Thomas S. Szasz Cybercenter for Liberty and Responsibility
Advances the debate about Thomas S. Szasz's basic ideas and their practical applications.
Essays on Psychology and Life
Essays on therapy, failed therapy, managed care, the Columbine High School massacre, Bill Clinton's "attention deficit disorder", and other mental health topics.
As For The Sky, Falling
A book that combines a first-person account of life on a psychiatric ward with a critical analysis of the psychiatric system.
White Wreath Association Inc. - Action Against Suicide
A voluntary organization that advocates changes to the mental health system and also raises funds to build care centers.
Abuse in Psychotherapy
Site to raise consciousness and provide support for patients/clients who are, or have been, verbally and emotionally abuse by psychotherapists - includes checklists and discussion.
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