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“How Long a Time”.  A new song by Richard Lewis

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Psychiatry is a hoax.  The “mental illnesses” that it invents with increasing frequency are not illnesses in any ordinary sense of the term.  Its “diagnoses” are destructive, disempowering, and stigmatizing; and its “treatments” (drugs and electric shocks) always do more damage than good, especially in the long term. In our struggle against this destructive travesty,… Continue Reading

Dr. Pies Defending Psychiatry’s Position on Auditory Hallucinations

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On September 4, 2017, the very eminent and prestigious psychiatrist Ronald Pies, MD, published an article on Psychiatric Times.  The piece is titled: Hearing Voices and Psychiatry’s (Real) Medical Model.  Dr. Pies is Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of Psychiatric Times and a professor of psychiatry at SUNY and Tufts.  He has written extensively on psychiatric and other… Continue Reading

Speaking Out Against Electric Shocks

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“…they’re human beings, for God’s sake!  In the name of everything holy, how can they do that to them?” (p 108) The Other Mrs. Smith, by Bonnie Burstow, 2017   In the March 2017 issue of the Journal of ECT, there was an editorial titled:  Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) in the News: “Balance” Leads to Bias…. Continue Reading

Rebranding Psychiatry

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Or, how to make a silk purse from a sow’s ear. INTRODUCTION In November 2017, the British Journal of Psychiatry published a guest editorial titled Shrink rethink: rebranding psychiatry.  The authors are Scottish psychiatrists Jim Crabb, MD and Neil Masson, MD, and Lee Barber, an advertising and marketing strategist.  Both Drs. Crabb and Masson practice… Continue Reading