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Torture at Lake Alice “Hospital”, New Zealand

March 2, 2021 By Phil Hickey |

According to Wikipedia, Lake Alice Hospital was a rural psychiatric facility in Lake Alice, Manawatū,-Whanganui, New Zealand.  It opened in August, 1950, and closed its doors finally in October 1999. Also from Wikipedia: “Former patients of the hospital’s child and adolescent unit made allegations that abuse took place there during the 1970s, including the use… Continue Reading

Dr. Pies’ Non-Apology

February 5, 2021 By Phil Hickey |

INTRODUCTION On June 23, 2020, Awais Aftab, MD, a clinical professor of psychiatry at Case Western, interviewed Ronald Pies, MD, also a psychiatrist, and a professor at Tufts and SUNY. During the interview, Dr. Aftab stated: “I have followed the controversy surrounding ‘chemical imbalance’ with some interest over the years, including the multiple articles you… Continue Reading

Dr. Pies and The Chemical Imbalance Deception

January 21, 2021 By Phil Hickey |

INTRODUCTION For the past several years, the eminent and scholarly Ronald Pies, MD, psychiatrist, of SUNY Upstate Medical and Tufts Universities, has labored the point that psychiatry has never endorsed the simplistic chemical imbalance theory of “mental illness”.  As various anti-psychiatry bloggers, including myself, began to accumulate a great many instances of prominent psychiatrists doing… Continue Reading

Don’t Believe Everything You Read: Words Matter Desperately

January 19, 2021 By Guest |

  This article was originally published on January 12, 2021 on Mad in the UK.   by Paula J. Caplan, PhD The seed for this essay is the way that the use of five words has skyrocketed in print, in media, and among both professionals and laypeople, and this is causing harm. The overuse of… Continue Reading

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The phrase "mental health" as used in the name of this website is simply a term of convenience. It specifically does not imply that the human problems embraced by this term are illnesses, or that their absence constitutes health. Indeed, the fundamental tenet of this site is that there are no mental illnesses, and that conceptualizing human problems in this way is spurious, destructive, disempowering, and stigmatizing.

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