Recently, courtesy of Lucy Johnstone on twitter, I came across a chapter from Steven Coles’ book Madness Contested. The book was published in the UK in February 2013, but won’t be available in the US until September of this year. The chapter is called “A proven alternative to the medical model in mental health care?”… Continue Reading
Pills, Pills, Pills
I’ve mentioned Alice Keys before on this blog. She’s a psychiatrist who laments the fact that psychiatry has become virtually synonymous with drug pushing, and has expressed her concerns from time to time on Robert Whitaker’s Mad in America website. Alice has a new post up today, called Winners of the American Dream. You can… Continue Reading
People Helping People
Things are changing in the mental health business. People of various persuasions are attacking the medicalization of human problems on the grounds of spuriousness and destructiveness. Others are drawing attention to the ineffectiveness of the drugs, the dangerous side-effects, and the corrupting links between psychiatrists and big pharma. But perhaps the change that ultimately is… Continue Reading
Marketing Psychotropic Drugs
There’s a nice article at Involuntary Transformation on this topic. The author, Nathan, poses a very interesting question: since drugs cause damage to children and there are many better alternatives, why do so many parents choose the drug option? Nathan goes on to suggest that the reason lies in the effort that the pharmaceutical industry… Continue Reading
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