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Behind Rolling Stone’s Hatchet Job on a Psychiatrist Critical of Neoliberal Capitalism

The CNCL Team — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 02:52:11 +0000

Welcome to the Twilight Zone of the political landscape of psychiatry, where faux-left liberals are clueless that they have unwittingly become right-wingers, where shameless right-wingers exploit anything in an attempt to hold on to their AR-15s, and where anti-authoritarian left critical thinkers know that if they are not careful—or even if they are—they will find themselves being used politically in a repulsive way.

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Psychiatry, Fraud, and the Case for a Class-Action Lawsuit

The CNCL Team — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 01:39:35 +0000

A class-action suit would serve society well. It would put teeth into the legal obligation for doctors to provide “informed consent,” and for a medical discipline to provide society with information that met this standard too.

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Liberals Are Adopting an Old Soviet Tactic: Painting Opponents as Mentally Ill

The CNCL Team — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 19:47:24 +0000

The pathologization of dissent is not going away. It will intensify as neoliberalism faces crisis after crisis and social polarization grows. Those who claim to be liberals defending democracy will soon be only too ready to snuff it out.

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How Big Pharma & Psychiatry Gaslight Us: Interview with Bruce Levine

The CNCL Team — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 22:48:01 +0000

Clinical psychologist Dr Bruce Levine covers a wide range of topics related to deceit and corruption within the psychiatric-pharmaceutical industry.

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Users and Survivors Respond to World Psychiatric Association: “We Will Not be Silenced Any Longer”

The CNCL Team — Mon, 03 Jun 2019 01:45:46 +0000

When articles in a recent issue in World Psychiatry, the journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA), called for ignoring, amending, and reinterpreting the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), users and survivors pushed back in an open letter. The WPA editorial claimed that the convention’s opposition to forced treatment might be harmful to vulnerable individuals who are “incapable of protecting themselves.”

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Māori Approach to Mental Health Offers Empowering Alternative to Western Psychiatry

The CNCL Team — Thu, 30 May 2019 00:23:48 +0000

A new article explores Mahi a Atua, an affirming, indigenous Māori healing practice which stands in contrast to the Western psychiatric methods typically promoted by the Movement for Global Mental Health.

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