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The Core Error of Psychiatrists and Psychologists: Certainty about “Consensus Reality”

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Consensus reality would have us believe that increased compulsory schooling equals increased education, however, a critical thinker questions this certainty. If a major part of true education is inspiring and energizing us to be curious and enjoy reading, there is empirical evidence of standard schooling’s anti-educational effects.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Six)

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14 Many psychologists do not realise that they have a great advantage over psychiatrists, which is that they are educated with the aim of understanding the patients where they are and helping them with psychotherapy and other forms of support. Psychiatrists should be re-educated so that they can function as psychologists.

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Charles Spencer’s Story of Boarding School Abuse Is Haunting

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If parents who sent their sons to the school in 1974 had been told that such abuse was a normal and acceptable part of the education their children were to receive, all but the cruellest of parents, I wager, would have removed their sons immediately. That it took place at Maidwell was due to institutional sadism and neglect.

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The Iatrogenic Gaze: How We Forgot That Psychiatry Could Be Harmful

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That rate has been increasing rapidly: “From 2006 to 2014, the number of serious ADEs reported to the FDA increased 2-fold… A previously published study… found that from 1998 to 2005, there was a 2.6-fold The education system has become an artificial incubation chamber in which a child is sequestered from outside life.

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On Not Becoming David Foster Wallace

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We both thought the vulnerability was accentuated when I didn’t take my meds—the longest period of negligence was 10 days when my mother died in 2014 (nothing happened)—but we didn’t know anything about the withdrawal syndrome then. I learned only recently this has a name: akathisia. (An

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“There’s No Word for Depression in Zulu”: Inside South Africa’s Mental Health Crisis

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LANGA TOWNSHIP, SOUTH AFRICA – JANUARY 28, 2014 – Schoolchildren poses for a photograph along a roadway in Langa, South Africa, a township located on the outskirts of Cape Town. In 2023 there was little change in most countries average scores, but 35.8% Limited treatment options compound the issue.

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How We Started the Bay Area Hearing Voices Network

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The Bay Area Hearing Voices Network started in 2014 as a small group of family members, clinicians, and those with lived experiences. We are engaged in a marketing effort to start a hearing voices education center that can reach high schools, universities, and mental health clinics.