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The New WHO and UN Guidance: Psychiatry Must Entirely Change

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A fter years of work involving hundreds of people in dozens of countries, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) have released their joint production, Mental Health, Human Rights and Legislation: Guidance and Practice ( WHO/OHCHR , 2023, referred to as the Guidance.

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So-Called Suicide Experts Recommend Antidepressants, Which Increase Suicides

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The authors refused to withdraw the article, which resulted in a five-month battle where they needed legal assistance from their university and from Germany where the publisher is located. 22] In 2023, the “experts” failed us badly again. BMJ 2023;April 26. [25] Mad in America 2023;Nov 28. [26] BMJ 2023;381:e070630. [24]

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The Patient-Enemy: How Derrida Helps Explain Psychiatry’s Cruelty and Care

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As we come to understand the psychiatric hospital as a pseudo-prison, we must address the question of legality—the pseudo-laws which surround the pseudo-prison. ” As such, psychiatry is enclaved into the legal system as a secret supplementary legal system—a legal system inside the legal system.

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Medical Journals Refuse to Retract Fraudulent Trial Reports That Omitted Suicidal Events in Children

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O n 3 August 2023, I wrote to the editors of two medical journals and called for retraction of three fraudulent reports of placebo-controlled trials of depression drugs in children and adolescents. Copenhagen: Institute for Scientific Freedom 2023;Nov 14. This is fraud. Arch Gen Psychiatry 2006;63:332-9. 17 Gøtzsche PC.

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Dramatic Rise in Police Interventions on 988 Callers

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But in the psychiatric hospital, she said, “It’s like I was a rat, or a gnat… I don’t think it mattered to them whether I lived or died, beyond their own legal liability.” According to their year-end report , clinical calls composed about 40% of their crisis line contacts in 2023. Still, on average in 2023, at least 6.3%

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My Red October – An Army Veteran’s Crucible to Recovery

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Just as things began to settle down in the legal battle for my eldest children, the sheriff’s department showed up at my mother’s house and presented me with another court order granting my husband emergency custody of my youngest children. Resolution In 2023, I finally saw my middle son after four years apart. I have maintained a 4.0

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Not Before Time: Lived Experience Led Justice and Repair

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her memoir Madness Made Me & a chapter in the 2023 Routledge Handbook of Mad Studies ). Simon interviewed dozens of people with relevant expertise, including legal scholars, First Nations’ leaders, disability rights advocates and folks working in restorative justice processes.