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Suicides Increase After National Suicide Prevention Introduced

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Australian researchers who tested the hypothesis that national mental health policies, programmes and legislation would lower national suicide rates, found the opposite in their study of 100 countries. In other countries, the same happened. Psychiatric leaders continue to deny the disturbing facts.

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Global Psychiatry’s Attempt to Excommunicate the Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health

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The UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights declared the work “groundbreaking”: In 2017, the Special Rapporteur issued a ground-breaking report addressing the “global burden of obstacles” in mental health settings and in the field of psychiatry. the biased use of evidence in mental health. (

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Reimagining Crisis Support: A Conversation with Tina Minkowitz

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The social model of disability must be conceptualized outside of any type of health system and within ordinary language.

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