10 Min version – CSPAN, Book TV
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IdFj5TQfoc&feature=related
An is an early short version – if the story is new to you or you don’t want all the detail, this might be a good place to start.
Hearts and Minds United – Revolutionizing Mental Health Care: MindFreedom International, in conjunction with the University of Oregon School of Law
55 mins to a knowledgable,activist audience – lots of facts, references.
Mar 2011 – Rethinking Psychiatry Conference, Portland Oregon
Keynote presentation by author Robert Whitaker at the 2011 Rethinking Psychiatry Conference in Portland Oregon.
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8min 35
After a year of telling the story, a clearer, simpler version emerges.
1hr 17mins , with Introductions includng from Dr Pat Bracken.
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No video [at this time] but you can view his presentation slides at…
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Robert Whitaker is a great writer – the book reads like a gripping detective novel – and a thorough researcher.
This book is likely one of the most impressive and important pieces of journalistic research and reporting of our time.
And Robert Whitaker is not resting – he is on a global tour telling the story to all kinds of audiences and pressing for a different kind of psychiatry and a different kind of service for when we experience mental health difficulties.
Robert Whitaker was in Toronto in November – keynote Speaker to the conference : Challenging our Understanding of Psychosis and Exploring Alternatives for Recovery.
Whitaker is not against medications – he is simply illustrating that the evidence all points to our current use of psychiatric medications is simply not working for us.
The Fairy Tale
The story we have sold ourselves as a society: that mental illness is due to a chemical imbalance that can be corrected with lifelong medication – is simply not borne out by any evidence. The Real Story
And that many, many research papers – reports of pharma and medicine’s own research – that reveal evidenc that contradict this story are regularly not made public, so we don’t get to hear about it.
If you haven’t read the book, or if you have, you can watch and listen to Robert Whitaker tell the story….
Jun 2010
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Feb 2011 Revolutionizing Mental Health Care: University of Oregon School of Law
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May 2011
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May 2011 – Gaithersberg Book Festival
35mins – to a general audience at a book fair and limited time- not so technical, but lots of detail too.
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May 2011 Trinity College Dublin
Toronto 2011
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- Our current approach to treating mental illness is leading us down a path of an epidemic of mental disability: and it’s associated tradgedy of millions of lives of lost potential, early death and huge financial costs to society.
- approaches in other parts of the world that either do not use psychotropic medications or that use them in limited, short term ways – are demonstrably more effective
- one of the greatest risk factors for not recovering from serious mental illness is…… living in a western society.
- Robert Whitaker slays the critics (beyondmeds.com)