Tag Archives: Psychiatry

Waiting list for mental-health services is a major problem facing patients


Toronto Star Article Chantaie Allick Staff Reporter   Waiting list for mental-health services is a major problem facing patients Austin Williamson, 15, has attended 20 schools and been on waiting lists for counselling services most of his life. It is … Continue reading

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Psych patients wait 42% longer in ER


Report in FierceHealthcare.com on how patients with [pychiatric emegencies wait 42% longer than other patents The US Study of the experiences of 1,100 patients shows an average wait in the emergency department of 11.5 hours – 42% longer than other … Continue reading

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Joanna Moncrieff – Changing the balance of psychosis treatment


Joanna Moncrieff and the Critical Psychiatry Network offer us a different way of thinking about how psychiatric medications work; and ways to use them  that assist healing but reduce the adverse effects – and especially the devastating effects that result from long … Continue reading

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7 billion ways to be normal


Yesterday, Oct 31st 2011, the world human population reached 7,000,000,000 or seven billion. That’s seven billion ways to be human, seven billion different experiences of the world and seven billion expressions of what it means to be human – alive, right … Continue reading

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Talk Doesn’t Pay…


Talk Doesn’t Pay, So Psychiatry Turns Instead to Drug Therapy N.Y. Times article. Published: March 5, 2011 Below a link to a New York Times article addressing the psychiatric assembly line that North American psychiatry has come to resemble.  Features hard-working … Continue reading

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Anatomy of an Epidemic


Robert Whitaker asks some telling questions like: Q. if psychiatric medications work so well then why is it that after decades of using them we have 1) so many more (not less) people with mental diagnoses, and 2) rapidly growing numbers of … Continue reading

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