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Mental Health Survival Kit, Chapter 2: Is Psychiatry Evidence Based? (Part 6) 1089 Editor’s Note: Over the next several months, Mad in America will publish a serialized version of Peter Gøtzsche’s book, Mental Health Survival Kit and Withdrawal from Psychiatric Drugs . In this blog, he discusses the dangers of lithium, antiepileptic drugs, and ADHD pills. Each Monday, a new section of the book will be published, and all chapters will be archived Lithium Lithium is a highly toxic metal used for bipolar disorder. Like most other psychiatric drugs, it sedates people and renders them inac...

Psychiatry and the Shores of Social Construction: Sami Timimi, MD March 16, 2021 From Psychiatric Times: Conversations in Critical Psychiatry’s Awais Aftab interviews Dr. Sami Timimi, a prominent voice of British critical psychiatry and especially child psychiatry, in the context of his latest book Support MIA MIA relies on the support of its readers to exist. Please consider a donation to help us provide news, essays, podcasts and continuing education courses that explore alternatives to the current paradigm of psychiatric care. Your tax-deductible donation will help build a community d...

Sami Timimi: I wanted to interrogate the assumptions that pervade theory, research, and practice in mental health.

Insane Medicine, Chapter 10: The Paradigm Shift Is Inevitable 2043 Editor’s Note: Over the course of several months, Mad in America is publishing a serialized version of Sami Timimi’s book, Insane Medicine  (available for purchase  In 1961, an Italian psychiatrist called Franco Basaglia started refusing to bind patients to their beds in the Lunatic Asylum of Gorizia. He resisted the established methods of the time and began what is probably the single biggest revolution in modern mental health care that we have so far witnessed. Basaglia had been revolted by what he observed as the con...

Sami Timimi: How enriching emotional energies can improve family relationships; practical tips for parents and families.