Mental Health Health Issues

Mental Health

Sites discussing controversies about mental health, psychiatry, and psychology, pointing out problems, and offering a wide range of differing opinions. Some advocate reform, others advise scrapping the modern system of mental health care altogether.

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• - Created to expose the role of the media in promoting the stigmas associated with mental illness.
  
• - An award-winning three-part radio series covering personal stories of clinical depression, manic-depression, and schizophrenia.
  
• - Review of a guide to recognizing an incompetent, immoral or quack therapist.
  
• - Graduate thesis exploring the relationship between art and madness.
  
• - Fighting the Stigma of Mental Illness:a forum on mental illness, presenting accurate, up to date information
  
• - An organization opposed to psychiatric abuses and involuntary treatment.
  
• - David Coopers' discoveries in psychodynamics of Schizophrenia and his criticisms of psychiatry.
  
• - A resource page about alternatives to the traditional, medical model-based, mental health system.
  
• - Dr. Michael Menaster, a San Francisco psychiatrist, on "panic disorder"; symptoms, possible causes and treatments.
  
• - Risk management issues for mental health professionals.
  
• - She spent years championing the rights of the disabled and the forgotten. When she became the underdog in her own life, she struggled just as fiercely to save herself.
  
• - The social stigma of mental illness makes it harder for those affected to cope with and accept the illness, undermines treatment and recovery, and exacerbates the problems of family members who participate in care. Stigma also diminishes the support give
  
• - Alternative Mental Health.com is a guide to alternative mental health(non-psychiatric, health-oriented). The site features a directory of practitioners, organizations and experts from several countries.
  
• - Information and communities for depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and other metal conditions. Includes news, editorials and chat.
  
• - Enquiry and research on the interplay between mind, body, and society. Includes sections on consciousness, psychosis, imagination, health, sickness, and death.
  
• - The Knowledge Exchange Network promotes the mental health aspect of national health events and awareness days in its new monthly Highlights section.
  
• - A research account into the logical status of theories used in psychiatry which concludes that psychiatry is not a science.
  
• - A voluntary organization that advocates changes to the mental health system and also raises funds to build care centers.
  
• - Essays on therapy, failed therapy, managed care, the Columbine High School massacre, Bill Clinton's "attention deficit disorder", and other mental health topics.
  
• - Advocates for "justice in family, housing, employment and our social lives, with civil and legal rights as well."
  
• - Is there such a thing as mental illness?
  
• - Advances the debate about Thomas S. Szasz's basic ideas and their practical applications.
  
• - A site for survivors of therapy abuse and supportive others.
  
• - A book that combines a first-person account of life on a psychiatric ward with a critical analysis of the psychiatric system.
  
• - A research, training, and service organization dedicated to improving the lives of people who have psychiatric disabilities.
  
• - Addressing serious problems in the care of the mentally ill in the United Kingdom.
  
• - Information on depression disorders, suicide and suicides survivors, links to experience and learning sites, personal experiences, forums.
  
• - An organization dedicated to empowering MH clients through self-help groups and statewide networking. Offers program report overviews, resources, and current news.
  
• - A directory of Mental Health sites, including alternative resources, support groups, and patient's rights.
  
• - Citizens' Commission on Human Rights (CCHR)Database of psychiatric crimes; form for reporting psychiatric abuses; video presentation.
  
• - Peter R. Breggin, M.D. founded The International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology (ICSPP) as a nonprofit research and educational network 25 years ago and warns the media and the public about the potential dangers of drugs, electroshock,
  
• - Site to raise consciousness and provide support for patients/clients who are, or have been, verbally and emotionally abuse by psychotherapists - includes checklists and discussion.
  
  

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