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Mental Institutions: Still Hellish in 2015

Mental Institutions: Still Hellish in 2015

When 5 mental health institutions in California were investigated recently, a scathing 900 page report resulted. This voluminous release exposed sexual, physical, mental and emotional damage to patients. In short, not a lot has changed from the days when reporter...

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Is the Oregon Massacre Psychiatry’s Fault?

Is the Oregon Massacre Psychiatry’s Fault?

Innocent lives have been lost to yet another madman with a gun, this time at a community college in Oregon. As rational people, we know there has to be a reason for the proliferation of school shootings and other mass murders. Some, including President Obama, have...

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Psychiatry Can’t Cure Mental Illness

Psychiatry Can’t Cure Mental Illness

Pretend you were enjoying a lovely skiing holiday and swished when you should have swooshed, resulting in a broken left foot. Logically, you’d visit a medical doctor and ask him to set the bone. As long as he did his job, you could expect your foot to heal completely....

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Mental Institutions: – their Hellish History Part 2

Mental Institutions: – their Hellish History Part 2

During WWII volunteer service in state mental institutions was a requirement for some conscientious objectors. Warren Sawyer, who was a 23 year old pacifist, was appointed to Philadelphia State Hospital (also known as Byberry) to work as an attendant. He was one of...

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The Legalization of Marijuana  Part 1 of 2

The Legalization of Marijuana Part 1 of 2

If you live here in Florida it's not too early to be thinking about the 2016 election. Not the excitement of the well-publicized presidential race but the stealth movement working behind the scenes to legalize marijuana in the state of Florida. For sure, there are...

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Mental Institutions: Their Hellish History – Part One

Mental Institutions: Their Hellish History – Part One

Nellie Bly risked her life when she feigned insanity and had herself committed to a New York mental institution in 1887. She was a reporter, and her purpose was to expose the true conditions, including brutality and murder, that reigned in Blackwell’s Island Asylum....

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Psychiatrists Want More Research with Psychedelic Drugs?! – Part Two

Psychiatrists Want More Research with Psychedelic Drugs?!

Part One Psychiatrists have started fooling around again with research using LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide), Psilocybin (a naturally occurring psychedelic compound found in "magic mushrooms") and MDMA (Ecstasy). In March of this year, writing in the British Medical...

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Psychology Fails Validation Tests

Psychology Fails Validation Tests

Psychologists would like us to believe that the work they do is scientific. Dictionaries appear to have accepted this idea - “Psychology is the study of mind and behavior. It is an academic discipline and an applied science which seeks to understand individuals and...

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Psychiatry Admits Failure

Psychiatry Admits Failure

Psychiatrist Richard Friedman reflects on American Psychiatry’s quandary in a recent NY Times Op Ed piece: “Despite a vast investment in basic neuroscience research and its rich intellectual promise, we have little to show for it on the treatment front. “With few...

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Mental Health Reform Bill Strengthened

Mental Health Reform Bill Strengthened

Ironically, the “Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act,” legislation first introduced in 2013, was supposedly in response to the deadly school shootings in Newtown, Connecticut. Possibly legislators Tim Murphy and Eddie Bernice Johnson, who reintroduced the...

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