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www.ablechild.org
AbleChild is a national parents’ rights, non-profit
organization dedicated to protecting fully- informed consent as well as
the right to refuse psychiatric treatment for your child. It provides
information necessary to make an educated decision regarding the
“diagnosis” (or misdiagnosis) of your child and any medication
prescribed.
www.alternativementalhealth.com
An extensive directory of alternative, drug-free
approaches to mental health and a list of alternative mental health
practitioners.
www.breggin.org
Dr. Peter Breggin, Harvard trained psychiatrist and
former consultant to the National Institute of Mental Health, exposes
the dangers of mood altering drugs and the false biological theories of
mental health. The site provides extensive scientific resources.
www.cchr.org
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights site has
extensive information on the relatively horrifying philosophical,
political and practical history of psychiatry. It points out the extreme
danger of psychiatric views and practices, particularly coupled as they
are with the pharmaceutical industry. This organization also offers a
venue for reporting psychiatric abuse and adverse pharmaceutical
reactions.
www.drugwatch.com
Up-to-date information about prescription
and over-the-counter medications and includes details about associated
side effects to aid in the protection of patients and consumers.
www.ect.org
A comprehensive collection of information about
electroconvulsive therapy by a survivor of ECT who, with his colleague,
has received over one hundred death threats for his exposure of the
horrors of this treatment, particularly when it is administered without
informed consent.
www.endofshock.com
A
coalition sponsoring the abolition
of
electroshock in Texas.
fda.gov/medwatch
MedWatch is the FDA program for reporting serious reactions, product
quality problems and product use errors with human medical products such
as drugs and medical devices. If you think you or someone in your
family has experienced a serious reaction to a medical product or drug
or to electric shock, you can take the reporting form to your doctor
(who is not required to report adverse reactions) or you can complete
the form yourself on-line.
freedom-center.org
Freedom Center is an award winning support advocacy and activism
community in Western Massachusetts. Run by and for people labeled with
mental disorders such as bipolar, schizophrenia and borderline, or who
experience extreme states of consciousness, Freedom Center works for
access to holistic alternatives, compassionate care, and an end to
forced psychiatric treatment.
www.healthgrades.com
Founded in 1999, Health Grades is an independent healthcare
ratings organization that provides a ranking of physicians, dentists,
hospitals and nursing homes in the United States. An instant report of
each is available and lists any disciplinary actions received.
Twenty-five doctors are also on-line to answer viewers’ questions
immediately.
www.mindfreedom.org
Mind Freedom International is an independent
non-profit coalition defending human rights and promoting humane
alternatives for mental and emotional well being. It keeps up-to- date
with anti-psychiatry news and is an extensive resource for information
on the abuses from and within the mental health system. |
www.moshersoteria.com
Site chronicles the proven, successful treatment and
rehabilitation of the “severe mentally ill” in a humane, non-hospital
setting without the use of drugs, surgery or ECT.
psychiatricdrugs.net
This site has a compendium of detailed information
about the effects – they appropriately do not necessarily distinguish
between side effects and effects – of antidepressants, antipsychotics,
anti-anxiety and anti-manic agents, and stimulants. Also published here
is a comprehensive white paper done by the Citizens Commission on Human
Rights covering psychiatric drugs, their usage and their effects.
www.psychiatrichelp.org
A series of comprehensive, downloadable booklets on
19 different aspects of psychiatric abuse, including fraud,
pseudo-scientific theories, child drugging, elderly abuse and erosion of
justice. Site shows how broad and how dangerous has been the influence
of psychiatry on our society.
www.psych-crimes.com
A site that focuses on the dangers women face for
psychiatric abuse. The site also describes how several famous actresses
had their lives completely ruined by psychiatrists.
www.psychquotes.com
Revealing and scary quotes on the goals of psychiatry
and psychology by the very leaders, founders and theorists of psychiatry
and psychology.
Richard Cohen Films
Hurry Tomorrow
The film Hurry Tomorrow was filmed over a six
week period in a locked ward at Metropolitan State Hospital in Los
Angeles and it documents the loss of human rights and the abuse suffered
by psychiatric patients in a state mental hospital. The film prompted an
investigation that revealed the tragic deaths of several hundred
patients.
smartmedinfo.com
A site for professionals and lay people alike,
smartmedinfo offers, articles, videos, blogs and information that are
fact based and are dedicated to giving complete information about
psychiatric drugs, collectively and individually. An example of one
fact: forty-one percent of all prescriptions are given for something
that the FDA did not approve them for.
sntp.net
An associate site of the Foundation for Truth in
Reality, this “Say No to Psychiatry” site goes over the dangerous short
term and largely unknown long term effects of psychiatric medication and
lists in detail their “side effects,” which include addiction and
withdrawal symptoms. The site also shows how psychiatric drugs actually
obtain their effects by causing brain dysfunction.
theicarusproject.net
This site educates its viewers on the options
available to them for coming off psychiatric drugs as smoothly and
harmlessly as possible and lists links to other resources to help in
that regard. Also provided is a comprehensive list of both the mental
and physical health risks of psychiatric drugs and a “Universal
Declaration of Mental Rights and Freedoms.”
www.wildestcolts.com
Site of John Breeding, author of the seminal work
“The Wildest Colts Make the Best Horses: The Truth about Ritalin, ADHD
and Other Disruptive Behavior Disorders.”
“Anti-psychiatry” listing on wikepedia.org
A history of the anti-psychiatry movement, its
originators and principal advocates, and the theories and evidence upon
which the movement is based.
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