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.

An extensive directory of alternative, drug-free approaches to mental health and a list of alternative mental health practitioners.

Site of the Anti-psychiatry Coalition, whose purpose is to warn of the harm routinely inflicted on those who receive psychiatric treatment and to promote the now abandoned democratic ideal of liberty for all law-abiding people.

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.

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.

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.

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.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.

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.

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.

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.

Revealing and scary quotes on the goals of psychiatry and psychology by the very leaders, founders and theorists of psychiatry and psychology.

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.

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.”

The “Say No to Psychiatry” site offers a compendium of information on psychiatry, its history, its drugs and its connections to the FDA and Big Pharma. The site also provides a virtually complete list of books on the subject which are available through the on-line Foundation of Truth in Reality Bookstore.

www.endofshock.com

A coalition sponsoring the abolition of electroshock in Texas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-psychiatry
“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.