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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.antipsychiatry.com
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.
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.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.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.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.
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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.
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.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.psychquotes.com
Revealing and scary quotes on the goals of psychiatry
and psychology by the very leaders, founders and theorists of psychiatry
and psychology.
www.richardcohenfilms.com/hurry_tomorrow.htm
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.
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.”
www.sntp.net
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
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