Federal Solitary Confinement Class Action
Federal Solitary Confinement Class Action
https://kmlaw.ca/cases/federal-solitary-confinement-class-action/?fbclid=IwAR0fQe3LGVXs_P7-iZNCUBb75i64nfM_E7KkBYNNq2o_URYRbmCYHSnSM6g
R.I.P. Peter Campbell (1949-2022)
Peter Campbell (1949-2022) Survivor activist, writer, and poet
https://www.disabilityartsonline.org.uk/peter-campbell?fbclid=IwAR35cDCoQ7RnvZiVVO1DSECZVtxSC2Z77PBxnVsYWI06H5YOjMb5E6UCOaE
AD4E – A Disorder for Everyone … Upcoming Events
A Disorder for Everyone! Challenging the culture of psychiatric diagnosis.
A Disorder for Everyone! is an innovative and pioneering organization based in the UK.
AD4E has...
When Tapering Antidepressants, is Going Slow Always the Best Strategy?
I start this blog with an apology. There may be people reading who, like myself, look back with frustration and despair that they cannot...
“Enact The Gayton Principle” by Judy Gayton
In Enact The Gayton Principle, Judy Gayton writes,
"People with disabilities, both physical and cognitive, are currently discriminated against in the Legal Aid system because they...
“Does Capitalism Make Us Crazy?” by Susan Rosenthal
From "Does Capitalism Make Us Crazy? by Susan Rosenthal:
"There are two things we can do now. The first is, tell the truth.
Mental suffering is...
“Cured”
Bruce Levine reviews “Cured,” a PBS Independent Lens documentary about gay liberation from psychiatry to be broadcast on October 11, 2021. Levine writes: "Cured is...
“Asylum”
This story, published in Aeon, about a hospital at Saint-Alban-sur-Limagnole, in southern France during WWII, has some lessons for us today. According to author...
“Global Psychiatry’s Crisis of Values”
American psychiatrist Awais Aftab, leads the series 'Conversations in Critical Psychiatry' for Psychiatric Times. His June 3rd installment, an interview with Dainius Pūras, MD,...
End of Mission Statement by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of...
Ottawa, 12 April 2019
Read the entire statement issued by United Nations Special Rapporteur, Ms. Catalina Devandas-Aguilar.