Appeal to Board of Health to Ban ECT in Ontario

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In January of 1984 seven members of the Ontario Coalition to Stop Electroshock, three psychiatrists, and a psychiatric social worker gave personal testimony. I...

Kassi’s Mom

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Thank you for having me. I walk around angry, jaded and bitter. I am not religious but I have begged bargained and negotiated with...

Benzodiazepines in Canada: Is a Withdrawal Crisis Looming?

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On February 15th, Radio-Canada’s Enquête aired ‘Cauchemar sur ordonnance’ (translation: Nightmare on prescription), a documentary about the dangers of benzodiazepines and z-hypnotics. Enquête’s description: Des pilules...

There’s a Fundamental Flaw in Mental Health Care in Canada

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Mad in Canada launched on June 1st. We’re just over a month old. Reflection on the mission we share with Mad in America and...

“Cured”

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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...

Liquids and Tapering Strips: Formulations in Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal

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On June 28th, The International Institute for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal (IIPDW) is hosting a webinar. Liquids & Tapering Strips: Formulations in Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal The what,...

Is psychiatry such a fragile house of cards?

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On October 9, 2021 an opinion piece was published in the Globe and Mail entitled ‘Woke’ psychiatrists have lost sight of the biological causes...

The Politics of Distress: A discussion with Dr. James Davies on his new book...

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Dr. James Davies graduated from the University of Oxford in 2006 with a DPhil in social and medical anthropology. He is a Reader in...

Remembering Don Weitz, 1930-2021

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My hero, mentor, and very dear friend Don Weitz died comfortably, in his home, on the afternoon of September 1, attended by his loving...

Everyone’s Afraid of an Angry Woman: Honoring Sinéad O’Connor

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This article was originally published On August 1, 2023 by Mad in America. Comment from Mad in Canada: Karin Jervert, Arts Editor with Mad in America,...

The Need for Deinstitutionalization

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Irit Shimrat All provincial and territorial legislation allowing psychiatric hospitalization and community treatment or outpatient committal orders must be abolished. People who behave strangely routinely get...

In Memoriam: Paula Joan Caplan

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Paula Caplan, a prolific writer, playwright, and social activist, who for decades was one of the most prominent critics of psychiatry and its diagnoses,...

A Disorder for Everyone – Online Festival 2023

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A Disorder for Everyone! - The Online Festival 2023 Friday September 22nd, 9am-8pm GMT https://youtu.be/2Mlw_GTN17o?si=pDrPmpcwORIU_8Xc   This is a donation only event to ensure that it is as...

Responses to the ‘No Chemical Imbalance Study’: A Long-awaited Watershed Moment?

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Initial reactions to the 20 July publication of the Moncrieff et al. study have included widespread media coverage in some places, and the metaphorical...

“Asylum”

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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...

AFN NATIONAL CHIEF ROSEANNE ARCHIBALD ACKNOWLEDGES NATIONAL DAY FOR TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION

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https://www.afn.ca/afn-national-chief-roseanne-archibald-acknowledges-national-day-for-truth-and-reconciliation/ (Ottawa, ON) – Today, Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief RoseAnne Archibald acknowledges the importance of Orange Shirt Day, urging all Canadians to...

A Disorder for Everyone! – The Online Festival 2023

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Part of the Workshops that offer non-pathologising approaches collection. A whole day of change-making talks, presentations, conversations, poetry etc challenging the culture of diagnosis and...

MAID and Mental Illness: An interview with Dr. Jeffrey Kirby

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Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) became legal in Canada in June 2016. In October 2020, Bill C-7: An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical...

When Tapering Antidepressants, is Going Slow Always the Best Strategy?

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I start this blog with an apology. There may be people reading who, like myself, look back with frustration and despair that they cannot...

Electroconvulsive Therapy Survey | John Read | Madness Radio

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First Aired by Madness Radio on July 11, 2024 Survey of people who have had electroshock (electroconvulsive Therapy/ECT) – for patients, family, and friends. John Read,...

Part 2: Are we all neurodivergent nowadays?

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This is Part 2 of the four-part series on neurodiversity that is being jointly published by Mad in America and Mad in the UK....

New Canadian Benzodiazepine Documentary – AIRS FEBRUARY 15th!

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Radio-Canada's Enquête presents "Cauchemar Sur Ordonnance" (Season 17: Episode 17) The episode's title translates to 'prescription nightmare' in French, and it will focus on the...

Announcing Oral History Collection on Mental Health Activists in Manitoba

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Stories are us.  Finding ourselves in history, we figure out who we are and where we belong and how what we do fits with...

Review of “Beyond Reason. Chronicle of a personal experience of madness”

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This book review is reprinted from Mad in Argentina. ‘Beyond reason’, with a foreword by RD Laing, was published in 1964 and describes the...

23rd Annual ISEPP Conference October 9-10, 2021

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Notice of the 23rd Annual ISEPP Conference "The Destructive Propaganda of the Mental Health Industry: How Did We Get Here? Where Are We Going?" on...

Mental Health Advocacy and Activism: Perspectives on Systems and Social Transformation

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About this event This is an online event. You can register here. Note: You can register for free with the code "Freebie." Co-sponsored by Mad in America...

Fernando de Freitas: A “Dear Friend” Who Was a Warrior for Radical Change

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Written by Robert Whitaker and posted to Mad in America on February 3, 2023 Over the past decade, the call for radical change in psychiatry...

ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY (ECT) STUDY

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RESEARCH PARTICIPANTS NEEDED FOR INTERNATIONAL ONLINE SURVEY If you are at least 18 years old and have had ECT, other than the last 4 weeks,...

Part 3: Neuro-authenticity, neuro-identities, and the neuro-industry

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This is Part 3 of the four-part series on neurodiversity that is being jointly published by Mad in America and Mad in the UK....

The Ethics of Psychiatry

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A government cannot legitimately own its citizens' bodies. Yet, under British Columbia’s (BC) Mental Health Act the BC government, not to mention governments around...