psychiatry mental health / psyche survivors

treatment programs

  Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation / http://www.bu.edu/sarpsych/
  Clubhouse Model Programs / http://www.ICCD.org/
  Healing Minds / An online book on "current research ... and practice concerning ...complementary and alternative therapies ...for mental health problems..." / http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/hmtitle.htm
  Knowledge Exchange Network / http://www.mentalhealth.org/

informed consent

   Psychiatric Human Rights activist Pat Risser has put this Informed Consent Form online as an example of a more truly informed consent to treatment document
   Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law has provided some thoughtful material on making treatment choices in advance. Psychiatric Advance Directives
  The Mental Health Investigator http://www.psychinvestigator.com/what's_inside.htm takes a look at a range of issues in mental health that affect everyone. A Candaian website, the issues identified, including Community Treatment Orders (known also as "Outpatient Committment"), psychiatric labeling and its connection with aggressive promotion of psychiatric drugs; fraud and abuse in for-profit psychiatric hospitals and questioning the reliability of psychiatrists as "expert witnesses". All topics one must be aware of in order to provide true informed consent.

directories, search engines

Galaxy's Mental Health links page
Mental Health Dictionary

individual treaters

  Dr. Peter Breggin / International Center for the Study of Psychiatry & Psychology / http://www.breggin.com
  Dr.John Grohol / http://www.grohol.com
  The Skeptical Psychiatrist / http://home.gci.net/~dougs/
  Claude Steiner's Emotional Literacy / http://www.igc.apc.org/emlit/

the "violent patient" myth

MacArthur Research Center on Mental Health Law / http://macarthur.virginia.edu/violence.html
  The MacArthur site also looks at the issues of:
  • coercion: How forced treatment impacts on the quality of care offered and provided in the mental health treatment arena; The issue of forced treatment strikes at the heart of human dignity, personal autonomy and acknowledgement of human rights.
  • adjudicative competence; this, a rather curious and disturbing practice wherein the the Courts are used to bypass a person's due process rights ~under the guise of evaluating whether or not someone is "competent to stand trial" [often by criteria that virtally anyone who hasn't been through the courts would not pass] and
  • treatment competencies; That double edged psychiatric "sword" wherein one is assumed to be competent if one "agrees" to take drugs ordered by a psychiatrist, but "incompetent" if disagreeing with the doctor's recommendations. Didn't we read about this in Alice in Wonderland?

involuntary treatment

  Beyond Forced Psychiatry / Jonah Paisner writes in a 1999 Thesis that "...explores the social, legal, and therapeutic limits on the obliteration of mental patients' free will." The auther further maintains that "...Sustainability and humane treatment are the cornerstones of the ideal alternatives to forced psychiatry. Ironically, refusing conventional treatment may be good for the patient. Besides avoiding invasive practices, the negotiation that ensues between patient and provider encourages autonomy and bolsters patient dignity.92 Also, force frequently leads to the kind of negative reaction which leads to poor outcome and noncompliance..." / http://www.lclark.edu/~paisner/mental.html
  Impact of Forced Treatment / Sasha Claire McInnes wrote this piece in 1999 providing a perspective on how forced psychiatric drugging is increasingly used to subjugate the homeless, women, minorities and other disenfranchised persons. http://www.sdnp.undp.org/ww/women-health1/msg00099.html
  People Against Coercive Treatment / http://www.tao.ca/~pact/
  HCFA Restraints Reduction Newsletter / http://www.hcfa.gov/pubforms/rrnews.htm
  Treatment Advocacy Center / E. Fuller Torrey's propaganda vehicle to promote forced treatment(Torrey is now employed by the US Department of Defense). / http://www.psychlaws.org/default.htm

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