Tag Archives: psychiatric

VIDEO: PBS Reports Chinese dissidents, whistleblowers and petitioners incarcerated in psych wards just as they were in Soviet Russia

PBS News special report: Chinese dissidents, whistleblowers and government petitioners are being labeled “mentally ill” incarcerated in psychiatric wards and subjected to electroshock—a tactic reminiscent of Soviet Russia and the alliance between psychiatry and the police state. The marriage of psychiatry with communist/socialist and police state regimes has spanned countries across the globe as an effective means to deal with political dissension.

The growing trend to make Internet addiction a mental disorder (just another excuse to put kids on drugs)

While the American Psychiatric Association has yet to recognize the preoccupation as a separate disorder, mental health professionals usually treat it under the broader umbrella of impulse control disorders.

The Mothers Act Disease Mongering Campaign – Part III

This is part three of a four-part investigative article series by award-winning journalist Evelyn Pringle on The Mothers Act Disease Mongering Campaign.

It’s Not a Mental Illness, It’s Just Life

We can hold the DSM, currently in its fourth edition, responsible for transforming everyday sadness into a medical condition. It now diagnoses human response to loss, save for the death of a loved one, as depression.

Bitter Pill: How the Pharmaceutical Industry Turned a Flawed & Dangerous Drug (Zyprexa) Into a $16 Billion Bonanza

Created to treat schizophrenia, Zyprexa wound up being used on misbehaving kids.