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The Battle for the Human Soul
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Is there such a thing as mental illness?
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Crazy Therapies
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Review of a guide to recognizing an incompetent, immoral or quack therapist.
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Abuse in Psychotherapy
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Site to raise consciousness and provide support for patients/clients who are, or have been, verbally and emotionally abuse by psychotherapists - includes checklists and discussion.
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Justice In Mental Health Organization
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Advocates for "justice in family, housing, employment and our social lives, with civil and legal rights as well."
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Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation
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A research, training, and service organization dedicated to improving the lives of people who have psychiatric disabilities.
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Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology
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Peter R. Breggin, M.D. founded The International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology (ICSPP) as a nonprofit research and educational network 25 years ago and warns the media and the public about the potential dangers of drugs, electroshock, psychosurgery, and the biological theories of psychiatry.
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The Future of Psychiatry
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A research account into the logical status of theories used in psychiatry which concludes that psychiatry is not a science.
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Essays on Psychology and Life
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Essays on therapy, failed therapy, managed care, the Columbine High School massacre, Bill Clinton's "attention deficit disorder", and other mental health topics.
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Mental Illness Education Project: Fighting Stigma
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The social stigma of mental illness makes it harder for those affected to cope with and accept the illness, undermines treatment and recovery, and exacerbates the problems of family members who participate in care. Stigma also diminishes the support given to the professionals who endeavor to provide that care.
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The First Grrrl
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She spent years championing the rights of the disabled and the forgotten. When she became the underdog in her own life, she struggled just as fiercely to save herself.
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KEN: Monthly Mental Health Activities and Events
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The Knowledge Exchange Network promotes the mental health aspect of national health events and awareness days in its new monthly Highlights section.
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Therapy Abuse
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A site for survivors of therapy abuse and supportive others.
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Stepping into the Light
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Fighting the Stigma of Mental Illness:a forum on mental illness, presenting accurate, up to date information
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Soul Sadness
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Information on depression disorders, suicide and suicides survivors, links to experience and learning sites, personal experiences, forums.
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Interview with Bryant Welch, JD, PhD
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Risk management issues for mental health professionals.
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As For The Sky, Falling
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A book that combines a first-person account of life on a psychiatric ward with a critical analysis of the psychiatric system.
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Report Psychiatric Abuse
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Citizens' Commission on Human Rights (CCHR)Database of psychiatric crimes; form for reporting psychiatric abuses; video presentation.
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Support Groups Chats For Mental Health
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Information and communities for depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and other metal conditions. Includes news, editorials and chat.
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Panic Disorder
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Dr. Michael Menaster, a San Francisco psychiatrist, on "panic disorder"; symptoms, possible causes and treatments.
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National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy
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An organization opposed to psychiatric abuses and involuntary treatment.
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The Thomas S. Szasz Cybercenter for Liberty and Responsibility
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Advances the debate about Thomas S. Szasz's basic ideas and their practical applications.
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Till Death Do Us Part: The Marriage of Art and Madness
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Graduate thesis exploring the relationship between art and madness.
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Mind, Body and Society
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Enquiry and research on the interplay between mind, body, and society. Includes sections on consciousness, psychosis, imagination, health, sickness, and death.
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White Wreath Association Inc. - Action Against Suicide
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A voluntary organization that advocates changes to the mental health system and also raises funds to build care centers.
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Alternative Mental Health
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A resource page about alternatives to the traditional, medical model-based, mental health system.
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Lichtenstein Creative Media (LCM) - Voices of an Illness
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An award-winning three-part radio series covering personal stories of clinical depression, manic-depression, and schizophrenia.
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Psychiatry Anti-Psychiatry Re-visited
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David Coopers' discoveries in psychodynamics of Schizophrenia and his criticisms of psychiatry.
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Simmons Longitudinal Study
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A mental health study in the United States where a group of respondents have been followed since preschool in order to track their adaptation and development across their life span.
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The Potential for Psychiatric Harm in Legal and Ethical Practices
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A future book project to tell the stories of people harmed by the mental health system to make providers aware that they can often make problems worse.
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Essays on Psychology and Life
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Includes "Giving Your Child Voice: The 3 Rules of Parenting" written by psychologist, Richard Grossman, Ph.D. Site also contains essays on other topics in psychology.
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