It is understandable why those critical of the dominant biomedical approach to human distress sometimes feel despondent. Despite our collective efforts to offer sufferers more humane, non-pathologising alternatives to the drugs and coercion currently imposed by biological psychiatry, there are […]
Continue ReadingIn Part I of this blog, I outlined the main sources of division among those striving for a radical change in the way the Western world responds to human suffering. Three potential generators of disunity were proposed, originating from differing views […]
Continue ReadingIf we are to achieve the much-needed paradigm shift in the way we respond to human suffering, it is imperative that the various strands of the anti-psychiatry movement unite. Given the powerful vested interests sustaining the dominant bio-medical model, a […]
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