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MENTAL HEALTH
Psychiatry’s Racist Past and Present
Columbia University’s suspension in late February of Jeffrey Lieberman, chairman of its psychiatry department, is yet another example of how racist…
MENTAL HEALTH
Another Tragic School Shooting—Who Is to Blame?
Parental irresponsibility, the availability of firearms and the failure of the mental health system all become targets for blame. But there is another element that is often overlooked.
MENTAL HEALTH
APA Tries to Downplay Horrific Psychiatric Abuse
While 7-year-olds are being handcuffed and taken for involuntary psychiatric evaluations, APA authors claim psychiatric coercion is rare and nearly “always necessary when applied.”
MENTAL HEALTH
Enormous Increase in Women Taking Psychiatric Drugs
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reveals that the number of American women taking ADHD drugs quadrupled since 2003.
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Exposing the Enslavement of Blacks in South Africa
Freedom had unearthed a network of privately owned, profit-making institutions that held nearly 11,500 black inmates—and was subsidized by the apartheid government.
MENTAL HEALTH
Poisoned Justice
The story of the innocent man who spent decades behind bars for “the most ghastly crime in Florida history.”
MENTAL HEALTH
Blunder in the Brain
Every time Kellie Ellison gets her hair done she braces for the moment when hairdressers discover a big bulge on the right side of her head. As they feel the spot, “I tell them that it’s a horn,” jokes Ellison, who lives in the town of Warrior, Alabama. “It scares them to death.”
