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LINKS
LINKS TO RELEVANT AND INTERESTING WEB SITES
All of the sites mentioned are interesting and provide links to other useful sites.
Many give extensive evidence supporting a psychosocial and natural, rather than a
pathologizing psychiatric approach to psychological problems.
Your feedback
and suggestions for other relevant Web sites are welcomed.
Useful links:
www.antipsychiatry.org
- An excellent and comprehensive site by an anti-psychiatry
Coalition clarifying what is seriously wrong with current biological
psychiatry and cataloging its harmfulness and dangers to those who
use it.
Peter
Breggin Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology
- A
comprehensive site that discusses the dangers of biological psychiatry
and presents clinical and scientific research backing its views.
Critical
Psychiatry Network
- A valuable critique of contemporary psychiatric practice by a network of British
psychiatrists.
The International
Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology -
An excellent Web site that gives up-to-date important
information on the damaging effects of organized psychiatry in its
unholy alliance with the pharmaceuticals. Objective and balanced.
The International Society
for the Psychological Treatment of Schizophrenia and other Psychoses
- Excellent, comprehensive, enlightened, humane, and
scientifically sound web-site. A must-read web site for anyone who
doubts the value of a psychological therapeutic approach to the
"psychoses" - whether they are incipient or chronic.
Mental health activists, anti-psychiatry patients
rights alliances
- A broadly useful Web site called "mental-health-matters" that covers
research and online support for all types of psychological problems.
www.mindfreedom.org
- An
alliance of more than seventy grass roots groups in eleven countries aiming to
win human rights in the "mental health system." An activist site
promoting ethical and scientific approaches to mental health.
Excellent, comprehensive site. Highly recommended.
Philosophy
of Psychiatry and Antipsychiatry
- A
scholarly and critical bibliography of the philosophy of psychiatry and
anti-psychiatry.
www.radpsynet.org
- Radical Psychology Net is
focused on changing psychology's and society's unacceptable status quo to a
liberating, more acceptable status.
Dr.
Robert Saltzman - This site is dedicated to
holistic mental, emotional and physical healing,
psychological wellness and "spiritual unfoldment" for
the communities of La Paz, Todos Santos, and Cabo San Lucas, Baja
California, Mexico. It has an email Q&A forum. Worthwhile checking out,
especially if you are in that area.
www.szasz.com - A site
presenting the well thought out, scientifically and philosophically sound views of Thomas Szasz on
the pervasive harm, dangers and absurdities of current world psychiatry.
www.welcomeworld.org
- A poignant, clarifying and emotionally uplifting
Web site created by Clover Smith, a survivor of thirty years of
"psychiatric treatments."
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