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Critiquing the Psychiatric Model is the first Volume of the Ethics International Press Critical Psychology and Critical Psychiatry Series. Edited by Eric Maisel and Chuck Ruby. The book features a chapter on antidepressants and rampage killings by author Patrick D. Hahn from his book, Prescription for Sorrow. Understanding the current systems of psychology and psychiatry is […]
Dr. Roger McFillin interviews Patrick Hahn:
The kids are not alright. Millions of children continue to be dangerously drugged under the label “ADHD.” And the numbers continue to rise. How did we get here? n his latest book, Patrick D Hahn has documented the history and evolution of this diagnosis and the lack of evidence for any long-term benefits.
I just finished Obedience Pills by Patrick Hahn. It is a very comprehensive, very readable account of the invention of ADHD and the total lack of any scientific support for the drugs given to suppress childish behavior by children. And how the diagnosis and drugs absolve parents and the other adults in their children’s lives from responsibility for raising them, as well as teaching the diagnosed they are not responsible for their behavior. There is much more, and Obedience Pills has a lot of commonsense as well as being meticulously supported.
Medicating Normal Guest bio: Patrick D. Hahn is a freelance writer and independent scholar with a long-standing interest in iatrogenic harm and the medicalization of everyday life. His first book, Madness and Genetic Determinism: Is Mental Illness in Our Genes?, explores how genetic determinist views of so-called “mental illness” have obscured the well-established role of […]
“Obedience Pills recounts the shocking story of psychiatry’s abandonment of scientific evidence in favor of professional power and profit. As expertly discussed here by Patrick Hahn, the bizarre transition from some musings on youth morality in the nineteenth century to the current drugging of millions of kids with highly dangerous substances for a non-existent condition would be almost laughable if it wasn’t so utterly tragic and devastating for so many young people and their families. A must-read for anyone currently living with or considering a diagnosis of ‘ADHD’.”
Bruce Cohen, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Auckland and author of Psychiatric Hegemony
By Jim Gottstein, author of The Zyprexa Papers In this video author, Jim Gottsteinm talks about the hardcover edition of The Zyprexa Papers. In an earlier 8.5 minute video, Jim talked about the book itself. https://youtu.be/MC7j29dkRyw. More information, including reviews and interviews, can be found at https://thezyprexapapers.com/ Jim Gottstein The Zyprexa Papers, Hardcover edition Publish […]
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Author Jim Gottstein talks about and reads portions of his book, The Zyprexa Papers. It was just a normal day before Dr. David Egilman called me out of the blue on November 28, 2006. The days are short that time of year in Anchorage, Alaska, and it was getting dark by mid-afternoon. Dr. Egilman […]
Review by Maryanne Demasi, Indian Journal of Medical Ethics Title:
Unfortunately, the goal of global immunity has imposed an unhealthy code of silence. Questions about the ethics of mandatory medical treatment and the validity of clinical research are spinning around the edge of the covid pandemic. Unfortunately, the goal of global immunity has imposed an unhealthy code of silence. We think it’s time for the […]
Coercive, medical model psychiatry can be dangerous to your health. The Zyprexa Papers by Jin Gottstein Book Review By Tom Sandborn The Zyprexa Papers, by James Gottstein, Anchorage Alaska, 232 pp., $17.50 (paperback), ISBN-10: 0578627264 Imagine this. Someone in your life finds you inordinately eccentric, annoying or alarming, and decides you have a “mental illness,” whatever […]
The Zyprexa Papers by Jim Gottstein BY BRUCE E. LEVINE On November 28, 2006, attorney Jim Gottstein received a phone call that would change his life. It would propel Gottstein into a legal war against the giant pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly, who would retaliate against him for his release of Lilly’s own documents about its drug […]
