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The
Antipsychiatry
Coalition


The Antipsychiatry Coalition is a nonprofit volunteer group consisting of people who feel we have been harmed by psychiatry - and of our supporters.  We created this website to warn you of the harm routinely inflicted on those who receive psychiatric "treatment" and to promote the democratic ideal of liberty for all law-abiding people that has been abandoned in the U.S.A., Canada, and other supposedly democratic nations.

  • Mental Patients' Liberation: Why? How?
  • To Be a Mental Patient - by Rae Unzicker

    A comprehensive 12-part critique of psychiatry by Lawrence Stevens, J.D.:

  • Does Mental Illness Exist?
  • Schizophrenia: A Nonexistent Disease
  • The Myth of Biological Depression
  • Psychiatric Drugs: Cure or Quackery?
  • Psychiatry's Electroconvulsive Shock Treatment - A Crime Against Humanity
  • The Brain Butchery Called Psychosurgery
  • The Case Against Psychotherapy
  • Unjustified Psychiatric Commitment in the USA
  • Is Involuntary Commitment for Mental Illness a Violation of Substantive Due Process?
  • Why Psychiatry Should Be Abolished as a Medical Specialty
  • Suicide: A Civil Right
  • Psychiatric Stigma Follows You Everywhere You Go for the Rest of Your Life
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    Antipsychiatry News Clips
     Commentary on current news by
    Douglas A. Smith, webmaster of this website
    updated March 26, 2004

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  • Why Psychiatric Drugs are Always Bad - by Douglas C. Smith, M.D.
  • On Ritalin and "Hyperactivity Disorder" - Peter R. Breggin, M.D.
  • How Drug Company Money Has Corrupted Psychiatry - Loren R. Mosher, M.D.
  • Unethical Psychiatrists Misrepresent What is Known About Schizophrenia - by Al Siebert, Ph.D.
  • Only You Can Cure Yourself - Ann Lawson
  • Why Outpatient Commitment Laws Change (Almost) Nothing  - by Douglas A. Smith
  • Why Mental Patients Should Have the Same Constitutional Rights as Criminals - and Why Involuntary Commitment for "Dangerousness" is Wrong
  • 25 Good Reasons Why Psychiatry Must Be Abolished - by Don Weitz of Toronto, Ontario
  • Notes on Psychiatric Fascism by Don Weitz of Toronto, Ontario
  • The Non-Violence Philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi Applied to Psychiatry

  • A Retort to President Bush on Mental Health

  • Mental Health Parity: A Debate - U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone and Antipsychiatry Coalition webmaster Douglas A. Smith debate whether Congress (or state governments) should have laws forcing health insurance companies to pay for psychiatric treatment

  • View photographs of demonstrations protesting psychiatry's harmful "therapies" and violations of human rights:

  • May 2, 1998 - Washington, D.C.
  • August 15-17, 1999 - Albany, New York
  • October 9, 1999 - Toronto, Ontario
  • October 23, 1999 - Bethesda, Maryland
  • February 28, 2000 - Sacramento, California
  • July 7 - 15, 2000 - Mad Pride Week in Oregon, New York, & Ontario
  • November 10, 2000 - NARPA conference in Sacramento, California
  • July 22, 2001 - Vancouver, British Columbia
  • May 18, 2003 - San Francisco, California


    • Why is this young woman using a wheelchair?:  She has tardive dyskinesia - caused by psychiatric drugs.  Read Jenelle's story and a proposal for Jenelle's Law.


  • Legislative News about pending and recent legislation - updated April 9, 2002
  • Notable Quotes - last modified November 21, 2001
  • An Antipsychiatry Reading List
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    Book Reviews

  • The Antidepressant Fact Book by Peter R. Breggin, M.D.
  • Reclaiming Our Children by Peter R. Breggin, M.D.
  • Your Drug May Be Your Problem - How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Drugs, by Peter R. Breggin, M.D., & David Cohen, Ph.D.
  • Myths of Madness by Don D. Jackson, M.D.
  • Pseudoscience in Biological Psychiatry by Colin A. Ross, M.D., Alvin Pam, Ph.D., et al.
  • Therapy's Delusions by Ethan Watters & Richard Ofshe
  • Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel

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  • Do you have a right to jury trial in psychiatric commitment in your state? - a compendium of psychiatric commitment laws in the USA's 50 states and capitol (District of Columbia)
  • Lawyers - a list of lawyers who have successfully opposed psychiatric oppression
  • Mental Health Professionals - a list of psychiatrists, psychologists, and a neurologist who oppose involuntary psychiatric "treatment"
  • How to contact The Antipsychiatry Coalition    
  • Join the Antipsychiatry Coalition Advertising Campaign! - see radio, magazine, and newspaper advertisements we have run in the past - and run your own


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      THE ANTIPSYCHIATRY FORUM
      e-mail from readers of this website
      last modified August 17 2003
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      NEWS &  ANNOUNCEMENTS

      Volunteers needed to distribute pamphlets & articles in U.S.A., Canada, Mexico, U.K., Australia, Europe, Russia, Central & South America, Africa, and Asia: Please help us make the information on this web site available to people who do not have access to the Internet.  Download articles and pamphlets from this web site and distribute them to people who you think will benefit.

      Volunteer translators needed:  If you know both English and another language and would like to translate one or more of the articles on this web site into your other language, or if you want to offer suggestions to improve any of the translations already appearing on this web-site, please send your improved translation or your suggestions to us at       antipsychiatrycoalition@usa.net.  We've been using translation software, but, of course, a computer program can't translate as accurately as a human being can.  The health care quackery known as biological psychiatry and the violations of human rights done in the name of mental health are world-wide problems.  We want to warn people who do not speak English about the harm being done by psychiatry.

      No Scientologists, please: Volunteers will be asked for assurance they are not affiliated with the "Church" of Scientology or its Citizen's Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), which have publicized the harm done by psychiatry but which we want no affiliation with.

      Privacy Statement: This web site does not use cookies, web bugs, scriplets, transparent .GIFs, or any other method of identifying you or learning what you view on the Internet.  When you view this web site, we do not know who you are unless you write us a letter and tell us.  (The counter we have at the bottom of the article "Does Mental Illness Exist?" uses cookies, but they are not sent to us, and we don't know what The Counter.com does with them.  You can refuse cookies through a selection on your web browser: Look for "Internet Options" or "Preferences," then "Advanced" and then look for the enable or disable cookies option.)  If you write us a letter that is published in The Antipsychiatry Forum that indicates you are a present or former psychiatric "patient," you will be identified only by a first name or initials (or sometimes by a fictitious first name or initial(s) unless you indicate a desire for your full name to be used or we know you have already publicly identified yourself as a present or former psychiatric "patient" - such as in a published article or your own web site.

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      OTHER ANTIPSYCHIATRY WEB SITES you may wish to visit include the following:
      National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy
      The Dark Side of Psychiatry
      Depression Culture
      Relatives & Allies of Psychiatric Survivors
      http://www.vo-vo.de/ - German antipsychiatry web site (in German)
      Norsk Antipsykiatri - Norwegian Antipsychiatry web site (in Norwegian)
      Benzodiazepines - about the dangers of these drugs
      The Schizophrenia Myth - website dedicated to dispelling the myth that schizophrenia is a disease
      psychosurgery.org - author tells the story of her grandmother who was lobotomized in 1953
      International Association Against Psychiatric Assault

      WEB SITES BY PRESENT & FORMER VICTIMS OF PSYCHIATRY:
      StopShrinks.org - web site by Antipsychiatry Coalition activist Cal Grandy
      ect.org - anti-electroshock web site - by a victim of ECT
      m-power.org - Mental health services consumer group with chapters in Boston, Worcester and Lowell, Massachusetts (Howard Trachtman, webmaster)
      http://www.psychiatricsurvivor.com/
      Psychiatric Survivor Action Association of Ontario (Canada)
      La Gazette des fous Rebelles (The Mad Rebel Gazette) - in French, German, and English
      Mad Pride in UK - ex-patient/psychiatric survivor group in the United Kingdom
      Observatoire de la psychiatry - antipsychiatry group in France (in French)
      MindFreedom - by the Support Coalition, which is the publisher of MindFreedom Journal (formerly named Dendron)
      Shoshanna's Psychiatric Survivor's Guide
      MadNation - new version of award-winning web site by Mrs. Vicki Smith
      Web sites by or about C. Rodney Yoder, a man currently held in a psychiatric hospital in Illinois -
            http://www.rodneyyoder.net/
            http://www.rodneyyoder.com/
            Shrinkbusters
      Psychiatry's Secrets
      Relatives & Allies of Psychiatric Survivors - about brain damage from psychiatric drugs

      WEB SITES BY PROFESSIONAL PEOPLE:
      Thomas S. Szasz, M.D. Cypercenter for Liberty and Responsibility
      Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology
      Dr. Peter Breggin's website
      Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (http://www.adhdfraud.org) - web site by Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D., a neurologist who opposes psychiatric "diagnosis," especially Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
      John M. Friedberg M.D - antipsychiatry website by a board-certified neurologist
      The Critical Psychiatry Website - articles and links to many other antipsychiatry web sites
      Successful Schizophrenia - by psychologist Al Siebert, Ph.D.
      Hamilton D. Moore, attorney - home page of Las Vegas, Nevada attorney who specializes in stopping psychiatry's human rights violations
      Harm Being Done by Psychiatry in India - by Rev.Fr. Geo. Kappalumakal, who is a Roman Catholic priest in India and an activist in the Antipsychiatry Coalition

      ARTICLES:
      Commentary: Against Biologic Psychiatry - by David Kaiser, M.D.
      Deadly Restraint - A Nationwide Pattern of Death - a series of newspaper articles about deaths of  "patients" in psychiatric "hospitals" in the USA caused by cruel and irresponsible use of physical restraint against them by psychiatrists and associated mental health "professionals."
      Baughman Exposes Myth of ADHD - California neurologist Fred A. Baughman, M.D., exposes myth of mental illness, especially ADHD, February 18, 2002 Insight magazine
      The Grief Police, January 28, 2002 Insight magazine article about compulsory psychiatric evaluations for all 55,000 New York City Police officers, and the unjustified involuntary psychiatric commitment and forced drugging of Dr. Ira Warheit
      Mental Illness:Balancing Safety and Patients' Rights - Las Vegas Review Journal articles about human rights abuses in psychiatry



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