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      new window Abuse in Psychotherapy Description: Site to raise consciousness and provide support for patients/clients who are, or have been, verbally and emotionally abuse by psychotherapists - includes checklists and discussion. (witness.com.au)
new window Alternative Mental Health Description: A resource page about alternatives to the traditional, medical model-based, mental health system. (nht_amhl1.blogspot.com)
new window Alternative Mental Health.com Description: Alternative Mental Health.com is a guide to alternative mental health(non-psychiatric, health-oriented). The site features a directory of practitioners, organizations and experts from several countries. (alternativementalhealth.com)
new window As For The Sky, Falling Description: A book that combines a first-person account of life on a psychiatric ward with a critical analysis of the psychiatric system. (web.ca)
new window California Network of Mental Health Clients Description: An organization dedicated to empowering MH clients through self-help groups and statewide networking. Offers program report overviews, resources, and current news. (cnmhc.org)
new window Care in the Community Description: Addressing serious problems in the care of the mentally ill in the United Kingdom. (stopabuse.org)
new window Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation Description: A research, training, and service organization dedicated to improving the lives of people who have psychiatric disabilities. (bu.edu)
new window Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology Description: Peter R. Breggin, M.D. founded The International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology (ICSPP) as a nonprofit research and educational network 25 years ago and warns the media and the public about the potential dangers of drugs, electroshock, psychosurgery, and the biological theories of psychiatry. (breggin.com)
new window Crazy Therapies Description: Review of a guide to recognizing an incompetent, immoral or quack therapist. (skepdic.com)
new window Essays on Psychology and Life Description: Essays on therapy, failed therapy, managed care, the Columbine High School massacre, Bill Clinton's "attention deficit disorder", and other mental health topics. (voicelessness.com)
new window Interview with Bryant Welch, JD, PhD Description: Risk management issues for mental health professionals. (athealth.com)
new window Justice In Mental Health Organization Description: Advocates for "justice in family, housing, employment and our social lives, with civil and legal rights as well." (hometown.aol.com)
new window KEN: Monthly Mental Health Activities and Events Description: The Knowledge Exchange Network promotes the mental health aspect of national health events and awareness days in its new monthly Highlights section. (mentalhealth.org)
new window Lichtenstein Creative Media (LCM) - Voices of an Illness Description: An award-winning three-part radio series covering personal stories of clinical depression, manic-depression, and schizophrenia. (lcmedia.com)
new window Mental Health Matters Description: A directory of Mental Health sites, including alternative resources, support groups, and patient's rights. (mental-health-matters.com)
new window Mental Illness Education Project: Fighting Stigma Description: The social stigma of mental illness makes it harder for those affected to cope with and accept the illness, undermines treatment and recovery, and exacerbates the problems of family members who participate in care. Stigma also diminishes the support given to the professionals who endeavor to provide that care. (miepvideos.org)
new window Mind Mania Description: An index to web pages on issues concerning mental health. (truthresources.org)
new window Mind, Body and Society Description: Enquiry and research on the interplay between mind, body, and society. Includes sections on consciousness, psychosis, imagination, health, sickness, and death. (mind-body.info)
new window National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy Description: An organization opposed to psychiatric abuses and involuntary treatment. (narpa.org)
new window Panic Disorder Description: Dr. Michael Menaster, a San Francisco psychiatrist, on "panic disorder"; symptoms, possible causes and treatments. (geocities.com)
new window Psychiatry Anti-Psychiatry Re-visited Description: David Coopers' discoveries in psychodynamics of Schizophrenia and his criticisms of psychiatry. (home.att.net)
new window Report Psychiatric Abuse Description: Citizens' Commission on Human Rights (CCHR)Database of psychiatric crimes; form for reporting psychiatric abuses; video presentation. (psychcrime.org)
new window Soul Sadness Description: Information on depression disorders, suicide and suicides survivors, links to experience and learning sites, personal experiences, forums. (geocities.com)
new window Stepping into the Light Description: Fighting the Stigma of Mental Illness:a forum on mental illness, presenting accurate, up to date information (stigmaof.com)
new window Support Groups Chats For Mental Health Description: Information and communities for depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and other metal conditions. Includes news, editorials and chat. (support4hope.com)
new window The Battle for the Human Soul Description: Is there such a thing as mental illness? (idiom.com)
new window The First Grrrl Description: She spent years championing the rights of the disabled and the forgotten. When she became the underdog in her own life, she struggled just as fiercely to save herself. (sealander.com)
new window The Future of Psychiatry Description: A research account into the logical status of theories used in psychiatry which concludes that psychiatry is not a science. (futurepsychiatry.com)
new window The Stigma of CineMania Description: Created to expose the role of the media in promoting the stigmas associated with mental illness. (cinemaniastigma.com)
new window The Thomas S. Szasz Cybercenter for Liberty and Responsibility Description: Advances the debate about Thomas S. Szasz's basic ideas and their practical applications. (szasz.com)
new window Therapy Abuse Description: A site for survivors of therapy abuse and supportive others. (therapy-abuse.healthyplace2.com)
new window Till Death Do Us Part: The Marriage of Art and Madness Description: Graduate thesis exploring the relationship between art and madness. (annestahl.com)
new window White Wreath Association Inc. - Action Against Suicide Description: A voluntary organization that advocates changes to the mental health system and also raises funds to build care centers. (whitewreath.com)
 




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