Mind You, The Realities of Mental Illness : A Compilation of Articles from the Blog Mind You

Table of Contents

• Introduction 7
• Belief Systems, Mad in America and Anti-Psychiatry 9
• Addendum to Belief Systems, Mad in America and Anti-psychiatry 12
• Why I’ve Been Prescribing Psychiatric Medication For 47+ Years 15
• A Psychiatrist Critiques Open Dialogue 18
• Time to Re-evaluate Clozapine Use for Improved Schizophrenia Outcomes 21
• A Psychiatrist Discusses Hearing Voices 24
• Is There a Professional Turf War in the Mental Health Field? 28
• Families of the Seriously Mentally Ill Need Support Too 31
• The Decline of Mental Illness Treatment from the 1980s On 33
• Psychiatric Staff Burnout? 37
• On Solutions to Psychiatric Burnout 40
• Naming 44
• When Will All Mental Health Professionals Learn to Respect Families? 46
• The Best Treatment for Psychotic Illness is no Secret. 49
• The Unintended Consequences of Focusing on Recovery in Schizophrenia 51
• Are Psychologists Over Educated Bartenders? 53
• Harambe the Gorilla and Mental Illness 55
• One Step Forward, Two Steps Back – Mental Illness Treatment Over the Past 150+ Years – Part I of IV 57
• One Step Forward, Two Steps Back – Mental Illness Treatment Over the Past 150+ Years – Part II 60
• One Step Forward, Two Steps Back – Mental Illness Treatment Over the Past 150+ Years – Part III of IV 62
• One Step Forward, Two Steps Back – Mental Illness Treatment Over the Past 150+ Years – Part IV 64
• One Step Forward, Two Steps Back – Mental Illness Treatment Over the Past 150+ Years – Part V of IV 67
• Should We Bring Back Mental Asylums? 70
• A Subjective Unscientific Analysis of Anti-Psychiatry Advocates 73
• Has Mad in America Changed its View of Medication for Schizophrenia? 78
• Mental Illness and the Political Spectrum 80
• Suicide Prevention – Thoughts For Practitioners 84
• The Mentally Ill in Prison – A Reply to the Centre For Addiction and Mental Health 86
• Family Day, Serious Mental Illness and Murder 89
• Conspiracy Theories, Big Pharma and Anti-psychiatry 93
• Thoughts on Schizophrenia Awareness Day – The Courage of Those Who Suffer and Their Families 96
• A Psychiatrist Looks at Recovery And Finds it Wanting 98
• Towards a More Honest Interpretation of Schizophrenia Recovery 101
• On ECT, Jack Nicholson and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 103
• Privacy Laws Should Not Exclude Families 105
• Suicide Prevention: In The Real World 108
• The Word ‘Issue’ Has Become an Issue. 111
• Reforming Mental Illness Services is not Rocket Science 113
• On Adolescent Suicide 116
• The Course of a Psychotic Illness – In Response to Psychiatry and the Business of Madness 119
• The Psychiatric Interview and the Biology of Mental Illness 122
• On the Efficacy of Suicide Prevention 124
• Laying Bare the Sacrifices, Pain, and Even Joy of Caring for a Mentally Ill Relative 126
• What if Mental Health Awareness Was Successful – Chaos? 129
• Mental Illness Literacy 131
• Exploring Delusions 134
• Psychiatry, Eugenics and Mad In America Scare Tactics – Part I 137
• Psychiatry, Eugenics and Mad in America Scare Tactics – Part II 139
• On Naturopathy and Psychiatry 145
• On Mental Illness – Let’s Not Wring Our Hands But Actually Do Something 148
• Psychotropic Medication, Addiction, Withdrawal, Discontinuation, Relapse 151
• Anti-Psychiatry 153
• Anti-Psychiatry Bold and Profane 156
• Journalists, Medical Research and Medical Practice 161
• Madness and Meaning 165
• As For Trauma Causing Schizophrenia: No! No! No! 167
• More on Trauma in Youth and Schizophrenia 168
• Lies, damned lies, and statistics 171
• In Memory of an Exceptional Advocate 174
• Peers are not Medical Professionals 176
• Planning Mental Health Services Rationally 179
• Families, Privacy and Hospital Suicides 181
• More on Families, Privacy And Suicide 184
• Cockamamie Views From Anti-Psychiatric Advocate 186
• Understanding the Disease Model 190
• About the Authors 193
• David Laing Dawson 193
• Marvin Ross 194