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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.
http://www.alternativementalhealth.com
Created to expose the role of the media in promoting the stigmas associated with mental illness.
http://www.cinemaniastigma.com/pages/1/index.htm
Is there such a thing as mental illness?
http://www.idiom.com/~drjohn/review.html
Review of a guide to recognizing an incompetent, immoral or quack therapist.
http://www.skepdic.com/refuge/crazy.html
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.
http://www.witness.com.au
Advocates for "justice in family, housing, employment and our social lives, with civil and legal rights as well."
http://hometown.aol.com/jimhofw/jimho.htm
A research, training, and service organization dedicated to improving the lives of people who have psychiatric disabilities.
http://www.bu.edu/sarpsych/
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.
http://www.breggin.com
A research account into the logical status of theories used in psychiatry which concludes that psychiatry is not a science.
http://www.futurepsychiatry.com
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.
http://www.miepvideos.org/mentalhealth/anti-stigma.html
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.
http://www.sealander.com/Grrrl.html
The Knowledge Exchange Network promotes the mental health aspect of national health events and awareness days in its new monthly Highlights section.
http://www.mentalhealth.org/highlights/index.htm
A site for survivors of therapy abuse and supportive others.
http://therapy-abuse.healthyplace2.com/
Fighting the Stigma of Mental Illness:a forum on mental illness, presenting accurate, up to date information
http://www.stigmaof.com
Information on depression disorders, suicide and suicides survivors, links to experience and learning sites, personal experiences, forums.
http://www.geocities.com/lafnalot/soul_sadness.html
Risk management issues for mental health professionals.
http://www.athealth.com/Practitioner/BryantWelch.html
A book that combines a first-person account of life on a psychiatric ward with a critical analysis of the psychiatric system.
http://www.web.ca/~tslee
Citizens' Commission on Human Rights (CCHR)Database of psychiatric crimes; form for reporting psychiatric abuses; video presentation.
http://www.psychcrime.org/
Information and communities for depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and other metal conditions. Includes news, editorials and chat.
http://www.support4hope.com/Support_Groups.html
Dr. Michael Menaster, a San Francisco psychiatrist, on "panic disorder"; symptoms, possible causes and treatments.
http://www.geocities.com/menaster/panic.html
An organization opposed to psychiatric abuses and involuntary treatment.
http://www.narpa.org/
Advances the debate about Thomas S. Szasz's basic ideas and their practical applications.
http://www.szasz.com/
Graduate thesis exploring the relationship between art and madness.
http://www.annestahl.com/thesis/
Enquiry and research on the interplay between mind, body, and society. Includes sections on consciousness, psychosis, imagination, health, sickness, and death.
http://www.mind-body.info
A voluntary organization that advocates changes to the mental health system and also raises funds to build care centers.
http://www.whitewreath.com
A resource page about alternatives to the traditional, medical model-based, mental health system.
http://nht_amhl1.blogspot.com/
An organization dedicated to empowering MH clients through self-help groups and statewide networking. Offers program report overviews, resources, and current news.
http://www.cnmhc.org
An award-winning three-part radio series covering personal stories of clinical depression, manic-depression, and schizophrenia.
http://lcmedia.com/voices.htm
David Coopers' discoveries in psychodynamics of Schizophrenia and his criticisms of psychiatry.
http://home.att.net/~esetz/
A mental health study in the United States where a group of respondents have been followed since preschool in order to track their adaptation and development across their life span.
http://www.simmons.edu/gssw/sls/
A future book project to tell the stories of people harmed by the mental health system to make providers aware that they can often make problems worse.
http://www.psychiatricharm.com/