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The Missouri Budget Funds Psychiatric Fraud and Abuse

The Missouri budget, just approved for the next Fiscal Year, contains over two billion insanely bloated dollars for the Department of Mental Health.                 We think it is time to call psychiatry and … Continue reading

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Victims of therapist sexual abuse encouraged to speak out during National Sexual Assault Awareness Month

Press Release CCHR International The Mental Health Industry Watchdog April 4, 2018 With studies showing an average of 6 to 10 percent of psychiatrists and psychologists sexually abusing their patients, including children as young as three, Citizens Commission on Human … Continue reading

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Trauma Informed Therapy is the Newest Psych Buzzword

“Trauma Informed Therapy is centered on the understanding of the emotional, neurological, psychological, social, and biological effects of trauma,” in the misleading idea that trauma experienced when young affects the mental well-being of individuals throughout life. We call it misleading … Continue reading

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Psychiatric Sexual Assault – April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month

In 2009, President Obama first proclaimed April as Sexual Assault Awareness Month. The Presidential Proclamation does not mention sexual assault in the mental health care field, so we’d like to mention it here. In Missouri, there are a number of … Continue reading

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The Russians Are Coming? No, They Never Left!

In 1966 the movie “The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!” dramatized the Cold War as a plot to make the world die laughing. We had to laugh about it, because the reality of Soviet infiltration to topple America … Continue reading

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An Affair to Remember

Infidelity literally means unfaithfulness (from the Latin word infidelis, “not faithful”); the word can be used as unfaithfulness, disbelief or disloyalty to a moral obligation, to a religion or religious belief, or as current and relentless news stories have it, … Continue reading

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The Continuing Cannabis Conundrum

We have previously written a number of blogs on cannabis, but it seems the problems won’t go away. So we’re writing about it again. On January 4, 2018 Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded the long-standing “Cole Memorandum” issued in 2013 … Continue reading

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Are You Depressed?

The sudden realization that someone might actually enjoy one’s company is a better antidepressant than anything one could get on a prescription. [With thanks to Charles Stross, The Atrocity Archive.] Psychiatry is heavily pushing false data about depression. You should … Continue reading

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The Racism of Psychiatry

We generally think of racism as prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior. In Nazi Germany, this idea took on a slightly different slant, as the … Continue reading

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Knocked Out, Paralyzed, and Shocked

Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT), or shock therapy, is a controversial psychiatric “treatment” in which seizures are deliberately induced in the patient with an electrical current to the brain. There are roughly 100,000 ECT sessions given per year in the U.S. The … Continue reading

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