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AN INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE FOR DEMOCRATIC PSYCHIATRY,
PSYCHOLOGY,
EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER OF PSYCHOLOGY POLITICS RESISTANCE (PPR) |
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“The Royal College of Psychiatrists' website lists as the causes of depression 'Things happen, circumstances, physical illness, personality, alcohol, gender and perhaps genetic inheritance'. No mention of chemical imbalance, and quite rightly so, because there has never ever been any evidence that chemical changes in the brain caused depression. Psychiatrists who read the research know this. Yet it was the myth of chemical imbalance that lost Mary twenty years of her life. If there is any consolation for this tragedy it is that out of it has come this wonderful book.” "If you care about human rights and alternatives in the mental health system, you'll want to hear the compelling story of Mary Maddock of Ireland . Mary dug deep into the human spirit and her network of mutual support to survive extreme trauma and torture and drugging at the hands of the mental health system. Despite these overwhelming human rights violations, Mary has learned to thrive and to become a powerful, articulate, international leader for a non-violent revolution in the mental health system. As never before the mental health system is labelling, drugging and shocking millions of people globally. Mary's heroic odyssey points a way out for these psychiatric survivors, and also for a whole society that has been tricked into believing falsehoods manufactured by the psychiatric industry." |
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Asylum Magazine 2002
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