Is there such a thing as mental illness?

Review of a guide to recognizing an incompetent, immoral or quack therapist.

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.

A research, training, and service organization dedicated to improving the lives of people who have psychiatric disabilities.

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.

A research account into the logical status of theories used in psychiatry which concludes that psychiatry is not a science.

Essays on therapy, failed therapy, managed care, the Columbine High School massacre, Bill Clinton's "attention deficit disorder", and other mental health topics.

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.

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.

A site for survivors of therapy abuse and supportive others.

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.

Information on depression disorders, suicide and suicides survivors, links to experience and learning sites, personal experiences, forums.

Risk management issues for mental health professionals.

A book that combines a first-person account of life on a psychiatric ward with a critical analysis of the psychiatric system.

Citizens' Commission on Human Rights (CCHR)Database of psychiatric crimes; form for reporting psychiatric abuses; video presentation.

Information and communities for depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and other metal conditions. Includes news, editorials and chat.

An organization opposed to psychiatric abuses and involuntary treatment.

Advances the debate about Thomas S. Szasz's basic ideas and their practical applications.

Graduate thesis exploring the relationship between art and madness.

Enquiry and research on the interplay between mind, body, and society. Includes sections on consciousness, psychosis, imagination, health, sickness, and death.

A voluntary organization that advocates changes to the mental health system and also raises funds to build care centers.

A resource page about alternatives to the traditional, medical model-based, mental health system.

An award-winning three-part radio series covering personal stories of clinical depression, manic-depression, and schizophrenia.

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.

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.