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You’re Not Crazy

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Date: 13.4.1972 From documents obtained via F.O.I. REQUEST FOR RECEPTION OF PATIENT INTO A PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL Please receive Sylvie Raymonde Leber for observation and treatment into the psychiatric hospital of which you are Superintendent for a period of 21 days subject to the provision of the Mental Health Act 1959.

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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

Mad in America

As I documented in CounterPunch earlier this year, it is now mainstream to acknowledge that: (1) psychiatry’s treatment outcomes are “abysmal” and “not getting any better”; (2) the serotonin imbalance theory of depression is untrue; and (3) psychiatry’s diagnostic manual, the DSM , is scientifically invalid. As of late 2022, just 31% of U.S.

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Exile: My Cure for Psychosis

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If I am correct in saying that exile can cure someone of schizophrenia, then I have proven that psychiatrists are wrong in claiming that mental illness results from a chemical imbalance in the brain. I know very well that my psychosis was a consequence of numerous traumas that had nothing to do with the chemicals in my brain.