The Evolution of Psychiatry....
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| The Lobotomist an amazing PBS documentary (American Experience) check their web page here you can watch the program directly here |
When WWII Pacifists Mental Ward Horrors Listen to the history of Charlies Lord who exposed the misery in US psychiatric hospital in 1946 on NPR AllThings Considered click this link Click on the picture on the right to access the slide show |
| From the webmaster: This page is an incomplete and biased walk through subjects that, I thought, were interesting and well presented. I would love for you to tip me on more websites so I can add them to this page. Thank you! bernadette |
| About prof. Nash ("A beautiful Mind") Check the Interview with Dr. John Nash at the 1st Meeting of Laureates in Economic Sciences in Lindau 2004. Around min 21, he answers question about his schizophrenia and he he has been off medication since the 70ies… check here for his entire interview. The part when he speaks about his recovery from schizophrenia |
| Click here and check the video of the C-Span review of Book: 'ANATOMY OF AN EPIDEMIC" by Robert Whitaker (1h 28min) In that lecture, the 1998 Pulitzer Prize Finalist and author of "Mad in America" discussed the rise in diagnosis of mental illness in the U.S. and the proliferation of drugs to medicate various conditions. Mr. Whitaker contended that drugs do little to balance imbalanced brain chemistry. The event is at the National Arts Club in New York. |
