The biomedical model of psychiatry and the right to refuse medication
As an inpatient, I have seen the prevailing biomedical model of psychiatry and how it compels doctors and nurses to act. The cavalier attitude...
Criticisms that establishment psychiatry can and cannot tolerate
For the institutions comprising establishment psychiatry, self-preservation means maintaining legitimacy as a branch of medicine. Thus, any criticism of establishment psychiatry—no matter how harsh—that...
Finding confidence to come off medication and gain inner peace
This piece is fuelled by an interaction with a psychiatrist that wanted to put me on extra medication because I openly told him that...
Network supports people to ‘achieve greater agency in their own recovery’
by Owen O'Tuama, Mary Farrelly & Harry Gijbels
A voice-hearers perspective:
I’ve heard voices for 30 years. Because of enormous stigma and the taboo nature of...
“Power is vested in one profession when in fact mental health is a messy...
I was delighted to speak with Dr Pat Bracken and Dr Charles O'Mahony on the Irish Centre for Human Rights podcast. We covered a...