Non-Clinical Approaches

There are many people who do not find clinical

and medical treatment of their mental health

problem to be effective.  Some call themselves

"psychiatric survivors"   Here are some resources

and organizations with a different approach.

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Books 

• Breggin, Peter M.D. Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal – A Guide for Prescribers, Therapists, Patients and their Families, Springer Publishing Company, 2013.

• Kutchins, Herb, and Kirk, Stuart. Making Us Crazy: DSM: The Psychiatric Bible and the Creation of Mental Disorders, New York: The Free Press, 1997.

• Mosher, Loren and Hendrix, Voyce with Fort, Deborah C., Soteria- Through Madness to Deliverance, Xlibris, 2004.

• Perry, John Weir. The Far Side of Madness, 2nd Edition, New York: Prentice-Hall, 1977.

• Szasz, Thomas. The Myth of Mental Illness- foundations of a theory of personal conduct, New York: Harper and Row, 1961.

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Online Resources

• Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law.  Since 1972, the Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law has advocated for the civil rights, full inclusion and equality of adults and children with mental disabilities.

• MindFreedom International,  a nonprofit organization that unites sponsor and affiliate grassroots groups with thousands of individual members to win human rights and alternatives for people labeled with psychiatric disabilities.

• Weitz, Len. Bibliography for publications about psychiatric survivors: A Short Antipsychiatry Bibliography – Selected and Annotated Sources

 

Alternative Approaches

• National Empowerment Center, developer of Emotional CPR, a public education program that trains people to assist others through an emotional crisis.

• Spiritual Emergence Coaches, a program of the Integrative Mental Health University. Trained coaches provide a safe space to share extraordinary spiritual experiences without being dismissed as “crazy”

• See Complementary and Alternative Therapies on therapy page 

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