Daily Archives: 11/05/2017
How to pick a medical speciality that’ll keep you happy your entire life?
Published: Monday, 15 February 2016 13:3 One of the hardest decisions in your career begins at the end of MBBS, when you have to start thinking about which specialty to pursue. With over 60 specialties and over 30 subspecialties to consider after MBBS, it can be a tough choice. Most people start narrowing down their […]
Mad Pride
Mad Pride parade in Salvador, Brazil, in 2009. Mad Pride is a mass movement of the users of mental health services, former users, and their allies. It was formed in 1993 in response to local community prejudices towards people with a psychiatric history living in boarding homes in the Parkdale area of Toronto, Canada, and […]
Psychiatric survivors movement
The psychiatric survivors movement (more broadly peer/consumer/survivor/ex-patient movement[1]) is a diverse association of individuals who either currently access mental health services (known as consumers or service users), or who are survivors of interventions by psychiatry, or who are ex-patients of mental health services.[2] The psychiatric survivors movement arose out of the civil rights movement of […]
Outline of the psychiatric survivors movement
Outline of the psychiatric survivors movementThe following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the psychiatric survivors movement: Psychiatric survivors movement – diverse association of individuals who are either currently clients of mental health services, or who consider themselves survivors of interventions by psychiatry, or who identify themselves as ex-patients of […]
Involuntary commitment
For involuntary treatment in non-hospital settings, see involuntary treatment. Involuntary commitment or civil commitment (also known as sectioning in some jurisdictions) is a legal process through which an individual who is deemed by a qualified agent to have symptoms of severe mental disorder is court-ordered into treatment in a psychiatric hospital (inpatient) or in the […]
“Project Icarus”,
The Icarus Project is a media and activist endeavor broadly aligned to anti-psychiatry, arguing that mental illness should actually be regarded as “dangerous gifts”. The name is derived from Icarus, a hero in Greek mythology, and is metaphorically used to convey that these experiences can lead to “potential[ly] flying dangerously close to the sun.” [1] […]
World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry
The World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (WNUSP) is an international organisation representing, and led by what it terms “survivors of psychiatry”. As of 2003, over 70 national organizations were members of WNUSP, based in 30 countries.[1] The network seeks to protect and develop the human rights, disability rights, dignity and self-determination of […]
The Netflix series, 13 Reasons Why,
The Netflix series, 13 Reasons Why, has caused a furor. In the show, a high school student who has died by suicide has left 13 tapes, one for each person she believes have contributed in some way to her eventual decision. Each episode relates to an individual tape. The penultimate episode depicts the suicide in […]
deemagclinic
deemag and chest clinic 