Mental Health Liberation and Anti-Psychiatry Movement Part 2

Mental Health Liberation and Anti-Psychiatry Movement Dr. John Breeding, Ph.D. Psychologist talks about the mental health liberation movement, the anti-psychiatry movement, the movement against psychiatric oppression. Sometimes seen as antipsych or antipsychiary or anti-biological psychiatry. This is a movement made up mostly of ex-mental health consumers and the family members of ex-mental health consumers who feel they have been damaged by psychiatry. These people refer to themselves as psychiatric survivors. There are also several medical and mental health professionals that …

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Mental Health Becomes Public Concern in Late 1940s – Part 1

In part because of rejection rates during the World War II draft, concerns about the health – including mental health – of the US population developed in the 1940s. The issue was further spotlighted by efforts to deal with readjustment of returning veterans. Hollywood films such as “Spellbound” (1945) and “The Snakepit” (1948) also highlighted the issue. This video provides a popular introduction to the issue. At the time, drug therapies often used today were not available. The only such …

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Mental Health Liberation and Anti-Psychiatry Movement Part 1

Dr. John Breeding, Ph.D. Psychologist talks about the mental health liberation movement, the anti-psychiatry movement, the movement against psychiatric oppression. Sometimes seen as antipsych or antipsychiary or anti-biological psychiatry. This is a movement made up mostly of ex-mental health consumers and the family members of ex-mental health consumers who feel they have been damaged by psychiatry. These people refer to themselves as psychiatric survivors. There are also several medical and mental health professionals that reject the belief system of biological …

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Why You’re Getting Absolutely Nowhere In Your Self Improvement Path. Part 1

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by gerardov I remember it clearly as if it were yesterday… It was in the early 2000s, in the month of November, on a sunny afternoon. (I know, how cliche, but it really was sunny that afternoon.) It was a really strange time of my life because I wasn’t working, having left the only “real job” of my adult life almost a year earlier. Well, I was sort of working with some startup that had big dreams, but I wasn’t …

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Holiday Man goes to Big Brother Wrap Party! PART I

FOR PART II CLICK HERE: www.youtube.com September 18th, 2008 To celebrate the birthday of CBS, Holiday Man goes to the Big Brother 10 Wrap Party! Watch him talk to the Housemates… Birthday of CBS (9/18/1927) National Play-Doh Day National Self Improvement Month National Dog Week (3rd Week of Sept) Don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE!!! And watch Part II for much more… HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!! side note: Evil Dick asks Holiday Man when Nat’l Talk Like A Pirate Day is… and it turns …

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