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Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill

Written on August 9, 2022.

This book is a heavily-researched history, background and overview of the barbaric and inhumane treatments of the mentally ill that would shock any reader. Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment provides much-needed...

Psychiatry, the Ultimate Betrayal

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Written on August 9, 2022.

This book is an eye-opener that gives a remarkably thorough history of psychiatry, dating back from the 19th century to the present day. It exposes the manner in which power, money and influence helped peddle theories as facts, which all led to the...

A Dose of Sanity: Mind, Medicine, and Misdiagnosis

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Written on August 9, 2022.

Neuropsychiatrist Dr. Sydney Walker once again draws on his decades of experience to shine light on psychiatry’s over-reliance on psychiatric labels in this book. He explains how psychiatrists and mental health professionals have become accustomed...

Critical New Perspectives on ADHD

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Written on June 17, 2022.

Critical New Perspectives on ADHD is an in-depth exploration, drawn from the analyses of experts worldwide, of the ADHD phenomenon that occurred in the 21st century. This book, edited by Gwynedd Lloyd, Joan Stead and David Cohen, explains how the concept...

Warning: Psychiatry Can Be Hazardous to Your Mental Health

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Written on June 14, 2022.

This book, written by psychiatrist Dr. William Glasser, exposes the field of psychopharmacology, and how it is replacing the role that psychotherapy used to play. The book explains how, while psychiatric drugs can be helpful in the short-term, they...

Mental Health Records Matter in Mass Shootings

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Written on May 18, 2022.

Another crazed, gun-toting kid wantonly, tragically kills ten and wounds three innocent people in a small upstate New York town. We’ve heard this scenario played out time and again. Is it really that simple? Another crazy kid spewing hate,...

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, 25th Anniversary Edition

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Written on March 23, 2022.

With over 100 years of mandatory schooling behind us now, we have seen the progression of issues such as illiteracy and learning disabilities in our children. Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, which is John Taylor Gatto’s...

Why Your Child is Hyperactive

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Written on January 6, 2022.

This book, written by practicing pediatrician and allergist Dr. Ben Feingold, contains sound research and medical advice about how artificial food coloring and flavoring is often the culprit of hyperactivity in children. From this book, the widely...

Why Johnny Still Can’t Read: A New Look at the Scandals of Our Schools

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Written on December 10, 2021.

Now that Rudolf Flesch has made the argument that phonics is the most effective way to teach children how to read in his last book, Why Johnny Can’t Read – And What You Can Do About It, this second book further examines the role of phonics...

Why Johnny Can’t Read – And What You Can Do About It

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Written on November 8, 2021.

This book, written in 1955 by author, readability expert and writing consultant Rudolf Flesch, is all about phonics, which is the method recommended by the U.S. Department of Education for teaching children to read. Why Johnny Can’t Read and...

Tag: Mental Health

Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill

Psychiatry, the Ultimate Betrayal

A Dose of Sanity: Mind, Medicine, and Misdiagnosis

Critical New Perspectives on ADHD

Warning: Psychiatry Can Be Hazardous to Your Mental Health

Mental Health Records Matter in Mass Shootings

Why Your Child is Hyperactive

Why Johnny Still Can’t Read: A New Look at the Scandals of Our Schools

Why Johnny Can’t Read – And What You Can Do About It

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