Robert Whitaker: The Rising Non-Pharmaceutical Paradigm for "Psychosis"
In this talk, Robert Whitaker reviews the science that calls for a radical change or evidence-based paradigm shift in psychiatric care, and describes pilot projects that tell of a new way.
Starting in the 1980s, our society organized its thinking and systems of care around a “disease model” narrative that was promoted by the American Psychiatric Association and the pharmaceutical industry. That narrative has collapsed. The biology of mental disorders remains unknown; the diagnoses in the DSM have not been validated as discrete illnesses; the burden of “mental illness” in our society has risen; and there is an increasing body of evidence that tells of how psychiatric drugs, over the long-term, increase the chronicity of psychiatric disorders.
The collapse of that paradigm provides an opportunity for radical change. In Norway, the health ministry has ordered that “medication-free” treatment be made available to psychiatric patients in hospital settings. A private hospital in Norway has opened that seeks to help chronic patients taper from their psychiatric drugs, or to be treated without the use of such drugs. In Israel, a number of “Soteria” houses have sprung up, which provide residential treatment to psychotic patients and minimize the use of antipsychotics in such settings. Research into Hearing Voice Networks is providing evidence of their “efficacy” for helping people recover. Open Dialogue treatment, which was developed in northern Finland and involved minimizing use of antipsychotics, is being adopted in many settings in the United States and abroad.
About the presenter:
Robert Whitaker has written three books on the history of psychiatry: Mad in America, Anatomy of an Epidemic, and Psychiatry Under the Influence (the latter book he co-authored with Lisa Cosgrove.) He is the president of Mad in America Foundation, which-through its webzine, radio podcasts, continuing education webinars, and town halls-promotes an exploration of these issues. He is also on the adjunct faculty at Temple Medical School, in the psychiatry department.
This webinar was organized by ISPS-US, an organization that promotes psychological and social approaches to psychosis and extreme states. You can find out more about ISPS-US, and become a member or support our work with a donation, at www.isps-us.org .
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Psychiatrists and people who work in mental health will not listen to this, they refuse to believe the truth and want to continue the way they are. It's terrible , too many lives are destroyed by psychiatry.
@RjRocker87
2 жыл бұрын
In this world, money is more important than life.
@simsim5919
2 жыл бұрын
@@RjRocker87 yes the suppression of others for money, status and power.
@user-py2nz4qx8f
11 ай бұрын
100% My poor late veteran partner said the System had held him prisoner for 20 years. I realize the docs and social workers were well meaning but he had become addicted to the psych meds and there were adverse reactions in the extreme; terrible side effects.
@THEROOTMATTERS
10 ай бұрын
THE MENTAL HEALTH BIG PHARMA INDUSTRY, DO NOT WANT TO LOSE THEIR JOBS
@nickjones2395
7 ай бұрын
Yep. For 5 years I thought I was dumb. It turns out it was the antipsychotic. I'm almost weaned off of it completely. Next appointment I'll be on 0mg of Zyprexa. I'm still on 20mg of Lexapro. It's criminal how people are given these neurotoxins based on fear, false hope, and greed. I finally don't feel dumb and slow. My brain is functioning so much better. I just want to be off both of these poisons now.
Keep pounding and diffusing this information Robert!
Politicians should see this video. Psychosocial and familybased interventions are much better than those that mostly give neuroleptics.
@stevekaylor5606
4 ай бұрын
The Mental Health Committees of the Legislatures should see this, along with those of Peter Breggin, James Davies, Caroline Leaf, etc.! Then, new Standard of Care procedures must be instituted. / Howard Glasser gives people the aesthetic Talent Training they need to develop a mental + emotional cathexis - which is what Mental Health is!
Dr Whittaker is right on that it is time to change the paradigm. More Soteria Houses and CBT for psychosis therapists are needed as the mainstream medical model is obsolete, inhumane and a failure.
We are many who never took the medication or got over it and live a normal, active life. How can we get together and help each other?
@vasekhromada8714
3 жыл бұрын
I got through few psychotic episodes and psychiatrists have only sad prognosis for me and gave me dg paranoid schizophrenia, but I fight it as hard as I can, work on myself, did all kinds of therapy and lately could reduce meds almost to zero.. And I strong believe that full recovery is possible.. yet I still have issues with post-psychotic depressions, abulia and anhedonia... I would love to get in touch with people who got through it and are healed and fully recovered, I'm sure there's plenty of them!
@novembremercier9210
3 жыл бұрын
@@vasekhromada8714 Hi! I'm one of them. It took me 9 years to reduce and stop, yes it's possible. Now free from medication, I'm celebrating 5 years this July. I will share my journey.
@NamiWonderful
Жыл бұрын
@@novembremercier9210 How did you make it? What did you do?
@user-py2nz4qx8f
11 ай бұрын
@@vasekhromada8714 sorry you are enduring that. My late veteran partner was in the same boat... he was impatient with me when I suggested natural approaches ... I did not express myself very well but I felt that, as the body is an incredible machine I would look at physical approaches for instance a good doc he had said that his (quote) craziness was diabetic so my take on that is that there could be a physical element. It may not be the cause of psychological distress but a super healthy diet (cutting down on sugary foods for example ) certainly cannot hurt. For sure he was better once his new doctor took him off all six psych meds and gave him just one at a low dose. Great improvement; no more hallucinations for instance.
@cynthiaennis3107
10 ай бұрын
@@novembremercier9210congratulations! That’s quite an accomplishment! I’m only half off...seems like forever & if I do make it off...I’ll be in my 60’s!
watching this is making me profoundly happy. and hopeful. thank you, thank you and thank you!!
What Mr Whittaker says about psychotic people being in the "in between spaces" in society is something I can relate to.
@bailtree
9 ай бұрын
the marginalised spaces. divide and conquer!
I need to speak with you please. I am a recovering addict and psychiatry survivor. Humanity need to know addiction is the psychology of a liar. Thanks and kind regards, Miguel
You are doing great work for humanity....please keep on giving the real statistics
Thankyou very much, Mr Whittaker!
thank you , blessings , 💖
Niacin protocol had brilliant outcomes (also related to addictions) but the inventors were silenced, continue somewhat in Orthomolecular movement but it was pushed out of the mainstream and its history is not widely known
Why did it take 2 years for me to find this video? Please tell me where I can find these people?
Hello Mr. Whitaker, thank you for this excellent presentation! I would like to get that PowerPoint as I want to write my bachelor's thesis about this topic.
The success model in America doesn't have time for love. Ironic that abuse is the reason for nearly all of this
Pills are profitable and have a horrific side effects.. is a market for heartless people
Unfortunatley, medication free treatment is not available for everybody. Just à minute minority.
McLean’s? I’m surprised! Wonderful about the treatment by the Quakers! Very humane & wise!
Could it be that antipsychotics are prescribed more to the poor and that in countries such as Nigeria, the people are too poor to receive long term meds? My nurse used to say my antipsychotic injection was expensive. I can at least be happy that the fact that people are poorer as a rule, in those countries, actually have a better outcome. Or maybe those countries just are more humane in their treatment of those on the high end of the psychosis spectrum.
@kareendeveraux1847
Жыл бұрын
They simply can't afford the drugs, that's why the outcomes are better. Psychosis is actually a healing process of the soul.
@heide-raquelfuss5580
5 ай бұрын
Poor countries have it better, as long poor people have no insurance or financial help of organisations! If there is no $$$ to get, pharma is not interrested and docors either. They do not care about people, only economical profits. But that will change. The WHO wants a global power strategy to gain power and control to make $$$ out of people, together with pharma and industrials. Poor countries are taken in slowly...
There are proposals to close the medicine free clinic in tromsø, and instead organize the existing medicine free services in a more "economical" form. From what i have heard from the regional hospital, i admit to not have examined the matter in any depth.
7:15 downward recovery from neuroleptics _JC
Big Farma is too powerful in this country and totally against any alternative more effective treatments that will not maintain or increase their profits.
Neuroleptics actually cause people to become more unstable. The dose becomes increased until the patient is basically sedated and they see this as the ‘appropriate treatment’. They may as well induce them into a coma and the psychiatrists will tick their box of fixing the problem when they have only diminished the symptoms visible on the surface. The poor people stuck in the mental health system for decades are so neurologically damaged from the chemical restraint abuse that they look like something is wrong them and are trapped in a catch 22. The entire paradigm needs to go back to the drawing board and not just give up on these people. One day they will look back on what was done in shame and disgust.
I want to get off of abilify terribly. I am.down to 5 mg a day and about to start searching for a dr that will help me taper off.
You always talk about first episode patients, what about those who relapsed?
@mysticmardi
5 ай бұрын
Psychiatric professionals have no way to tell the difference between relapse and protracted withdrawal. If you are on meds its most likely withdrawal.
@MA-qw6cb
5 ай бұрын
thanks, God bless@@mysticmardi
The industry wants to make us like zombies
@christophera-realone9834
3 ай бұрын
Facts