by Harper West | Feb 7, 2024 | Anti-Psychiatry Movement, Psychotherapy, Shame
It’s publication day! I’m very pleased to announce that a psychology book was published today that includes a chapter I wrote on my concepts regarding shame. The title of the book is; Practical Alternatives to the Psychiatric Model of Mental Illness:...
by Harper West | Sep 3, 2022 | Anti-Psychiatry Movement, DSM, Psychoactive Medication
As I write about on my website, I am an outraged psychologist. I am outraged at witnessing people harmed by the current mental health system, which stigmatizes them as “diseased,” which leads to hopelessness and self-judgment about normal emotional responses. It...
by Harper West | Feb 2, 2022 | Anti-Psychiatry Movement, Psychoactive Medication
Well, the pro-drug forces are at it yet again. The website psyche.co just published an extremely biased and misleading article raving about the supposed benefits of anti-depressants (ADs) by a psychiatrist in Scotland. There are so many problems with this article I...
by Harper West | Apr 4, 2021 | Anti-Psychiatry Movement, Psychoactive Medication
Psychiatrists have tried for decades to find a biological cause for human behavior, such as a deficiency in serotonin that supposedly causes depression or an excess of dopamine that supposedly causes schizophrenia. Despite what the advertising and marketing campaigns...
by Harper West | Apr 4, 2021 | Anti-Psychiatry Movement, Psychoactive Medication
Disclaimer: Harper West, MA, LLP, and Harper West, PC are not providing medical advice with this resource section, or making any recommendations regarding withdrawal from psychiatric medications. The purpose of this page is to provide resources and information for...
by Harper West | Apr 11, 2018 | Anti-Psychiatry Movement, Autism/ASD
A recent episode of the NPR radio show Snap Judgment had a fascinating piece that caused me to again speak out to challenge the psychiatric assumptions that autism is a discrete biological “mental disorder”. (The DSM-5 now uses the term Autism Spectrum Disorder....
