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New @psymposia exposé reveals more corruption and abuse at the frontier of pharma psychedelic therapy. Honored to play a support role in the vital work of @NeseLSD @TehseenNoorani @msmacb and whistleblowers.

Serious question: What is the solution? Reflecting on my critical work on the dangers of established drugs like SSRIs and antipsychotics, as well as my critical work on the dangers of new drugs in the pipeline, psychedelics... How do we turn all this around? All of it? How do we take patient harm - millions of people harmed and more and more! - seriously? What is the real solution? Should we keep appealing to reason to get psychiatrists to listen? Hope for savior political unicorns like RFKJR to do the right thing? Pile more research on top of research to just get ignored? Keep raising the alarm in the media -- like we've been doing since the 1970s? Is that really going to work? Is that ok with us - accept our fate as critical voices pressing for change that never decisively arrives? How about a real solution? How about removing the power of these corrupt industries and medical cartels behind failed medical and social policies? How about we end privatized health care and science funding and establish clinical and research that serve real human outcomes, not profit? How about we reverse the perverse market incentives for corruption at the root of dangerous medical treatments? How about we replace a economic and political system that drives corporate led public health policies to always ignore the root causes of mental distress? How about we create a system that can take real action on the social determinants of mental health (poverty, inequality, housing, social isolation, polution, overwork, trauma, nutrition, neglect, lack of community resources...) Do you really think there is any real solution short of replacing the system itself? It's a serious question. If you have another real solution other than replacing our current gangster capitalist global system - what is it? What is your solution? And if you agree a real solution for mental health requires a a new economic and political system... do you realize we will never get a new system if we don't start asking for it?

New show on Madness Radio! Compassionate Therapy | Michael Montgomery Can psychotherapy work against the mainstream system? What does it take to be truly compassionate as a professional? And what are the downsides of promising alternatives such as Open Dialogue? Michael Montgomery grew up in Ireland and experienced firsthand the impacts of trauma and violence; a meeting with a visionary friend introduced him to psychiatric oppression. Today he is an existential psychoanalyst in the tradition of R.D. Laing and trained in Open Dialogue, and he joins Madness Radio guest producer Nicki Glasser and host Will Hall to discuss his work. madnessradio.net/compassiona…

Forced psychiatric treatment is bad science, makes crisis worse, traumatizes people, and violates human rights. Evidence based alternatives are available - and supported by patient advocates. Thanks to my Green, disability justice, & mad movement colleagues pulling together to make this happen - great work! @cagreens1 @GreenPartyUS @SCCGreens @ElectShannel @LauraWellsCA Michelle Mashburn Greg Jan Ashley Brown @robwipond @jimgottstein @marginalutilite @idha_nyc @ISPSUS #NothingWithoutUs @CPAbolition @ButchWare abolishforcedpsychiatry.org

Hiding data, concealing conflict of interest, endorsing documented sexual misconduct, running cover for a therapy cult... my latest @Mad_In_America on psychedelic research fraud in The Journal of Humanistic Psychology: "A Call for Retraction: How a Journal Condoned Psychedelic Therapy Abuse" @FordhamNYC even protected @cybininc pharmaceutical training developer William Brennan's fraud by removing his dissertation from public view. @RetractionWatch @NeseLSD