Ethics & Mental Health

Swiss Court Ruling Allows Euthanasia For Mentally Ill: A ruling by Switzerland's highest court has opened up the possibility that people with serious mental illnesses could be helped by doctors to take their own lives.
Revealing Quotes on the Goals of Psychiatry and Psychology: This web site has quotes critical of psychiatry's views on everything ranging from conservatives, education, religion, creating a slave society, world government, to morality and families. An example: "The reduction of intelligence is an important factor in the curative process… The fact is that some of the very best cures that one gets are in those individuals whom one reduces almost to amentia (feeble-mindedness)…" Dr. Abraham Myerson, Harvard Psychiatrist, 1942
Psychiatry residents often skip informed consent: An investigation into the practices of 108 psychiatry residents revealed an excessively passive approach to informed consent discussions with patients. Asked to participate in hypothetical clinical vignettes, only 3% of the students managed to provide responses that met the criteria for adequate informed consent.
Psychiatry and Freedom (The Ritz-Carlton, Dallas, TX, USA, from Oct 06, 2008 12:00 AM to Oct 08, 2008 12:00 AM): 11th International Conference for Philosophy and Mental Health International Network of Philosophy and Psychiatry

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Matt Morrissey

Matt Morrissey is on the MFI Choice in Mental Health Campaign Committee. Matt is a psychiatric survivor with a master’s in counseling who directs the adult day program at Full Spectrum Progressive Mental Health, which is a nonprofit center in San Francisco that offers voluntary programs for adults and adolescents in severe emotional distress. Full Spectrum is a Sponsor Group in MFI. Matt is shown here speaking at an MFI co-sponsored protest in front of the American Psychiatric Association. (Photo by Tom Olin)

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