Robert Whitaker: Journalist, Author & Expert, Founder of Mad In America
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- Опубліковано 26 лип 2024
- To watch Medicating Normal - the film, please visit: www.medicatingnormal.com
Robert Whitaker has been a journalist at the Albany Times Union and director of publications at Harvard Medical School. A 1998 Boston Globe article series he co-wrote on psychiatric research was a finalist for the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. In 1994, he co-founded a publishing company, CenterWatch, that covered the pharmaceutical clinical trials industry. He has written two books about the history of psychiatry, Mad in America and Anatomy of an Epidemic, the latter an IRE 2010 book award winner for best investigative journalism. As a fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Lab on Institutional Corruption at Harvard University, he wrote Psychiatry Under the Influence with Lisa Cosgrove, professor at the University of Massachusetts.
Whitaker is the founder of madinamerica.com and continues to write and speak about the problems with psychiatric drugs and psychiatry. He appears as an expert in Medicating Normal-The Film.
He will be interviewed by Nicole Lamberson, P.A., Medicating Normal Outreach Team.
Thank you Nicole
It’s so unfortunate to hear that you’ve suffered the psychiatric system.
It’s very fortunate to hear that you’ve managed to survive and are now in recovery?
I’ve witnessed the horrors of psychiatry myself - so I am cheering for you!
Good on you for fighting for yourself. You made it through and sound like you're in a much better place. Cheers to you and your incredible resilience and strength!
@@cowboyjohnsontown Thank you so so much, that means a lot 😊💕
@@thedraptomaniac8312 Aw thank you 🙏 cheering for you too. The last four months of drug withdrawal have been intense but also the most beautiful and healing time of my life!
I found a psychiatrist who helps people taper and it's reassuring to have someone who is "on your side" and understands what you have been through as a human being, rather than just seeing you as a disease ( my last label was bipolar ) .
It feels like a rebirth, finally reconnecting with myself, seeing an energy worker and doing Kelly Brogans "Vital Mind Reset" program, as well as Eckhart Tolle also helped immensely.
What's also beautiful is that through meditation and a lot of work on myself, I learned not to feel like a "victim" of psychiatry, trying to change / fight the old...but instead creating the New.. :) It's powerful, we are changing the world through changing ourselves. 💕✨
As Goethe says: "We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe."
The "insane" are probably among the most sane so they need to be locked away for society to be able to continue being insane. But we'll not let them ;) 💪 I met some of the most gifted humans on my journey and I intend to do what I can to help , as Robert Whitaker does with passion...❤️
Thank you Nicole for your hard work and persistence!
You are helping many more than you will ever imagine.
Thank you health hero’s, we need you so much 🙏🙏
Thank you so much!!!🙏🏼💜
Hi Cheryl,
Hope your doing better!
Keep fighting 😉
@@user-dg7sy8cz3b Hi Tim!Thank you !:) I am a work in progress. How are you doing?
@@user-dg7sy8cz3b you're a true inspiration. Thank you so much. I'll definitely look into that. Thanks again
Best,
Cheryl
Hello there, thanks for uploading the talk with R.W.
Truly it’s beneficial for all to review his work - especially survivors/users of psychiatry.
Many illusions that I - and I suppose a great many have had and still have - regarding the nature of this “medical speciality” are dispelled after hearing Robert Whitaker talk.
I’m surprised that he has not been knighted yet?
To a great a many he is already noble and always going to respected for his courage and integrity!
// The Draptomaniac
Nicole - you are one of the best interviewers !! Truly. So good to hear Robert. Truly a brilliant man and has helped so many. Medical betrayal - its everywhere. The state of our illness in the world.
Thank you! -Nicole
Thankfully I watched thi s film before I took my son 20 to Atlanta brain Institute we didn't want drugs. They offered him a 30 page diet and supplements. We saw some improvement but this diet wasn't sustainable. He continued to go downhill for next 3 years. Finally found a specialist who found lyme in his brain causing him symptoms. We traveled to Miami . His post graduate studies includes neurology, immunology, psychiatry. Perfect combination imo. His over 10 years experience in this field looks where others don't and his remedies had no side effects and it was quick. He's on here. Dr. Lonnie Herman
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
Robert Whitaker needs to be the provisor of information on a CDC-like info-link for any mention of psychiatric medications with which he is knowledgable . I know, not happening likely because YT isn't going to acknowledge this reality if it's hard to get a hmmmm (without an eyeroll) from a doctor.
Please, educate yourselves in the field of orthomolecular medicine especially work of dr Abram Hoffer.
If someone is down-and-out, have him train in aesthetic music classes - so he will overcome his sadness. The 1st classes should be with enthusiastic drum music, where everyone starts clapping and stomping {PBS T.V., 2006}. Soon, people are laughing - since happiness + physiology are being triggered together, which the subconscious mind takes literally. After many such Laughter Yoga sessions, he could begin learning a musical instrument and then rehearse with others (Like at the Cares Cafe in Shanghai, where Autism types also work there.). He also could sing in a Glee Club - the main thing is: to develop a dedicated mental & emotional cathexis, which is what Mental Health is!
😤 Doctors study medicine. Hospitals like repeat customers. In the past doctors have always pushed pharmaceuticals. 😖 Ethics?
Love the channel, not this guy. A little clueless.
How so?
Do tell.
There's no basis for someone who nails down Psychiatric menticide - with extensive research - to be clueless!
@@stevekaylor5606 Everyone has their blind spots
@@Shiwanokia-oo1nq The psychiatrists who are being allowed to run the Mental Health Industry see every day the great harm they are doing to down-and-outers. How is it that these doctors are too hubristic to perceive this and {unlike Breggin, et.al.} have not discovered & arranged the Emphatic Talent Training that people need? Everyone can develop a dedicated mental + emotional cathexis (unless dossed with neurotoxic drugs or zapped with ECT) - which is what Mental Health is. / The blind vista of psych professionals is what Peter Gotzsche calls Organized Denial - and great changes must be made! [Have you watched the DSM presentation of James Davies?]