These are resources for some of the issues I discussed in my story. In the future, I will explain more about them and how they relate to experiences like mine.
BEHAVIORISM
- Alfie Kohn Books https://www.alfiekohn.org/books/
- Alfie Kohn Website https://www.alfiekohn.org/
- Pigeons, Operant Conditioning, and Social Control (hackeducation.com)
CHILDHOOD BIPOLAR DISORDER
- Pediatric Bipolar Disorder in an Era of “Mindless Psychiatry” – PMC (nih.gov)
- Behind the childhood bipolar boom (metrowestdailynews.com)
- Bipolar kids: Victims of the ‘madness industry’? | New Scientist
- Researchers Fail to Reveal Full Drug Pay – The New York Times (nytimes.com)
- Allen Frances’ Ties to Johnson and Johnson (behaviorismandmentalhealth.com)
- The Abused Children to Bipolar Pipeline
CHILDREN IN THE MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEM
- Why Children Don’t Belong in Therapy — A Former Psychotherapist Speaks
- Psychosis Is an Expression of Early Childhood Trauma
- Former Therapist Critiques Child Psychiatry
DIAGNOSIS
- They Say You’re Crazy: How The World’s Most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Who’s Normal: Caplan, Paula J.
- Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
- Psychiatric diagnosis ‘scientifically meaningless’ — ScienceDaily
- Frontiers | Why Mental Illness Diagnoses Are Wrong: A Pilot Study on the Perspectives of the Public (frontiersin.org)
- Paula Caplan: When a psychiatric diagnosis does more harm than good – Twin Cities
- Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche
- I Built My Identity Around My Bipolar Diagnosis. But Then I Wasn’t Bipolar (phillymag.com)
ECT & CHILDREN AND TEENS
- A Critical A-Z of Electroshock – Kindle edition by Newnes, Craig
- Amazon.com: From the Lion’s Mouth: Healing from Trauma, Electroshock, Scapegoating, and Grief in a Dysfunctional Family and Psychiatric System eBook : Welton, Julia:
- From the Lion’s Mouth: Healing from Trauma, Electroshock, Scapegoating, and Grief in a Dysfunctional Family and Psychiatric System – Welton, Julia
- ECT, Infants, Children and Adolescents: Shocking Abuse of Power, or Valuable Treatment Medium?
- TED CHABASINSKI – Electroshocked as a child; Outlawing shock treatment as a man
Loretta Bender’s ECT experiments on children
- REV_ISS_WEB_CHSO_12073_28-3 205..217 – onlineLibraryTPS.asp (yorku.ca)
- A Child on the Shock Ward
- REV_ISS_WEB_CHSO_12073_28-3 205..217 – onlineLibraryTPS.asp (yorku.ca)
- A modern true horror story: Dr. Lauretta Bender – Democratic Underground
- Against Their Will: The Secret History of Medical Experimentation on … – Allen M. Hornblum, Judith L. Newman, Gregory J. Dober – Google Books
HAZARDS OF HEALTHCARE
- Your Health Care May Kill You: Medical Errors
- Horse Urine? Really? – insight into how a profit-driven medical system will impact healthcare
- Don’t Let Your Doctor Kill You: How… by Schwartz M.D., Erika
WOMEN’S HEALTHCARE
- Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World eBook : Cleghorn, Elinor:
- Medical misogyny – trained not to care – YouTube
- Is Medicine Sexist? [CC] – YouTube
- ‘Everybody was telling me there was nothing wrong’
- Myth and Misdiagnosis Have Plagued Women’s Health for Centuries
- Gaslighting in women’s health: when doctors dismiss symptoms
- The Long History of Gender Bias in Medicine | Time
- Examining Gender Bias in Medical Care | Cedars-Sinai
NEUROPSYCHIACTRIC RESPONSE TO INFECTIONS – OCD / PANS, PANDAS
- Childhood Interrupted: The Complete Guide to PANDAS and PANS: Beth Maloney
- Saving Sammy: A Mother’s Fight… by Maloney
- Two decades of researching PANDAS / PANS
- Looking at the brain of PANDAS children
- Stolen Children, a documentary about PANS/ PANDAS https://youtu.be/Cprp-zhkDCM?si=eHF5aUuyh-Ld_zZW
- Did You Know Strep Can Cause OCD Symptoms? Learn About PANDAS/PANS in My Interview with Beth Maloney – AT: Parenting Survival for All Ages (anxioustoddlers.com)
- International OCD Foundation | What is OCD & Scrupulosity? (iocdf.org)
- Scrupulosity – Wikipedia
- PANDAS Syndrome: Understand & Support Through Rage Attacks – The M Center for Integrative Wellness (themwellnesscenter.com)
How Infections Hide
SIMILAR STORIES WITH DRUGS, Misdiagnosis, and Iatrogenic injury
- An Open Letter to Doctors – Vitality Magazine
- Kidnapped part 1 & part 2
- 9 Rounds of Electroshock Therapy. 6 Years Lost. All Because Her Doctors Got It Horribly Wrong.
- Lucy Dawson: the model who got a mystery headache, a misdiagnosis – and a new mission in life
- Did we all believe a myth about depression?
- Iatrogenic Domino: I Was Poisoned by Polypharmacy
- New Paxil Warnings For Teens Prompt Fury From Former Patients
SENSORY PROCESSING DISORDER
RELIGIOUS TRAUMA
THE TROUBLED TEEN INDUSTRY (TTI) & INSTITUTIONAL CHILD ABUSE
- OFFICIAL – BREAKING CODE SILENCE
- The Troubled Teen Industry – What is TTI? – Unsilenced
- Survivor Stories – Unsilenced
- Breaking Code Silence Takes On the Troubled Teen Industry – Treatment Magazine
- Breaking Code Silence (BCS) A collection of photos from #breakingcodesilence
- Breaking Code Silence – BCS Network
- Elan.School
- Lake Alice Survivors (institutional psychiatric abuse, ECT used on children)
- [Serious]Former teens who went to wilderness camps, therapeutic boarding schools and other “troubled teen” programs, what were your experiences? : AskReddit
- Anti-Troubled Teen Industry Activism & Survivor Support (reddit.com)
