Essays
Questioning Your Doctor Is Now Considered A Psychological Problem (Seriously)
I want to give you a warning before we go any further. If you have ever questioned your doctor, pushed back on a prescription, or asked to slow down on a vaccine, the medical establishment...
What We Become When We Watch a Man Die
More than 1600 years ago, St. Augustine wrote of Alypius, a young man whose friends convinced him to attend the gladiatorial games in Rome. Opposed to bloodsport and disgusted by the spectacle, Alypius nevertheless was...
If Not Drugs and Therapy, Then What?
For six years, I have spoken out as loudly as I can about the harms of psychiatric diagnoses and drugs. Even before my formal training as a psychologist, it was obvious to me that our...
How Your Emotions and Beliefs Are Being Engineered Without Your Consent
Most of us would say we know our own minds. We wake up in a mood and call it ours. We form an opinion and defend it as though we constructed it ourselves. For most...
You Do Not Get What You Want, You Get What You Believe.
This is the tenth and final article in Secret Knowledge, Hidden Wisdom. If you are arriving here for the first time, you can read this one on its own, but the full answer to the...
Have You Noticed How Many People Have Dead Eyes?
A couple of weeks ago I was in New York City as a guest on a show, and before the taping I spent some time walking the streets. I remember New York from years past...
You Are Not Drinking Wine You Are Self Medicating
“I realized I’ve been self-medicating my depression with alcohol for years,” Michael announced proudly during our third session, as if he’d achieved some profound insight. “My psychiatrist says it’s common—I’m just trying to correct my...
How to Break a Child’s Spirit in 24 Pages
There is a picture book on library shelves right now called My Life with Anxiety, written for seven-year-olds, with a smiling girl in a red shirt shaking her pom-poms on the cover. This book sits...
Go With The Flow
Each article in this series is a stone laid on the one before it. If you are new, begin with [Part I], [Part II], [Part III], [Part IV], [Part V], [Part VI], and [Part VII]....
Thirteen Drugs in Four Months: Lindsay Clancy Received the Standard of Care
Four months, seven prescribers, thirteen drugs, and not a single medical test. Three children are dead, and the profession that did this calls itself health care. I have been called extreme for my views on...