Some Extra Web Resources
For some introductory material on issues relevant to psych and mad politics (most of these haven't been updated in years but then most of the issues haven't changed in years), check the following:
violence
David Healy on antidepressants link to suicide
Prescription Drugs Associated with Reports of Violence Towards Others
biology
Mad in America's excellent resources, specifically Whitaker on Awais Aftab's defense of psych drugs
Dopaminergic Hypothesis of Schizophrenia: A Historical Perspective
Neurobiology and "Schizophrenia Symptoms"
Human behavioural genetics an "unfulfilled promise"
New York Times "Eugenics Past and Future"
experience
Unhurtful Thoughts: A Preoccupied Brain Produces Pain-Killing Compounds (Scientific American)
"Listening to Experience" [Mind in UK]
Video: Elenor Langden: Learning from Voices
Avoidance of Voices Can Be as Problematic as Listening Too Much
Patients Harmed by Diagnosis Find Their Voices
Author Jan Wong and depression
practice
Helpful Tips for front line staff
Peer Support Principles, Ch. 3 (One example of peer support) from "Engaging Women in Trauma-Informed Peer Support: A Guidebook"
Peer Zone Shared Resources on Distress
advocacy
My father's advocacy for a right to treatment (on Mortin Birbaum, progressive US lawyer)