"Ethical Psychiatric Medication Policy in Clinical Settings"
A Dialog for Health Care Professionals and Providers with Pulitzer Finalist Author Robert Whitaker
Thursday August 19
2 - 4 PM
First Congregational Church
1126 SW Park Avenue, Portland
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Pulitzer finalist and George Polk Award winning journalist Robert Whitaker's new book Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America recognizes the usefulness of medications for some people but reveals a consistent and disturbing pattern from half a century of medication effectiveness research: over the long term psychiatric drugs create far more serious problems than they first address.
As people who take medications, have been hospitalized, have diagnoses of severe mental illnesses, and have experienced emotional crisis that gets called psychosis, how can consumers/survivors best support each other and build a strong and effective recovery movement while staying honest and truthful about the nature of psychiatric medications? What does Robert Whitaker's research have to teach us as a recovery movement?
Join us for an open discussion with Robert Whitaker on this subject. (Consumer/survivors/people with mental health diagnoses are invited to this forum, and those without this experience are asked to take a role of listening and learning during this event.)
Link to Robert's book at Powells.com
Sponsored by Portland Hearing Voices, Empowerment Initiatives, Mental Health Association of Portland
About Portland Hearing Voices: Founded by schizophrenia survivor Will Hall, Portland Hearing Voices organizes support groups, educational events, training, and counseling resources for people who experience voices, extreme states, visions, and different realities often labeled as psychosis, bipolar, and schizophrenia.
