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May 21, 2024 · As a first-year psychiatry resident at a clinic in Brooklyn, N.Y., she had seen people restrained — in the name of safety — in ways that she described as “really forceful.”
May 31, 2024 · So it was a shock, for those who took their seats in Room 1E08 of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Manhattan, to watch a powerfully built 32-year-old man choke back tears as he described being slammed to the floor and cuffed to a stretcher in a psychiatric unit.
In the House of Psychiatry, a Jarring Tale of Violence At the American Psychiatric Association’s annual meeting, a patient described a restraint that haunts him, more than eight years later. All reactions:
May 21, 2024 · Discussion + counterprogramming against coercive psychiatry and the mental health industrial complex. We think many psych diagnoses do not meet basic medical standards. We think many popular interventions can be more harmful than helpful. Survivor-led, but all are welcome here.
May 21, 2024 · i’m not a huge fan of first gen antipsychotics on non-psychotic people. i’ve also seen often the over use of force for people that are physically imposing because people are too scared to think clearly enough to de-escalate.
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May 21, 2024 · At the American Psychiatric Association’s annual meeting, a patient described a restraint that haunts him, more than eight years later.
