Most guidelines recommend long-term, indefinite neuroleptic (or antipsychotic) treatment for
people with schizophrenia, recurrent psychosis or bipolar disorder, on the basis that these …

In the past 15 years, researchers utilizing prescription databases to assess medication
usage have concluded that antipsychotics reduce mortality in patients diagnosed with …

Objective: Individuals undergoing long-term psychiatric treatment frequently choose to stop
taking psychiatric medications. To enhance service user choice and prevent undesirable …

Purpose To explore supports and coping strategies used during attempts to discontinue
antipsychotic medication and test for associations with success. Method 144 people who …

Refusal to take psychiatric medication as prescribed is often considered negative, harmful,
and even reflective of a sign of one's illness. However, recent research from diverse sources …

Background: It is well-known that attempting antipsychotic withdrawal can be a fraught
process, with a high risk of relapse that often leads people to resume the medication …

As patient/survivor movements continue to challenge reductionist biological views of mental
health and psychosis, there is rising skepticism toward psychiatric medications and growing …

This book inaugurates the field of Mad Studies in the Indian subcontinent investigating the
barriers to recovery from the perspective of" patients" and caregivers. Offering a radical …

BACKGROUND Vestre Viken Hospital Trust provides basal exposure therapy to inpatients
with complex mental disorders and low level of functioning. This therapy provides help to …

The term “effective,” on its own, is honorific but vague. Interventions against serious mental
illness may be “effective” at goals as diverse as reducing “apparent sadness” or providing …