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the resources listed here!
Investigate at your own risk!
General Critical Psychology Sites
Critical Psychology Degree Programs
More Academic Research, Theory, Activism
- Activism &
Psychology (Rachelle Thibodeau's Directory--groups, bibliogaphies, lots
more. Great resource!)
- Society for the Psychological Study of Social
Issues (SPSSI)
- Community Psych Net (community
psychology and social action)
- Community
Psychology (University of Waikato, New Zealand)
- Critica
(a gateway for critical psychologists with additional links to other progressive
sites)
- Alaska Community Cache (community
psychology/prevention/intervention site; links, resources, issues)
- International Society for Political Psychology
- International Bulletin of
Political Psychology (weekly on-line journal)
- Jules Bregman's Social
Work & Related Links (includes good activist sources)
- COMM-ORG/On-Line Community Organizing
- Ecopsychology Web
- Academy for the
Study of the Psychoanalytic Arts ("interdisciplinary organization formed
to critically rethink psychoanalysis. We are opposed to the medical model
that dominates psychoanalytic thinking and which has served as a barrier to
questioning and challenging the dominant ideology.")
- C. G. Jung, Analytical Psychology,
and Culture
- Jung Circle
- "Consciousness
and Reality" - (an article on The C.G. Jung Page for a novel and
thoroughly coherent metaphysical approach on the issues of consciousness and
reality)
- Unofficial R.D. Laing Website
(now with discussion list)
- Thomas S. Szasz Cybercenter
for Liberty and Responsibility
- Human-Nature.com ("bringing into
communication the variety of approaches to the understanding of human nature
which have a regrettable tendency to be less in touch with one another than
they might; our main aim is both to act as host to original work and to seek
to create an enabling space, a forum for constructive (including constructively
critical) discussion and critiques")
- Against All Reason
("interested in both the radical nature of science as a route to knowledge
and the radical critique of the social, political and economic roles of science
and technology")
- Evolutionary Psychology for the Common
Person
- Society of General and Theoretical Psychology
- The Halcyon Cosmopolitan Entertainment
- The Quantum Resonance: A Theory
of Life
- theory.org: The Media Theory Site
(media/cultural studies/gender/sexuality/identity)
- Center for Multicultural & Multilingual
Mental Health Services (part of Chicago Health Outreach, a component of
the Heartland Alliance for Human Rights & Human Services)
- REDS (Research Group on Exclusion
and Dominance Structures) REDS is a research group operating on issues
and phenomena concerning social exclusion
- Radical/Progressive Politics
(Dennis Fox's list)
- Entelechy: Mind and Culture
- Don Eulert, A Critical Psychology (Association for Humanistic Psychology article)
- The Helping Professions: Value Deficits and Responsible Direction
Blogs
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Psychiatric Survival, Liberation, & Critique
- National Coalition of Mental Health Consumer/Survivor Organizations
- Psych News International ("The leader in challenging ideas for people interested in psychology, psychiatry,
public policy, and the mental health professions!")
- Mental Health Matters! (extensive
directory for MH professionals & consumers--links to sites, organizations,
much more)
- MadNation ("An Internet home for
the most thoughtful and creative work of people who experience fears, mood
swings, voices, and visions")
- National Association for Rights Protection
& Advocacy ("NARPA exists to expose abuse, to shed light on coercive
and dangerous practices, and to promote real alternatives to a mental health
system that even professionals agree is a disgrace.")
- Successful Schizophrenia
("Psychiatry Deconstruction Zone")
- The Antipsychiatry Coalition
- Support Coalition: Psychiatry and Human
Rights (Organization produces Dendron newsletter/email list)
- Center for the Study of Psychiatry and
Psychology (Peter Breggin's site)
- Critical Psychiatry Network
- ECT.org
(Juli Lawrence's resources on psychiatric survivors & activism)
- Psychiatric Tattler (e-zine)
- Sue Clark's Psychiatry
Buster Home Page
- The Antipsychiatry Reading Room
- Alternative Psychiatry
- Mind Matters
Review (Carrie Drake--International Coalition for Intellectual Cooperation,
Omega Project)
- Barbara
Robertson's Disability Research Resources (disability research & activism
from a political perspective)
- The Foucault Tribunal on the
State of Psychiatry ("We conclude that, being unwilling to renounce the
use of force, violence and coercion, psychiatry is guilty of crimes against
humanity: the deliberate destruction of dignity, liberty and life. Most of
all through the legal category of 'mental patient' which permits a total deprivation
of human and civil rights and the laws of natural justice.")
- Institute of Mental Health Law (UK, discussion
group, resources)
- Claude Steiner's Radical Psychiatry
& the Radical Therapist
- Mental Health Investigator
(psychinvestigator.com) ("if you are a mental health worker and know of abuse
going on in a facility, we would like to hear from you")
- Short of a Picnic
("Short of a Picnic" are short stories about people living with
mental disorders. It is written by Eric Shapiro. It has links to Be-Mused
Publications)
- Netwerk Psychiatrie en Samenleving (Network Psychiatry and Society, Flemish radical psychology group - focus on psychiatric hospitals)
- Ron Bassman ("A Journey Through Madness and Transformation")
- Tardive Dyskinesia Center (coping with the consequences of psychiatric meds)
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Self-Help & Therapy Alternatives
Note! RadPsyNet makes no recommendations!
- Non-Mainstream
Psychotherapy and Counselling Resources on the Internet (part of Selfheal)
- Self-Help & Psychology Magazine
- Liquid Logic ("Excellence
Through State Management & Reprocesing")
- Video Improvement
Program (Robby Stamps' alternative therapy for teenagers)
- Project Nature Counseling Page
("Applied Ecopsychology in Action")
- East Side Institute for Short
Term Psychotherapy
- Family Institute of Cambridge
- Psychological Self-Help (Clay
Tucker-Ladd's complete online book reviews self-help approaches)
- Smart.Recovery (non-AA
self-help program for recovery from addiction)
- PsychInnovations.com
(Robert Yourell)
- Mental
Health Associates (multidisciplinary mental health treatment group, Madison,
Wisconsin)
- Brief Therapy Bookstore (books
& email list discussion of Brief, Solution Focused Therapy)
- The Pink Practice (a social
constructionist & systemic counselling & psychotherapy practice for
lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals in London & Leeds, UK; site includes
documents, teaching materials, and more)
- Voices (a group
listserv for people who hear voices. Link takes you to yahoo subscription
page)
- Voices-Support
(a group listserv for people who hear voices and the carers, friends, family
members and/or professionals working with these people. Link takes you to
Yahoo subscription page)
- The Philosophical Counseling
Website ("Philosophical Counseling does not work with psychological, theological,
or medical models. The aim of Achenbach's practice is to create a 'free place'
where persons use philosophy to develop their own thoughts on relevant subject
matters.")
- Institute for Psychotherapy and Social
Studies
- Psycho-Religious Therapy
- Burch House (Bethlehem, New Hampshire)
- East London & Essex Psychotherapy
& Counselling Practice
- Natural Psychotherapy
- Hazim Mulic's On-line Therapy
and Counseling Page (for people speaking Bosnian, Croatian, & Serbian
Language)
- Survivors Network
(providing indirect support and information on mental health issues, past
childhood sexual abuse, emotional distress, recovery, and health. For survivors,
consumers, recovering people, professionals, and supporters)
- The bright side (resource for
people dealing with a crisis, addiction, coping with a mental disorder or
just feeling overwhelmed with life. It is run by volunteers and all services
are free)
- Alternative Mental Health
On-Line (A clearinghouse for information on alternatives to psychological/psychiatric
therapy).
- Pursue Change. The Home
of Jasenn Zaejian Site dedicated to change, understanding and freedom.
Trying to show alternatives to the psychiatric-pharmaceutical industrial complex.
- Confidential Compositions of Raw Psychology
People can freely write and publish about psychological, sexual, and medication
problems and is ideal for therapeutic anonymous writing. It also advocates
change in the psychology and psychiatry fields.
- Hypnosoft
- Jungian Analysis
- Coming off Psychiatric Drugs: Successful Withdrawal from Neuroleptics, Antidepressants, Lithium, Carbamazepine and Tranquilizers (prefaces by Judi Chamberlin, Loren R. Mosher, Pirkko Lahti, edited by Peter Lehmann)
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Mainstream Resources
- Psychwatch.Com (highlights news
events & web resources--links to news articles, conferences, articles,
course syllabi, job notices, etc.; free email newsletter)
- Psychinfo.net ("mentalhealthfacts.com")
- Medical and Mental Health Resources
- Phillip Walker's List of Human
Services Resources
- American Academy of Psychotherapists
- The Counseling Zone
- PsychNews International ("an independent
electronic monthly publication distributed to professionals, students, and
others interested in issues related to the mental health profession. Formerly
titled the InterPsych Newsletter, PN is one of the first and premier
sources of its kind on the Internet for international news in psychology and
psychiatry. It publishes articles on current events in mental health, updates
from relevant Internet discussion groups, as well as original research and
theoretical articles. PN also contains reports on new mental health resources
on the Internet, conference, employment, and announcement listings.")
- Social Psychology Network
(search engine, listings, links, job hunting)
- Encyclopaedic Directory of Neurosciences
and Mental Health (the NSM Directory is a non profit making initiative
which aims to provide a free public web site with documentary resources. It
is offered, in Spanish, to the scientific, academic and professional community)
- NSM Psicolinks (international directory
to links to Psychiatry, Psychology, Neurology, Educational psychology, and
Psychoanalysis web pages).
- September 11th Resources
(Social Psychology Network page with links to nearly 200 peace and nonviolence
resources)
- Law Project for Psychiatric Rights try
to help bring fairness and reasonableness into the administration of legal
aspects of the mental health system.
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Email Discussion Lists
- RadPsyNet-Members
- radical-psychology-network email discussion
group
- crit-psych-net
- NUVUPSY Share points of
view critical of the "therapeutic state" and institutional psychiatry
- PSYCH-CI Topical issues
in psychiatry and psychology
- Human Relations, Authority
and Justice "Application of psychoanalytic and related psychodynamic approaches
to the understanding of group, institutional, cultural and political processes,
particularly focused on Eastern Europe"; with electronic journal
- Archetyal Psychology
Talk We discuss the work of James Hillman and others in the AP field,
and general issues.
- PSYCGRAD Project
- Student Psycho-Conference
Debating forum for students of psychology
- SPSSI Society for the Psychological Study
of Social Issues
- SCRA Society for Community
Research and Action (APA's Community Psychology Division)
- APLS American Psychology-Law Society.
Frequent discussions of forensic psych issues.
- Community Psychology
Moderated discussion
- Institute for Women's Policy Research
Welfare Monitoring discussion
- Support Coalition Psychiatry and
Human Rights
- Critical Pedagogy
- CORP-WELFARE
- CANET/Campus Activist Network
- Cyberspace & Society
- Psych Bitter Humor ("Jokes & black humor at the expense of psychology
& psychiatry") To subscribe, send the message subscribe psych-bitter-humor
to majordomo@relaypoint.net
- Lunatrix-L ("the first e-list, originating out of Canada, for women
psychiatric survivors") To subscribe, send the message subscribe LUNATRIX-L
<your name> to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com
- Radical Science
discussion from Against All Reason on Human-Nature.com
- evolutionary
psychology
- Human Nature Information: human-nature-info@egroups.com
- Radical Psychoanalysis List (announcements and short position papers, not
discussions): subscribe:
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RadPsyNet Member Web Pages & Projects
(some focused on radical/critical psychology, some more mainstream, some
more personal....)
- Donald Asbridge (TechnoPSYCH, Bakersfield,
California)
- Ron Bassman ("A Journey Through Madness and Transformation")
- Altaf Ali Bhimji (Salaam
Ailaikum/Islam & Social Justice)
- Job Brugel (Eerstelijns Psychologen
Regio Noord-Holland)
- Volker Bunzendahl
(Århus University, Denmark)
- David Chasey
(Experiences, Thoughts, Insights: Oral Facial Function & Dysfunction)
- Roland Chrisjohn (book
on Residential Schooling)
- William Conner (American Association
of Psychotherapists)
- Duncan
Double (Psychiatry & Antipsychiatry)
- Dennis Fox (RadPsyNet co-founder; "Professing" site includes critical
psychology, radical politics,
psychology/law, reading
suggestions, more; also has separate blog and photo sites)
- Hazel Gay (book: "To
Heal the Broken-Hearted")
- Ricardo Gonsalves
(Links on critical psychology, radical psychology, critical pedagogy, more)
- Gordon
Herz ("Managed care is the 90s version of the military industrial complex")
- Larry Heuer (Barnard College/Columbia
University)
- Peter Jackson ("Consciousness:
Its Nature and Evolution")
- Brad Jesness
(Critiques psychotherapy field & outlines solutions)
- Arnie Kahn (home page, social
psychology resources)
- Juli Lawrence (ECT.org--survivors of electroconvulsive
thereapy)
- Javier Llamazares Granda
(Proyecto de Psicología Crítica)
- Stefan Meretz (German Critical
Psychology)
- Dayal Mirchandani
- Adam Mooro (Holochron
Creations)
- Isabella Mori Change Therapy blog and Counseling in Vancouver website
- David Nightingale
(original RadPsyNet Email List Coordinator)
- Juliette Cutler Page (Feminista!
Online Journal of Feminist Construction & The
Radical Feminist Mailing List)
- Isaac Prilleltensky
(RadPsyNet co-founder; papers, advice,
critical psychology projects)
- Carl Ratner (Cultural Psychology,
Qualitative Research Methodology, Vygotsky, more)
- Eric Riss (Natural Psychotherapy)
- Eric Rosseel
- Shlomit Schuster
(The Philosophical Counseling Website)
- Al Siebert (ThriveNet: "learning
about resilience, thriving, and how to gain strength from adversity")
- Pamela Karen Smith (Michigan)
- Tod Sloan ("Professor pioneers 'engaged scholarship' pedagogical approach")
- Juan
Soto Diplomado Culturas Juveniles. Teoría e Investigación
- Miyachi Tatsuo ("Alternative
Psychiatry")
- Thomas
Teo (York University faculty member; history & theory of psychology)
- Rachelle Thibodeau
(Activism & Psychology)
- Ben Tremblay
("Fallen Angels")
- Clay Tucker-Ladd (Self-Help Foundation--Services
and Research)
- Darren Walton (Theoretical
Psychology & Studies in Deviance)
- Eberhard Wenzel (runs WWW
Virtual Library--Public Health & WWW
Virtual Library--American Indians Circumpolar Peoples, with many more
well-researched links)
Members! To list your site, send
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