Content Warning: This episode includes discussions of mental illness, suicide, and involuntary treatment. 

Notable Terms, Groups & People: 

Law of parsimony: “the principle that the simplest explanation of an event or observation is the preferred explanation,”APA Dictionary of Psychology

MindFreedom International and the MindFreedom Shield

Soteria Houses

David Oaks

Irving Kirsch

Sir John Eccles 

William R. Uttal

John Weir Perry

Loren Mosher

Voyce Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix

Matthew Fox

Martin Seligman

Sigmund Freud

Further Reading: 

“Antidepressants and the Placebo Effect,” by Irving Kirsch. (2014). Antidepressants and the Placebo Effect. Zeitschrift fur Psychologie, 222(3), 128–134. https://doi.org/10.1027/2151-2604/a000176

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear

Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh

Listening to Prozac:: The Landmark Book About Antidepressants and the Remaking of the Self by Peter D. Kramer

Mind and Brain: A Critical Appraisal of Cognitive Neuroscience by William R. Uttal

Mind Fixers: Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness by Anne Harrington

Soteria: Through Madness to Deliverance by Loren Mosher

The Death of the Liberal Class by Chris Hedges

The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich

The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg