Description

This course will help you:

• Assess the value of psychiatric medications
• Understand why we continue to rely on psychiatric medications
• Offer qualified reasons not to over-rely on these medications
• Discover resources for making informed decisions about psych meds
• Learn about some effective alternatives to psych meds
• Become more “integrative”–as a consumer or a provider

Time: At your convenience

Location: Online

Structure:

Follow 4 chapters in sequence or as you wish, cherry pick what interests you.  You’ll watch engaging videos, have a little reading, and discuss  with other students and the facilitator, if you wish.  You’ll enjoy an interlude with a comedian—Laughter is, after all, the best medicine.

The vids you will see of  influential MDs, researchers, and psychiatrists  are leading us away from drive-thru psychiatry (relying too heavily on psych meds) to a more effective, humane way of overcoming mental health problems.

Dr Bragdon has created a thoughtful interweaving of information –mostly in vids–to help you  be able to find an integrative psychiatrist to assist with optimizing mental health and not over-relying on psych meds.  This means you don’t have to sort out this complex field on your own, spinning through google and youtube.

Agenda:

    1. Introduction

    2. Risks of Prescription Drugs: 

• Peter Goetzche, MD
• David Healy, MD: What People Experience on Psych Meds
• Robert Whitaker: Longterm Outcome of Anti-Psychotics and Effective Alternatives to Meds
• Peter Breggin, MD: Spell Binding is Not Just for Witches
• Help with Withdrawal from Meds: Mad in America Resources

    3. Taming the Dragons of Autism and ADHD

• Labeling ADHD Like Crazy
• What is ADHD: A Disease? Set of Behaviors? Symptoms of Nutritional Needs?

     4. How to Find a Referral or Acquire Training

 Facilitator: Emma Bragdon, PhD 

is the Founder/Director of Integrative Mental Health for You, IMHU.org.  She was licensed as a Marriage, Family, Child Therapist in 1988 and has been involved with teaching complementary therapies for 45 years.  She has written 7 books and co-produced two documentary films. EmmaBragdon.com