Psychiatric drugs


Sounding the alarm on the legal takeover of mental health

If the laws of a community reflect its values, what do the recent modifications of the NSW Mental Health Act say about the value we place on liberty? Michael Robertson and Ian Kerridge write.

Scientology’s vexed relationship with psychiatry

A case before the Bankstown Local Court, in which a 25-year-old woman is accused of stabbing her father and sister to death and seriously injuring her mother, has raised the issue of Scientology’s views on psychiatry.