A discussion about the power of individual stories to reshape collective narratives involving two patients who have experienced adverse effects from taking and stopping psychiatric drugs. Panelists: Cameron LaBar, Danielle Gansky; moderator: Emily Corwin.

Lauren Kennedy West is a social worker and the metabolic health advocate who was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, bipolar type. Here, she gives a personal account of moving beyond diagnosis and medication toward a different understanding of suffering and self.

A discussion of alternative clinical modalities—including somatic and metabolic approaches—for supporting people instead of diagnoses and medications. Moderator: Kelsey Osgood; panelists: GP David Walker, counselor Nicole Laurent and clinical psychologist Roger McFillin.

A discussion on how to move beyond therapy culture and the reflex to frame emotional struggle through diagnosis and treatment, with our founder Laura Delano and Back From the Borderline podcaster Mollie Adler.

Veterans and advocates Angie Peacock and Derek Blumke share their personal stories of medicated harm and discuss their work to stop the medicalization of veterans.

An overview of the clinical application of hyperbolic psychiatric drug tapering, including strategies for supporting clients during withdrawal, with training psychiatrist and UCL researcher Mark Horowitz and clinical psychologist and author Anders Sørensen.

An exploration of how medicalization shapes the inner lives of psychiatrists, narrowing the scope of meaning and practice and placing them in roles that conflict with their own judgment and values. Moderator: Kelsey Osgood; panelists: Joanna Moncrieff, Mark Horowitz and Javeed Sukhera.

A discussion about informed choice, transparency, and navigating limited options within the mental health system from the family member perspective, with our founder Laura Delano (left) and founder, innovator and writer Jan Ellison Baszucki (right).

A discussion about the expanding focus on diagnosis and treatment in childhood and the forces that steer young people into clinical pathways. Moderator: Mollie Adler; panelists: Gretchen Watson, Nick Taber, Alan Cassels.

Award-winning investigative journalist Robert Whitaker provides a critical look at how psychiatric drugs became central to mainstream care and what long-term outcome data show about their real-world effects.

UCL Professor of Critical and Social Psychiatry and practicing psychiatrist Joanna Moncrieff explores how biochemical explanations for emotional suffering became embedded in public culture and clinical training.

UCLA Professor of Social Welfare David Cohen provides a historical overview of how modern responses to emotional distress developed over the past 60 years and how certain institutions and ideas became dominant.