Leonard Lawrence was a fully fit and experienced commercial/airline pilot. He had been working for British Aerospace since 1989 when he experienced and recorded his first ‘fume event’ - the presence in a plane’s onboard air system of toxins. In the most serious cases, these toxins contain organophosphates identical to those responsible for deaths and brain damage among agricultural workers.
Holocaust Memorial Day: In 1895, almost forty years before the Nazi party came to power, Swiss-German psychiatrist Alfred Ploetz, a proponent of the eugenics movement, published a host of materialistic theories about racial inferiority in The Fitness of Our Race and the Protection of the Weak. He propagated the concept of destroying…
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), also known as electroshock, is a procedure that’s been compared to a torture method more likely to be found in an interrogator's tool kit rather than in the inventory of a “medical practitioner.” It’s difficult to sanitise the procedure when the truth is in full view. With this…
The problem of psychiatric vacancies has been a longstanding situation resulting in regular recruitment campaigns run by the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych). Recruitment to the profession has been and continues to be hampered by the poor public perception surrounding it. Mainstream media went undercover to film abuse of vulnerable people detained…
Calling for ECT to be suspended and reviewed, is akin to calling for a suspension of torture. The only answer is to ban ECT.
This is the true story of a brave grandmother who has decided to speak out against psychiatric oppression. The names of the people involved have been changed at this point to protect their identities.