Does Psychiatry Do More Harm Than Good?

As mental health awareness and spending grows, mental health outcomes are getting worse. Turn any article into a podcast. Upgrade now to start listening. Members can share articles with friends & family to bypass the paywall. This summer, in a Plymouth, Massachusetts, courtroom, prosecutors presented rows of prescription bottles as evidence in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy. Clancy, a 36-year-old mother and nurse, strangled her three young children in January 2023 and then tried to end her own life. Shortly before the killings, she wrote on her phone that “medication stole my motherhood and my life.” Her defense calls it postpartum psychosis compounded by psychiatric overmedication. Adam Omary is a psychologist at HumanProgress.org and a research fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity. More We Think You’d Like