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I don't agree with anything anti-psychiatry groups have to say, except maybe that pharmaceutical companies can be disingenuous. But in the interest of fairness, here's a release from the Lunatic Offensive, who I find both loony and offensive. But still:

Celebrating our 25th anniversary, we, the Lunatic Offensive, can proudly report that we are now one of the oldest groups of Human Rights activists confronting coercive psychiatry. A month ago we had a big party with over 200 friends and visitors with a celebration speech by Gert Postel, the famous postman who on several occasions proved that psychiatric knowledge is nothing other than psycho babble, because throughout his several years working in psychiatry, nobody recognized that he had never passed any medical examination. But he was nevertheless even engaged as a senior physician in a forensic unit (read more about him here. His great celebration speech is translated into English here.

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Liz Spikol is senior contributing editor of Philadelphia Weekly. She writes the award-winning column The Trouble With Spikol, which began as a chronicle of her struggle with mental illness, and has since expanded into humorous musings on everything from graphic novels to how to use a mop. She also writes the paper's book review column, Lit Gloss. This blog -- named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 by PsychCentral -- is about mental illness policy, news, personal journeys and more.