One of the essential problems with psychology today is its reliance upon psychiatric or biological behavioral models—a far cry from its foundations. Psychology initially meant the study of the soul.  However, all this changed in the late 1800s when German psychologist Wilhelm Wundt declared man was an animal.  This week's guest is psychologist Toby Watson, who has been challenging mainstream psychology for 10 years.

Why is it that today depression, failure to concentrate, and other non-illnesses are viewed as mass epidemics, providing an excuse to launch one psychiatric drug after another in the service of a (hopefully) amenable public. This week's guest is educator and author Beverly Eakman who will answer this question, and many others.

For every violent murderer reported in the mainstream media as having been “taking medicine for depression,” there are many, many more incidences of violence that never make headlines.  Among the information that 911 dispatchers are trained to gather is the involvement of drugs or alcohol in the situations which are reported to 911.  Ask any 911 operator if they have ever taken an emergency call that involved violence and psychiatric drugs and you are likely to get a “yes.”  This week's guest is Ronald Harvel, Chief of Police in Hurst, Illinois, population 805. Despite the size of his jurisdiction, he has found that the involvement of psychiatric drugs in reports to 911 is significant enough to warrant public concern and discussion.

Not only do psychiatrists not understand the cause of any mental disorder, they cannot cure them. For example, Dr. Norman Sartorius, former president of the World Psychiatric Association, declared, ''The time when psychiatrists considered that they could cure the mentally ill is gone. In the future, the mentally ill have to learn to live with their illness.'' However, this is not the case, and there are viable solutions for true mental health, without the use of dangerous psychiatric drugs.  This week's guest is nationally recognized Naturopathic physician, Dr. Holly Lucille, who will discuss workable alternative solutions for mental problems.

There is little argument, medical or otherwise, that prolonged loss of sleep can eventually result in delusions and psychosis.  Psychiatry in general does not seem to recognize this for what it is, labeling it instead as “schizophrenia,” “postpartum depression” or “psychosis not otherwise specified.”  The automatic psychiatric response to such a label is to prescribe antipsychotic drugs.  These drugs don't provide the patient the rest he needs, but overwhelm the nervous system so that the patient is incapacitated and docile.  A sleep-deprived person has not magically contracted mental illness.  They need to sleep.  The psychiatrist however, obviously lacking in comprehension of the basic causes and effects of life and health, misdiagnoses the person with a mental disorder, at which point they start on a path to being a psychiatric patient for life.  Find out about the connection between sleep and mental well being in this week's show and don't let yourself or your friends/family be misdiagnosed.

Sound medical attention, good nutrition, a healthy safe environment and activity that promotes confidence do far more than the brutality of repeated drugging and other psychiatric abuses. However, do not expect the psychiatrist to tell you all about them. This week's guest, Dr. Nina Levy, wants to let everyone know what some of these alternatives are.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, there are an estimated 5.4 million American children diagnosed with ADHD. The ''treatment'' they most often receive is psychotropic drugs which do damage while these children are in vital stages of development. This week's guest is Dr. Bonnie Rose, a naturopath who helps families find the underlying physcial causes using nutritional medicine.

Citizens Commission on Human Rights exposed the violence-inducing nature of SSRI antidepressants in the early 1990s. The number of people who reported acts of violence (including murder) and violent impulses after taking the new “wonder” drugs demanded that it be made known. Such reactions are not unique to antidepressants. It would take another 13 years for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to require the manufacturers to put stonger warnings on the drugs' packaging. But because of vested interests, the pharmaceutical and psychiatric industries won't admit that these drugs possess no real benefits and plenty of risks. The makers of most psychiatric drugs actually don't know what the “therapeutic mechanism” is which supposedly makes their drugs “work.” This week's guest, Dr. James O'Donnell, has no vested interest. He has an understanding of the mechanisms of psychiatric drugs which cause mental impairment and violence and he has an interest in making this widely known, in the name of public safety.

People do experience mental and emotional troubles but these are not diseases. Psychiatrists reclassify these normal human reactions as mental disease solely to prescribe them psychiatric drugs. These drugs not only have serious side effects, but they only serve to mask the actual problem. The drugs can even cause the very same problem that they're supposed to “treat,” for example antidepressants can cause depression. Starting or going off such a drug can even cause one to become suicidal. While these mental/emotional conditions are real, medical researcher David Tanton, Ph.D. feels we cannot separate the problems of people from the times in which they live, and ours is a time of environmental pollutants, fast food, artificial colors, sweeteners and other toxic substances which can and do have adverse effects on one's energy and mental outlook. Tanton discusses how these drugs affect you physically and mentally and what the alternatives are in this 34-minute show.

When Jonathan was in 5th grade, his teacher referred him to a therapist for ''talking to himself.'' This soon turned into him being put on several psychiatric drugs, which gave him serious side effects—so serious that they killed him. Karen Francis, Jonathan's mother, is this week's guest. She will tell her tragic story so as to warn others.