Belongingness Can Protect Against Impact of Trauma, Study Suggests
A new study explores feelings of belongingness as a protective factor for childhood trauma and adult mental health outcomes.
Childhood Bipolar Disorder, Deconstructed
Diagnosing children with juvenile or pediatric bipolar disorder is largely an American phenomenon. Do we actually have more “bipolar” children in the United States—or are we simply labeling more of them as such? If it is ever fair to call a child “manic,” isn’t the child’s environment the direction in which we should look?
What’s “Grand” About Electroshock and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation?
The December 4 "grand rounds" at the Oregon Health and Science University consisted of a presentation on what they call "Interventional Psychiatry"—an interesting euphemism for Electroshock, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), and the comeback street drug, Ketamine.
The Madness of Our Mental Health System
Why we should be deeply disturbed by the largely fictional ‘mental illness’ narrative and its resultant system, why we should be suspicious of who actually benefits from the whole enterprise, and, most importantly, why we can no longer countenance the unconscionable toll it takes on the health and well-being of ordinary citizens.
When Will We Wake? Reflections on Suicide and Psychotropic Medications
What are we doing to our people? What life have we created for our youth? I want to believe that those struggling individuals for whom life became unbearable under the influence of medication cocktails have not died in vain. I have chosen to see their action as both a sacrifice and statement to all of us.
Why My Daughter Died and I Lived
To be a parent of a suicidal child is to be in a terrible position, where you hold in your hands the life most valuable to you and know that any slip of your hands may end that life. In the 1970s, my suicidality was treated nonmedically and I lived. In the 2000s, my daughter Martha’s suicidality was treated medically and she died.
Smoke and Flames: Silence In A World On Fire
A corrupt world is built brick by brick by individual acts of shame and silence. Can we break the silence that protects misconduct even while it means being exposed ourselves? Psychiatry and the mental health system are failing, but they are also just sets of human relationships, relationships we are also part of.
MIA Webinar: Informed consent about psychiatric drugs
Mad in America Continuing Education is hosting a 6-webinar course on what true informed consent about psychiatric drugs would look like, and how such consent could transform psychiatric care. Enroll now at an EARLYBIRD price of $40 for the course, which begins on January 22.
Parenting Today: Raising Strong Resilient Kids
Peter Breggin, MD. is a psychiatrist and expert in clinical psychopharmacology. He’s known as the “conscience of psychiatry” and is one of the world’s foremost experts on psychiatric drugs. Click here for more Parenting Today videos.
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Research Survey
Researchers studying the relationship between attachment styles and psychosis are looking for individuals with lived experiences such as hearing voices, feeling suspicious, and having unusual beliefs and experiences to complete an online survey.
Lancet Psychiatry Needs to Retract the ADHD-Enigma Study
Lancet Psychiatry, a UK-based medical journal, recently published a study that concluded brain scans showed that individuals diagnosed with ADHD had smaller brains. That conclusion is belied by the study data. The journal needs to retract this study.
UPDATE: Lancet Psychiatry (online) has published letters critical of the study, and the authors' response, and a correction.
Helping Children With Angry Outbursts
Finnish psychiatrist Ben Furman reviews various non-drug therapies for children with aggressive outbursts of anger, including the Kids' Skills approach that he and social psychologist Tapani Ahola developed. These approaches focus on helping children come up with their own ideas for overcoming their problems with the help of family and friends.
The Science and Pseudoscience Podcast - Episode 1 Zach Bush
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From nightmares to Ecstasy: Can MDMA help with PTSD?
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Use transgender teens' chosen names to reduce suicide risk?
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Treat teen depression without side effects or stigma?
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Ketamine as a chemical restraint?
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Blame school shootings on mental illness?
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Stigma and psychosis: when medical labels injure
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