- March 19, 2025, 7:00 pm: Dory Previn: On My Way to Where | Screening and Panel
- March 20, 2025, 3:30 pm: Free Webinar: Embracing A New Hope & Healing: Peer Designed and Directed Crisis Response
- March 25, 2025, 7:00 am: Virtual Global Launch of the WHO Guidance on Mental Health Policy and Strategic Action Plans
When Narratives Clash: Unshrunk and The Cognitive Dissonance of the NY Times
For the mainstream media, reviewing Laura Delano's memoir "Unshrunk" is an exercise in cognitive dissonance.
Psychiatry: Medical Science of Mind or Moral Ideology?
Psychiatry is a moral ideology, making and enforcing judgments about the appropriateness of people's experiences.
What I Have Learned in Working With 300+ People in Their Journey of Tapering
Tapering is stepping into each individual’s complex world of biology, history, psyche, circumstance, and tolerance for discomfort.
Tortured by the Mental Health System Due to Misdiagnosis of Schizophrenia
The police think my non-existent "schizophrenia" makes me a danger to the community. If I don't show up for my injections I'm subject to police arrest and kidnapping from my home.
Mad Camp Europe: My Journey from Ward Violence to Healing and Community
If we want to advocate for a better mental health system, we have to integrate our own shame. And that is what happened to me at Mad Camp.
From Public Service to Private Practice: The Collapse of the Social Work Profession
Can we resist turning to private practices masked in social justice rhetoric as a substitute for genuine movement building and advocacy?
Art, Poetry, and Humor Galleries
View the artwork, poetry, and humor galleries and submit your work. Or visit the Arts Corner.
Liberation of Psyche by Marlena Kolesinska
Dr. Morgan Shields of Washington University in St. Louis is conducting research on the experience of people utilizing behavioral health crisis services. They are recruiting people who have direct lived experience as patients/
Survivors And Families Empowered (SAFE) has developed a pilot project to work with caring families who have been stymied in their search for support and help. You can fill out their survey here.
Please join us on April 15, 2025, at 12PM ET for a special panel on The Hope of Harm Reduction with Caroline Mazel-Carlton, hosted by Ron Unger.
The Editorial Demise of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics Is Bad News For Us All
Karger’s decision to replace the editorial leadership without consultation is extraordinary, abruptly ending decades of success and accumulated expertise.
Psychology, Personhood, and the Crisis of Neoliberalism: Jeff Sugarman on Theoretical and Critical Psychology
Tim Beck interviews Jeff Sugarman on the psychology of personhood, the influence of neoliberalism on mental health, and the need for a more philosophically informed psychology.
Do Critics of Biological Psychiatry Have an Alternative to a Life of “Whack-A-Mole”?
Psychiatry has simultaneously offered multiple biological theories of depression and its other disorders, but the theories that stick are those that are effective marketing devices for money-making drugs.
Exploding Myths About Schizophrenia: An Interview with Courtenay Harding
The Vermont Longitudinal Study, led by Courtenay Harding, belied conventional beliefs about schizophrenia by showing remarkably good outcomes for patients discharged in the 1950s and '60s.
“Dad, Something’s Not Right. I Need Help”: Richard Fee on the Dangers of Adderall
In appointments that last five to seven minutes, all doctors do is push drugs—psychiatric drugs, ADHD meds, everything.
Psychotherapy and Social Change: Mick Cooper on Counseling, Pluralism, and Progressive Politics
Javier Rizo interviews Mick Cooper on the intersection of psychotherapy and social transformation, the pluralistic approach to counseling, and the role of psychology in building a more just society.
Humanize Psychiatry through Listening
I believe that the evolution of knowledge and its practical applications depends on an attitude of constant review and reflection. I also believe that we should look at what we do with condescension and humility. I miss debates in Psychiatry about how we are practicing and what results we are reaping with what we do.
“Sanity determines all our practices” Celeste Fernández
Health ministries must pay fines of $100,000 per day. Celeste Fernández explains the impact of the ruling, which requires the national Ministry of Health and the Ministry of the City of Buenos Aires to pay daily fines for failing to comply with the national mental health law passed 15 years ago.
Rethinking mental health in Ireland: Why not a Trieste-style approach?
Mental health is not just a medical issue; it is a societal concern that demands collective responsibility. Ireland has an opportunity to reimagine its mental health services, moving beyond crisis-driven, medicalised care towards a compassionate, community-based model that truly supports recovery and inclusion.
