Monthly Archives: July 2012
Site Updates and Posting Policy
Shortly after Mad In America launched at the beginning of the year I was invited to take over the siteās web development and to...
Expressed Emotion in Families of 1-year-old Children
This study, in Child: Care, Health and Development, adds to the research that "high levels of expressed emotion (EE) in parents have been found...
Sickness Absence From Work: More Anxiety Than Otherwise
Norwegian, Australian and U.K. researchers find, in a study of 13,436 community members, linked with official records of sickness absence from work (SA), that...
Beliefs About Psychosis Predict Engagement With Therapy, and Outcomes
A study by U.K. researchers finds that patients with schizophrenia diagnoses are more likely to engage in therapy and to experience positive outcomes when...
Yoga is Effective for Neurological and Major Psychiatric Conditions
A literature review by the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center and UCLA school of medicine, published in the Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical...
Integrating Mental Health and Development in Nepal
PLoS Medicine's series on Global Mental Health Practice looks at the BasicNeeds model of Mental Health and Development. BasicNeeds is comprised of five key...
New Zealand Asks: “How is Your Antidepressant Working For You?”
Researchers at Auckland University have launched a study that "positions the people who are prescribed antidepressants as the experts" and which aims at asking...
Almost No Nursing Homes Meet Federal Standards for Antipsychotic Use
The Office of the Inspector General finds that 99.5% of nursing facilities in the United States are non-compliant regarding federal regulations concerning antipsychotic use....
Fox News on the DSM Controversy
Dr. Keith Ablow on the logical fallacies of the DSM.
Antidepressants, School Shooters & Suicide
"A small percentage of those taking antidepressants will become homocidal and/or suicidal. But a small percentage of 30,000,000 is more than hundreds of thousands...
Michael Moore Discusses the Impact of Prozac on the Columbine Shootings
Michael Moore learned about the link between prozac and violence at the premier of his film "Bowling for Columbine." Here, he appears in Gary...
Antidepressants, Not Alcohol, Implicated in Mary Kennedy Suicide
When Mary R. Kennedy, the estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., committed suicide last May, initial speculation centered around the possible contribution of...
How Effective are Neuroleptic Drugs?
Robert Whitaker has raised questions about the problems with long term exposure to antipsychotic drugs but recent research raises questions about their efficacy in the short run.
Relabeling “Antidepressants”
Do "the medications we call antidepressants justify the label of antidepressant?" So ask Davids Antonuccio and Healy in Scientifica. "On all of the identified...
Teenagers on SSRIs
Last week, the Wall Street Journal has anĀ article titled The Medication GenerationĀ by Katherine Sharpe which questioned the fact thatĀ a large number of teenagers are...
Emotional Illiteracy in “The Medication Generation”
Katharine Sharpe, author of "Coming of Age on Zoloft," writes for the Wall Street Journal about the particular problems of young people learning about...
The “BioPsychoSocialSpiritual” Model of Mental Health
Andrew Weil writes about the history of the biomedical model, the rise of neurotransmitter-based theories of psychology, the proliferation of both mental health professionals...
Mary Fry, ND – Short Bio
Integrative Naturopathic Mental Health Care: Mary Fry, a naturopathic physician,Ā discusses her vision of an effective and collaborative integrated mental health care system that includes...
Mary Fry, ND – Long Bio
Mary Fry, ND, is a naturopathic physician and the founder of A Healthy State of Mind, LLC. Dr. Fry has a Bachelorās of Science...
Tom Cruise-Katie Holmes Divorce: Psychiatry & Scientology Face Off?
The competing rubrics of Scientology and Psychiatry, as seen in the context of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' divorce, gets a hearing on Fox...
Robert Reich Blogs on the Glaxo Penalty
Robert Reich, professor of public policy at Berkeley and former secretary of labor in the Clinton administration, analyzes the impact of the $3 billion...
Letters From the Front Lines
Dear Bob:
Saw a young man recently, early 30s,Ā who wanted help withdrawing from benzodiazepines.
He had been on escalating doses of Xanax for two years.Ā The...
Perceived Social Status Impacts Early Psychosis
Writing in the British Journal of Clinical Psychology, London researchers find that perceptions of lower social rank and inferiority amongst 24 individuals with early...
Fear in Infants Predicts Guilt in Toddlers, Later Psychopathology
Researchers at Cardiff University in Wales find that fear in infants is a predictor of guilt in later life, and write in Development and...
Madness Radio: Eleanor Longden on Voices and Trauma
Hearing distressing voices is highly correlated with traumatic experiences, and many people report that their first experience with distressing voices occurs after a trauma....
