Yearly Archives: 2012
Lawyers Starting to Blame Military’s Psychotropic Drugs For Aberrant Behavior
Military psychiatrists and judges are beginning to see the effects of an eightfold increase of SSRI use in the military since 2005, according to...
Hope
Hope is the emotional state, the opposite of which is despair, which promotes the belief in a positive outcome related to events and circumstances...
Study Deems Support, Not Drugs, Best for Youth at Risk of Psychosis
Research by five U.K. universities across multiple sites for up to two years divided 288 young adults (14-35 years) deemed at risk for psychosis...
Trauma-Informed Treatment May Lead to Better Outcomes for Psychosis
Researchers at the New York State Psychiatric Institute wondered why a "surprisingly high percentage of study applicants" for studies in PTSD presented with psychotic...
Stable Housing Leads to Stable Lives
The Mental Health Commission of Canada will release an interim report this summer of its nationwide "Housing First" study - 1000 people with mental...
Vermont Governor Signs Mental Health Overhaul
Saying "we will no longer rely on a decrepit hospital to house those patients" (displaced by Hurricane Irene), Governor Peter Shumlin signed into law...
Bruce Levine speaks about Nelson Algren, Phil Ochs, Marginalization and the Mental Health Industry...
Bruce Levine speaks about Nelson Algren, Phil Ochs, Marginalization, the Mental Health Industry, and the Occupy Movement at the 23rd Annual Nelson Algren Birthday...
The Legal and Moral Issues of Drugging Children
Jim Gottsteinās presentation March 29, 2012 at the APAās Humanistic Division.Ā Mr. Gottstein talks about the the legal and moral issues of the massive number...
The Positive Side of Bipolar Disorder
Researchers in the U.K. explored the sense of participants in a small study (10 individuals) that "numerous" aspects of their bipolar experiences were positive,...
Benzodiazepine & SSRI Addiction and Withdrawal
The May issue of AddictionĀ includes a review of pharmacological and phenomenological issues around benzodiazepine (BZD) and SSRI discontinuation. Ā Definitions, perceptions and management of the...
Community Participation Predicts Recovery
In a study of 1,827 adults and young adults, researchers from Temple University found that community participation (parenting, employment, volunteering, education, group membership, civic...
Long-Term Psychotherapy Changes Prefrontal-Limbic Function
In the first neuroimaging study of changes in the limbic system and prefrontal cortex caused by long-term psychotherapy, researchers in Germany and the United...
The Legal and Moral Issues of Drugging Children
Jim Gottsteinās presentation March 29, 2012 at the APAās Humanistic Division.Ā Mr. Gottstein talks about the the legal and moral issues of the massive number...
Study of Antidepressants and Suicide is Retracted
A controversial 2010 paper, "Antidepressant Medication Prevents Suicide in Depression", has been retracted by Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. In a contemporaneous issue ofĀ British Journal of...
Why We Need Mental Health Social Entrepreneurship
A mental health social entrepreneurship is a business that uses market principles to maximize benefit instead of maximizing profit. For instance, my business, Wellness...
No Advantage for Second-Generation Antipsychotics
In a study of 720 consecutive hospital admissions in a specific catchment area from 1991 to 2005, researchers found that there was no difference...
Prenatal Antipsychotic Exposure Causes Neuromotor Deficits
Researchers studying 309 6-month-olds at Emory University's Infant Development Laboratory found that infants prenatally exposed to antipsychotics showed significantly lower scores on a standardized...
Hallucination is Common in Children and Adolescents
Hallucinatory experiences are common in childhood and adolescence, and most cases discontinue in the short-term, according to a review of the data conducted by...
Cannabis May Precipitate Psychosis
In a study of 785 patients with a psychotic disorder, researchers from The Netherlands found that cannabis us was associated with an earlier onset...
Reconstruction: A Recovery Narrative
When I read recovery stories, I am sometimes challenged by the prospect of thinking about my life in linear terms, "Here are the years...
“Social Workers’ Malaise: What’s Our Mission?”
Just a few final words on this issue.
One of the readers of the blog I posted on March 27 on madinamerica.com identified himself as...
Illinois Rep. Calls for Task Force to Investigate “False Epidemics” and Psychotropic Drugs
Rep. Mary Flowers (D-Chicago) has introduced a resolution to the Illinois House of Representatives calling for a 'Task Force on Mental Diagnosis and Illinois...
Childhood Adversity Increases Psychosis
Researchers in the U.K. and Netherlands found a nearly 3x greater chance of childhood adversity among patients with psychosis in 36 studies of various...
Antidepressants and Advertising: Psychopharmaceuticals in Crisis
An article by written by faculty of the Harvard History of Science Department and the Program in Placebo Studies explores how "drug marketing portrays...
Playing Hide-and-Seek with Psychiatric Drug Studies
If I were in charge of distributing NIH grant money, Iād be sending a lot of it to researchers like Erick Turner, a psychiatrist...
