Yearly Archives: 2012
Assessing Increased Mortality Risks of Antipsychotics and Mood Stabilizers in Dementia
An article in January'sĀ American Journal of PsychiatryĀ weighs the relative risk of mortality associated with various antipsychotics and mood stabilizers used in the treatment of...
Olga Runciman – Long Bio
DENMARK: VOICES FROM THE INSIDE OUT
Olga Runciman is an international trainer and speaker as well as writer, campaigner and artist. She sees the hearing...
Olga Runciman – Short Bio
Denmark: Voices From the Inside Out: Olga Runciman hasĀ worked as a psychiatric nurse and been a patient of the self-same system. She was told...
Religion and Spirituality Protect Against Depression
In The American Journal of Psychiatry, a longitudinal study of 114 persons at high risk for depression found that those who reported more religiosity...
Should Jilted Lovers Be Treated with Antidepressants?
It is refreshing that The New York Times in the space of four days has published two articles which take a critical view of...
Carina HĆ„kansson – Long Bio
ORDINARY LIFE THERAPY
Carina HĆ„kansson is a psychotherapist and manager at Family Care Foundation in Gothenburg, Sweden, which was founded in 1987. Ā Many of the...
Carina Hakansson – Short Bio
Ordinary Life Therapy: Carina HĆ„kanssonĀ isĀ founder of the Family Care Foundation and The Extended Therapy Room Foundation in Gothenburg, Sweden.Ā Ā She writes aboutĀ psychiatry and societal treatment...
Maria Bradshaw – Long Bio
DelusionNZ
Maria Bradshaw lost her only child to SSRI induced suicide in 2008. Co-founder and CEO of CASPER (Community Action on Suicide Prevention Education &...
Maria Bradshaw – Short Bio
DelusionNZ: Maria Bradshaw, who currently lives in County Wicklow, Ireland, writes of social models of suicide prevention, pharmacovigilance, and alternatives to psychiatric interventions for...
Psychosis is Not Unique to Schizophrenia
In a sample of 3021 adolescents and young adults with anxiety or depression, Dutch researchers foundĀ that 27% also had one or more psychotic symptoms.
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Nadia Mahjoub – Long Bio
MAD IN BELGIUM
Nadia Mahjoub was born in 1972 and lives in Belgium. She graduated in 1994 from Vrije Universiteit Brussel where she studied English...
Nadia Mahjoub – Short Bio
Mad in Belgium: Nadia is convinced there are better ways to help people in crisis than what is provided generally in psychiatric care in...
Medications May Add to Mortality Rate in Schizophrenia
Dutch researchers write in the Journal of Clinical PsychopharmacologyĀ that, in a prospective study of 7415 persons with diagnoses of schizophrenia, use of a first-generation...
Revising the History of the Serotonin Theory of Depression?
Did scientists recently discover that the Serotonin Theory of Depression is false? Or has this been known for decades? We investigate.
No Long-Term Efficacy For A.D.D. Medication
L. Alan Sroufe, emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota, writes in the New York Times Sunday Review that there is no...
Ron Unger – Long Bio
DIALOGUES WITH MADNESS
Ron Unger,Ā LCSW,Ā is a therapist and educator specializing in cognitive therapy for psychosis, and in understanding and working with the relationships between trauma...
Ron Unger – Short Bio
Dialogues with Madness:Ā A therapist and educator specializing in cognitive therapy for psychosis, Ron Unger explores emerging understandings of psychosis and of efforts to change...
Chapter Twenty-Three: On the Locked Unit, Locked in Myself
As we made our way out of Boston and to the psychiatric hospital on the hill, I watched the ānormalā worldā the world beyond the Plexiglas rear window of the ambulance I was strapped intoā drift past me into the distance.
Bipolar Everywhere
A recent dramatic rise in diagnoses of Bipolar has been documented (Moreno, Laje et al., 2007). Bipolar used to be a relatively rare event. When working at the state hospital during the 1970s, over a 7 year period, I recall only 4 or 5 patients with a bipolar diagnosis.
Legal Coercion, Recovery, and Human Rights
Mary O'Hagan, an international mental health leader with lived experience, writes on the paradox of increasing legal coercion of psychiatric patients, even as the...
Sami Timimi, MD – Short Bio
No More Psychiatric Labels: A child and adolescent psychiatrist, Sami Timimi writes about the Critical Psychiatry movement, an international network of doctors (primarily psychiatrists)...
Antidepressants Increase Suicide Risk in Children and Adolescents
In a meta-analysis of studies of 6039 individuals, researchers in the UK determined that, consistent with previous meta-analysses, antidepressants increased "suicide-related outcomes."Ā
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Sami Timimi, MD – Long Bio
NO MORE PSYCHIATRIC LABELS: VIEWS OF A CRITICAL PSYCHIATRIST
Sami TimimiĀ is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and a Visiting Professor of Child and Adolescent...
More on Recovery & Liberation: Oppression & Resilience
Just a few days ago, the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, perhaps the foremost legal advocacy organization for persons with disabilities in the country, issued its āvision of community integrationā for the disabled, listing the ākey principlesā that should be utilized to achieve that aim.
