Yearly Archives: 2024
The FDA Just Quietly Gutted Protections for Human Subjects in Research
From Newsweek: The new FDA rule gives thousands of IRB committees the unilateral ability to determine that researchers need not obtain true informed consent from research participants.
Who Is Afraid of the Abolition of Psychiatric Confinement?
Psychiatry doesn't care that you haven't committed a crime. The law gives them the authority to deprive you of your freedom for as long as they deem necessary.
The Connection Cure: An Interview with Julia Hotz
Julia Hotz is a solutions-focused journalist based in New York City. She is the author of the forthcoming book, The Connection Cure: The Prescriptive...
The Patient-Enemy: How Derrida Helps Explain Psychiatry’s Cruelty and Care
"Now look what you made me do!" Psychiatrists feel obligated to care for their patients, but also resentful of this obligation.
Why Your Brain Needs Other People
From The Guardian: Developmental psychology has long recognised theĀ social element in thinking. The emergence of individual thought can be understood as the internalisation of interpersonal dialogue, as the Soviet psychologist Lev Vygotsky observed almost a hundred yearsĀ ago.
Iatrogenic Practices in Psychiatry: Kindling
Psychiatric practices can have very painful and destabilizing consequences, including "kindling" or neuronal sensitization.
Ghosts in the Machine: The Fantasies of Psychopharmacology | David Healy
From David Healy/RxISK: This lecture outlines a radical new view about what antidepressants do and don't do. It covers issues that need input from everyone on how best to move forward with these treatments.
(Not) Special by Erin Harer
Even in my darkest lost places
It felt worth it
To be special.
Even on the days I knew
That my choices had become expensive
Even then
It felt worth...
Lessons from a Global Psychiatric Conference: The Good, the Bad, and the Complicated
Has the global mental health movement truly reformed its tone-deaf universalist attitudes?
What I Wish Iād Asked Dr. Gabor MatĆ© When I Had the Chance
Does my complex PTSD, depression and rage go back farther than I think? Back to the womb and my earliest days of life? Is that even possible?
Landmark Win for Patient Autonomy in CA Supreme Court ECT Device Ruling
From Wisner Baum: The Court rejected the argument by Somatics LLC that it should be immune from liability because the plaintiffās doctor would have prescribed ECT anyway, even with a warning of the risk of brain damage.
What Are We Overlooking? Reviewing Current and Alternative Treatments for Psychosis
We should explore a raft of interventions, as susceptibility to psychosis isnāt separable from a personās general well-being.
Paris Hilton Testifies She Was āForce-Fed Medications and Sexually Abusedā While Institutionalized as a...
From The Guardian: The socialite has called on lawmakers to pass the Stop Institutional Child Abuse act and is an advocate for a āBill of Rightsā for children in youth facilities.
I Take ‘One of the Worst’ Antidepressants for Withdrawal – And Don’t I Know...
From LancsLive: It's like I can hear the blood flowing through my ears. It is truly terrifying and impossible to ignore
Conveying Hope, Empowering Teens: An Interview With Jessica Schleider
Clinical psychologist Jessica Schleider is founding director of the Lab for Scalable Mental Health, researching single-session interventions.
Avoid Bad Psychiatrist by Sam Kris
A psychiatrist and a person are having a conversation:
Day 1.
Person: āIām so depressed, because my dog died.ā
Psychiatrist: āItās a disorder inside you. Iāll help...
Who Is Being Targeted for Forced Medical Treatment in NYC? We Require Answers
Iām concerned for those forcibly drugged under Mayor Adams' policy. But also because New York City sets a national precedent.
What Every Therapist Should Know About Working With Prescribed Psych Drugs
From The British Psychological Society: The BPS has collaborated to deliver guidance materials for psychological therapists to support them in working with issues of prescribed drug dependence.
Youth Antipsychotic Use Linked to Increased Risk of Death within Five Years
Those aged 18-24 had an increased risk of death within five years on doses above 100 mg chlorpromazine equivalents.
The TikTokification of Mental Health on Campus
Many people view their social media feeds as reflections of their identitiesāand when posts center on a specific diagnosis, it can feel like the platform is diagnosing them.
Green Star Mother Demands Answers from VA Secretary
If the Veterans Administration is sincere in wanting to reduce veteran suicides, the first place to start is to collect information following these deaths to try to better understand the causes.
Itās You, Itās Not Me: Treatment Resistant Depression and the Psychiatric Breakup
"Treatment resistance" is best explained not as a medical issue but as a way for psychiatry to resolve cognitive dissonance.
Patient Safety: A Letter to the President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
From Hole Ousia/Peter Scott-Gordon: Antidepressants have never been conceptualised as āaddictiveā. This ānon-addictiveā descriptor is being used to imply drug safety in a highly dangerous way.
F.O.M.H. by illexotic
Listen to "F.O.M.H.":
I wrote this poem when I was struggling with my mental health in college on the back of a quiz I didn't...
Madness, Utopia and Revolt: An Interview With Sasha Warren
Sasha Warren founded Of Unsound Mind to trace the histories of psychiatry and its connection to policing and prisons.
