Monthly Archives: March 2025
Psychiatric Drugs âA Crude Form of Chemical Restraintâ
Mental health nursing has a key role to play in helping people discontinue the drugs, writes Timothy Wand.
Symptoms and Surface Psychology
Given the lack of objective signs, surface psychology can only ever be the treatment of subjectively distressing symptoms.
The “Sick Enough” Paradox in Eating Disorder Treatment
I had internalized that not only would I be socially rewarded for starving myself, but also that I could only earn care by proving that I was sick enough to meet their criteria.
Unshrunk: A Memoir That Upsets the NYT and Which Freethinkers Will Love
Bruce E Levine writes a rebuttal to the New York Times review of Laura Delano's book Unshrunk in Counter Punch.
"Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric...
A Love Letter to the Mad
My madness forged me. Madness led me to deeper truths. Madness discarded beliefs which no longer served me.
Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics: End of an Era for Independent Journals? An Interview With Giovanni...
Giovanni Fava joins us to discuss the uncertain future of the journal 'Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics' which he edited for thirty years and which has been essential to our understanding of the impact of psychiatric treatments.
Rethinking Mental Health in Ireland: Why Not a Trieste-Style Approach?
Those with mental health difficulties continue to face systemic barriers to holistic, person-centred care.
Animal Study: SSRI Neurotoxic in Pregnancy
Researchers: Fetal exposure to vilazodone hampers neurodevelopment and leads to "long-lasting neurodevelopmental impairments."
The Editorial Demise of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics Is Bad News For Us All
Kargerâs decision to replace the editorial leadership without consultation is extraordinary, abruptly ending decades of success and accumulated expertise.
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.
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.
What I Have Learned in Working With 300+ People in Their Journey of Tapering
Tapering is stepping into each individualâs complex world of biology, history, psyche, circumstance, and tolerance for discomfort.
Antidepressants in Dementia Patients Increase Risk of Death and Fractures
A large-scale study reveals that antidepressant use is linked to faster cognitive decline in dementia patients, raising concerns about their widespread prescription.
Do Critics of Biological Psychiatry Have an Alternative to a Life of âWhack-A-Moleâ?
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.
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?
Doctors Didnât Warn âDeviant Sexual Behaviourâ was Side Effect of Restless Legs Syndrome Drug
From The Independent. "Patients who were prescribed drugs for restless legs syndrome (RLS) have said doctors did not warn them about significant side effects...
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.
Everything About Us Without Us
Between 1883-1955, there was little attention given to the value and contributions of those who were âpatientsâ at the Oregon State Insane Asylum.
âDad, Something’s Not Right. I Need Helpâ: Richard Fee on the Dangers of Adderall
In appointments that last five to seven minutes, all doctors do is push drugsâpsychiatric drugs, ADHD meds, everything.
Sexual Sanism: Why Anti-Queer Rhetoric Is a Threat to the Mad, Too
Our response to this moment should be understanding our shared queer/Mad history and solidarity across lines of oppression.
New Study Links Antidepressants to Increased Risk of Diabetes
Using genetic analysis, a new study finds that antidepressantsânot depressionâare responsible for a significant rise in type 2 diabetes risk.
Weight Loss Drugs: 82 Deaths Linked to Adverse Reactions, UK Data Show
From The BMJ. "Data submitted to the UK drugs regulator show a total of 82 deaths related to glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists, the class...
