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Rethinking Trust in Psychiatry: When Mistrust Is Misread as Madness

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A new paper challenges the idea that therapeutic mistrust is pathological, reframing it as a rational stance against historical and cultural marginalization.

Study Finds Key Role for Emotion Recognition in Adolescent Well-Being

Cannabinoids Linked to Worse Psychosis Outcomes in Longitudinal Study

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Forced Hospitalization Increases Suicide and Violent Crime

Mental Health Workers Say They Want Recovery-Oriented Care. So Why Do...

Psychological Disorders Are “Shapeshifters,” Not Fixed Labels, Study Finds

Philosophy Majors Improve in Critical Thinking, New Study Finds

Early Life Adversity Predicts Later Mental Health Issues Around the World

St. John's Wort for medicinal use

Many Herbal Supplements As Good or Better Than Antidepressants

Before Involuntary Commitment: Coercion in the Shadows

Participatory Research in India Redefines Who Gets to Create Mental Health...

What Clients Say They Get From Therapy—And It’s Not Just Fewer...

UK Study Finds Ethnic Minorities More Likely to Face Psychiatric Detention

It’s Not Just in Your Head: Experts Urge Focus on Poverty,...

Mental Health Needs Anthropology: A New Humanism for Psychology

UN Guidance Fails to Curb Psychiatric Coercion, British Legal Scholar Warns

Youth Adversity Linked to Depression and Anxiety Regardless of Background, New...

National Study Ties LGBTQ+ Mental Health Disparities to Structural Oppression, Not...

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Gardening Best Depression Treatment in Elderly—Antidepressants Worst

Psychiatry Hinders the Relational Capacity of Those with Anomalous Experiences

MIA Reports

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MIA Reports

The Deceptive Politics of Civil Commitment in Oregon

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A workgroup in Oregon unanimously recommended rights-based mental health care. Then the politicians and those invested in forced treatment splintered off and implemented the exact opposite.

Is Dialogue the Best Medicine? A Conversation With Jaakko Seikkula

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America is Legislating a Return to the Asylum, One Policy at...

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Psychiatry Criticism Politics: When the Enemy of Your Enemy Is Not...

“I Made it Through the Horrors of Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal” A...

ChatGPT Weakens Your Ability to Think, MIT Study Finds

Why Psychosis Is Not So Crazy: A Conversation with Stijn Vanheule

Antipsychotics Do Not Provide a Clinically Meaningful Benefit Over the Short-Term:...

Veterans Take Their “War Cry For Change” to Capitol Hill

A Therapist Navigating Antidepressant Withdrawal: Nelson Lee on the Power of...

“Progress Only Occurs when People Make Demands”: Paolo del Vecchio Reflects...

The Poetics and Politics of Our Mental Health Metaphors: An Interview...

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Heritability Explains Less About Mental Disorders Than You Think

Two Decades of PSSD: A Life Stolen by Antidepressants

Kermit Cole: Dialogical Therapy and Quantum Theory Walk Into a Bar…

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Criticisms That Establishment Psychiatry Can and Cannot Tolerate

Chemically Imbalanced: Joanna Moncrieff on the Making and Unmaking of the...

The Fight Against Involuntary Commitment: Are Protection & Advocacy Organizations Fulfilling...

Interview with German activist Peter Lehmann: “I Lost My Fear and...

The Failure of “Spit For Science”: No Genetic or Neurological Pathways...

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Illinois is the First State to Ban AI Therapists

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From Engadget: "Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has signed a bill into law banning AI therapy in the state. This makes Illinois the first state...

FDA’s Artificial Intelligence is Supposed to Revolutionize Drug Approvals. It’s Making...

FDA Expert Panel on Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) and Pregnancy

Pills, Profits & the Untold Story: A Conversation With Robert Whitaker

Court-ordered Treatment for Serious Mental Illness is ‘Inconclusive,’ Says Federal Report

Response Rates in Psychiatric Drug Trials are Statistical Hocus Pocus

People Are Being Involuntarily Committed After Spiraling Into “ChatGPT Psychosis”

People Say They’ve Faced Withdrawals from SSRIs. They Want Recognition and...

Man Developed Psychosis After Being Jailed for 13 years on Indefinite...

MIA Writer Peter Sterling’s Memoir of Global Engagement

Senators Propose Ban on Drug Advertising to Consumers

FDA Approved — And Ineffective

Call to Action: Submit a MedWatch Report to the FDA

The Rampant Reach of Pharma’s Hidden Hand

More Than Half of top 100 Mental Health TikToks Contain Misinformation,...

Alan Cassels: Are We Looking In The Right Place For Answers...

Safety or System? – Seeking Soteria

Spotify is Scrambling to Remove Dozens of Podcasts Promoting Online Prescription...

Court Gives Approval of Settlement Providing Better Mental Health Care for...

Father Kills Son Because of Antidepressants

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