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From Inclusion to Assimilation in Mental Health Research

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A new paper names “participatory assimilation,” showing how mental health projects invite people in, then fold their ideas back into expert agendas.

Less Screen, More Sleep: Cutting Smartphone Use Lifts Mood and Lowers...

Psychiatric Labels Confine More Than They Clarify, Researchers Argue

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Medicine Is on the Brink of “AI-Induced Deskilling”

From Molecules to Meanings: Scholars Call for ‘Pharmaceutical Humanities’

New Research Suggests Early Childhood Behavior May Predict Cluster A Personality...

Study Finds Bipartisan Support for Mental Health Care Without Coercion

Prescription Stimulant Use Linked to Higher Rates of Psychosis

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Trauma-Informed Care and the PTMF: How Does It Work in Practice?

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Micronutrient Supplements: Better Than Antidepressants for Depressed Pregnant Mothers and Their...

AI Study Finds Psychiatric Diagnoses Overlap Too Much to Be Useful

Relational Depth in Psychotherapy Linked to Reductions in Depression and Anxiety

“Medicine Is Awesome” Mentality Fueling Harmful Antidepressant Use, Say Experts

German GPs Say They Need More Support to Help Patients Stop...

When Peer Support Workers Must Be “Just Mad Enough”

Collective Action May Protect Mental Health of LGBTQ+ Young Adults

Antidepressants Linked to Insomnia in Children and Adolescents, Meta-Analysis Finds

What If Psychology Started With the Heart Instead of the Mind?

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No Subgroup of Patients for Whom Antidepressants Are Effective

Psychiatric Coercion Lacks Ethical or Legal Justification, Scholar Argues

MIA Reports

Interviews

Medical Organizations Turn Blind Eye to Harms of Maternal Antidepressant Use:...

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Adam Urato and Joanna Moncrieff join Robert Whitaker on the Mad in America podcast to discuss the risks posed by maternal use of antidepressants.
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A Call for Evidence-Based, Fear-Free Practice

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Fifty Years of Grief

Psychotherapy, Spirituality, and Democratic Socialism: A Conversation with Frank Gruba-McCallister

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How “Garbage-In-Garbage-Out” Academic Psychiatry Research Has Become Even More Ridiculous, and...

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The Case for Retraction: Psychedelic Therapy Study Omitted Interviews that Told...

Science Under Pressure, Humanity at Stake: An Interview with John Ioannidis

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Confessions of an Advertising Writer: What I Learned From Your Stories—And...

Therapy in the Age of Self Management and Public Abandonment: A...

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The 110-Year “Schizophrenia Genetic Research” Train Wreck

Not Even the Unborn Are Safe from Psychiatric Harm

How to be a Critical Psychologist Without Losing Your Soul: A...

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Confessions of an Ad Writer: How I Helped Turn Atypical Antipsychotics...

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The Deceptive Politics of Civil Commitment in Oregon

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

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Psychiatrist David Nutt Suggests More of the Same: Drugs

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From the Journal of the Academy of Public Health, written by Peter Gøtzsche. "On 11 February 2025, Professor David Nutt published a personal view...

Will Cracking Down on Drug Ads Help Patients?

The FDA’s Overdue Crackdown on Misleading Pharmaceutical Advertisements

Depression: Does Psychotherapy Make New Nerve Cells Grow?

ADHD: Not a Diagnosis but a Warning Label

Wildflower Alliance in Revolt after Director Sera Davidow is Fired

NEW LAW Pushes Kids Onto Psychiatric Drugs

OpenAI Says It’s Scanning Users’ ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to...

Teen Killed Himself After ‘Months of Encouragement from ChatGPT’, Lawsuit Claims

CANNOT CONTINUE’: NYC Law Would Allow Officials to Commit Drug Addicts

Illinois is the First State to Ban AI Therapists

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

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