Mad Pride: Making a Truce With the Voices in Your Head
In this piece for Vice, Tess McClure describes New Zealand's Mad Pride movement, a movement that seeks to destigmatize, normalize, and celebrate experiences of voice-hearing...
“Jury Smacks J&J with $70M in Damages in Latest Risperdal Breast Case”
Fierce Pharma reports: "Johnson & Johnson ($JNJ) is fighting more than 1,500 legal claims that its antipsychotic Risperdal triggered breast development in boys, and...
Congratulations. Your Study Went Nowhere.
From The New York Times: "A modeling study published in BMJ Open in 2014 showed that if a publication bias caused positive findings to...
The Silence: The Legacy of Childhood Trauma
In this piece for The New Yorker, Junot Diaz reflects on the impact of his experience of childhood sexual abuse and the ways that therapy...
CEP Members Publish New Book: ‘The Sedated Society’
The Council for Evidence-Based Psychiatry announces the release of a new book called 'The Sedated Society: The Causes and Harms of our Psychiatric Prescribing Epidemic.'...
Too Few Are Talking About Health Care Workersâ Mental Health
From Stat News: "Some health care workers are using words like betrayal and coercion and moral injury to describe this experience. They feel betrayed...
Teaching Psychology Students to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse
From The Conversation: An undergraduate course in behavioral psychology at Bangor University now includes a fully gamified module that immerses students in a zombie apocalypse...
The Non-Binary Brain
From Aeon: Although many misogynists justify their prejudice by arguing that men and women are biologically different, the evidence shows that our brains are neither...
âSeattle Salmon Contaminated with Drugs Including Antidepressantsâ
Researchers in Seattle found the worrying cocktail of over 81 drugs when testing water quality in nearby Puget Sound. They even found drugs in...
Are Violent Teens Suffering âthe Rage of the Unparentedâ? | Gabor MatĂ©, MD
From Dr. Gabor MatĂ©: We need to look at the lives of todayâs children and adolescents and, above all, at whatâs missing in their lives.
âPsycho Thrillers: Five Movies That Teach Us How The Mind Worksâ
For the Guardian five leading psychologists, inspired by Son of Saul, look at the classic movies that explore how human beings work. Catherine Shoard, Philippa...
“You Calling Me Crazy? The Perils of Misdiagnosis”
-Lisa Di Venuta recounts how a visit to a university counselor about her mild depression quickly got her onto a downward spiral with multiple psychiatric medications and increasing disability.
Coronavirus: Temporary Changes to UK’s Mental Health Act
From Rethink Mental Illness: The UK government has proposed changes to the Mental Health Act which, if implemented, will make it easier to detain people during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Scott Gottlieb Confirmed as Head of the FDA
From Pacific Standard: This past Tuesday, the Senate confirmed Scott Gottlieb as head of the Food and Drug Administration.
"Although some Senate Democrats had worried about...
“Is a Job a Prescription for a Young Person with Mental Health Issues?”
-A "fact checker" investigates a statement by an Australian politician describing the government's supportive employment initiative as a "prescription" for young people struggling with mental health problems.
New Official Guidance: People Should Come Off Antidepressants Slowly
From MetroUK: The guidance from RCPsych is catching up to what many patients have been saying for years: antidepressant tapering should take much longer than a few weeks.
A Blow to STAT’s Credibility: Ghostwriting/PR Influence
From HealthNewsReview.org: STAT recently published an op-ed praising the role of drug company sales representatives. The physician listed as the author has now revealed that he did...
What Does a “Trauma-informed Community” Look Like?
Tarpon Springs, Florida, is the first city in the US to declare itself to be a "Trauma-informed Community." Jane Ellen Stevens of ACES (Adverse...
Trans-Generational Dynamics and Mental Illness: A Family Constellation
Family constellations are a fascinating, cutting-edge tool for exploring issues within families, groups, and individuals and can lead to a high degree of healing in a short amount of time.
Americans Are Paying Billions to Take Drugs That Donât Work
From Bloomberg: Companies are increasingly using fast-track approval processes to get unproven treatments to patients.
“Does It Make Sense to Scrap Psychiatric Diagnosis?”
Allen Frances considers the overreaches of "paradigm shifts" by the DSM-5 and NIMH, and Lucy Johnstone's call for "a conversation with service users along...
“Power failure: Why Small Sample Size Undermines the Reliability of Neuroscience”
An article in Nature Reviews Neuroscience about low sample sizes suggests, according to The Guardian, that "the likelihood that any claimed effect (based on...
Mass. Locked Up People With ‘Mental Illness’ for Decades. Now Advocates Want Their Stories...
From WBUR: "There is no formal statement of what the state schools and...hospitals were or why they came to be, what they were, how they closed," said Alex Green, who is seeking to establish a commission to reckon with the way patients were treated and the abuses they endured.
Raising the Ritalin Generation
New York Times opinion piece on the overmedication of ADHD in children.
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Cognitive Enhancement With Yoga
From Psychiatric Times: A recent study suggests that Kundalini yoga may be at least as effective as memory training in improving cognitive resilience in older adults with...
