The Truth About Long-Term Antidepressant Use
From The Guardian: As antidepressant prescriptions rise and have doubled in the past decade, mental health experts are becoming increasingly concerned about adverse effects and...
The Invisible Asylum
From City Journal: In slaying the old monster of the state asylums, we created a new monster in its shadow: one that consists of the street, the jail, and the emergency room.
Upcoming Breath-Body-Mind Online Workshop
Psychiatrists Richard Brown and Patricia Gerbarg will be giving a Breath~Body~Mind workshop live online August 16 and August 17, 2014. According to a press...
Researchers Say You Might as Well be Your Own Therapist
From Quartz: Therapists may play a less significant role in mental health treatment than previously thought. A recent study found no significant difference in treatment outcomes...
The Hidden Epidemic of Sexual Dysfunction Experts Are Blaming on SSRI Antidepressants
From The Daily Mail: Patients on antidepressants are not being warned of the risk that the pills could permanently ruin their sex lives, experts say.
“Is it all in the Brain? An Inclusive Approach to Mental Health.”
Michelle Maiese of the Oxford University Press' International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry  series writes on the OUP blog: "For many years, the prevailing view...
Scientific OpinionsâââFor Sale
From Medium: "This is where evidence based medicine is supposed to shine, by demanding randomized trials to prove that certain procedures/drugs either work or donât....
“The Rational Choices of Crack Addicts”
The New York Times echoes the "Rat Park" experiment in an article that quotes a researcher: "âEighty to 90 percent of people who use...
FDA Overlooked Red Flags in Drugmaker’s Testing of Esketamine
From Medscape: Esketamine's trajectory to approval shows â step by step â how drugmakers can take advantage of shortcuts in the FDA process.
‘It’s Not Just in Your Head’ Podcast: We’re All Addicts, With Kevin Gallagher
From It's Not Just in Your Head: Mental health counselor Kevin Gallagher shares what he learned first-hand about America's broken approaches to addiction treatment while he struggled through his own addiction.
‘Psychology Is’ Podcast: The Scientific Emptiness of Psychiatry, With Dr. David Cohen
From Psychology Is: The field is comprised of psychiatrists who primarily act as drug prescribers and justify their practices on the basis of "silly theories that are continually refuted," said the UCLA professor.
The History of Psychiatry and Gay Conversion Therapy
From The Huffington Post: Like religion, psychiatry has played a major role in oppressing LGBTQ individuals throughout history.
"Once psychiatry comes along we get horrible âtreatmentsâ...
âDoctors Say Exercise Can Relieve Depression Symptomsâ
âDoctors say one of the best anti-depressants isn't even a drug, it's exercise,â CNN reports. âExperts say many cases of depression can be treated effectively with, for example, a pair of running shoes.â
Warnings About Benzodiazepine Use in the Elderly Go Unheeded
From Medscape: "Despite years of warnings about the hazards of prescribing benzodiazepines for the elderly, these drugs continue to be used at a higher...
#MeToo in Medicine: Women Harassed in Hospitals
From NBC: Although sexual harassment is widespread in the field of medicine, women face significant barriers to speaking out and reporting abuse. In light of...
PA State Representatives Introduce Bill to Ban ECT on Children
From Fox43: Last week, two Pennsylvania state representatives, Tom Murt and Stephen Kinsey, introduced a bill to prohibit the use of electroconvulsive therapy on children...
A Glimpse Into the Brain, Drawn by the Father of Neuroscience
From The New York Times: A new exhibit at the Grey Gallery at New York University presents 80 hand-drawn renderings of the brain by Santiago...
âThe Weak Science Behind the Wrongly Named Moral Moleculeâ
The latest research shows that the effect of the âmoral moleculeâ oxytocin has a much more complicated effect on human behavior than we think, according to Ed Yong in a recent article for The Atlantic. âSeveral scientists have shown that this tower of evidence for oxytocinâs positive influence is built on weak foundations,â he writes.
Hannah Arendt On Standing Up to the Banality of Evil
From Philosophy Break: Do we ever take the time to truly challenge the principles weâve inherited, to ensure they stand up to our own individual scrutiny?
âWhere Police Violence Encounters Mental Illnessâ
In The Opinion Pages of the New York Times, Matthew Epperson discusses the devastating results of police acting as the primary responders to mental health crises. âIf we are to prevent future tragedies, then we should be ready to invest in a more responsive mental-health system and relieve the police of the burden of being the primary, and often sole, responders.â
“Saving Minds Along With Souls”
Tanya Luhrmann writes in the NY Times about Pastor Rick Warren's effort to "get the church directly involved with the care of people with...
âHow to Find Meaning in Sufferingâ
In Scientific American, Kasley Killam presents insights from research on âpost-traumatic growth,â highlighting the importance of finding meaning or underlying significance in our struggles and misery. âThe psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl wrote extensively about this process after observing that his fellow inmates in concentration camps were more likely to survive the horrific conditions if they held on to a sense of meaning.â
Revisiting the Rationale and Evidence for Peer Support
From Psychiatric Times:Â A recent issue featured an opinion piece by D.J. Jaffe who argued that there is little empirical support for the effectiveness of...
When Data Doesn’t Mean What We Think It Does
From The New York Times: In recent years, social scientists have become increasingly concerned about the "replication crisis," i.e. the dearth of reproducible research results....
Few Counselors Are Trained to Treat Racial Trauma
From ThinkProgress: A new study found that the majority of counselors in the United States are not prepared to identify or treat race-based trauma, which...
