Big Pharma and AMA Respond to John Oliver
WSJ Pharmalot links to comedian John Oliver's satirical criticism of marketing in medicine, and provides responses from the Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America and the American Medical Association.
I’m Sorry I Was Being So Crazy While You Treated Me Like Shit
FromĀ Reductress: "Let me just start this by saying I am so sorry I have been acting so crazy lately; I donāt know whatās gotten...
Peter GĆøtzsche Tells Daily Show, Big Pharma Like Drug Cartels
MIA Foreign Correspondent Peter GĆøtzsche, author of the book Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime, was interviewed on Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon...
‘Take Your Pills’ is a Fascinating Look at the Adderall Craze
FromĀ The Michigan Daily: Netflix's new documentary "Take Your Pills" examines the historical, cultural, social, and systemic factors that have shaped the ever-increasing rates of...
Art and Images in Psychiatry
Between 2002 and 2014,Ā JAMA PsychiatryĀ published monthly essays by Dr. James C. Harris exploring the role of visual arts in representing emotional distress, trauma, life...
Psychological Misconceptions in Movies and TV Shows
This piece forĀ The Learning ScientistsĀ lists five misconceptions about psychology and the mind that are commonly portrayed in television and film.
The Other Mrs. Smith Will Shock and Move You
FromĀ The Vancouver Sun: Bonnie Burstow's recently released bookĀ The Other Mrs. Smith is not only an accurate portrayal of the horrific consequences of ECT but...
Why Everyone Should Watch 13 Reasons Why
FromĀ Mindbodygreen: The new Netflix seriesĀ 13 Reasons Why portrays poignant and important truths about the causes of teen suicide, including the prevalence of bullying and...
FDA Approves Drug for the Annoyingly Cheerful (The Onion)
FromĀ The Onion: "Made by Pfizer, Despondex is the first drug designed to treat the symptoms of excessive perkiness."
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Birthday Letter: Sylvia Plath and “Daddy”
In this pieceĀ forĀ The Paris Review, Belinda McKeon analyzes the poetry and letters Sylvia Plath wrote in the few months just before her suicide.
āDavid Bowie, Psychosis and Positive Nonconformityā
For MinnPost, Susan Perry discusses the late singer-songwriter and actor David Bowie and his experiences with psychosis. She highlights the work of psychologist Vaughan Bell, who details how Bowieās family history of psychosis is reflected in his work, and Stephanie Pappas, explaining āwhy Bowieās positive expression of nonconformity has helped so many people who feel like misfits.ā
“This Needs to Stop”
Electroshock survivor Nancy Rubstein and professor, author, and antipsychiatry theorist Dr. Bonnie Burstow were recently interviewed forĀ CTV News Channel about Dr. Burstow's new book,Ā The...
This Mental Health Doc-Opera is Exactly What We Need
FromĀ HuffPost: Mental health activist and filmmaker Ken Paul Rosenthal has teamed up with the musician Madigan Shive to create a musical documentary calledĀ Whisper Rapture:...
Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: ‘The Mind of God’
FromĀ The New York Times: In his new bookĀ The Mind of God, neurologist Jay Lombard uses his experience studying neuroscience to discuss philosophical and spiritual...
To the Bone: The Trouble With Anorexia on Film
FromĀ The Atlantic: The new Netflix filmĀ To the Bone, which tells the story of a woman's struggle with anorexia, reflects our culture's morbid fascination and...
Saturday Night Dancing: DSM-5 Goes Disco
Hotly dressed student dancers back up wigged-out, wobbling psychiatrist and neuroscientist Stephen Stahl in a tightly sung take on the BeeGees' hit Stayin' Alive...
A Glimpse Into the Brain, Drawn by the Father of Neuroscience
FromĀ 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...
Reading Suggestions for Bibliotherapy
FromĀ Notes From a Typewriter: Bibliotherapy, i.e.,Ā the use of books in coping with emotional distress, can be a great source of comfort and support.
"Reading is...
Pharma CEO Says he can Stop Profiting off Opioid Epidemic
FromĀ The Onion: "Visibly trembling as he wiped beads of perspiration from his forehead, Arcelis Pharmaceuticals CEO Paul Corrier told reporters Wednesday that he could...
Irish Teen Seeking Abortion Put In Mental Hospital (The Onion)
FromĀ The Onion:Ā āThank God that in America our mental health facilities are too poorly funded for something like this to happen.ā
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Webinar Discussion – Rethinking Madness
A free recordingĀ of last week's webinar anchored to Phil Borges'Ā Crazywise, a documentary exploring alternative approaches to mental health, is now available. Over 4,000 people...
Sunday Humor: British Medical Journal’s Annual Christmas Issue
The British Medical Journal's annual Christmas issue includes a paper examining the relative idiocy of the genders based on twenty years of the Darwin...
When You Start Paying Attention to Everyday Sensory Experience
FromĀ Aeon: A new video aims to capture the small, abstract moments that make up our inner lives, that would otherwise go ignored or quickly...
Friends, Family Waiting for Manās Depression to Subside
FromĀ The Onion: "Fearing that in his current state he was too fragile to withstand the harsh criticism they wished to level at him, friends...
It’s Easy to Get Caught Up in Constructing Our Selves
In this video forĀ Aeon, clinical psychologist Daniel Brown discusses the ways that the construction of a fixed selfhood can limit the possibilities of our...
