This Mental Health Doc-Opera is Exactly What We Need
From HuffPost: Mental health activist and filmmaker Ken Paul Rosenthal has teamed up with the musician Madigan Shive to create a musical documentary called Whisper Rapture:...
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.
Why Everyone Should Watch 13 Reasons Why
From Mindbodygreen: The new Netflix series 13 Reasons Why portrays poignant and important truths about the causes of teen suicide, including the prevalence of bullying and...
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...
The Art of Madness
In this piece for The Paris Review, Cody Delistraty details the French painter Jean Dubuffet's efforts to collect artwork made by people deemed mentally ill...
I’m Sorry I Was Being So Crazy While You Treated Me Like Shit
From Reductress: "Let me just start this by saying I am so sorry I have been acting so crazy lately; I don’t know what’s gotten...
To the Bone: The Trouble With Anorexia on Film
From The Atlantic: The new Netflix film To the Bone, which tells the story of a woman's struggle with anorexia, reflects our culture's morbid fascination and...
“Study on ‘Bah Humbug Syndrome’ Offers Cautionary Tale”
“Throughout the world, we estimate that millions of people are prone to displaying Christmas spirit deficiencies after many years of celebrating Christmas,” write the...
Sunday Humor: Inside the Human Brain Project Launch
-A short video feature of an interview with a Neuroscience Laboratory Manager talking about the Human Brain Project.
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...
The Truth is Out There: The Philosophy of the X-Files
From Big Think: The X-Files, a popular TV show from the 1990's, explores the philosophy of science, delving into questions about what constitutes quality science. While one...
“New Anti-Drug Program Teaches Teens To Resist Psychiatrist’s Constant Pressure To Use Drugs”
The satirical news site the Onion took aim at psychiatrists and overprescribing to children and adolescents last week with this headline. “A lot of...
“Dear Disability or Disease…” — What Would You Write?
-Julio Salazar shares a letter that he addresses to his "PTSD, OCD and Depression," and invites others to submit theirs.
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...
Sunday Satire or Not? Nostalgia Disorder & the Future of Psychiatric Innovation
-A satirical post about "nostalgia disorder" by a medical student looks a lot like the real thing.
The ONION: “New Antidepressant Makes Friends’ Problems Seem Worse”
“This drug allows depressed patients to concentrate exclusively on their friends’ troubles and mentally magnify them, enabling them to, for example, construe an insignificant...
“Best Antidepressant Ever: Squeaking Adorable Baby Otters”
"This video will make your heart melt with cuteness."
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“This Needs to Stop”
Electroshock survivor Nancy Rubstein and professor, author, and antipsychiatry theorist Dr. Bonnie Burstow were recently interviewed for CTV News Channel about Dr. Burstow's new book, The...
“’Spectre’ Villain Fails Neuroanatomy in Latest Bond Film”
Neurosurgeon Dr. Michael Cusimano published a commentary in Nature explaining that the latest Bond villain placed his robotic drill in the wrong location in his attempt to destroy 007’s memory of faces.
The Empathy Machine
From Aeon: We typically think of empathy as an emotions-based state that involves feeling another's distress or joy. However, cognitive, rationalist empathy involving reasoned perspective-taking may...
The Mad Music of Seeing Sounds and Hearing Light
-Paintings by an artist who has synesthesia, and a study that found no brain-based evidence to support it being a "disorder."
Reading Suggestions for Bibliotherapy
From Notes From a Typewriter: Bibliotherapy, i.e., the use of books in coping with emotional distress, can be a great source of comfort and support.
"Reading is...
Birthday Letter: Sylvia Plath and “Daddy”
In this piece for The Paris Review, Belinda McKeon analyzes the poetry and letters Sylvia Plath wrote in the few months just before her suicide.
Sunday Humor: The Abilify Umbrella, Second by Second
Pointless Planet breaks down an animated YouTube commercial for the antipsychotic medication Abilify, and provides commentary on the visual story second by second.
"A depressed...
“Stop Calling Trump ‘Crazy.’ It Demeans Those With Mental Illness.”
Patrick Kennedy writes in the Washington Post "we ought to stop casually throwing around terms like 'crazy' in this campaign and our daily lives. The president of...
