Sunday Music: “Even Out of Severe Depression There Comes Insight”
Maria Popova provides some excerpts about music, madness and therapy from the new book, Joni Mitchell: In Her Own Words, from the iconic Canadian...
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...
Peter Gøtzsche Tells Daily Show, Big Pharma Like Drug Cartels
MIA Foreign Correspondent Peter Gøtzsche, author of the book Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime, was interviewed on Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon...
Sunday Exhibit: Photos of Abandoned Asylums
UK photographer Mark Davis spent six years traveling to abandoned former Victorian-era mental institutions and researching their histories and photographing them for his new...
Sunday Oddity: Psychotropic Drug Ads from the Past
Misbehaving children, anxious housewives, and a man's happy Quaalude-created morning with his family highlight a random collection of psychotropic drug advertisements from the past...
Sunday Oddity: Stats on Psych Drugs in Hip Hop
Project Know, an addiction education website, has a graphical statistical analysis of mentions of different types of drugs in hip hop music from 1988...
Sunday Humor: Comedian Maria Bamford
New York Times Magazine has published a portrait of Maria Bamford including a video interview and clips from her comedy shows and television appearances....
Sunday Humor: “Choosing Wisely” Helps You Dance More With Fewer Meds
University of British Columbia pharmaceutical science professor James McCormack and his band's latest music video turns Pharrell's Williams' hit "Happy" into "Choosing Wisely," a...
Sunday Humor: Arguments for “Chemical Imbalance Not Otherwise Specified”
Dr. Methodius Isaac Bonkers of the Bonkers Institute for Nearly Genuine Research puts forth a series of partially incomplete and generally imprecise arguments in...
