Workplace Bullying may be Linked to Long-Term Health Issues
From Psychological Science: A recent study shows that workplace bullying is associated with significant mental health and physical health problems for employees, including longer sick leaves...
DARPA’s Brain Chip Implants: Breakthrough or Total Disaster?
From Gizmodo: Some researchers believe that deep brain stimulation - a surgical procedure involving the implantation of electrodes that send electrical signals to specific areas...
Potential Dangers and Dubious History of Alternative Medicine
From MinnPost: Two recent articles have exposed some of the potentially dangerous effects of alternative treatments including homeopathy and acupuncture, as well as corruption in...
Patient Advocacy Groups Accept Drug Industry Funds
From The New York Times: A new study has found that more than 80 percent of the nation's patient advocacy groups accept funding from drug...
Your Brain as Laboratory: The Science of Meditation
In this guest blog for Scientific American, John Yates explores the ways that many meditation practices qualify as science.
"In the history of meditation practices that qualify...
How Brain Scientists Forgot That Brains Have Owners
From The Atlantic: Five neuroscientists have published a new paper arguing that the field of neuroscience has become too focused on technology and has de-prioritized the...
Major National Newspaper Looking for Drug Withdrawal Stories
From the Council for Evidence-Based Psychiatry: A major national newspaper is looking for people in the UK willing to share recent stories of negative effects...
Girls’s Powerful Insight on Trauma
From The Atlantic: A recent episode of the TV show Girls renders a poignant portrayal of gender-based violence and explores the individual and collective impact of...
The Role of Pets in Supporting People Living with Mental Distress
From The Mental Elf: Recent research confirms what many animal lovers already know - that pets can play a major role in improving people's mental...
Bill Could Make Drug Use Criteria for Involuntary Commitment
From U.S. News & World Report: New Hampshire legislators are debating a bill that would make opioid use criteria for involuntary commitment to a psychiatric...
6-Year-old Boy Committed to a Psych Ward
From BuzzFeed News: A six-year-old boy in Jacksonville, Florida was recently committed to a psychiatric institution for throwing a temper tantrum in school. There, he...
The Long History of Discrimination in Pain Medicine
From The Atlantic: Throughout history, doctors have often stigmatized and discounted patients suffering from pain without visible injury. The rise of X-rays and other "objective"...
The Dangers of Using the Club Drug Ketamine for Depression
From TIME: The club drug ketamine has been found in some small studies to help treat people categorized as having treatment-resistant depression. However, while ketamine has...
The Psychiatrist who Wanted to Make Madness Normal
From BBC: RD Laing, Scotland's most famous psychiatrist who has been revered as the "high priest of anti-psychiatry," is the subject of a new film called Mad...
A Study of Adolescent Depression That Doesn’t Make Sense
In this blog post for Quick Thoughts, James Coyne debunks a recent study in Lancet Psychiatry claiming that teens accessing mental health services experience a greater decrease in...
Moms Reach $6.2-million Settlement in Paxil Lawsuit
From The Province: Mothers alleging that taking Paxil during pregnancy caused heart problems for their children have reached a settlement of $6.2-million with GlaxoSmithKline U.K.
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Physical Restraint in Mental Health Units is Traumatising Women
From The Guardian: Recent research shows that one in five women and girls are physically restrained in mental health settings in England. There were nearly...
We Need to pay Better Attention to Medication Side Effects
From KevinMD.com: Doctors often fail to recognize that their patients' symptoms are side effects of medication.
"Cognitive dissonance, a universal human phenomenon, is based on the assumption...
Changing the Stories we Tell Ourselves can Change our Lives
In this piece for The Nerdy Herbalist, one woman shares the way that framing her mood experiences as dangerous gifts, not symptoms or disorders, has impacted...
In a Traumatised World, is Psychedelic Therapy our Best Hope?
From VolteFace Magazine: MDMA-assisted psychotherapy can play a major role in helping people heal from the effects of trauma.
"The results really are incredible and Iâve had...
Madness and Wisdom
This IAI TV video explores the subject of madness, posing the question: might madness be a strange form of wisdom?
The Bughouse: the Poetry, Politics, and Madness of Ezra Pound
From The Guardian: Daniel Swift's book The Bughouse renders a poignant account of poet Ezra Pound's years spent in a psychiatric institution.
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I was Forced to Choose Between an Abortion or a Mental Hospital
In this personal essay for MarieClaire, one woman shares her story of being locked up in a mental hospital for refusing to have an abortion.
How a True-Crime Podcast is a Mental-Health Support Group
From The Atlantic: A true-crime podcast has played an important role in improving some listeners' mental health and sense of community.
"Thereâs a deeper connection, however,...
Good News, Cats Don’t Cause Mental Health Problems
From USA Today: New research has disproved a previous study's suggestion that having cats in the home is linked to mental health problems. The new study...
