ISEPP Offers Critiques of Mainstream “Mental Illness” News Items
The International Society for Ethical Psychiatry & Psychology, an organization whose mission is to the use standards of scientific inquiry to address the ethics...
Health Professionals Must Fight a Trump Administration Expansion of Torture
Psychologist Stephen Soldz writes for STAT: "It was profoundly distressing to hear Donald Trump on the campaign trail vowing a return to abusing prisoners...
“Prisoners or Patients?” NJ Psych Hospitals Restrict Patient Rights
As of Jan. 1, visitors at New Jersey's state psychiatric hospitals can no longer bring in food, beverages or items to patients. The new policy also prohibits...
FDA Memo Rebuffs Many Suggestions for Expanding Off-label Marketing
"After weeks of anticipation, the FDA has issued a lengthy memo about the extent to which so-called off-label information about medicines may be disseminated...
STAT on Changes Coming Under President Trump
On Trump's Inauguration Day, STAT reporters discuss the biggest questions surrounding his administration's impact on healthcare and science policy. "Will improvements in patient care...
“I Didn’t Believe I had an Eating Disorder. But the Threat of Forced Feeding...
In this opinion piece for STAT, Carrie Arnold wades into the ethical debate over forced treatment in a case that "has set off a firestorm...
“Final decision? Why the Brain Keeps on Changing its Mind”
For Aeon, neuroscientist Stephen Fleming, discusses new studies attempting to understand the process through which 'changing one's mind' occurs in the brain. "Psychologists have long...
Is Schizophrenia Associated with Brain Volume Changes Independently of Medication?
Duncan Double, on his Critical Psychiatry blog, published a series of posts exploring the effects of antipsychotics on brain volume and the contention that...
“Forced Treatment is not the way: Opposing View”
Psychiatrist Dan Fisher's "opposing view" in USA Today makes the case — from a mental health perspective — against repealing the Affordable Care Act, which has...
“Update Psychiatric Diagnosis Procedures so They are Accountable & Evidence-Based”
"Psychiatry is under criticism for its subjectivity and unaccountability. Brief crises are defined as lifelong conditions. There is no recognition of this ambiguity. Complaints...
“How I Cope With the Three Unwanted Voices That Live Inside my Head”
What now? I’m frightened of being labelled mentally ill.
“Whitewashing a Black Box Warning: The Chantix Story That Didn’t get Told”
"The decision to remove the Chantix black box warning had its roots in a study known as the EAGLES trial, which was mandated by...
“The Addiction Habit”
For aeon, neuroscientist and psychologist Marc Lewis declares, “Addiction changes the brain but it's not a disease that can be cured with medicine. In...
“The Overhyping of Precision Medicine”
For The Atlantic, Nathaniel Comfort writes: “In our particular moment, biology is the king, and the perennial desire for simple solutions to complex problems...
Stripped of False Realities: Americans’ Political “Psychotic Break”
Bruce Levine, writing to MIA about his popular story on Counterpunch yesterday, wrote "It's basically a politics/election piece, which is why I didn't post...
Living in a ‘Mental Hospital’: Your Stories
The Atlantic invites readers to share their personal experiences in "mental hospitals." If you have your own to share, send them a note at [email protected].
“Trump is Considering a Radical to Lead FDA. That’s Dangerous for Public Health”
For STAT, Ed Silverman writes, “the incoming Trump administration may seek to undo a decades-old standard of evaluating drugs for effectiveness — to the detriment of...
“Carl Elliot Challenges J&J Ethics Prize”
“It’s like giving Strom Thurmond a civil rights prize, or Wells Fargo an award for business ethics,” said Dr. Carl Elliott, a bioethicist at...
“Is STAT tone-deaf in accepting PhRMA sponsorship?”
Gary Schwitzer from the Health News Review questions STAT news’ decision to accept a sponsorship deal from PhRMA. “As highly as I think of...
“Stop The 21st Century Cures Act”
For more than 40 years, Public Citizen has fought to keep dangerous drugs and medical devices off the market. Each year, millions of patients...
“Some Drugs Won’t Help Most of Those Who Take Them”
“It’s the biggest secret in medicine,” said F. Perry Wilson, a researcher and physician at Yale University School of Medicine. “For the vast majority of...
“Medicine’s ‘Biggest Secret’: Number-Needed-to-Treat”
From MinnPost: “It’s Disney World versus the real world,” Dr. David Juurlink, a professor of medicine at the University of Toronto who studies drug safety,...
“Why Some Psychologists Are Ignoring Practice Guidelines”
A series of interviews with 11 clinical psychologists, published in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, sheds new light on the scepticism and concern felt towards NICE guidelines, and...
“Living in a Mental Hospital: Your Stories”
The Atlantic asks readers to share their personal experiences of psychiatric hospitals. Stories can be submitted to [email protected].
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