âThe Feeling That Expands Time and Increases Well-Beingâ
PsyBlog presents research on the experience of awe. âThat jaw-dropping moment when coming across something surprising, powerful, beautiful or even sublime can have a transformative effect, they find.â
âNew Jersey Psychology Practice Revealed Patientsâ Mental Disorders in Debt Lawsuitsâ
Pro Publica and the NY Times collaborate on an investigative report revealing loopholes in HIPAA laws that allow providers to release the mental health...
âHow James Bond is Helping Mental Health Diagnosisâ
âThe paper, The  psychopathology of James Bond, and its implications for the revision of the DSM-007, has just won first prize in the Australian Medical Journal's...
âWatching Too Much TV in Your 20s May Impact How Your Brain Works in...
The Washington Post reports on a new study in JAMA Psychiatry that shows that watching more than 3 hours of television a day in...
âWhy Ted Cruzâs Plan to Overhaul the FDA Would Jeopardize Public Healthâ
"To be sure, the FDA review process is not perfect. What is? But the agency is still considered the gold standard by which other...
âPsychologist: Telling Your Child About Santaâ
âCan Santa blur the divide between fantasy and reality and, as a result, delay a childâs cognitive development?â
âWhy Does Psychiatry So Often Get a Free Pass on Standards of Evidence?â
Rob Wipond takes HealthNewsReview.org to task for its coverage of a Philadelphia Inquirer article about a medical device designed for people experiencing panic. He writes that âhyperbolic psychiatric and psychological claims frequently get free passes from otherwise thoughtful medical critics.â
âAs Opioid Deaths Reach Record High, Drug Industry Resists Efforts to Rein in Prescriptionsâ
âIn 2014, the number of people who died from drug overdoses in the United States reached 47,055 â an all-time high, according to a disturbing report published Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),â but âthe effort to get physicians to curb their prescribing of these drugs may be faltering amid stiff resistance from drugmakers, industry-funded groups and, now, even other public health officials.â
âThe Free Will of Ebenezer Scroogeâ
Philosopher Richard Kamber discusses what Dickensâ tale of Scrooge in A Christmas Carol can add to our discussions of free will in the present....
âChildren Today Suffer From a Deficit of Playâ
Boston College Psychologist Peter Gray writes for Aeon about the impact of the gradual erosion of childrenâsâ play in the United States. âOver the...
âA Force Awakened: Why So Many Find Meaning in Star Warsâ
Star Wars taps into some fundamental facets of the human condition and tells mythic and religious stories, Professor Patti McCarthy explains for The Conversation....
âStudy on âBah Humbug Syndromeâ Offers Cautionary Taleâ
âThroughout the world, we estimate that millions of people are prone to displaying Christmas spirit deficiencies after many years of celebrating Christmas,â write the...
Failure to Report, Patients at Riskâ
"A STAT investigation finds that âMost research institutions â including leading universities and hospitals in addition to drug companies â routinely break a law that requires...
âWhen Pills Are the Problemâ
In the context of the Silicon Valley suicides, one mother offers her story about her daughter. âItâs my premise that not only the culture of Silicon Valley, but also, almost more importantly, the nature of the remedies that are being proposed in the name of mental health counseling, are to blame in these deaths.â
âHospitals Want to Test Drug with No Consentâ
âA group of Boston doctors is proposing to join a study that would provide emergency treatment for brain-injured patients without obtaining the trauma victimsâ...
âA Compassionate Approach Leads to More Help, Less Punishmentâ
âPublished in the journal PLoS ONE, a new set of studies suggests that compassionâand intentionally cultivating it through trainingâmay lead us to do more to help the wronged than to punish the wrongdoer. Researchers found compassion may also impact the extent to which people punish the transgressor.â
Canadian Institute of Health Identifies Provinces Overprescribing Antipsychotics
âA new study is giving insight into how long-term care patients in the province are progressing â or, in some cases, worsening â over time. It found those living in central Newfoundland are more likely to be given antipsychotic drugs they don't need.â
Critical Psychiatry: Importance of Interviewing
For the Critical Psychiatry blog, Duncan Double writes that psychological formulation and psychosocial assessment may provide a way forward to a ânew psychiatryâ that moves on from modern concepts of mental illness as chemical imbalance or some other abnormality of the brain.
“Culturally Specific Treatment Center Knows That One Approach Doesnât Work for All”
"What was going on inside Turning Point was an experiment: a community-based treatment center designed to serve low-income African-Americans. After a few bumpy early...
âHow Terror Hardens Usâ
âWe Americans are living through a dread-inducing age,â Jessica Stern writes in the âTimes, and our feelings of vulnerability have psychological and political consequences. Terror Management Theory, âwhich suggests that much of human behavior is motivated by an unconscious terror of death,â provides an explanation for the xenophobia and culture wars that often follow the dread of an attack.
âPersonalized Medicine: A Faustian Bargain?â
In a guest blog for the Scientific American, Eleonore Pauwels and Jim Drawta write about the âdark side of the data revolution âthe successor to the Industrial Revolution, with personal data as the new coal, oil or shale gas to be extracted or traded away, enshrined in an updated Faustian pact.â
âWhy San Bernardino Polarized America and What It Means for Our Political Futureâ
What does the psychology of terror mean for Americaâs future? Social psychologist Daniel Kort weighs in on what the science of terror management theory, behavioral economics, and political polarization can tell us about where weâre headed.
âWhen PTSD Is Contagiousâ
âTherapists and other people who help victims of trauma can become traumatized themselves.â Aaron Reuben writes in The Atlantic. âHearing stories of suffering, in other words, can generate more suffering.â
âHelping Others Dampens the Effects of Everyday Stressâ
"The holiday season can be a very stressful time, so think about giving directions, asking someone if they need help, or holding that elevator...
âForensic Psychiatric Patients and Staff View the Effects of âMental Illnessâ Differentlyâ
âOffenders sentenced to forensic psychiatric care do not consider their mental illness to be the main reason for their crime. Instead, they point to abuse, poverty or anger toward a particular person.â
