Extreme States with Michael Cornwall, PhD | Jung and the World
From Jung and the World: Jungian psychotherapist Michael Cornwall talks about his experience helping clients through extreme states (psychosis) for over 40 years.
The Dangers of Being Too Nice | Gabor MateĚ, MD
From Way of Thinking: The irresolvable tension between authenticity and attachment that many children in our society are faced with results in their self-suppression. And one possible outcome is the development of niceness as a coping mechanism.
Finding Mental Health – #SolutionsWatch | The Corbett Report with Bruce Levine
From The Corbett Report: What is mental health and how can we achieve it? Is it only to be found in a trip to the psychiatrist's office and a prescription for a Big Pharma medication?
7 Patients Sue Arkansas Psychiatrist for False Imprisonment
From Insider: "The scheme is this: Get as many patients in the door as possible, keep them there for as long as possible â even if that means illegally keeping them beyond the 72-hour hold, and holding them against their will," said an attorney working on the case.
Nearly All Hospital Websites Send Tracking Data to Third Parties
From MedPage Today: "Imagine you were browsing a hospital website for something related to your health, and you had [16 or 20 people] looking over your shoulder," said researcher Matthew McCoy, PhD.
‘Your Consent Is Not Required’: When Psychiatric Treatment Isnât Voluntary
From Psychology Today: Forced 'treatment' is on the rise in North America, but an exhaustive new study finds that it does not actually improve mental health.
Cultural Co-dependency | Barry and Janae Weinhold
From The Weinholds: When people don't feel safe to feel their feelings, when they're not able to identify what their needs are, it keeps them feeling disconnected, lonely, afraid, and looking for an authority figure.
âDominatorâ vs. âPartnershipâ Cultures: A Profound Re-Telling of Human History
From Jordan Bates: The 'dominator' model of social organization permeates most aspects of modern life, causing pain, repression, and alienation. But it wasn't always this way.
Pharmed Out Podcast: Paying Attention to ADHD Diagnosis and Treatment in Children
On the latest Pharmanipulation podcast, hosts Dr. Adriane Fugh-Berman and Caroline Renko interview psychologist Dr. Gretchen LeFever Watson and journalist Robert Whitaker about the...
Services Needed for People Withdrawing From Antidepressants
From Psychology Today/John Read, PhD: A new study documents the dissatisfaction of 1,200 patients with their doctor's knowledge and expertise regarding antidepressant withdrawal.
The Delusions of Western Medicine
From Terry Baranski/Healing the Self: Western Medicine is firmly entrenched in three fundamental ideologies when it comes to chronic mental and physical pathology: A disease-based perspective, symptom-focused treatment, and mind/body separation.
Trauma Can Turn the World Into a Gathering of Aliens
From CPTSD Foundation: If I were to fit into one âlabel,â then it would definitely be that of complex trauma, as âcomplexâ is my middle name, I have been told.
Colonial Psychology: The Psychology We All Recognize
From Psychology Today: Psychology is dominated by a worldview most of the world does not have. Its premises are considered myths from the standpoint of Indigenous psychology.
Elon Muskâs First Bid to Test Brain Chips in Humans Rejected by FDA, Citing...
From Reuters: Musk said his company Neuralink, which is one of over a dozen companies developing brain implants, will make the paralyzed walk, the blind see and eventually turn people into cyborgs.
Doctor, Do I Still Need This Medication? An Introduction to Deprescribing
Dr. Emily G. McDonald of the Canadian Deprescribing Network gives a grand rounds presentation on polypharmacy, medication overload and deprescribing.
In Florida, Showing Mental Health Struggles Could Get a Child Detained
From The Washington Post: Under the Baker Act, kindergarteners can be forcibly committed to psych centers for exams. Advocates say the process is traumatic without being helpful.
What We Know About Irvo Otieno and the 10 People Charged in His Death
From CNN: Civil rights attorney Ben Crump said the video is a "commentary on how inhumane law enforcement officials treat people who are having a mental health crisis as criminals rather than treating them as people who are in need of help."
Virginia Deputies Charged With Murder in Man’s Death at Mental Hospital
From AP: Family and attorneys say Irvo Otieno, 28, was subjected to brutal treatment at a local jail and then at the state hospital where he died during the admission process.
Review of Efficacy of Antidepressant-withdrawal Interventions
Peter Gøtzsche and Maryanne Demasi review efficacy of "interventions to help people withdraw from depression drugs."
Activist Judy Heumann Led a Reimagining of What It Means to be Disabled
From NPR: Heumann was a major American civil rights hero who was working to spread knowledge of disability civil rights to the moment she died earlier this month at age 75.
Diode | A Narrative About a Mental Journey by Karen Hudes
From Thomas Pynchon: Atmospheric forces channel suddenly through the individual, the release point of a larger, pressured system. At the moment of crisis, all attention goes to the diode.
Regarding the Quote âIt Is No Measure of Health…’
From Krishnamurti Foundation Trust: and Charles Eisenstein: Itâs not because there is something wrong with you that you canât make yourself get with the program. Itâs that there is something wrong with the program.
Internal Review Found âFalsified Dataâ in Stanford Presidentâs Alzheimerâs Research
From The Stanford Daily: Colleagues say Marc Tessier-Lavigne tried to keep hidden the findings of an inquiry into his 2009 Nature paper that had made a splash in the Alzheimer's research world.
How the Interpersonal Model Explains, and Heals, Mental Pain | James Barnes
From Aeon: In order to understand and heal mental distress, we must see our minds as existing in relationships, not inside our heads.
BJGP Publishes Advice for GPs on Withdrawing From SSRI Antidepressants
From IIPDW: This is an important moment as the journal is widely read by GPs, who are the main prescribers of SSRI antidepressants in the UK.
