Around The Web

In this episode of BBC's Panorama, reporter Sophie Hutchison investigates the troubled state of mental health services in Britain. (Available for UK residents only)

The Ohio-based Legal Examiner reviews the history of Johnson & Johnson's allegedly inappropriate - perhaps criminal - marketing of Risperdal, including pushing the drug...

In this piece for Resilient Fat Goddess, psychologist and fat activist Rachel Millner critiques the pervasiveness of fatphobia, sizeism, and weight bias within the eating...

-What would an anti-militaristic, animal-loving, non-toxic, anti-sanist neuroscience look like?

-The International Guide to the World of Alternative Mental Health has released "Codex Alternus: A Research Collection of Alternative and Complementary Treatments for Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder and Associated Drug-induced Side Effects."

From the BPS: Rufus May had a breakdown at 18 and was 'diagnosed' with 'schizophrenia.' Now a clinical psychologist, he explains his approach and what he thinks needs to change in the mental health system.

Behaviorism and Mental Health takes note of a new blog by Jeffrey Lieberman, the president of the APA, in which he claims both that...

-Nature explores our growing understanding about the risks of preterm births for the development of children's brains.

Peter Breggin reviews the research on antidepressants, in the Huffington Post, finding evidence that "any initial improvements are often followed by treatment resistance and...

In this piece, Patrick Larkin explores the impact of war on growth and human development. A study he conducted on Hmong refugees in French Guiana...

From The Mighty: "Despite lack of efficacy and the many health risks associated with these drugs, such medications often remain a first-line treatment in both...

-Emphasis on language "political correctness" on many college and university campuses may have less to do with politics than with how we process trauma.

From Big Think: "One commonality among those contemplating suicide is a lack of meaning in life. Someone doesn’t care about them, the world doesn’t...

Request for research participants on behalf of researchers at the School of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences, University of New England, Australia. The research aims to...

In this piece written in honor of World Mental Health Day, Peter Kinderman emphasizes the importance of challenging the biomedical model of mental health and paying...

From BC Provincial Health Services Authority: Dr. Gabor Maté illuminates the sources of developmental challenges, childhood and adult mental disorders, and physical health issues as originating in the prenatal, perinatal, and early childhood periods.

From Alternet: "'Just about every mental affliction is actually an adaptive response that then becomes a source of problems later on,' Maté says. 'People...

From Psyche: In Sufi shrines, rituals of attunement offer sufferers a path beyond the fear and isolation of their mental distress.

In this video for Aeon, clinical psychologist Daniel Brown discusses the ways that the construction of a fixed selfhood can limit the possibilities of our...

From Politico: "California’s conservatorship system is failing people from every walk of life...it’s painfully clear that we can and should do better," said the bill's sponsor, Assemblymember Evan Low.

-Business Insider explores some of the psychosocial factors that may be contributing to depression in the high tech industry.

Veterans with PTSD experience observable changes to the brain after mindfulness training, according to new research published in Depression and Anxiety. “The brain findings suggest...

From Narcissist Abuse Support/Sheri Heller, LCSW: Why aren’t victims more often believed, and why are facilitators of an empirical science denying the psychological reality of evil?

Bob Fiddaman writes about Janne Larsson, whose dogged journalism brought to light closely-guarded information that revealed the true extent of antidepressant-related suicides associated with...

“Tell her how you really feel: Dr. Julie Holland is asking women to embrace their inner ‘moody bitches."’   Dana Farrington at NPR discusses Holland’s...