“Hearing Voices: tracing the borders of normality”
-Rhianna Goozee discusses the development of the Hearing Voices Movement and how research has blurred the lines between "healthy" and "normal" minds.
“Thinking from the Gut”
-A Nature Supplement explores innovations in our understanding of the human microbiome, and burgeoning methods of intervention.
Revisiting the TMAP Scandal: J&J Paid Allen Frances to Develop Schizophrenia Guideline
In a commentary published in the University of Ottawa nursing journal Aporia, Paula Caplan writes about how Allen Frances and two other academic psychiatrists...
Health Privacy at Serious Risk on Web
-Nine out of ten health-related web visits result in personal health information being leaked to third parties.
“The Psychology, Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis Nexus”
-Psychologist Joachim Hagopian argues that both psychiatry and psychology as fields have come to be too much about making profits.
“Beware Return of Asylums”
-A psychologist and disability rights attorney argue that the idea of a return to building asylums is based on many false assumptions.
‘Mental Illness’: Fact or Metaphor?
-Do we mean "mental illness" literally, or as a metaphor?
Psychology Podcasts: A Clickable List
-BPS Research Digest has posted a list of podcasts that specialize in psychological themes.
“Dr. H. Otto Kaak: How Did Child Psychiatrists Become Mere Prescribers of Pills?”
-A psychiatrist discusses working with juvenile delinquents and his shock at discovering how most of the boys "were receiving four, five or even six psychiatric medications."
“How to Improve Interactions Between Police and the Mentally Ill”
-Two psychiatrists critically analyze training programs for police officers.
“Sales of ADHD Meds Are Skyrocketing. Here’s Why.”
-Mother Jones looks at drug company promotional efforts, expanded diagnostic criteria, and the appeal of amphetamines to high-performance cultures globally.
“Medicating Women’s Feelings”
-Julie Holland believes women may be biologically more prone to experience the world more emotionally, but resists the pathologizing of that.
Johnson & Johnson: 170 Years of Scandal and Fraud
-Highlights of Johnson & Johnson's many "decades of fraud and injury claims" in its pharmaceutical-related activities.
What Happens When Therapists Reveal Their Own Inner Struggles?
-Counselor and artist Sara Nash asks whether its good that she rarely shares her own experiences of inner pain when she talks to college students about suicidal ideation.
“Why Are So Many Toddlers Taking Psychiatric Drugs?”
-The Wall Street Journal asks why some 274,000 infants and 370,000 toddlers in the US are taking antianxiety sedatives and antidepressant drugs.
Risks of Preterm Births for Developing Brains
-Nature explores our growing understanding about the risks of preterm births for the development of children's brains.
“This Microchip Will Deliver Drugs in Your Body by Remote Control”
-Motherboard reports on an implantable chip that can hold hundreds of doses of drugs and be activated by remote control.
Strep Infection and Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders
-CTV's W5 news program investigates the possible links some researchers are drawing between relatively common strep throat infections and the causing of neurological or psychiatric problems in children.
I Would Have ADHD, If It Existed
-Matt Walsh insists that he's got ADHD as much as anyone has ADHD, and then makes the argument that ADHD doesn't exist.
Sunday Humor: Study Finds Therapy and Antidepressants Equally Effective At Monetizing Depression
-The Onion< reviews a new study that finds gold in them thar patients.
Assisted Outpatient Treatment in Orange County is So Far All Voluntary
-Four months into the implementation of "Laura's Law" for Assisted Outpatient Treatment, everyone offered extra services has chosen to use them voluntarily.
“BDSM: Psychotherapy’s Grey Area”
-Tania Glyde discusses the difficulties that people who participate in alternative sexual practices have being understood by mental health professionals.
“You Can’t Play 20 Questions With Nature and Win”
-Does psychology need to develop a fundamentally different scientific strategy?
Reports of the Death of Psychiatric Drug Research Have Been Exaggerated
-Forbes reports on the "boom" in psychiatric drug research that is going on, after a short period where onlookers were claiming that pharmaceutical companies were leaving the business.
“Recovery, Not Progressive Illness, Should Be the Expectation in Schizophrenia”
-Two Canadian psychiatrists argue that the body of scientific evidence about schizophrenia shows that it is not a progressive illness and therefore we should have much higher expectations of full recoveries than we do.
