Trial Over Suicide and Texting Lays Bare Pain of 2 Teenagers
From The New York Times: Michelle Carter, a 20-year-old woman, is currently being tried for urging her boyfriend to kill himself via text message. According to...
With Great Health Data Comes Great Potential for Bias
From Pacific Standard: Technology is increasingly collecting and sharing data on individuals' mental and physical health, which is then converted into useable knowledge, such as recommendations about...
Science is Broken
In this piece for Aeon, Siddhartha Roy and Marc A. Edwards explore how increasingly perverse incentives and the academic business model are affecting scientific practices and...
Your Pills Are Spying On You
From Pacific Standard: The new Abilify MyCite pill, which contains a digital sensor that tracks whether a patient has ingested the drug, has the potential...
Psychiatrist’s Depression Shapes His Treatment of Young People
From The Washington Post: "I try not to blame people: the children and young people who have so often been blamed for their own...
Antidepressant Adviser to UK Gov’t Quits After Conflict of Interest Row
From The BMJ: " Baldwin was the Royal College of Psychiatristsâ representative on , which was set up to review the potential effects of...
“Why is Depression Incidence Increasing?”
-Was life better in the past, or is there some other reason depression is increasing?
Fake Scottish Psychiatrist May Have Prescribed ECT
From The Scotsman: Zholia Alemi worked in the NHS for 22 years despite having no qualifications. Some of her patients were sectioned or 'groomed' to gain access to their finances.
Big Pharma and AMA Respond to John Oliver
WSJ Pharmalot links to comedian John Oliver's satirical criticism of marketing in medicine, and provides responses from the Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America and the American Medical Association.
How a Parentâs Affection Shapes a Childâs Happiness for Life
From Motherly: A number of recent studies highlight the relationship between parental affection and childrenâs happiness and success.
Professionals and ECT Recipients Request Suspension of ECT in NHS
From The University of East London: They hope that by this time next year, the UK will be the first country to finally put an end to this well-intentioned but calamitous error.
Collective Action for Collective Healing – A Q&A With Thomas HĂźbl
From The Harvard Gazette: "Underneath trauma thereâs always healing, which means an ethical restoration and ethical upgrade. Post-traumatic growth is an ethical realignment."
How Norway is Offering Drug-Free Treatment to People With Psychosis
From the BBC: In Norway, the government has taken decisive action to try and improve the lives of people with psychosis by giving them more power over their lives.
âIt Was Devastatingâ: What Happens When Therapy Makes Things Worse?
From The Guardian: There is very little mainstream discussion about transgressive and abusive therapists, and even less about well-meaning therapists who are inadvertently damaging.
A Politics of Care: How the Science of ACEs Deepens Our Emotional Vocabulary
From SuzanneZeedyk.com: In the 21st century, we find ourselves at the very beginning of a public consciousness of the âcatastrophic burdenâ of emotional poverty.
Do You Still Believe in the âChemical Imbalance Theory of Mental Illnessâ? | Bruce...
From CounterPunch: If you took SSRI antidepressants believing that these drugs helped correct a chemical imbalance, how does it feel to learn that this theory has long been disproven?
The Failure to Acknowledge Contributions of “Non-Professionals” in Psychiatric Research
In an essay published in Research Ethics, Will Hall writes about contributions by "non-professionals" and psychiatric survivors to research studies -- such a drug-tapering...
“John Oliver blasts pharmaâs role in U.S. opioid epidemic”
âAs of 2015, an estimated 2.6 million Americans were addicted toâ opioids, Oliver noted, citing SAMHSA numbers. âAnd theyâre now involved in almost 30,000 overdose deaths a...
âSuffering from the Symptoms of Neoliberalismâ
In this podcast with the New Books Network, author Paul Verhaeghe discusses his book, âWhat About Me?: The Struggle for Identity in a Market-Based...
Abilify Drives Users to Binge on Risky Behaviors
From Daily Mail: The anti-psychotic drug Abilify is at the center of hundreds of lawsuits accusing the drug of dangerous side effects including compulsive gambling,...
How Avocados and Nuts Could Boost Intelligence
From Medical News Today: A new study suggests that higher levels of monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFAs) in the bloodstream are correlated with greater general intelligence in...
“Child Who Just Lost Balloon Begins Lifelong Battle With Depression” (The Onion)
The humor newspaper The Onion satirizes the conversion of transient human emotions into lifelong illnesses, reporting that "Shortly after losing grip of a helium-filled...
Treating the Lifelong Harm of Childhood Trauma
From The New York Times: Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, who has emerged as one of the country's strongest voices calling for a national public health...
Rats Choose Social Life over Drugs
A classic experiment demonstrated that rats who had access to a full social life clearly chose not to ingest opiates, if given the choice,...
“Story of Antipsychotics is one of Myth and Misrepresentation”
Joanna Moncrieff, author of "The Bitterest Pills," recounts the history of antipsychotics, concluding "The way antipsychotics have been misrepresented, their benefits inflated, their dangers...
