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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...

A classic experiment demonstrated that rats who had access to a full social life clearly chose not to ingest opiates, if given the choice,...

Joanna Moncrieff, author of "The Bitterest Pills," recounts the history of antipsychotics, concluding "The way antipsychotics have been misrepresented, their benefits inflated, their dangers...

Compulsory psychiatric treatment of people accused of dissent has fallen from its former prevalence in Russia, with laws passed after the breakup of the...

From STUFF: More than half of antidepressant users had withdrawal when stopping the medication and a third reported addiction issues, a study finds. Only one per...

-Facebook has made it easier for users to report posts from people who seem to be in psychological distress, but not everyone likes the plan.

From Stuff: Again and again, homeless people tell their story to officials and agencies. The most common thing they get back, new research suggests, is a script for anti-depressants.

From the Pete Earley blog: Jaffe’s agenda, at its very core, was built upon disdain for those of us who have struggled in life.

By Lubomir Arsov: Embark on a visionary journey through the fragmented unconscious of our modern times, and with courage face the Shadow. Through Shadow into Light.

From MedPage Today: The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing Thursday on policing and behavioral health, as calls for defunding the police increase and as people in mental crisis are 16 times more likely to be killed during a police encounter.

Psychologist William Copeland writes for Mental Health Recovery that “bullying can occur at any age and the effects of which remain harmful long after the behavior has been endured.” “We, as a society, are just beginning to understand and come to terms with the havoc that bullying wreaks on the emotional lives of its victims.

MindFreedom International and Roads to Freedom Center for Independent Living are attempting to locate and establish the well-being of Mr. Italiano, who has ‘disappeared’ and is being denied outside contact by a government-funded agency.

From Children's Health Defense: With warnings of a mental health crisis among young people, the recommendation may appear sound and reasonable—but depression screening can be dangerous, some experts say.

From Common Dreams: "The decades-old practice of sweeping deep-seated problems out of public view may play well for the politicians, but the problems will persist—for vulnerable people...and for [other] New Yorkers," said the head of the NYCLU.

In this piece for ROAR Magazine, Jerome Roos explores the psychological, social, and economic impact of living under the imminent threat of catastrophic man-made climate...

Salon.com offers a personal experience of depression, starting with "I wish they would stop calling depression a mental illness. Because when I’m depressed, my...

Christine Cobb speaks to the Lancaster Guardian about how she became addicted to prescription drugs and her horrific experience with benzodiazepine and SSRI withdrawal. "'...the doctor...

From Scientific American: Although "normal" technically means average or typical, both researchers and the general public often view normality as a standard we should all...

A marvelous article on Truthout shows how a paper on the genetics of academic achievement - which found that only 2% of academic achievement...

DXSummit details the ways that the American approach to mental health care has spread around the world, concluding "Perhaps it is time to start...

-The Globe and Mail looks interviews researchers about the growing interest in inflammation as a source of serious psychological distress in some individuals.

Medscape Psychiatry reports that the “man-made epidemic” of opioid abuse in the United States is the result of over-prescription and poor research.

From DW Documentary: Asia’s largest psychiatric facility is home to 1,700 female patients—or "ghosts." Many were victims of violence, or simply rejected by their families.

From MindSite News: The appointment of Pierfranco Trincas as director of the Barcola mental health center in Trieste, Italy, has set alarm bells ringing among supporters of this unique system of community mental health.

From Don't Try This Alone: "In our culture we construe loneliness as weakness, as a character defect… But it’s based on brain evolution; there’s no choice about it." ~ Dr. Tom Lewis, co-author of A General Theory of Love