“Healing with MDMA-assisted Psychotherapy” and Other Psychedelic Stories
The Multi-Disciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies' Winter 2014 Bulletin is freely available. Among other articles, the issue includes a personal story of a patient,...
“Unexpected Advantages of Anxiety”
PsyBlog discusses various studies that show "unexpected advantages" to having somewhat higher levels of anxiety. Many people feel that those who are more easily...
“Warrior Genes” More Fiction Than Science
Writing in the Genetic Literacy Project, David Warmflash discusses a recent study that identified two genes "associated with violent crime." Even though people with...
“This Nursing Home Calms Troubling Behavior Without Risky Drugs”
NPR Shots explores a nursing home where "residents can always find something to do," and where use of antipsychotic drugs has dropped dramatically.
This Nursing...
Sunday History Channel: Mindcraft Journeys into Hypnotism
The Wellcome Collection has produced a six-part digital story about the rise to popularity of mesmerism and hypnotism in the 1800s, and their fall...
Connecting Police Violence Against People of Color and People With “Mental Illness”
Pointing to recent high-profile incidents of police violence, MIA Blogger Leah Harris discusses in Truthout the intersections and parallels between police or public discrimination...
Abstracts and Academic Press Releases Mislead Journalists and Public
In Bad Science and in the British Medical Journal, Ben Goldacre discusses a recent BMJ study that found a strong tendency for abstracts and...
A Lifetime of Personal Lessons from Raising an Autistic Child
The Lancet Psychiatry has a book review of Ron Suskind's memoir of raising his autistic son, Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and...
“Auditory Hallucinations: Debunking the Myth of Language Supremacy”
In Schizophrenia Bulletin, an Australian and a French researcher argue that the Hearing Voices Movement and similar groups are often misleading the public and...
Interview with Gary Greenberg: The DSM is the Key to the Health Care Treasury
BrainBlogger has an interview with Gary Greenberg, psychotherapist and author of The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry. "The (Diagnostic...
It Remains Unclear How Head Blows Affect Behavior Over the Long Term
It's not clear how repeated injuries to the head that lead to neurodegeneration actually affect people's behaviors, argue University of Buffalo researchers in The...
“Animals that Self-Medicate”
Humans aren't the only species to seek out and consume substances that they normally wouldn't eat, just to make themselves feel better, according to...
81% Recovery from Psychotic Breaks? Psychiatrist Reflects on Open Dialogue Method
Psychiatrist Tom Stockman has been posting a series of articles on his blog Mandala, reflecting on the Open Dialogue method for intervening in psychiatric...
Can Psychiatrist and Psychologist Court Experts Be Trusted on Memory Science, Round Two
The British Psychological Society Research Digest weighs in on a study previously reported in Mad in America, showing that psychologist and psychiatrist expert court...
Prominent Patient Safety Advocate Was Taking Kickbacks from Pharma
ProPublica revisits the story of Dr. Chuck Denham, the previous editor of the Journal of Patient Safety and former "co-chairman of a committee that...
“Choosing Wisely: Changing Clinicians, Patients, or Policies?”
In the JAMA Forum, Diana Mason, President of the American Academy of Nursing, discusses the "Choosing Wisely" campaign and its efforts to get physicians...
“My Drugged Life: Who’s Really at Home?”
Writing under the pseudonym Will Barrett, a person who has been continually on various psychiatric drugs since age 10 philosophically reflects in Salon. "But...
Sunday Flipside: The Most Counter-Intuitive Psychology Findings Ever Published
The British Psychological Society's Research Digest reviews "10 of The Most Counter-Intuitive Psychology Findings Ever Published." These include classics such as Self-help Mantras Can...
Still Doing Better Without Antipsychotics?
The Chicago Tribune revisits the issues raised in the 2007 study led by Martin Harrow which found that many people diagnosed with schizophrenia fare...
Sunday Humor: British Medical Journal’s Annual Christmas Issue
The British Medical Journal's annual Christmas issue includes a paper examining the relative idiocy of the genders based on twenty years of the Darwin...
Health Professionals Question Using Animals for Studies
National Institute of Mental Health Director Thomas Insel explains why using mice to try to help solve human psychological problems doesn't work very well....
Interview with Peter Gøtzsche: How Psychiatry Has Gone Astray
Dr. McDougall's Health and Medical Center has posted a three-part interview with MIA Foreign Correspondent Peter Gøtzsche, author of the book Deadly Medicines and...
The Lancet Psychiatry “Diagnosis Debate” Continues
The Lancet Psychiatry's December issue includes two letters commenting on Mary Boyle and Lucy Johnstone's article, "Alternatives to psychiatric diagnosis," along with a new...
Call for (Pithy) Submissions: “Is Psychiatry a Real Science?”
In a call for submissions posted on the History of Madness in Canada website, the long-running OUR VOICE / NOTRE VOIX magazine, publisher of...
“Pay $1000 to criticize a bad âblood test for depressionâ article?”
In the PLOS Blog Mind the Brain, James Coyne recounts how he wanted to participate in post-publication peer review surrounding the "bad science" in...
