Diode | A Narrative About a Mental Journey by Karen Hudes
From Thomas Pynchon: Atmospheric forces channel suddenly through the individual, the release point of a larger, pressured system. At the moment of crisis, all attention goes to the diode.
“Scientists Discover A New Link Between The Brain And The Immune System”
-io9 discusses the recent discovery of a new link connecting brain function to the gut microbiome and immune system in humans.
âDocument Claims Drug Makers Deceived a Top Medical Journalâ
The New York Times reports that two major pharmaceutical companies may have mislead the editors of a prestigious medical journal in an effort to...
Ecological Trauma and Common Addiction
From Rex Weyler: Breaking the cycle of abuse, trauma, and addiction requires a radically new relationship with society and with the more-than-human world.
Three Philosophers Win Guggenheim Fellowships
From Daily Nous: The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation announced this week the winners of its 2018 Guggenheim Fellowships. Three fellowships were awarded to philosophers, including...
The Necessary Transience of Happiness
From openDemocracy: Despite our cultural obsession with happiness and the widespread growth of the happiness industry, few of us are actually more satisfied with our lives....
Therapeutic Video Games?
King5 News reports on video games that are being designed by psychologists to help players deal with emotional problems like anxiety and depression. Cheri...
“Making A Brain Map That We Can Use”
-Does it make any more sense to try to describe what a brain does based on its physical components than it does to describe what a computer does based on the plastics and metals that make it up?
Malady Mongers: How Drug Companies Sell Treatments By Inventing Diseases
From Huffington Post: The pharmaceutical industryâs image has been significantly damaged in recent years as the public discovered the role its aggressive marketing played...
Re-telling Our Stories: Liberation or Re-oppression?
-When we "re-narrate" our own stories and identities, it may be an opportunity for either liberation or re-oppression.
âReport Finds Florida Foster Kids Put on Psychotropic Drugs Without Following Proper Proceduresâ
After the 2009 suicide of a seven-year-old foster kid who had been on two âblack boxâ medications intended for adults, Florida updated its policies to protect vulnerable children from over-prescription. Unfortunately, according to a report by Orlando Weekly, âfoster children are still being put on psychotropic medications without caregivers following proper procedures.â
Spiritual Emergency: After Decades of Practising as a Psychotherapist, I am Convinced that our...
James Carpenter, an adjunct professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, writes in Aeon, "Most of modern psychiatry...
CDC “Disclaimers” Hide Financial Conflicts of Interest
From Lown Report: In a recently-released petition, several watchdog groups are demanding that the CDC be transparent about the industry funding they receive through their foundation.
A Global Call to Action: Pay Attention to What’s Happening in Trieste Right Now
From Heart Forward LA: An interview with Dr. Roberto Mezzina about the unfolding threat to Trieste, Italy's world-acclaimed, community-based, human rights-respecting mental health system.
This is Why Today’s Young Men Feel So Lonely
In this piece for The Times, Josh Glancy reflects on the difficulty that many men experience in forming meaningful friendships, finding community, and building emotional...
âTasty and Easy to Take, A New ADHD Drug Alarms Some Psychiatrists”
For STAT, Meghana Kashavan reports on a new, candy-flavored, chewable, fruity, amphetamine drug on the market for children diagnosed with ADHD. âItâs a move...
A New Era in New Zealand’s Mental Health Treatment
From SCOOP: "Today details of the Green Party's free youth counselling policy, for those aged 18 â 25, was announced. The pilot funding has been outlined...
Professor John Read: Antidepressants & Withdrawal Research
Medicating Normal speaks with the psychologist and chair of the International Institute for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal on topics ranging from deprescribing to attachment and child development.
Normalizing the Voices in Our Heads
From CFJC Today: "Hearing voices is often regarded as a sign of mental illness. But maybe voices are just part of a spectrum.
Professor T....
A Memoir of Chronic Fatigue Illustrates the Failures of Research
From The New Yorker: In her new book Through the Shadowlands, Julie Rehmeyer chronicles her struggles with chronic fatigue syndrome, or systemic exertion intolerance disease (S.E.I.D.),...
“Crazy Like Us: How the U.S. Exports Its Models of Illness”
Psychology Today writes "The fears of many European psychiatrists may soon be realized. Earlier this week, Psychiatric News reported that the American Psychiatric Association has begun petitioning the...
Schizophrenia’s Tangled Roots
From Sapiens: Researchers are increasingly recognizing the role that social and environmental factors, including childhood abuse, stressful events, and poverty, play in the development of...
âPfizer Abandons $160bn Allergan Dealâ
After the US announced plans to crack down on âinversion deals,â where a US company merges with a foreign company to escape taxes, Pfizer...
âRoyal College Calls for an End to âBashingâ Psychiatristsâ
âPresident of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Professor Sir Simon Wessely is launching a campaign to support medical students and trainee doctors by exposing...
Beating the Odds of Early Death Due to Childhood Trauma
From KQED News: "Emotional neglect, physical abuse, divorce, a household riven by addiction â science shows that traumas like these in childhood cause poorer...
