Suicide Warnings on Antidepressants Debated in NEJM
In the New England Journal of Medicine, Richard Friedman and Marc Stone present very different arguments about the reliability of the body of research...
What Do Antidepressants in Drinking Water Do to Birds?
Ever higher levels of pharmaceutical drugs are turning up in drinking water supplies, and an op-ed in the UK Mirror discusses a study that...
Samaritans’ Online Suicide Surveillance App an Ethical Minefield
In Gigaom, privacy and security journalist David Meyer discusses the release of a new app from the UK Samaritans called "Radar." The app monitors...
Does Social Psychology Have a “Liberal Bias”?
In The New Yorker, Maria Konnikova explores the ideas of Jonathan Haidt, who argues that the field of social psychology has a broad bias...
Sunday History Channel: 1,000 Case Records from Victorian Asylum Released
The Wellcome Library has digitized and publicly released for free viewing the complete records of over 1,000 people who were incarcerated at the Ticehurst...
If Autism Isn’t a Brain Structure Difference, Then What?
In Discover magazine, Neuroskeptic examines a new, large-scale study of brain anatomies of people with autism, calling it an "earthquake" in autism research and...
Could Psychiatric Care Be Causing Suicides?
What is the reason that people are 44.3 times more likely to commit suicide if they've visited a psychiatric hospital within the year? AlterNet...
Why Placebos Really Are More Effective
Bioethics professor and formal medical doctor Paul Biegler discusses the ongoing battles for effectiveness-supremacy between antidepressants and placebos in The Conversation. "Some think advertising...
“I often have paranoid feelings towards mental health practitioners”
"I often have paranoid feelings concerning mental health practitioners even though these are the professionals who apparently are trying to help," writes Jack Bragen...
University and Petitioners Debate Ethics of Animal Psychiatric Experiment
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is engaged in a public debate with a medical doctor who posted a petition on Change.org that has gathered nearly...
Forced Psychiatric Treatment of People Who aren’t Disordered: The Chinese Have a Word for...
An article in the journal Psychiatry, Psychology and Law reviews the development of China's new mental health legislation. The process took a significant turn,...
Treating Schizophrenia Before Children Have It
NPR Shots discusses the plethora of new programs for early intervention for psychosis, with a focus on Ventura Early Intervention Prevention Services, operated by...
“Doctors Tell All—and It’s Bad”
In The Atlantic, Meghan O'Rourke reviews a number of recent books authored by physicians and finds they're all talking about "a corrosive doctor-patient relationship...
“The entire field of behavioral genetics has a horrendous track record”
"For more than 20 years, I’ve hammered behavioral genetics, and especially research linking genes to intelligence," writes John Horgan in his Scientific American blog...
Contemplative Neuroscience, “Like Valium Without the Side Effects”
Scientific American's Gary Stix has posted links to two video lectures about meditation and its effects on the human mind. Ricard Matthieu, a Buddist...
Alternatives to Psychiatric Diagnosis?
Is there an alternative to the current, dominant way of making psychiatric diagnoses? If so, what would it look like? On his Critical Psychiatry...
Diversity of Emotions as Healthy as Diverse Ecosystems
"Emodiversity," or living with a wide range of many different types of both very positive and very negative emotions, is strongly linked to overall...
Hip Hop Therapy Psychiatrists Ask Media to Keep It Real
The Guardian and other media outlets ran articles about two psychiatrists promoting "the use of hip-hop as an aid to the treatment of mental...
“How Our Compulsion for Diagnosis May Be Harming Children”
A team of American pediatric physicians has published an article in the journal Pediatrics examining the many ways in which medical overdiagnosis may be...
Sunday Music: “Even Out of Severe Depression There Comes Insight”
Maria Popova provides some excerpts about music, madness and therapy from the new book, Joni Mitchell: In Her Own Words, from the iconic Canadian...
“I would not tell people when my voices were still very loud”
Mae Harden is interviewed by Philly.com about her years of attempting to medicate away the voices she was hearing in her head, while hiding...
Psychologist Reviews The Work and Influence of Thomas Szasz
Austin Community College adjunct professor and psychologist John Breeding has published a personal, reflective essay in SAGE Open about the work and influence of...
Corporations Want to Cure Depression in the Workplace
The Ottawa Citizen has published two feature stories exploring a growing collaboration between scientists involved in the US National Institute of Mental Health-funded brain...
Outpatient Committal: “Politics and Psychiatry in a Culture of Fear”
Psychiatrists' use of community treatment orders (or outpatient committal) in the UK is already ten times more frequent than was originally envisioned, writes Manchester...
“The Word Stigma Should Not Be Used in Mental Health Campaigns”
"I feel uncomfortable about the use of the word stigma in mental health campaigns. But, I haven’t been able to put my finger on...
