Why Do So Many Ignore that Most Addictions are Temporary?
On Substance.com, Maia Szalavitz discusses her own experiences with addiction, and examines the research that suggests addiction is less a chronic disease of the...
Sunday History Channel: Did Ancient Buddhist Tales Prophesy the DSM-5?
On the Sri Lankan social media platform LankaWeb, medical doctor Ruwan M. Jayatunge recounts stories of difficult states of mind described in the ancient...
Mad In America Film Festival In The News
Boston.com has published an article about the Mad In America Film Festival, running through this weekend in Medford, Massachusetts. "Making people rethink psychiatry —...
“Mad Studies Brings a Voice of Sanity to Psychiatry”
Mad Matters, a Canadian collection of writings by psychiatric survivors, anti-psychiatry activists, academics (including MIA Blogger Bonnie Burstow) and others who take critical approaches...
Did the No Child Left Behind Act Boost ADHD Diagnosing?
The increasing use of psychiatric medications in toddlers, particularly of stimulants for ADHD, is explored by journalist Josiah Hesse on Substance.com. Looking into possible...
Daydream Disorder Stirs Controversy
"The name of a 'new attention disorder' sounds like an Onion-style parody: sluggish cognitive tempo," writes Slate. "It also sounds like a classic case...
How Psychiatric Professionals Promote Stigma
"The stigma suffered by people identified as experiencing psychiatric problems is often described as more disabling than the actual mental disorder," writes retired psychologist...
“What if the Central Premise of Bipolar Disorder Is Wrong?”
"Always appending disorder to the word bipolar is akin to always appending accident to the end of automobile. In other words, saying 'bipolar disorder'...
High-tech Headband Takes Anxious Man Where Only Meditation Has Gone Before
Technology journalist Shane Snow experiments with "Muse" for two weeks, a $300 high-tech headband that provides both relaxation exercises and real-time electroencephalogram readings of...
“Boiling Frustration” Among Protesting Psychiatrists
AlterNet has published a feature story about prominent critical psychiatrist and MIA Foreign Correspondent David Healy, who "says his output and reputation have had...
Rap Embraces Schizophrenia and Owns It
Vanderbilt University psychiatrist Jonathan Metzl, author of The Protest Psychosis, has published a brief history of "schizophrenia" in relation to African American culture in...
“I have tested/evaluated 30 teenage and young adult murderers”
In The National Psychologist, forensic psychologist David Kirschner writes about his experiences evaluating young murderers, and discusses the negative role that he feels prior...
Waking Blackouts On Sleep Drugs Can Lead to Dangerous Mishaps
In her blog on USC Annenberg's Reporting on Health, journalist Martha Rosenberg reviews some of the quantitative evidence and qualitatively bizarre anecdotal evidence of...
Sunday History Channel: Retro Report on Prozac
The New York Times has released Retro Report's ten-minute documentary video and essay looking at the birth and rise to fame of the SSRI...
Is Good Mental Health About Learning to Live Better with Fewer Resources?
An op-ed in The Advertiser begins with a quote from Carl Jung: “The foundation of mental illness is our unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.”...
Normality: Unattainable Ideal and Euphemism for Boring
Our culture promotes "fitting in" through "normality" as an ultimate ideal that all "disordered" people should strive to attain, and yet at the same...
Can Psychedelics Help End Addictions with One Dose?
Q13 Fox News discusses recent research giving psychedelics to people struggling with alcohol or cigarettes. David Nutt, an Imperial College London neuro-psychopharmacologist "thinks psilocybin...
Blood Test for Depression? “Patently Wrong… Quackery… Shame on the Authors”
In the PLOS Blog Mind the Brain, psychologist James Coyne critiques a recent study in Translational Psychiatry -- widely hailed in the media --...
Should We “Hit Delete” on Bad Memories?
Canada's CBC Radio has produced a one-hour documentary for its "Ideas" program exploring the science, therapeutics and ethics of our burgeoning capability to erase...
“Some of gaming’s greatest heroes are mentally ill, and that’s a great thing”
In gaming magazine Polygon, Liana Kerzner reviews video games that weren't designed as "therapy," but include primary characters who are struggling with deep psychological...
The Problem with Publications Rarely Publishing Dull Results
Medical, psychiatric, psychology and other scientific studies that simply replicate research, find null results, or get results showing no effects from treatments are far...
Don’t Reframe a Housing Crisis as a Mental Health Crisis
"It is unacceptable for this municipality to create a housing crisis and then reframe it as a mental health crisis," writes the Vancouver Area...
Creativity and Feelings of Madness Closely Linked in Most People
In his Scientific American blog, Scott Barry Kaufman discusses a study that provides new perspectives on the controversial question of the links between "mental...
What Does a “Trauma-informed Community” Look Like?
Tarpon Springs, Florida, is the first city in the US to declare itself to be a "Trauma-informed Community." Jane Ellen Stevens of ACES (Adverse...
When Is Psychiatric Treatment Like Child Abuse?
In what ways can psychiatric treatments, and the relationships between psychiatrists and patients, be appropriately characterized as "abusive"? On his blog, MIA Foreign Correspondent...
