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Updates on critical psychiatry postings across the Internet.

Judge Rules No More Drugging Migrant Children Without Consent

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From MSN News: "A federal judge on Monday found that U.S. government officials have been giving psychotropic medication to migrant children at a Texas...

Reminder: Taper Pets off their Psychiatric Medications

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Salon has published an excerpt from Laurel Braitman’s book Animal Madness, in which she notes that the U.S. market for pet pharmaceuticals was $6.68...

NCMHR Calls for Ending Police Role in Mental Health Crises

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From National Coalition for Mental Health Recovery: NCMHR calls for using the increased mental health funding to expand voluntary, trauma-informed, community-based care.

‘How Did We Not Know?’ Gun Owners Confront a Suicide Epidemic

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From The New York Times: The concern about suicides has led to an unusual alliance between suicide-prevention advocates and gun-rights proponents.

NH Supreme Court Takes Up ‘Boarding’ Psych Patients in Hospital ERs

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From InDepthNH: The case arose from the state’s appeal of the case involving Jane Doe who was held against her will for 17 days in an emergency room.

Foster Kids Sent Out of State to Mental Health Facilities Faced Abuse, Neglect

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From ProPublica: An investigation found repeated breakdowns in oversight as states failed to protect young people in need of specialized care.

UN Warns of Rise of Psychological ‘Cybertorture’ to Bypass Physical Ban

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From The Guardian: Psychological torture is being exploited by states to circumvent the more widely understood ban on physically inflicting pain, the UN torture rapporteur has said.

Remembering Dorothea Buck—Who Forced Psychiatry To Confront Its Deadly History

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From Ms. Magazine: After being force-sterilized and tortured by psychiatry as a young woman, Buck fought fiercely, speaking out against both psychiatric abuse and the way medicine defines schizophrenia and psychosis.

Traumatic Narcissism: Relational Systems of Subjugation

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From NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) Training Institute: Therapist and author Daniel Shaw explores controlling relationships—from cults to couples to families, to other situations involving authority and power, like the therapy relationship.

The Fight for Pharma Accountability and Psychiatric Rights: Jim Gottstein, Esq.

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From Psychiatric Times/Awais Aftab, MD: Gottstein's book The Zyprexa Papers left me with a renewed sense of moral disgust at pharmaceutical corruption and alarm at their pervasive influence and lack of meaningful public accountability.

“United States of Adderall (Part II)”

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Writing for Huffpost, medical doctor Lawrence Diller looks at the effects of the ever increasing diagnoses for ADHD and the addiction and abuse issues...

‘Committable’ Podcast: What Is 988, How Does It Work, and What Has Changed?

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From Committable: The Committable podcast interviews Aneri Pattani, Rob Wipond, and Yana Calou about 988, the new national suicide and crisis line.

Trauma? Not Me

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From CPTSD Foundation: When I talk to people in the workplace about trauma, all the air gets sucked out of the room and they try to change the subject as quickly as possible. I am curious about what is driving this response.

“Antidepressants Make it Harder to Empathize, Harder to Climax, and Harder to Cry”

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Psychiatrist Julie Holland explains how antidepressants can medicate away important feelings and experiences in a video for Big Think. Video →

Your Psychiatrist Might be Wrong

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From Pakistan Today: Psychiatry may lack scientific objectivity in comparison with other fields of medicine. "The mind sciences – psychology or psychiatry – have always been...

Reintroducing Spirituality Could Address the Mental Health Crisis

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From The Independent: Society's cycle of compulsive consumerism and materialism is partly to blame for Britain's mental health crisis. Instead of merely referring people to...

Stop Labelling People Who Commit Crimes ‘Criminals’

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In this piece for Aeon, Kimberley Brownlee argues that labelling people who commit crimes as "criminals," "offenders," or "perpetrators" is dehumanizing and reductionistic, defining a...

There’s No Such Thing As “Sound Science”

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In this piece for FiveThirtyEight, Christie Aschwanden explains how various industries have used the language of the "open science" reform movement, which advocates for more transparency in scientific...

“Letter to a Foreign Psychiatrist”

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Nassir Ghaemi responds to "a young psychiatrist beginning a career in another country" that "We have lost the ability to accurately recognize our patients’...

Watchdog Slams Safeguards for Foster Kids on Psych Drugs

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From AP News: "Thousands of foster children may be getting powerful psychiatric drugs prescribed to them without basic safeguards, says a federal watchdog agency...

Moral Injury: A Systemic Issue in Medicine

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From The Atlantic: The term "moral injury" describes what happens when health care workers following a calling to help others confront a system that cares only about profit.

Red Flags for College Applicants With Mental Health Issues

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From Inside Higher Ed: If an applicant writes an essay about psychological challenges, the admissions staff at a college in Florida have been flagging them for additional review.

Rethinking the Infamous Stanford Prison Experiment

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From Scientific American: New evidence makes it clear that merely assigning people to play the role of prison guards did not lead them to engage in cruelty naturally, of their own accord.

“Potential biomarker that could predict”? – caveats about psychiatric brain imaging

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-HealthNewsReview.org takes on Dr. Richard Friedman's description of a “potential biomarker in the brain that would help psychiatrists direct depressed patients towards treatment to which they would more likely respond.”

Bringing Together Young and Old to Ease Isolation of Rural Life

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From NPR: Communities in northeastern MN are trying to reconnect a fragmented social fabric through a program called AGE to age, which connects about 4,000 youths with almost 2,500 older adults annually.