“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...
Are Psychiatric Experiments on Primates Ethical — Or Even Truly Useful?
Pediatric psychiatrist Sujartha Ramakrishna describes a planned University of Wisconsin psychiatric experiment "to discover new therapies by dissecting and analyzing the brains of baby...
Angry Caller to Help Line Tracked, Incarcerated in Psychiatric Hospital & Billed
John Albers was completely surprised when police came to his home at midnight and insisted on taking him to a psychiatric hospital, where he...
Video Games By Prescription Continue Developing
"Is this the future of medicine?" asks Stephen Armstrong in the British Medical Journal. "Little Artie has been left at the doorstep of his...
Mindfulness Can Help Kids Handle Trauma
ACES Too High News takes an in-depth look at new findings by Temple University researchers showing that mindfulness techniques can help children who have...
Call for Papers on Biological vs Biopsychosocial Approaches to the Brain and Mind
Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia is inviting scholars, clinicians, and students in the medical, social, and human sciences to participate in a...
Sunday History Channel: Seventy-five Years of Psychedelic Psychiatry
Mo Costandi provides a brief history in The Guardian of research activities using psychedelic substances such as LSD for psychiatric and psychotherapeutic purposes. Costandi...
Saturday Night Dancing: DSM-5 Goes Disco
Hotly dressed student dancers back up wigged-out, wobbling psychiatrist and neuroscientist Stephen Stahl in a tightly sung take on the BeeGees' hit Stayin' Alive...
Russian MP Proposes Psychiatric Exams for All Election Candidates
"A nationalist lawmaker suggests making politicians disclose their psychiatric problems to the public and punish those who try to hide them by removing them...
Affordable Care Act Will Expand Mental Health Services Into More Areas of People’s Lives
Since many more Americans now have mental health coverage as a result of the US Affordable Care Act, mental health services will soon begin...
“Don’t Coerce the Mentally Ill into Treatment”
Republican Tim Murphy should be lauded for bringing attention to important issues through his proposed legislation, but he "has it wrong when it comes...
Psychiatry’s Crisis May be Unsolvable
Even if The Lancet's attempts to forge a new vision in response to the crisis of confidence in medical psychiatry work (previously reported in...
Peter Gøtzsche Tells Daily Show, Big Pharma Like Drug Cartels
MIA Foreign Correspondent Peter Gøtzsche, author of the book Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime, was interviewed on Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon...
Explorations in “Post-Traumatic Growth”
US News interviews people who've been touched by tragedies, and then found ways to "embrace pain" and experience revelations about their lives followed...
Thinking of Schizophrenia as Normal Can Be Helpful
Daniel Helman had a psychotic episode at age 20, but has been off all psychiatric medications since 2006 and is now 44. In Schizophrenia...
Mindfulness “Potent” in Preventing Relapses in Chronic Depression
Two psychologists writing for Scientific American Mind review some of the evidence base for the impacts of mindfulness meditation on problematic psychological states. They...
Is Autism a “Deficit” or a Super Sensitivity?
Salon has reprinted an excerpt from a book by University of California cognitive neuroscientist Gregory Hickok, in which Hickok argues that common diagnostic tests...
Sunday Exhibit: Photos of Abandoned Asylums
UK photographer Mark Davis spent six years traveling to abandoned former Victorian-era mental institutions and researching their histories and photographing them for his new...
“Psychiatry and Efforts to Build Community in Iraq”
In a commentary in the American Journal of Psychiatry, George Washington University psychiatrist Amir Afkhami writes that the US State Department-funded Iraq Mental Health...
Lancet: Let’s Stop Fighting, Assume the Best about Psychiatrists’ Intentions
If there is one downside to the field of mental health, declares an editorial in The Lancet Psychiatry, "it is the failure of pleasant,...
