‘Transparent Replications’ Project Aims to Improve Reliability in Psychological Research
From Clearer Thinking: The new initiative, launched by Clearer Thinking, will replicate a substantial fraction of papers coming out in top psychology journals.
Celebrating Steps Toward Humane Approaches to Distress
From John Read, PhD/Psychology Today: 2022 saw many examples of the ongoing international struggle for effective mental health services. Here is my list of some of the year's successes.
The Wisdom of the Symptom Bearer: It’s Always the ‘Crazy’ One Who Knows the...
From Medium/Rev. Sheri Heller, LCSW: The 'symptom bearer' or 'identified patient' is the scapegoat who carries the evidence of the familial dysfunction.
Civil Rights Advocates Call U.S. Child Welfare System a ‘National Problem’
From The Imprint: A new report says the child welfare system fails to adequately address the needs of families and often harms the very kids it's designed to protect.
Why Is Stigma Toward ‘Schizophrenia’ Getting Worse?
From Psychology Today/Justin Garson, PhD: Intriguingly, the greatest increase in stigma toward 'schizophrenia' occurred from 1990 to 2001, the so-called "decade of the brain."
Eat For Life Podcast: The Hidden Harms of Antidepressants with Robert Whitaker
From Eat For Life: As one of the first children to be put on Prozac, this is an important and personal episode for me, as depression and mental illness continue to rise despite all the drugs available today to treat them.
Authenticity Can Heal Trauma | Gabor Maté, MD
From How To Academy: What happens if, for the sake of fitting in with the family or culture, we have to give up our connection to ourselves, our authenticity, for the sake of attachment?
AI Has Already Taken Over. It’s Called the Corporation
From Resilience/Jeremy Lent: Futurists warning about the threats of AI are looking in the wrong place. Humanity is already facing an existential threat from an artificial intelligence we created hundreds of years ago.
What’s Happening in Mental Health Services? | Asylum Magazine
From Asylum Magazine: Perhaps we need to spend less energy arguing about 'models' of mental health care and turn our attention to challenging the abuse of power.
Echando Pa’Lante Podcast: Esperanza, Coloniaje y Puerto Rico w/ José Luiggi-Hernández
From Echando Pa'Lante: MIA science writer José Luiggi-Hernández discusses his recently published chapter "The Experience of Hope Within the Puerto Rican Colonial Context" and the debate in Puerto Rico about Puerto Rican "resilience."
The Online Therapy Bubble Is Bursting
From TIME: Many of the mental health startups that popped up or thrived during the pandemic are being scrutinized for prioritizing growth above all else—a common mentality among tech startups.
Rights Groups Rip NYC Mayor Over Forced ‘Hospitalizations’ for ‘Mental Illness’
From Common Dreams: "The decades-old practice of sweeping deep-seated problems out of public view may play well for the politicians, but the problems will persist—for vulnerable people...and for [other] New Yorkers," said the head of the NYCLU.
Why Highly Sensitive People Can (and Should) Trust Their Hearts — And Use Their...
From Highly Sensitive Refuge: Highly sensitive people have important perspectives to contribute to society. They must protect their process, especially when the world doesn’t.
Could the Blackfoot Wisdom That Inspired Maslow Guide Us Now?
From GatherFor/Medium: At the Blackfoot Reserve, "Maslow saw a place where what he would later call self-actualization was the norm," said researcher Ryan Heavy Head. This observation "totally changed his trajectory."
How Hospice Became a For-Profit Hustle
From The New Yorker: Hospice has evolved from a constellation of charities, mostly reliant on volunteers, into a twenty-two-billion-dollar juggernaut funded by taxpayers and rife with exploitation.
How Big Pharma Hijacked Patient Groups
From The Breach: Once a vibrant grassroots social movement, patient groups have become a powerful cluster of corporate-influenced organizations, with leaders whose values, beliefs and ties align more closely with the private sector than the public interest.
New York City Will ‘Hospitalize’ More ‘Mentally Ill’ People Involuntarily
From The New York Times: "The common misunderstanding persists that we cannot provide involuntary 'assistance' unless the person is violent," said Mayor Eric Adams. "This myth must be put to rest."
The Tyranny of the Prefrontal Cortex
From Jeremy Lent: There is an overriding dynamic driving all the imbalances in our lives. Acknowledging it is the first step toward achieving re-harmonization within our individual and collective consciousness.
The Tapering Team: “Medications: Where Do We Stand in Psychiatry?”
From Underground Psychiatry: "The insurance companies, the patients, and the doctors are addicted to the tablets. So we are all stuck in the system. And only if you put the health of the patient as the purpose of your treatment, then you can change it.” ~ Pharmacist Paul Harder
Interview With Award-Winning Mental Health Advocate Eugene LeBlanc
From Re-Threading Madness Radio: LeBlanc was awarded the New Brunswick Human Rights Award for his work as director of the Groupe de Support Emotionnel Inc. and as publisher and editor of Our Voice/Notre Voix.
Mind Control: It’s Happening to You Right Now
From Jeremy Lent/Patterns of Meaning: Your mind is being controlled by distant strangers who don’t have your best interests at heart. If that sounds like a paranoid fantasy, brace yourself and read on.
Debunking Pharma’s Spin on Racial Equity
From Lown Institute: What could be a fruitful conversation has been largely co-opted by pharmaceutical companies as a method for trying to get drugs with unclear benefits approved.
The Failure to Acknowledge Contributions of “Non-Professionals” in Psychiatric Research
In an essay published in Research Ethics, Will Hall writes about contributions by "non-professionals" and psychiatric survivors to research studies -- such a drug-tapering...
I Made Professor Before Ritalin. Now I Can’t Work Without It
From Psyche: Instead of helping to maintain my self-confidence during a veritable earthquake in my life, my need for a crutch in pill form radically undermined my faith in myself.
AMI-Quebec Lecture: Rethinking Psychiatry With Robert Whitaker
From AMI-Quebec and the Montreal Gazette: The way drugs shape long-term outcomes must be understood against our natural capacity to recover, said author Robert Whitaker ahead of his public lecture in Montreal.
