“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,...
Doctors Rarely Warn about Benzo Withdrawal
The Boston Globe interviews people who became ever more severely dependent on sedating benzodiazepines without realizing it, because as they tried to stop taking...
“Therapeutic” Boot Camps for Teens Still Out of Control
The Atlantic investigates the brutal "training" and "therapy" regimes and chronic abuses still going on at psychological and physical boot camps for "troubled teens"...
Early Brain Injury and Autism
A pediatrician writing for The Daily Beast discusses a recent study in the journal Neuron that found links between autism and brain injury during...
Scientific Journal Corruption to the Nth Power
A respected Canadian cardiology journal was purchased by offshore investors and "is now printing scientific junk for hire, but still trading on its original...
Scuba Diving’s Effects on Flashbacks
NPR reports on veterans struggling with traumatic flashbacks who've found peace in exploring underwater. "I went through group therapies. I was actually institutionalized for...
Turkish Psychiatrists Find High Rates of Traumatic Experiences During Adulthood in Patients
It is very common for women in Turkey diagnosed with schizophrenia to have experienced one or more traumatic experiences in adulthood, according to a...
At What Point Does Altering a Memory Become Unethical?
The state of the science and ethics of using biological techniques to alter or "erase" traumatic memories is explored in The Atlantic. With "reconsolidation,"...
Common Off-label Drug for Autism No Better than Placebo
The Alzheimer's drug memantine (also known as Ebixa or Namenda) is being regularly used off-label in the treatment of childhood autism, Asperger’s, and Pervasive...
Psychiatrists Discuss Concerns About Peer Support
Dr. Sunny Aslam writes a brief report in Psychiatric Services about working alongside mental health peer support employees, based on feedback he obtained from...
“The Future of Psychiatry May Be Inside Your Stomach”
The Verge reviews the growing body of evidence of the psychological impacts of different types of gastrointestinal microbes, and interviews Boston-area psychiatrist James Greenblat...
“When psychiatrists are on Facebook, their patients can get a case of TMI”
Washington Post columnist Steven Petrow gets a friend recommendation from Facebook, and it turns out to be his current psychotherapist, who isn't using any...
Use of Psychiatric Services “Skyrocketing” in Turkey
The number of people seeking psychiatric treatment in Turkey rose from 3 million people in 2009 to almost 9.2 million in 2013, according to...
ADHD and “The Merchants of Speed”
Pediatrician and UCSF professor Lawrence Diller has issued the fourth of a four-part memoir on Huffington Post, recounting the rise of ADHD medicating and...
“ADHD treatment market value to reach $9.9 bn by 2020”
According to business intelligence firm GBI Research, the ADHD medication market will rise in value from $6.9 billion in 2013 to $9.9 billion by...
Wikipedia Page Gone, But RxISK Presses On to Educate about Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction
The English-language page on Wikipedia about Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD) was removed earlier this year, re-posted, and removed again in July, but according to...
