Childhood Maltreatment Drives Self-Injury
From Medscape: New research shows that individuals who were physically, sexually, or emotionally abused as children are more likely to engage in non-suicidal self-injury.
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“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...
Family of Singer Chris Cornell Sues Doctor Over His Death
From King5.com: "The lawsuit says Dr. Robert Koblin and his Beverly Hills office 'negligently and repeatedly' prescribed 'dangerous mind-altering controlled substances to Chris...
‘Mental Illness’ is a Harmfully Misleading Phrase
From The Good Men Project: "Mental illness" is a misleading phrase that often exacerbates the pain of people in emotional distress.
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Lifestyle Changes, Not a Magic Pill, Can Reverse Alzheimer’s
From Aeon: A recent study at UCLA found that lifestyle changes including diet modifications, exercise, stress management, and increased sleep can significantly improve the memory and...
I Know Antidepressant Withdrawal Is Real. Why Didn’t Doctors?
From The Guardian: Why, when the health of so many people is at stake, did it take so long to listen to patients?
“Evolutionary Forces Are Causing a Boom in Bad Science”
From the New Scientist: “Paul Smaldino and Richard McElreath at the University of California Davis used an evolutionary theory-based computational model to analyse the problem of bad...
The History of Whistleblowing, and Whistleblower of the Year
1 Boring Old Man reviews the history of whistleblowing, and the story of Allen Jones, who started the ball rolling on the Johnson &...
Most Drug Makers Report Incomplete Side Effects to the FDA
"The regulatory system for reporting side effects caused by prescription drugs is producing its own kind of side effect — incomplete information about injuries...
‘Restraint and Seclusion’ Harms Kids. So Why Is It Used in Schools?
From The Washington Post: What if you went five days a week to a school that regularly locked you up or physically held you down? Most of us would walk in ready for a fight, not to learn.
“Teach Medical Students How To Be Placebos”
On considering recent research that shows various modes of delivering treatments results in varying levels of placebo response, medical student Karan Chhabra considers "What combination of...
A New Kind of Empirical Article
Neurochambers' Chris Chambers, a freshly-minted associate editor for journal Cortex, asks for comments on "the most important thing I have committed to this blog...
81% Recovery from Psychotic Breaks? Psychiatrist Reflects on Open Dialogue Method
Psychiatrist Tom Stockman has been posting a series of articles on his blog Mandala, reflecting on the Open Dialogue method for intervening in psychiatric...
People in Mental Health Units Need a Voice. That’s Why I’m Helping Them to...
From The Guardian: "Mentally ill" and other disabled people have a disproportionate exposure to the workings of the (often violent) state – that’s why it’s so important our voices are heard.
Tampa Council Proposes ban on Conversion Therapy for Minors
From the Tampa Bay Times: The Tampa City Council recently moved to ban mental health professionals from providing gay conversion therapy to minors, proposing penalties of...
“Addiction is a Response to Childhood Suffering: In Depth with Gabor Maté”
Popular addiction news outlet, the fix, interviews Dr. Gabor Maté on addiction, the holocaust, the "disease-prone personality" and the pathology of positive thinking. “Until...
“Dominator” vs. “Partnership” Cultures: A Profound Re-Telling of Human History
From Jordan Bates: The 'dominator' model of social organization permeates most aspects of modern life, causing pain, repression, and alienation. But it wasn't always this way.
Studies Overestimate Prevalence of Depression, Article Shows
From The Globe and Mail: According to a new research paper published in CMAJ, many studies provided rates of depression that were exaggerated by...
What’s in a Name? Ghostly Spirits Stalk the Medical Literature
From FairWarning: In an age of distortion, propaganda and fake news, medical literature might seem to be a safe space for honest scientific inquiry, with no room for bias or spin. It isn’t so.
“Prince Died Amid Frantic Plans for Drug Addiction Treatment”
Prince was found dead one day before he was scheduled to meet with Dr. Howard Kornfeld, a national authority on opioid addiction treatment. Within...
“The United States of Adderall (Part III)”
Lawrence Diller continues his series on the uses and abuses of Adderall. "You take some Adderall, go through withdrawal, build up tolerance, take some...
Psychiatry’s Intellectual Crisis: Giovanni Fava, MD
From Psychiatric Times/Conversations in Critical Psychiatry: "Psychiatry is going through an intellectual crisis [that] is shared by other areas of clinical medicine and stems from a narrow concept of science."
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.
Puerto Rico’s Mental Health Crisis (Podcast)
From The New York Times: Months after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, the island is experiencing a severe mental health crisis. Public health officials say...
Researchers Blog about Links Between ADHD Prescribing and Drug Costs
University of Toronto and Princeton University researchers take to Bloomberg View to discuss the findings from their large-scale, long-term study of ADHD and medicating...
