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Updates on critical psychiatry postings across the Internet.

Controversy Over Popular Game: “Psychiatric Ward — Enter if you dare, escape if you...

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The Toronto Transit Commission has removed billboards for a popular escape game after The Toronto Star reported on four complaints about its mental health-themed...

More High-tech Surveillance for Better Mental Health?

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High-tech surveillance could help improve people's mental health cost-effectively, according to a commentary in The Guardian. "any existing capacities of tablets, smartphones and even...

What Happens When Paranoid Feelings that You’re Being Watched are Correct?

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McGill News reviews the new book Suspicious Minds: How Culture Shapes Madness, and discusses its themes with co-author McGill Canada Research Chair in Philosophy...

Hearing Voices Researched at Edinburgh Book Festival

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Researchers from Durham University's Hearing the Voice project are attending the Edinburgh International Book Festival through August as part of a study, asking both...

“When Will Mental Illness Finally Yield to Science?”

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Newsweek writer Alexander Nazaryan overviews the recent "kick in the rear" provided to brain science by hundreds of millions of dollars in donations, and...

Trees and Your Mental Well-being

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Trees reduce anxiety, stress and distress, and improve memory and concentration, says an op-ed published in Business Insider that includes links to many other...

Is Daydreaming as Vital to Mind-health as Focusing on Facts?

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"If you’re feeling overwhelmed, there’s a reason: The processing capacity of the conscious mind is limited. This is a result of how the brain’s...

APA Discusses Lack of Links Between Violence and Mental Illness

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Blogging from the American Psychological Association annual convention, Lisa Bowen reports on a panel session entitled, "Mental Illness and Violence: Toward Research-Informed Policies and...

Sunday Oddity: Psychotropic Drug Ads from the Past

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Misbehaving children, anxious housewives, and a man's happy Quaalude-created morning with his family highlight a random collection of psychotropic drug advertisements from the past...

Weaning the Elderly off Sleeping Pills

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In a follow-up to an earlier commentary on the topic, Paula Span discusses the widespread use and negative effects of sleeping pills among the...

Council For Evidence-based Psychiatry Responds to Angry Lancet Commentary

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In July, The Lancet Psychiatry published a commentary attacking Peter Gotzsche and the Council for Evidence-based Psychiatry, suggesting their criticism of the lack of...

Scientific Studies Biased by Reward Systems

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The production of modern scientific studies is fundamentally biased and most often leads to unreliable results that no one will be funded to try...

Psychiatrist Shoots Patient

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Anne Skomorkowsky of the Columbia University Department of Psychiatry writes in Truthout about a recent case of a psychiatrist who shot a patient. Skomorkowsky...

Therapeutic Video Games?

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King5 News reports on video games that are being designed by psychologists to help players deal with emotional problems like anxiety and depression. Cheri...

Sunday Oddity: Stats on Psych Drugs in Hip Hop

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Project Know, an addiction education website, has a graphical statistical analysis of mentions of different types of drugs in hip hop music from 1988...

How Do We Know What is Real?

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MIT Press has released Hallucination: Philosophy and Psychology, a collection of both scientific and philosophical essays co-edited by University of Glasgow's Fiona Macpherson, co-director...

Are Psychology Tests Still Useful When We Mock Them?

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Various psychologists weigh in on a debate in The Atlantic about a widely used and frequently cited psychology test to assess people's moral compass....

The Dangers of Screening Without a Diagnostic Method

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A blog post from AbleChild raises questions about efforts in Connecticut to expand psychiatric screening and treatments for children and youth. "Since the...

Online Collective Art Gallery Created in Crisis

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The New York Times Magazine reports on how a woman suffering in depression ended up founding an online art gallery for photographers struggling through...

Psychiatrist Says He was “Coached” in Drug Trial Manipulation

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In a video interview with Psychetruth, psychiatrist Dr. Colin Ross provides a concise introduction to the challenges and problems of relying on information from...

Homeless People Recruited into Psychiatric Drug Trials

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Matter magazine has published MIA Blogger Carl Elliott's investigation into the growing use of homeless people in the United States to test dangerous psychiatric...

Advocate for Outpatient Committal Recants

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In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Tom Burns recants. Burns is described as a psychiatrist who was long one of the strongest...

Upcoming Breath-Body-Mind Online Workshop

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Psychiatrists Richard Brown and Patricia Gerbarg will be giving a Breath~Body~Mind workshop live online August 16 and August 17, 2014. According to a press...

Making Sense of Nonscience

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Two opinion articles discuss the unscientific aspects of psychology and psychiatry, and posit ways for overcoming some of the conundrums... In Nature, a group...

How Do Comprehensive Lifestyle Changes Influence Dementia?

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In his Scientific American blog, Gary Stix reviews the latest investigations into the impacts of comprehensive lifestyle change approaches to preventing dementia. "Results of...