How a Traumatized America Finds Relief in Hate
From The Inquirer/Philly.com: "According to Maté, addiction is any behavior — not necessarily just drug use — that individuals cannot stop doing, despite harmful...
Third of Men With Poor Mental Health Blame Jobs, Says Mind
From BBC: According to survey results from the UK mental health charity Mind, a third of men experiencing poor mental health attribute their suffering to workplace...
Capitalism and Coercive Control
From Red Flag: A society that normalizes the dynamics of coercive control in most aspects of life is ill-equipped to eradicate them from our personal lives.
Bringing Meals to People May Reduce Healthcare Costs
From The Los Angeles Times: A recent study found that regularly delivering meals to people with food insecurity can prevent health crises and drive down...
Opioid Legislation With Significant Trauma Provisions Clears Congress
From ACEs Too High News: "On October 3, the U.S. Senate voted 98-1 (only Sen. Mike Lee, R-UT voted nay) to approve The SUPPORT for...
Harsh Nazi Parenting Guidelines May Still Affect German Children of Today
From NPR: The Nazis wanted children who were tough, unemotional and unempathetic, and they understood that withholding affection would support that goal.
Reading the Bible Through Neuroscience
In this interview for The Atlantic, James Kugel speculates on the minds and experiences of ancient prophets through a neuroscientific lens, exploring how biblical people's sense of...
“The Impact of Shift Work on Health”
Medical News Today provides an overview of the research on the effects of shift work on the physical and mental well-being of employees. "Although...
Inner Experience: From James Hillman’s Archetypal Psychology Towards a Liberation Psychology
From Acid Horizon: In this podcast, MIA Science News writer Micah Ingle discusses the work of archetypal psychologist James Hillman and its implications for anti-capitalist politics and other forms of activism.
“The Disrespectable Pharmaceutical Industry”
Psychologist Jeff Rubin summarizes some of the latest scandals out of the pharmaceutical industry and asks, “what can be done?”
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Treating Depression Often Lies in a Gray Zone
From The Washington Post: Doctors often turn first to antidepressants when treating patients with depression. However, the evidence shows that alternative treatments such as therapy...
“A More Comprehensive Approach to Ethical & Effective Prescribing”
Psychiatrist Mark Ragins writes in Community Psychiatrist about a new approach to his practice, "Prodded by Robert Whitaker’s books, I feel the need to...
How Can a Therapist Get the Most Out of Therapy?
In this piece for The Guardian, Susie Orbach describes the importance of therapists' own feelings and emotions in understanding and building relationships with their clients.
"Feelings are the...
“A Solution That Now Looks Crazy”: Review of E. Fuller Torrey’s American Psychosis
The New York Times reviews E. Fuller Torrey's book, American Psychosis, concluding "Few will disagree with his advice that we should focus our resources...
Can Auditing Scientific Research Fix its Reproducibility Crisis?
"The study predicts that audits would reduce the number of false positive results from 30.2 per 100 papers to 12.3 per 100—far from perfect,...
The Biases of Western Medicine | Gabor Maté, MD
From Sustainable Human: Western medicine has a number of hidden ideological beliefs that hinder our understanding and resolution of illnesses, whether physical or mental.
As Suicides Rise, Insurers Find Ways to Deny Mental Health Coverage
From Bloomberg: "There’s an incentive for managed-care companies to do the wrong thing, because they know that at the end of the day they don’t stand to be punished monetarily."
Mainstream Mental Health Services Are a Disaster
From Uncancelled: Mental health services have become the mouthpieces of an industry of decontextualising and individualising hurt, fear, sadness, and anger.
How Doctors’ Bias Leads to Unfair and Unsound Medical Triage
From Aeon: When someone is sick or needs the help of a physician, who should decide what is appropriate — what blood tests and imaging studies...
A Politics of Care: How the Science of ACEs Deepens Our Emotional Vocabulary
From SuzanneZeedyk.com: In the 21st century, we find ourselves at the very beginning of a public consciousness of the ‘catastrophic burden’ of emotional poverty.
Cultural Confusion: The Shifting Line Between Sane and “Unsane”
From STAT: An unprecedented number of Americans have been diagnosed with a mental, behavioral, or emotional disorder. Does this represent an increase in psychological distress...
“Still Crazy After All These Years: Psychiatric Lock-Down Returns To The US”
For Activist Post, Janet Phelan reports on the new psychiatric hospitals being built in droves across the US. She connects the increase in psychiatric...
12% of Us Suffer from the Disorder of Healthy Eating?
-A researcher tells Psychiatry Advisor that 5-12% of the population has "orthorexia nervosa," the "disorder" of "obsessively" researching about and eating healthy foods.
Precarious Jobs Scar Employees’ Mental Health: Survey
From the Toronto Star: According to a new survey of more than 4,000 workers by the Ontario Federation of Labor, precarious jobs can have a significant...
Mental Health Industry Should Embrace Choices Beyond Drugs
In this video for NowThis, Yana Jacobs critiques the mental health industry standard of prescribing drugs as the first-line treatment for "mental illness." She emphasizes...
