Reminder: Taper Pets off their Psychiatric Medications
Salon has published an excerpt from Laurel Braitman’s book Animal Madness, in which she notes that the U.S. market for pet pharmaceuticals was $6.68...
Video Interview with Justina Pelletier
Fox CT has posted a video of their full 17-minute interview of teen Justina Pelletier by journalist Beau Berman, shortly after Justina's release from...
Homeless crisis needs “transcendence of the nation state”
A scholar who spent 12 years working with homeless people summarizes his perspectives on how homelessness relates to “mental illness” in the Georgia Straight....
Nice doctors achieve better depression outcomes
Psychiatric Times has published a discussion of the research comparing the effectiveness of antidepressant medications under different conditions. “First, there seem to be no...
Psychiatrists debate forced treatment laws
Psychiatrists debated forced treatment at the American Psychiatric Association annual meeting in May. George Szmukler, a King’s College professor of psychiatry, is quoted by...
China Mills Talks Back to the Movement for Global Mental Health
The Movement for Global Mental Health Newsletter has published a substantive interview with one of the movement's most prominent critics, China Mills, author of...
Shaman: Mental illness is “good news from the other world”
Mental disorders are spiritual emergencies, according to Malidoma Patrice Somé in “What a Shaman Sees in a Mental Hospital” published in Earth. We are...
What’s driving the increase in child medicating?
National Institute of Mental Health Director Thomas Insel suggests in his blog that the fact 4.3% of American children are taking psychostimulants may not...
Rising Movement To Replicate Key Psychology Studies
Should influential psychology research studies be replicable, as hard science studies commonly are? In a Guardian Headquarters blog post, Cardiff University cognitive neuroscientist Chris...
Feature Story on Carl Elliott’s Ethics Advocacy
The magazine Science has published a feature story about MIA Blogger Carl Elliott and his years of efforts to get the University of Minnesota...
“Why Are Our Toddlers Being Prescribed Antipsychotic Drugs?”
The Melbourne Herald Sun reports that "The prescription of some atypical antipsychotics has more than doubled . . . Psychiatrist Dr George Halasz who has been vocal about...
“Voluntary Mental Health Services Will Deliver Better Outcomes”
Eduardo Vega, executive director of the Mental Health Association of San Francisco, and Catherine Blakemore, executive director of Disability Rights California, write in the...
“Should a Mental Illness Mean You Lose Your Kid?”
Pro Publica publishes the story of Mindi, who has never harmed her daughter and is capably raising a son, but authorities took her daughter...
“Guns and Mental Illness”
New York Times columnist Joe Nocera writes that E. Fuller Torrey "believes that the country should involuntarily commit more mentally ill people, not only...
“Elliot Rodger and the NRA Myth: How the Gun Lobby Scapegoats Mental Illness”
Salon discusses, in light of the most recent mass killing in Santa Barbara, how "rather than emphasize the crisis of guns in America, the media...
“Why Can’t Doctors Identify Killers?”
The New York Times posts a commentary by psychiatrist Richard Friedman, noting that "What most people don’t know is that drug and alcohol abuse...
“Prescription Drugs More Deadly Than Car Accidents, Guns, and Suicide”
The Daily Beast reports that "the US, which holds 5 percent of the world’s population, is responsible for 75 percent of global prescription drug...
“A Revolutionary Approach to Treating PTSD”
The New York Times Profiles Bessel van der Kolk, and the controversial approaches to working with trauma, such as yoga and "tapping," that he...
“Drugged Up: Psychiatry is over-reliant on chemical cures. It’s Time to Look at the...
Psychiatrist Bob Johnson writes in IAI News, "If ever there were a case for an outside body to let the light in, then it’s...
“You Don’t Always Know What You’re Saying”
Among the reasons for listening carefully to others, this article in Nature adds, "People's conscious awareness of their speech often comes after they've spoken,...
“Drug Firms Have Used Dangerous Tactics to Drive Sales to Treat Kids”
Dr. Mercola writes that "the high rates of psychotropic drug use among foster children and poor children is likely a direct result of drug...
“Mental Illness Plagued Student Who Leaped From Niagara Falls”
Greg Young, who leapt to his death from the top of Niagara Falls, "had been on numerous medications, all of which came with warnings...
“Let Dogs Be Dogs”
The New York Times invites a discussion on the growing use of psychotropic medication for pets, with author of "How the Dog Became the...
“A Soldier Fights Off the Cold”
A soldier's story, in the New York Times, speaks for more than people in the military: "I feel an obligation to tell my story,...
“‘Greyhound Therapy’ and America’s Mental Health Crisis”
Dan Rather reports on the practice of "patient dumping;" giving psychiatric patients a one-way ticket to someplace they've never been before, with instructions to...
