Sunday Humor: Arguments for “Chemical Imbalance Not Otherwise Specified”
Dr. Methodius Isaac Bonkers of the Bonkers Institute for Nearly Genuine Research puts forth a series of partially incomplete and generally imprecise arguments in...
What Distinguishes “Antipsychiatry”?
University of Toronto lecturer Bonnie Burstow discusses the key elements that distinguish the antipsychiatry perspective from mad, critical psychiatry, psych survivor and other perspectives...
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...
On the Quest to Understand Computational Psychiatry
Boston WBUR public radio intern Suzanne Jacobs goes on a journey to find out what “computational psychiatry” is, and has some difficulty determining if...
What are Stimulants’ Effects on Anxiety?
Psychiatrist Richard Friedman argues in the New York Times that there are aspects of natural brain development that make teenagers more prone to both...
On Mentally Ill People Dealing with “Sane” People’s Violence
Jack Bragen writes in the Berkeley Daily Planet about the impacts on people's minds of the war and violence going on around them. "Someone...
It Feels Better to be Allowed to Feel Bad
Today discusses a new study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology that found people with low self-esteem don’t like it when...
“Why Most Published Research Findings are False” Passes One Million Views
“The problem is when you come up with something really unusual, because there are hardly any standard venues for real innovation or out-of-the-box endeavors,”...
Unexplained Removal of Vermont Psychiatric Survivors Director
Nancy Remsen discusses in the Burlington Free Press the unexplained removal of executive director Linda Corey after 15 years representing Vermont Psychiatric Survivors. Corey...
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...
