“The Isolating Effects of Anxiety”
-Daniel Yudkin discusses studies examining some of the ways in which anxiety can change how people think, and inhibit social connections and understanding.
Chicago Closed Many of Its Free Mental Health Clinics, So West Siders Opened Their...
From Block Club Chicago: The community-funded center offers a wide scope of services managed by Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago, including individual and group counseling, with a special focus on trauma and substance abuse.
FDA Signs Off on First Medical Device for Treating ADHD in Children
From USA TODAY: The Monarch eTNS connects via wire to a small patch placed on the forehead of the patient, generating a low-level electrical pulse to the brain.
“Is Science Really Better than Journalism at Self-correction?”
-A co-founder of Retraction Watch suggests editors of scientific and medical journals could learn some things from Rolling Stone about correcting errors.
What Do We Really Know about Neuroplasticity?
In a Scientific American blog post, Gary Stix reviews some of the latest research into brain "neuroplasticity," including an experiment where mice with induced...
Our Obsession with Wealth and Youth is Making Us Insane
In this interview for Broadly, Lauren Greenfield speaks about her new documentary, "Generation Wealth," which takes a sobering look at our societal addiction to the...
“Shouting, Voting and Not Much Science: How Sexuality Becomes ‘Mental Illness’”
Tracy Clark-Flory describes “how subject to changing scientific understandings and, sometimes, even political influence the DSM can be-perhaps especially when it comes to sexuality.”
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“Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology, and Psychotherapy: The Question of Politics”
Psychiatric Times explores "the general possibility of psychiatry being defined by the political environment in which it operates… "
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PubPeer Trying To Rally Post-publication Peer Review Forces
-Vox interviews the founders of a platform for sharing peer reviews of scientific articles.
Government Review Finds 10% of Drugs Dispensed in England Are Pointless
From The Guardian: GPs will be urged to boost "social prescribing" instead and to call millions of patients in for medication reviews to see if there are any pills they can stop taking.
Therapeutic Alliance: Implications for Practice and Policy
In this piece for Psychiatric Services, Dr. Sandra Steingard comments on the implications of a recent meta-analysis demonstrating the positive effects of the therapeutic alliance on pharmacologic...
“Boiling Frustration” Among Protesting Psychiatrists
AlterNet has published a feature story about prominent critical psychiatrist and MIA Foreign Correspondent David Healy, who "says his output and reputation have had...
Mental Imagery, Pain and Healing
-Mental "imagery" plays a role in psychological suffering prompted by vivid memories, and also in healing modalities such as creative visualization.
A Case Against Antidepressants
From Newsroom: University of Auckland researchers make a case against the chemical imbalance theory of mental illness, arguing that biological explanations and treatments for emotional...
“I Truly Wish I Never Went to a Mental Health Service”
From The Age: " Premier Daniel Andrews on Wednesday pledged to hold a royal commission into the state’s mental health system, in a surprise...
These Teens Got Therapy. Then They Got Worse.
From The Atlantic: It feels like we should be able to just sit teens down and tell them how to be happier. But that doesn’t seem to work, and sometimes it even backfires.
How a Bench and a Team of Grandmothers Can Tackle Depression
From the BBC: "'A lot of people thought it was a ridiculous idea,' says. 'My colleagues told me, "This is nonsense."'
Lacking any other...
Closing the Asylums
In this piece for Jacobin, John Foot describes the Italian psychiatrist Franco Basaglia's efforts to revolutionize the mental health system in Italy. Basaglia sparked a...
Routine Anxiety Screenings Will Cause Overdiagnosis, Overprescription, Psychologist Warns
From Fox News: "You can’t just carve the world into 'disorders' and think you’re doing an adequate job of determining someone’s mental health needs," said UCSF professor Dr. Jonathan Shedler.
“As Americans Increasingly Seethe at Big Pharma’s Money Racket, Govt Is Coddling Its Power...
Martha Rosenberg, for AlterNet: “Pharma may be becoming one of the public's most reviled sectors but the U.S. government is in the process of...
Psychiatry Group Tells Members They Can Ignore Goldwater Rule
From STAT: The American Psychoanalytic Association has given its members permission to ignore the "Goldwater rule" and comment publicly on the mental state of government...
The Opioid Diaries
From TIME: Over the past year, photographer James Nachtwey set out to document the opioid crisis, the worst addiction epidemic in American history. Here, Nachtwey's...
People Often “Hear Voices” While Reading
Many people "hear voices" of different kinds while reading -- what does this mean for research into auditory-verbal hallucinations?
Homogenization of Psychotherapy and Counseling
In this piece for Transcend Media Service, Dr. Anthony J. Marsella critiques the standardization of mental health treatment, arguing that it overlooks cultural and individual...
Years After My Son Died in NHS Care, State-Sanctioned Torture Continues
From The Guardian: I’m still puzzling over the peculiar inability of the government to even discuss whether the CQC report (and others like it) documents torture.
