“Prisoners of the Psyche: Forced Psychiatry in Today’s Russia”
Compulsory psychiatric treatment of people accused of dissent has fallen from its former prevalence in Russia, with laws passed after the breakup of the...
“Suicidality by Diagnosis – ADHD”
Australia's The Stringer continues to follow the thread of concerns related to ADHD medication; suicidality in children given the drugs, health risks including liver damage...
“Logging In to the Brain’s Social Network”
NPR's Science Friday interviews the author of Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect on the connection between physical and social pain, and the biology of...
“State of the Re:Union Short: Soteria”
State of the Re:Union, a public radio project that tells "the story of America, one story at a time," devotes a show to stories...
“Suicide Begs Question: Time to Retire a Diagnosis?”
The death of Master Chef contestant Josh Marks, who committed suicide within 24 hours of receiving a schizophrenia diagnosis, inspires PsychCentral writer Patrick Tracey...
“Touching Strangers”
Beyond Meds brings our attention to photo project that brings strangers into intimate contact with each other, and observes the results.
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“The Not-So-Hidden Cause Behind the A.D.H.D. Epidemic”
The New York Times returns to the question of whether the explosion of ADHD diagnosis reflects a previously undetected population that was pathologically hyperactive,...
“Is Pain a Construct of the Mind?”
Subtitled "Pain is an emotion," Scientific American's portrait of Dennis Rogers, whose uncanny feats of strength seem predicated on his anomalous relationship to pain...
“The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry”
Scientific American says of Gary Greenburg's The Book of Woe "This is a landmark book about a landmark book . . . a picture so...
“Too Much Medicine Is Bad For Our Health”
Calling it "easily the most important meeting I ever attended," psychiatrist Allen Francis writes in Psychiatric Times about the “Preventing Overdiagnosis” conference at Dartmouth.
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“Crazy Like Us: How the U.S. Exports Its Models of Illness”
Psychology Today writes "The fears of many European psychiatrists may soon be realized. Earlier this week, Psychiatric News reported that the American Psychiatric Association has begun petitioning the...
“Psychiatrists Deeply Concerned For 5% Of Americans Who Approve Of Congress” (Satire)
The Onion satirizes the state of the state and/or the state of psychiatry, saying "the estimated 15.5 million Americans who approve of Congress are...
“Why Wunderink Matters”
Sandra Steingard writes in Community Psychiatrist about Lex Wunderink's study, published in the August JAMA Psychiatry, which found that people who discontinued medication have...
“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...
“Trauma Nation: Has the U.S. Become a Pharmacracy?”
ACES Too High, the trauma blog, analogizes the rise of medication to the concept of manifest destiny. Issues of personal responsibility, depletion of resources,...
“Off-Label Prescribing: What You Don’t Know Could Hurt You”
PharmaWatch Canada details the paradoxes of off-label prescribing, in which doctors may prescribe but pharmaceutical companies may not promote medication for conditions for which...
“The ‘Still Face’ Video Still Packs an Emotional Wallop”
ACES Too High, the blog about Adverse Childhood Experiences, recalls the excruciating experiment and films concerning the impact of childhood neglect. A one-year-old baby...
“Critics Claim Antidepressants Are Being Handed Out Like Sweets. Now Our Shocking Experiment Uncovers…...
The Mail sent three women to their doctors, reporting fictional symptoms of short-term, mild depression. Two walked out with prescriptions for medication, despite expressions...
“How Clean Underwear Saved a Life”
Psychiatrist Sharon Packer writes of the role that psychiatrists can play in making differential diagnoses, and a case of 'schizophrenia' reassessed in the emergency...
“Limited Progress Made in Schizophrenia Understanding and Treatment”
Psychiatric Times chronicles the peripatetic progress of "schizophrenia" research, from schizophrenogenic mothers to unspecified genetic lesions and back again via second-trimester embryonic insults, to...
“From the Streets to the Rx Pad: Do Party Drugs Have a Place in...
Psychiatric Times reflects on the rise of ketamine as an antidepressant, MDMA (ecstasy) for the treatment of PTSD, and cannabis' use for neuropathic pain...
“Dangerous Work: Behavioural Geneticists Must Tread Carefully to Prevent Their Research Being Misinterpreted”
Nature writes, of behavioral genetics, "Although the ability to investigate the genetic factors that underlie the heritability of traits such as intelligence, violent behaviour,...
“Changing Brains: Why Neuroscience is Ending The Prozac Era”
The Guardian reports that "The big money has moved from developing psychiatric drugs to manipulating our brain networks."
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“There’s no way to Identify Dangerous Psychiatric Patients”
From The National: "… People with such problems do commit extreme acts of violence. But so do the mentally healthy. A study published in the...
“The Violent Side Effects of Antidepressants that Many Ignore”
Dr. Mercola reviews the history of psychiatric medications' connection to mass shootings, potential violence and worsened depression, and the APA's recent recommendation to "reconsider...
