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Peter Breggin reviews the research on antidepressants, in the Huffington Post, finding evidence that "any initial improvements are often followed by treatment resistance and...

Brainblogger considers the possibility that the primary characteristics of schizophrenia - deficits in affective, social, physical and intellectual functioning - may actually reflect the...

"For drugs designed for a relatively small number of very disturbed patients, antipsychotics are now among the most profitable drugs in the world, just...

John Horgan of Scientific American writes "Once again, antidepressants have been linked to an episode of horrific violence. The New York Times reports that Aaron...

Behaviorism and Mental Health takes note of a new blog by Jeffrey Lieberman, the president of the APA, in which he claims both that...

Alternet reviews two new books, ("One Nation Under Stress: The Trouble with Stress as an Idea", and "How Everyone Became Depressed: The Rise and...

Joanna Moncrieff, author of "The Bitterest Pills," recounts the history of antipsychotics, concluding "The way antipsychotics have been misrepresented, their benefits inflated, their dangers...

Tanya Luhrmann writes in The New York Times about how "schizophrenia" and Hearing Voices manifest - and are responded to - in different parts of the...

The New York Times echoes the "Rat Park" experiment in an article that quotes a researcher: "“Eighty to 90 percent of people who use...

Salon magazine takes a look at the DSM/RDoC controversy/dilemma, concluding "A world in which we have blood tests for mental disorders is probably far...

The famous Rat Park experiment, which showed that rats given the opportunity for social connections ignored drugs, gets another round of well-deserved attention on...

Psychiatric Times explores "the general possibility of psychiatry being defined by the political environment in which it operates… " Article →

Gary Greenberg write in the New Yorker that "the psychiatric-drug industry is in trouble… In the past few years, one pharmaceutical giant after another—GlaxoSmithKline,...

Renown author Gabor Maté hosts a free online conference September 28-October2, addressing "the big 5 addictions: Drugs, Alcohol, Food, Sex, and Money. As well...

Scientific American reports on a March 25 article in  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that finds that even superficial contact with people...

The New Yorker's Adam Gopnik explores the controversial value of brain science. Article →

Beyond Meds offers a collection of posts that look at the "mental illness" system from a variety of perspectives. Article →  

Aeon Magazine tells of how, historically, psychoses and emerging technologies often go hand-in-hand. Article →

In an article that contains implications for mental illness, GreenMedInfo reflects on the progress of identifying the genetic basis of medical illness. "What has...

The New York Times highlights the Maudsley Philosophy Group, a London seminar that includes psychiatrists, psychologists, philosophers and others interested in "looking at various...

The New York Times' Opinionator page includes a meditation on the limits of brain research, with the reflection that "The real trouble with the...

Sunday's New York Times' Opinion page includes this opine: "If you met me, you’d never know I was mentally ill. In fact, I’ve gone...

A review in The London Review of Books of the DSM-5 concludes "The DSM is not a representation of the nature or reality of the...

MintPress reports that over half of America's foster children are on some form of psychiatric medication, and tells the story of some for whom...

A New York Times editorial traces the route from diagnosis to a potential denial of admission to the bar. Article →