“ADHD Does Not Exist”
The New Republic assays into the the ripe fields of debate over the ADHD diagnosis.
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“Manic Researchers Announce They Are Hours Away From Cure For Depression” (Satire)
The satirical newspaper The Onion reports on a team of researchers who, "Speaking loudly and quickly without any notable pauses . . . Â announced...
“What is Mental Health? How Do We Create it?”
The Civic Commons, "a national network of independent therapy and life coaching centers" invites Mad in America readers "to join an international conversation on...
Kelly McGonigal: How to Make Stress Your Friend
This TED Talk sheds new light on stress. "... While stress has been made into a public health enemy, new research suggests that stress...
“Tim Gunn: On And Off The Runway, ‘Life Is A Big Collaboration'”
Avatar of equipoise Tim Gunn, reflecting on his two and a half years in a psychiatric hospital, offers some life advice to Terry Gross...
“Teach Medical Students How To Be Placebos”
On considering recent research that shows various modes of delivering treatments results in varying levels of placebo response,  medical student Karan Chhabra considers "What combination of...
“Is Everything You Know about Happiness Wrong?”
Sonja Lyubomirsky's book examines the false assumptions we all have about what makes us happy, and points in the direction of how to actually...
“All Joy and No Fun” – NY Times Book Review
Andrew Solomon's review of "All Joy and No Fun" by Jennifer Senior serves as a great reminder of the importance of good parenting -...
“How Big Pharma Brainwashes Americans Into Believing They’re Sick”
Alternet on the ways that "Big Pharma uses celebrities and other sneaky ways to sell diseases that may not exist."
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“Oliver Sacks: I Want to De-Stigmatise Hallucinations”
Oliver Sacks opines in NewScientist that "there's a common view, often shared by doctors, that hallucinations denote madness - especially if there's any hearing...
“Prescription Drugs Lead to Growing Problem of Infant Addiction”
Ten years ago, infants born with drug addictions was associated with street drugs. But the rise of prescription drug addiction in the past ten...
“Diagnosing Mental Illness in Ancient Greece and Rome”
The Atlantic interviews William V. Harris, author of Mental Disorders in the Classical World, about "how the ancient Greeks and Romans approached mental illness and...
“Cannabis Has Been Studied More Than Many FDA Approved Pharmaceuticals”
High Times points out that, with over 20,000 published studies or reviews in the scientific literature that reference cannabis and its active components, science...
“For the Mentally Ill, It’s Worse”
The New York Times' Joe Nocera notes the republication of “Is There No Place on Earth for Me?”, Susan Sheehan's 1982 book about Maxine Mason's journey....
“Forget the Headlines – Schizophrenia is More Common Than You Might Think”
Despite the headline, this article in The Guardian reviews the notion that schizophrenia is "a wide range of often unrelated conditions, all of which...
“Are All Psychological Therapies Equally Effective? Don’t Ask the Dodo”
The Guardian reviews the hypothesis that all therapies are equal, in light of recent evidence, finding that ". . . we shouldn't assume that the...
“5 Shady Ways Big Pharma May Be Influencing Your Doctor”
Alternet reviews the ways that "Pharma can entice doctors to prescribe its expensive patent drugs, even when they are dangerous."
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“Psychiatrists From Another Dimension”
Neuroskeptic reviews the implications of the new/old interest in "dimensional" diagnosis in DSM-5 (which involves acknowledgment of symptoms across categories of diagnosis, rather than...
“Benzodiazepine Withdrawal as Told by a Woman in the Midst of it…”
A stirringly told story of benzodiazepine withdrawal. Beyond Meds adds helpful information and links, as well.
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“A Toast Story”
Giulietta Carelli started the Trouble Coffee & Coconut Club and, inadvertently, San Francisco's craze for artisanal toast.  "More than a café, the shop is a...
“A Solution That Now Looks Crazy”: Review of E. Fuller Torrey’s American Psychosis
The New York Times reviews E. Fuller Torrey's book, American Psychosis, concluding "Few will disagree with his advice that we should focus our resources...
“The Influence of the American Mental Health Paradigm Cross-Culturally”
DXSummit details the ways that the American approach to mental health care has spread around the world, concluding "Perhaps it is time to start...
“Misuse of ADHD Label as Symptom of a Broken Health Care System”
Pediatrician Claudia Gold writes "The economic reality of primary care practice, due in large part to the administrative costs of managing a huge array...
“Integrated Models in Psychiatry: the State of the Art”
An editorial in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology explores status of the "tenuous" relationship position of social psychiatry, "given psychiatry's primary orientation to the...
“Statistical Terms Used in Research Studies; a Primer for Journalists”
Harvard University provides this primer on basic statistics; helpful for anyone trying to parse daunting research studies.
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