“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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“Thereās no way to Identify Dangerous Psychiatric Patients”
From The National: "ā¦ People with such problems do commit extreme acts of violence. But so do the mentally healthy. AĀ 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, Ā potential violence and worsened depression, and the APA's recent recommendation to "reconsider...
“Psychotherapyās Image Problem”
From the New York Times: "Psychotherapy is in declineā¦ This is not necessarily for a lack of interest. A recent analysis of 33 studies...
“New Research: Antidepressants Can Cause Long-Term Depression”
Peter Breggin reviews the research on antidepressants, in the Huffington Post, finding evidence that "any initial improvements are often followed by treatment resistance and...
“Learned Helplessness as a Correlate of Psychosis”
Brainblogger considers the possibility that the primary characteristics of schizophrenia - deficits in affective, social, physical and intellectual functioning - may actually reflect the...
“Why ARE so Many People Being Labelled Bipolar?”
"For drugs designed for a relatively small number of very disturbed patients, antipsychotics are now among the most profitable drugs in the world, just...
“Did Antidepressant Play a Role in Navy Yard Massacre?”
John Horgan of Scientific American writes "Once again, antidepressants have been linked to an episode of horrific violence. The New York Times reportsĀ that Aaron...
“Dr. Liebermanās Latest”
Behaviorism and Mental Health takes note of a new blog by Jeffrey Lieberman, the president of the APA, in which he claims both that...
“When Did Sadness Become a Disease? How We’ve Pathologized Everyday Life”
Alternet reviews two new books, ("One Nation Under Stress: The Trouble with Stress as an Idea", and "How Everyone Became Depressed: The Rise and...
“Story of Antipsychotics is one of Myth and Misrepresentation”
Joanna Moncrieff, author of "The Bitterest Pills," recounts the history of antipsychotics, concluding "The way antipsychotics have been misrepresented, their benefits inflated, their dangers...
“The Violence in Our Heads”
Tanya Luhrmann writes in The New York Times about how "schizophrenia" andĀ Hearing VoicesĀ manifest - and are responded to - in different parts of the...
“The Rational Choices of Crack Addicts”
The New York Times echoes the "Rat Park" experiment in an article that quotes a researcher: "āEighty to 90 percent of people who use...
“Psychiatry and Mental Illness: Has Science Gone Too Far?”
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...
“It’s Not the Morphine, It’s the Size of the Cage: Rat Park Experiment Upturns...
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...
“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 operatesā¦ "
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“The Psychiatric Drug Crisis”
Gary Greenberg write in the New Yorker that "the psychiatric-drug industry is in troubleā¦ In the past few years, one pharmaceutical giant after anotherāGlaxoSmithKline,...
“Beyond Addiction”: Free Online Conference With Gabor MatĆ©
Renown author Gabor MatƩ hosts a free online conference September 28-October2, addressing "the big 5 addictions: Drugs, Alcohol, Food, Sex, and Money. As well...
“Small Talk Can Improve Health”
Scientific American reports on a March 25 article in Ā Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that finds that even superficial contact with people...
“MINDLESS: The New Neuro-Skeptics.”
The New Yorker's Adam Gopnik explores the controversial value of brain science.
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“The Mental (Illness) System and Thoughts on Alternatives: a Collection”
Beyond Meds offers a collection of posts that look at the "mental illness" system from a variety of perspectives.
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“The Reality Show: Schizophrenics Used to See Demons and Spirits. Now They Talk About...
Aeon Magazine tells of how, historically, psychoses and emerging technologies often go hand-in-hand.
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