Scottish Report: Poverty and Mental Health Strongly Linked
-People from Scotland's most deprived areas are more than three times as likely to be treated for mental illness than those in more affluent communities.
“A Nonbeliever Tries To Make Sense Of The Visions She Had As A Teen”
"People have these unaccountable mystic experiences," Barbara Ehrenreich tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross about her new book, Living With a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search...
How Many Times Must a Frightened, Troubled Person Be Shot?
-Law student Renwei Chung discusses the current Supreme Court case looking at police shootings of people with disabilities.
Online Collective Art Gallery Created in Crisis
The New York Times Magazine reports on how a woman suffering in depression ended up founding an online art gallery for photographers struggling through...
“Mental Health Care Bill Hits House Amid Concerns”
The Boston Herald reports on mental health care reform bills moving through both houses of Congress. Lawmakers warn, however, “that some aspects of the legislation could create greater barriers to access mental health care for some.”
“Yoga Lowers Inmates’ Aggression and Anxiety”
"Incarcerated thieves, drug dealers and murderers may not be the typical group you imagine doing yoga," says Scientific American, "but recent studies show that...
“You’re Making Your Depression Worse: Self-Help is Bringing Us Down”
Salon magazine reflects on "The Puzzling Reality . . . that human depression is increasing in an era when environmental conditions are relatively benign. The average citizen...
“Being the Empowered Patient”
Monica Cassani writes about what, and how much, it takes to be an empowered patient: "I was a mental health professional for so many...
“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...
Sunday History Channel: 1,000 Case Records from Victorian Asylum Released
The Wellcome Library has digitized and publicly released for free viewing the complete records of over 1,000 people who were incarcerated at the Ticehurst...
Remembering Marvin Minsky and Artificial Intelligence
Radio Boston remembers Marvin Minsky, MIT professor and founder of the artificial intelligence field. “Most importantly, Marvin Minsky changed the way think about the...
Sunday Humor: Arguments for “Chemical Imbalance Not Otherwise Specified”
Dr. Methodius Isaac Bonkers of the Bonkers Institute for Nearly Genuine Research puts forth a series of partially incomplete and generally imprecise arguments in...
“Makers of OxyContin Bankroll Efforts to Undermine Prescription Painkiller Reform”
The Intercept reports that the pharmaceutical companies that manufacture and market opioid painkillers have funded a number of groups designed to fight prescription drug reform.
“Watching Too Much TV in Your 20s May Impact How Your Brain Works in...
The Washington Post reports on a new study in JAMA Psychiatry that shows that watching more than 3 hours of television a day in...
Update on DSM-5 by 1 Boring Old Man
1 Boring Old Man does a status analysis of the DSM-5, finding that the DSM-5 has moved beyond the restraint of earlier versions, which...
Tenacity Pays Off For a Swedish Journalist
Bob Fiddaman writes about Janne Larsson, whose dogged journalism brought to light closely-guarded information that revealed the true extent of antidepressant-related suicides associated with...
“Emerging Ideas in Brain Science”
In Metapsychology Online Reviews, Roy Sugarman discusses the latest Cerebrum Anthology, which examines "Emerging Ideas in Brain Science." The book, Sugarman writes, covers topics...
“The Post-Irene Mental Health System of Care”
-Hurricane Irene seems to have left some community-based approaches to psychiatric care in its wake.
“Is Britain Hooked on Happy Pills?”
The Telegraph provides a forum for Joanna Moncrieff: "The use of antidepressants continues its inexorable rise. Since the early 1990s the number of prescriptions...
Who Determines Efficacy?
1 Boring Old Man reflects on his work with children and adolescents, in which he directly observes the troubling effects of antidepressants, and the...
“Do we Need to Change the way we Are Thinking About Mental Illness?”
Britain's Guardian offers "experts on both sides of the debate over the classification of mental disorders" an opportunity to make their case.
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The Dangers of Getting “Diagnosed”
-"When we treat diagnosis as simply a medical issue, we mask the tremendous social power involved in putting a name to human suffering."
“How We Learned to Stop Worrying About People and Love the Bombing”
For Tom Dispatch, historian Rick Shenkman “explores the biological phenomena that may well underpin our appalling lack of empathy, the animal instincts that allow so many of us to stand by in the face of unspeakable acts,” and “how the stories we tell ourselves and others might offer us a path to overcome our utterly human inhumanity.”
Senators: Focusing on Mental Health Laws Easier than Dealing with Gun Control
-National Journal reports that some Republican and Conservative senators alike recognize a need for gun control legislation, but say it's easier to focus on restrictive mental health regulations instead.
“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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