“Dr. Lieberman’s 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" and Hearing Voices 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: "“Eighty 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 operates… "
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“The Psychiatric Drug Crisis”
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,...
“Beyond Addiction”: Free Online Conference With Gabor Maté
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...
“Small Talk Can Improve Health”
Scientific American reports on a March 25 article in 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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“The Great DNA Data Deficit: Are Genes for Disease a Mirage?”
In an article that contains implications for mental illness, GreenMedInfo reflects on the progress of identifying the genetic basis of medical illness. "What has...
“When Philosophy Meets Psychiatry”
The New York Times highlights the Maudsley Philosophy Group, a London seminar that includes psychiatrists, psychologists, philosophers and others interested in "looking at various...
“Bursting the Neuro-Utopian Bubble”
The New York Times' Opinionator page includes a meditation on the limits of brain research, with the reflection that "The real trouble with the...
“When Doctors Discriminate”
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...
“Lost in the Forest”: A Review of DSM-5
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...
“America’s Foster Care System: Test Lab For Big Pharma, Cash Cow For Caretakers?”
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...
“Lawyers of Sound Mind”
A New York Times editorial traces the route from diagnosis to a potential denial of admission to the bar.
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“The Nudge Debate”; “Science is not Your Enemy”
Two public thinkers contribute food for thought that fits, if obliquely, into the conversational pot-luck on MIA. The New York Times' David Brooks writes in...
“Crazy Pills”
The New York TImes presents an Op-Ed about Lariam - a malaria drug that causes amnesia, hallucinations, aggression, paranoia, and neurological problems - with...
“Science as Social Control: Political Paralysis and the Genetics Agenda”
A marvelous article on Truthout shows how a paper on the genetics of academic achievement - which found that only 2% of academic achievement...
“Neuroscientists and the Dalai Lama Swap Insights on Meditation”
A writer for Scientific American reflects, of the Dalai Lama's invitation to western scientists to introduce topics such as quantum mechanics and neuroscience to...
