“Can You Be Just a Little ‘Psychopathic?'”
The Huffington Post" Jonathan Appel quotes C.H. Waddington in discussing Jon Ronson's TED Talk about the DSM-5; "There is a congruity between our apparatus...
“A Disease Called ‘Childhood’”
Allen Frances, writing in the New York Post, asks "Is a kid who is more interested in playing outside than sitting in a classroom...
“You Have One Mind, and Only You Have the Right to Change it”
The indefatigable Beyond Meds' Monica Cassani proffers a video from RX Benzo.org that concludes "you have only one mind, and only YOU have a right to...
“Depression, Desire, Addiction: Is Meditation the Answer to Changing Your Brain?”
The Huffington Post touches in on the mind/body connection.
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“A Must-Read for Mental Health Policy Makers: The New Edition of Mental Health and...
The Huffington Post reviews "the standard text for students of mental health policy", saying "the new edition focuses attention on several of the major controversies...
“How To Escape from a Psychiatric Hospital”
Speak Out Against Psychiatry offers this helpful primer on an important subject.
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“The Violent Disorder of Our Public Mind”
An article in Truthout asserts that "Since all human occurrences take place in society, it is obviously a truism that all insanity must, in...
Yoga and the Vagus Nerve
Monica Cassani explains that yoga can accomplish the same effect on the vagus nerve as implanted vagus-nerve stimulators.
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The Truth is Often Ugly…
Beyond Meds' Monica Cassani is amused and befuddled by critics who slam psychiatry then advise having "a doctor to help them withdraw from drugs…as...
“Child Who Just Lost Balloon Begins Lifelong Battle With Depression” (The Onion)
The humor newspaper The Onion satirizes the conversion of transient human emotions into lifelong illnesses, reporting that "Shortly after losing grip of a helium-filled...
A Review of the Debate over Antidepressants’ Safety and Efficacy in Children
Glen Spielmans, an associate professor of psychology, reviews the controversy over Robert Gibbons' studies which challenged the view that antidepressants are ineffective and cause...
“Psychiatry by Numbers”
A blog in Scientific American tells the story of Camille, who was prescribed a benzodiazepine despite her resistance and with reassurances regarding its addictiveness...
Ben Goldacre in the NY Times
Ben Goldacre writes that big pharma's history of publishing favorable data - like flipping a coin and hiding the result when it comes up...
“People with schizophrenia are significantly more likely to die from heart disease and cancer”
The Mental Elf reviews two years of studies on the health inequalities faced by people with severe mental illness, and a new one in...
The DSM as a Sacred Text for a Secular Community
The journal "Mental Health, Religion & Culture" offers "The diagnostic and statistical manual: sacred text for a secular community?", a paper by Elizabeth Ann...
“Too Much Coercion in Mental Health Services”
Richard Bentall writes in The Guardian on the "routine" coercion in the U.K. mental health services, and on patients who are "voluntary in name...
Sunshine Rule Making Progress
Pharmalot reports that the Sunshine Act, which is meant to make the financial connections between physicians, researchers and the pharmaceutical industry public, is coming...
“Why Will DSM-5 Cost $199 a Copy?”
Allen Frances writes in the Huffington Post on the "astounding" price jump of the DSM-5, speculating that the APA is counting on "captive" buyers...
“Author Of ‘Let Them Eat Prozac’ Links Psychiatric Medication to Teenage Violence”
The Inquisitr announces an upcoming interview with Dr. David Healy on their own site and covers conservative blog WMD's interview with him this week.
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“The Chill of Forced Incarceration and Psychiatric ‘Care'”
"When you make therapists have to report danger that means no one will feel safe talking… this does not make us safer. It in...
“Neuroplasticity: Enormous Implications for Anyone Who has been Labeled with a Psychiatric Illness”
Beyond Meds offers a compendium of our new knowledge about the ways we can change our brain's function and, in fact, its structure. "There...
Review of “All We Have to Fear: Psychiatry’s Transformation of Natural Anxieties Into Mental...
The American Journal of Psychiatry's Kenneth Kendler calls All We Have to Fear: Psychiatry’s Transformation of Natural Anxieties Into Mental Disorders "a coherent, well-argued and...
“As Diagnostic Thresholds Are Lowered, Being Normal Ends Up Being as Difficult as Being...
"We are in the process of turning the disease into the norm and where the normal becomes the exception. If this continues, we will...
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...
Parasites Can Alter Behavior
Science News reviews the prevalence of Toxoplasmosis Gondii in humans, and its effects on behavior. Though the connection of Gondii to schizophrenia is weak,...
