Require Black Box Warnings to Explicitly Name and Describe Akathisia
A Change.org petition is calling for attention to a serious patient safety issue involving psychiatric medications and the inadequate warning of a potentially life-threatening...
What is Mental Health? Toward an Empathic and Efficacious Psychiatry
A Grand Rounds psychiatry talk at Sutter Health Berkeley, CA by neuroscientist Peter Sterling.
Nursing Homes Falsely Diagnose Patients as Schizophrenic to Sedate Them, Report Says
From MedPage Today. Dementia patients are given antipsychotics, which FDA warns may increase the risk for death.
"Nursing home staff overdiagnoses their dementia patients with...
Sadism as Psychotherapy
From the Los Angeles Review of Books, written by Andrew Scull.
Jon Stock’s recent book examines the deplorable career of prominent psychiatrist Willam Sargant and...
Surviving the Pain of an Authoritarian Demagogue Any Way We Can
From CounterPunch by Bruce E Levine: "Until recently, the predominant life pains that I have long seen in my psychologist day job include: abusive...
Veterans Who Depend on Mental Health Care Keep Losing Their Therapists Under Trump
From ProPublica: “Hundreds of mental health professionals left the Department of Veterans Affairs since President Donald Trump took office.
“This administration is finally going to...
Why I no Longer Think Autism is a Spectrum
From the Times Educational Supplement Magazine. "The autism spectrum has widened to the point of collapse, affecting how teachers should support autistic pupils in...
Mental Health and Sickness Benefits: Lessons From History
Are we spending too much on welfare by classifying people who could work as mentally ill?
Royal College of Psychiatrists Lied About Psychiatric Diagnoses and Drugs on BBC
From Peter Gøtzsche's Substack: "There is a mental health crisis in the UK where mental health disability has almost trebled in recent decades, and...
Make it Sh*tty: A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator
A public information film from the Norwegian Consumer Council…
There are no Psychopaths
From Aeon: "Virtually everything you think you know about psychopathy has been thoroughly debunked. Why does this zombie idea live on?
In modern science, psychopaths...
As AI Enters the Operating Room, Reports Arise of Botched Surgeries and Misidentified Body...
From Reuters. "In 2021, a unit of healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson announced “a leap forward”: It had added artificial intelligence to a medical...
‘What I See in Clinic is Never a set of Labels’: Are we in...
From The Guardian. "We have developed a tendency to categorise mild to moderate mental and emotional distress as a necessarily clinical problem rather than...
Trend Toward Involuntary Electroshock Therapy Spurs Difficult Debate
From The CT Examiner. "He remembers saying no. No to shock therapy. The procedure was something he had thought about after his psychologist and...
Troubled Teen Industry Rocked by Lawsuits, Sexual Assault Charges
From MindSite News by Art Levine. "Universal Health Services Inc., one of the largest operators of behavioral health facilities in the country, was pulled...
Radical Changes Could be Coming to ‘Psychiatry’s Bible’
From CNN. "The American Psychiatric Association announced Wednesday that it is radically reconceptualizing the main manual that clinicians use to make a mental health...
When Hospitals Use Spit Hoods on Patients, No One is Watching
From The Seattle Times: "A patient was already tied to the bed, their ankles and wrists bound by thick Velcro straps.
From behind, a mental...
Alzheimer’s Drug Developers Accuse Clinical Trial Sites of Faking Data
From Science.org. "T3D Therapeutics alleges that contract researchers delivered “medically impossible” results on its candidate drug.
In 2023, the drug developer T3D Therapeutics glimpsed a...
Why Does Canada Have Such High Rates of Forced Psychiatric Hospitalizations?
From PsychForce Report by Rob Wipond. "New laws to expand involuntary commitment have recently been implemented, or are under discussion in Manitoba, Alberta, British...
Peter Gotzsche Defends RFK Jr.’s Criticisms of Antidepressants
In a Substack column, Peter Gotzsche defends RFK Jr.'s criticisms of antidepressants and writes that two professors, Stephen B. Soumerai, professor of population medicine...
H.H.S. Reverses Decision to Cut $2 Billion for Mental Health and Addiction Services
From The New York Times (free account or subscription may be required).
"Less than 24 hours after the Trump administration informed more than 2,000 addiction...
Trump Administration Sends Letter Wiping out Addiction, Mental Health Grants
From NPR. "The Trump administration sent shockwaves through the U.S. mental health and drug addiction system late Tuesday, sending hundreds of termination letters, effective...
The Chatbot-Delusion Crisis
From The Atlantic (free trial required). "Researchers are scrambling to figure out why generative AI appears to lead some people to a state of...
Reflecting on Yet Another Year of Scientific Fraud at Univ. of Minnesota
From The Minnesota Star Tribune by Carl Elliot. "For over six years, I and a group of colleagues tried to get an investigation into...
The Poetics of Psychotherapy: Why Clinicians Need the Psychological Humanities
From Psychology Today written by Justin Karter: "Clinical work often brings you to the edge of language. A person tries to render panic, the...
