Teen With Autism Locked in Solitary Confinement, Fed Through Hatch
From i News: "Bethany is 17 years old. She is a girl who likes Bob Marleyâs music, spending time with animals and being outside....
How to Build a Culture of Good Health | Gabor Maté, MD
From Yes! Magazine: The medical profession is traumaphobic, and the results for patient careâwhether physical or psychiatricâare devastating.
Antidepressant Tapering Platform ‘Outro’ Launches in Canada Ahead of World Tapering Day
From Business Wire: "We are providing a science-based and holistic way to help people safely stop antidepressants while minimizing withdrawal symptoms and risk of relapsing," said Outro co-founder Mark Horowitz.
Depression and Suicide Linked to Air Pollution in New Global Study
From The Guardian: Scientists say small increases in risk can still result in harm to many people because more than 90% of the global population lives with air pollution above WHO-recommended levels.
When the Revolution Came for Amy Cuddy
From The New York Times Magazine: The work of Amy Cuddy, a social psychologist best known for her research and viral TED talk on "power...
“Not a Peep”: 1BoringOldMan Uncrosses His Fingers
Having had an open letter on his website linked through a pair of crossed fingers on his website for some time, 1BoringOldMan gives up...
Lived Wisdom on Panic, Worry and Isolation
From The Dulwich Centre: "Some of us were thinking during this period of global concern with COVID-19 about the idea of knowledges earned through...
Neuroscientists Too Often Exceed Chance Levels Only By Chance
-The findings of many neuroscientific studies are really just random background noise.
âAntipsychotics During Pregnancy Not Tied to Birth Defectsâ
The New York Times Well blog reports on a new study, in JAMA Psychiatry, which found that antipsychotic medicines during pregnancy do not increase the...
A Young Black Mother Died During Treatment for Postpartum Depression. Her Family Demands Answers
From The City: Denise Williams's family still doesn't know why the 29-year-old mother of two died after going to New York's Queens Hospital Center last month.
Once Radical Critiques of Psychiatry Are Now Mainstream, So What Remains Taboo?
From CounterPunch: While it is not taboo to report psychiatryâs poor treatment outcomes, it is taboo to blame these poor outcomes on psychiatry.
Difficult Decisions About Antidepressants
In this piece for Research with Plymouth University, Richard Byng discusses the difficulty that both doctors and patients experience in discerning the effectiveness of antidepressants in...
“This Needs to Stop”
Electroshock survivor Nancy Rubstein and professor, author, and antipsychiatry theorist Dr. Bonnie Burstow were recently interviewed for CTV News Channel about Dr. Burstow's new book, The...
7 Patients Sue Arkansas Psychiatrist for False Imprisonment
From Insider: "The scheme is this: Get as many patients in the door as possible, keep them there for as long as possible â even if that means illegally keeping them beyond the 72-hour hold, and holding them against their will," said an attorney working on the case.
âHow Poverty Affects Childrenâs Brainsâ
New research is investigating how âpoverty reduction promotes cognitive and brain development.â
“Mental Health Bill Caters to Big Pharma and Would Expand Coercive Treatments”
Oryx Cohen at TruthOut explains why the "Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act (HR 2646) - commonly known as the 'Murphy Bill' - appears to cater more closely to the desires of pharmaceutical companies than to the actual needs of people in psychological distress, perhaps because of Murphy's connections to key lobbyists." "If the Murphy Bill is passed, psychiatric hospitals and pharmaceutical companies will reap huge financial benefits as a result of increased hospitalization and forced treatment."
How About Paying Poor People to Take Psychiatric Drugs?
-Healthy Debate discusses some experiments with doctors paying their patients to engage in healthier behaviors.
9 Arrested so far in Patient-Abuse Scandal at Whiting Forensic
From the Hartford Courant: Nine state mental health workers at Whiting Forensic have been arrested and charged with cruelty to persons in the largest patient-abuse...
A Quiet Drug Problem Among the Elderly
From The New York Times: Use of benzodiazepines has risen among seniors despite their increased vulnerability to the drugs' adverse effects.
"'Set aside the opioid issue,'...
When Researchers Listen to People Who Hear Voices
From Yale Medicine Magazine: The line between 'mental illness' and genius has long been known to be razor-thin. Clairaudients, or psychics who hear voices, are helping clarify the connection.
“Inheriting Stress”
The author of a November, 2013 article in Biological Psychiatry, on the effects of pre-pregnancy stress that manifest in the offspring of rats over...
Psychologists Respond to Mental Health Crisis at the Border
From The American Psychological Association PsycIQ: "When three women who had been forcibly separated from their children by immigration officials filed a lawsuit on June...
Students Sue Oxford University for Mental Health Discrimination
From Express: Catherine Dance, a 24-year-old law graduate, is suing Oxford University's Jesus College for refusing to grant accommodations for her mental health disability and forcing...
Farming with Pesticides Linked to Increased Suicidal Depression
Exposure to pesticides is linked to significant increases in suicidal depression in farmers, according to a study by US National Institute of Health researchers...
Can You Punish a Child’s Mental Health Problems Away?
From The New York Times: Future generations will look back on the tactics used in the troubled teen industry and ask: How did we allow these practices to pass off as mental health treatment for so long?
