Mindfulness in Schools Does Not Improve Mental Health, Study Finds
From The Guardian: Students who engaged with the meditation practice benefitted but many were bored by it, say researchers in the UK.
The Biology of Loss: Recognizing Impaired Attachments & Fostering Resilience | Gabor Maté, MD
From BC Provincial Health Services Authority: Dr. Gabor Maté illuminates the sources of developmental challenges, childhood and adult mental disorders, and physical health issues as originating in the prenatal, perinatal, and early childhood periods.
Opinion: Changes to the Mental Health Act Must Prioritize Human Rights
From The Journal: A group of Irish academics and people with lived experience advocate for a human rights–based approach to treatment under proposed laws.
The Protective Power of Delusions
From Psychology Today/Justin Garson, PhD: If delusions are playing a protective role, you don’t want to target them as if they're the disease itself, as doing so can cause even more harm.
How Society Gaslights Survivors of Narcissistic, Sociopathic & Psychopathic Abuse
From Self-Care Haven by Shahida Arabi: Not only does secondary gaslighting from other people further isolate the survivor, it also hinders the healing process.
What’s Wrong With Students? No—What’s Wrong With Colleges?
From Inside Higher Ed: Rather than blame students for a lack of well-being, colleges should consider institutional factors that contribute to the student mental health crisis, say two college counseling directors.
What It’s Like Living With Voices in Your Head
From KERA/Think: Some people who hear voices are actually choosing to embrace them rather than seeking to silence them. Caroline Mazel-Carlton discusses her experience with voices and her work to change how 'mental illness' is viewed.
“Mental Health Units” in Prison Are Solitary Confinement by Another Name, Activists Say
From Truthout: According to a new report by the HALT Solitary and the Mental Health Alternatives to Solitary Confinement campaigns, isolating 'mentally ill' prisoners as punishment still happens fairly frequently in New York despite laws designed to protect them.
Post-Woke Podcast: Does Psychiatry Do More Harm Than Good? w/Bruce Levine
From Post-Woke: New York City–based activist Mickey Z. interviews psychologist Bruce E. Levine on his new book, A Profession Without Reason, about the crisis of contemporary psychiatry.
World Tapering Day: November 5, 2022
From World Tapering Day: World Tapering Day is a worldwide event to increase awareness of the fact that psychotropic drugs need to be tapered much more slowly than most doctors and patients realize.
Survivors of Forced Psychiatry Are Suing the State of Norway
From Mad in Norway: Through these cases, the first of their kind in Norway, the focus will be on the state's responsibility for the concrete observance of human rights in psychiatry.
Mad in Norway Editor Awarded for Freedom of Expression in Mental Health Care
From Mad in Norway: Birgit Valla has been recognized by the Foundation for the Promotion of Freedom of Expression in Mental Health Care for her work to ensure a fundamental respect for the human being in mental health.
An Alternative to Psychiatric Hospitals: Report From Israeli Soteria Houses
From Psychology Today/John Read, PhD: A recent article reports on the successes and challenges of three new Soteria-style houses, an effective and innovative alternative to psychiatric hospitalization.
Facebook Is Receiving Sensitive Medical Information from Hospital Websites
From The Markup: Experts say some hospitals’ use of an ad tracking tool may violate a federal law protecting health information.
Experts Urge Caution as AAP Calls for Mental Health Screenings for Newborns to 21-Year-Olds
From Children's Health Defense: With warnings of a mental health crisis among young people, the recommendation may appear sound and reasonable—but depression screening can be dangerous, some experts say.
Former Cerebral Employees Say Company’s Practices Put Patients at Risk
From CBS News: America's largest online "mental health provider" is being investigated by the DOJ for their "chaotic," "confusing," "dangerous" prescribing practices.
Are ‘Mental Disorders’ Diseases, or Strategies?
From Psychology Today/Justin Garson PhD: Calluses are designed responses to friction. Fevers are designed responses to infection. Are delusions a designed response to a painful reality?
What Is Hatred? | Alice Miller
From Alice Miller: Child Abuse and Mistreatment: We tend to associate "hatred" with the notion of a dangerous curse we need to free ourselves of as quickly as we can. I take a very different view of this matter.
Pathological: The True Story of Six Misdiagnoses
From Psychology Today/Christopher Lane PhD: Sarah Fay's new memoir draws heavily from the DSM and its various editions to challenge their reliability and validity and asks clinicians to pause before assigning powerful diagnostic codes.
Philosophy Can Help Us Connect, Even in the Face of Psychosis
From Psyche: Philosophical concepts can help us to examine what can go wrong in our communicative exchanges and to re-examine our priorities in mental health.
Call Centers Struggling to Hire for New Nationwide Mental Health Crisis Line
From Slate: As 988 creeps closer to launching without sufficient staffing, experts worry that workers for the new crisis line could face the same challenges as their cousins at 911.
How Drugmakers Influence Our Beliefs About ‘Mental Illness’
From Medium/Markham Heid: "Greater awareness” campaigns can often be little more than pharmaceutical marketing tactics that turn normal human feelings into illnesses.
Scientism and the Health Crisis in the Modern World
From Pathways to Family Wellness: Science has been waging war against subjective experience for a very long time, and this has taken its toll on Western culture.
Ecological Trauma and Common Addiction
From Rex Weyler: Breaking the cycle of abuse, trauma, and addiction requires a radically new relationship with society and with the more-than-human world.
Psychiatrists Thought This ‘Antipsychotic’ Was a Miracle Drug. They Were Wrong.
From Slate: There have been no great medical solutions, not for psychosis, not for our more common conditions like depression and anxiety.
