“LA Hospital Pays $450,000 After ‘Dumping’ Homeless Patient”
The city of Los Angeles “sued the Gardens Regional Hospital and Medical Center in April 2015, stating that its employees had driven the 38-year-old...
Can Psychedelics Help End Addictions with One Dose?
Q13 Fox News discusses recent research giving psychedelics to people struggling with alcohol or cigarettes. David Nutt, an Imperial College London neuro-psychopharmacologist "thinks psilocybin...
The Mental Health Crisis Is Down to Government Policy, Not Stigma
From The Guardian: "I have a radical proposal for tackling the mental health crisis. Let’s just stop talking about stigma. I’m not suggesting stigma...
On the Myth of the Chemical Imbalance
In this piece for Psychology Today, Mark L. Ruffalo critiques the chemical imbalance theory of mental disorder and examines why the chemical imbalance myth persists today despite...
“Mental Health Rules for European Pilots to Be ‘Strengthened’”
Medscape reports that the European Aviation Safety Agency (AESA) is set to announce strengthened mental health checks for pilots. The proposed changes come in...
Opioid Addiction Requires Safe Injection Sites, Not Old Rhetoric From War on Drugs
From NBC News: Though recognized as critical to curbing the epidemic, harm-reduction advocates have been unable to open a single safe injection site anywhere in the U.S.
“The 100 most followed psychologists and neuroscientists on Twitter”
The British Psychological Society's Research Digest has compiled a list of what it claims to be the 100 psychologists and neuroscientists who have the...
The Dividing Line Between Crazy and Not Crazy | Daniel Mackler
From Wild Truth: Being in touch with reality means seeing things clearly, without the veils or filters known as defenses. Thus, we’re all crazy to some degree, to the degree that we have defenses.
The New Way to Prevent Anxiety in Kids
From TIME: Researchers are developing programs to teach social skills, conflict resolution, and breathing techniques to preschool children who are at risk of developing an...
Treatment Guidelines Downplay Antidepressant Dependence
A review of treatment guidelines published in Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics found that guidelines “shy away from stating clearly that SSRIs/SNRIs, like BDZs, are often (though...
An American Public Health Crisis – the ‘Pair of ACEs’
From The Huffington Post: Adverse Childhood Experiences such as physical and emotional abuse, domestic violence, and homelessness often occur in the context of Adverse Community...
“Antidepressants Cost NHS £5.5m A Week”
The Times Katie Gibbons reports that the UK “NHS is spending a record £780,000 a day on antidepressants as failing mental health services struggle...
“We Are All Hoarders, But…”
-How much is hoarding rooted in consumerism?
“Psychotic Shooters on the Open Frontier of Profit”
At CounterPunch, Joseph Natoli connects Big Pharma, mass shootings, and rampant inequality. He writes: “The Brave New World soma strategy to deal with a population that, were they not doped up, might violently disrupt that brave new world, is useful if a society is ‘creatively destroying’ a growing number of its population each day. While the poor have daily evidence of their poverty, a collapsing middle class live in the illusion that they are middle class and just a short distance, not from ruin, but from fame and fortune. They are, in short, heading for a catastrophic break-down. Big Pharma is already set to give us all a ‘soft landing.’”
“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...
How Do Comprehensive Lifestyle Changes Influence Dementia?
In his Scientific American blog, Gary Stix reviews the latest investigations into the impacts of comprehensive lifestyle change approaches to preventing dementia. "Results of...
The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study
Gianna Kali reviews the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study, "one of the largest investigations ever conducted to assess associations between childhood maltreatment and later-life...
Students Learn From People They Love
From The New York Times: The bottom line is this, a defining question for any school or company is: What is the quality of the emotional relationships here?
Video: Origins of Mental Disturbance in a ‘Normal’ Family – Like Mine – Peter...
ABSMC Psychiatry Grand Rounds presentation by Neuroscientist Peter Sterling, PhD on December 2, 2024. In this video, Peter Sterling talks of his family experiences...
“Fifty Psychological and Psychiatric terms to Avoid: a List of Inaccurate, Misleading, Misused, Ambiguous,...
An article in Frontiers in Psychology tackles the problem of unclear and imprecise language in psychology and psychiatry, exhorting that "Clarity is especially critical in...
“Trump is Considering a Radical to Lead FDA. That’s Dangerous for Public Health”
For STAT, Ed Silverman writes, “the incoming Trump administration may seek to undo a decades-old standard of evaluating drugs for effectiveness — to the detriment of...
“11 Reasons Why Cat Bites May Be Linked To Depression”
Research has shown a correlation between schizophrenia and exposure to cat bites or scratches. This has been theorized to be due to the effects...
What Patients — and Doctors — Should Know About ‘Benzo’ Withdrawal
From The Washington Post: There is little awareness about the consequences of withdrawing from long-term use or high doses of these drugs and how to do it safely.
“How Should You Grieve?”
Andrea Volpe, for Mosaic Science, explores the condition of complicated grief and how new approaches to therapy are treating it.
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New, Med-free Soteria House Opens in Vermont
-A residential facility for people experiencing psychological crises who do not want to take medications has launched in Burlington, Vermont.
