“Shooters Of Color Are Called ‘Terrorists’ And ‘Thugs.’ Why Are White Shooters Called ‘Mentally...
-Anthea Butler hopes that the common media narrative portraying mass shooters as "lone, disturbed or mentally ill young men failed by society" does not supplant discussions of the deep racism that still exists in America.
For George Floyd and Black Men in Recovery, ‘Everything Piles Up’
From The Washington Post: Finding a way to live has never been a sure thing for Black men in America, who are taught from an early age that any misstep could lead to a prison cell or a coffin.
“To CDC on Children’s Mental Health: Consider Office of Homeland Attachment Security”
Claudia Gold writes in the Boston Globe, "The time has come to recognize the overwhelming evidence regarding the importance of early relationships in healthy...
“What Can A Rat’s ‘Behavioral Despair’ Tell You?”
"A 'tail suspension test' is exactly what its title implies. Researchers lift a rat by the tail for a few minutes at a time,...
Medicalizing Society
From Jacobin: "...the idea that population-wide rates of despair and social dysfunction should be understood as biological diseases, rather than the result of rampant...
“Integrated Models in Psychiatry: the State of the Art”
An editorial in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology explores status of the "tenuous" relationship position of social psychiatry, "given psychiatry's primary orientation to the...
When Mental Health Treatment Becomes a Violation
From InDaily: "In the early 2000s when I was detained in a psychiatric hospital I was treated against my will, I was even secluded....
We Need to Stop Prescribing Antidepressants in Primary Care
In this op-ed for Pulse, Des Spence argues the case for dramatically reducing antidepressant prescriptions, as antidepressants are often completely ineffective and unnecessary.
"Clearly psychological pain,...
The Empty Promise of Suicide Prevention
From The New York Times: Antidepressants can’t supply employment or affordable housing, repair relationships with family members or bring on sobriety.
Type 2 Diabetes and Antidepressant Use: Is There a Causal Link?
From EndocrinologyAdvisor: A recent meta-analysis suggests that antidepressant drug use may increase patients' risk of diabetes. According to the lead investigator, over 1 million diabetes...
Does Social Psychology Have a “Liberal Bias”?
In The New Yorker, Maria Konnikova explores the ideas of Jonathan Haidt, who argues that the field of social psychology has a broad bias...
Psychiatrist Arrested for Death of Patient
From The Times of India: A psychiatrist from the Uma Nalini Mary Clinic and Research Institute was recently arrested on charges of homicide of a middle-aged patient....
‘Your Consent Is Not Required’: When Psychiatric Treatment Isn’t Voluntary
From Psychology Today: Forced 'treatment' is on the rise in North America, but an exhaustive new study finds that it does not actually improve mental health.
Gut Feelings on Parkinson’s and Depression
From Cerebrum: Modulating the gut microbiota may be an effective strategy to treat both Parkinson's disease and depression.
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How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
From Buzzfeed News: "Burnout combines an intense yearning for a state of completion with the tormenting sense that it cannot be attained."
Division 32 APA Response to Racism & Violence in Charlottesville
It is not hate that kills, as much as it is silence. That is why Division 32 of the American Psychological Association is encouraging...
Jun. 9 Event: Stories of Reducing Antipsychotics: Withdrawal Effects or Relapse?
From UCL Beacon Bursary fund: This event aims to explore the lived-experience perspective when attempting to distinguish withdrawal effects from relapse.
The Problem With Mental Health Awareness
From The Nation: Campaigns telling people to become “aware” and “reach out” are, at best, an incorrect diagnosis of the problem and at worst, gaslighting.
The Troubled-Teen Industry Offers Trauma, Not Therapy
From The New York Times: Hundreds of thousands of young Americans have endured harms or assaults in residential boot camps, wilderness therapy and Christian and therapeutic boarding schools.
The White-Mortality Crisis Shows the Impact of Distress
From Science of Us: A recent study found that working-class white Americans are dying in middle age at a faster rate than minority groups, and...
“Psychiatrists in Short Supply Nationwide”
Low pay and limited respect have contributed to a "shortage" of psychiatrists in the United States, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "Because of low...
Allowing Human Nature to Work Successfully | Jean Liedloff
From ContinuumConcept.org: In her book The Continuum Concept, Jean Liedloff argued that the psychosocial ills of modern society result from our misconception of human nature as something inherently bad or problematic.
Third Member of Prestigious FDA Panel Resigns Over Approval of Alzheimer’s Drug
From CNBC: The FDA approved the new drug from Biogen, priced at $56,000 per year, despite a near-unanimous "no" vote from a key advisory committee.
Waking Up to the Sexual Violence in America’s Psychiatric Units
From KevinMD.com: Starting right now, our health care system should admit that psychiatric patients’ sexual safety warrants the attention that it has long deserved but has never been given.
Youngest Children in a Class Are Most Likely to Get ADHD Diagnosis
From NPR: The youngest children are most likely to be diagnosed with ADHD, when in fact their more fidgety behavior may be due to their relative immaturity.
