David Egilman, Doctor Who Took On Drug Companies, Dies at 71
From The New York Times: His testimony as an expert witness in some 600 trials helped plaintiffs win billions of dollars in cases involving malfeasance by pharmaceutical makers.
The Wild and Recent History of ‘Schizophrenia’ and Family Therapy
From Underground Transmissions: The family therapy movement has had a lot of success in different mental health contexts, but in the realm of āserious mental illnessā and āschizophreniaā itās nearly impossible to find anyone who publicly talks about the importance of working with complicated family dynamics.
We Donāt Know If Most Medical Treatments Work, and We Know Even Less About...
From The Conversation: Only one in 20 medical treatments have high-quality evidence to support their benefits, and treatment harms are measured only a third as often as benefits.
Committed: An Interview With Suzanne Scanlon
FromPsychology Today: Scanlon's Committed: On Meaning and MadwomenāA Memoir concerns the treatment of prolonged grief in a major psychiatric hospital.
I Was the Poster Girl for OCD. Then I Began to Question Everything Iād...
From The Guardian: When I sought help for crippling invasive thoughts, I was told I had a disease like any other. But I wasnāt able to recover until I understood the fallacy at the heart of mental healthcare.
Bad Science, With Robert Whitaker | Where Is My Mind? Podcast
From Where Is My Mind?: Niall Breslin and Robert Whitaker discuss the paradigm shift needed in mental health to ensure people have informed consent and a true understanding of their distress.
Debunking the Myths About Depression and Antidepressants
From EmpowerUAmerica: Psychologist and author Bruce E. Levine is interviewed about the problem of depression in America and how it's being treated.
Mom’s 911 Call for Her Son’s Mental Health Ends With His Death After Police...
From MedPage Today: Taylor Ware's August 2019 death was among more than 1,000 over a decade after police used common use-of-force tactics that are meant to stop people without killing them.
Against Her Will
From Investigative Journalism Foundation: Under Canada's Mental Health Act, doctors donāt have to get a patientās consent for treatment ā or the consent of a substitute decision maker. They have whatās known as the patientās ādeemed consentā to administer any treatment thatās been approved by the director of the mental health facility.
What Needs to Change at the FDA? A PharmedOut Report
In the past 30 years, repeated regulatory failures and a shift in the FDAās mission from protecting public health to speeding drugs and devices to market has tarnished the agencyās reputation and, more importantly, harmed patients.
STAR*D: Itās Time to Atone and Retract
From Psychiatric Times: āOur patients, our field, and our integrity demand a better explanation of what happened in STAR*D than what has thus been provided," argue two San Diego psychiatrists.
BetterHelp to Pay $7.8 Million for Deceiving Customers After Promising to Keep Sensitive Data...
From FTC: The FTC has moved to ban BetterHelp from revealing people's data, including sensitive mental health information, to Facebook and others for targeted advertising.
STAR*D: It is time to atone and retract
From Psychiatric Times:
Two psychiatrists write in the Psychiatric Times that the response of the STAR*D investigators to a reanalysis of STAR*D data by Ed...
Three Causes of Spiritual Illness: A Shamanic Perspective
From Shared Wisdom: From the shamanās perspective, illness can be caused by either disharmony, fear, or soul loss: negative internal states that appear within us in response to negative or traumatic life experiences.
How Chronic Stress Feeds Suffering by Eating Up Our Dopamine
From Gary Sharpe Substack: This mechanism applies to all "dopamine deficiency" issues including Parkinsonās, dystonia, restless leg syndrome, ADHD, chronic conditions more generally, trauma, and addictions of all sorts.
A Neuroscientist Evaluates the Standard Biological Model of Depression
This is a talk at UPenn by neuroscientist Peter Sterling, who, in his writings for Mad in America, has critically assessed the ābiological model of depression."
Christy Huff, Medical Director of Benzodiazepine Information Coalition, Dies
From Benzodiazepine Information Coalition: Dr. Huff was a cardiologist who experienced a benzodiazepine injury firsthand, leading her to become a fierce advocate for better education and safe tapering of these drugs.
Parents Must Reclaim the Central Role If Growing Crisis Among Children Is to End:...
From Irish Examiner: "Parents must surrender their point of view that thereās something wrong with the child and see that itās the relationship thatās in trouble and the childās behaviour is just a function of that," says physician Gabor MatĆ©, who works with patients challenged by drug addiction and mental illness.
ADHD and the Pitfalls of Reification: An Interview With Sanne Te Meerman
From Terapeutiska Tankar: Reification happens when constructs that describe but do not explain behaviors, such as ADHD, are mistaken for causes of behavior.Ā
How Scapegoats Experience Traumatic Invalidation
From Rebecca Mandeville, LMFT - Scapegoat Recovery: Traumatic invalidation is usually found in systems where people are marginalized; so this would be, for example, the family scapegoat, who is the marginalized person in the family system.
Psychiatrist for UK’s Most Dangerous Prisoners Campaigns for a Trauma-Informed Justice System
From Shaun Attwood: "What's happened with the child trauma, the child abuse, the childhood neglect...is lack of agency in the adult. And unless they've got agency, they can't stop doing bad things," says UK psychiatrist Bob Johnson.
Trapped in a Psych Ward: Michigan Doc Pre-Signed Blank Forms That Can Rob You...
From ABC7/WXYZ Detroit: Patients, parents, and employees are coming forward to talk about their experiences at some Michigan hospitals with psychiatrist Dr. Nagy Kheir.āÆ
Psychedelics Doctor Admits Relationship With Former Patient Who’s Now Dead
From BristolLive: Dr. Ben Sessa has said he knew the woman had a history of self-harm and overdoses but was not aware that she had tried to take her own life during the course of their relationship.
Discussing the āObsessionā With Childhood Disorder Labelling
From Sociology Lens Insights: In recent decades, we have too often passed the buck of social problems to children who lack the power to say no to stigmatizing psychiatric labels.
Suit Blasts 4 NJ State Psych Hospitals for Violent Conditions, āUnconstitutionalā Policies
From NJ Spotlight News: āImagine living in an environment where even the most basic choices are taken away from you...and, in place of psychiatric treatment, you face both boredom and violence on a daily basis,ā said Bren Pramanik, a Disability Rights New Jersey attorney.
