Time to Act on Industry Influence Over Medicine
From The BMJ Opinion: "My Senate colleagues and I were aware that the passing of the Sunshine Act was not going to fix everything...
Mr. Rogers, Trauma-Informed Care, and the Limits of Information
From ACEs Connection: " shared with us that while he is gratified that the study has finally begun to inform current healthcare practices, he...
Summit on Global Mental Health Sparks Critical Response
From the APA Div. 32: Society for Humanistic Psychology: "On Oct. 9-10, 2018, World Mental Health Day, the United Kingdom (UK) government hosted a Global...
Did You Hear That? On Destigmatizing Hallucinations
From Psychology Today: "Few of us go around proudly announcing that we’ve been hallucinating. But many of us have. Estimates put the percentage of individuals in...
‘Better to Drown’: A Greek Refugee Camp’s Epidemic of Misery
From The New York Times: "'I have been in some pretty horrendous camps and situations,' said Louise Roland-Gosselin, who is head of mission in...
First UK School to Address Early-Life Trauma Planned
From The Guardian: "The UK’s first school for children who have experienced early-life trauma such as neglect or abuse and are currently being failed by the...
C.O.P.E. Strives To Better Safeguard Children From Psychiatric Drugs
From The British Psychological Society: "C.O.P.E. is a group of child mental health professionals... primary aim is to change public policy in key areas of child...
Kaiser Clinic Launches 4-Question ACE Survey Pilot for Adults
From ACEs Too High News: "In July, medical residents in family medicine at Kaiser Permanente in San Jose, CA, began screening adult patients for...
Congratulations. Your Study Went Nowhere.
From The New York Times: "A modeling study published in BMJ Open in 2014 showed that if a publication bias caused positive findings to...
Seeking Comments on APA Guideline for Depression Treatment
From the American Psychological Association: "The American Psychological Association seeks comments from all interested individuals and groups – including psychologists, healthcare professionals, researchers, clients/patients...
FL Parents Leery of Schools Requiring ‘Mental Health’ Disclosures
From NPR: "Children registering for school in Florida this year were asked to reveal some history about their mental health.
The new requirement is part...
How the Economy Affects Our Mental Health
From YES! Magazine: "As I was reading the current series of YES! articles on the mental health crisis, I received an email from Darcia Narvaez,...
The Difference That Kind and Compassionate Care Makes
From BMJ Opinion: "Many patients will have stories of seemingly small acts of kindness that unfolded in clinical encounters, and the effect these had on them...
Transparency Hasn’t Stopped Drug Companies’ Corrupting Research
From The New York Times: "Disclosure is better than no disclosure, but it does not eliminate the conflict of interest. It’s simply a way...
Medicine’s Financial Contamination
From The New York Times: "The fall from grace last week of Dr. José Baselga, the former chief scientific officer of Memorial Sloan Kettering...
One Is the Loneliest Number: The History of a Western Problem
From Aeon: "For centuries, writers have recognised the relationship between mental health and belonging to a community. Serving society was another way to serve...
A Few Remarks on Freud and Women
From Verso Books: "I recently read an interview of Freud’s last living patient, Margarethe Walter, in which I feel Freud goes some way towards...
Torture by Another Name: Youth Solitary Confinement in NJ
From Children's Mental Health Network: "In 2011, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture deemed the use of solitary confinement against youth and individuals...
Opioid Legislation With Significant Trauma Provisions Clears Congress
From ACEs Too High News: "On October 3, the U.S. Senate voted 98-1 (only Sen. Mike Lee, R-UT voted nay) to approve The SUPPORT for...
The Uncomfortable Truth: Psych Wards and Sexual Assault
From The Independent: "Sexual assault and harassment is 'commonplace' on inpatient psychiatric wards, according to Dr Paul Lelliott, the deputy chief inspector of hospitals and...
Psychologist in Nassar Case Surrenders License
From The Detroit News: "An MSU psychologist with ties to the Larry Nassar scandal has permanently surrendered his license to treat patients, state officials said Friday.
The...
Watchdog Slams Safeguards for Foster Kids on Psych Drugs
From AP News: "Thousands of foster children may be getting powerful psychiatric drugs prescribed to them without basic safeguards, says a federal watchdog agency...
What Fanon Still Teaches Us About ‘Mental Illness’ in Post-Colonial Society
From The Conversation: "Fanon ultimately viewed institutionalised care as a mode of disciplinary power in the regulation of people. He saw it as a...
What a Society Designed for Well-Being Looks Like
From YES! Magazine: "To address the dramatic increase in mental and emotional distress in the U.S., we must move beyond a focus on the...
Indigenous People Fighting to Live Through Community and Activism
From Ricochet: "'Personal individual solutions of therapists, of internalizing it, and that kind of stuff, is problematic,' explains McKay. 'Our own view is...
