It’s Time Psychiatrists Stopped Stereotyping Women With Personality Disorders
From The Independent: Taming the Beast Within, a new book on personality disorder diagnosis, has just been released. It features a small faceless monster...
This is the Sickening Amount Pharmaceutical Companies Pay Top Journal Editors
From Science Alert: "It's no secret that scientists can be corrupted — in the past, researchers have purposefully hidden data on climate change, and the...
Figures Reveal ‘Alarming’ Rise in Injuries at Mental Health Units
From The Guardian: Thousands of patients in NHS mental health units are injured every year when they are restrained by staff, according to new figures which...
The Kids Cleared to Leave Psychiatric Hospitals — But Can’t
From The Atlantic: Unnecessarily prolonged hospital stays often have detrimental effects on children. Doctors in some of these cases said the delays caused the...
Police Broke Into Chelsea Manning’s Home With Guns Drawn
From The Intercept: Shortly after Chelsea Manning posted what appeared to be two suicidal tweets on May 27, police broke into her home with their...
When Antidepressants Fail, Dose Increase May Be a Less Effective Response
From Psychiatry Adviser: In a study published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, the investigators did not recommend increasing antidepressant dosage in response to treatment...
CDC: U.S. Suicide Rates Have Climbed Dramatically
From NPR: Suicide rates have increased in nearly every state over the past two decades, and half of the states have seen suicide rates...
Real Hallucinations: Psychiatric Illness, Intentionality, and the Interpersonal World
From the Notre Dame Philosophical Review: A review of Real Hallucinations: Psychiatric Illness, Intentionality, and the Interpersonal World (2017) by Matthew Ratcliffe.
How can we account for...
Epigenetics: The Evolution Revolution
From the New York Times Book Review: In 1975, two English biologists, Robin Holliday and John Pugh, and an American biologist, Arthur Riggs, independently suggested...
Richard Smith: The Case for Medical Nihilism and “Gentle Medicine”
From The BMJ Opinion: Most practising doctors are instinctive medical nihilists, argues Richard Smith.
Jacob Stegenga, a philosopher of science in Cambridge, has written a closely...
Government Issues Warning About Pill Pushed on the Elderly
From CNN: The US government is warning insurance companies to be on the lookout for suspicious prescriptions of a drug being used in nursing...
The Crazy Talk About Bringing Back Asylums
From the New York Times: When President Trump mused that the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla., in February might have been...
Over Half of Antidepressant Users Experience Withdrawal When They Stop Medication
From STUFF: More than half of antidepressant users had withdrawal when stopping the medication and a third reported addiction issues, a study finds. Only one per...
Is Rising Inequality Responsible for Greater Stress, Anxiety and Mental Illness?
From The Guardian: In 2009, when the world was still absorbing the shock of the previous year’s financial crisis, a book called The Spirit Level...
Antidepressants Related Weight Gain Masks a Bigger Picture
In this British Medical Journal response to a recent study of weight gain while taking antidepressants, Dr. Alain Braillon argues that, as a general rule, drug...
Depression: The Radical Theory Linking it to Inflammation
In this Nature piece, Alison Abbot discusses Psychiatrist Edward Bullmore's book, The Inflamed Mind: A Radical New Approach to Depression (2018).
"Depression affects one in four people at...
The Largest Health Disparity We Don’t Talk About
From the New York Times: Americans with depression, bipolar disorder or other serious mental illnesses die 15 to 30 years younger than those without mental...
Sexual Addiction: The Latest Fad Diagnosis
From Psych Central: Fads in psychiatry and psychotherapy come and go. The concepts of neurosis, hysteria, and pathologized homosexuality (to name a few) have all...
How Doctors’ Bias Leads to Unfair and Unsound Medical Triage
From Aeon: When someone is sick or needs the help of a physician, who should decide what is appropriate — what blood tests and imaging studies...
Schizophrenia ‘Risk Genes’: Not So Risky if Mother’s Pregnancy Healthy
From STAT news: "Far be it from us to tell 23andMe how to run its business, but if it or any other DNA company wants to...
The Legacy of the Anti-Psychiatry Movement
From Truthdig: Last week marked 40 years since Franco Basaglia’s revolutionary work in Trieste, Italy, led to the groundbreaking Legge 180 (Law 180, also known...
Myths and Misconceptions about Abraham Maslow and Self-actualization
From the British Psychological Society: Abraham Maslow was one of the great psychological presences of the twentieth century, and his concept of self-actualisation has entered our...
‘Blacks Are Immune From Mental Illness’
In this piece for Psychiatric News, King Davis, Ph.D. senior research fellow in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin, writes...
To Be a Good Doctor, Study the Humanities
In this piece for Pacific Standard, Angira Patel discusses the role that studying the humanities can play in helping doctors become more empathetic and culturally...
Protecting the LGBT Community is Good Health Policy
From The Hill: Research shows that LGBT individuals experience higher rates of physical and mental health problems than heterosexual people. Legislative policies that protect the rights of...
