Medicalized Meddling With Neurotransmitters Leaves Us in a Big Mess
From Dr. Gary Sharpe: Human biochemistry is an example of a "complex system," where exceedingly small interference in the system can create massive and unforeseeable changes.
Surviving Techno-Dystopia
From Mental Hellth: Malcolm Harris, a Silicon Valley native and author of Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World, discusses the mental health side of techno-capitalism.
What Are Psychological Defenses?
From PsychAlive: "When children are faced with pain and anxiety in their developmental years, they develop defenses to cut off that pain," says psychologist and author Robert Firestone.
The Truth About Anti-Depressants With Robert Whitaker | The Homeless Romantic
From The Homeless Romantic Podcast: Journalist Robert Whitaker discusses the need to bridge the gap between the public perception of mental health and the evidence-based reality.
The Invisible Memories That Shape Our Lives
From PsychAlive/Lisa Firestone, PhD: Implicit memories are unconscious, bodily memories that, when triggered in the present, do not seem like they are coming from the past.
All the Lonely People: The Atomized Generation
From Erraticus: We must live each day in radical opposition to the world, keeping in mind that the economics of modern life are designed to atomize us.
How Capitalism Is Helping Fuel Our Mental Health Crisis
From Psychology Today/Justin Garson, PhD: We need to better confront the economic and political structures that are making us sick, says psychotherapist and author Dr. James Davies.
A Therapist Grapples With Diagnosis Culture
From Mental Hellth: When seemingly everyone has a DSM disorder, how do we find out what's actually going on?
“Assisted” Outpatient Commitment Advocates Manufacture Consent Via Manipulation
From Truthout: There is a battle currently raging to convince the few states without involuntary outpatient commitment laws to give in.
Intellectualization Results From Blocked Childhood Trauma | Daniel Mackler
Intellectualization is when people use their intellect, their logic, or their abstract reasoning to avoid having to deal with feelings.
Yale Psychiatrist Receives Federal Grant to Shock Elderly Dementia Patients
The release from Yale Medical School doesn’t explain how the researchers will obtain consent from those with severe dementia to participate in their study.
“Nobody Comes to Work to Harm People”
From Psychiatry Is Driving Me Mad: People cannot heal within a system which refuses to acknowledge the harm it continues to cause.
The Wellsprings of Horror in the Cradle | Alice Miller
From Alice-Miller.com: The connections between terrorism (violence, war, etc.) and childhood are still hardly recognized. It is time to take the facts seriously.
‘We Should Drop the Disorder Because…’ AD4E Online Festival Sept. 22!
Watch a promotional video for ADisorder4Everyone's upcoming annual festival on Friday, September 22: "A collective roar of disapproval for a system that labels and medicates rather than listens and responds with compassion."
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.
What Causes Emptiness? | Jonice Webb, PhD
From Dr. Jonice Webb/Running on Empty: Many people who experience emptiness don’t even know they have it, much less what it is. They just know they feel "off"; like something just isn’t right with them.
How a Dialogue With the Humanities Can Enrich Psychological Science
From Psychology Today: If psychology is going to help those suffering from the symptoms of our cultural and spiritual malaise, it must reinvigorate the very resources our culture is ready to abandon.
America Has Reached Peak Therapy. Why Is Our Mental Health Getting Worse?
From TIME: The issue isn’t only that demand is outpacing supply; it’s that the supply was never very good to begin with, leaning on therapies and medications that only skim the surface of a vast ocean of need.
Reassessing Self-Sabotage | Terry Baranski
From CPTSD Foundation: With any kind of repetitive, maladaptive behavior, it’s critical to get to the root cause – rather than offering a surface-level description – if treatment is to succeed.
‘The Myth of Normal’: Workaholism, Unresolved Trauma Causing Declining Societal Health
From CBC: "What is considered to be normal in our society in many cases is unhealthy and unnatural for [optimal] human development," says Canadian physician Gabor Maté, who is coauthor with his son Daniel of a new book on "Healing in a Toxic Culture."
States Look to Involuntarily ‘Hospitalize’ People to Confront Growing Mental Health Crisis
From PBS News Hour: California is taking steps to compel more 'mentally ill' people into 'care,' a practice experts and those with lived experience often say is "traumatic" and like a "hit-and-run."
Senior Psychiatrist Harmed by Antidepressants | An Interview With Peter Gordon
From Witt-Doerring Psychiatry: "It’s been absolute hell trying to get off this medication that I was told I wouldn’t find dependence-forming," says Scottish psychiatrist Dr. Peter Gordon.
Parental Rescue Fantasy: Exploration of the Psychological Concept
From Daniel Mackler: People who were failed in important ways as children often grow up with the hope of finding someone who will finally meet all their unmet childhood needs.
An Expert View on PSSD: ‘I Have a Hunch As to What Might Be...
From Independent.ie: “I suspect that the peripheral nerve endings in the skin are no longer functioning as they should,” said Dr. David Healy.
FDA Approves Antipsychotic That Provides No Meaningful Benefit But Increases Risk of Death
From the BMJ: Robert Whitaker writes on the FDA's approval of brexpiprazole for agitation in Alzheimer's patients. In clinical trials, the drug provided no...
