The Hidden Psychotherapy Drop-Out Crisis
There is a discrepancy between what most people embarking on psychotherapy seek and what practitioners are trained to provide.
What We Seek in Therapy May be Lost to Time
Progress removes the conditions that made skills, relationships, meaning, and purpose necessary. A part of life ceases to be required.
Let There Be Light: Before Psychiatry Writes Its Next DSM
Very high prevalence raises a more fundamental question: Where exactly does the medical disorder end and ordinary human variation begin?
Mad in the World at the Mad in Norway International Film Festival
Mad in the World Liaison Karin Jervert reflects on the powerful experiences of helping to organize and attending the Mad in Norway International Film Festival in Lillehammer, Norway.
Lillehammer’s “Other” Olympics: The Mad in Norway International Film Festival
This was a weekend of movies, art, conversation, and camaraderie. But more than that, it was an infusion of strength.
Didn’t Anyone Tell You It Is Okay to Be Different?
At the Mad in Norway film festival, it struck me that people agreed that mental health needs to be systematically reformed, with more emphasis on psychosocial interventions.
The New York Times Fails Our Veterans
Yet another New York Times article on psychiatry misses the mark
From Efficacy to Non-Efficacy: Lessons from Pediatric Fluoxetine Trials
Modern studies find that fluoxetine has lost its efficacy for children and can now be considered clinically equivalent to placebo.
The VA’s New Prescribing Safety Reforms Are a Start – Here’s What’s Still Missing
On Monday, September 28, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Doug Collins announced actions the VA will take to address mental health prescribing...
The BMJ Refused to Publish Criticisms in Print of its Highly Misleading Suicide Prevention...
Journal editors should change their practices profoundly. They should welcome academic debate instead of censoring it.
The ODDESSI: Open Dialogue, The Lancet, and a Trojan Horse
DESSI trial results provide a beginning for rethinking psychiatric care
Open Dialogue and ODDESSI: What Have We Learned?
I found Open Dialogue to be a compelling and deeply humane way of working but I also learned how hard it is to implement and sustain.
Clancy’s Lawyer Blew the Chance for Lindsay to Go Free
If there is a second trial for Lindsay, I hope her lawyer puts a psychopharmacologist or neurotoxicologist on the stand.
Open Dialogue Approach Cuts Psychiatric Hospital Use in Major Trial
The ODDESSI trial found that people’s reported recovery, quality of life and satisfaction with services improved with Open Dialogue.
Antidepressants Are Major Drivers of Suicides
For almost 40 years, psychiatric leaders have denied that antidepressants increase suicides despite overwhelming evidence.
A Call for a Paradigm Shift in Schizophrenia Treatment: Reassessing Long-Term Antipsychotic Use and...
The cumulative evidence challenges the assumption that lifelong antipsychotic treatment is necessary or beneficial for most individuals with schizophrenia.
Remembering Dory Previn: An Interview by Peter Sterling in 1974
Dory Previn was an American lyricist, singer-songwriter, and poet whose deeply personal work explored her struggles with mental health, including experiences of psychosis. In October 1974, she met with neuroscientist Peter Sterling for a candid conversation about her psychiatric treatment.
From Helplessness to Power: Collective Phantasy and Politics in Contemporary Iran
The cultural psyche evokes historical figures as phantasies to transform helplessness into a desire for revenge and restoration of power.
ADHD UK Cannot Hide the Flawed Science Behind the Diagnosis and Its Treatment
The extensive critique of the biomedical account of ADHD and its treatment with stimulant medication has persisted for decades.
U.S. Antidepressant Drug Labels Still Lag Behind Canada
SSRI labels in Canada warn about the risk of suicide as well as “violence,” including “harm toward others,” without age restrictions.
The Epidemic of Depression Diagnoses and Antidepressant Prescribing
Part of being human is to have difficulties, but they can be handled better if we don’t give people psychiatric diagnoses and drugs.
To the Few Psychiatrists Who Still Believe in ECT: See You in Court
I hope that legal cases like these will encourage psychiatrists to think twice before administering such a potentially damaging treatment.
The Existential Was Never Meant to Be Solved Alone
The sessions had value, but the relief I sought—a true shift in how I relate to the world—felt impossible.
Antidepressants Can Change Peaceful Citizens into Killers
We must warn about the harms of antidepressants and bring people to justice who contribute to the suicides and homicides by lies and medical malpractice.
Absorbing Dark Emotions: Emotional Contagion
Are psychiatrists aware that susceptible people can absorb dark emotions from others when times are tough?
