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It is clear now that the marketing of ayptical antipsychotics over the past 20 years was, in essence, a criminal enterprise, as the makers...

The Atlantic web site has just published a strange piece on the efficacy of the antidepressants. When getting into a discussion with about antidepressants with a...

I don't normally post items so close together but today NAMI Ohio has successfully convinced a State Senator to sponsor a bill that I...

As we prepared for our regular monthly Board meeting, a casually dressed middle-aged man entered the room.  I didn’t recognize him.  I was struck...

While the mental health system identifies psychosis as being about suffering, or “hellish” experiences, if you actually listen to individual stories, it is obvious...

Senior executives at Vertex Pharmaceuticals made millions of dollars each by selling company stock in the days after the Cambridge-based pharmaceutical reported promising clinical...

My last blog on this site was about how our federal and state governments are looking to make huge changes to our health care...

I think that our mind and our capacity to use it to think clearly depends on our inner and outer dialogue. When we become...

Move over outdated chemical imbalance theory, now it is claimed that genetic misregulation underlies psychiatric disease, and that psychiatric drugs themselves can fix the genetic...

What if it were the sun that could cure you; would you have the courage to go and find it? Would you wear sunscreen? If...

Texas is big. So are its politics, at the very heart of it all. I fell into mental health by sheer virtue of my own shared...

I believe the question of whether to medicate or not cannot be kept separate from the question of whether or not to consider individuals...

Some other bloggers have been talking about managed care, and I wanted to share some action points for all of us. There are many...

Shortly after I posted a two-part blog on this site back in February about New York’s just-approved Medicaid Health Homes, I got this crazy,...

I built my entire community in the last eight years.  Eight years ago I was recently divorced, unemployed, on six psych meds, and homeless....

In June, I will be returning to Washington for the annual Pharmed Out conference, a project located at Georgetown University Medical Center.  It is...

I saw a patient recently, a 35 year-old woman who needed a refill of her Zoloft.  She been started on it four years prior,...

Just had to share this with you. Was copied on an e-mail from Allen Frances yesterday, wherein he informed colleagues that two blogs had...

First Aired 5-1-2012 What is it like for a prisoner diagnosed with mental illness? Should we have more mental health treatment in prison -- or...

Each time I see the initials for Mad In America, MIA, I think of the Vietnam war and lost young men. I remember engraved...

Captain Boycott was the British land agent for Lord Erne of County Mayo who, in 1880, was ostracized from the local community as part...

What does “risk” really mean? Is it something to be afraid of and avoided at all costs, or something to be embraced?

I am honored to share the story of one family that has learned about the power of language, hope and letting go with love so that every family member can grab on to a life worth living.

Sixteen million dollars are sitting in Albany, waiting to be converted into fifteen hundred apartments for adult home residents presumed to have serious mental...

I am a psychiatrist who believes that involuntary treatment is rarely effective in the long run but I am also a psychiatrist who sometimes forces people into hospitals against their will.