Rearranging Deck Chairs While the Titanic Goes Down—The American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology Issues...
Clinicians seeking practical guidance about how to deprescribe in a safe, pharmacologically rational manner will find little here to assist them.
When Autism Becomes the Default: What Happens When Diagnostic Ambiguity Only Resolves One Way
These conditions overlap in ways that require careful differentiation, but it's currently being resolved in only one direction.
Four Thousand Years of Trauma, 45 Years of Diagnosis—Why Call a Fully Human Reaction...
What was gained and what was lost in the translation of something ancient and human into the language of biomedical psychiatry?
Remembering Brent Dean Robbins
Brent was one of humanistic psychology's clearest voices against the DSM’s narrowing of human suffering and the over-medication of distress.
From Hyde Park, London, to a Global Movement: Marking Stolen Lives on Prescribed Harm...
On 29 July, Prescribed Harm Day, we are inviting individuals and communities around the world to host their own Stolen Lives gatherings.
What I’ve Learned from My Son’s Unusual Mental States
Distress can take many forms, and most people with mental health challenges or substance use challenges carry deep unaddressed wounds.
Which Would You Prefer: Electroshock or a Safe Taper?
Imagine you’ve spent your entire life as a healthy person, seven decades in fact, and suddenly being recommended ECT by the psychiatry department of a prestigious university.
What If the Problem Is the Lens?
The very phrase "mental health" implies that our emotional life is organised along a continuum of health and illness, like physical disease.
Are We Overlooking Homicidal Ideation in Psychiatry?
If patients are willing to bring these thoughts into treatment, psychiatry should be better prepared to receive them.
Alfred Adler: Psychoanalysis for the People
Adler provides a starting point to end the apartheid within psychoanalysis that means psychology for the rich and psychics for the poor.
Therapy Treats the Individual, but the Problem Is the Self We Were Taught to...
If human regulation is fundamentally relational, then well-being cannot be reduced to insight, learning, growth, or individual coping strategies alone.
Wouter Kusters and God
God may not exist, but man’s relationship with God certainly does exist, and that is what mysticism is all about.
From Silence to Accountability: How Massachusetts’ Special Commission on State Institutions Changed the Law
This is the beginning of an effort to restore dignity to those whose lives were forgotten for far too long.
What Frontline Addiction Nurses See That Policy Debates About Medication Miss
Medication stabilizes the body and reduces risk, but the deeper work of recovery unfolds gradually through therapy, support, and daily effort.
Mental Health and the Assault on Autonomy in the New America
These myths lead to seeing the homeless as mentally ill and the mentally ill as irredeemable and “other,” impeding effective care.
The Compliance Machine: How ADHD Habit-Tracking Apps Enforce the Disease Model
The habit-tracking market is flooded with apps following the same book. Set goals, monitor adherence, penalize deviation, reward consistency.
Why Mental Health Is Not the Same for Everyone
There is such a thing as mental health, but it is not the same for everyone. It is a subjective good that depends on a person’s own standards.
Psychiatric Patient Won a Forced Treatment Case Against the Norwegian State
No matter how strong the science and arguments against their clear malpractice, psychiatrists always seem to get away with being dishonest in court.
Psychiatric Diagnoses Cannot Attack People, But the Reification of Mental Health Issues Is Harmful
We should scrap the psychiatric diagnosis system and try to help patients the best we can without labelling and drugging them.
ChatGPT is Psychology’s Marlboro Man
Big Tobacco drafted the plays that Big Tech is enacting today: manipulating public opinion by partnering with the medical field.
Farewell to Suicide
The conditions that create suicide are the same as those required for toxic leadership, toxic environments, and dysfunctional policies.
There Is No Over- or Under-diagnosis of ADHD or Autism, Just a Confused Cacophony...
The public narrative on ADHD, autism, and neurodivergence is infused with scientism, meaning faith-based claims masquerading as scientific ones.
Are We Allowed to Criticise Mental Health Professionals?
When I started recording the worrying incidents I was witnessing as a student nurse, I was advised that my complaints would go nowhere and make it difficult for me to pass the course.
When the Government Becomes the Source of Trauma for Children
Decades of research on attachment and developmental trauma tells us what happens when we separate children from their caregivers under terrifying and uncertain conditions.
What 776 ECT Recipients Want You to Know
What stands out is the consistency between individuals’ experiences. Most of the costs were lasting, life-altering consequences.
