On the Brink of Murder Because of an Antidepressant
After being put on antidepressants, Katinka started hallucinating wildly, thinking in very violent images.
Bad Science Revisited: “The Bell Curve” Turns 30
Critiquing the wildly popular 1994 eugenicist book, which purported to link IQ and race, by reviewing the supposed genetic evidence.
Szasz and the Liberation of the “Mental Patient”
By setting standards of equality, competence, and accountability, Szasz worked for the liberation of the "mental patient.”
The Experience of Survivors of Psychiatry in Brazil
The suffering caused by physical, sexual or psychological violence, common in women's lives, is pathologized by psychiatry.
Medical Journals Refuse to Retract Fraudulent Trial Reports That Omitted Suicidal Events in Children
The published articles underreported suicide-related events and provided false claims that the drugs were effective.
From a Paranoid Schizophrenia Diagnosis to a Peer Researcher in Nigeria
The mental health system needs to adopt the principle of holistic care, promoting fundamental rights and the relevance of family support.
Beyond Greenspaces and Mental Health: The Power of the Wild
Tensions of sustainability, climate change, and global mental health: grassknots, greenspace, and climate psychology.
Can Madness Save the World? Where R.D. Laing—and Star Trek—Meet
What if the only choice we can really make, and trust, is the irrational, even mad, choice to love? What would saving the world look like then?
Putting JAMA Psychiatry and MIA to the Genetic Test
We can assess whether Mad in America readers or JAMA Psychiatry readers are being provided with the most robust scientific literature.
Animal Theory of Emotion: Emotion Is Not a Disorder
Too many people see themselves as having mental disorders when what they have is emotion, and in some cases, a great deal of it.
Charles Spencer’s Story of Boarding School Abuse Is Haunting
But parents are still sending children away to board, and it’s still dangerous.
Interpersonal Caring as an Act of Resistance Among Socially Marginalized
Some of the most marginalized and stigmatized people in a community are those with psychiatric diagnoses and those who are HIV positive.
In Defense of Open Dialogue Research
One of the original Open Dialogue researchers responds to a paper presenting a prejudiced and selective review of the scientific literature.
Never Waste a Good Depression: Family Therapy Challenges the Seductive Shortcut of Psychiatric Drugs
The widespread use of psychiatric drugs reduces important conversations about the problems of being human while limiting our options for problem-solving.
Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS): How the Last Step to Recovery Became the Final Step...
How persistent, unbearable suffering, due to prolonged withdrawal from antipsychotics prescribed as a sleeping medication, led to euthanasia.
How Psychiatrists Responded to the Launch of Our New ECT Survey
Amid mostly rude and unprofessional jibes, there were also some legitimate points, which are addressed here.
The Integration of Peer Support Principles in Community Mental Health Policy and Practice: Toward...
Though there are obstacles, integration of peer support is already underway thanks to change agents in the mental health system.
Benzodiazepines in Canada: Is a Withdrawal Crisis Looming?
Why are benzos, for short-term use only, being doled out, in some cases, for years? Nicole Lamberson and Mark Horowitz weigh in.
The Psychiatric Peddlers in Your Schools
Educators and parents must equip children with the necessary tools to meet the normal problems of childhood that psychiatry attempts to address.
Reflections on the Silicon Valley Teen Suicides-by-Train: Fifteen Years Later
A psychiatrist and mom reflects on teen suicide clusters in Palo Alto and discusses alternative ways to address adolescent mental health.
The “Madness” of Inpatient Psychiatry
Inpatient psychiatry is not a place of psychological healing; it is devoid of compassion and full of human rights abuses.
Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 8)
Les Ruthven addresses benzodiazepines and whether substance abuse disorders should be considered brain diseases.
Irish Psychiatry Says Chemical Imbalance Is a Figure of Speech—So, What Now?
Don’t researchers and clinicians have an ethical responsibility to inform the public that the "chemical imbalance" story is false?
Enlarging the Treatment Lens for Postpartum Depression
Drugs, social support, placenta encapsulation: How can we approach the specter of postpartum depression?
How the Medical Profession Pathologizes Emotions and the Damage to Patients
Doctors’ diagnostic inflexibility and unwillingness to take an integrative approach limits patients’ autonomy in their own treatment.
