Why Increased Psychological Freedom Should be the Main Goal of Psychotherapy
Insight into the childhood roots of recurring interpersonal problems and better expressive mastery of primal emotions are cornerstones of effective psychotherapy.
Part 1: NeurodiversityâWhat Exactly Does It Mean?
The fuzzy concept of neurodivergence has expanded to include almost every human experience, plus its opposite.
Desperate Measures: Ghaemiâs Response to Our Review of Lithium and Suicide Prevention
Ghaemiâs article is more of a rant than a scientific commentary.
Who Is Afraid of the Abolition of Psychiatric Confinement?
Psychiatry doesn't care that you haven't committed a crime. The law gives them the authority to deprive you of your freedom for as long as they deem necessary.
The Patient-Enemy: How Derrida Helps Explain Psychiatry’s Cruelty and Care
"Now look what you made me do!" Psychiatrists feel obligated to care for their patients, but also resentful of this obligation.
Iatrogenic Practices in Psychiatry: Kindling
Psychiatric practices can have very painful and destabilizing consequences, including "kindling" or neuronal sensitization.
What Are We Overlooking? Reviewing Current and Alternative Treatments for Psychosis
We should explore a raft of interventions, as susceptibility to psychosis isnât separable from a personâs general well-being.
Who Is Being Targeted for Forced Medical Treatment in NYC? We Require Answers
Iâm concerned for those forcibly drugged under Mayor Adams' policy. But also because New York City sets a national precedent.
Itâs You, Itâs Not Me: Treatment Resistant Depression and the Psychiatric Breakup
"Treatment resistance" is best explained not as a medical issue but as a way for psychiatry to resolve cognitive dissonance.
Prescription Drugs: The Hidden Costs to Health and the Planet
Pharmaceuticals seem to overtake every facet of life, but itâs important to start thinking critically about what we are putting in our bodies.
Doctors Are Not Trained to Think Critically
University students are expected to to ask questions, but medical students are expected to give "correct" answers.
Reframing Mental and Emotional Pain from a Buddhist Psychology Perspective
The Five Hindrances perspective encourages exploring the underlying causes of suffering and developing strategies for coping and resilience.
How to Explain Top Psychiatristsâ âDr. Strangelove Exuberanceâ Unchecked by Reality
Leading psychiatrists appear unfazed that their theories and treatments are repeatedly proven to be scientifically invalid and discarded.
Dorothea Buck’s Memoir Tells of the Horrors of Twentieth Century Psychiatry: A “Hell Amidst...
Sterilized under Nazi law, Dorothea Buck fought throughout her life for psychiatric reform.
Don’t Call Me a Therapist
Psychology is closer to philosophy than medicine, laying a foundation for personal development that can lead to better adaptation.
Remembering Bhargavi Davar: A Global Leader in the Struggle for Human Rights
Bhargavi Davar was a global leader in the struggle for human rights, with her work as a psychiatric survivor activist simply one aspect of that work.
When HVN Ireland Meets HVN Athens
Chairperson of Hearing Voices Network Ireland Owen Ă Tuama on the joy and power of community for voice-hearers across the globe.
Can We Talk About Spirituality? The Medicalization of Transpersonal Experiences
Even social work and psychotherapy rarely leave space for lived experiences of spirituality, though it instills hope, strength, and meaning.
Deconstructing the Word Trauma: What Does it Mean Today?
"Trauma" is a pandora's box of a narrative. Most writings on the subject emanate from the Global North. Is trauma the 'same' in the Global South?
Is Public Psychiatry Responding to the Mental Health Crisis or Just âTreating the Chart?â
What sense did it make that he had been through hundreds of pages of notes worth of treatment and yet was still essentially un-helped?
Psychosis Treatment: Numbing the World of Spirit
In my experience, antipsychotic drugs aimed at âmanagingâ schizophrenia work by numbing the individualâs sensibility to the world of spirit.
Who Do We Leave Behind When We Ignore the Body? Why Critical Neuroscientists and...
Implications for those at the intersection of mental health and chronic illness.
How Danish Journalism Misleads About Psychiatry
On the multiple errors found in a Danish newspaper article about adult ADHD.
Irish Open Dialogue Shut DownâDespite Expert Report Stating It Should Be Scaled Up
The value-base and proven positive outcomes of Open Dialogue need to be expanded, not closed.
Prescription Drugs Are the Leading Cause of Death
Overtreatment with drugs kills many people, and the death rate is increasing. Why have we allowed this drug pandemic to continue?
