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From openDemocracy: The distress, boredom, and disillusionment so commonly diagnosed as depression may actually result from the demoralization people experience in consumerist cultures. Large-scale cultural change,...

Teacher’s personal wellbeing plays a role in students’ mental health outcomes, suggests a new study.

From Aeon: While psychiatric drugs are often ineffective and can have serious side effects, there are many psychedelics and other illicit substances that have proven...

Study uncovers some of the intergenerational consequences of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs).

Social Recovery Therapy shows promising results for individuals who experience first-episode psychosis.

Treating insomnia using online cognitive-behavioral therapy appears to improve a variety of mental health concerns.

Major study finds that economic deprivation and a lack of social capital are driving increasing rates of suicide in the U.S.

Researchers outline the concept of ecologically driven grief due to climate change and recommend future research to better understand the psychological impact of climate change.

Greater perceptions of discrimination during adolescence are linked to more depressive and internalizing symptoms.

Men who report being self-reliant may be at greater risk of suicidal thinking.

In this interview for ABC Australia, leading psychology professor Peter Kinderman discusses why we need alternative ways of understanding and supporting people in distress that take...

A new study, published in BMJ Open-Access this week, found a significant link between the level of air pollution in a community and the mental health of the children living there. After controlling for socio-economic status and other potential variables, researchers in Sweden discovered a strong association between the concentration of air pollution in a neighborhood and the amount of ‘antipsychotic’ and psychiatric drugs prescribed to children. The link remained strong even at pollution levels well below half of what is considered acceptable by the World Health Organization (WHO).

A new study suggests proximity to green space as a child is linked to lower rates of mental health issues in adulthood.

A review of academic textbooks finds that they often leave out effect sizes and molecular genetics findings, both of which suggest minimal impact of genetics on ADHD. Instead, textbooks focus on overblown conclusions from behavioral studies.

Proposal to include psychosocial adversities that impact mental health in ICD and DSM diagnoses.

A new study explores the benefits of a befriending program in the recovery of those with “enduring mental illness.”

A letter just published in JAMA Psychiatry suggests that “precision psychiatry” is not the paradigm shift it’s purported to be by the psychiatric establishment.

This episode of the podcast The Partially Examined Life explores the way that Stanley Milgram's experiments on obedience and Philip Zimbardo's Stanford prison experiment show that...

How does social network site use influence well-being? Researchers suggest this depends on the extent to which site use is “connection-promoting."

What physical activity-based programs are being implemented in schools, how are they being researched, and what kind of impact have they made?

A new study investigates the relationships between early-home environmental factors and later-life physiological response to psychosocial stressors.

In this piece for The Establishment, physician Isabel C. Legarda explores the possibility that the poet Emily Dickinson may have been a survivor of sexual violence. "Absent...

Researchers parse out factors within urbanicity that leads to risk for psychotic experiences.

Officials at a school that was more focused on ADHD diagnoses described children’s behavior in terms of individual illnesses, taking children out of the context of their social interactions, race, gender, and socioeconomic status.

From My Science Academy: In a recent study, up to 81 drugs and personal care products were detected in the flesh of salmon caught in Puget...