Mad Pride: Making a Truce With the Voices in Your Head
In this piece forĀ Vice, Tess McClure describes New Zealand's Mad Pride movement, a movement that seeks to destigmatize, normalize, and celebrate experiences of voice-hearing...
The Need to Address Suicide in Prisons
Rates of suicide in prison are significantly higher than in the general population.
Licensed to Bill: How Doctors Profit From Injury Assessments
FromĀ The Globe and Mail: Doctors are making millions of dollars a year by providing independent medical evaluations of accident victims for the auto-insurance industry....
Drop the Stigmatizing Term “Schizophrenia”
Dr. Brian Koehler is petitioning the American Psychiatric Association and the World Health Organization to drop the stigmatizing term "schizophrenia." Click hereĀ to sign the...
Police Violence Victims at Increased Risk of Psychotic Symptoms
Researchers examine links between police victimization and psychotic symptoms in a topical new study.
National Survivor User Network Video
In this video,Ā Sarah Yiannoullou, Managing Director of NSUN, and Raza Griffiths, NSUN London Network Coordinator,Ā discuss the importance of including and centering the voices and...
Badiou, the Event, and Psychiatry, Part 2
In the second part of a two-part series on philosophy and psychiatry, Vincenzo Di NicolaĀ describes an alternative model of psychiatry that rejects some of...
This is What Self-Care Really Means
In this piece forĀ Thought Catalog, Brianna West redefines self-care as actions we take to build a life that feels fulfilling, not a reprieve from...
Anyone Can Be Trained to Hallucinate
FromĀ Flipboard: In a recent study on auditory hallucinations, all participantsĀ ā not just those who had been diagnosed with psychosisĀ ā experienced conditioned hallucinations. The study...
Misconceptions About Brain Science Very Common, Study Finds
Researchers investigate commonly held misconceptions about brain research among Americans.
Physician Wellness Programs are Lipstick on a Pig
FromĀ KevinMD: Many U.S. physicians are suffering from burnout andĀ increased suicide risk. Physician wellness programs hold individual physicians responsible for becomingĀ "well" rather thanĀ addressingĀ the toxic health...
Situationism in Psych: Milgram & Stanford Prison Experiments
This episode of the podcastĀ The Partially Examined LifeĀ explores the way that Stanley Milgram's experiments on obedience and Philip Zimbardo's Stanford prison experiment show that...
The Club Where You Bare Your Soul to Strangers
FromĀ The Atlantic: A new movement called Authentic Relating is hosting events across the country where people participate in exercises and games to learn the...
Study Challenges Assumption that Schizophrenia Impairs Cognitive Ability
Secondary factors may impair performance on cognitive tasks, making it difficult for individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia to perform to the best of their ability.
Depathologize Shyness Now!
In this piece forĀ Medium, Jenny Karlsson makes the case for depathologizing shyness by removing "social anxiety disorder" from the DSM.
"Shyness, under the label of,...
Screen Time Linked to Increased Depressive Symptoms Among Teens
New study examines how increased screen time and social media may be contributing to depressive symptoms and suicide risk in teens
Children Diagnosed with ADHD Younger are More Likely to get Multiple Medications
New research demonstrates that children diagnosed with ADHD at younger ages are more likely than those diagnosed later to receive multiple medications within five years of their diagnosis.
Stop Labelling People Who Commit Crimes ‘Criminals’
In this piece forĀ Aeon, Kimberley Brownlee argues that labelling people who commit crimes as "criminals," "offenders," or "perpetrators" is dehumanizing and reductionistic, defining a...
A Quiet Rise in Wildland-Firefighter Suicides
FromĀ The Atlantic: Over the past decade, there has been a quiet acknowledgement that suicide is widespread within the wildland firefighting community. Both the trauma...
Beyond Critique: Psychologists Discuss Diagnostic Alternatives
The Journal of Humanistic Psychology compiles diverse research offering diagnostic alternatives toward a paradigm shift in mental health care.
A Lazy Person’s Guide to Happiness
FromĀ The Atlantic: According to author Dan Buettner, who studies the healthiest people in the world, improving our surrounding environment has a much greater impact...
The Link Between Poor Mental Health and Low Income
FromĀ Metro: Poverty can have a dramaticĀ effect on people's mental and physical health, as it can impact diet, healthcare access, sleep, and socialization.
"There are plenty...
Women With Endometriosis at Risk of Mental Health Issues
FromĀ The Sun: According to a new study, one in ten women with the chronic condition endometriosis are at a greater risk ofĀ developingĀ mental health problems....
Climate Change Puts Cambodians at Risk of Mental Health Issues
FromĀ Eco-Business: Many Cambodians are still healing from a tragic recent past, from the Lon Nol regime in 1970 to the collapse of the Pol...
A Likely Culprit for Teen Mental Health Deterioration
FromĀ The Conversation: In the five years between 2010 and 2015, U.S. teens' mental health greatly deteriorated. The sudden ascendance of the smartphone is most...
