Trauma/Distress

Researchers examine the transformation of work, life, and identity in India as a result of Western corporate and psychological culture.

Trauma makes the speech centers of the brain shut down. This is why talking about abuse is so difficult: the words are blocked. If you reclassify trauma effects as trauma-strokes, and you adapt physiotherapy to take this clinical evidence into account, then you come up with Verbal Physiotherapy.

Direct access to care in safe locations is key in reducing healthcare costs and increasing quality of life for homeless populations.

New research demonstrates the benefits and complexities for immigrants transitioning from undocumented to DACA status.

For many people, the current political situation around the world is intensely frightening and not without cause. Depression and anxiety are on the rise, but we need a social model revolution in order to look at why this is happening. Labels like Trump Anxiety Disorder are merely a way to put people’s concerns in a box and leave them unaddressed.

When controlling for social and family characteristics, separating children from parents into out-of-home care increases psychiatric issues, prescriptions, and criminal activity.

Researcher Dr. Silke Schwarz highlights how Western psychology’s construction of individual resilience deflects emphasized individual pathology and deflects efforts at structural change.

Medical sociologist David Pilgrim argues that mental health care is neither effective nor “kindly,” as it often relies on flawed research and ineffective treatments.

As a clinical psychologist and someone who was herself “diagnosed” and “treated” for “serious mental illness,” Noël Hunter has a unique vantage point to view the mental health profession. I spoke with her about her new book, which offers an insightful critique of mental health’s diagnostic and treatment irrationalities.

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

A new study suggests needing to appear perfect to others leads to mental health stigma and a higher risk of untreated psychological distress.

Individualist psychological models of poverty pathologize poor communities, decolonial approaches that emphasize context and interdependence may be more sustainable.

Study details Medicaid-insured birth cohort’s exposure to psychiatric medications and mental health services.

Scholars contend that stigma functions as a mechanism of power in analysis of UK Heads Together mental health campaign.

With the increasing medicalization of depression, and as more and more physicians see the treatment of depression as falling under their purview, it is imperative to distinguish between actual clinical depression and "healthy depression" — the adaptive and expectable responses to distressing life events that signal a need for rethinking one's life and recalibrating one's self-perceptions and emotions.

New research provides evidence that police killings of unarmed Black Americans impact the mental health of Black Americans.

A new study investigates the effects of mindfulness-based interventions on employee’s wellbeing across different workplace environments.

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

A new special edition positions psychological science as offering valuable contributions to the study of contemporary racism.

Much of the wild world is now a garden: a rational, controlled space. Yet if we step out of the garden and back into the old growth, I believe the process of psychosis belongs as part of Earth’s “will,” of her wild. The physiological process of psychosis—that of amplified senses—is ecologically purposeful. Not good nor bad, but part of what Nature does trying to grow. Here I share a talk I gave in Boulder, Colorado exploring these themes.

We live in a culture of mandated positivity and compulsory happiness, which somehow remains untouched by the current political, social, ecological and economic realities of the world. If you’re distressed, it must either be your bad attitude (which is a choice) or your broken brain (which is not a choice); god forbid we look anywhere outside the self.

Utilizing Maslow’s published books and essays, psychologist William Compton delineates common myths and attempts to respond to them.

Nev Jones and a team of researchers examine how sex, sexuality, and gender-related content are underexplored in contemporary research on psychosis.

A special issue explores the connection between poverty, mental health, and psychotherapy.

High job demands, low job control, and high job strain are associated with the development of a mental health issue at age 50.