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The American Journal of Psychiatry Needs to Retract Study That Reported Fraudulent Results

Concerns rise about the adverse effects and longer-term harms of GLP-1 injections like Ozempic and Wegovy.

A national study showed that ADHD drug abuse among U.S. high and middle school students has been rising for the past 20 years.

New data upends common beliefs about asylum closures, deinstitutionalization, and rates of psychiatric coercion.

I have been forcibly drugged for over forty years now. The dose of neuroleptics I am forced to take will probably kill me.

Psychiatry's medicalization of social and psychological suffering is not justified by the currently known biology.

There was a time when I could think of nothing else but pills and prescriptions, pain and panic. Psychiatry shrank my world.

I’ll never forget standing beside my sister Lucy as she was strapped to a gurney during a midnight admission to an E.R. in Cambridge, Mass.

Moncrieff et al. respond to the contradictory and, in some cases, false concerns raised by these critics of their serotonin review.

We all want to help our kids or our students, and sometimes finding the right key to unlock a child’s gifts is a matter of time, patience, trial, and error.

The poster-children of psychiatric genetics, who endured abuse throughout their lives, were also the product of a racist culture.

David Edward Walker is the author of Coyote’s Swing: A Memoir and Critique of Mental Hygiene in Native America, which was published in February...

The Detroit Free Press did an excellent job in bringing to light the conditions at Pontiac, its loss of accreditation, and closing. Still, they didn't quite grasp the severity of violence there.

In 2012, in a period of low mood and anxiety, my GP prescribed an antidepressant. Little did I know that this would derail my life.

As contacts to the new 988 suicide hotline number have risen, so have call tracing and police interventions.

Amid growing mental health crisis, research raises questions about the mass rollout of brief psychotherapies in Australia.

Sharing the similarities between Lindsay Clancy's homicidal episode and my own will hopefully help prevent rare SSRI-induced suicides and homicides, including mass shootings.

Preying on the privatisation of distress comes the medical-industrial complex perverting the mental health landscape.

"I see the white paper as the culmination of my 40+ years of advocacy for people subjected to psychiatric incarceration and forced drugging."

I had a chemical brain injury from medications. The only help doctors could offer was more medications: treating the failed treatment with other dangerous treatments.

From an early age, relatives and doctors alike had told me I was severely mentally ill. Naturally, I believed them.

If the Brackeen v. Halland case is successful, Native children are more likely to be placed with non-Native foster parents, and face a surge in psychiatric labeling and drugging.

The research literature from the WHO, NIMH, and others does not support a narrative of therapeutic progress, of psychiatric treatments that have “continued” to improve over time.

MIA's Julia Lejeune interviews scholar, activist, and educator Pata Suyemoto about lived experience activism and racial justice in the mental health field.

Harrow's research over the years told of how long-term antipsychotic use is associated with worse outcomes, even after controlling for psychosis severity.