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Jürgen Margraf and Silvia Schneider, both well-known psychologists at the University of Bochum in Germany, claim that psychotropic drugs are no solution to mental...

Researchers find that most psychiatric drugs cause severe withdrawal despite attempt s to gradually decrease the dosage.

A re-visioned approach to social psychiatry aims to understand the broad influence of social life on mental health.

In this month’s issue of the journal Brain a new study investigates whether the drugs prescribed to control seizures can increase the risk of...

When it comes to ADHD, some researchers suggest that medical textbooks provide inaccurate and misleading information.

Royal College of Psychiatrists’ former president demands support for patients coming off antidepressants.

Robin Williams had "therapeutic" levels of the tetra-cyclic antidepressant mirtazapine in his blood at the time of his suicide, according to the coroner's report...

Once an appropriate statistical method was used, the study findings were “no longer valid,” according to the editors of JAMA and JAMA Psychiatry.

Psychiatrists argue that current practice fails to account for the interaction of biological, psychosocial and iatrogenic factors.

A new review finds that dehumanizing language, including self-dehumanization, is connected to anxiety, depression, and disordered eating.

Despite their finding, the researchers suggest that SSRIs be given to people who do not meet criteria for depression or anxiety.

Antidepressants have been reported to cause a state called “akathisia,” where people feel extremely agitated and restless and may become preoccupied with thoughts of...

Young women’s narratives indicate ways antidepressants have shaped their sense of self.

The death toll among Japanese citizens who have taken Johnson & Johnson's subsidiary Janssen's schizophrenia drug Xeplion has climbed to 21, from 17 on...

MIA’s Hannah Emerson interviews Comas-Díaz on the need for culturally competent care in a medicalized and individualistic society.

In a new study published in JAMA Psychiatry, researchers investigated whether they could use EEG (electroencephalograph) technology to predict whether people would feel better...

Long-term treatment with antipsychotic drugs is currently considered the standard treatment for patients diagnosed with ‘schizophrenia.’ A new study challenges this practice, however. The...

Psychiatrist Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed explores a way forward for psychiatry in responding to the Mad activism of service users.

Multiple media sources are reporting on new data from the CDC revealing a substantial increase in the suicide rate in the United States between 1999...

UN official writes that States should focus instead on resolving social inequality and injustice as determinants of health and human rights.

Common scientific beliefs about serotonin levels in depression and how antidepressants act on the brain appear to be completely backwards.

Can a renewed biopsychosocial approach, grounded in an updated philosophy, foster person-centered medicine, and psychiatry?

Researchers interviewed people who were given medical advice to discontinue antidepressants.

The alternative treatment model of Soteria helps individuals suffering from schizophrenia without relying on medication or coercion.

Researchers explore how the processes of colonization may impact the well-being of indigenous populations today.