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An article in JAMA Psychiatry advises very slow tapering for best results when discontinuing antipsychotic drugs.

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

New research by Jim van Os and Peter Groot finds that using hyperbolic tapering to discontinue antidepressants reduces withdrawal effects.

New research finds insomnia, anxiety, and depression are common symptoms of antipsychotic withdrawal, highlighting difficulties of discontinuation.

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

New meta-scientific review questions the evidence for the gold standard psychotherapies and empirically supported treatments.

Finnish reseachers report in Schizophrenia Research that antipsychotic use is associated with cognitive and memory impairments. The University of Oulu team studied forty people...

Adverse physiological symptoms of antidepressant withdrawal are regularly mistaken to be other problems to the detriment of the patient.

Mark Horowitz and David Taylor provide advice on how to tell the difference between antidepressant withdrawal and depression relapse.

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

A new review finds a lack of available guidance on how to effectively monitor adverse effects of antipsychotic drug clozapine.

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

A new study has found a strong association between antipsychotic drugs and higher rates of severe cases of COVID-19.

A new study found that having been prescribed an antidepressant previously was associated with an increased risk of depressive relapse.

New data interpreted to suggest a hierarchical, dimensional system of mental disorders will aid future research efforts and improve mental health care.

Psychological abuse and childhood neglect are strongly associated with depression in adulthood, according to a meta-analysis of childhood trauma and depression published in this month’s issue of the Journal of Affective Disorders. “The findings clearly highlight the potential impact of the more ‘silent’ types of childhood maltreatment (other than physical and sexual abuse) on the development of depression,” the researchers conclude.

Bias and financial conflicts in antidepressant trials “contribute to systematic underestimation of risk in the published literature.”

Study traces the history of biomedical explanations of psychopathology to show how stigma and discrimination are reinforced when other possible explanations are ignored.

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...

With the chemical imbalance theory falling out of fashion, researchers examine the claim that psychiatry never truly endorsed it.

Dr. Niall McLaren joins us to talk of his experiences working in Australian psychiatry and explains why the models that purport to guide psychiatric diagnosis and treatment are not what they seem.

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

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...

Consumer Reports affirms that, though the use of antipsychotic drugs to treat conditions not approved by the Food and Drug Administration has increased significantly in the...

Hanna Pickard on the elusive middle ground between personal responsibility and systemic factors in our understandings of addiction.