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When images of myself climbing over the Golden Gate Bridge’s unmistakable red railing appear on the screen, questions shoot through my mind: Where did this footage come from? Why is it on TV?

Concerns, from functional unblinding to sexual assault in the clinical trials, led this week to a full repudiation of Lykos' MDMA-assisted therapy.

Based on RCTs, antidepressants double the risk of harms related to suicidality and violence. Why do psychiatrists ignore this data?

This belief that there was something fundamentally wrong with me reinforced the damage done by repeated experiences of abuse, rejection, and discrimination.

No one is prepared to have the ability to feel attraction or fall in love taken away from them. I am incapable of what makes humans human: emotions, emotional bonding.

Your therapist is, first and foremost, a regular person. No matter how many degrees, years of training, or fancy certificates, they are still human.

MIA’s Ayurdhi Dhar interviews Carl Elliott about scandals in psychiatry and the challenges faced by whistleblowers.

New research highlights the ethical responsibilities of clinicians in supporting patients who choose to reduce or discontinue antipsychotic medication.

Promoters of "neurodiversity" replace existing forms of oppression with new "neuro" versions that still decontextualise our struggles.

Normal reactions transformed into illnesses, emotions stripped of meaning, & people deprived of their autonomous coping skills and supports.

I painfully and gradually learned to function with my dysfunctions. Over time, I noticed genuine improvement.

How the Reality Approximation Engine allows us to rethink psychology, mental health care, and perhaps even society.

With a vision to transcend the cycle of incarceration into a restorative model of justice, rituals are integrated alongside acupuncture.

The medicalisation of ordinary human existence continues apace, thinly disguised as embracing the authentic self.

Despite their successful outcomes, Norwegian non-coercive and medication-free programs are being threatened with closure.

Recovery from PTSD and from all the drugs I was prescribed was a journey filled with ups and downs, setbacks, and breakthroughs.

One of the counselors at the crisis center asked me a simple but profound question; Are you ready to let go of your story?

The power of suggestion: what my experience with hypnotism taught me about the placebo effect.

The unacknowledged politics of neurodiversity: How neoliberalism and exploitation help explain the rise of neurodiversity rhetoric.

In conversations with college students and recent graduates from across the country and around the world, they described feeling dismissed by views of mental health that narrow their experiences to individual medical problems.

Mood tracking can make someone realize: I’m starting to become manic, and this is why, and this is what I can do about it.

I propose Theodoric’s Principle of Medical Advancement: “Medicine has advanced when the old standard of care becomes a joke.” 

Neil Gong exposes the false choice in mental health policy between tolerant containment for the poor and paternalistic surveillance for the rich.

Insight into the childhood roots of recurring interpersonal problems and better expressive mastery of primal emotions are cornerstones of effective psychotherapy.

The fuzzy concept of neurodivergence has expanded to include almost every human experience, plus its opposite.