The Core Error of Psychiatrists and Psychologists: Certainty about āConsensus Reality”
Mental health professionals are selected and socialized to accept consensus reality and see a lack of adjustment to it as "mental illness."
Withdrawal Symptoms Common for Those who Stop Taking Antidepressants
A new study, published in Molecular Psychiatry, investigates the prevalence and typical characteristics of antidepressant withdrawal syndrome (AWS) through analyzing available research. Researchers found...
“What Matters to You?” ā An Antidote to “What’s Wrong” and “What Happened”
Both āwhatās wrong with you?ā and āwhatās happened to youā risk sidelining peopleās own understandings and solutions.
How Creativity and Flexibility in Therapy Changed My Healing Journey
This is not meant to be an indictment of DBT, but an example of how important it is to make changes when a treatment doesnāt work.
So-Called Suicide Experts Recommend Antidepressants, Which Increase Suicides
They are biased towards drug use and cherry-pick the studies they quote even when they call their reviews systematic.
Why Gradual Reduction of Antipsychotics Could Be Safer for Service Users
A new commentary published in Current Opinion in Psychiatry presents the case for slow tapering of antipsychotics. According to authors Mark Horowitz and Joanna...
We Should Listen to Our Emotional Pain: An interview with Paul Andrews
Dr. Paul Andrews is an Associate Professor of Evolutionary Psychology in the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour at McMaster University. His research focuses...
A Case for Parallel Mental Health Care
Can people turn against the psychiatric priesthood and find the answers within themselves and their own communities?
Antidepressants Cause Cardiovascular Disease, Study Finds
A new study published in BMJ Mental Health finds that antidepressants are associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD). The authors employed Mendelian randomization, a method...
Greater Role for Experts by Experience in the Dialogue on Euthanasia in Cases of...
A letter from those experts by experience.
Medical Health Treatment vs. Mental Health Treatment
Every person seeking help should be treated with respect, informed of their options, and have a strong sense that their concerns are being addressed.
New Guidelines on How to Accurately Convey ADHD Information
The guidelines explain what research on ADHD has found, strengths and limitations, and more accurate ways to express what it means.
Investigators Who Blew the Whistle On STAR*D Fraud Call for Retraction of Five AJP...
A letter that Ed Pigott and Jay Amsterdam sent to Ned Kalin, editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Psychiatry.
ADHD and āWeak Muscle Disorderā
"ADHD" doesnāt explain inattentiveness, just like "weak muscle disorder" doesnāt explain muscle weakness, just describes something improvable.
Study Finds No Increased Risks for Pregnant Women Who Discontinue SSRIs/SNRIs
A new article published in Pharmacy and Clinical Pharmacology finds pregnant women that chose to stop using selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and serotonin...
Risks of Prescribing Psychiatric Drugs to Veterans
I wrote this article because of continued inaction to inform veterans and all Americans of the risk profiles of the drugs theyāre prescribed.
Brain Stew: An Interview with Myself
To this day not a single doctor, psychiatrist, psychologist, or any other professional has ever even suggested to me that psych meds could potentially be a contributing factor to violence or homicide.
Gigantic Hoax on Danish National TV: āPatients with an ADHD Diagnosis Die Five Years...
Danish TV issues a correction after learning that this purported study doesn't exist.
Why Does a Parent Medicate a Child? An Interview with My Mother
When Brooke Siem was 15 years old, her father died. Her mother, Dee Barbash, sought help for her daughter that led to a prescription for a psychiatric drug. In this interview, they look back on that fateful decision.
Preventing Suicide Among Older Adults
In an ideal world, the goal would be to have interconnected, trauma-informed, āhelpingā communities to prevent suicide in older adults.
Study Finds Over 25% of Antidepressant Prescriptions Given to High-Risk, Long-Term Users
A new article published in BMC Medicine finds that antidepressant use in two Scottish regions increased 27% between 2012 and 2019. The current work,...
SAFE: Survivors And Families EmpoweredāAn Update
We hope to combat the increasing reliance on force, too often used with the justification āfor your own good.ā
The Aggressive Suppression of Spiritual Awakening
As they handed her hospital pajamas, similar to the orange prison suits you see on TV, she suddenly understood how little these people could help.
What Helped and What Hindered My Recovery from PSSD and Protracted Withdrawal from Antidepressants?
To recover from protracted withdrawal, I did everything I could to survive the process and help my body and mind heal.
From Freud to Fanon: How Daniel Gaztambide is Redefining Psychoanalytic Practice
In this interview, Daniel Gaztambide discusses how decolonial perspectives can transform psychoanalytic practice.
