‘It Was a Joint Effort’: Deborah Kasdan on Bringing Her Late Sister’s Story to...
Author Deborah Kasdan discusses her memoir of her late sister, "Roll Back The World."
The Psychiatric Peddlers in Your Schools
Educators and parents must equip children with the necessary tools to meet the normal problems of childhood that psychiatry attempts to address.
Antidepressant Use Linked to Sexual Dysfunction, Why Aren’t Prescribers Discussing It?
Research sheds light on the impact of antidepressants on sexual dysfunction, emphasizing the need for patient-physician communication.
Antidepressant Use Tightly Correlates with Increased Suicide Rates
While the study canāt confirm causality, it does contradict the notion that antidepressants reduce suicide at the population level.
āA Dangerous Substanceā: The Impact of Social Media on Youth Mental Health
This is what social media does, she says. It draws people in. It hurts people. In the worst cases, it kills people.
Grief, Bereavement, Public Health, and Me
In public health, we talk about death. But we donāt talk about grief or bereavement. We donāt study the hole left behind in the family system or social sphere.
Reflections on the Silicon Valley Teen Suicides-by-Train: Fifteen Years Later
A psychiatrist and mom reflects on teen suicide clusters in Palo Alto and discusses alternative ways to address adolescent mental health.
The “Madness” of Inpatient Psychiatry
Inpatient psychiatry is not a place of psychological healing; it is devoid of compassion and full of human rights abuses.
Irish Psychiatry Says Chemical Imbalance Is a Figure of SpeechāSo, What Now?
Donāt researchers and clinicians have an ethical responsibility to inform the public that the "chemical imbalance" story is false?
Peaceful Reflections on the Past from āOne Who Got Awayā
The pain has gone now, and I am grateful for who it has made me ā a happier person than before. Perhaps broken open a bit, but in a good way.
Enlarging the Treatment Lens for Postpartum Depression
Drugs, social support, placenta encapsulation: How can we approach the specter of postpartum depression?
How the Medical Profession Pathologizes Emotions and the Damage to Patients
Doctorsā diagnostic inflexibility and unwillingness to take an integrative approach limits patientsā autonomy in their own treatment.
Despite Safety Risks, Prescribers Receive Little Guidance of Monitoring Antipsychotic Clozapine
A new review finds a lack of available guidance on how to effectively monitor adverse effects of antipsychotic drug clozapine.
I Heard Some Voices and They Were Magnificent
Even though my 'psychosesā have been beautiful, you also need a safe place to be able to process them.
Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 7)
On antidepressants versus CBT, the buzz around ketamine, and drugs for postpartum depression.
Trauma and Resources Within Social Context
What is seen as pathology is a complex web of surviving strategies learned in aversive circumstances that can cause distress later.
The Trauma of Psychosis: My “Bipolar” Journey
Somatic therapy helped me process the trauma of my psychosis: the two days of my brain telling me the world was ending and awful things were being done to my family.
As a Psychologist, I’ve Seen Many Children Misdiagnosed as AutisticāIt’s a Clinical Catastrophe
The ASD diagnosis glosses over the many developmental specifics that might underlie a childās challenges related to social communication.
The Social-Emotional Distress Field, or How I Divorced “Mental Health”
At this crisis point, I realised that resigning from my job was not enough. I needed to divorce from the Mental Health field as a whole.Ā
Are āTrauma/Addiction Expertsā and Psychiatrists Misleading Us?
āExpertsā refer to an ill-defined concept of ātrauma,ā but unique traumatic experiences should not be generalized.
Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 6)
Les Ruthven addresses the research showing that psychiatric hospitalization increases suicidality.
RADAR and the Dignity of Risk-Taking
The goal may not be to eliminate risk, but to respect the risk that people are willing to take, and to help make tapering as safe as possible.
Oceans of Energy: What Paranoia Reveals About Interconnection
The psychotic and the mystic swim in the same water. But why do some swim, and some drown?
“Get Over It”? A Response to Empower Parents to Repair Instead of Victim Blame
An epidemic of children blaming their parents in therapy? In my 20 years as a psychologist, I've seen the opposite.
Two Out of Three Find Antidepressant Effects Not Worth Burdens
New study reveals: 2 in 3 people need more than the current antidepressant benefits to consider them worthwhile.
