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The pain has gone now, and I am grateful for who it has made me — a happier person than before. Perhaps broken open a bit, but in a good way.

Drugs, social support, placenta encapsulation: How can we approach the specter of postpartum depression?

Doctors’ diagnostic inflexibility and unwillingness to take an integrative approach limits patients’ autonomy in their own treatment.

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

Even though my 'psychoses’ have been beautiful, you also need a safe place to be able to process them.

On antidepressants versus CBT, the buzz around ketamine, and drugs for postpartum depression.

What is seen as pathology is a complex web of surviving strategies learned in aversive circumstances that can cause distress later.

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.

The ASD diagnosis glosses over the many developmental specifics that might underlie a child’s challenges related to social communication.

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. 

“Experts” refer to an ill-defined concept of “trauma,” but unique traumatic experiences should not be generalized.

Les Ruthven addresses the research showing that psychiatric hospitalization increases suicidality.

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.

The psychotic and the mystic swim in the same water. But why do some swim, and some drown?

An epidemic of children blaming their parents in therapy? In my 20 years as a psychologist, I've seen the opposite.

New study reveals: 2 in 3 people need more than the current antidepressant benefits to consider them worthwhile.

Rather than a war to be fought within individuals, we should envision mental health as a garden to be carefully nurtured.

New research finds that the non-physical aspects of withdrawal from SSRIs are often overlooked.

The criterion of "impairment" is defined not by the person seeking treatment, but by other people: parents, clinicians, courts, employers, and so on.

Les Ruthven addresses increases in suicide and homicide caused by antidepressant drugs.

After decades of study, billions of dollars spent, and thousands of studies conducted, the failure to identify any genes for schizophrenia should definitively put to rest the notion that schizophrenia is a genetic disorder, according to E. Fuller Torrey.

I learned that trying to fight, ignore, push away what I was dealing with was not working. I had to face it, accept it, work out what it had come to teach me and then work out how to set it free.

Social circumstances are indisputably connected to psychological well-being, but this has gained no traction in policy and service provision.

Justin Karter interviews narrative and philosophical psychologist Mark Freeman about his vision for the future of psychology.

Many people continue to be victimized by psychiatry’s adherence to a model that exists to satisfy guild interests, not science.