Belief in a Fair Economy Linked to Greater Mental Health Stigma, Study Finds
Recent research from across the world has found that stigma towards people with mental health diagnoses is either increasing or stagnant. While studies from...
Why Mental Health Is Not the Same for Everyone
There is such a thing as mental health, but it is not the same for everyone. It is a subjective good that depends on a person’s own standards.
Mourning on Schedule: How Grieving Became a ‘Mental Illness’
My wife died ten months ago. In another two months, I will have a new mental disorder: “Prolonged Grief Disorder.”
History, Eugenics, and an Inquiry into Mad Consciousness: A Conversation With Susanne Paola Antonetta
Suzanne Paola Antonetta is an accomplished writer and poet, She joins us to discuss her latest book: The Devil's Castle, Nazi Eugenics, Euthanasia, and How Psychiatry's Troubled History Reverberates Today.
ChatGPT is Psychology’s Marlboro Man
Big Tobacco drafted the plays that Big Tech is enacting today: manipulating public opinion by partnering with the medical field.
With AI Chatbots As Therapists, We Can All Be Patients
Chatbots, with constant availability and user-centric conversation style, are widening the reach of “therapeutic culture.”
Farewell to Suicide
The conditions that create suicide are the same as those required for toxic leadership, toxic environments, and dysfunctional policies.
When a Radical Feminist from South Korea Became a Psychiatrist in the US
The Western mind fights for justice, while the Eastern soul accepts imperfection. Perhaps when we can hold both, we can flourish.
How Our Blindness to Context Harms Patients and Breaks Practitioners: A Conversation With Kamaldeep...
Kamaldeep Bhui joins us to challenge the myth of clinical neutrality, arguing that culture informs not only patients’ experiences of distress but also clinicians’ judgments about what counts as pathology. From voice-hearing to addiction, meaning depends on context, class, belief systems, and power relations.
As a Doctor, I Felt Compelled to Agree to ECT—It Nearly Ruined My Life
Apparently, I signed consent forms, but what was I consenting to? I certainly cannot remember being told about the adverse effects.
Is Focusing on Screen Time Diverting Us From the Real Drivers of Youth Distress?
Instead of focusing on screen time, we must consider the root causes: the concentration of wealth in the tech sector.
Psychobabble of the Month: Think of Jealousy as a Mental Disorder
Convincing a jealous partner that they have a mental illness sounds like gaslighting, but to JAMA Psychiatry, it's science.
There Is No Over- or Under-diagnosis of ADHD or Autism, Just a Confused Cacophony...
The public narrative on ADHD, autism, and neurodivergence is infused with scientism, meaning faith-based claims masquerading as scientific ones.
What Isn’t Broken, Part 3: Spiritual Rebirth
My suicidality was right about one thing: Something had to die. It just didn’t have to be me.
What Isn’t Broken, Part 2: The Descent
My method had to involve some kind of loophole so that my death wasn’t technically by my own hand. Then it came to me: my eating disorder.
Service Users Face Abuse From Mental Health Professionals
People with mental health diagnoses are often the victims of violence and abuse, both within and beyond mental healthcare systems. Media reports of sexual...
Is Psychiatry’s Myth of Mental Health as Damaging as Its Myth of Mental Illness?
Does "mental health" mean more than to be well-adjusted to a dehumanizing, irrational, and homicidal world?
What Isn’t Broken, Part 1: A Temporary Fix
I didn't want a diagnosis to be put on meds, I wanted a diagnosis in order to validate the pain I was in and to be taken seriously by the adults around me.
UberTherapy and the Enshittification of our Relational Lives: Part 2 of our Interview with...
Elizabeth Cotton traces how digital therapy can block the very thing people come for: a stable, human relationship that can hold fear, dependency, and ambivalence.
Are We Allowed to Criticise Mental Health Professionals?
When I started recording the worrying incidents I was witnessing as a student nurse, I was advised that my complaints would go nowhere and make it difficult for me to pass the course.
The FDA Allows Ineffective Devices to Come to Market
“The main take-home message is that regulatory approval doesn't mean a device works. It means it's safe,” according to Katya Rubia, PhD.
When the Government Becomes the Source of Trauma for Children
Decades of research on attachment and developmental trauma tells us what happens when we separate children from their caregivers under terrifying and uncertain conditions.
Patriarchy Leads To Insanity
I am hopeful that for me and others, DSM-driven diagnoses like “bipolar” can be seen as more transient states, as part of a greater journey of the soul.
UberTherapy and the Enshittification of our Relational Lives: Part 1 of our Interview with...
With UberTherapy, Elizabeth Cotton follows the gig-economy playbook into psychotherapy, where platforms lower costs by depressing wages and standardizing treatment.
What 776 ECT Recipients Want You to Know
What stands out is the consistency between individuals’ experiences. Most of the costs were lasting, life-altering consequences.
