Issues

Experts across the globe point to the harms of drug companies’ influence on research, practice, and education in healthcare noting that it compromises patient care.

Researchers critically examine the underlying assumptions and implications of a new WHO mental health technology designed to streamline psychiatric assessment internationally.

Current standards for clinical trials rely on statistical methods that allow for ineffective treatments to gain approval.

A new scale has been developed and validated to examine beliefs held by mental health professionals towards service users’ rights.

The use of machine learning algorithms (known as artificial intelligence) in the medical field raises a slew of ethical concerns.

Young women’s narratives indicate ways antidepressants have shaped their sense of self.

During a period of self-doubt, I chose to see a psychiatrist because I was engulfed in negative thoughts and couldn't find a direction in life. The slightest joys came only when I was high. Though my weed addiction was likely causing all of my symptoms, my psychiatrist’s response was to prescribe antipsychotics.

New study links involuntary hospitalization with psychotic diagnosis, previous involuntary hospitalization, and economic deprivation.

A new review finds that dehumanizing language, including self-dehumanization, is connected to anxiety, depression, and disordered eating.

Refugees and first-generation immigrants of African descent are at greater risk of experiencing medical coercion when compared to immigrants of other visible minority communities in Canada.

A Nigerian study finds that more than three-quarters of patients improved, even when only 13% were prescribed medication.

New qualitative research finds a shift in the meaning of gender as it enters the local lexicon of people in rural Malawi, in turn having negative ramifications for those it is meant to help.

Researchers explore how culturally responsive services can create greater equity in mental health care.

Researchers call for action to address social challenges and inequalities that obstruct mental health and well-being globally.

Changing the mental health and psychosocial support system in Germany requires public debate about the ways our society should help and support people in mental crisis and with chronic mental health problems. We believe the driving force behind all help and support should be humanitarianism and respect for inalienable human rights.

A re-visioned approach to social psychiatry aims to understand the broad influence of social life on mental health.

A new critical review of the latest Lancet global mental health report finds that while the movement claims to take a public health approach in its rhetoric it continues to focus on culturally inappropriate individual-level interventions.

Researchers seek to identify adaptive coping responses to discrimination for the transgender and gender diverse community.

Gender identity conversion efforts impact psychological distress and lifetime suicidality in transgender people.

Loneliness was found to both predict and be reinforced by severe common mental disorders.

A review of the literature demonstrates that coercive practices lack empirical support and violate human rights.

Study finds that not believing sexual abuse survivors often leads to self-blame and mental health issues.

A case analysis of an American Indian woman illustrates how the DSM diagnostic criteria misrepresent the lives of indigenous people.

Teen suicide risk is influenced by relationships with adults and teachers, perceived popularity, close friendships, and school connectedness.

At my job with a NAMI affiliate, I heard daily from people who looked at family members with “mental illness” as non-people, non-human, the “other.” In the office, it was no different. If NAMI had a tagline, it would be “Please be normal like us.”