Privacy & Surveillance

Emotional support, religion, and searching for meaning are positively correlated with posttraumatic growth among prisoners.

Meta-analytic study detects upsurge in patterns of perfectionism in young adults and explores how neoliberalism contributes to this trend.

A new analysis of UK mental health data suggests the way organizations deliver mental health services can alter patient outcomes.

Researchers found participants were less likely to dehumanize those with whom they disagreed when they heard their voices.

Rates of suicide in prison are significantly higher than in the general population.

Researchers examine links between police victimization and psychotic symptoms in a topical new study.

New study examines how increased screen time and social media may be contributing to depressive symptoms and suicide risk in teens

New meta-analysis of smartphone based interventions demonstrates small-to-moderate effect.

Loneliness has been linked to negative health outcomes, but there are no interventions clearly proven to ‘fix’ the problem.

How people are treated after being hospitalized can either help them to overcome the traumatic effects of coercion or make them worse.

The FDA approved the prescribing and sale of a new hi-tech compliance-monitoring “antipsychotic” drug this week. A new chapter in human darkness has descended — one that is applauded by the alliance of control addicts that made it happen.

Researchers recommend a ‘politically-informed focus', including activism, when assessing children and designing interventions in areas of chronic political violence.

Derek Summerfield, consultant psychiatrist at South London and Maudsley National Health Service Foundation Trust, challenges the assumption that Western depression is a universal condition.

Researchers find few existing "psychopathology scales" are appropriate for global utilization.

Are White Americans’ poor mental health outcomes caused by Whiteness?

Participatory action approaches in bioethics research used to decrease coercion and seclusion in psychiatric treatment.

Drugs to treat serious or life-threatening conditions can receive accelerated FDA approval, but may expose patients to increased safety risks and reduced efficacy.

People who are more likely to believe that others’ views will change to match their own over time are less likely to engage in actions to facilitate that change

A recent editorial, published in BMJ, argues there is an increase in coercive measures in psychiatry that are damaging to individuals diagnosed with mental illness.

Researchers present loneliness as a health threat facing a growing number of Americans.

Leading human subjects ethics researcher questions exploitation of uninsured minorities in experimental drug trials.

New research questions whether the diagnosis of ADHD even meets the criteria for a disorder, as set out in the manuals used by the medical and psychiatric fields.

The rate of incarceration for lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals is roughly three times that of the general population and they experience significantly higher rates of victimization and mistreatment in prison.

New research shows that having a strong sense of personal meaning and purpose can reduce the negative effects of social media use.

A new study in the journal PNAS explores whether brain scans are ineffective at identifying criminal intent in carefully designed situations.