The Moving Basis of Mental Health Diagnosis
In this opinion piece forĀ The Chronicle Herald, Dr. A.J. discusses the subjective nature of psychiatric diagnosis and the DSM. Citing research by Paula Kaplan,...
The Risk That Survives a Psych Ward Stay
FromĀ OZY: The suicide rate for former psychiatric inpatients is 44 times higher than that of the general population.Ā According toĀ Australian psychiatrist and professor Christopher Ryan,...
What If We Are All Wrong About Mental Illness?
FromĀ Thoughtful Living: The biomedical model of psychiatry, along with the DSM, is deeply flawed and can often be misleading. To improve, mental health services...
The Politics of Mental Health
In this piece forĀ Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century, Hazel Croft argues for a more radical approach to mental health, exploringĀ the impact of neoliberal...
Mental Health Patients Wait Over Three Years to be Discharged
FromĀ The Telegraph: Mental health patients across the UK are waiting for years to be discharged from psychiatric units. At least 91 patients have waited...
A Glimpse Inside US Mental Health Detention Centre
FromĀ The Sun: New York photographer Lili Holzer-Glier was recently allowed inside the Cook County Department of Corrections in Chicago, where 35 percent of inmates...
In Chronic Patients, Antipsychotics Have Limited Efficacy in Reducing Symptoms
A large review and meta-analysis of 167 studies across 60 years dissects placebo-controlled randomized controlled trials of antipsychotic drugs.
New Hope for Depression
In this piece forĀ TIME, Mandy Oaklander provides a comprehensive review of the current status of and potential future directions forĀ the depression treatment industry. The...
Report on How Much Congressmen are Getting From Pharma
FromĀ MedCityNews: This year, under the threat of legislation that may reduce drug prices, address the opioid crisis, and repeal and replace the Affordable Care...
New Study Asks Doctors About Barriers to Deprescribing
Researchers interviewed doctors about the barriers that prevent them from being able to decrease excess medications.
How do we Know if a Drug Actually Works?
FromĀ Scientific American: The effectiveness of a particular medical treatment is often highly subjective and dependent on each individual's definition of the term "effective." Many...
Benzodiazepine Withdrawal Symptoms
Members of the group Benzodiazepine Recovery have created a video about the often debilitating symptoms of benzodiazepine withdrawal.
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CIA Torture Psychologists Compared to Poison Gas Manufacturers
FromĀ American Civil Liberties Union: Last week, the defense attorneys of the psychologists behindĀ the CIA's torture program, James Mitchell and John "Bruce" Jessen, compared their...
Study Finds Mistreatment and Psychological Distress Among LGBT Prisoners in the US
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.
Mental Health, Inc.
FromĀ Kirkus Reviews: In his new bookĀ Mental Health, Inc., Art Levine reports on the dire state of the U.S. mental health system.
"The author delivers the...
Psychiatry Group Tells Members They Can Ignore Goldwater Rule
FromĀ STAT: The American Psychoanalytic Association has given its members permission to ignore the "Goldwater rule" and comment publicly on the mental state of government...
England’s Mental Health Experiment: No-Cost Talk Therapy
FromĀ The New York Times: England is in the midst of a unique national experiment, an initiative that provides open-ended talk therapy free of charge...
Death of Psychiatric Patient at Florida Facility Leads to Lawsuit
From theĀ Hartford Courant: In 2011, Melinda Jakobowski, a psychiatric patient at the Florida Institute of Neurologic Rehabilitation, died from a sudden heart failure after...
The FBI and Defense Department are Investigating UHS Hospitals
FromĀ BuzzFeed News: America's largest chain of psychiatric hospitals, United Health Services, is currently under investigation by at least three federal agencies including the FBI...
The Promise of LSD Microdoses and Other Psychedelics
In this interview forĀ Scientific American, psychiatrist John Halpern discusses some of the potentially therapeutic effects of peyote, ayahuasca, psilocybin, MDMA and other psychedelics.
"Once when...
Political Neuroscience: “Growth Mindsets” and Disability
FromĀ Neuroskeptic: The British government is launching a new initiative, the "Health and Work Conversation," a one-hour conversation in which welfare claimants receiving financial support...
New CDC Head Peddled Controversial ‘Anti-Aging Medicine’
FromĀ Forbes: Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald, who was recently appointed as director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has a history of marketing...
New Study Examines User Experience of Discontinuing Psychiatric Medications
Researchers find that support and self-care were helpful for users during discontinuation, but that mental health professionals were not very helpful.
Cause of Death: Unknown
A new film, "Cause of Death: Unknown" investigates the pharmaceutical industry and the deaths that have been caused by psychiatric drugs. The film will...
Psychiatrist Arrested for Death of Patient
FromĀ The Times of India: A psychiatrist from the Uma Nalini Mary Clinic and Research InstituteĀ was recently arrested on charges of homicide of a middle-agedĀ patient....
