Why Psychosis Is Not So Crazy: A Conversation with Stijn Vanheule
Vanheule urges clinicians to listen for the structure in psychotic thought. He offers clinical examples that reframe hallucinations as a form of creative response to unspeakable dilemmas.
Antipsychotics Do Not Provide a Clinically Meaningful Benefit Over the Short-Term: A Review of...
70 years of RCTs fail to provide evidence that antipsychotics provide a clinically meaningful benefit for treating acute psychotic episodes.
On Human Rights and Surviving Race: A Conversation with Celia Brown
An interview with Celia Brown: psychiatric survivor, human rights activist, and president of MindFreedom International.
May Cause Side EffectsāRadical Acceptance and Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: An Interview with Brooke Siem
Brooke Siem discusses her experiences of being medicated with antidepressants as a teenager, her withdrawal from a cocktail of psychiatric drugs and her debut memoir, May Cause Side Effects.
Veterans Take Their “War Cry For Change” to Capitol Hill
Despite VHAās $571 million suicide prevention budget, veterans are dying by suicide at alarmingly high rates. Advocates want answers and accountability.
Two Decades of PSSD: A Life Stolen by Antidepressants
Our two-year-long collaborative research project suggests that neuroimmune processes and related downstream mechanisms may play a role in PSSD.
The Poetics and Politics of Our Mental Health Metaphors: An Interview with Laurence Kirmayer
Ayurdhi Dhar interviews influential cultural psychiatrist Laurence Kirmayer on how metaphors, histories, and social structures contour our experiences of suffering and healing.
A Therapist Navigating Antidepressant Withdrawal: Nelson Lee on the Power of the Present Moment
Therapist and coach Nelson Lee joins us on the podcast to discuss how he approaches helping clients while navigating the complexities of antidepressant withdrawal.
Chemically Imbalanced: Joanna Moncrieff on the Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth
Joanna Moncrieff joins Robert Whitaker to talk about her latest book, titled Chemically Imbalanced: The Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth. They discuss the serotonin story and the fact that there is no good evidence that a serotonergic deficiency is a primary cause of depression.
Depression: Psychiatryās Discredited Theories and Drugs Versus a Sane Model and Approach
Psychiatryās depression outcomes are poor because its bio-chemical-electrical treatments are based on a depression model that science has flushed down the toilet.
āProgress Only Occurs when People Make Demandsā: Paolo del Vecchio Reflects on a Life...
Paolo del Vecchio speaks withĀ Leah HarrisĀ about his decades of public service at SAMHSA, what worries him most about mental health in todayās America, and where he sees hope in the recovery movement that he helped create.
The False Memory Syndrome at 30: How Flawed Science Turned into Conventional Wisdom ...
Soon after states finally began providing adults who remembered childhood abuse with the legal standing to sue, the FMSF began waging a PR campaign to discredit their memoriesāin both courtrooms and in the public mind.
āDad, Something’s Not Right. I Need Helpā: Richard Fee on the Dangers of Adderall
In appointments that last five to seven minutes, all doctors do is push drugsāpsychiatric drugs, ADHD meds, everything.
The Fight Against Involuntary Commitment: Are Protection & Advocacy Organizations Fulfilling Their Mission?
Protection and Advocacy organizations were designed as ground-breaking tools for fighting involuntary commitment and protecting patientsā rights. Are they fulfilling their promise? And will they survive Trump?
Summing up the STAR*D Scandal: The Public was Betrayed, Millions were Harmed, and the...
American psychiatry, the NIMH, the larger medical community, and mainstream media have betrayed the American public by failing to make this scandal known.
āTetris for Traumaā Viral Twitter Thread: A Master Class in Misleading Psych Research
A TV writer claims that research shows that Tetris is āliterally a trauma first aid kit.ā Her tweets sound scientific, but the research behind it is unconvincing.
New WHO Guidance Calls for Paradigm Shift in Mental Health Policy
The guidance emphasizes shifting away from institutional mindsets and practices, the biomedical approach, and the use of psychotropic drugs.
Therapy by App: A Clinical Psychologist Tries BetterHelp
Revealing concerns about BetterHelpās ability to provide quality, secure treatmentāand the unresolved tensions in the science of psychotherapy that services like BetterHelp exploit.
Suicide Hotlines Bill Themselves as ConfidentialāEven as Some Trace Your Call
Every year suicide hotline centers covertly trace tens of thousands of confidential calls, and police come to homes, schools, and workplaces to forcibly take callers to psychiatric hospitals.
āA Dangerous Substanceā: The Impact of Social Media on Youth Mental Health
This is what social media does, she says. It draws people in. It hurts people. In the worst cases, it kills people.
Kermit Cole: Dialogical Therapy and Quantum Theory Walk Into a Barā¦
On the podcast this week we are joined by Kermit Cole who shares his thoughts on how humor can help in creating a shared experience that is helpful to the healing process. Kermit, in his experiences of being with people in psychotic states, has seen humor as a moment when a connection can be made. In many ways, this project is bringing Kermit back full circle to his work as a film director, early in his professional career.
Heritability Explains Less About Mental Disorders Than You Think
The focus on diseased brains and genes obscures the significance of social and environmental influences.
NIMHās It-girls: The Genain Quadruplets and the Whiteness of Psychiatry
The poster-children of psychiatric genetics, who endured abuse throughout their lives, were also the product of a racist culture.
Peer-Support Groups Were Right, Guidelines Were Wrong: Dr. Mark Horowitz on Tapering Off Antidepressants
In an interview with MIA, Dr. Horowitz discusses his recent article on why tapering off antidepressants can take months or even years.
A Short History of Tardive Dyskinesia: 65 Years of Drug-Induced Brain Damage That Rolls...
Psychiatry has long turned a blind eye to the full scope of harm associated with TD. New TD drugs "work" by further impairing brain function.
