A Call for Retraction: How a Journal Condoned Psychedelic Therapy Abuse
The concealing of relevant data from a research project is a form of fraud and the grounds for retraction of the JHP study.
Confessions of an Advertising Writer: What I Learned From Your Stories—And Mine
Apologies won’t undo the harm. What I’ve learned might. The current system will not change unless we organize.
The 110-Year “Schizophrenia Genetic Research” Train Wreck
The “genetics of schizophrenia” area of research is currently in disaster mode and awaits its endpoint.
Confessions of an Ad Writer: How I Helped Turn Atypical Antipsychotics into a Billion-Dollar...
How we redefined schizophrenia, rewrote the safety narrative of antipsychotics, and helped drive one of the most successful (and concerning) pharmaceutical launches in history.
Psychiatry Criticism Politics: When the Enemy of Your Enemy Is Not Your Friend
Those who would like to abolish psychiatry in order to replace it with their own coercive, authoritarian policies are not friends.
Heritability Explains Less About Mental Disorders Than You Think
The focus on diseased brains and genes obscures the significance of social and environmental influences.
The Editorial Demise of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics Is Bad News For Us All
Karger’s decision to replace the editorial leadership without consultation is extraordinary, abruptly ending decades of success and accumulated expertise.
Do Critics of Biological Psychiatry Have an Alternative to a Life of “Whack-A-Mole”?
Psychiatry has simultaneously offered multiple biological theories of depression and its other disorders, but the theories that stick are those that are effective marketing devices for money-making drugs.
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.
A Win for Science, with Profound Implications for Industry: FDA Rejects MDMA
Concerns, from functional unblinding to sexual assault in the clinical trials, led this week to a full repudiation of Lykos' MDMA-assisted therapy.
The Clinical, Social, and Cultural Harm of an Iatrogenic Psychiatry
Normal reactions transformed into illnesses, emotions stripped of meaning, & people deprived of their autonomous coping skills and supports.
Lessons from a Global Psychiatric Conference: The Good, the Bad, and the Complicated
Has the global mental health movement truly reformed its tone-deaf universalist attitudes?
The New York Times Is Now Engulfed in the STAR*D Scandal
The New York Times published yet again the fraudulent result from the STAR*D trial. Will the mainstream media ever tell of this scandal?
Searching for the “Psychiatric Yeti”: Schizophrenia Is Not Genetic
After decades of study, billions of dollars spent, and thousands of studies conducted, the failure to identify any genes for schizophrenia should definitively put to rest the notion that schizophrenia is a genetic disorder, according to E. Fuller Torrey.
The WHO and the United Nations: Let Freedom Ring for the Mad
This is a call that challenges how psychiatry is practiced today and ultimately challenges its power in society.
Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship
By embracing the widely popular technology-worship “religion,” psychiatry is permitted to ignore the reality that its repeated failures are evidence that its fundamental paradigm is misguided.
Popular Obesity Drugs Monitored for Suicidal Thinking
Concerns rise about the adverse effects and longer-term harms of GLP-1 injections like Ozempic and Wegovy.
Psychiatry’s Control-Freak Medical Model Versus Healing and Healers
Following psychiatry’s repeated failures, a sane society would not give it increased status and power. However, our insane society uncritically accepts, celebrates, and worships anything promoted as technologies of control.
Big Tech CEOs Meet with Psychiatry’s Leaders to Decide the Future of Mental Health
The paradox of techno-optimism at a huge conference on the future of mental health led by embattled tech CEOs alongside the most prominent figures of psychiatry.
NIMH’s 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.
The APA’s Apology for Racism Omits Psychiatry’s Essential Bigotry
Psychiatry has acknowledged its history of racism, but can they ever acknowledge that the entire edifice is built on fundamental bigotry?
Should Everyone Be in Therapy?
A new study finds that those with mild distress are three times as likely to feel worse after therapy than to receive some benefit.
Psychiatric Detentions Rise 120% in First Year of 988
As contacts to the new 988 suicide hotline number have risen, so have call tracing and police interventions.
A Case Before the U.S. Supreme Court Could Surge the Psychiatric Labelling and Drugging...
If the Brackeen v. Halland case is successful, Native children are more likely to be placed with non-Native foster parents, and face a surge in psychiatric labeling and drugging.
Answering Awais Aftab: When it Comes to Misleading the Public, Who is the Culprit?
The research literature from the WHO, NIMH, and others does not support a narrative of therapeutic progress, of psychiatric treatments that have “continued” to improve over time.
