When Medical Science Refuses to Correct Itself
Science is supposed to be self-correcting. But what happens when the journals entrusted to uphold this principle become its gatekeepers?
Unlearning Restraints: A Psychiatrist’s Journey from Patient to Practitioner
I had been the one whose fear was called dangerous, distorted into a label. Now I was on the other side, being asked to do it to someone else.
Depression Drug Approved by FDA Had 11 Failed Trials and an Advisory Committee Vote...
Rejected by the FDA four times; an advisory committee vote against approval. Yet in 2023, gepirone (Exxua) was approved for depression.
What’s Been Lost in Medicine Is Shameful in Psychiatry: Reflections on Bernard Lown
Mental health professionals are trained to be technicians rather than provided with the opportunity to discover the craft of healing.
Nobody Told Me to Do This: What It Means to Be a Dissident Psychiatrist
Reckoning with my own story became the vehicle for reckoning with my profession—and with what psychiatric care does to the people we care for.
New Device for PTSD Being Sold to Veterans—No Evidence Provided to the Public
Neither the FDA nor Neurovalens have provided the results from the clinical trial showing how well the device works or its risks.
Approving a Drug for Children and Adolescents That Is More Likely to Induce Suicidality...
The approval is an example of what can go wrong in "evidence-based" psychiatry due to conflicts of interest and placing guild interests before patient safety.
Your Vagus Nerve Is Not in Control: The Problem with Polyvagal Theory
In addition to being scientifically incorrect, there’s no reliable evidence that PVT works to relieve people of their symptoms or distress.
On the Autistic Spectrum or a Camus Anti-Hero? Rebellion Obtuseness in Psychiatry
There is much that human beings rebel against, and there are various forms of rebellion, many of which psychiatry pathologizes.
The Madness Pill: One Doctor’s Quest to Understand Schizophrenia
Sol Snyder burned this medical vision so deeply into our collective consciousness that it’s almost impossible to see outside of it.
Human Rights Violations in Psychiatry
Society turns a blind eye to these human rights violations due to the misinformation and public stigma around psychiatrized people.
Is Focusing on Screen Time Diverting Us From the Real Drivers of Youth Distress?
Instead of focusing on screen time, we must consider the root causes: the concentration of wealth in the tech sector.
Is Psychiatry’s Myth of Mental Health as Damaging as Its Myth of Mental Illness?
Does "mental health" mean more than to be well-adjusted to a dehumanizing, irrational, and homicidal world?
To Be Agents of Our Own Treatment: Demedicalization at the Heart of the Inner...
We are fighting for transparency, accountable science, and for the rights of the common people who are misinformed, as we require informed consent.
Psychiatry’s Rightwing and Progressive Bigotries: How Each Enables the Megamachine
Whether in Nazi fascism, Soviet totalitarian communism, or U.S. corporate capitalism, psychiatry has been an enabler of the megamachine.
Connecticut’s Forced Electroshock Problem
Unpacking forced electroshock data obtained from the State of Connecticut Office of the Probate Court Administrator.
Commentary: Does First Year Treatment With an Antipsychotic Lead to Long-Term Harm?
There is no good evidence that antipsychotics provide a benefit to first-episode or early-episode psychotic patients.
How Radical Activism Transformed Mental Health in Brazil
Anti-asylum movement in Brazil led to creation of a national network of community centers, which stands in contrast to the failed mental health system in the United States.
A Call for Evidence-Based, Fear-Free Practice
It is right to criticize MAHA, but poorly researched, fear-based responses by mainstream psychiatry only further mislead the public.
Fifty Years of Grief
September 27, 2025, is the fiftieth anniversary of the ignominious death in prison of my sorely regretted and dearly beloved friend Mark Frechette.
How “Garbage-In-Garbage-Out” Academic Psychiatry Research Has Become Even More Ridiculous, and How Taking It...
An interview with a leading academic psychiatrist reveals that psychiatric researchers are clueless about the scientific method.
The Case for Retraction: Psychedelic Therapy Study Omitted Interviews that Told of Sexual 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.
