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.
Mercy, Magic, and the Medical Humanities: An Interview with Jussi Valtonen
Novelist and neuropsychologist Jussi Valtonen explains how close reading and creative writing can sharpen clinical attention, deepen perspective-taking, and help clinicians notice the language they use to describe patients.
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.
Anthropology, Arctic Iceland and Antidepressant Withdrawal: A Conversation With Fiona Frenzen
Fiona Frenzen joins us to talk of her experiences of healing from antidepressant withdrawal and how moving to Iceland had a powerful effect on her health and wellbeing.
Genotype-Guided Antidepressant Selection: Has Precision Psychiatry Arrived?
Genetic testing to guide antidepressant selection is already being sold to the public, but the evidence is less than convincing. A new study failed to show efficacy in its primary outcome, its secondary outcomes imply a potential benefit for only 2% of patients, and it contradicts the findings of a previous study, leaving interpretation uncertain.
Meeting Life Unmedicated: Aging, Protracted Withdrawal and Healing—A Conversation With Marsha Zaritsky
Marsha Zaritsky is a licensed mental health therapist certified in Internal Family Systems. She joins us to explain how her experience with polypharmacy and psychiatric drug withdrawal has changed and informed how she practices.
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.
Faith, Culture, and Coercion: An Interview with Cultural Psychiatrist G. Eric Jarvis
Cultural psychiatrist G. Eric Jarvis discusses religion and mental health, the social determinants of psychosis, and how coercive treatment can deepen mistrust in psychiatric care.
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 Keto Diet + Drug Tapering: What Are the Possibilities?
The Accord program in Arlington Massachusetts will provide a test of whether an intensive ketogenic program, when combined with drug-tapering support, can lead to robust recovery over the long term, with diminished use--or no ongoing use--of psychiatric medications.
Kindling Our Inner Fire: A Residential Program Where Drug Tapering is the Norm
Robert Whitaker interviews Beatrice Birch, Founder and Director of Inner Fire, a residential program in rural Vermont.
With Veterans Demanding Action, Bipartisan Support Emerges for Written Informed Consent Bill
On the morning of April 29, representatives of 35 veterans’ service organizations (VSOs) gathered under cloudy skies on Capitol Hill for a press conference...
Candidate Chris Bennett Supports Abolishing Forced Psychiatry: A Breakthrough for Mad Liberation?
What if the upcoming midterm election for the first time sends a politician to Washington who is publicly on record against forced psychiatry?
The Madness Pill: How Psychedelics and Stimulants Shaped Biological Psychiatry — An Interview with...
Justin Garson joins us to talk about the work of Solomon Snyder, whose discoveries ushered in the era of biological psychiatry.
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.
Finding God and Leaving Psychiatry: An Interview With Kelsey Osgood
Kelsey Osgood joins us to talk about her new book Godstruck: Seven Women's Unexpected Journeys to Religious Conversion and her experiences with anorexia and psychiatric drugs.
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.
Fighting Psychiatric Subjectivation and Helping Others Along the Way: An Interview with Prateeksha Sharma
Prateeksha Sharma reflects on her own experience of recovery from psychosis with the help of music, family, and dogs, sheds lights on the treatment harms that often go unnamed and thus unnoticed, and discusses how to claim narrative, dignity, and voice.
The Fight for the Soul of Psychotherapy: An Interview with Linda Michaels
Linda Michaels is a psychologist in private practice in Chicago and a co-founder of the Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAN).
She trained at the Illinois...
Examining Psychiatric Medication Tapering and Withdrawal: The Evolving Role of Pharmacists — A Conversation...
Agnes Higgins and Cathal Cadogan join us to discuss their work on understanding the experiences of people tapering from psychiatric medication and the role that pharmacists could potentially play when people are considering stopping their psychiatric drugs.
Psychiatric Force and Coercion Undermine Recovery
Instead of creating a sustainable environment for recovery, traditional practices often create more distress and reluctance.
Spiritual Emergency and the Collective Work of Staying Alive: An Interview with Nisha Gupta
Nisha Gupta reflects on spiritual emergency, wounded healing, and why staying alive in times of profound pain is not only an individual task but a collective one.
Doomed: A Psychiatry Comic
The prescription still lives in my chart, even though I only took it for one month, 15 years ago. As I navigate health care as an adult, I still have to answer for it.
The Political Systems Driving Abuse in Psychiatry: An Interview with Human Rights Lawyer Alicia...
Alicia Ely Yamin is the Director of the Global Health and Rights Project and a lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. She's also...
Belief in a Fair Economy Linked to Greater Mental Health Stigma, Study Finds
Recent research from across the world has found that stigma towards people with mental health diagnoses is either increasing or stagnant. While studies from...
