Why Increased Psychological Freedom Should be the Main Goal of Psychotherapy
Insight into the childhood roots of recurring interpersonal problems and better expressive mastery of primal emotions are cornerstones of effective psychotherapy.
Medication Overuse in Mental Health Facilities: Not the Answer, Regardless of Consent
From Medscape: Consent, while I support it, is not the solution to what is fundamentally an infrastructure problem, a personnel problem, and lousy long-term mental health care.
Part 1: Neurodiversity–What Exactly Does It Mean?
The fuzzy concept of neurodivergence has expanded to include almost every human experience, plus its opposite.
Desperate Measures: Ghaemi’s Response to Our Review of Lithium and Suicide Prevention
Ghaemi’s article is more of a rant than a scientific commentary.
The FDA Just Quietly Gutted Protections for Human Subjects in Research
From Newsweek: The new FDA rule gives thousands of IRB committees the unilateral ability to determine that researchers need not obtain true informed consent from research participants.
Who Is Afraid of the Abolition of Psychiatric Confinement?
Psychiatry doesn't care that you haven't committed a crime. The law gives them the authority to deprive you of your freedom for as long as they deem necessary.
The Connection Cure: An Interview with Julia Hotz
Julia Hotz is a solutions-focused journalist based in New York City. She is the author of the forthcoming book, The Connection Cure: The Prescriptive...
The Patient-Enemy: How Derrida Helps Explain Psychiatry’s Cruelty and Care
"Now look what you made me do!" Psychiatrists feel obligated to care for their patients, but also resentful of this obligation.
Why Your Brain Needs Other People
From The Guardian: Developmental psychology has long recognised the social element in thinking. The emergence of individual thought can be understood as the internalisation of interpersonal dialogue, as the Soviet psychologist Lev Vygotsky observed almost a hundred years ago.
Iatrogenic Practices in Psychiatry: Kindling
Psychiatric practices can have very painful and destabilizing consequences, including "kindling" or neuronal sensitization.
Ghosts in the Machine: The Fantasies of Psychopharmacology | David Healy
From David Healy/RxISK: This lecture outlines a radical new view about what antidepressants do and don't do. It covers issues that need input from everyone on how best to move forward with these treatments.
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?
Landmark Win for Patient Autonomy in CA Supreme Court ECT Device Ruling
From Wisner Baum: The Court rejected the argument by Somatics LLC that it should be immune from liability because the plaintiff’s doctor would have prescribed ECT anyway, even with a warning of the risk of brain damage.
What Are We Overlooking? Reviewing Current and Alternative Treatments for Psychosis
We should explore a raft of interventions, as susceptibility to psychosis isn’t separable from a person’s general well-being.
Paris Hilton Testifies She Was ‘Force-Fed Medications and Sexually Abused’ While Institutionalized as a...
From The Guardian: The socialite has called on lawmakers to pass the Stop Institutional Child Abuse act and is an advocate for a “Bill of Rights” for children in youth facilities.
I Take ‘One of the Worst’ Antidepressants for Withdrawal – And Don’t I Know...
From LancsLive: It's like I can hear the blood flowing through my ears. It is truly terrifying and impossible to ignore
Who Is Being Targeted for Forced Medical Treatment in NYC? We Require Answers
I’m concerned for those forcibly drugged under Mayor Adams' policy. But also because New York City sets a national precedent.
What Every Therapist Should Know About Working With Prescribed Psych Drugs
From The British Psychological Society: The BPS has collaborated to deliver guidance materials for psychological therapists to support them in working with issues of prescribed drug dependence.
Youth Antipsychotic Use Linked to Increased Risk of Death within Five Years
Those aged 18-24 had an increased risk of death within five years on doses above 100 mg chlorpromazine equivalents.
The TikTokification of Mental Health on Campus
Many people view their social media feeds as reflections of their identities—and when posts center on a specific diagnosis, it can feel like the platform is diagnosing them.
It’s You, It’s Not Me: Treatment Resistant Depression and the Psychiatric Breakup
"Treatment resistance" is best explained not as a medical issue but as a way for psychiatry to resolve cognitive dissonance.
Patient Safety: A Letter to the President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
From Hole Ousia/Peter Scott-Gordon: Antidepressants have never been conceptualised as ‘addictive’. This ‘non-addictive’ descriptor is being used to imply drug safety in a highly dangerous way.
Prescription Drugs: The Hidden Costs to Health and the Planet
Pharmaceuticals seem to overtake every facet of life, but it’s important to start thinking critically about what we are putting in our bodies.
Why We Are Sceptical About This Study of Antidepressant Withdrawal Symptoms
From The Guardian Letters: Prof. John Read and Dr. James Davies argue that a recent review’s findings are not relevant to the majority of real-world antidepressant users, while readers offer their own experiences of using the drugs.
“War Cry For Change”: Veterans Launch Campaign for Informed Consent and Safe Deprescribing at...
Derek Blumke and Timothy Jensen: The Grunt Style Foundation leads a new phase in the movement to combat psychiatric drug harm.
