Evidence Distortion in Medicine Explained in One Single Chart
15 positive and 15 negative studies of antidepressants were reported to the FDA. But while all 15 positive trials were published, only 7 negative trials were.
Negative Antidepressant Trials Still Unlikely to Be Published
Antidepressant trials with negative results are still more likely than not to either be misleadingly spun as positive or unpublished.
How to Raise Emotionally Intelligent Children
From TED: What would it be like if we helped parents unpack their own childhood, so they don’t have to carry that baggage and put it on their children’s shoulders?
Roll-out of 988 Threatens Anonymity of Crisis Hotlines
Even after their own advisory committee criticized call tracing, leaders of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline have been lobbying government for cutting-edge mass surveillance and tracking technology. Privacy experts are raising concerns.
What a Spiritual High Shares With a Mental Breakdown
From Aeon: Spiritual highs and mental breakdowns are both products of the same evolved brain system granting us the power to transform.
It’s Misleading to Call Addiction a Disease
From The New York Times: The view of addiction as disease fails to capture much of the experience of addiction, and disease language is not necessary to make the point for humane treatment.
Why Is Psychiatry So Defensive About Criticism?
Although I disagree with much of Dr. Aftab's article, it is, nevertheless, a courageous piece of writing. He calls out many of psychiatry's contradictions and errors.
Hospital Uses Court to Keep Patient for a Year, Charges $1.2 Million and Drugs...
From ABC Action News: "If we don’t get justice for Jimmy, your family’s next," his sister said. "Someone should be held accountable, but will anybody? I don’t know."
Why Is Child Sexual Abuse So Common in Institutions?
Where ableism and adultism allows disabled children to be seen as unreliable narrators of their own experience, sexual violence in institutions will continue to be pervasive.
Johann Hari: Stolen Focus – Why You Can’t Pay Attention
Johann Hari joins us to talk about his latest book Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention, in which he examines the reasons behind our inability to focus and seeks to understand how this crisis affects our wellbeing and society.
‘Please Don’t Murder Me’: PETITION & SHIELD ALERT for Pa. Elder David Italiano
MindFreedom International and Roads to Freedom Center for Independent Living are attempting to locate and establish the well-being of Mr. Italiano, who has ‘disappeared’ and is being denied outside contact by a government-funded agency.
Home Alone: Finding Connection During the Pandemic
This wave of emotional distress is a perfectly reasonable human response to living our lives in an increasingly isolated and uncertain world.
Professor John Read: Antidepressants & Withdrawal Research
Medicating Normal speaks with the psychologist and chair of the International Institute for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal on topics ranging from deprescribing to attachment and child development.
Grief: A Shamanic Perspective
From a shamanic perspective, the biggest mechanism for soul retrieval is not anything mystical at all. It is something with which any adult is familiar. It is grief.
Understanding the Youth Mental Health Crisis: An Interview with Elia Abi-Jaoude
The child psychiatrist talks about the importance of seeing the big picture and why parents shouldn't "be afraid if their kid is in distress."
Feds Open Investigation of SC Group Homes for Adults With ‘Mental Illness’
From The Post and Courier: "Most of them, they’re horrible. It’s nowhere that you would ever want your family member to be," said Kimberly Tissot, executive director of Able SC.
New NICE Guidelines for ECT Are Dangerously Inadequate, Say 50 Patients and Professionals
An open letter from patients, psychiatrists, and professors calls on NICE to rewrite the new ECT guidelines to avoid putting patients’ safety at risk.
Opioids Feel Like Love. That’s Why They’re Deadly in Tough Times.
From The New York Times: America can’t arrest its way out of a problem caused by the fundamental human need to connect.
Fireside Project: Peer Support for Psychedelic Experiences
A new nonprofit support line takes a harm-reduction approach and helps people process their psychedelic experiences.
Suicide, Indian Farmers, Indigenous North Americans… and the Shame of Shrinks | Bruce Levine,...
From CounterPunch: Mental health professionals must do their part to foment rebellion against the sociopolitical status quo, rather than enable it.
When It Comes to Mental Health Problems, The Disability Framework Fails: A Response to...
A response to the thought-provoking comments and concerns on the previous blog, furthering the discussion about disability and mental disorder.
Change.org: Coalition Against Coercive Psychiatry in Germany – Non-Violent Psychiatry Now
From the International Association Against Psychiatric Assault: The two Germany-wide "user" and survivor organizations, the BPE and die-BPE, have launched a joint campaign for a "violence-free psychiatry."
“Mental Health” Is a Euphemism for Policing Social Deviance
"Mental health" discourse conceals the fact that mental illness is still treated as a social deviance by the authoritarian institution of psychiatry.
Love Can Fuel the Deep Empathy Needed to Understand Psychosis
From Psyche: Understanding, being understood and sharing a meaningful life are central to feelings of belonging, which in turn are fundamental to wellbeing and recovery from mental health problems.
Critical Psychology for a Better Society: An Interview with Sebastienne Grant
Micah Ingle interviews Sebastienne Grant about her work developing a critical psychology program to reimagine and restructure social systems.
