Why The C in C-PTSD Will Haunt You
From Gemini Adams: Unlike PTSD, the symptoms of CPTSD are often entrenched in an individual's personality, having taken root during formative years, when attachment styles and brain development are fragile and still maturing.
Concerning Forgiveness: The Liberating Experience of Facing Painful Truth | Alice Miller
From alice-miller.com: It is precisely the opposite of forgiveness â namely, rebellion against mistreatment suffered, the recognition and condemnation of our parentsâ misleading opinions and actions, and the articulation of our own needs â that ultimately frees us from the past.
Why Albuquerqueâs Latest Experiment in Policing Involves Social Workers, Not Officers
From Christian Science Monitor: The city has become one of the first to push public safety in a new direction with its new stand-alone Community Safety department.
MH Services in England Are Being âUberisedâ â Thatâs Bad for Patients & Therapists
From The Conversation: A standardized and digitalized model of therapy called Increased Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) - England's largest NHS program - is causing therapist depression, anxiety and burnout.
By Tracing Addiction (and More) to Childhood Trauma, Can We Find Compassion?
From YES! Magazine: "Trauma is an overwhelming threat that you donât know how to deal with," says Dr. Gabor MatĂ©. "Our job, as human beings, is to learn from our suffering."
He Cheered on Britney SpearsâWhile Fighting a Guardianship Battle of His Own
From The Washington Post: The aftershocks of #FreeBritney could continue to rattle the American legal system long after Spearsâs victory.
Emotional CPR: Heart-Centered Peer Support
Two National Empowerment Center leaders discuss eCPR, a process for helping youthâor anyoneâthrough an emotional crisis using three simple steps.
Psychotherapy Has an Enduring Effect on Depressionâin Contrast to Depression Pills
A meta-analysis published last month showed that psychotherapy has an enduring effect on depressionâin contrast to depression pills.
NHS to Give Therapy for Depression Before Medication Under New Guidelines
From The Guardian: Draft guidance says a "menu of treatment options" including CBT, exercise and mindfulness should be offered in less severe cases.
NC Pays Psychiatric Units That Break Rules Millions to ‘Care’ for Youth
Around the Web: A newspaper investigation discovered that the state continued to pay psychiatric residential treatment facilities millions when they repeatedly broke rules meant to ensure children's safety and well-being.
Punching, Predators, Neglect: Traumatized NC Children Suffer Inside Dismal Psychiatric Centers
From The Fayetteville Observer: "We are ruining peopleâs lives, and weâre doing it in the most expensive way possible," said State Rep. Verla Insko. "Itâs inhumane and irresponsible. It is a government failure."
A Peer-Run Center in North Carolina Offers Alternative for Psychiatric Care
From NBC: At Retreat @ the Plaza, guests use their experiences with 'mental illness,' homelessness and domestic violence to help one another regain their footing.
ADHD as Cargo Cult Science
Barkleyâs theory on ADHD was akin to what Richard Feynman called âCargo Cult Science,â only more misleading and dangerous. In contrast, there is no evidence of brain abnormality in ADHD. The airplanes have not landed, nor are they likely to.
Family Deeds: Constellation Therapy & Generations of Trauma
From Psychology Today: Family and ancestral constellation is a therapeutic tool that allows the invisible influences from the present and past to be made visible, acknowledged, and whole.
Tower of Babel: The Meaning and Purpose of Voicehearing and Psychosis
A bottomless well of ideas and stories and seeming fantasies emerges from the mouths of voicehearers, psychotics, and schizophrenics. Is anyone taking the time to actually listen?
The DSM Files: Investigating the Incoherence of Psychiatryâs Bible
A critical view of the way the DSM categorizes internal suffering and makes sense (or sometimes nonsense) of itâfull of inconsistencies and bad logic.
Top ‘ADHD Experts’ All Take Drug Company Money
From ADHD is BS: All of the world's ten most influential 'ADHD experts' take funds from multiple ADHD drug manufacturers. Topping the list is American psychologist Prof Stephen V. Faraone who has commercial ties to 21 ADHD drug companies.
How Western Psychology Can Rip Indigenous Families Apart: An Interview with Elisa Lacerda-Vandenborn
An interview with Elisa Lacerda-Vandenborn about the consequences \psychology and mental health treatment can have for indigenous children.
Emotional Contagion Spreads MadnessâWhat Can We Do About It?
In my opinion, emotional contagion is the strongest power known to humankind. Emotions move and flow among people and groups. We absorb othersâ emotions.
âFor Lifeâ: New Opera Tells the Stories of Those Harmed by Psychiatric Drugs
Dawn Sonntag and Kermit Cole have collaborated on a new opera, "For Life," that tells the stories of those harmed by psychiatric drugs.
Researchers Push to End Placebo Run-in Periods in Antidepressant Studies
Meta-analysis finds that the placebo run-in methodology reduces the placebo effect and finds antidepressants to be less useful.
How CBT Harmed Me: The Interview That the New York Times Erased
From Disability Visibility Project: CBT as a modality is based around gaslighting. It's about telling a patient that the world is safe, bad feelings are temporary, and that pain is a 'faulty or unhelpful' distortion of thinking.
‘At the Forefront of Medicine’: My UChicago Involuntary Hospitalization
From The Chicago Maroon: A neuroscience student reflects on the psychiatric systemâs failure to care for its patients--and how it can often make matters worse.
Art, Music, Exercise, and More: What Are the Recommended Doses for Improving Mental Health?
Researchers have calculated the dose-response benefits of ordinary hobbies, habits, and lifestyle practices that are available without any trip to a doctor or a drug store.
What Is Climate DistressâAnd What Can Therapists Do About It?
Therapists who encounter climate distress should reject the false burden borne by individuals and embrace a spirit of shared vulnerability, solidarity, collective action, and demands for justice.
