Immigrants Suffer Higher Rates of Psychosis
From The Conversation: Research suggest that immigrants experience psychosis at rates two to five times higher than non-immigrants, likely due to exclusion and discrimination. Maintaining...
Community Participation Predicts Recovery
In a study of 1,827 adults and young adults, researchers from Temple University found that community participation (parenting, employment, volunteering, education, group membership, civic...
Using Shakespeare to Ease the Trauma of war
From The New York Times: Learning Shakespeare can be a valuable way for veterans to begin to understand and heal from the trauma of war.
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World Mental Health Day
In this piece written in honor of World Mental Health Day, Peter Kinderman emphasizes the importance of challenging the biomedical model of mental health and paying...
Why You Should Never Tell Someone Who’s Grieving to Move On
In this interview for Thrive Global, psychoanalyst Robert Stolorow explains why we should not seek to heal or fix the grief we experience from trauma...
The Hidden Costs of Paying Physicians More to Diagnose Dementia
A plan from the British government to pay doctors for every diagnosis of dementia that they make is an act of "folly," writes physician...
âTo Stop Trans Kids from Killing Themselves, Shocking Study Says ‘Accept Them’â
âThe transgender community has disproportionately high levels of depression and anxiety,â Diana Tourjee writes for Broadly. âA new study shows that trans kids who...
âToward a Social Justice Therapy: Letâs Keep Talkingâ
Can psychotherapy help dismantle oppression? âSocial justice focused, analytic therapy- the kind of therapy I strive to do- is one that can support the...
Two’s a Crowd: Guattari and Deleuze
In this piece for Aeon, Edward Thornton chronicles the friendship and collaboration between the radical psychoanalyst Félix Guattari and the postmodern philosopher Gilles Deleuze.
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How an Ancient Singing Tradition Helps People Cope With Trauma
From YES! Magazine: Lament singing, an ancient tradition once observed for spiritual purposes during funerals, weddings, and times of war, is now seeing a revival in...
Natural Disasters Have a Serious Impact on Mental Health
From Bustle: Natural disasters often inflict psychological harm on those who experience them, increasing the likelihood of PTSD in survivors. In addition to repairing physical...
How to Reach Out to Someone who is Struggling
In this piece for On Being, Omid Safi shares how an old Middle Eastern story about a drowning man can teach us how to offer...
âPoliticians and Experts Meet at Parliament to Explore Record Antidepressant Prescribing and Disabilityâ
The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Prescribed Drug Dependence is meeting today, May 11th, to discuss evidence of the link between the rise in disability...
New Grant Boosts Hearing Voices Approach in USA
From The Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care: The Hearing Voices Research and Development Fund has been awarded a $300,000 grant to expand their...
How Loneliness Affects Our Health
From The New York Times: The potentially harmful impact of loneliness and isolation on our health and well-being have been well documented over the past...
âA Compassionate Approach Leads to More Help, Less Punishmentâ
âPublished in the journal PLoS ONE, a new set of studies suggests that compassionâand intentionally cultivating it through trainingâmay lead us to do more to help the wronged than to punish the wrongdoer. Researchers found compassion may also impact the extent to which people punish the transgressor.â
Sifting Through Life After Suicide
From The New York Times: A new documentary film entitled "32 Pills: My Sister's Suicide" tells the story of one woman's efforts to recover from...
10 Life Lessons I Learned as a Psychiatric Nurse and Patient
In this piece for Wake Up World, Cortland Pfeffer shares 10 life lessons he learned from his experience as a psychiatric patient, a recovering...
Online Communities for Drug Withdrawal: What Can We Learn?
From Psychiatric Times: Patients are increasingly turning to the internet as a source of information and support for antidepressant and benzodiazepine withdrawal due to the psychiatric...
âMIT Students Turn Their Brainpower Toward Suicide Preventionâ
After seven suicides in two years, students have come together to develop community building interventions including a texting hotline, artificial light boxes, and conversation...
The Social Life of Opioids
From Scientific American: Increasing prescription rates of opioid painkillers are often blamed for America's current opioid crisis. However, a growing body of research suggests that...
Temperamentally Blessed
From Aeon: The finding that only one in five people avoid any kind of mental health problems or psychiatric diagnoses through their lives has prompted...
An American Public Health Crisis – the ‘Pair of ACEs’
From The Huffington Post: Adverse Childhood Experiences such as physical and emotional abuse, domestic violence, and homelessness often occur in the context of Adverse Community...
Why Are So Many People Dying From Opioid Overdoses?
From The Guardian: In a society where unemployment is prevalent and people feel isolated from friends, family, and community, opioid use has become a coping...
Reintroducing Spirituality Could Address the Mental Health Crisis
From The Independent: Society's cycle of compulsive consumerism and materialism is partly to blame for Britain's mental health crisis. Instead of merely referring people to...
