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In my last three blogs I posed the question- "If madness isn't what psychiatry says it is, then what is it?" Now I'm asking-...

People who reduced antipsychotic use by tapering were doing just as well after five years as those who continued using the drugs.

BPS releases report encouraging behavioral interventions for people with dementia, rather than antipsychotics

Psychology can only deal with racial health disparities effectively by incorporating critical race theory and intervening at a structural level.

When separation and microaggressions are legitimized and put into public policy and discourse, we become second class citizens and subhumans. This is oppression and bigotry systemically supported and then denied by almost everyone, including those most seriously affected. We come to believe these lies.

This result calls into question popular notions about the correlations between personality and later-life achievement and health outcomes.

Depression, serious psychological distress, and suicide attempts have risen substantially since the early 2000s among young adults – what’s changed?

Hearing Voices Network self-help groups are an important resource for coping with voice hearing, study finds.

Meta-analytic study detects upsurge in patterns of perfectionism in young adults and explores how neoliberalism contributes to this trend.

Paxil Progress is a forum for people engaged in withdrawal from Paxil. It also offers adverse drug reaction reporting, FDA Warnings, published withdrawal studies,...

We have just celebrated the anniversary of the rapidly expanding global Hearing Voices Movement which was founded more than twenty-five years ago following the ground-breaking research of Professor Marius Romme and Dr Sandra Escher. Romme and Escher have advocated for a radical shift in the way we understand the phenomenon of Hearing Voices; in contrast to traditional, biomedical psychiatry which views voices as an aberrant by-product of genetic, brain and cognitive faults, their research has firmly established that voices make sense when taking into account the traumatic circumstances that frequently provoke them.

Individuals with long-term mental health conditions identify pets as valuable supports in their daily lives.

Researchers examine the transformation of work, life, and identity in India as a result of Western corporate and psychological culture.

Structural competency in psychiatry emphasizes the social factors shaping patient presentations and encourages physician advocacy.

Researchers argue that blaming climate change inaction on psychological barriers ignores the effects of neoliberal capitalism and social structures.

Debate ensues as scholars and policymakers discuss how to bring a rights-based approach to mental health policy.

Scrooge’s character was forged from his own emotional pain. Indeed, we can change the course of our lives through facing and mourning that pain. Want, deprivation and cruelty create the evils of the world. Mourning and trust, in the context of love, are its antidotes. 

A new study suggests that most people diagnosed with depressive, anxiety, and substance abuse disorders recover without treatment within a year of diagnosis. “This...

After 25 years of chronic emergency, 22 mental hospitalizations, a stint at a “community mental health center,” 13 years in a "board & care," repeated withdrawals from addictions to legal drugs, and a 12-year marriage, I plan to live every last breath out as a survivor, an advocate, and an artist.

Race often determines whether school punishment or therapy and drugs will be used to address children’s problem behaviors.

A randomized control trial finds that receiving peer support from individuals with similar lived experiences reduces one’s risk of readmission to an acute crisis unit.

Researchers distinguish between two different forms of perspective taking and examine their impact on helpers’ wellbeing.

14-year study of a rural sample in China shows those who were married had higher rates of remission from schizophrenia.

We've been discussing a potential role for psychiatrists on this site, and I wanted some of the doctors to understand why many mental health...

Researchers present loneliness as a health threat facing a growing number of Americans.