“How We Label People with ‘Mental Illness’ Influences Tolerance”

2
Honor Whiteman reports on a study in The Journal of Counseling & Development, which found that people may be less tolerant of an individual...

How Helpers Empathize may Affect Their Personal Well-being

23
Researchers distinguish between two different forms of perspective taking and examine their impact on helpers’ wellbeing.

Do Voice Hearers Have the Right to Refuse Psychiatric Drugs?

5
In this piece for STAT, Shirley S. Wang discusses the Hearing Voices Network and its non-pathologizing, rights-affirming approach to hearing voices and alternative realities. "Many recovered...

How Feedback Can Improve Psychotherapy Treatment

8
Researcher examines the impact of client feedback and progress assessment on improvement in outcomes.

Childhood Adversity Influences Levels of Distress in Voice Hearers

3
Research finds that hearing negative voices explains how childhood adversity is related to distress.

Truth and Reconciliation: An Evening of Sharing and Healing

8
On Wednesday, March 20, 2016, Rethinking Psychiatry collaborated with The M.O.M.S. Movement and The Icarus Project to host our first Truth and Reconciliation Circle for Receivers and Givers of Psychiatric and Mental Health Services. In this three-hour event, both receivers and givers of psychiatric and mental health services expressed their thoughts and feelings in a structured, facilitated environment.

Integrating Indigenous Healing Practices and Psychotherapy for Global Mental Health

19
As the Global Mental Health Movement attempts to address cross-cultural mental health disparities, a new article encourages integrating traditional healing practices with psychotherapy.

German Psychologists Declare “the Drugs Don’t Work”

36
Jürgen Margraf and Silvia Schneider, both well-known psychologists at the University of Bochum in Germany, claim that psychotropic drugs are no solution to mental...

Mindfulness and Self-Compassion Interventions Target Depressive Symptoms

2
A new study finds self-coldness predicts depressive symptoms and supports self-compassion as a buffer.

New Traction for Art Therapy as a Treatment for Depression

0
New study investigates the acceptability of a phenomenologically informed, manual-based art therapy for clients diagnosed with moderate to severe depression.

Does Psychotherapy Reproduce or Disrupt Neoliberal Capitalism?

42
Researchers explore neoliberal influences on interactions in psychotherapy and question whether the radical potential of psychotherapy can counter prevailing social systems.

Psychology Must Become a Sanctuary Discipline to Heal Racial Trauma

17
Researchers explore pathways of healing racial trauma in Latinx immigrant communities.

Psychologists Argue for Decolonial Approach to Global Poverty

3
Individualist psychological models of poverty pathologize poor communities, decolonial approaches that emphasize context and interdependence may be more sustainable.

“Programs Expand Schizophrenic Patients’ Role in Their Own Care”

6
Benedict Carey at the New York Times covers the push for new programs that emphasize supportive services, therapy, school and work assistance, and family education, rather than simply drug treatment.

How Do We Prevent Loneliness?

6
Loneliness has been linked to negative health outcomes, but there are no interventions clearly proven to ‘fix’ the problem.

Therapy Recommended As First Line Treatment for Depression

5
Following an extensive systematic review of treatments for major depression, the American College of Physicians (ACP) issued a recommendation to clinicians suggesting cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) as a first-line treatment for major depressive disorder along with second-generation antidepressants. The results of the review revealed that CBT and antidepressants have similar levels of effectiveness but that antidepressants present serious side-effects and higher relapse rates.

Agency and Activism as Protective Factors for Children in the Gaza Strip

0
Researchers recommend a ‘politically-informed focus', including activism, when assessing children and designing interventions in areas of chronic political violence.

Family Oriented, Home-Based Treatment Best for Youth with Symptoms of Psychosis

14
A pathbreaking new study out of Finland suggests that early intervention programs for youth experiencing psychotic-like symptoms may see the greatest improvement when treatment works within the home rather than in a hospital setting. The research, to be published in next month’s issue of Psychiatry Research, found greater improvement in functioning, depression, and hopelessness among teens in a new need-adapted Family and Community oriented Integrative Treatment Model (FCTM) program.
liberty bell

Filling the Crack in the Liberty Bell

28
Instead of an echo-chamber conference, in which treatment “experts” present to other treatment providers, and those with lived experience gather in their own rooms, the ISPS-US conference allowed for the clash of diverse opinions, which could sometimes amalgamate into something greater than the sum of its parts.

Study Finds No Correlation between Personality at 14 and 77

5
This result calls into question popular notions about the correlations between personality and later-life achievement and health outcomes.

Mental Health Recovery Narratives Play Central Role in Trauma-Informed Care

12
New research synthesizes insights from 45 studies to construct a conceptual framework relating different elements of recovery narratives to trauma-informed approaches to care.

Mindfulness Therapy May Be More Effective Without Antidepressants

7
While an estimated 74-percent of patients diagnosed with major depression receive a prescription for an antidepressant, new research reveals that mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT)...

“Listen Up! Day 3: Take a Breather”

0
Day 3 of WNYC Only Human’s radio show, called Listen Up, focuses on the importance of listening with empathy. They interview Ken Feinberg, a mediator who met with victims after the September 11th attacks, the Sandy Hook shootings, and the Boston marathon bombing.

Psychiatrist Calls for Increased Attention to Therapeutic Alliance

9
Sandra Steingard, writing in the journal Psychiatric Services, reviews a recent article finding that the quality of the therapeutic relationship impacts the efficacy of medication treatment.

The Role of Context, Language, and Meaning in Hearing Voices

4
Sociocultural context, language, and sense-making process are among concepts that can help hearers and providers better understand the phenomenon of hearing voices