Study Privileges the Voices of Persons Hospitalized Against Their Will
How people are treated after being hospitalized can either help them to overcome the traumatic effects of coercion or make them worse.
Reading ‘Girl, Interrupted’ in the Psych Ward
In this piece forĀ Electric Lit,Ā Anne ThĆ©riault shares how the bookĀ Girl, InterruptedĀ helped her survive her 72-hour hold in a psychiatricĀ ward following a suicide attempt.
"The psychiatric...
Effects of Racism on Depression in Black College Women
Black college women endorse more perceived stress and depressive symptoms than White college women, highlighting the impacts of racism.
Agency and Activism as Protective Factors for Children in the Gaza Strip
Researchers recommend a āpolitically-informed focus', including activism, when assessing children and designing interventions in areas of chronic political violence.
Mental Health Patient Becomes Best Mental Health Nurse
FromĀ ABC Australia: Matthew Ball, a mental health nurse with lived experience of hearing voices, psychiatric diagnosis, and hospitalization, was recently named the Australian College...
The Paradox of White Americansā Mental Health
Are White Americansā poor mental health outcomes caused by Whiteness?
How to Reach Out to Someone who is Struggling
In this piece forĀ On Being, Omid Safi shares how an old Middle Eastern story about a drowning man can teach us how to offer...
Psychologists Push For New Approaches to Psychosis: Part 2
The authors of the report expand upon the traumatic and sociopolitical factors underlying presentations of psychosis and āschizophrenia.ā
I’m Reinventing Mental Health Care by Putting Patients in Charge
In this piece forĀ The Guardian, Joy Hibbins describes how her experiences of powerlessness as a mental health service user led her to start Suicide...
Here’s Why I Wouldn’t Use the Mental Health System
In this pieceĀ forĀ The Spinoff, Graham Panther, a consultant in Australia's mental health system, speaks to some of the shortcomings of mainstream mental health support....
The Social Life of Opioids
FromĀ 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...
Psychology in the Metacolony
FromĀ Mail & Guardian: Colonialism today is more entrenched in our society than it ever has been in the past, and traditional psychology and mental...
The Touch of Madness
In this piece forĀ Pacific Standard, David Dobbs recounts the story of Nev Jones, a psychologist with lived experience who is working to change the...
Psychologists Push For New Approaches to Psychosis: Part 1
Psychologists and people with experience of psychotic symptoms publish a report on new ways of understanding psychosis.
World Mental Health Day
In this pieceĀ written in honor of World Mental Health Day,Ā Peter Kinderman emphasizes the importance of challenging the biomedical model of mental health and paying...
New Grant Boosts Hearing Voices Approach in USA
FromĀ 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...
George Monbiot on the Politics of Belonging
In this video forĀ Verso Books, author George Monbiot explains how neoliberalism has destroyed our natural capacity for altruism. He proposes that we create a...
Using Participatory Action in Bioethics Research
Participatory action approaches in bioethics research used to decrease coercion and seclusion in psychiatric treatment.
How to Die
FromĀ The Atlantic: The existential psychotherapist Irvin Yalom, who has helped countless people grapple with their mortality and fear of death, is now coming to...
Self-Differentiation and Why it Matters in Relationships
FromĀ GoodTherapy.org: Research shows the tremendous impact we each have on one another's emotional and psychological health; our emotions, especially those that are negative, are...
The Smartphone Psychiatrist
In this pieceĀ forĀ The Atlantic, David Dobbs delves into the life of former NIMH director Thomas Insel, his critiques of research within the field of...
Belief in a Favorable Future May Undermine that Future
People who are more likely to believe that othersā views will change to match their own over time are less likely to engage in actions to facilitate that change
Feel Bad About Feeling Bad? Embrace Negative Emotions Instead
FromĀ Big Think: According to new research, habitually accepting negative emotions rather than criticizing or suppressingĀ them positively impacts ourĀ long-term psychological health.
"There is a lot more...
Loneliness as Lethal: Researchers Name Social Isolation a āPublic Health Threatā
Researchers present loneliness as a health threat facing a growing number of Americans.
The Strange, Contagious History of Bulimia
In this piece forĀ Science of Us, Lee Daniel Kravetz discusses the impact of media exposure on the rise of bulimia and explores the social...
