Interview With Black Lives Matter Cofounder Patrisse Khan-Cullors
In this interview forĀ Vice, Black Lives Matter cofounder Patrisse Khan-Cullors discusses herĀ efforts to fight for the civil rights of marginalized communities and to speak...
5 Ways to Address a Mental Health Crisis Without Calling 911
FromĀ The Body Is Not An Apology: For many people, calling the police during a mental health emergency can result in brutality. Here are five...
How Medical Professionals Have Enabled Torture
FromĀ Boston University School of Public Health: A new journal article in theĀ American Journal of Public Health evaluates the similarities between the use of medical...
Introducing the Power Threat Meaning Framework
FromĀ The British Psychological Society: A group of senior psychologists and prominent service user campaigners has published a report offeringĀ an alternative frameworkĀ toĀ understand emotional distress.
"The Framework...
We Still Buy the Lie That Chemical Imbalances Cause Depression
FromĀ Quartz: Despite its inaccuracy, the chemical imbalance theory of mental illness continues to persist in public consciousness. The prevalence of this myth may be...
Links Between Benefits and Mental Ill-Health Could be Recorded
FromĀ Vox Political: In a new proposal in the medical journalĀ The Lancet,Ā Kate Allsopp and Peter Kinderman have called for mental health professionals to record psychosocial...
How Psychology Undermines Feminist Activism
In this pieceĀ for theĀ Feminist Current, Tove Happonen argues that the therapy model pathologizes women's responses to systemic injustice, aiming to change their emotional reactions...
“If You Wanted to Kill Yourself, You Would Have Done It”
FromĀ The Independent: The notion of choice is increasingly being used to discourage suicidal people from seeking help. Many people's suicidal thoughts and actions are...
How Our Ancestors’ Trauma May Influence Who We Are
In this blog post, Dale M. KushnerĀ explains how the field of epigenetics can illustrate the role of ancestral and transgenerational trauma in shaping our...
Bringing Trauma-Informed Care to Children in Need
FromĀ STAT:Ā Numerous studies have confirmed that adverse childhood experiences are common and can lead to negative long-term health outcomes. Many pediatricians and hospitals are working...
Childhood Maltreatment Drives Self-Injury
FromĀ Medscape: New research shows that individuals who were physically, sexually, or emotionally abused as children are more likely to engage in non-suicidal self-injury.
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A Veteran Wonders: How Will My PTSD Affect My Kids?
In this piece forĀ The Atlantic, Brooke King reflects on how her trauma currently affects and may continue to affect her children, as well as...
Drop the Stigmatizing Term “Schizophrenia”
Dr. Brian Koehler is petitioning the American Psychiatric Association and the World Health Organization to drop the stigmatizing term "schizophrenia." Click hereĀ to sign the...
Badiou, the Event, and Psychiatry, Part 2
In the second part of a two-part series on philosophy and psychiatry, Vincenzo Di NicolaĀ describes an alternative model of psychiatry that rejects some of...
Badiou, the Event, and Psychiatry, Part 1: Trauma and Event
In this pieceĀ for theĀ Blog of the APA, Vincenzo Di Nicola critiques the scientism and methodolatry of contemporary psychiatry, and emphasizes the need for psychiatry...
Selling Bad Therapy to Trauma Victims
FromĀ Psychology Today: The American Psychological Association has just issued guidelines for treating trauma that are backed by faulty science. The research behind the guidelines...
What New Zealand’s “Unfortunate Experiment” Can Teach Us
From theĀ Boston Review: In his new bookĀ Doctors in Denial: The Forgotten Women in the "Unfortunate Experiment," Ronald W. Jones chronicles the history of New...
The Perspective of the Outside
FromĀ Red Wedge: Mark Fisher, an author and scholar known for analyzing mental health under neoliberal capitalism, took his own life this past January. His...
Psychiatrists Have Issued a Statement on Aversion Therapy
FromĀ BuzzFeed: The Royal College of Psychiatrists has issued a historic statement acknowledging the harm done toĀ lesbian, gay, and bisexual people who were subjected to...
Child Abuse, Mental Health and Mental Illness
Psychiatrists and medical doctors donāt ask who was hitting who and how often in your family. These questions would largely put them out of business and invalidate their industries. These questions would make a mockery of their many years of schooling and many prescription pad options. But these questions would also heal.
Conversion Therapy Ban Will Get a Vote in Palm Beach County
From theĀ Sun Sentinel: Palm Beach County isĀ drafting regulations prohibiting therapists from practicing conversion therapy to try to change a child's sexual orientation. Palm Beach...
