Only One in Seven Authors Disclose Conflict of Interest
Researchers from Harvard and the University of Melbourne identified physicians and scientists who had financial relationships with pharmaceutical companies named as defendants in U.S....
Former FDA Counsel: J&J Settlement ‘Is Huge’
In an interview with Pharmalot, former FDA associate chief counsel Arnie Friede discusses the impact of last month's $181 million Risperdal settlement on pharmaceuticals'...
Deportation and Family Separation Impact Entire Communities
From UC Santa Cruz NewsCenter: "The deportation and forced separation of immigrants has negative effects that extend beyond individuals and families to entire communities...
Social Injustice and Inequality in the Care System
From Psychologists for Social Change: "Professionals tend to talk about families’ problems in terms of the chances of something bad happening to them. We,...
“Amid Public Feuds, A Venerated Medical Journal Finds Itself Under Attack”
The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has come under intense scrutiny for delayed corrections and controversial editorials and articles. “The Journal and its...
“The Great ‘Mental Illness’ Hoax: Rampage Killings and the Gun Culture”
Over at CounterPunch, Carl Boggs takes on the knee-jerk mental illness response that pervades the airwaves after every mass shooting. He writes: “What the mental-health fixation lacks is any semblance of historical or social context. Given the persistence of U.S. imperialism and militarism — and mounting fascination with combat and guns in a society transfigured by its warfare state — Washington remains a thriving center of global violence: repeated armed interventions abroad have found their domestic parallel in the world’s largest prison system, a deepening gun culture, home-bred terrorism, police atrocities, and a media culture filled with spectacles of warfare and bloodshed.”
“Learning to Live with the Voices Inside Your Head”
For ABC’s All in the Mind, Lynne Malcolm and Olivia Willis report on the latest research showing that hearing voices may be far more...
“Is Pain a Construct of the Mind?”
Subtitled "Pain is an emotion," Scientific American's portrait of Dennis Rogers, whose uncanny feats of strength seem predicated on his anomalous relationship to pain...
“To CDC on Children’s Mental Health: Consider Office of Homeland Attachment Security”
Claudia Gold writes in the Boston Globe, "The time has come to recognize the overwhelming evidence regarding the importance of early relationships in healthy...
ADHD Drugs Are Convenient to Get Online. Maybe Too Convenient
From Bloomberg Businessweek: Backed by SoftBank and promoted by Simone Biles, Cerebral has built the fastest-growing online mental health business. Former employees say the rapid expansion comes at the expense of patient care.
“11 Reasons Why Cat Bites May Be Linked To Depression”
Research has shown a correlation between schizophrenia and exposure to cat bites or scratches. This has been theorized to be due to the effects...
“Andrew Solomon, Poster Child for Psychiatric Misdiagnosis”
Beyond Meds highlights a reappraisal of Andrew Solomon, whose book "The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression" is often pointed to as testimony for the...
Migrant Kids Are Being Traumatized, Not Treated
From The Sacramento Bee: "I don’t know what it’s like to be an immigrant kid, to travel alone to an unfamiliar country or be...
Interview With Award-Winning Mental Health Advocate Eugene LeBlanc
From Re-Threading Madness Radio: LeBlanc was awarded the New Brunswick Human Rights Award for his work as director of the Groupe de Support Emotionnel Inc. and as publisher and editor of Our Voice/Notre Voix.
Chaya Grossberg – Long Bio
ALL OF US OR NONE OF US
Chaya Grossberg is a writer, teacher, coach and group facilitator living in San Francisco. She teaches classes and...
Routine Anxiety Screenings Will Cause Overdiagnosis, Overprescription, Psychologist Warns
From Fox News: "You can’t just carve the world into 'disorders' and think you’re doing an adequate job of determining someone’s mental health needs," said UCSF professor Dr. Jonathan Shedler.
A New Kind of Empirical Article
Neurochambers' Chris Chambers, a freshly-minted associate editor for journal Cortex, asks for comments on "the most important thing I have committed to this blog...
As Opioid Crisis Rages, Some Trade “Tough Love” for Empathy
From Kaiser Health News: "Two torturous days later, Jeff Duncan came home. While he returned to rehab, the Duncans decided their approach wasn’t working....
Depression Likely Not Caused by a Chemical Imbalance in the Brain – New Study
From The Conversation: Until now, there has been no comprehensive review of the research on serotonin and depression that could enable firm conclusions about the chemical imbalance theory.
Can You Punish a Child’s Mental Health Problems Away?
From The New York Times: Future generations will look back on the tactics used in the troubled teen industry and ask: How did we allow these practices to pass off as mental health treatment for so long?
Psychiatry’s Incurable Hubris
From The Atlantic: The protracted attempt to usher psychiatry into medicine’s modern era is the subject of Anne Harrington’s Mind Fixers: Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness.
Watchdog Slams Safeguards for Foster Kids on Psych Drugs
From AP News: "Thousands of foster children may be getting powerful psychiatric drugs prescribed to them without basic safeguards, says a federal watchdog agency...
NC Lawmakers Seek Non-Police, Community Interventions to Mental Health Crises
From North Carolina Health News : State lawmakers have introduced a package of mental health bills that would provide alternative interventions, such as non-police crisis response units and more peer-support organizations.
Teenagers Pathologized by Traditional Addiction Treatment
From Filter: Traditional treatment can pathologize normal behaviors of adolescence, thereby reinforcing stigma and existing low self-esteem.
Society Has Protected the Adult and Blamed the Victim
From The Natural Child Project/Alice Miller: If mistreated children are not to become criminals or mentally ill, it is essential that at least once in their life they come in contact with a person who knows without any doubt that the environment, not the helpless, battered child, is at fault.
