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Online Racism Tied to Psychotic Experiences in Youth of Color

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New research finds that online racism significantly increases the odds of psychotic experiences in Black and Asian American young adults, even beyond the impact of everyday discrimination and anxiety.

From EMPOWER to Exercise: What Actually Helps Older Adults Quit Benzos?

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Exposure to Antidepressants in the Womb Makes for Sad, Scared Adolescents

Addicted to Masculinity: How Patriarchal Ideals Fuel Substance Use

Hate Goes Viral: How Online Abuse Reshapes Minds and Divides Communities

Peer Supporters Face Systemic Hurdles in Digital Mental Health Rollout

Autistic Scholar Proposes a Justice-Oriented Philosophy of Science for Autism Research

Why We Need Sociology at the Heart of Mental Health Discourse

Disability-Inclusive Policy Influenced by Power, Politics, and Perception

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Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS): Why Donā€™t We Know More About It?

Indigenous Healing Practices Challenge the Ground Psychology Stands On

From Behavior Control to Justice: Rethinking School Social Work

PTSD Treatments Work Equally Well, But Who They Work For Still...

Study Reveals Emotional Burden and Moral Distress Faced by Peer Support...

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Antidepressant Withdrawal Is Common and Debilitating

Diagnosis: Placebo Effect

More Evidence That Antidepressants Work Via Placebo Effect

The Climate Doom Paradox: Awareness Without Agency Fuels Anxiety

People in Crisis Want Respectful, Personalized Support from Mental Health Professionals,...

From Stereotype to Slur in Three Clicks: Inside AIā€™s Mental-Health Hate...

Coercion in Psychiatric Wards Tied to Worse Recovery, Spanish Study Finds

MIA Reports

Interviews

The Poetics and Politics of Our Mental Health Metaphors: An Interview...

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Ayurdhi Dhar interviews influential cultural psychiatrist Laurence Kirmayer on how metaphors, histories, and social structures contour our experiences of suffering and healing.
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Heritability Explains Less About Mental Disorders Than You Think

Two Decades of PSSD: A Life Stolen by Antidepressants

Kermit Cole: Dialogical Therapy and Quantum Theory Walk Into a Barā€¦

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Criticisms That Establishment Psychiatry Can and Cannot Tolerate

Chemically Imbalanced: Joanna Moncrieff on the Making and Unmaking of the...

The Fight Against Involuntary Commitment: Are Protection & Advocacy Organizations Fulfilling...

Interview with German activist Peter Lehmann: “I Lost My Fear and...

The Failure of ā€œSpit For Scienceā€: No Genetic or Neurological Pathways...

Teralyn Sell and Jenn Schmitz: Breaking Out of the Prison of...

New WHO Guidance Calls for Paradigm Shift in Mental Health Policy

Psychologyā€™s Small Stories and the Call of the Other: An Interview...

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics: End of an Era for Independent Journals? An...

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The Editorial Demise of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics Is Bad News For...

Psychology, Personhood, and the Crisis of Neoliberalism: Jeff Sugarman on Theoretical...

Do Critics of Biological Psychiatry Have an Alternative to a Life...

Exploding Myths About Schizophrenia: An Interview with Courtenay Harding

ā€œDad, Something’s Not Right. I Need Helpā€: Richard Fee on the...

Psychotherapy and Social Change: Mick Cooper on Counseling, Pluralism, and Progressive...

“All Real Living Is Meeting”: Brent Robbins on Love, Death, and...

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Around The Web

Alan Cassels: Are We Looking In The Right Place For Answers...

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From The New Westminster Times: "In the aftermath of one of the worst days in the history of Vancouver, a recent Canadian Press headline...

Safety or System? – Seeking Soteria

Spotify is Scrambling to Remove Dozens of Podcasts Promoting Online Prescription...

Court Gives Approval of Settlement Providing Better Mental Health Care for...

Father Kills Son Because of Antidepressants

Itā€™s Time for Psychologists to Become Activists

Szasz and The Manufacture of Madness Today

New York Makes it Easier to Commit People With Severe Mental...

Bristol Myers Squibb Schizophrenia Drug Fails Pivotal Test as an Add-On...

The United States is Witnessing the Return of Psychiatric Imprisonment

The Daily Mail Reviews Unshrunk

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A Call for Comfort Brought the Police Instead. Now the Solution...

NY Times Finally Figures out ADHD Critics May be Onto Something

Kaine & Banks Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Support Mental Health Care...

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Unshrunk: A Memoir That Upsets the NYT and Which Freethinkers Will...

Doctors Didnā€™t Warn ā€˜Deviant Sexual Behaviourā€™ was Side Effect of Restless...

Weight Loss Drugs: 82 Deaths Linked to Adverse Reactions, UK Data...

The Number of People With Chronic Conditions is Soaring. Are we...

Antidepressants May Hasten Decline From Dementia, Study Says

Lindsay Clancy, Who Killed Her Three Children, Was on Three Antidepressants

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