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For People “At Risk for Psychosis,” Antipsychotics Associated with Worse Outcomes

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Researchers studied whether antipsychotics could prevent transition to full psychosis and found that the drugs worsened outcomes.

Diagnosing the Ethical Dilemmas of Humanitarian Psychiatry in Post-War Kosovo

Psychiatrists Demand an Independent Commission to Tackle Racism in Psychiatry

New Directions for Service User Involvement in Mental Health Research and...

Misleading Beliefs about Antidepressants Prevalent in Psychiatry

Psychiatrists Divided on Understandings of Psychosis

Youth Depression Screening Will Lead to Over-Diagnosis, Experts Warn

A Rights-Based Approach to Mental Health Crisis Response

Randomized Controlled Trial Confirms That Antipsychotics Damage the Brain

Patient Advocacy Groups Betray Consumers for Pharma Money

Bridging Critical and Conceptual Psychiatry: An Interview with Awais Aftab

Psychiatric Care Fails to Address High Suicide Rates of Native Alaskans

Bringing Indigenous Healing and Psychoactive Plants to Global Mental Health

The Same Brain Scan Results Lead to Wildly Different Conclusions

Medical Ethicist on the Problems with Calling Healthcare Workers ‘Heroes’

How Youth Loneliness in the Pandemic Impacts Mental Health

Opposing Corruption in Psychiatric Science a Human Rights Imperative

How Do We Study Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare?

Reconceptualizing Psychosis with Insights from the Hearing Voices Movement

Youth Antidepressant Use Associated With Increased Suicide and Self-Harm

MIA Reports

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Media Watch

Reporting the COVID Crisis at Psychiatric Hospitals: A Missed Opportunity

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In its coverage of the impact of COVID on psychiatric hospitals, the media missed opportunities to challenge stereotypes and interrogate problems with current carceral approaches to mental health treatment.

World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day 2020

Bridging Critical and Conceptual Psychiatry: An Interview with Awais Aftab

Exercise for Youth Mental Health in the Lockdown: Interview with Psychologist...

Bringing Human Rights to Mental Health Care: An Interview with UN...

“Free Our People!” Ex-Psychiatric Patients Demand COVID-19 Accountability in State-Run Facilities

When Psychology Speaks for You, Without You: Sunil Bhatia on Decolonizing...

A woman holding a sign that says LA Jails are the Largest Mental Health Institution in the Country."

Bedlam: Public Media, Power, and the Fight for Narrative Justice

Do Antipsychotics Protect Against Early Death? A Review of the Evidence

Muzzled by Psychiatry in a Time of Crisis

Hospital entrance with no visitors sign.

Life Inside America’s Psychiatric Facilities During the Pandemic: Eyewitness Accounts

America’s Psychiatric Facilities Are ‘Incubators’ for COVID-19

Where Western Medicine Meets Indigenous Healing: An Interview with Anthropologist Ian...

Rows and rows of metal markers commemmorating unmarked patient graves.

Narrating Asylum History Through an Anti-Racist Lens: An Interview with Author...

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Inside a Pandemic: Media Struggle to Define What’s Normal

“Not Fragile”: Survivor-Led Mutual Aid Projects Flourish in a Time of...

Mutual Support in an Age of Social Distancing

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Mental Health Apps: AI Surveillance Enters Our World

Psychology is Not What You Think: An Interview with Critical Psychologist...

VA Secretary Robert Wilkie

An Open Letter to VA Secretary Robert Wilkie: A Plan for...

Around the Web

Around The Web

People in Mental Health Crises Need Help, Not Handcuffs

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From STAT News: A mental health crisis can be a frightening thing. Those in its throes need help, but all too often get handcuffs

Cops Criminalize Protest; Psychiatrists Medicalize It

RCMP Officer Drags Student in Crisis, Steps On Her Head

The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals

‘Bear Our Pain’: The Plea for More Black Mental Health Workers

Professionals and ECT Recipients Request Suspension of ECT in NHS

Bias in Clinical Algorithms Make Health Disparities Worse

The Battle for the Soul of Psychiatry: Ronald W. Pies, MD

Psychiatric Disorders as an Imperfect Community: Peter Zachar, PhD

Drug-Drug Interactions Could Imperil Covid-19 Treatment

COVID-19 Crisis: People Living in Institutions Must Not Be Written Off

Worried About a Coronavirus Summer Slump? Boost Kids’ Brainpower With Nature.

How to deal with your teenager’s depression

NCMHR Calls for Ending Police Role in Mental Health Crises

An Open Letter to National Association of Social Workers on Law...

The Secret History Of “Criminally Insane”

Amid COVID, People Involuntarily Confined in Psych Hospitals Must Be Released

Chinese Philosophy Has Long Known That Mental Health is Communal

Health Minister Orders Review After Study Links Antidepressants and Youth Suicide

ECT Depression Therapy Should Be Suspended, Study Suggests

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