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Patients Warn That Mental Health Surveillance Could Undermine Care

Richard Sears - September 28, 2026 1

A 2024 study found that the use of surveillance-based technology in inpatient and acute mental health settings is rising despite little evidence that these...

Overmedication, Ambivalence, and Self-Blame: New Research on Psychiatric Drugs and Personality...

September 25, 2026

Soteria Model Linked to Lower Psychiatric Readmission Rates, Study Finds

September 21, 2026

Dance and Exercise Show Promise as Alternative Approaches to Depression

September 18, 2026

Pharmaceutical Industry Corruption Is Structural, Systemic, and Profitable, New Review Finds

September 14, 2026

“Sticky Labels” and Overlooking Physical Illness—Researchers Highlight Risks of Psychiatric Diagnosis

September 11, 2026

Coercive Practices in Psychiatry Are Being Systematically Underreported, Study Suggests

September 7, 2026

Antidepressants: Limited Evidence, Inadequate Information, and Little Support to Stop

September 4, 2026

“It’s Devastated Me That I’m Not Being Listened To:” Patients Prescribed...

August 31, 2026

Psychiatric Detention Isn’t Just About Clinical Need, Four Studies Suggest

August 28, 2026

When Financial Stress Becomes a Mental Health Problem

August 21, 2026

Independent Evaluation Finds No Benefit to Coercion Under New York’s Kendra’s...

August 17, 2026

Childhood Adversity May Shape Mental Health Across Generations, but Positive Experiences...

August 14, 2026

Benzodiazepine Use Tied to Increased Risk of Death, Especially at Higher...

August 10, 2026

Peer Support Is Gaining Recognition, but Systemic Barriers Remain

August 7, 2026

When Doctors Disagree: New Study Raises Questions About the Reliability of...

August 3, 2026

Studies Highlight Rapid Expansion of ADHD Drug Prescribing

July 31, 2026

Psychosis and the Burden of Inequality

July 24, 2026

“Assault” and “Torture”: Patients Recall the Institutional Violence of Forced Drugging

July 20, 2026

When Therapy Makes Things Worse

July 17, 2026

MIA Reports

When Stopping Prescription Drugs Is Hard: Alicia Martin and the TaperMate...

Brooke Siem - September 16, 2026 7

Alicia Martin is an Australian community pharmacist and the creator of an ingenious mobile app, TaperMate, which aims to help people with hyperbolic drug tapering and prescribed drug withdrawal.

Remembering Dory Previn: An Interview by Peter Sterling in 1974

September 9, 2026

First-Person Knowledge and the Meanings of Madness: An Interview with Gail...

September 2, 2026

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When Medical Science Refuses to Correct Itself

August 29, 2026

Mad Studies Is More Than Lived Experience: An Interview with Merrick...

August 19, 2026

The West Doesn’t Have All the Answers: An Interview with Dinesh...

August 12, 2026

Unlearning Restraints: A Psychiatrist’s Journey from Patient to Practitioner

August 8, 2026

Go/No-Go—How Mental Health Research Took a Wrong Turn: An Interview with...

July 29, 2026

How the Moral Panic on Psychiatric Bed Shortages is Fueling a...

July 25, 2026

Yet Another Claim About the Benefits of Antidepressants Bites The Dust

July 21, 2026

Psychedelic Therapy Paper Linked to Sexual Abuse Faces Possible Retraction

July 18, 2026

Unlearn Your Pain: Harnessing the Power of Neuroplasticity – A Conversation...

July 15, 2026

Inside the Hot Flush Gold Rush: The Medicalization of Menopause Spreads...

July 11, 2026

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Depression Drug Approved by FDA Had 11 Failed Trials and an...

July 9, 2026

How Psychiatry Launders Our Debts: An Interview with Khameer Kidia

July 8, 2026

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What’s Been Lost in Medicine Is Shameful in Psychiatry: Reflections on...

July 4, 2026

A Mother’s Journey Through Psychiatric Drug Harm and Healing

July 1, 2026

A female psychiatrist speaks to a judge on behalf of a young black boy

Nobody Told Me to Do This: What It Means to Be...

June 27, 2026

Using Lived Experience to Challenge Systemic Prescriber Inexperience of Antidepressant Withdrawal

June 24, 2026

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New Device for PTSD Being Sold to Veterans—No Evidence Provided to...

June 12, 2026

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Forced Psychiatric Care Can Feel Like a “Forever Sentence,” Victims Say

September 28, 2026 0

From Truthout. "Involuntary psychiatric treatment is a cornerstone of Donald Trump’s mental health policy, and liberal governors like Gavin Newsom, Kathy Hochul, and Wes...