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Ken Burns’ “Hiding in Plain Sight…”: Candid Interviews, Canned Conclusions

Miranda Spencer - August 16, 2022 15

I was hoping for more accurate representation of youth mental health challenges. What I saw instead was a glossy patchwork of mixed messages.

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Empty Plates, Troubled Minds: New Research Exposes Mental Health Costs of...

January 13, 2025

Reframing Antipsychotic Discontinuation: A Psychiatrist’s Personal and Professional Call for Epistemic...

January 10, 2025

No Bad Kids: How an Antiracist Framework Challenges the Oppositional Defiant...

January 9, 2025

Diplomacy for Mental Health: Can a Rights-Based Approach Reshape Global Health...

January 7, 2025

Blogs

Burnout: How Mental Health Systems Fail Neurodivergent Professionals

January 10, 2025

A hand holds out pills. A child is out of focus in the background.

For-Profit Healthcare Is a Predator; Its Main Prey Is Our Young

January 9, 2025

My Involuntary Metamorphosis

January 3, 2025

Engraving-style art of a person looking out the door of an asylum room

From Auctions to Moral Treatment

January 2, 2025