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Beyond Greenspaces and Mental Health: The Power of the Wild

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Tensions of sustainability, climate change, and global mental health: grassknots, greenspace, and climate psychology.

Withdrawal Psychosis and the Aftermath of Tragedy

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I wake to what has happened every day, and must filter my every action through the memories and the fallout of what I did when I was psychotic as a twenty-four-year-old kid.
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Can Madness Save the World? Where R.D. Laing—and Star Trek—Meet

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What if the only choice we can really make, and trust, is the irrational, even mad, choice to love? What would saving the world look like then?

Putting JAMA Psychiatry and MIA to the Genetic Test

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We can assess whether Mad in America readers or JAMA Psychiatry readers are being provided with the most robust scientific literature.
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Animal Theory of Emotion: Emotion Is Not a Disorder

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Too many people see themselves as having mental disorders when what they have is emotion, and in some cases, a great deal of it.
Charles Spencer (left); cover of "A Very Private School" (right)

Charles Spencer’s Story of Boarding School Abuse Is Haunting

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But parents are still sending children away to board, and it’s still dangerous.

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Deprescribing Psychiatric Drugs to Reduce Harms and Empower Patients: Interview with Psychiatrist Swapnil Gupta

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Ayurdhi Dhar interviews psychiatrist Swapnil Gupta on psychiatric drug discontinuation, drug cocktail risks, patient choice, and the need for trust and transparency.

Is Madness an Evolved Signal? Justin Garson on Strategy Versus Dysfunction

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Philosopher Justin Garson discusses the potential benefit of looking at madness not as disease or defect, but as a designed feature.
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Depression: Psychiatry’s Discredited Theories and Drugs Versus a Sane Model and Approach

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Psychiatry’s depression outcomes are poor because its bio-chemical-electrical treatments are based on a depression model that science has flushed down the toilet.
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“A Dangerous Substance”: The Impact of Social Media on Youth Mental Health

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This is what social media does, she says. It draws people in. It hurts people. In the worst cases, it kills people.
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Searching for the “Psychiatric Yeti”: Schizophrenia Is Not Genetic

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After decades of study, billions of dollars spent, and thousands of studies conducted, the failure to identify any genes for schizophrenia should definitively put to rest the notion that schizophrenia is a genetic disorder, according to E. Fuller Torrey.

The Psychological Humanities Manifesto: An Interview with Mark Freeman

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Justin Karter interviews narrative and philosophical psychologist Mark Freeman about his vision for the future of psychology.

Health Communism

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Below we share the "Introduction" of the book Health Comunism (Verse, 2022) by Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant, English activists in disability and for health justice. The book advocates a new leftist policy aimed at cutting off the structural relations between capital and one of its main tools of domination and discipline: health.

Do psychologists inhibit awareness of oppressive social structures?

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A recent study published in the British Journal of Guidance & Counselling explores the psychosocial consequences of unemployment to reflect on and critique the role of psychology in the contemporary socio-politico context.

The Experience of Psychiatric Survivors in Brazil

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Another challenge is to find psychologists who have any reading about damage caused by psychiatric drugs and who do not interpret the option of not using them as "resistance to treatment".

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