Many are Depressed Because They’re Expected not to be
From The Conversation: New studies suggest that Western cultural values - specifically the high value we place on happiness - may be the reason that...
Mental Health Patients Wait Over Three Years to be Discharged
From The Telegraph: Mental health patients across the UK are waiting for years to be discharged from psychiatric units. At least 91 patients have waited...
A Glimpse Inside US Mental Health Detention Centre
From The Sun: New York photographer Lili Holzer-Glier was recently allowed inside the Cook County Department of Corrections in Chicago, where 35 percent of inmates...
Remains of Missing 24-Year-Old Dad Found in Coast Guard Boat
From Yahoo! News: Nine months ago, Matt Amsler, a 24-year-old father, mysteriously disappeared after undergoing a bad reaction to antipsychotics. His body has been found...
Marshmallows Aren’t Likely to Fix Low-Income Kids’ Problems
From BOLD Blog: Starting in the late 1960s, researchers conducted an experiment offering young children a choice between one marshmallow at the present or two...
What Meditation can do for us, and What it Can’t
In recent years, American scholars and thinkers have increasingly argued for the secularization and modernization of Buddhism, proposing meditation as a fully secular form...
Humans are the Only Animals who Crave Oblivion Through Suicide
In this piece for Aeon, Nicholas Humphrey explores why humans are the only animals that experience suicidality as well as the impact of suicide on evolution.
"From the viewpoint...
Quiet Your Anxiety by Talking to Yourself in the Third Person
From Today: A new study suggests that talking about one's negative feelings and experiences in the third person can help reduce fear and anxiety.
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DARPA Wants to Build a BS Detector for Science
From Wired: A new grant from DARPA will fund research into ways to determine which research from the social and behavioral sciences is credible, and which has flawed methodology...
New Hope for Depression
In this piece for TIME, Mandy Oaklander provides a comprehensive review of the current status of and potential future directions for the depression treatment industry. The...
The Dangers of Over-Policing Motherhood
In this piece for The Atlantic, Chris Millard discusses how increased medical, psychiatric, and psychoanalytic scrutiny of motherhood in the 20th century set the stage...
Report on How Much Congressmen are Getting From Pharma
From MedCityNews: This year, under the threat of legislation that may reduce drug prices, address the opioid crisis, and repeal and replace the Affordable Care...
How Complex Trauma Changes a Person
From GoodTherapy.org: Although not currently listed in the DSM, the diagnosis of complex post-traumatic stress (C-PTSD) has gained widespread acceptance in the mental health community. The...
Predatory Journals Hit by ‘Star Wars’ Sting
From Neuroskeptic: Several "predatory" scientific journals — those that charge publication fees to authors without providing the editorial and publishing services offered by legitimate journals — have accepted a...
Depression, Stigma, and our Toxic Culture
From Medium: Often after the suicide of a public figure, there is an increase in articles published attempting to destigmatize depression by categorizing it as...
How Neglect and Abuse Change Children’s Brains
From the Center for Health Journalism: Different types of childhood adversity shape the developing brain in distinct ways and need to be addressed accordingly. While...
How do we Know if a Drug Actually Works?
From Scientific American: The effectiveness of a particular medical treatment is often highly subjective and dependent on each individual's definition of the term "effective." Many...
Critical Psychiatry Network 2017 Conference Report
From Critical Psychiatry: The Critical Psychiatry Network's 2017 conference raised a variety of issues and featured a range of differing perspectives pertaining to the societal...
Benzodiazepine Withdrawal Symptoms
Members of the group Benzodiazepine Recovery have created a video about the often debilitating symptoms of benzodiazepine withdrawal.
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APA Questions Announcement to Bar Trans People from Military
From the American Psychological Association: The APA has challenged President's Trump announced ban on transgender people serving in the U.S. military, citing research showing that...
CIA Torture Psychologists Compared to Poison Gas Manufacturers
From American Civil Liberties Union: Last week, the defense attorneys of the psychologists behind the CIA's torture program, James Mitchell and John "Bruce" Jessen, compared their...
Mental Health, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews: In his new book Mental Health, Inc., Art Levine reports on the dire state of the U.S. mental health system.
"The author delivers the...
Psychiatry Group Tells Members They Can Ignore Goldwater Rule
From STAT: The American Psychoanalytic Association has given its members permission to ignore the "Goldwater rule" and comment publicly on the mental state of government...
England’s Mental Health Experiment: No-Cost Talk Therapy
From The New York Times: England is in the midst of a unique national experiment, an initiative that provides open-ended talk therapy free of charge...
Overemphasis on Disease Entities in Psychosis
From Critical Psychiatry: Jim van Os, who has argued we should abandon the term "schizophrenia," recently wrote an article in support of a unitary model...
