Sometimes addiction has more to do with the ability to tolerate day-to-day life without the substance: self-regulation.

A preprint argues that symptom scores in psychology are not neutral data but active interventions that shape care.

An international set of case studies suggests that ignoring people’s spiritual worlds blinds clinicians to key sources of ...

Earlier this year, a bill was proposed in the U.S. state of Connecticut to end forced shock treatment. To put it mildly, the bill restored my hope. Electroshock treatment, eventually re-branded as ...

A new study links psychiatric drugs, particularly antidepressants, with increased risk of developing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease), a rare, incurable neurological ...

A recent study evaluated the role of neighborhood stressors in the sleep quality of young Puerto Ricans, both in the New York diaspora and on the colonized island. Puerto Ricans face a myriad of ...

Faith in oneself, tempered by adversity, creates an anti-fragile personality. I am living proof of that concept. I grew up in Monona, Wisconsin, in an enriched environment of beautiful parks and ...

From Mad in Norway: Psychiatrist Erik Falkum writes in his book “What is psychiatry?” from 2023: “The medical gaze focused on the ‘missing’ patient, and if the agent ignores or does not have an ...

The American Psychiatric Association and other prominent medical associations are lining up in opposition to proposed legislation that would require prescribers of psychiatric medication to obtain ...

Medical organizations and the media dismiss the experts and the large body of research telling of fetal harm from exposure to SSRIs during pregnancy. Augmenting with antipsychotics was no better at ...

Justin M. Karter, PhD, leads research news coverage and editorial strategy at Mad in America. He is the Acting Program Director of the PsyD in Clinical Psychology & Psychological Humanities at Boston ...

Robert Whitaker is a journalist and author of two books about the history of psychiatry, Mad in America and Anatomy of an Epidemic, and the co-author, with Lisa Cosgrove, of Psychiatry Under the ...