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

Recently, I was at a forum hosted by the Alliance for Rights and Recovery, which led me to assess my satisfaction or dissatisfaction with the mental health system. It was not very positive. For the ...

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

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The study describes how short visits, weak follow-up systems, and fragmented relationships leave responsibility for stopping antidepressants on the patient’s shoulders, even when guidelines call for ...

America is in a mental health crisis; but not the crisis you might think. The real problem isn’t in our minds, it’s in our medicine cabinets. As a junior in high school, I fell into what many would ...

A new international survey of 858 electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) recipients has delivered stark findings relating to women’s experiences of this controversial procedure. The paper explicitly ...