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Depsychiatrization: Dispelling Harmful, Diagnostical Self-Concepts in Therapy and Community Health Work
Depsychiatrization is a way of reclaiming the right to be understood through a nonpathologizing, rehumanized lens.
Screen Time for Children Under Three: A Trigger for Virtual Autism?
"A Stone Unturned" weaves together the research and stories of autism symptoms reversed by removing screens and adding more parent engagement.
You’re Not Crazy
I want others who have PTSD to know that, yes, recovery is tough going, but you can rebuild trust in the world and your future.
Depression: Biological or Psychological?
Scientific evidence tells us that depression is psychological and should be treated by behavior therapy, not by antidepressant drugs.
Blindsided by Benzos: Had I Known
Doctors are not disclosing the harrowing truth that discontinuing these medications can plunge patients into relentless mental and physical torment.
Mapping Identity Through Moonlight: A Narrative Therapy Reflection
Healing didn’t mean fixing the chaos or wrapping it in a bow, it meant refusing to be erased or silenced by it.
Rebecca Williams from University of Manchester is seeking participants for research on what potential participants want to know about psychedelic-assisted therapies. If you are interested in taking part, please contact [email protected].
Dr. Morgan Shields of Washington University in St. Louis is conducting research on the experience of people utilizing behavioral health crisis services. They are recruiting people who have direct lived experience as patients/
We invite you to a special premiere of the film A Stone Unturned, which will be available for registrants to view between June 5-8th, with a special panel discussion on Saturday, June 7, at 10am PDT, 1pm EDT, 6pm BST, 8pm CEST.
Please join us on Thursday, June 26, at 9am PDT, 12pm EDT, 5pm BST, 7pm CEST for a special webinar on Recovery Oriented Cognitive Therapy for Psychosis: Living Well w/ Psychosis with Dr. Aaron P. Brinen, hosted by Ron Unger.
- June 5, 2025, 9:00 am: A Stone Unturned: Special Premiere & Panel Discussion
- June 5, 2025, 9:00 am: War Cry For Change to End Veteran Overprescribing
- June 24, 2025, 12:00 pm: Harm Reduction Approach to Self-Injury (June '25)
- June 26, 2025, 12:00 pm: Recovery Oriented Cognitive Therapy for Psychosis: Living Well w/ Psychosis
- July 3, 2025, N/A: Mad Camp Europe
The Poetics and Politics of Our Mental Health Metaphors: An Interview with Laurence Kirmayer
Ayurdhi Dhar interviews influential cultural psychiatrist Laurence Kirmayer on how metaphors, histories, and social structures contour our experiences of suffering and healing.
Heritability Explains Less About Mental Disorders Than You Think
The focus on diseased brains and genes obscures the significance of social and environmental influences.
Two Decades of PSSD: A Life Stolen by Antidepressants
Our two-year-long collaborative research project suggests that neuroimmune processes and related downstream mechanisms may play a role in PSSD.
Kermit Cole: Dialogical Therapy and Quantum Theory Walk Into a Bar…
On the podcast this week we are joined by Kermit Cole who shares his thoughts on how humor can help in creating a shared experience that is helpful to the healing process. Kermit, in his experiences of being with people in psychotic states, has seen humor as a moment when a connection can be made. In many ways, this project is bringing Kermit back full circle to his work as a film director, early in his professional career.
Criticisms That Establishment Psychiatry Can and Cannot Tolerate
Criticism that uniquely applies to establishment psychiatry but not to medicine in general threatens its existential legitimacy, and is not tolerated.
Chemically Imbalanced: Joanna Moncrieff on the Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth
Joanna Moncrieff joins Robert Whitaker to talk about her latest book, titled Chemically Imbalanced: The Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth. They discuss the serotonin story and the fact that there is no good evidence that a serotonergic deficiency is a primary cause of depression.
“What do you complain about if your baby is well?” :...
From shouting and threats to interventions without consent, obstetric violence is a form of gender violence that profoundly impacts postpartum mental health. Dr. Keila Castro proposes ways to heal.
‘Subpatterns’ – a deepening in the theory of attachment
Often psychological problems and relationship problems originate in childhood and have to do with the attachment pattern you developed as a child. The way your parents dealt with you – whether you received (sufficient) attention and in what way – has been decisive. It can therefore yield a lot to delve into adhesion. This article goes beyond the four well-known adhesion patterns from Bowlby's theory and describes 'subpatterns' with clear characteristics.
Psychological care without coercion – how care was provided at Nacka...
The motto "no matter how confused someone is, they haven't lost their whole self" was a guiding principle at Sweden's first and so far only Soteria house, which operated during the 1990s. Here, psychiatric care was provided without coercion - a whole decade without either suicide or coercive measures. Majka Stenberg and Petra Horn explain how care worked at Nacka Soteria.
