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DSM: Improve, Trash, Replace, or None of the Above?
Most clinicians are well aware that many diagnoses are vague, not specific, and don’t point to a treatment that works.
An Open Letter to Those I Love Whose Neurotypical Privilege Keeps Them from Seeing What They Need to See
The next time you see someone who is unhoused, have some compassion.
Sweltering in My Own Sour Breath
All I could feel was nightmares budding and leafing darkly from my nerve endings, swinging and rustling in the black air of my grief.
“How Are You?” The Strangest Question to ask in a Psychiatric Hospital
Inside a psychiatric hospital, the social script doesn’t fit the situation. The location itself undermines the premise.
Peer Advocates Who Made Things Happen in Oregon
We must keep the histories of peer advocates alive, lest they be forgotten for their part in making the recovery model a vision for system change.
Counter Archiving “Mental Health Records”
Standing in front of the mirror, i wonder, “what outfit should i wear for scanning my psychiatric records at the local library?”
RESEARCH STUDIES
Emma Burris from Barnard College is seeking participants for a survey on the direct lived experience of former adolescent psychiatric inpatients, with the goal of improving mental healthcare in a way that’s sensitive to service users’ experiences. Find out more about the project and complete the survey here.
- October 10, 2025, 12:00 pm: Intentional Peer Support Overview
- October 17, 2025, 11:30 am: Antipsychotic Withdrawal - a Spotlight on Research
- October 24, 2025, N/A: International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry Annual Conference 2025 - Washington, DC
Medical Organizations Turn Blind Eye to Harms of Maternal Antidepressant Use: A Conversation With...
Adam Urato and Joanna Moncrieff join Robert Whitaker on the Mad in America podcast to discuss the risks posed by maternal use of antidepressants.
A Call for Evidence-Based, Fear-Free Practice
It is right to criticize MAHA, but poorly researched, fear-based responses by mainstream psychiatry only further mislead the public.
Fifty Years of Grief
September 27, 2025, is the fiftieth anniversary of the ignominious death in prison of my sorely regretted and dearly beloved friend Mark Frechette.
Psychotherapy, Spirituality, and Democratic Socialism: A Conversation with Frank Gruba-McCallister
Frank Gruba-McCallister argues that healing must confront capitalism, reclaim spirituality, and advance justice.
How “Garbage-In-Garbage-Out” Academic Psychiatry Research Has Become Even More Ridiculous, and How Taking It...
An interview with a leading academic psychiatrist reveals that psychiatric researchers are clueless about the scientific method.
The Case for Retraction: Psychedelic Therapy Study Omitted Interviews that Told of Sexual Abuse
The concealing of relevant data from a research project is a form of fraud and the grounds for retraction of the JHP study.
Psychotropic drugs behind bars: the Italian penitentiary system
In the Italian penitentiary system, psychiatry appears to be losing its therapeutic vocation and taking on a role of containment and control. Marcello Maviglia's article, published in the Journal of Psychology & Clinical Psychiatry, explores this transformation with rigor and passion, denouncing the systemic and often inappropriate use of psychotropic drugs in Italian prisons.
The power of psychiatry: Reflection
It is not nearly enough to compensate for all the damage and loss that I have experienced in my past and present with regard to contemporary psychiatric treatment practices. I feel that I have lost my future and my humanity with its colorful emotional experiences to biomedical psychiatry, which often seems to grind the person who has drifted into it completely to pieces in its own mechanistic and in many ways inhumane machinery.
Greater Need for Lived Experience in the Dialogue on Euthanasia
In response to the growing debate about euthanasia in cases of mental suffering, the NVvP (Dutch Association of Psychologists) is calling on its members to engage in discussions about this within the professional association in preparation for the revision of the euthanasia protocol in October.
