Mental Health Industry Should Embrace Choices Beyond Drugs
In this video forĀ NowThis, Yana Jacobs critiques the mental health industry standard of prescribing drugs as the first-line treatment for "mental illness." She emphasizes...
Tapering Strips Help People Discontinue Antidepressants
A new study by Peter Groot and Jim van Os has found that tapering strips help people successfully discontinue antidepressant medications.
The Mental Health Act Review: Everything Remains the Same
FromĀ Tales from the Madhouse: On May 1st, theĀ Independent Review of the Mental Health Act publishedĀ a 60-page interim report.Ā The report makes it clear that no...
Closing the Asylums
In this piece forĀ Jacobin, John Foot describes the Italian psychiatrist Franco Basaglia's efforts to revolutionize the mental health system in Italy. Basaglia sparked a...
Traditional South African Healers Use Connection in Suicide Prevention
Study finds that traditional healers in South Africa, whose services are widely used by the countryās population, perform important suicide prevention work.
Treatment-Resistant Depression as a Sign of Unconscious Health
In this video, Dr. Elio Frattaroli describes how biological explanations for "treatment-resistant depression" often ignore the meaning and context of a patient's suffering. He...
Recovery: Creating Your Personal Journey Through Self-Honesty, Resilience and Hope
Recovery is adapting to how your brain works. You accept how it works, observing what makes it worse or better, and learn to navigate the triggers and symptoms you experience. As you do things differently, these 'corrective experiences' begin to undo the negative beliefs you have internalized.
The Sound of Madness
From Harper's Magazine:Ā People who hear positive, encouraging voices often seen as spiritual guides or messages andĀ people diagnosed with schizophrenia are usually thought of as...
Differing Depression Diagnostic Tools May Influence Research Findings
The type of diagnostic assessment used in research settings, either fully structured or semi-structured interview, may affect which participants in receive a diagnosis of major depression.
How Learning New Words Could Make You Happier
FromĀ TIME: Learning new words to describe different types of happiness, well-being, and joy can increase our ability to connect with and feel those emotions....
Is Your Job Bullshit? David Graeber on Capitalism’s Busy Work
FromĀ In These Times: Over a third of British workers believe their job makes no meaningful contribution to the world. TheĀ risingĀ number of people who have...
Study Explores Impact of Urban vs. Rural Upbringing on Stress Response
A new study investigates the relationships between early-home environmental factors and later-life physiological response to psychosocial stressors.
Hopeless But Not Broken: From George Carlin to Protest Music
FromĀ CounterPunch: Although people are often pathologized and shamed for feeling hopeless, hopelessness is sometimes a natural reaction to an oppressive political climate. George Carlin...
Pain Increases Later Risk for Anxiety and Depression
Experiencing moderate to severe pain, or having at least moderate life interference from pain, doubles risk for anxiety or depression.
This Type of Exercise May Help Relieve Depression
FromĀ TIME: A new study has found that resistance exercise training, such as weightlifting and strength training, is associated with a significant reduction in depressive...
Rethinking Madness and Medication: Researcher Discusses Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Survivor Movements
New understandings of medication and withdrawal experiences warrant rethinking conceptualizations of health and āmadness."
Social Scientists Question Growing Neuro Discourse
Anthropologists analyze discourse surrounding anthropological engagement with the neurosciences in an editorial recently published in Medical Anthropology.
The Shamanic View of Mental Illness
FromĀ UPLIFT: In the shamanic view, emotional distress and psychosis signal a spiritual awakening or emergence, not a pathology. Western cultures can learn a great...
The Enduring Myth of the Mad Genius
FromĀ Wellcome Collection: It has long been assumed that great writers and artists must be touched by madness. However, no link between artistic talent and...
Yoga Improves Quality of Life for Elementary Students
A new study finds that a school-based yoga program improves third gradersā emotional and psychosocial quality of life.
Temperamentally Blessed
FromĀ Aeon: The finding that only one in five people avoid any kind of mental health problems or psychiatric diagnoses through their lives has prompted...
Researchers Advocate for More Robust Informed Consent in Psychotherapy
Paper outlines recommendations for more thorough informed consent process in psychotherapy, which authors proclaim is an āethical imperative."
Researchers Question āGold Standardā Status of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Researchers argue for plurality and diversity among psychotherapy approaches and question the perceived superiority of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).
Homogenization of Psychotherapy and Counseling
In this piece forĀ Transcend Media Service, Dr. Anthony J. Marsella critiques the standardization of mental health treatment, arguing that it overlooks cultural and individual...
What Care for the Criminally Insane Can Teach Us
In this piece forĀ The Pew Charitable Trusts, Michael OlloveĀ reports on Oregon's model of intense care and supervision for thoseĀ found guilty except for insanity.
"Oregonās model...
