Consciousness: An Object Lesson
In this interviewĀ forĀ The New York Review of Books, Riccardo Manzotti puts forth a view of existence as relative. However, he argues, the fact that...
On the Myth of the Chemical Imbalance
In this piece forĀ Psychology Today, Mark L. Ruffalo critiques theĀ chemical imbalance theory of mental disorder and examines why the chemical imbalance mythĀ persists today despite...
The Paradox of White Americansā Mental Health
Are White Americansā poor mental health outcomes caused by Whiteness?
Wellbeing Enhanced More by Places Than Objects, Study Finds
FromĀ The Guardian: New research suggests that people are more likely to experience feelings of wellbeing, contentment, and belonging from places that evoke positive memories...
Brain Imaging Results Biased by Lack of Representative Data
What does "normal" brain development throughout childhood look like? It may depend on your demographics.
How to Reach Out to Someone who is Struggling
In this piece forĀ On Being, Omid Safi shares how an old Middle Eastern story about a drowning man can teach us how to offer...
Why We’ve Been Thinking About Madness All Wrong
In this interview forĀ Pacific Standard, David Dobbs, who profiled Nev Jones this month, discusses the ways that the mental health community is beginning to...
Psychologists Push For New Approaches to Psychosis: Part 2
The authors of the report expand upon the traumatic and sociopolitical factors underlying presentations of psychosis and āschizophrenia.ā
Birthday Letter: Sylvia Plath and “Daddy”
In this pieceĀ forĀ The Paris Review, Belinda McKeon analyzes the poetry and letters Sylvia Plath wrote in the few months just before her suicide.
Why More American Teens Than Ever Suffer From Severe Anxiety
In this piece forĀ The New York Times, Benoit Denizet-Lewis explores the social, cultural, and economic factors that have contributed to the significant rise in...
I’m Reinventing Mental Health Care by Putting Patients in Charge
In this piece forĀ The Guardian, Joy Hibbins describes how her experiences of powerlessness as a mental health service user led her to start Suicide...
Here’s Why I Wouldn’t Use the Mental Health System
In this pieceĀ forĀ The Spinoff, Graham Panther, a consultant in Australia's mental health system, speaks to some of the shortcomings of mainstream mental health support....
How Stoicism can Help us Deal With Depression
FromĀ Medical Xpress: Stoicism, an ancient philosophy based on the idea that the goal of life is to live in agreement with nature, can be...
The Psychedelic Renaissance is Here. Will it Last This Time?
FromĀ Massive: Increasing evidence suggests that psychedelics may revolutionize mental health care. In order for this "psychedelic renaissance" to last, scientists and citizens will need...
The Social Life of Opioids
FromĀ Scientific American: Increasing prescription rates of opioid painkillers are often blamed for America's current opioid crisis. However, a growing body of research suggests that...
Psychology in the Metacolony
FromĀ Mail & Guardian: Colonialism today is more entrenched in our society than it ever has been in the past, and traditional psychology and mental...
Child Abuse and Violence Survivors are Being Re-Traumatised
FromĀ The Independent: Recently, psychiatric patients used the hashtag #AbusedByServices to tweet about their experiences being re-traumatized by mental health services. The hashtag reflects the...
Researchers Confirm That Relative Age Impacts ADHD Diagnosis
The youngest children in a class are more likely to receive an ADHD diagnosis than their peers.
Existential Psychologist Rollo May on Freedom
FromĀ Brain Pickings: In his 1981 bookĀ Freedom and Destiny, existential psychologist Rollo May explores how to attain self-liberation, a process that requires that we learn...
Does Modern Neuroscience Really Help us Understand Behavior?
FromĀ Massive: According to neuroscience experts Danbee Kim andĀ GonƧalo Lopes, the field of neuroscience focuses far too much on the anatomy of the brain and...
The Touch of Madness
In this piece forĀ Pacific Standard, David Dobbs recounts the story of Nev Jones, a psychologist with lived experience who is working to change the...
Psychologists Push For New Approaches to Psychosis: Part 1
Psychologists and people with experience of psychotic symptoms publish a report on new ways of understanding psychosis.
Late Night Snack – Shrink: Sarah Silverman
In this video, comedian Sarah Silverman recounts her journey with mental health treatment and discusses how therapy has helped her.
It’s Easy to Get Caught Up in Constructing Our Selves
In this video forĀ Aeon, clinical psychologist Daniel Brown discusses the ways that the construction of a fixed selfhood can limit the possibilities of our...
World Mental Health Day
In this pieceĀ written in honor of World Mental Health Day,Ā Peter Kinderman emphasizes the importance of challenging the biomedical model of mental health and paying...
