The irony of antidepressants was that they were supposed to lift me out of depression, but they only dragged me down deeper.

A new study finds that young adults squeezed by rent and cramped space reported higher activity levels, but also ...

There is no scientific evidence base for routine use of multiple psychiatric drugs, particularly for children.

In their new chapter Reconsidering ‘Recovery,” Larry Davidson and Kim Jørgensen call for a paradigm shift toward personal ...

Discussing his experience of psychosis, his daily support strategies, and the pros and cons of having a pit bull for ...

A qualitative study of international key informants argues that mental health laws may be inherently discriminatory, making ...

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

The American Psychiatric Association and other prominent medical associations are lining up in opposition to proposed legislation that would require prescribers of psychiatric medication to obtain ...

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

Robert Whitaker is a journalist and author of two books about the history of psychiatry, Mad in America and Anatomy of an Epidemic, and the co-author, with Lisa Cosgrove, of Psychiatry Under the ...

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 ...