A profound mental health crisis is gripping society, revealing the limits of mainstream models of health treatment and care. Capitalizing on this systemic neglect, a deluge of AI-powered chatbots ...

A new article published in Clinical Nursing Research explores involuntary commitment and treatment from the perspectives of patients and nurses in Quebec, Canada. The current work finds that while ...

New synthesis of decades of research explains why people seek fear on purpose and how culture and development mold those choices. G. Neil Martin, a psychologist at Regent’s University London, combed ...

A new randomized controlled trial published in BMC Medicine finds that reducing smartphone screen time improves mental health. The current study, led by Christoph Pieh of the University of Applied ...

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 ...

Tangible Intangibilities: Sera writes here to share her thoughts on how the language we choose and our apparent need to concretize the inherently complex is leading to violations of rights and ...

Peter Simons was an academic researcher in psychology. Now, as a science writer, he tries to provide the layperson with a view into the sometimes inscrutable world of psychiatric research. As an ...

Dispatches From the Road: A filmmaker and former psychotherapist tells about making his three documentaries about recovery from "madness," and about meeting with peer groups and directors of ...

Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD has published more than 100 papers in the top five general medical journals and his scientific works have been cited over 150,000 times. He has published several books relevant ...

David Healy is a founder of Data Based Medicine and RxISK.org and has authored of over 240 peer reviewed articles, 300 other pieces, and 25 books. His main areas of research are adverse effects of ...

Joining us for a roundtable discussion are Brooke Siem, David Antonuccio, Kim Witzak, Angie Peacock and David Healy. They discuss the challenges of openly discussing psychiatric drug withdrawal, the ...

Eric Coates is a voicehearer who has resisted psychiatry, psychiatric drugs, and psychiatric definitions of what the psychiatrically afflicted and psychotically afflicted experience in many dimensions ...