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.

Recently, I was at a forum hosted by the Alliance for Rights and Recovery, which led me to assess my satisfaction or dissatisfaction with the mental health system. It was not very positive. For the ...

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 ...

From Mad in Sweden: A new study published in Science Advances shows that people who engage in musical training are significantly better at directing and maintaining their attention when several sounds ...

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 ...