Estimating Risk of Antidepressant Withdrawal from a Review of Published Data
And Now They Are Coming for the Unhoused: The Long Push to Expand Involuntary Treatment in America
This article by Leah Harris has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “On November 29, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced his administration’s 11-point legislative agenda , which seeks to enforce an expanded interpretation of the state’s existing mental hygiene laws…
Read more
On the Heels of Ignorance: Psychiatry and the Politics of Not Knowing
The Effectiveness of an Intensive Inpatient Psychotherapy Program for Chronic Depression: A naturalistic comparison with wait list
This paper has been published by BMC Psychiatry. The abstract says: “Background Patients with chronic depression (CD) typically have an early symptom onset, more psychiatric comorbidities, more treatment attempts, and more frequent and longer inpatient hospitalizations than patients with major depressive…
Read more
Sheffield: Call to tackle ‘systemic racism’ in mental health care
Not doomed: sociology and psychiatry, and ignorance and expertise
How to make Mental Health Act interviews more dialogical
This blog post by Rob Manchester has been published on the website of Mad in the UK. Originally published on The Critical AMHP [AMHP: Approved Mental Health Professional) site], it begins: “I set out the case for this in an article last year entitled ‘It’s time…
Read more
‘When life was unbearable, horses helped us through’
Take Your Pills: Xanax
“Take Your Pills: Xanax” – directed by Emmy winner Blair Foster – is the title of a documentary on Netflix that looks at this widely prescribed anti-anxiety medication. Here is a trailer: You can only watch the entire documentary if you…
Read more
Some interesting quotations (Part 7)
You might find some (or all) of the following quotes interesting: “Whatever we’ve been doing for five decades, it ain’t working.” Dr. Thomas Insel (former director of the National Institute of Mental Health) * “Sophisticated and superstitious therapists often wonder…
Read more