The Tyranny of Time: How Long Does Effective Therapy Really Take?
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Trauma-Informed Care and PTMF reduce self-harm, seclusion, and restraint in acute inpatient psychiatric setting
Framing depression as a functional signal, not a disease: Rationale and initial randomized controlled trial
This research paper – published in Social Science & Medicine – comes from Hans S. Schroder, Andrew Devendorf, and Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher. “Highlights Depression is often discussed as a medical disorder. This framework has some benefits but also has some drawbacks. We…
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‘If I were you I wouldn’t start from here’: Working for real change in societal responses to distress
Eating Disorder Helpline Fires Staff, Transitions to Chatbot After Unionization
“Motherboard tested the currently public version of Tessa and was told that it was a chatbot off the bat. ‘Hi there, I’m Tessa. I am a mental health support chatbot here to help you feel better whenever you need a stigma-free way to talk…
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Mental health hospitals are ‘making children worse’, leading charity warns
What did the scientific literature learn from internal company documents in the pharmaceutical industry? A scoping review
JAMA Psychiatry: No evidence that psychiatric treatments produce “successful outcomes”
It has a huge and powerful lobby which turns with fury on its critics so I know this question will get me into loads of trouble but… does ADHD even exist?
This article by Peter Hitchens has been published by the Daily Mail. It begins: “Does ADHD in fact exist? This week the BBC ’s Panorama programme quite rightly exposed some very worrying private clinics. In online consultations, staff had diagnosed a BBC reporter with ADHD — attention deficit hyperactivity disorder —…
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I don’t have ADHD, but three private clinics say I do
