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The ‘not so clinical psychologists’ offer fresh perspective on mental health difficulties
TikTok/Instagram accounts offer a different way to look at emotions, therapy and mental health difficulties
We have long felt a certain discomfort with our titles as ‘clinical psychologists’. Our training felt quite embedded in medicalised...
Faith healing in India: An ancient way of tending to madness
A small village in one of India’s southern states woke up to a tragic fire 23 years ago. Little did it know that this incident would alter the course of the nation’s approach to...
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How psychiatry pathologises and marginalises emotions
Psychiatry’s tendency to label non-normative emotions as disorders contributes to affective injustice, distorting emotional self-understanding...
Research: Draft mental health law retains coercive elements, does not realise human rights
A new article in the International Journal of Law and Psychiatry critically examines proposed reforms...
Part 3: Neuro-authenticity, neuro-identities, and the neuro-industry
Mad in America and Mad in the UK are jointly publishing this four-part series on...
Science news: Placebo effect for all psychiatric diagnoses “of considerable magnitude”
In a new study, researchers found huge improvements in psychiatric symptoms on placebo alone, particularly...
Professionals to speak up about harm caused by mental health practices at UCC conference
This year's Critical Voices Network Ireland will tackle the subject of ‘iatrogenic harm’ - potentially...
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Doctors Paid to Market Drugs on Social Media
Adverse Childhood Experiences Dramatically Increase Depression Risk
Is Madness an Evolved Signal? Justin Garson on Strategy Versus Dysfunction
For Teen Girls, Rare Psychiatric Disorders Spread Like Viruses on Social Media
Focusing on Trauma and Involving Families in Care Could Help Prevent Early Death
Antidepressants No Better Than Placebo for About 85% of People
RESEARCH
Led by researchers in Trinity College Dublin, the PROTECT Study, seeks to identify priorities for future research on reducing and stopping psychiatric medications. Interested parties take a survey on questions that users would like to see addressed. Take the survey here.
