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...
Research: Fully recovered after psychosis, without antipsychotic drugs
A new study demonstrates that far more people are able to fully recover from psychosis than typically thought—and that many can do so without antipsychotic...
Trinity College study: Ketamine continues to fail to beat active placebo for depression
In a new study, led by Ana Jelovac at Trinity College Dublin, researchers found that ketamine infusions failed to beat an active placebo as an...
Sinéad spoke out about the impact of diagnosis, stigma, and psychiatry on her life
There is one thing about having been a “delinquent” teen, or a “freak” as we called ourselves, in the chaos of the early 90s...
Criticisms that establishment psychiatry can and cannot tolerate
For the institutions comprising establishment psychiatry, self-preservation means maintaining legitimacy as a branch of medicine. Thus, any criticism of establishment psychiatry—no matter how harsh—that...