Remembering Bhargavi Davar: A Global Leader in the Struggle for Human Rights
The struggle for human rights, in global communities and for all, is, I think, at the centre of human progress, and those who are...
Research: The importance of social factors in mental health
A new article published in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology offers a framework for shifting the psy-disciplines towards a fuller understanding of the role social environments play in...
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 harmful practices caused inadvertently by treatment and care in...
Darkness into light – masking systemic neglect in mental health
In Ireland, the conversation around suicide prevention and mental health care is often draped in the warm, comforting cloak of charity. Organisations like Pieta...
Depression treatment: The public was betrayed, millions were harmed, and the mainstream media failed...
Last spring, it seemed certain that the story of the STAR*D scandal, which Mad in America has been reporting on for 14 years, would...