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...
How psychiatry pathologises and marginalises emotions
Psychiatry’s tendency to label non-normative emotions as disorders contributes to affective injustice, distorting emotional self-understanding and deepening inequality.
A growing critique of modern psychiatry focuses...
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 to Irish mental health law, finding that it falls...
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 neurodiversity. This third part of this series on Neurodiversity...
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 for depression and anxiety. They included the 10 least...