The Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart informs our current nature vs. nurture debate on intelligence, but the results are now in question. | Continue reading
Cargo Cult Psychiatry uses the courts to force people to submit to their pseudoscientific approach to "mental health." | Continue reading
A new study explores effective forms of grief support, finding that animals are more effective than humans in providing support. | Continue reading
The emphasis on getting "professional" help allows people to abdicate responsibility to their real-life friends. | Continue reading
Suffering is a universal human condition. But without making meaning of suffering, it can overwhelm us. Existentialism can help. | Continue reading
Weaponized empathy: the pure intention of compassion tainted with aggression around eradicating pain that could be a source of growth. | Continue reading
In Bruce Levine's career he as spoken with hundreds of people diagnosed with ODD & ADHD. An astonishing number of these people are also anti-authoritarians. | Continue reading
The medication almost killed my dad. He’s a psychologist and even he wasn’t aware of how bad these medications are for some people. | Continue reading
Transcranial magnetic stimulation has not improved my mental health, and it has robbed me of some of the most important things in life. | Continue reading
Peter Gøtzsche and Anders Sørensen: Cochrane "sent us on a mission that was impossible to accomplish" to "protect the psychiatric guild." | Continue reading
The concept of neuroplasticity has been used to explain social inequalities, like poverty, by linking them to biomarkers in the brain. | Continue reading
New research compares data on the severity of antidepressant withdrawal with current clinical guidelines in the US and the UK. | Continue reading
Weaning off the drugs was scary at first, but I now feel alive, and I have emotions, both good and bad. I am grateful to have all of them. | Continue reading
Kingsley Hall was the first of Laing’s household communities that served as a place where you could live through madness until you could get it together and live independently. It was conceived as an “asylum” from forms of treatment — psychiatric or otherwise — that many were con … | Continue reading