Despite decades of refinement to diagnostic manuals, questions persist about the consistency and scientific basis of ...

I never made the direct connection between my gut and how anxiety created physical problems! Why did not one single medical ...

From CBC News. "Elements of British Columbia's involuntary care regime that allow forced psychiatric treatment, regardless of a person's capacity to make ...

This week Mad in America explores three new studies related to increasing psychiatric stimulant use. The first finds that psychiatric drug use among US Evidence from Canada, Australia, and the United ...

On March 25, the World Health Organization published a 44-page document, Guidance on Mental Health Policy and Strategic Action Plans, that reflects the ongoing work of global activists who have fought ...

From Mad in Greece: Over the last two centuries, psychiatry acquired enormous power, which many psychiatrists put in the service of political regimes of different forms, but with the same aims: ...

Why psychiatry's favored idioms may do harm—and how poetic attentiveness can open new paths to care. His forthcoming book, Healing and the Invention of Metaphor: Toward a Poetics of Illness Experience ...

Cult dynamics operate on a precise psychological blueprint: the monopolization of power and control. By deliberately isolating the individual, enforcing rigid binaries, and pathologizing any form of ...

“The reader whose knowledge of separated twin studies comes only from the secondary accounts provided by textbooks can have little idea of what, in the eyes of the original investigators, constitutes ...

Empathy is an integral part of human socialization. It’s how we show others that we understand and care about their emotional state. But what happens if the medications you’re taking diminish that ...