On Monday, September 28, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Doug Collins announced actions the VA will take ...

A 2024 study found that the use of surveillance-based technology in inpatient and acute mental health settings is rising ...

From Truthout. "Involuntary psychiatric treatment is a cornerstone of Donald Trump’s mental health policy, and liberal ...

T he long-awaited ODDESSI trial – the first randomized controlled trial of Open Dialogue – has at last been published in The ...

This week, Mad in America examines three studies around alternative treatments for depression. The first finds that salsa ...

Mad in the UK recently published a blog about how to avoid diagnosing your child and why. My first thought was to translate ...

Have you ever wondered if one word could destroy your entire life? If so, what word do you think it might be? I had never considered this scenario ...

New Research on Psychiatric Drugs and Personality Disorders Studies from France, the UK, and Sweden explore prescribing patterns and how people diagnosed with personality disorders experience ...

The title 'Prenatal Origin of Love and Shame' raises many questions. Apart from the assertion that our state of mind may stem from our prenatal experiences, the question perhaps arises whether love ...

Two doctors who assessed the same patient cases arrived at the same psychiatric diagnosis in about 55 percent of the cases.

I found Open Dialogue to be a compelling and deeply humane way of working but I also learned how hard it is to implement and ...

From The Guardian. “Proposals to limit the number of patients being formally diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder have been attacked as ...