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Open Dialogue Approach Cuts Psychiatric Hospital Use in Major Trial
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (606+ words) Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on our affiliate site, Mad in Ireland. Mad in America will be publishing further blogs about the ODDESSI results in the coming days. A non-medical approach to mental health treatment—Open Dialogue—can reduce…...
Neighborhood Inequality is Tied to Neuroanatomical Differences
5+ day, 18+ hour ago (159+ words) madinamerica.com From Mad in Puerto Rico: This investigative report by Tobi Thomas for The Guardian presents the findings of a study that identified neuroanatomical differences between people living in areas where inequality is prevalent. These differences were present regardless…...
Coercive Practices in Psychiatry Are Being Systematically Underreported, Study Suggests
1+ week, 47+ min ago (998+ words) Richard Sears teaches psychology at West Georgia Technical College and works as a counseling psychologist in private practice, specializing in person-centered therapy. Earlier in his career, Richard worked in a psychiatric crisis stabilization unit, an experience that exposed him to…...
ADHD UK Cannot Hide the Flawed Science Behind the Diagnosis and Its Treatment
1+ week, 3+ day ago (331+ words) Even if the Swedish finding is entirely correct, it cannot fill the gap in the UK study. That study still combined medicated and unmedicated adults in the same group. When studying premature death, that distinction is essential. The frightening phrase…...
The Epidemic of Depression Diagnoses and Antidepressant Prescribing
2+ week, 4+ day ago (1445+ words) Psychiatrist Derek Summerfield is passionate about social justice and about avoiding torture.1 Derek and I—even though I am a specialist in internal medicine, not a psychiatrist—are both members of the Critical Psychiatry Network based in the UK, which…...
“It's Devastated Me That I'm Not Being Listened To:” Patients Prescribed Antipsychotics Say Their Voices Aren’t Being Heard
2+ week, 2+ hour ago (201+ words) Many experts, as well as the World Health Organization, advocate for shared decision-making models in psychiatry as a way to improve patients’ experience and adherence to treatment plans. However, this model faces significant implementation challenges in part due to clinicians…...
Psychiatric Detention Isn’t Just About Clinical Need, Four Studies Suggest
2+ week, 3+ day ago (450+ words) Research from Switzerland, Poland, Canada, and the US finds that social marginalization, immigration status, education, sex, and psychiatrists’ own characteristics may determine who is subjected to involuntary psychiatric treatment. The goal of this research was to identify demographic and clinical…...
To the Few Psychiatrists Who Still Believe in ECT: See You in Court
2+ week, 5+ day ago (1664+ words) Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT), or electroshock as it is sometimes called in the USA, involves applying a sufficiently strong electric shock to the brain to induce a seizure. It is administered under general anesthesia, typically between six and 12 times, over several…...
Psychiatric Diagnoses Led to Denial of Assisted Fertilization
3+ week, 5+ day ago (123+ words) Mad In America From Mad in Sweden: A couple from Malmö were denied assisted fertilization after psychiatric diagnoses and previous contact with healthcare services were factored into the suitability assessment. When the same couple later underwent an equivalent evaluation in…...
SSRIs & Psychedelics: Another Psychiatric Drug? | Robert Whitaker
2+ week, 5+ day ago (163+ words) Mad In America Robert Whitaker appears on the Third Wave podcast. “What if some of the assumptions behind long-term SSRI prescribing were never as settled as most of us were led to believe? In this episode of The Psychedelic Podcast,…...