How to create meaningful inclusion in mental health research
Matthew Prebeg and colleagues call for re-imagining patient engagement in youth mental health research in their new personal viewpoint article published in Lancet Psychiatry.
Drawing upon...
How psychiatric drugs create a vicious cycle of effects, more drugs and diagnoses
A psychiatrist ushers a 22-year-old out-patient into a room for an assessment. According to his medical notes, the young man has been stabilised on...
Study that claims ECT is safe for children is flawed and ethically concerning
Electroconvulsive therapy, or “shock therapy” as it is commonly known, involves passing an electric current through the brain to deliberately cause seizures in the...
How the medical model disempowers voice-hearers
Editor's Note: this post was originally published on Mad in America, and is shared here with permission.
New research indicates that voice-hearers are at risk...
There is no valid evidence that genes play a role in causing ‘schizophrenia’
In a 2003 edition of Science, the editors declared that the identification of genes for “mental illness” was the second most important “scientific breakthrough” of the...