Plotting a research path to a new model of mental health care
Both the World Health Organization and the United Nations, through the Office of the Special Rapporteur on Health, have urged that psychiatry’s biomedical model...
Adding antipsychotics worsens outcomes in psychotic depression
Antipsychotics for psychotic depression? Not a great idea, according to a new study. Adding an antipsychotic drug to antidepressant treatment increased the risk of...
Researchers give high safety rating to ECT despite 69% risk of memory loss in...
In a correspondence published in the Journal of Affective Disorders, John Read from the University of East London discusses some issues around research into electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)....
Mainstream narratives: a person-centered paradigm of care is gaining favor in the Global North
As the history of psychiatry reveals, the “management” of mental illness has gone through numerous phases, with one paradigm of care after another failing...
Transforming mental health care with cultural narratives and metaphors
In a groundbreaking academic article, Laurence J. Kirmayer, a leader in the field of cultural psychiatry from McGill University’s Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry,...