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,...
The UK is helping people stop antidepressants – but still no tapering advice available...
Pharmacists in the UK are being urged to assist people who want to stop antidepressants, with a detailed guidance published in the UK’s Pharmaceutical Journal, the Royal...
Stop using antidepressants except for “the most severe depression,” experts say
In a new article in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), 30+ prominent figures in critical psychiatry call on the UK government to acknowledge the evidence that...
Depression not so “Treatment-Resistant” after psychodynamic psychotherapy
A recent study published in Psychotherapy suggests that Intensive Short-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) is an effective treatment for treatment-resistant depression (TRD). The study found that ISTDP...