Austerity is shattering lives. How should mental health professionals respond?
It is often assumed that mental health professionals work with people in distress on an individual level, and that the best place for this...
The emerging field of ‘psychological humanities’ could broaden our understanding of mental health
A new scholarly article explores the ongoing debate surrounding the classification of mental disorders as brain disorders and proposes the field of psychological humanities...
A case before the U.S. Supreme Court could surge the psychiatric labelling and drugging...
If the Brackeen v. Halland case currently challenging the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) of 1978 before the U.S. Supreme Court is successful, Native children...
Prescribers often fail to support patients discontinuing antidepressants, study finds
A majority of patients seeking medical support when discontinuing antidepressants found their prescribing doctors to be unhelpful, according to the results of the second-largest...
The ‘capacity for suicide phenomenon’ and the Mental Capacity Act
This article critically analyses the use of the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) in UK mental health services. It describes a misuse of the MCA...