Tanya Frank on ‘Zig-Zag Boy: Madness, Motherhood and Letting Go: My Family’s Struggles with...
Author Tanya Frank discusses her book 'Zig-Zag Boy: Madness, Motherhood and Letting Go', which chronicles the experiences of her son Zach who experienced psychosis as a 19-year-old.
Mental health awareness campaigns may actually increase distress
An article published in New Ideas in Psychology hypothesizes that mental health awareness efforts in Western countries may be partially responsible for the rise of mental...
How psychiatry marginalizes those who contradict Western norms
Psychiatry employs a biomedical model of disease to define madness. It does so because it reflects a scientific and philosophical tradition of ideas about...
Machine learning fails to identify depression based on neurobiology
Researchers have suggested that machine learning—using artificial intelligence to investigate a complex phenomenon—might be better at identifying which neurobiological measures are important and how...
Paternalism and psychiatry
It seems to me that many doctors who self-select to do postgraduate training in psychiatry are attracted to the profession largely in a quest...