A profound mental health crisis is gripping society, revealing the limits of mainstream models of health treatment and care. Capitalizing on this systemic neglect, a deluge of AI-powered chatbots ...

A new editorial written by Giovanni Fava published in Rivista di Psichiatria. “The intellectual capital of medicine is the creativity linking clinical practice and research. Intellectual freedom, that ...

New synthesis of decades of research explains why people seek fear on purpose and how culture and development mold those choices. G. Neil Martin, a psychologist at Regent’s University London, combed ...

A new randomized controlled trial published in BMC Medicine finds that reducing smartphone screen time improves mental health. The current study, led by Christoph Pieh of the University of Applied ...

From The Guardian: “The use of artificial intelligence in healthcare could create a legally complex blame game when it comes to establishing liability for medical failings, experts have warned. The ...

From Mad in Italy: The central thesis is clear: psychotropic drugs, particularly antipsychotics and benzodiazepines, are administered not to manage psychiatric diagnoses that meet the albeit ...

Only through patterns can it label pain: a migraine, not just a headache. Crohn’s, not colitis. One type of cancer over another. Psychology and psychiatry try to work the same way. You answer ...

A new article in Psychosis contends that the mental health field has learned to speak the language of lived-experience participation while leaving psychiatric and academic authority essentially ...

Despite years of hype, new research reveals that predictive models often misclassify individuals at risk for suicide and fail to enhance real-world prevention. A review and meta-analysis in PLOS ...

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on our affiliate site, Mad in the UK. It was written by Jo Watson, psychotherapist and founder of Drop the Disorder! and A Disorder 4 Everyone (AD4E).

From the Journal of the Academy of Public Health, written by Peter Gøtzsche. “On 11 February 2025, Professor David Nutt published a personal view in Lancet Psychiatry, “Drug development in psychiatry: ...