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 ...

As family therapist I often have families referred to me with an “identified patient”, a person who has troubled behavior, or is troubling to the family in some way. This person may be the object of ...

"When neuroleptic medication was used, the team became much more passive. They started to wait for the effect of the medication, and no longer had an active role with the families." Welcome to MIA ...

For almost half a century, psychiatry’s narrative has been that we have effective and safe drugs for depression that fix a chemical imbalance. Even though none of this is correct, and even though the ...

Why psychiatry's favored idioms may do harm—and how poetic attentiveness can open new paths to care. His forthcoming book, Healing and the Invention of Metaphor: Toward a Poetics of Illness Experience ...

For nearly two decades, I have suffered from a debilitating condition known as PSSD, short for “post-SSRI sexual dysfunction”. Contrary to what the name suggests, the condition often encompasses a ...

Spurred on by narratives that street problems are caused by mental health issues rather than by worsening economic inequities, new bills expanding powers to involuntarily commit people have been ...

South Korea is often celebrated for its remarkable economic growth, technological advancement, and cultural exports like K-pop and Korean dramas. But beneath this shiny surface lies a mounting crisis: ...

Jeff Sugarman is a distinguished scholar in theoretical and philosophical psychology, known for his work examining the psychology of selfhood, human agency, and the sociopolitical underpinnings of ...

Doctors aren’t in charge anymore. Big Pharma is. They push their drugs because that’s where the money is, and they don’t care who gets hurt. Brooke Siem: We’re going to get straight into it because ...

"Psychiatry has done an incredible job convincing the public that mental health disorders are real medical diseases. When I say that, people look at me like I’m out of touch. But no, I’m pretty up to ...

"When you medicate during a major emotional process, you’re not removing the energy of that emotion. There’s conservation of mass." Ellen Vora is a board-certified psychiatrist, acupuncturist, and ...