Thomas Insel and the Future of the Mental Health System
Andrew Scull, PhD (2022). (Mad in America)
Where do Emotions come from and why most people don’t want to believe it!
Jan Trautwein.
Your Brain Hallucinates Your Conscious Reality [Video]
Anil Seth  (TED)
Personality can change from one hour to the next
Francine Russo (2023) (Scientific American)
“Chemically Imbalanced’. How Americans think about medication and everyday suffering
Christopher Lane (2020) (Psychology Today)
Emotional Crisis Response: The Peer Run Respite/Soteria House Approach Compared to the Conventional Approac
Lauren Spiro (2023). (Mad in America)
This is your body on carbs, in real time.
Sonia Epstein (2021) (The Harvard Gazette)
Roger McFillin, Critically Thinking and the Mental Health Care System
Lisa Feldman Barrett: Emotions Don’t Happen To You
Emily Kitazawa (2022) (Shortform)
How Does the Soteria House Heal?
Micah Ingle, MA (2018) (Mad in America)
The Decline of Independence and Its Toll on Kids’ Mental Health
Liam Gehrig Bach (2023) (Mad in America)
Cut calories or carbohydrates for better heart health?
Julie Corliss (2023) (Harvard Health)
Mental Health Apps Are Not Keeping Your Data Safe
Piers Gooding (2022) (Scientific American)
Mental Health Awareness Campaigns May Actually Lead to Increases in Mental Distress.Â
Richard Sears (2023). (Mad in America)
Cognitive Decline and Ultra-Processed Food: New Study Shows an Association
Colin A Dallimore (2023) (Science)
How Psychiatric drugs create a vicious cycle of effects, more drugs and diagnoses.Â
Neil Broatch (2023 (Mad in the UK)
Choosing Our Terms: The Diagnostic Words We Use Can Be Harmful
Bruce M Cohen (2023) (Medscape, Psychiatry)
Antidepressant Withdrawal Misdiagnosed as Functional Disorder
Ayurdhi Dhar PhD (2022) (Mad in America)
Histamine could be a key player for depression, according to study in mice.
Caroline Brogan (2023) (Imperial College London)
Running Therapy for Depression as Effective as Antidepressants Without Health Risks
Richard Sears (2023) (Mad in America)
Being Careful with Vitamin and Mineral Supplements in Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal
(The Withdrawal Project, Inner Compass Initiative)
Is It Time to Reconsider the ‘Disease Model of Mental Health?
Markham Heid (2021).
Nobody Knows What ‘Serious Mental Illness’ Means
Richard Sears (2022) (Mad in America)
How I Use Brain Energy to Heal Bipolar Disorder
Hannah Warren (2023)
W.H.O. and U.N. Join Calls to Transcend the Medical Model
John Read (2021) (Psychology Today)
Medical Gaslighting of Patients with Akathisia – a personal story
Phil Nolin (2023) (Mad in the UK)
The Nervous System in the Classroom
Gary Sharpe (2023)
The biggest myths about emotions, debunked
With Lisa Feldman-Barrett (Big Think) (2023)
No Meaningful Brain Differences in Depression
Peter Simons (2022) (Mad in America)
‘Sleep Aids’ or Z-drugs
(2023) Inner Compass Initiative
‘ADHD’ is a description of behaviour. But it’s falsely presented as a disease – here’s how.
Peter Simons (2023) (Mad in the UK)
Depression, Deprivation, and Dysbiosis: Polyiatrogenesis in Multiple Chronic Illnesses
Stefan Ecks
Hyperbolic tapering off antidepressants limits withdrawal
Peter Simons (2023) (Mad in the UK)
Mental health hospitals are ‘making children worse’, leading charity warns.
Rebecca Thomas (2023) (Independent)
Did Psychiatry Ever Endorse the Chemical Imbalance Theory of Depression?
Richard Sears (2022) (Mad in America)Â
The Results Are In. The UK’s Four-day Week Pilot
(2023) www.Autonomy.work
Sleep deprivation leads to symptoms of schizophrenia.
Universität Bonn (2014) (Science Daily)
Antidepressants have destroyed my sexual function and range of emotions.
Simon (2023) (Mad in the UK)
Adults Treated for ADHD Report Low Quality of Life.
José G. Luiggi-Hernández (2022) (Mad in America)
Prescribers often fail to support patients discontinuing antidepressants, study finds.
Ashley Bobak (2023) (Mad in the UK)
Japan’s radical alternative to psychiatric diagnosisÂ
Satsuki Ayaya and Junko Kitanaka (2023)
Rehumanising our mental health systems: a discussion with Jaakko Seikkula on the Open dialogue approach
James Barnes (2023) (Mad in the UK)
Childhood Trauma, the Brain and the Social World.
(UK Trauma Council)
Robert Whitaker on Rethinking Psychiatry to Address Mental Health Issues [Video]
Sonic Doom: The Effects of Noise Pollution on Physical and Mental Health
Richard Godwin (2018)
(Mad in America/The Guardian)
Your brain predicts (almost) everything you do.
Lisa Feldman Barrett (2021) (Mindful)
The importance of empathic listening for making meaning of distress
Robert Murphy (2023) (Mad in the UK)
Why does research focus on treating depression rather than preventing it?
Richard Sears (2023) (Mad in the UK)
Achieving Metabolic Health Through Four Key Dietary Principles
(Metabolic Health)
No difference in antidepressant effectiveness after genetic testing
Peter Simons (2023) (Mad in the UK)
The science is in: exercise won’t help you lose much weight.
Julia Belluz, Christophe Haubursin (2019)
I’m a psychologist – and I believe we’ve been told devastating lies about mental health.
Sanah Ahsan (2022)
Physical activity improves symptoms of depression and anxiety.
Richard Sears (2023) (Mad in the UK)
Grieving: The key to healing trauma
Daniel Mackler (2023) (Mad in America)
Is Grief a Disorder? New Research Challenges the Psychiatrization of Mourning
José Giovanni Luiggi-Hernández (2023)
National mental health review must address ‘lack of compassion’ towards patients, watchdog says.
Rebecca Thomas (2023) (The Independent)
Emotions are not bad behaviour.
Robin Grille (2023)
Turning children’s behaviour into a medical problem does more harm than good.
Samantha Lilley (2023) (Mad in the UK).                         Â
Popular Obesity Drug Monitored For Suicidal Thinking
Christopher Lane PhD (2023) .                         Â
Antidepressants increase suicide effects in youth; no preventative effect.
Peter Simmons (2023)Â
World needs “Revolution” in mental health care – UN rights expert
United Nations (2017)Â
The STAR *D Scandal: Scientific Misconduct on a Grand Scale
Robert Whitaker (2023)
Our brains are not able to ‘rewire’ themselves’ , despite what most scientists believe, new study argues.Â
Craig Brierley  (2023)
The medical model has presided over four decades of flat-lining outcomes
Dr James Davies (2022) (British Psychological Society)
Ginger Campbell MD (2009)
To Promote Mental Health We Must Teach It
Luke Chao (2023) (Mad in America)
Antidepressant Withdrawal Should Be Taken Seriously
Mark Horowitz (2023) (Neuroscience News)
Sleep is your Superpower [Video]
Matt Walker (2019) (TED)
Dying to Stay Alive: A Ketamine Disaster
Tom Robinson (2022) (Mad in America)
I’m extremely controversial: The psychologist rethinking human emotion.
David Shariatmadari (2020) (The Guardian)
“No child deserves a vague, stigmatising label or a daily amphetamine habit’.
Professor Jon Jureidini, (ADHD, The Facts)Â
What’s the Harm in Taking an Antidepressant?
Kelly Brogan, MD. ABIHM (2016)
The Cost of being labelled as ‘mentally ill’.
Daisy Simpson (2023) (Mad in the UK)
Parkinson’s Linked with Industrial Solvents in Drinking Water
Judy George (2023) (MedPage)
Psychosis is an expression of early childhood trauma.
Daniel Mackler (2023) (Mad in America)
What I learned as a moderator for an antidepressant taper support group.
Laura Vigiano
Mental Illness Is Not In Your Head
Marco Ramos (2022) (Boston Review)Â
Marijuana linked to mental health risks in young adults, growing evidence shows.
Akshay Syal (2023)
Study Shows Connection Between ADHD Medication and Risk of Suicide Attempt.
Erin O’Brien (2023) (Psychiatric Times)
It’s Time for Soteria: An Australian Perspective
Tim Wilson (2023) (Mad in America)
Nearly half of working Mothers surveyed have been diagnosed with anxiety or depression. Here’s what can help
L’Oreal Thompson Payton (2023) (Fortune Well)
The Quiet Power of Introverts in Today’s Society
Ari Kawahito (2023) (We Are Restless)
Why Do People Self-Harm and What Can We Do to Stop It?
Cathy Wield (2022) (Mad in the UK)
Is Your Mood Disorder a Symptom of Unstable Blood Sugar?
Isa Kay (2019) (University of Michigan)
The 9-Question Survey Doctors Use to ‘Diagnose’ Depression was Created by an Antidepressant Manufacturer.Â
Hillary Brueck (2023) (Mad in America)
Why Your Brain Needs More Downtime
Ferris Jabr (2013) (Scientific American)
Psychiatry, Fraud and the Case for a Class Action Lawsuit
Robert Whitaker (2022) (Mad in America)
Exercise just as good as antidepressants for moderate depression
Peter Simmons (2022) (Mad in America)
Debunking the Two Chemical Imbalance Myths, Again.
Ronald W Pies MD (2019)Â (Psychiatric Times)
The best treatment for depression? It could be exercise.
Gretchen Reynolds (2023) (Washington Post)
When Psychiatric Treatment Isn’t Voluntary
Christopher Lane PhD.(2023)Â (Psychology Today)
Neurodiversity Is a Scientific Revolution
Emma Barnes (2023) (Mad in America)
Doctor who helped broaden autism spectrum ‘very sorry’ for over-diagnosis
John Mac Ghlionn (2023) (New York Post)
The Cost of being labelled as ‘mentally ill’.
Daisy Simpson (2023) (Mad in the UK)
Mental health services must be prised from grip of psychiatry.
Mac Maclachlan (2023) (The Irish Times)
It’s Time for Psychology to Lead Not Follow
Jonathan Schedler (2019) (Psychology Today)
Ketogenic diet as a metabolic therapy for bipolar disorder: Clinical development
Branda J Yu, Ruya S Oz, Shebani Seth. (2023) (Journal of Affective Disorders Reports)
The Anxiety Industry. At the limits of anxious consumerism
A.T. Kingsmith (2019) (Public Seminar/Mad In America)
Antipsychotics are being increasingly prescribed to children – here’s why we should be concerned.
Matthias Pierce, Kathryn Abel (2023) (The Conversation)
‘Dozens of mental disorders don’t exist’ and DSM-5 is ‘a fiction’ of ideology, US therapist claims.
Peter Thompson (2013) (National Post)
Joanna Moncrieff: I’m not convinced antidepressants have any use
Sophie McBain (2023) (The New Statesman)
Recovery Rate Six Times Higher For Those Who Stop Antipsychotics Within Two Years.Â
Peter Simons (2021) (Mad in America)
Why are so many girls on SSRI’s
Freya India (2023)
Brain Energy: Why This New Approach to Mental Health Should Galvanize Coaches, Teachers and Therapists.
West Movez Fitness (2023)
Are Young People More Resilient Than we Think? – Lessons learned from humanitarian settings
Rebecca Horn (2023) (Mad in the UK)
Loren Mosher treats schizophrenics with the Soteria experiment. Still crazy after all these years
Jeanette DeWyze (2003) (San Diago Reader)
Interview with Lisa Feldman Barrett about Emotion and Affect
Michael Rucker (2020)
Mental health at work – who is responsible?
Nick Deligiannis (2023) (Hays)
Are mental illnesses really metabolic disorders
Living well with schizophrenia with Dr Chris Palmer
Antidepressants, dependence, and chemical imbalance
Helen Mcardle (2023)
Lancet Psychiatry: We are undervaluing the placebo effect.
Peter Simons (2023) (Mad in the UK)
Vitamin B12 And Your Mental Health
Margaret Hoffman (2023)
How your brain constructs experienceÂ
Giles DC
Mental health prescriptions for children up nearly 60 percent
University of Aberdeen (2023)
What Covid Revealed about American Psychiatry
George Makari (2023) (The New Yorker)
Antidepressants in bipolar depression: Ineffective at best, harmful at worst.
Nassir Ghaemi (2023) (Psychiatry Letter)
The truth about inflammation: all you need to know about 2023’s hottest health topic, from causes to cures.
Joel Snape (2023) (The Guardian)
Nature as Partner, Not Resource: A Call for Ethical Treatment of Therapeutic Environments.
Micah Ingle (2023)
Overmedicalization of young people’s distress is undermining and disempowering families.
Emily Fergusson, Shone Reed-Purvis, Lucy Foulkes (2023) (Nature Mental Health)
Experiment reveals that a one-hour walk in nature reduces amygdala activity, which may protect mental health.
Beth Ellwood (2022) (Cognitive Science)
Creating A Mental Illness Called SchizophreniaÂ
John Read PhD (2020) (Psychology Today)Â
Ultra-processed foods may increase depression risk, long term study shows
Medical News Today
Cannabis for Pain and PTSD goes up in Smoke
Peter Simons (2023)
What the RADAR Trial Tells Us About Antipsychotic Reduction and Discontinuation
Joanna Moncrieff (2023)
How Rockefeller Founded Big Pharma and Waged War on Natural CausesÂ
GHT (2019)Â