Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry Climate Committee published a children’s book focused on helping ...

Psychiatric disorders are underdiagnosed, poorly treated and highly stigmatized, according to psychiatrists Charles F. Zorumski, M.D., and Eugene H. Rubin, M.D., Ph.D. So these Washington University ...

I wrote Cracked: Why Psychiatry Is Doing More Harm Than Good because of the huge gulf between what most people believe about psychiatric diagnoses and medications and what the evidence actually ...

“Psychiatric diagnosis is built on fiction and sold to the public as fact.” So writes psychotherapist Gary Greenberg in “The Book of Woe: The Making of the DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry.” That’s ...

The report by the New York Times today that a 1999 medical text authored by Dr. Charles Nemeroff and by Dr. Alan Schatzberg was ghostwritten and financed by a pharmaceutical firm seems—at first glance ...

Ours is a time of historical reckoning for many fields, and psychiatry is no exception. An indisputable masterpiece among a flurry of reappraisals is Andrew Scull’s “Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s ...

When I think of psychiatry, my first thoughts are unkind. I think of mildly sad people on antidepressants. I think of upper-middle-class parents putting their kids on Ritalin as soon as they flunk ...

Brilliant detective work reveals that a famous study of psychiatric hospitals was mostly fiction, but what are the implications? What does it take to be thought of as mentally ill? According to one of ...

It is hard to remember this now, in an era in which the medical specialty of psychiatry is highly respected and highly lucrative, but there was a time in which psychiatry was in deep trouble as a ...

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