Presenting Our May Theme: Psychotherapy
Psychiatric Times
MAY 1, 2025
Explore the evolving role of psychotherapy in psychiatry in our May theme! We want to hear about your insights, tips, and case studies.
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In Brain Chemistry We Trust—The Gospel According to Pharma
Mad in America
APRIL 2, 2025
Advertising at its very core involves presenting a highly selective set of facts, carefully cherry-picked by drug companies to leave a favorable impression. Yet, we did not mention these particular conclusions in our marketing materials. reporting receiving treatment for depression in 2023.The
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When Narratives Clash: Unshrunk and The Cognitive Dissonance of the NY Times
Mad in America
MARCH 21, 2025
The book and website tell of a counter-narrative to the conventional narrative that mainstream media present to the public. Thus, Lauras book, precisely because she places her story within that counter-narrative, presents a challenge to the media as they review her book. The story of the conventional narrative dates back to 1980.
The Moral World of Personality Disorder Assessment
Mad in America
APRIL 22, 2025
In the medical psychiatry, psychiatric diagnoses are often presented as neutral objects. This led me to identify the moral frame as one of the frames present during the assessment interviews. To present oneself as a morally decent person, it seems clear which option to choose. I’m not quite that bad anymore.
Presenting Our March Theme: Schizophrenia
Psychiatric Times
MARCH 3, 2025
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Psychiatric Times Board Members Presenting at the 2025 APA Annual Meeting
Psychiatric Times
MAY 16, 2025
Our board members are presenting at this year's APA Annual Meeting. Be sure to check out their sessions!
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Presenting Our April Theme: Sleep
Psychiatric Times
APRIL 1, 2025
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Psychiatry: Medical Science of Mind or Moral Ideology?
Mad in America
MARCH 20, 2025
While admittedly not mind in themselves, these proxies were presented for all intents and purposes as if they were. Present-day diagnostic guidelines account for this diversity of mind at a macro level with the expectable or culturally approved response exemption in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM ).
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Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19 Infection Presenting With Neuropsychiatric Symptoms: Diagnosis and Management
Psychiatric Times
MARCH 28, 2025
In this CME article, learn more about the common neuropsychiatric sequelae of post-acute sequelae of COVID-19, the underlying neurobiological mechanisms, and evidence-based treatments and interventions.
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The Editorial Demise of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics Is Bad News For Us All
Mad in America
MARCH 22, 2025
That, in fact, was a story of science that could be fleshed out by following NIMH-funded research, starting with the introduction of antipsychotics into asylum medicine in 1955 and continuing until the present day. In most journals, Fava noted, raising such issues was forbidden. They have lost it because of industry ties and so on, Fava said.
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Spring Conference 2025: Dr Qurrat Ul Ain wins Poster Presentation Competition
College of Psychiatrists of Ireland
APRIL 15, 2025
The winner of this year’s competition was Dr Qurrat Ul Ain for the poster “ The Use of a Computerised Assessment Tool (QbTest) in the Evaluation of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) “ The award was presented by Dr Aoibhinn Lynch, who judged the competition alongside Dr Fiona Crotty and Professor Anne Doherty.
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Lost in Psychobabble? Cut Through the Jargon for Real Mental Clarity
Mad in America
APRIL 8, 2025
I practiced balance exercises that forced me to stay present. In most cases, it begins with recognizing the link between past experiences and present struggles, then systematically disproving the harmful beliefs formed in response to trauma. Here, I was facing a neurological divergence, not the result of experience.
Symptoms and Surface Psychology
Mad in America
MARCH 29, 2025
CBT in particular is highly standardized and often a short-term treatment which emphasizes coping with symptoms in the present moment. Therapies such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) dominate the field of counseling, and target only the surface manifestations of underlying psychological issues.
Human Therapists Prepare for Battle Against A.I. Pretenders
The New York Times -- Mental Health
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
In a presentation to a Federal The nations largest association of psychologists this month warned federal regulators that A.I. chatbots masquerading as therapists, but programmed to reinforce, rather than to challenge, a users thinking, could drive vulnerable people to harm themselves or others.
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The Roots of Emotional Illness: Emotional Conditioning
Mad in America
MAY 11, 2025
When dog feeders came into the dogs room without food , the dogs still produced saliva, as if food was present. He observed that his dogs made mental associations between the people who fed them and their being hungry and producing saliva. Pavlov called this a conditional reflex. Emotional Conditioning Homer B.
Exploring Therapy: Talk vs. Action
The Online Therapist
FEBRUARY 7, 2025
In the end, therapy is not just about understanding the past but about creating meaningful change in the present moment. While awareness is a crucial first step, it must be followed by action otherwise, we risk remaining stuck in old patterns.
What I Have Learned in Working With 300+ People in Their Journey of Tapering
Mad in America
MARCH 18, 2025
A taper has to mirror this reality and be dynamic responding to the individuals needs in the present moment. It means you cant just hand someone a sheet of paper with all the calculations for their doses and expect that to work for them over the course of time, which can be years. Life changes.
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Is psychiatric diagnosis of any value?
Critical Psychiatry
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
Most psychiatric presentations are not natural kinds with an identifiable brain abnormality. It is more an idealised description of those aspects of psychiatric presentation that are of interest. However, it wants to say that there must be brain abnormality as a factor in most psychiatric presentations.
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Antidepressant Withdrawal: A Clinician’s Middle View
Mad in America
OCTOBER 31, 2023
Reading these presentations, one can hear anger at the others’ ideas, and anger at not being heard. I’d like to present a sort of middle ground, where the views of both sides are respected, and understood to have origins in wanting to help people and reduce suffering. Overall, I hope to contribute something useful.
Why Increased Psychological Freedom Should be the Main Goal of Psychotherapy
Mad in America
JULY 16, 2024
Plentiful receptive occasions to spontaneously tap into and verbally articulate a range of emotions as they arise in story telling about their past and present lives in psychotherapy helps clients feel they are the subject of their emotions, not subjected to them. As the folk saying goes: you gotta name it to tame it.
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Global Psychiatry’s Attempt to Excommunicate the Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health
Mad in America
OCTOBER 5, 2023
The special rapporteur himself and, by association, the United Nations, was consistently represented as unscientific while current practice in psychiatry was presented as intrinsically scientific and inherently ethical. The special rapporteur is frequently accused of presenting his claims in a biased, unscientific fashion. …[The]
Beyond the “Chemical Imbalance” Theory: An Interview With Prof. Joanna Moncrieff
Mad in America
OCTOBER 13, 2023
Aren’t you just presenting a caricature of what a compelling theory would look like? In my view , part of psychiatry’s breaking free from that paradigm will involve presenting a compelling alternative vision of mental health and healing. In a few words, what’s your alternative vision?
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Antidepressant Withdrawal Symptoms Linked to Life-Altering Consequences, New Study Shows
Mad in America
JANUARY 29, 2025
Participants were presented with a list of 31 symptoms associated with antidepressant withdrawal in past research and asked which ones they experienced during their withdrawal. Participants were then asked to indicate if each of the symptoms they experienced during withdrawal was a new onset or if the symptoms were present before withdrawal.
Antidepressant Use Linked to Sexual Dysfunction, Why Aren’t Prescribers Discussing It?
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Researchers surveyed 900 patients aged 18 to 64 who were taking antidepressants and categorized them based on their past and present use. To be included in the present research, service users had to be commercially insured, aged 18-64 years, and have a diagnosis of Major Depressive Disorder.
Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics: End of an Era for Independent Journals? An Interview With Giovanni Fava
Mad in America
MARCH 26, 2025
However, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics under Dr. Favas guidance presented a very different evidence base to its readers. What was present in those days was something that is the one of the most important ingredients of scientific research, that is intellectual freedom, which many researchers do not have.
Psychiatry is doomed to conflict about the value of psychiatric medication
Critical Psychiatry
FEBRUARY 22, 2025
But its their social experiences that determine how mental health problems present. This may be because of their past or present experiences. But most mental health problems are not due to brain abnormalities. People are limited by their bodies, true.
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Only One of Five Key Xanax Trials Deemed Positive by F.D.A.
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Study 1, conducted between 1986 and 1989, was presented as a positive result in its published version. Yet this study was published as a positive trial after the researchers omitted the primary endpoint and presented only “preliminary results” using a different statistical method than they had used in the FDA’s records.
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Adult ADHD presentations in an Indian Tertiary Care Setting: Gender Perspectives
Asian Journal of Psychiatry
MARCH 4, 2025
Publication date: Available online 26 February 2025 Source: Asian Journal of Psychiatry Author(s): Sneha Goyal, Paulomi M. Sudhir, Urvakhsh Meherwan Mehta, Parthipulli Vasuki Prathyusha, Keshav Kumar J, Vivek Benegal
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Indoctrinating people into taking antidepressants
Critical Psychiatry
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
But most presentations of mental health problems are not caused by brain abnormalities. People are being misled about the nature of mental illness. Of course brain abnormalities can cause organic mental illness, such as delirium or dementia.
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Case Studies Reveal Patient Empowerment Through Tapering Antipsychotics
Mad in America
MAY 7, 2024
The study, led by Sofie Norlin Mølgaard of Copenhagen University Hospital, presented these 6 cases to highlight the diverse experiences of individuals attempting to taper off and discontinue antipsychotic medication. The authors acknowledge one major limitation of the current research.
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Decolonizing Psychiatry in Pakistan: A Reckoning with our Colonial Past and a Call for Reconstruction
Mad in America
DECEMBER 2, 2023
The prescription included a total of eight medications, two of which were injections, for a 16-year-old girl who had presented with a two-day history of vague physical symptoms following a stressful event. Most people with mild-to-moderate symptoms who present to psychiatrists do not need a prescription.
The Influence of Paid Opinion Leaders on Antidepressant Prescribing in the UK
Mad in America
JANUARY 5, 2024
’ However POLs who generally control the narrative in relation to psychiatric drug prescribing continue to be very much of the present.” Paid opinion leaders are a blot on medicine’s integrity, and we should make them a thing of the past.’
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Workplace Wellness Programs Have Little Benefit, Study Finds
Mad in America
JANUARY 19, 2024
New hires, once they have found the restrooms and enrolled in 401(k) plans, are presented with a panoply of digital wellness solutions, mindfulness seminars, massage classes, resilience workshops, coaching sessions and sleep apps. From The New York Times : “Employee mental health services have become a billion-dollar industry.
Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: Harm Reduction, Not Judgment
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 22, 2025
Since going off psychotropic drugs is a frequent topic of conversation, we present it as a context for mutual aid in action. People who are presently suffering severe adverse drug effects, such as akathisia, might be better off tapering rapidly or simply stopping the drug. One size does not fit all.
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Additional Positive Data on LB-102 for the Treatment of Acutely Exacerbated Schizophrenia
Psychiatric Times
MARCH 31, 2025
LB Pharmaceuticals presented additional positive data from NOVA1 exploring LB-102 in patients with acutely exacerbated schizophrenia, at the 2025 Annual Congress of the Schizophrenia International Research Society.
Daring to argue that depression is not a physical disease
Critical Psychiatry
JANUARY 13, 2025
But most presentations to psychiatrists were accepted as having functional rather than organic causes. Before the psychopharmacology era, psychiatry did have a broadly conceived view of mental illness as being psychosocially caused. Of course this did not mean that physical factors were ignored. previous post ). another previous post ).
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Discovering what psychiatry’s really like
Critical Psychiatry
DECEMBER 18, 2024
My original idea was that the presentation Foudraine gave at a 2001 Critical Psychiatry Network conference , which I organised, would be included as a chapter in my book. As Jan said in the presentation and manuscript, becoming a mega-seller made him into some sort of Jesus Christ of psychiatry. previous post ). Laing (see eg.
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Report on Improving Mental Health Outcomes
Mad in America
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
See , White Paper Presents Case Against Forced Treatment , Mad in America , April 27, 2023. I thought it would be beneficial to present the universally applicable information without the Alaska specific material to make it easier for people to use in their own locales, and the Report was born. With the Orwellian named C.A.R.E.
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SSRI Withdrawal has Social, Cognitive, and Emotional Consequences
Mad in America
JANUARY 24, 2024
None of the participants were withdrawing from SSRIs during the present research. Many felt less present in social situations and uncomfortable attending social events. Participants were excluded if their attempt to withdraw from SSRIs occurred more than one year ago and if they took SSRIs for less than six months.
Scientists discover key protein in resilience to stress
Psychiatry News -- Science Daily
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
A protein that acts as a cannabinoid receptor and is present in the structure controlling exchanges between the bloodstream and the brain could be part of the answer, according to a new study. When faced with chronic stress, why do some people develop anxiety and depressive symptoms while others show resilience?
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Beyond the Chemical Imbalance: Looking to the Past to Understand the Mental health Crisis
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 30, 2024
So as it turns out, this dietary mismatch between our evolutionary past and our technologically inundated present is a key factor not only in physical illnesses but also in mental health. By acknowledging the relationship between our past and our present, it becomes apparent that our environments have far more impact on our mental health.
Why Do Only Some People Experience Severe Antidepressant Withdrawal?
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
Bipolarity Is Not “Bipolar Disorder” Bipolarity can be present in people who do not have bipolar disorder; i.e. their symptoms are not sufficient for that diagnosis. Circle A presents physical symptoms of antidepressant withdrawal. Circle C presents symptoms and markers of bipolar disorder.
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When HVN Ireland Meets HVN Athens
Mad in America
MAY 18, 2024
Voice-hearers challenge ourselves by exposing personal issues and, speaking through our experience, present a new perspective about ‘psychosis’ to professionals. A more human approach is adopted. Our community work brings us in touch with other social movements such as associations for human rights, antifascists movements, etc.
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Biomarker Mechanism for ALTO-300 in Precision Psychiatry Study Proves Promising in MDD Treatment, According to Amit Etkin, MD, PhD
Psychiatric Times
MAY 15, 2025
Etkin describes precision psychiatry data for MDD presented at the Society for Biological Psychiatry Annual Meeting.
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