Presenting Our May Theme: Psychotherapy
Psychiatric Times
MAY 1, 2025
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Novel PDE10A Inhibitor for Acute Schizophrenia Exacerbation Presented at APA Annual Meeting
Psychiatric Times
MAY 18, 2025
Promising results from a phase 2 study of CPL'36, a novel PDE10A inhibitor, for acute schizophrenia exacerbation was presented at the APA annual meeting.
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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.
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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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 June Theme: Diversity
Psychiatric Times
JUNE 2, 2025
Championing diverse voices: check out our June theme! We want to hear about your insights, tips, and case studies.
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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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Presenting Our April Theme: Sleep
Psychiatric Times
APRIL 1, 2025
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Positive Phase 2 Results on NBI-1117568 for Schizophrenia Presented at 2025 ASCP Annual Meeting
Psychiatric Times
MAY 29, 2025
Neurocrine Biosciences reveals promising phase 2 results for NBI-1117568, a novel treatment for schizophrenia, showing significant symptom improvement over placebo.
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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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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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Borderline Personality Disorder and Online Behaviors: New Information Presented at APA Annual Meeting
Psychiatric Times
MAY 18, 2025
Research from the 2025 APA Annual Meeting reveals a strong link between borderline personality disorder and problematic internet use, highlighting impulsivity and compulsivity in affected individuals.
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.
More Than Half of top 100 Mental Health TikToks Contain Misinformation, Study Finds
Mad in America
JUNE 2, 2025
” Article Screenshot The post More Than Half of top 100 Mental Health TikToks Contain Misinformation, Study Finds appeared first on Mad In America.
How Codependency Affects Identity and Relationships
The Online Therapist
MAY 25, 2025
The onset of this condition typically occurs during childhood, particularly in households where emotional neglect, addiction, mental illness, or inconsistent caregiving were present.
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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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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.
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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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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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.
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.
New Data: Cariprazine Adjunctive to Antidepressant Therapy for Anhedonia Symptoms
Psychiatric Times
MAY 29, 2025
Cariprazine shows promise as a long-term adjunctive treatment for anhedonia in major depressive disorder, according to new poster data presented at the ASCP Annual Meeting.
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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.
A Unified Call for Global Brain Health: Highlights from WHA78 in Geneva
World Psychiatric Association (WPA)
MAY 20, 2025
WPA President, Professor Danuta Wasserman, posts a statement that will be presented during the WHO 78th World Health Assembly, Geneva, Switzerland (19-27 May 2025)The Seventy-eighth World Health Assembly (WHA78) is currently underway in Geneva, bringing together health leaders, policymakers, and advocates from across the globe to address the most pressing (..)
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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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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.
Mad in Portugal
Mad in America
MAY 18, 2025
On the site, Mad in Portugals readers can find blog articles, book reviews, and first-person testimonials from voices less present in mainstream narratives around mental distress. The goal, as stated on their website, is to foster critical thinking while welcoming a plurality of perspectives on distress.
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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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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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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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.
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.
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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