This investigative report by Tobi Thomas for The Guardian presents the findings of a study that identified neuroanatomical ...

The cultural psyche evokes historical figures as phantasies to transform helplessness into a desire for revenge and ...

Science is supposed to be self-correcting. But what happens when the journals entrusted to uphold this principle become its ...

Sangji uses one woman's story to show that emotional distress in Pakistan is shaped by patriarchy, poverty, trauma, and ...

She begged for help, took the drugs, admitted herself to a psych hospital, worked with a psychiatrist. Her doctor treated ...

After a tremendous emotional toll of navigating bureaucratic hurdles, I finally obtained a summary of my medical record from my first involuntary psychiatric hospitalization.

This week's Song of the Week is suggested by Ivy Wilson: "Ren Gill has lots of songs that would be great for Mad in America's ...

Writing in response to Daniel Duane’s August 9 guest essay, Michaels draws the line. Therapy has imitators: platforms that ...

Electroshock therapy peaked in the 1940s and 1950s. But the controversial practice - with patients sometimes shocked while ...

I hold to a form of feminism which fundamentally opposes the pathologisation of women; presuming that however unusual or uncommon a woman’s actions or behaviours, there will be an internal logic to ...

This text was written on the occasion of the publication in Greek of Mary Boyle and Lucy Johnstone's book "The Power-Threat-Meaning Framework as an Alternative to Psychiatric Diagnosis: An Honest ...

To see the darkness, to hear the silence, to taste the water, to smell the air, and to touch the wind Just some of the daily miracles ...