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Mind Hacks (Free subscription) | yesterday
Photographer Jenn Ackerman has created a stunning and extensive video essay on Kentucky's correctional facility unit for prisoners with mental illness, interviewing inmates, staff and clinicians who form part of America's biggest provider of residential psychiatry - the prison system. Of course, the prisons were never designed to be providers of mental health care, but as a recent Time article noted,...
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F-News (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Musical key to unlocking teenage wasteland. DOCTORS should ask their teenage patients what type of music they prefer to determine if they are at risk of developing a mental illness or committing suicide, researchers say. A study, published in today's Australasian Psychiatry journal, found that teens who listened to pop music were more likely to be struggling with their sexuality, those tuning in to...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
The estrogen estradiol, in combination with antipsychotic medications, appears to improve treatment for women with schizophrenia, according to an article releasedon August 4, 2008 in Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Previously, mental illness has been studied in conjunction with many different hormones, especially estrogen in women. However, the use of estrogen as...
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The Crossed Pond (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
Can mental illness be contagious? A CLINICAL ANALYSIS OF ANTI-GOVERNMENT PHOBIA Ivor E. Tower, M.D. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry Volume 11, series 3, pages 4-5 Abstract This study conclusively demonstrates that unfounded fear of government is a recognizable mental illness, closely related to paranoid schizophrenia. Anti-Government Phobia (AGP) differs from most mental illnesses, however, in that...
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SayUncle (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Global Warming is now a mental illness. Really. PSYCHIATRISTS have detected the first case of “climate change delusion” - and they haven’t even yet got to Kevin Rudd and his global warming guru. Writing in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, Joshua Wolf and Robert Salo of our Royal Children’s Hospital say [...]
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Ψ Dare To Dream ... (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Finally, researchers have gotten beyond finding the one cause and sure-fire cure for mental illness by finding a particular biological cause. Clinicians practicing in the field could have informed researchers long ago that looking for a single biological cause was a waste of effort. It makes much more sense to look for resilience and risk factors and for biologically based vulnerabilities to particular...
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SHAGYA BLOG (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
I n light of recent aggressive efforts by Canada's "national newspaper" the Globe and Mail to promote the concept of psychological difficulties as "mental illness" here is a replay of a short essay from one of the original major critics of psychiatry, the man who 'started it all'. Thomas Szasz MD is widely known as author of The Myth of Mental Illness (1960) and The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
Teenage cannabis users are more likely to suffer psychotic symptoms that raise the risk of full-blown mental illness in later life, according to a new study in the British Journal of Psychiatry. Adolescent drug takers interviewed for the largest study of its kind reported experiencing at least three symptoms indicating a risk of psychosis.
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NC Mental Hope News (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
By Thomas R. Insel, M.D. It goes without saying that the excess costs of untreated or poorly treated mental illness in the disability system, in prisons, and on the streets are part of the mental health care crisis. We are spending too much on mental illness in all the wrong places. And the consequences for consumers are worse than the costs for taxpayers. What do mental disorders cost the
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Mental Nurse (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
Following on from the first post titled “Does mental illness exist” after which Ted argued passionately, if unconvincingly, that coercive psychiatry was contrary to the principles of Natural law and was morally wrong. It occurred to me that if Psychiatry, coercive or otherwise, is to have any validity at all then it must be [...]
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Mental Nurse (Free subscription) | 05/25/2008
Back in March I attended the Anonymous protests against the Church of Scientology, because I disagree with their Orwellian tactics, not to mention their demonising of psychiatry and their ridiculous belief that you can treat severe mental illness with vitamins. While there, I notice we were being filmed. Not only by the Scientologists themselves, by also [...]
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
By Erica Goode In a different time, in another country, where violence and terror did not stalk the streets, Dr. Amir Hussain could practice psychiatry the way he once hoped to.
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Mental Nurse (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
Following on from the debate sparked off by “on the borderline” as well my own philosophical musing on the nature of mental illness and Psychiatry it appears clear to me that Psychiatry obviously involves a theory of mind. This often leads to mental health professionals being accused of playing “mind games” or seeking to [...]
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
A Jeopardy-like psychiatry quiz competition, an academy award winning actress telling her personal story about living with mental illness, and a lecture on the relationship between music and brain disorders will be featured at the 161st American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., May 3-8.
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NeoWin (Free subscription) | 04/05/2008
Internet addiction should be considered a true mental illness, according to a recent editorial published in the prestigious American Journal of Psychiatry. Jerald Block MD says excessive online gaming, porn surfing along with e-mail and text messaging are signs of mental collapse and “merit inclusion” in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM V). Block pointed to ten deaths...
