6+ hour, 59+ min ago  (316+ words) Three studies find high levels of adverse childhood experiences in an LGBTQ+ population, adolescents entering therapeutic residential care, and people that have difficulty understanding and identifying emotions. A new article published in Trauma, Violence, and Abuse finds that LGBTQ+ populations…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago  (478+ words) Cluster A personality disorders are often poorly understood in clinical practice and are frequently reduced to vague descriptions of individuals who are "odd, "eccentric, or "withdrawn. This lack of precision makes it easier for these presentations to be absorbed into…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago  (944+ words) Richard Sears teaches psychology at West Georgia Technical College and works as a counseling psychologist in private practice, specializing in person-centered therapy. Earlier in his career, Richard worked in a psychiatric crisis stabilization unit, an experience that exposed him to…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago  (1704+ words) In his 2022 book Brain Energy, Massachusetts psychiatrist Chris Palmer presented the ketogenic diet as a transformative therapeutic, one that could lead to a remission of symptoms and, at times, to a medication-free future. This was true even for some patients…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago  (608+ words) Three new studies show how poverty, unsafe neighborhoods, and insecure work translate structural inequality into psychological distress, depression, and suicide risk. Not being able to replace major appliances was the disadvantage factor connected to the greatest number of distress variables,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (1510+ words) "Sometimes our inner fire is really almost ambers. Through our love and our enthusiasm, it kindles, and it's beautiful." "Hello, my name is Robert Whitaker, and today I have the great pleasure of speaking with Beatrice Birch. She is the…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (313+ words) Anyone reading these fragments today through the lens of a psychiatry textbook would say: here is PTSD. Intrusions, avoidance, hypervigilance, cognitive and affective alterations. The four symptom clusters of the fifth edition of the'Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. The most interesting…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (955+ words) As Robert Whitaker reported in Mad in America, previous efforts by advocacy groups to implement safer prescribing practices at the VA have been blocked by the American Psychiatric Association, until now. "Despite nearly $200 billion invested, what our nation has been…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (96+ words) Mad In America This week's Song of the Week was suggested by Anonymous. Mad in America hosts blogs by a diverse group of writers. These posts are designed to serve as a public forum for a discussion'broadly speaking'of psychiatry and…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (300+ words) Short synopsis from the producers website How crazy are you when there are voices in your head that give you orders, and you can't control them? Should you ignore them and suppress them with pills, or should you take them…...