A new article published in Public Humanities argues that while the humanities are widely dismissed, other fields explicitly rely on the very skills that humanities education cultivates. Philosopher ...

Beckie Child, MSW, PhD, was born March 16, 1964 and passed away on October 25, 2025. I had the privilege of knowing her and working with her for over 25 years. She had a laser-like way of doing her ...

“Just write a list. It’s easy for somebody of your calibre. You could write a list right now.” The last words she heard from the psychiatrist’s mouth as she tried to stand and gather her belongings ...

John Ioannidis is a Stanford professor, a physician, and one of the most eminent scholars in the world in the field of evidence-based medicine. He is a tenured professor at Stanford and has an ...

For nearly two decades, I have suffered from a debilitating condition known as PSSD, short for “post-SSRI sexual dysfunction”. Contrary to what the name suggests, the condition often encompasses a ...

Spurred on by narratives that street problems are caused by mental health issues rather than by worsening economic inequities, new bills expanding powers to involuntarily commit people have been ...

Rob Wipond is a freelance journalist who writes frequently about the interfaces between psychiatry, civil rights, community issues, policing, surveillance and privacy, and social change. His articles ...

Today there is a substantial body of evidence that antidepressants worsen the long-term course of depression, a conclusion that deserves to be known by a global population and derives, in large part, ...

Doctors aren’t in charge anymore. Big Pharma is. They push their drugs because that’s where the money is, and they don’t care who gets hurt. Brooke Siem: We’re going to get straight into it because ...

Javier Rizo interviews Mick Cooper on the intersection of psychotherapy and social transformation, the pluralistic approach to counseling, and the role of psychology in building a more just society.

"Psychiatry has done an incredible job convincing the public that mental health disorders are real medical diseases. When I say that, people look at me like I’m out of touch. But no, I’m pretty up to ...

I once worked in a psychiatric outpatient clinic in the city of Zürich, Switzerland. In a list of patients brimming with troubled young women, it became quite apparent how much the psychiatric field ...