Sometimes addiction has more to do with the ability to tolerate day-to-day life without the substance: self-regulation.

A preprint argues that symptom scores in psychology are not neutral data but active interventions that shape care.

An international set of case studies suggests that ignoring people’s spiritual worlds blinds clinicians to key sources of ...

Recently, I was at a forum hosted by the Alliance for Rights and Recovery, which led me to assess my satisfaction or dissatisfaction with the mental health system. It was not very positive. For the ...

Faith in oneself, tempered by adversity, creates an anti-fragile personality. I am living proof of that concept. I grew up in Monona, Wisconsin, in an enriched environment of beautiful parks and ...

Mental-health “epidemics” now dominate public discourse, with soaring rates of anxiety, depression, autism, bipolar disorder and ADHD diagnoses, to name a few. At the same time, the Western world ...

The American Psychiatric Association, VA and other prominent medical associations are lining up in opposition to proposed legislation that would require prescribers of psychiatric medication to obtain ...

A new study links psychiatric drugs, particularly antidepressants, with increased risk of developing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease), a rare, incurable neurological ...

From Mad in Sweden: A new study published in Science Advances shows that people who engage in musical training are significantly better at directing and maintaining their attention when several sounds ...

Peter Simons was an academic researcher in psychology. Now, as a science writer, he tries to provide the layperson with a view into the sometimes inscrutable world of psychiatric research. As an ...

Behaviorism and Mental Health: Philip Hickey is a retired psychologist. He has worked in prisons (UK and US), addiction units, community mental health centers, nursing homes, and in private practice.

Tangible Intangibilities: Sera writes here to share her thoughts on how the language we choose and our apparent need to concretize the inherently complex is leading to violations of rights and ...