Recent research found no benefit to patients’ mental health or any lower risk of suicides from involuntary psychiatric...
Mental Health Month: Human Rights Group Renews Call for End of Coercive Practices in the Mental Health System
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Psychiatry Articles
Mental Health Campaigns May Result in Mild Distress Being Reported as Mental Health Problems, New Research Finds
Mental health awareness campaigns may contribute to individuals overreporting mental disorders, inflating the reported...
Involuntary Mental Health Treatment Did Not Result in Improved Patient Outcomes or Lower Risk of Death, Researchers Say
The World Health Organization also cites no proven benefit, but significant evidence of harm from coercive mental...
Source of “Scientific Racism” in America Revealed in Black History Month Presentation by DC Human Rights Group
American associations of psychiatrists and psychologists have admitted their members’ long-standing racism, still...
New Government Report Provides Evidence Racism is Still Entrenched in States’ Mental Health Services
Leading psychiatric and psychological associations have admitted creating and perpetuating the systemic racism now...
American Psychiatric Association Belatedly Removes Award Honoring the Slave-Owning Father of American Psychiatry
The award honored Benjamin Rush, whose theories are at the root of the structural racism in psychiatry that the...
Mental Health Activists Protest Psychiatric Organization’s Systemic Racism and Failure to Follow the Science
Psychiatrists are faulted for knowing the theory of a chemical imbalance of the brain was unproven, but failed to...
Researchers Say Psychiatrists Should Shape Patients’ Morality, But Psychiatrists’ Own Medical Ethics Are Questioned
Exposure of psychiatrists’ widespread promotion of misleading chemical imbalance theory, which lacks scientific...
At Psychiatrists’ Annual Convention, Was the Devastating Movement Disorder Caused by Antipsychotic Drugs Even Discussed?
Millions of Americans taking the drugs may develop uncontrollable muscle jerkiness that can be permanent. Many report...