The reasons many gave for not wanting to get treatment suggest the mental health system is not seen as providing safe...
Psychiatry Articles
Psychiatrists Ranked Lowest in Performance Among Physicians
Research findings are further evidence of the failure in understanding, validity and treatment that one researcher...
Former Head of U.S. Psychiatric Research Institute Admits Failure to Find Any Biological Causes of Mental Disorders
More Americans than ever are taking psychiatric drugs to correct presumed chemical imbalances of the brain that years...
Would Post-Civil War Black History Have Been Entirely Different Without the Prominent Influence of This Profession?
Equitable treatment for African Americans after the war was thwarted by the racist theories actively promoted by...
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Human Rights Group Faults Medical Society’s Failure to Note Psychiatrist Masterminds
International Holocaust Remembrance Day is January 27. Psychiatrists’ key role in conceiving and administering mass...
American Psychological Association Apology for Harming People of Color Does Not Go Far Enough, Human Rights Group Says
Psychologists’ history of systemic racism is still ingrained in current practices, which continue to harm and...
A Curious Disconnect: Hallucinogen Researchers Vs. Psychedelics Lived Experience
With 70 clinical studies assessing psychedelics for mental health treatment, researchers downplay harms, at odds with...
Putting Emotionally Unstable Patients on Psychedelic Trips: Mental Health Treatment or Human Rights Abuse?
Putting patients’ sanity at risk of unpredictable and dangerous effects of psychedelics is a last-ditch attempt to...
Man Diagnosed As Delusional And Heavily Drugged For Two Years In A Psychiatric Hospital Over Mistaken Identity
The incident exemplifies the human rights abuses and coercive practices found in psychiatric hospitals, as stated in...