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 ...

As family therapist I often have families referred to me with an “identified patient”, a person who has troubled behavior, or is troubling to the family in some way. This person may be the object of ...

"When neuroleptic medication was used, the team became much more passive. They started to wait for the effect of the medication, and no longer had an active role with the families." Welcome to MIA ...

“It’s hard to get off narcotics because you love them so much—but it’s hard to get off psychiatric drugs because you fear them so much.” Today, he joins us on the Mad In America podcast to talk about ...

For almost half a century, psychiatry’s narrative has been that we have effective and safe drugs for depression that fix a chemical imbalance. Even though none of this is correct, and even though the ...

Why psychiatry's favored idioms may do harm—and how poetic attentiveness can open new paths to care. His forthcoming book, Healing and the Invention of Metaphor: Toward a Poetics of Illness Experience ...

South Korea is often celebrated for its remarkable economic growth, technological advancement, and cultural exports like K-pop and Korean dramas. But beneath this shiny surface lies a mounting crisis: ...

Jeff Sugarman is a distinguished scholar in theoretical and philosophical psychology, known for his work examining the psychology of selfhood, human agency, and the sociopolitical underpinnings of ...

"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 ...

As I walked out of the temple, the line of people waiting to see the baba stretched along into the afternoon. Each had their own reasons for being there—reasons that doctors, hospitals, and the ...

Michel Foucault begins his work on the history of modern medicine, The Birth of the Clinic, with this enigmatic statement: “This book is about space, about language, and about death; it is about the ...

Nassir Ghaemi, professor of psychiatry at Tufts, recently responded to a systematic review we conducted on the evidence for the common claim that lithium prevents suicide. The content and style of ...