In the wake of the World Health Organization, World Psychiatric Association and European Psychiatric Congress condemning ...

Up to 45% of mental health inpatients have experienced sexual violence, with one hospital saying its rate of patient sexual ...

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights International wants an overhaul of fraudulent practices in behavioral hospitals that put mental health patients at risk. It has launched a campaign asking for ...

State governments are responding to concerning reports of restraint abuse and deaths in psychiatric and behavioral facilities—a measure the mental health industry watchdog, Citizens Commission on ...

SOURCE: IQVia Total Patient Tracker Database for 2017, extracted April 2018.

The entire field of psychiatry has been on a downward spiral for years, though, as the “Disease Mongering Engine” literally invents new diseases every year — which are really just normal, everyday ...

When you are going mad, you first notice new, shocking things about the world; you had not previously realized that the pigeon on the windowsill is always the same pigeon, nor that the rhythm of its ...

The “Psychosis Risk” proposal has stimulated widespread opposition (even I am told from within the Workgroup itself). The arguments against it are simply overwhelming. The false positive rate in ...

Boyfriend and psychiatrist convicted of conspiring to give model excessive amounts of prescription drugs—After a two month trial, a Los Angeles court convicted Howard K Stern and Khristine Eroshevich ...

When Dorothy Washburn Dundas was 19 years old she became sad, felt lonely and attempted suicide by swallowing a half a bottle of aspirin. Her parents took her to the Massachusetts General Hospital ...