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Post by Admin on Sept 20, 2021 18:18:04 GMT
A Zero Suicide Goal Requires a Reimagining of Inpatient Care A new article suggests that the goal of Zero Suicide calls for a radical reimagining of inpatient care to ensure privacy and autonomy. By Samantha Lilly -September 18, 2021 www.madinamerica.com/2021/09/zero-suicide-goal-requires-reimagining-inpatient-care/Incorporating Indigenous Medicine into Global Mental Health International health researchers reflect on the role of traditional healing in addressing the global mental health treatment gap. By Javier Rizo -September 17, 2021 www.madinamerica.com/2021/09/incorporating-indigenous-medicine-global-mental-health/Conflicts of Interest Linked to “Unduly Favorable” Editorials A new study looks at biased editorials in top medical journals and the conflicts of interest held by their authors. By Peter Simons -September 14, 2021 www.madinamerica.com/2021/09/conflicts-interest-linked-unduly-favorable-editorials/How Pharma Pushes New, Less Effective Drugs on the Market Researchers lay out the tactics pharma companies use to push "lemons" through regulators and onto the market. By Richard Sears -September 15, 2021 www.madinamerica.com/2021/09/pharma-pushes-new-less-effective-drugs-market/Anatomy of an Industry: Commerce, Payments to Psychiatrists and Betrayal of the Public Good By Robert Whitaker -September 18, 2021 www.madinamerica.com/2021/09/anatomy-industry-commerce-payments-psychiatrists-betrayal-public-good/Your Brain Secretly Works With Other Brains September 20, 2021 www.madinamerica.com/2021/09/brain-secretly-works-brains/Beyond Britney: Abuse, Exploitation, & Death Inside America’s Guardianship Industry www.madinamerica.com/2021/09/beyond-britney-abuse-exploitation-death-inside-americas-guardianship-industry/
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Post by Admin on Oct 2, 2021 16:32:30 GMT
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Post by Admin on Oct 2, 2021 16:41:02 GMT
RIP: Scottish Psychiatric Survivor Activist Chrys Muirhead By MIA Editors -October 1, 2021 www.madinamerica.com/2021/10/rip-scottish-psychiatric-survivor-activist-chrys-muirhead/When Mad in America was launched nearly a decade ago, Scottish psychiatric survivor and activist Chrys Muirhead was one of the first bloggers on our site, and a regular commenter too. She passed on August 29, after having been diagnosed with terminal colon cancer in July. She was 68. Born in Perth, Scotland, she first encountered the mental health system in the 1970s, when a family member was hospitalized. Over the course of five decades, she once wrote, “eight of my family through 3 generations have experienced psychosis and psychiatric treatment: My Mother and Father, two younger sisters, my three sons and I.” She said that she personally survived psychoses and coercive drug treatment in 1978, 1984, and 2002, and through all of these personal and family experiences, she always believed in “mental health recovery.”
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Post by Admin on Oct 14, 2021 17:27:10 GMT
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Post by Admin on Oct 18, 2021 18:51:14 GMT
Around the Web, from The Detroit News: “Not to be a holiday buzzkill, but I find it disturbing the old Eloise hospital has been turned into a giant haunted house for Halloween. I’m sure it’s a magnificent attraction, and hear it is among the scariest house of ‘haints’ ever. It should draw visitors in from all over. My issue is that real people lived genuine horror stories in the Wayne County facility, which served for decades as a repository for the hopelessly poor, mentally ill and destitute infirmed. Real pain stalked its hallways. Real abuses were inflicted on the most vulnerable and forgotten members of society. This is ground made hallow by the tremendous torment that was endured there. To have the suffering and misery mocked up for the amusement of Halloween thrill-seekers seems disrespectful.” Respect Psychiatric Hospitals’ Real-Life Horror Stories www.madinamerica.com/2021/10/respect-psychiatric-hospitals-real-life-horror-stories/
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Post by Admin on Oct 20, 2021 1:04:47 GMT
Peer Respite: Why It Should be Everyone’s Concern By Lauren Spiro -October 19, 20210 Peer Respite should be everyone’s concern because it is a model for how each of us can be like a drop of medicine, that is, we can become a remedy together for transforming our relationships and therefore transforming society. My intent with this blog is to compare some lessons learned from my recent medical crisis response to a similar peer-run respite response. I hope, dear reader, that you can see for yourself how far we need to go to begin arriving at a trauma-informed, empowering, compassionate response to people in crisis. www.madinamerica.com/2021/10/peer-respite/Books Under Review: Fall 2021 Reviews of four recent books reflecting various perspectives on the mental health system. By Amy Biancolli -October 9, 2021 www.madinamerica.com/2021/10/books-under-review-fall/
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Post by Admin on Oct 20, 2021 18:26:53 GMT
Psychiatric classification systems only make sense within particular conceptual frameworks. Moreover, these frameworks make certain assumptions about knowledge-making, the origin of disease, and principles of diagnosis – principles that dictate, for example, whether we classify disease based upon symptoms or causes. New scholarship by psychiatrists Awais Aftab and Elizabeth Ryznar provides a comprehensive review of the conceptual and historical evolution of psychiatric nosology, which refers to the branch of medical science dealing with the classification of diseases. While the model of diagnosing psychiatric illness based on collections of symptoms, enshrined in the DSM-V, is a recent invention, the practice of looking to symptoms instead of causes to categorize disease is not new. As Aftab and Ryznar write: “The tension between symptom-based (i.e., descriptive) versus causation-based (i.e., aetiological) classification systems was … present in the 18th century, and it continues to this day.” Questioning the Underpinnings of Psychiatric Classification Systems A new review of psychiatric nosology by Aftab and Ryznar highlights how diagnoses emerge from particular conceptual frameworks. By Jenny Logan -October 20, 2021 www.madinamerica.com/2021/10/questioning-underpinnings-psychiatric-classification-systems/Fate of a Whistleblower: I Spoke Out About Abrupt Med Withdrawal By Helle Lengsholm -October 14, 2021 www.madinamerica.com/2021/10/fate-whistleblower-withdrawal/
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Post by Admin on Oct 20, 2021 18:31:48 GMT
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Post by Admin on Oct 20, 2021 19:16:37 GMT
Psychiatric Drugs may Reduce Social and Emotional Capacities Research finds that social cognition and emotional processing abilities can be disrupted by psychiatric drugs. By Jenny Logan -September 3, 2021 www.madinamerica.com/2021/09/psychiatric-drugs-may-reduce-social-emotional-capacities/While deficits in social cognition are often associated with and used to diagnose psychiatric disorders, new research suggests that the medications used to treat psychiatric disorders may also negatively affect social cognition. Led by Zoe Haime at University College London, the researchers who conducted the study hypothesized that psychiatric medications that produce sedative effects might affect social cognition. They hoped their review would help clarify the nature of underlying deficits in social cognition in people diagnosed with psychiatric disorders to “help in the development of targeted treatments for social cognition, which may also improve social functioning and general outcomes.” “There is good reason to believe that psychiatric medications may influence social cognition, especially those with sedative actions that are known to impair neurocognitive functioning in volunteers,” the authors write. “Clarifying these effects is important in order to understand the nature of social cognitive deficits in psychiatric disorders, and to evaluate the effects of treatment on social cognition and associated outcomes, such as social functioning.” RESEARCH ARTICLE A Systematic Review of the Effects of Psychiatric Medications on Social Cognition Zoë Haime, Andrew J Watson, Nadia Crellin, Louise Marston, Eileen Joyce, Joanna Moncrieff www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-651572/v1
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Post by Admin on Oct 21, 2021 18:14:52 GMT
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Post by Admin on Oct 21, 2021 18:16:01 GMT
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Post by Admin on Oct 22, 2021 16:14:26 GMT
A recently published article in the Archives of Psychiatric Nursing illustrates the importance of authentic, empathic, and compassionate interpersonal engagement between mental health nurses and service users in psychiatric in-patient settings for adults amid suicidal crises. Their results highlight that, in some cases, the relationship between the suicidal person and the nurse may even be life-saving for the suicidal person. “Many patients encountered compassion and involvement for the first time during their suicidal crises. They found it remarkable that nurses did not immediately judge or condemn them but instead initiated contact, showed respect, and supported them in bearing their suffering. When considering this engagement as genuine, this enabled patients to take cautious steps toward building trust and developing hope for a life that is not consumed by their suicidal crises,” the authors write. “They appeared to be worth investing in and accepted for who they are, instead of being a burden or ‘a nobody who attempted suicide.’ Building trust and connecting with nurses who acknowledged their suffering was meaningful and for some patients a reason not to attempt suicide.” The Underappreciated Role of Compassionate Nurses in Mental Healthcare Qualitative research from Europe reveals the important role that empathic mental health nurses play for adults in suicidal crisis. By Samantha Lilly -October 22, 2021 www.madinamerica.com/2021/10/underappreciated-role-compassionate-nurses-mental-healthcare/Engagement between adults in suicidal crises and nurses in mental health wards: a qualitative study of patients' perspectives. Vandewalle J1, Van Hoe C2, Debyser B3, Deproost E4, Verhaeghe S4 Author information Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 19 Jul 2021, 35(5):541-548 DOI: 10.1016/j.apnu.2021.07.011 PMID: 34561071 europepmc.org/article/med/34561071Abstract Objective To understand how patients in suicidal crises perceive their engagement with nurses in mental hospitals. Methods A qualitative study based on grounded theory was conducted. Semi-structured interviews were used with 11 hospitalised adults living through suicidal crises. The data were analysed by multiple researchers, using the constant comparison method, coding, and memo writing. Findings The core process was: 'Feeling nurtured through an interpersonal engagement'. This process underpinned two categories: 'Feeling safe and cared for while struggling to trust' and 'Working toward alleviation and change of my suicidal ideation'. The patients valued nurses who integrated caring approaches of building trust, demonstrating compassion, and promoting safety, with healing approaches of helping them to express and explore their suicidal ideations, and develop new insights and ways of coping. This interpersonal engagement could nurture patients' feelings of being accepted and understood, and being hopeful and capable of overcoming their suicidal ideations. Conclusion The conceptual insights can inform strategies to reframe overly instrumental approaches to prevent suicide and treat suicidal ideation, and instead promote an interpersonal orientation in nursing practice that integrates caring-healing approaches.
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Post by Admin on Oct 22, 2021 20:05:15 GMT
People Don’t Recover So Spectacularly from Criminal Psychiatry By Gina Fournier -October 22, 2021 www.madinamerica.com/2021/10/people-dont-recover-criminal-psychiatry/Eight years ago, I was criminally violated at a Catholic emergency room and psychiatric ward built by the nuns I had rejected in my youth. On the morning I was abducted from my home by police, ostensibly for being suicidal, I had stated on Facebook that I was literally trying to “save my life.” I was the opposite of suicidal. How did this happen? I was set up by my EEOC documented, mentally abusive, now former employer, the state’s largest community college. Nearly a year prior, the school had begun psychologically gaslighting with accusations of me being suddenly crazy and dangerous based on nothing. I was accused of being a potential school shooter—without a gun, violent action or verbal threats of violence. To keep my job, which the school never intended, I was forced to meet with two mandatory mercenary hack shrinks. After seven years and tenure, the school attacked my teaching, removed me from the classroom, and stopped paying me. Rest in Link
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Post by Admin on Oct 22, 2021 20:07:49 GMT
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Post by Admin on Oct 23, 2021 15:31:43 GMT
MIA Essay by Peter Simons: “Tetris for Trauma” Viral Twitter Thread: A Master Class in Misleading Psych Research A TV writer claims that research shows that Tetris is “literally a trauma first aid kit.” Her tweets sound scientific, but the research behind it is unconvincing. It's paradigmatic of the way a few contradictory small studies, in unrelated populations, with unclear effects, and which fail to be replicated can be misinterpreted by the layperson, and then shared on Twitter with a veneer of “science,” go viral, and soon become something that every layperson “knows” is true. “Tetris for Trauma” Viral Twitter Thread: A Master Class in Misleading Psych Research A TV writer claims that research shows that Tetris is “literally a trauma first aid kit.” Her tweets sound scientific, but the research behind it is unconvincing. By Peter Simons -October 23, 2021 www.madinamerica.com/2021/10/tetris-trauma-viral-twitter-thread-master-class-misleading-psych-research/
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