Opinion: Cultural Confusion: The Shifting Line Between Sane And ‘Unsane’
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Opinion: Cultural Confusion: The Shifting Line Between Sane And ‘Unsane’
May 8, 2018
Where does sanity end and mental illness begin? It's a shifting boundary, one based as much on culture as it is on our understanding of the brain and mental health.
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Opinion: The Goldwater Rule Is Broken. Here’s How To Fix It
STAT
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Opinion: The Goldwater Rule Is Broken. Here’s How To Fix It
Jun 28, 2018
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The Power Threat Meaning Framework A Radical Alternative To The Diagnostic Model Of Distress
The Art of Healing
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The Power Threat Meaning Framework A Radical Alternative To The Diagnostic Model Of Distress
Jun 1, 2019
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Therapy Is Making Kids Ill
The Critic Magazine
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Therapy Is Making Kids Ill
Mar 28, 2024
IF YOU DON’T HAVE WORDS TO EXPRESS a thought, can you even think it? The idea that language shapes cognition is known as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, after American linguist Edward Sapir and his student Benjamin Whorf, and almost a century after it wa
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What is NORMAL?
The Art of Healing
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What is NORMAL?
Mar 2, 2023
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Kind Of Blue
New Zealand Listener
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Kind Of Blue
Jul 4, 2021
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Can Schizophrenia Be Stopped?
The Atlantic
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Can Schizophrenia Be Stopped?
Dec 6, 2013
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Opinion: Precision Medicine’s Rosy Predictions Haven’t Come True. We Need Fewer Promises And More Debate
STAT
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Opinion: Precision Medicine’s Rosy Predictions Haven’t Come True. We Need Fewer Promises And More Debate
Feb 7, 2019
Precision medicine has had minuscule effects on public health while the costs are astronomical. Is it really the best approach for improving health?
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The Medical Establishment Embraces Leftist Language
The Atlantic
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The Medical Establishment Embraces Leftist Language
Nov 13, 2021
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“Fattening” the Curve: Funding Equitable Scientific Research After the Pandemic
Union of Concerned Scientists
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“Fattening” the Curve: Funding Equitable Scientific Research After the Pandemic
May 28, 2020
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The Pandemic Has People Stuck In A Bad Mental/physical Loop
Futurity
Article
The Pandemic Has People Stuck In A Bad Mental/physical Loop
Sep 22, 2021
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Not Everyone Needs to Go to Therapy
The Atlantic
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Not Everyone Needs to Go to Therapy
Jul 9, 2024
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Changing Minds
New Zealand Listener
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Changing Minds
Jul 3, 2022
Among medical specialists practising today, psychiatrists continue to rank among the least trusted by patients and their medical peers – an unenviable situation for professionals who spend more than a decade studying. The most charitable assessments
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The NIH Director On Why Americans Aren't Getting Healthier, Despite Medical Advances
NPR
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The NIH Director On Why Americans Aren't Getting Healthier, Despite Medical Advances
Dec 7, 2021
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The Masked Syndrome: HIV, Health Disparities, and the Two-Pronged Approach
Union of Concerned Scientists
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The Masked Syndrome: HIV, Health Disparities, and the Two-Pronged Approach
Jun 25, 2019
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Facebook Posts With These Words Can Predict Depression
Futurity
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Facebook Posts With These Words Can Predict Depression
Oct 22, 2018
Researchers have created an algorithm that analyzes social media posts to find linguistic markers for depression. In any given year, depression affects more than six percent of the adult population in the United States—some 16 million people—but fewe
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We Decolonized Mental Health Services?
New Internationalist
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We Decolonized Mental Health Services?
Dec 17, 2022
Around 75 per cent of those who take their own lives are in low and middle-income countries. The WHO’s response to this alarming fact has been to promise a rapid scale-up of access to anti-depressants and anti-psychotics. The problem with this soluti
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You Are NOT Alone
Longevity Magazine
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You Are NOT Alone
May 14, 2024
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Feel-good Platitudes Are One Way To Talk About Mental Health, But They Do Nothing To Change The Status Quo
The Independent
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Feel-good Platitudes Are One Way To Talk About Mental Health, But They Do Nothing To Change The Status Quo
Sep 23, 2020
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Depression Stigma Drops For First Time In US
Futurity
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Depression Stigma Drops For First Time In US
Dec 29, 2021
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Opinion: Uwe Reinhardt’s ‘Priced Out’ Offers Lessons In Health Care Costs For All
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Opinion: Uwe Reinhardt’s ‘Priced Out’ Offers Lessons In Health Care Costs For All
May 14, 2019
To Uwe Reinhardt, the elephant in the room in health care debates has always been this fundamental question: To what extent we should be our poor and sick brothers' and…
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Reflections On A Pandemic
What Doctors Don't Tell You Australia/NZ
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Reflections On A Pandemic
Sep 26, 2021
Reflection is something many of us have done quite a bit of lately. Here’s what I’ve observed since a pandemic was declared in March 2020, which can be loosely categorized into three areas: control, connection and communication. The pandemic has seen
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‘To Live With a Serious Mental Illness Is to Be in a Constant Fight for Your Agency’
The Atlantic
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‘To Live With a Serious Mental Illness Is to Be in a Constant Fight for Your Agency’
Jun 20, 2023
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‘Mental State’ Test That Uses Eye Pics Is Biased
Futurity
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‘Mental State’ Test That Uses Eye Pics Is Biased
Jan 29, 2019
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The End Of Psychiatry?
What Doctors Don't Tell You Australia/NZ
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The End Of Psychiatry?
Jul 24, 2022
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We Would Never Ignore Decades Of Scientific Evidence On The Cause Of A Disease – Why Is Racism Any Different?
The Independent
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We Would Never Ignore Decades Of Scientific Evidence On The Cause Of A Disease – Why Is Racism Any Different?
Apr 7, 2021
When it comes to health in Britain, racism has a lot to answer for. Whether it be historical, institutional, or overt, any and all “types” of racism have recognised and quantifiable effects on the health of people from minority ethnic backgrounds. Th
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Why Do We Still Stigmatise Mental Ill-Health?
The Art of Healing
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Why Do We Still Stigmatise Mental Ill-Health?
Dec 1, 2024
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Ageism Is Making the Pandemic Worse
The Atlantic
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Ageism Is Making the Pandemic Worse
Mar 28, 2020
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Opinion: A Dangerous View: Why It’s A Mistake For Medical Schools To Ignore Social Justice
STAT
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Opinion: A Dangerous View: Why It’s A Mistake For Medical Schools To Ignore Social Justice
Sep 16, 2019
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In 'Healing' A Doctor Calls For An Overhaul Of The Mental Health Care System
NPR
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In 'Healing' A Doctor Calls For An Overhaul Of The Mental Health Care System
Mar 1, 2022
People in mental health crisis need more than emergency response, argues a leader in the field. They need a continuum of long-term care to put them on the path to recovery.
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