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Trial By Error: Journal of Psychosomatic Research Publishes First-Person Account of “Cure” with the Lightning Process

By David Tuller, DrPH The Journal of Psychosomatic Research (JPR), an official publication of the European Association of Psychosomatic Medicine (EAPM), has long served as somethin...

Most Screening Tools for Somatic Symptom Disorder Miss Key Criteria, Review Finds

Reframing Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension

Clinical intervention stopped the crisis, and positive psychology interventions led to a full recovery—proof that healing the body isn’t complete without healing the mind.

Pain, Psychological Factors and Physical Function Closely Linked in People With Systemic Sclerosis

Physical and mental health are intricately linked with chronic pain The post Pain, Psychological Factors and Physical Function Closely Linked in People With Systemic Sclerosis appe...

Why Mind-Body Approaches Matter in Trauma Therapy

New research into PTSD is revealing how disrupted brain connections may affect recovery and why sensory-based therapies could help restore them.

Mental Illness Can Raise Physical Health Risks; Psychiatrists Urge Integrated Care

Psychiatrists cautioned against attributing diabetes, obesity or other metabolic conditions solely to antipsychotic medication.

Nearly Half of Egypt’s Neurologists Show Signs of Moderate to Severe Depression, New Study Reveals

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Eases Distress in Cancer Patients, Review Finds

Cognitive behavioural therapy reduced distress, fatigue and fear of recurrence in adults with cancer, a review of 13 trials found. The post Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Eases Dist...

The Headache After the Argument: How Emotional Stress Becomes Physical Pain

A Narrative Review of the Psychiatric Aspects of Deep-Brain Stimulation for Movement Disorders: a Role for Consultation-...

Neurology News! Congratulations to Drs. Dimitry S. Davydow, Jennifer L. Purks, Joshua K. Wong, Michael S. Okun, Dawn M. Schiehser, Dawn Bowers, and Kelly D. Foote on the publicatio...

We prepare the body for major surgery — a new trial suggests the mind deserves preparation too

Before major surgery, clinicians check the heart, review medications, order blood work and explain when to stop eating. Anxiety or depression can be treated as something the patien...

Temperament’s Effects on Mental Illness Are Examined in Special Issue of Clinical Psychological Science

Ten articles collectively illustrate the power of temperament-based frameworks to better understand psychopathology.

Mental health support for parents after pediatric intensive care may modestly reduce PTSD and depressive symptoms

Admission to a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) can have lasting psychological effects on both children receiving treatment and their parents. To investigate the effects of psy...

Medical Negligence or Psychiatric Malpractice?

A new book takes a fresh look at a landmark ruling that changed the path of American psychiatry.

The ODDESSI: Open Dialogue, The Lancet, and a Trojan Horse

DESSI trial results provide a beginning for rethinking psychiatric care The post The ODDESSI: Open Dialogue, The Lancet, and a Trojan Horse appeared first on Mad In America.

New Research Identifies 3 Brain Pathways Linked to Long-Term Depression Relief

Scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have identified three brain pathways associated with sustained improvement in patients receiving experimental treatment fo...

Support-Seeking After Market Withdrawal of a Purpose-Built AI Well-Being Tool (Ash): Cross-Sectional Survey

Background: Purpose-built AI well-being tools—designed with clinical safeguards for everyday emotional difficulties such as stress, grief, and relationship conflict—represent a gro...

Mindfulness exercises can support psychotherapy for adolescents

A brief mindfulness exercise at the beginning of a psychotherapy session can have a positive effect on psychological symptoms in adolescent patients. This is the finding of a study...

Diagnosing psychosis starts with process, not content

A patient tells you that her deceased grandmother still visits her in dreams. Another believes that unseen spiritual forces influence his health. A third insists the government has...

The Dark Side of Mindfulness

… A few of the scholars I interviewed who defended meditation acknowledged some of Britton’s findings, at least implicitly. Richard Davidson, a University of Wisconsin at Madison p...

Studying chronic pain suicide risk after opioid tapering

CSI:OPIOIDs (Clinical Context of Suicide Following Opioid Transitions) is a rigorous scientific research study that systematically examines suicides occurring after prescription op...

The Mental Health Toll of Debt Collection Stress

Persistent Wishful Thinking Dominates Care for Suicidality

There is persistent wishful thinking about common clinical approaches to suicidality that may increase risk. We need to use evidence-based suicide care actually proven to work.

The BMJ Refused to Publish Criticisms in Print of its Highly Misleading Suicide Prevention Articles

Journal editors should change their practices profoundly. They should welcome academic debate instead of censoring it. The post The BMJ Refused to Publish Criticisms in Print of it...