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Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD) has officially been recognized as a mental health disorder. The decision could do more harm than good.

In just two decades, pointing out the pseudoscience of the DSM has gone from being an “extremist slur of radical anti-psychiatrists” to a mainstream proposition from the former chairs of both the DSM-3 and DSM-4 taskforces and the director of NIMH. In addition to the pathologizing of normal behaviors, another explanation for the epidemic — the adverse effects of psychiatric medications — is also evolving from radical to mainstream, thanks primarily to the efforts of Robert Whitaker and h...

Psychiatry forcefully maintains its delusions, even when the most reliable science has shown that their beliefs are wrong.

The songs of Nick Cave articulate a religious vision that is not concerned with comfort or certainty, but rather is willing to inhabit the turbid and fecund place of terror when death draws near to life.

Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD) has officially been recognized as a mental health disorder. The decision could do more harm than good.

Will categorizing prolonged grief as a mental disorder help people in need get access to crucial treatment or hurt those who simply take longer to overcome loss?

How long should it take to grieve? Psychiatry has come up with an answer

Binge Eating Disorder is one of many invalid diagnoses we’ll continue to receive in the new edition of the DSM.

life is never easy though theres no shortage of medications designed to treat depression as susan spencer will report in our cover story. >> reporter: look around you. in the street, at the mall, on your morning commute, and youll probably see at least one person who takes anti-depressants. maybe you do. >> the latest figure suggests that more than 50% of the population over a lifetime will meet the criteria that psychiatrists currently have for what is a depressive disorder. >> report...

medications designed to treat depression as susan spencer will report in our cover story. >> reporter: look around you. in the street, at the mall, on your morning commute, and youll probably see at least one person who takes anti-depressants. maybe you do. >> the latest figure suggests that more than 50% of the population over a lifetime will meet the criteria that psychiatrists currently have for what is a depressive disorder. >> reporter: the depressing news about depression later o...