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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 his book Anatomy of an Epidemic. While diagnostic expansionism and Big Pharma certainly deserve a lar...

The paradox of techno-optimism by embattled tech CEOs and prominent figures of psychiatry at a huge conference on the future of mental health.

No longer confined to “problem children”, ADHD diagnoses are booming – yet it’s a condition that remains widely misunderstood.

In his new book, Hengartner reminds us that depression experts used to consider it a condition that most spontaneously recovered from.

As rates of diagnosis rise, a fierce debate rages in psychiatry. Are you experiencing a parallel pandemic, or having a rational response to a traumatic world?