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From July this year, some psychiatrists will be able to prescribe psychedelics to some patients. Responses from experts working in the field are mixed.
There is a lot to parody about psychiatry but this show falls short on many fronts.
Alberta’s new policy on psychedelic-assisted therapy for mental illness may set a precedent that moves Canadians one step closer to accepting psychedelics as medicinal substances.
Admissions, a varied collection by writers with lived experience of mental illness, is confronting, challenging, often surprising – and open to interpretation.
Changing your eating, exercising, socialising and engagement with nature can help treat depression. Now mental health professionals have some guidelines to shape treatment around lifestyle therapies.
Canada ranks 30th out of 38 wealthy nations in supporting the mental health and well-being of children. The need to invest in and prioritize mental health for children and young people is urgent.
Effects of violence and forced migration on survivors’ mental health have not been acknowledged, despite the trauma being passed down generations.
The authors of one of the most shared research papers in modern history clear up some of the misunderstandings that followed in the wake of its publication.
Fanon left a remarkable imprint, his views influencing many in the field of mental illness as well as pan-Africanist and anti-colonialism thinkers.
Catatonia is a severe form of mental illness where people have problems with movement and speech. Our new study looks at what they are thinking.
Complex PTSD was left out of the latest version of the ‘psychiatrists’ bible’, but that doesn’t make it any less real for those who live with it.
His major work The Quiet Violence of Dreams is about a young man undergoing a mental breakdown, something that the novelist also experienced.
By creating both an urgent need for mental health care and the need to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the pandemic is enabling telemedicine to go mainstream.
A new study shows connections between genetics, biomarkers in the blood, and mental disorders - opening new avenues to understand the causes of mental illness and find new treatments.
Two Australians with bipolar have been successfully treated with poo transplants, allowing them to come off, or reduce, their medications. Here’s where the science is up to.
Despite advances in human rights and treatments, stigma toward individuals diagnosed with mental illness is common in Ghana.
We don’t laugh at people with bipolar disorder or post-traumatic stress disorder, so why is it OK to laugh at people with Tourette’s?
Western medicine has always split the mind and the body. Long COVID reveals just how damaging this approach has been.
Boys, LGBTQ youth and people with normal body mass index are often overlooked when it comes to recognizing eating disorders, a physician and psychotherapist explain.
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Professor of Psychiatry, Monash University
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Professor of Psychiatry, Wayne State University
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Professor of Critical and Social Psychiatry, UCL
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Scientia Professor of Psychiatry, UNSW
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Deputy Director, The Kids Research Institute Australia, Professor of Autism Research, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Liverpool
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PhD Researcher, Cardiff University
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Visiting Clinical Research Fellow in Psychiatry, UCL
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Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology, Trinity College Dublin
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Associate Professor, Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney; University of Canberra
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