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People who have a lower threshold for defining distress as a disorder are more likely to identify themselves as having a mental illness.
At least one in six people who stop taking antidepressants experience withdrawal symptoms. Here’s why – and how you can work with your doctor to taper your dose and safely stop.
Is one term less pathologising than another? Here’s what our new research found.
Extreme heat will continue to affect Canada, but the negative impacts on the most vulnerable, including those living with mental illness, can be reduced by taking steps to ensure healthier cities.
Psychiatrist Karandeep Sonu Gaind speaks to The Conversation Weekly podcast on why he’s a vocal opponent of Canada’s expansion of its medically assisted dying laws to people with solely mental illness.
Our study turns a common way of thinking about depression on its head, which may influence how people are treated.
A new book argues that the first generation to go through puberty connected to their smartphones have had their brains rewired for depression and anxiety.
Our society needs to talk more openly about suicide. However, public discussion of suicide carries risks, and it’s crucial that such discussion be informed, sensitive and alert to potential harm.
The vast majority of people with mental illness pose no risk of violence to others. But is there a link between mental illness and violent crime?
The violent attack in a Sydney shopping centre left seven people dead, including the attacker, and many more injured, horrifying the nation.
In a new study, we found art therapy was linked to positive outcomes for children and adolescents in a hospital-based mental health unit.
This is the moment of truth. John’s story is no longer trapped in the clinical pages of a case file. ‘I’ve lost everything,’ he says. ‘I might as well be dead.’
The way jobs are structured affects employee mental health, an analysis of more than 18,000 workers shows.
Assessing a patient’s autonomy can be more difficult when mental illness is the main source of their suffering.
In addition to asking health-care systems to prepare to end suffering of mental illness through Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID), we must ask policymakers to support better lives for families.
Australia has among the highest antidepressant prescribing rates in the world.
Many people with eating disorders die from suicide. Improving perception of internal body states, or interoception, can help everyone better care for their own bodies.
Despite his mental anguish, Van Gogh produced some of his greatest paintings in the last few months of his life.
New research looking at data from 200,000 children in Wales has found a substantial increase in mental health issues.
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Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne
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Professor emeritus, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Wayne State University
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Professorial Fellow in Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne
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Director, Unit for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney
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Co-Director, Health and Policy, Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney
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Professor of Clinical Psychology, Curtin University
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Associate professor, Psychiatry, Western University
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Fellow, Centre for Mental Health Research, Australian National University
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Professorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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General practitioner; Associate Professor, ANU Medical School, Australian National University
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University Distinguished Professor of Forensic Behavioural Science & Dean, School of Health Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Psychiatry, Monash University
