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People can be reluctant to discuss symptoms with their doctor. When they do, their symptoms can be mistaken for other illnesses. Even when people are diagnosed, they don’t always get the right treatment.
Antidepressants have been prescribed to millions of people with little thought about how those people will come off them.
Mental health still carries significant stigma in Ghana.
We looked at more than 1,000 research trials and found clear evidence to back exercise as a way to improve depression, anxiety and psychological distress.
Doing the little things has a role to play in maintaining our sense of happiness as well as in treating mental illness.
There is a dire need to prevent child sexual abuse in Canada. It is critical to intervene early, and provide those at risk for offending with support through an anonymous helpline, as well as therapy.
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.
Top contributors
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Professor of Psychiatry, Monash University
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Bennett Chair of Autism, Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Critical and Social Psychiatry, UCL
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Fellow, Centre for Mental Health Research, Australian National University
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Professor of Psychological Medicine, King's College London
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Scientia Professor, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Social Work, University of Salford
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PhD Researcher, Cardiff University
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Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology, Trinity College Dublin
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Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Emerson College
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Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Wayne State University
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Professor of Psychology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research fellow, University of Oxford
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Clinical Research Fellow in Psychiatry, UCL
