Psych Watch

As someone commented on this story: Free health care! Who doesn't get excited over that prospect? So, how does the state take care of...

As reported online in the Senior Journal , depressed people 75 or older are just as likely to improve after an 8-week course with an inactiv...

The state of Florida is looking into several psychiatrist misconduct cases , years after the doctors were disciplined by the state but never...

BURLINGTON, Iowa - A psychiatrist made a stink over paying a parking ticket, using dirty money to cover the fine. Police say psychiastrist R...

A former Sydney psychiatrist has been found guilty of murdering South Australia's mental health chief . Jean Eric Gassy, 48, was found g...

As seen in the Boston Globe The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, or MMPI, is taken by as many as 15 million people a year an...

As seen in various reports from Yahoo news and elsewhere Authorities closed three rehabilitation centers in northern Mexico this week a...

As reported in USA Today Scientific advisers to the Food and Drug Administration next week are expected to recommend tougher warning lab...

Editors at 11 international science journals have imposed a new policy that will result in the public release of negative medical research t...

The case of a Chester County (South Carolina) teenager accused of killing his grandparents is gaining national attention, including a front...

Dr. Richard Boylan is a former California psychologist who had his state psychology license revoked over allegations of improper sexual inte...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced on Friday that it had revisited data regarding antidepressants and suicidal thinking and be...

Many people who have used mental health services have been unhappy with the care they received, a British Healthcare commission survey has r...

As reported at Tech Central Station [by Irwin Savodnik] The old Soviet psychiatry subscribed to a harsh biological determinism. The psychia...

Women who take some anti-depressant drugs during late pregnancy may be putting their babies at risk , Health Canada is warning. The departm...

It looks like the psychs are looking for a bunch of government handouts in the form of mandatory screening for all children through age 18. ...

Environmentalists are deeply alarmed : Prozac, the anti-depression drug, is being taken in such large quantities that it can now be found in...

 Here we have a case from the BBC involving a paediatrition Leading paediatrician Professor David Southall was been found guilty of seri...

An article by Arianna Huffington, worth reading again After Littleton: Antidepressants In The Bloodstream. Filed May 6, 1999 by ARIANNA...

New Zealand police are taking too long to investigate criminal complaints against psychiatrist Selwyn Leeks , say supporters of patients beh...