Psych Watch

As Seen in the Worchester Telegram in Massachusetts A judge has ruled the parents of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology student who com...

Mother Jones has an extended article on the marketing of new diseases. From a pharmaceutical company's perspective, the big money can be...

A prominent San Mateo child psychiatrist has reached a confidential lawsuit settlement with a former patient who accused Dr. William Ayres ...

Almost 30 million prescriptions for Ritalin and similar drugs to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) were written last yea...

As seen on BlogCritic , The Nazis invented the worst thing ever: the assembly-line death factory. But they also invented something else, per...

A care worker from a notorious mental home here used to unleash feral dogs in the facility so that he could terrorize patients and ease his ...

As seen on www.nomorefakenews.com , by JON RAPPOPORT For the past year, I've been receiving communications from a practicing American ps...

“Journals have devolved into information laundering operations for the pharmaceutical industry”, wrote Richard Horton, editor of the Lancet,...

Even Russia seems to be reformimg their mental health institutions, as seen in this BBC report In Russia's psychiatric institutions know...

As seen in an Introduction to a Commentary published on Yuba Net At an FDA hearing on the safety of psychotropic drugs on Feb 2, 2004, dozen...

In addition to use by millions of people with epilepsy, anti-seizure drugs are becoming widely used to treat psychiatric illnesses such as b...

Two women have filed lawsuits claiming a psychologist at an Illinois hospital used witchcraft during treatments and threatened patients . Th...

As seen in the Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter # 184 By Thomas Armstrong 4-7-05 Over the past ten years, attention deficit disorder (AD...

The Story of the death of a child due to Ritalin, as told by a parent . My name is Lawrence Smith; I am here to let you know about the death...

As reported on News Target.com Believe it or not, until recently, it has been perfectly legal for schools to force schoolchildren to be put ...

The 16-year-old Minnesota outsider who killed nine people before taking his own life on Monday was being treated with the controversial an...

Congress and President Bush apparently think that a lot of children have a "mental health" problem. Or that enough of them do to j...

The Alliance for Human Research Protection (AHRP) is a national network of lay people and professionals dedicated to advancing responsible ...

As seen in this report , a pychotic criminal who was inside the Broadmoor secure mental hospital in Britain [for a hideous crime which inclu...

News from our friends in Florida that a psychologist has been convicted of lying on committal forms so that she could have a pesky neighbor ...