Psychosis

Creativity And Madness: Are They Inherently Linked?

Michael Friedman, L.M.S.W. | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Creativity, Madness, Psychosis, Mental Health, Depression Mental Illness, Mental Illness, Creativity Madness, Depression, Bipolar Disorder, Creativity and Madness, Insanity, Gps-Soul, Bipolar, Healthy Living News

The myth that creativity and madness are inherently linked has a certain romantic appeal, but it does little -- if anything -- to promote human well-being.

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Definitive Study Rejects the Diagnosis of 'Psychosis Risk' and Finds No Treatment Benefit

Allen Frances | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Dsm 5, Antipsychotics, Psychosis Risk, Prevention, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Healthy Living Health News, Mental Health, Psychosis Prevention, Mental Health Research, Psychosis, Psychosis Disorder, Healthy Living News

A new study on the effectiveness of psychosis prevention is a clear caution against the DSM 5 proposal for a psychosis risk syndrome, and it should temper enthusiasm for rushing ahead with "ultra high risk" prevention programs.

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Guilt: My Last, Worst Addiction

Victoria Costello | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Mental Illness, Mental Health, Postpartum Depression, Alcoholism, Motherhood, Psychosis, Parenting, Maternal Depression, Depression Recover, Recovering From Depression, Depression Recovery, Healthy Living News

People have different definitions for "recovery." Mine is doing what it takes to reduce one's worst symptoms and learn to manage the stubbornly-irritating ones that remain.

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Appeals Court Is Right to Medicate Loughner

Robert David Jaffee | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Gabrielle Giffords, Psychosis, Medication, Jared Loughner, Schizophrenia, Jared Loughner Trial, Jared-Loughner-Medication, Politics News

Any argument that antipsychotic medication will harm or kill Loughner is completely specious. At core, Loughner's attorneys fear something else; they fear that if their client stands trial, he may be subjected to the death penalty.

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The Top Ten "Reefer Madness" Stories of 2011

Russ Belville | Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Norml, Glaucoma, Marijuana, Medical Marijuana, Psychosis, Synthetic Pot, NORML Blog, Dispensaries, Propaganda, Mental Illness, Chronic Pain, Medical Marijuana Program, Cocaine, Weird News News

Reefer Madness is the 1936 anti-pot propaganda film showing young people becoming crazed and violent on the effects of "reefer." Today, we use it as shorthand to describe the hysterical warnings by the anti-drug zealots as reported by a complacent media.

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Psychotics Survive With Imagination

Robert David Jaffee | Posted 01.28.2012

Read More: Depression, Lars Von Trier, Benedict Carey, Kirsten Dunst, New York Times, Andre Schwarz-Bart, Melancholia, Psychosis, Entertainment News

Melancholia offers one of the most luminous and ultimately heart-warming portrayals of mental illness that I have seen in a film.

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Mental Illness And The Challenge Of Finding The Right Job

Robert David Jaffee | Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Psychosis, Healthy Living Health News, Mental Illness and Employment, Mental Illness and Work, Depression and Employment, Mental Health, Healthy Living Mind, Jobs for People With Mental Illness, Working With Mental Illness, Healthy Living News

I can recall quitting many jobs over the years for the same reason. My misadventures in the law and business, fields I no doubt entered to please my parents, stripped away at my self-esteem.

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Hope for Patients With Severe Schizophrenia

Judith S. Beck, Ph.D. | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Cbt, Schizophrenia, Aaron Beck, Cognitve Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Severe Schizophrenia, Cognitive Therapy, Ct, Psychosis, Talk Therapy, Healthy Living Mind, Mental Health, Schizophrenia Treatment, Healthy Living News

For many decades, mental health professionals believed that talk therapy was completely ineffective for schizophrenia. A groundbreaking new study, however, was just published.

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The Patient Is A Person

Dr. Ronald Ricker and Dr. Venus Nicolino | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hospitals, Psychotherapy, Doctors, Prescription Pills, Mental Health, Psychoactive-Substance, Psychiatric Inpatient, Anxiety Disorder, Pfizer, Psychosis, Psychotic, Neurontin, Home News

Is this what the science and art of psychotherapy and psychiatry has been reduced to? Don't talk, don't question, don't get to know the patient. The Doctor's role is to be the last part of the conveyor belt leading from the pharmaceutical plant to the patient's mouth.

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Will Fort Hood's Iago Speak?

Robert David Jaffee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mental Illness, Nidal Malik Hasan, Fort Hood, Psychopathy, Psychosis, Politics News

Nearly a year later, Fort Hood's Iago still hadn't broken his silence on the first day of an Article 32 hearing. Paralyzed from the chest down, his cheeks noticeably less cherubic after losing weight, Hasan sat in a wheelchair and said nothing.

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A Rising "Social Psychosis" In Public And Private Life

Douglas LaBier | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Thomas Friedman, Robert Reich, Common Good, Climate Change, David Brooks, Self-Interest, Social Good, Dana Milbank, Obama, Psychosis, Republicans, Unplug and Recharge, Healthy Living News

The pursuit of greed, self-centeredness and materialism have become the holy trinity of public and private conduct in America. And it's generating a growing "social psychosis."

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The Stones Roll Over Depression

Robert David Jaffee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Rolling Stones, Exile on Main Street, Psychosis, Oliver Sacks, William Styron, Musicophilia, Entertainment News

Listening to Brahms' Alto Rhapsody helped William Styron snap out of a deep melancholy. For me, it's the Rolling Stones, whose African rhythms appeal to me at a primal level.

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Prophecy, Divine Madness and Psychology

Nancy Furlotti | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Red Book, World War I, Freud, Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, Psychosis, Psychoanalysis, Collective Unconscious, Jung Red Book, Los Angeles News

In The Red Book are Jung's dreams, visions, active imaginations and layers of commentary that are accessible to all of us.

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Holden Caulfield: Depressed, Psychotic and All

Robert David Jaffee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mania, Holden Caulfield, Depression, J.D. Salinger, Psychosis, Hamlet, Books News

Caulfield may be a screw-up, more than a savior, but he has a generous heart and should be a paragon for those who believe in good deeds, not acts of violence.

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Driving Soldiers Crazy with Psychiatric Meds

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 11.17.2011

Has life in the military has become tougher? Everyone seems to agree that it has with the increased frequency and length of deployments. But that's not the whole story.

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Weeding Through the Hype: Interpreting the Latest Warnings About Pot and Schizophrenia

Paul Armentano | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mainstream Media, Mental Illness, Cannabis, Norml, Marijuana, Schizophrenia, Medical Marijuana, Thc, Obama, Psychosis, Pot, Politics News

Once again members of the mainstream media are running wild with the notion that marijuana use causes schizophrenia and psychosis.

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Documentary Links Marijuana Use with Psychosis, Schizophrenia

Vanessa Richmond | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Cannabis, Paranoia, Marijuana, Schizophrenia, Documentary, Pot, Psychosis, David Suzuki, Weed, Teenagers, Drugs, Healthy Living News

Weed has changed a lot since the 1960s, so much that the UN is discussing reclassifying it as a different product. Smoking cannabis now nearly doubles a person's risk of psychosis.

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FDA Considers Caving to Scientology and Making Mental Illness Treatment Illegal

DJ Jaffe | Posted 11.17.2011

As far-fetched as it sounds, the FDA is considering making it more difficult to treat depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and psychosis.

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Is There A Relationship Between Mental Illness And Violence?

Lloyd I. Sederer, MD | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Mental Illness, Lloyd I. Sederer, Psychosis, Mental Health, Health, Healthy Living News

Incidents such as this one, while infrequent, are sensational and spread like a viral communication that raises the spectre of dangerous "mental patients" lurking and endangering us all.

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The Mass Production of Mental Illness and What To Do About It

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Thomas Szasz, Dopamine, Walden Two, Dsm, Drug Companies, Richard P. Bentall, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Prozac, Psychosis, Fda, Electroconvulsive Therapy, Schizophrenia, Madness, American Psychiatric Association, Ssris, B. F. Skinner, Neurotransmitters, Evidence-Based Medicine, Treatment of Mental Illness, Psychiatry, Depression, Chlorpromazine, Drug Company Profits, Randomized Controlled Trials, Mental Asylums, Big Pharma, Ect, Placebo, Rose Kennedy, Insulin Coma Therapy, Antipsychiatry, Mental Illness, Pharmaceutical Industry, R. D. Laing, Brain Chemistry, Carl Rogers, Prefrontal Leucotomy, Psychiatric Drugs, Genetics, Psychiatric Practice, Walter Freeman, Emil Kraepelin, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Book Reviews, Books, Books News

Dr. Richard P. Bentall, professor and practitioner of clinical psychology in Britain, exposes the highly dubious nature of reigning presumptions about the causes and treatment of mental illness.

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Words Matter in Mental Health Debate

Robert David Jaffee | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Paris Hilton, Schizophrenia, Mental Health, Psychosis, Mel Gibson, Barack Obama, Healthy Living News

Celebrities know that words like "manic-depressive" and "bipolar" sound tame, whereas "psychotic" and "schizophrenic" terrify people. We should all know their true meaning: divorced from reality, not violent.

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Psychopaths, Not Psychotics, Part II

Robert David Jaffee | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Mental Illness, Annie Le, Psychosis, Psychopathy, Raymond Clark III, Nathaniel Ayers, Healthy Living News

Many studies have revealed that when the seriously mentally ill take their medication, they are no more of a threat to anyone than the non-mentally ill.

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