Talk Therapy’s Moral Morass Should mental-health care strive to be ethically neutral? Robert T. Fancher 17 Aug 2023 · 16 min read
Beware Psychotherapy That Works Much has been written about the problems caused by therapy when it fails. Less discussed are the problems it can cause when it succeeds. Steve Salerno 8 Aug 2023 · 11 min read
The Ever-Expanding Definition of Trauma In diluting the word's meaning mental health professionals are creating a generation of victims. Alastair Mordey 10 Jul 2023 · 7 min read
The Masks We Wear; The Faces We Present A new exhibition at London’s Museum of the Mind explores the personality masks worn by the mentally ill and by the professionals who treat them. Hannah Gal 22 Mar 2023 · 8 min read
Words Don’t Matter We have power over words, not vice versa. Lawrence M. Krauss 13 Mar 2023 · 6 min read
Death on Demand: Cautionary Tales from Canada Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying program, once reserved for the terminally ill, is increasingly attracting applicants experiencing poverty and depression. Margaret Wente 1 Feb 2023 · 14 min read
Experiences with Suicide Coping with a uniquely painful kind of bereavement. Art Kusserow 16 Jan 2023 · 8 min read
Spinning the Tavistock Story Activists are twisting the closure of Tavistock as a win for gender ideology. Bernard Lane 23 Sep 2022 · 12 min read
At the American Academy of Pediatrics, ‘Affirmation’-Based Gender Dogma Is Finally Being Challenged Many families are seeking a process that doesn’t push transition on children who struggle with their biological sex. Stella O’Malley 23 Aug 2022 · 11 min read
Shuttering the Tavistock The closure of Britain’s scandal-plagued youth gender clinic could help protect distressed children from unnecessary medicalisation. Bernard Lane 5 Aug 2022 · 10 min read
Stop Feeding Your Brain Junk Food A simple way to discourage clickbait influencers from producing low-quality content is for the rest of us to stop consuming it. Gurwinder Bhogal 26 Jul 2022 · 9 min read
We Need to Do Hard Things We’ve lost the ability to navigate our inner worlds, to sit with or navigate anything uncomfortable. We avoid, push away, or lash out because we don’t know how to handle discomfort. Steve Magness 30 Jun 2022 · 12 min read
When Mental Health Education Makes Us Sick There must be more in our mental health toolkit than the language and mechanisms for self-diagnosis. Clare Rowe 7 Jun 2022 · 7 min read
Gender Ideologues Have Co-opted the Campaign Against Conversion Therapy I spent years campaigning for a law that would protect gay youth from the ‘corrective’ abuse that I’d once endured. Then the trans-rights lobby got involved. Peter Gajdics 4 Jun 2022 · 10 min read
Art Is Not Therapy Something is flattened when our understanding of art is asked to serve the logic of a medical diagnosis, which sees the messiness of the human condition as a malady to be cured. Jasmine Hu-Hollingshead 12 May 2022 · 10 min read