The Ever-Expanding Definition of Trauma
In diluting the word's meaning mental health professionals are creating a generation of victims.
Alastair Mordey
· 7 min read
Mental Health
A collection of 47 posts
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
· 8 min read
Words Don’t Matter
We have power over words, not vice versa.
Lawrence M. Krauss
· 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
· 14 min read
Experiences with Suicide
Coping with a uniquely painful kind of bereavement.
Art Kusserow
· 9 min read
Spinning the Tavistock Story
Activists are twisting the closure of Tavistock as a win for gender ideology.
Bernard Lane
· 13 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 8 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
· 11 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
· 11 min read
Gender-Transition Decisions Should Be Made by Families, Not the State
This month, the New York Times ran a two-part podcast series titled When Texas Went After Transgender Care, detailing that state’s effort to ban “elective procedures for gender transitioning, including reassignment surgeries that can cause sterilization, mastectomies, removals of otherwise healthy body parts, and administration of puberty-blocking
Lisa Selin Davis
· 9 min read
A Trans Pioneer Explains Her Resignation from the US Professional Association for Transgender Health
In the past, we were told that people who were transgender had a deep-seated psychiatric disorder, which no longer is the prevailing view, but for many years it was, which was why so many trans people feel traumatized, especially adult trans people, who were basically told they were crazy.
Lisa Selin Davis
· 12 min read