Mental health
Julien Baker Chronicles Her Own Path To Redemption On 'Little Oblivions'
Baker supplies nearly all of the guitars, drums, synthesizers, banjo, and mandolin on her new album. It's a confessional and frequently beautiful record about mental distress and addiction.
Psychiatrist: America's 'Extremely Punitive' Prisons Make Mental Illness Worse
In her new book, Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration, Christine Montross writes that in the U.S., people with serious mental illnesses are far more likely to be incarcerated than they are to be treated in a psychiatric hospital — despite the fact that incarceration often makes mentally ill people worse.
Psychiatrist Explores Possible Benefits Of Treating PTSD With Ecstasy Or Cannabis
In psychiatrist Julie Holland's new book, Good Chemistry, she explores how psychedelic drugs, including LSD, psilocybin, MDMA and marijuana, might be used more widely in psychiatry to make treatment more efficient and effective.