Excuse us while we do some spring cleaning around here and publish a few entries that have been sitting in our "draft" pile longer than I care to admit... In a bit of research done in ...

While I'm down in Texas enjoying some sunshine and the ranch life, I'm happy to present to you some of the golden oldies from Psych Central's archives. Have a great weekend! 10 Years Ago on Psych ...

All of us have our insecurities, and some of us have our secrets. Sometimes we share these with the ones we love, and sometimes we feel trapped, ashamed or simply unable to do so. Sometimes ...

We'd like to give a hat tip to the New York Times health blog, written by the intrepid Tara Parker-Pope, for her entry on our article published earlier this week by our resident expert, ...

Look, you might be 22 or 42, but there are some things you should think about even if you think it's premature or "I'll get to that later." While it's a morbid topic for some, ...

There's no easy way to do this, but when a state wants to cut costs (and ostensibly "improve" treatment, although that remains to be seen) and close a sprawling old mental hospital, and move its ...

Margaret Trudeau, Canada's lively and lovely former first lady turned bipolar advocate, talks about her recovery (récupération in French) process to stay balanced. "You need to develop a sense of forgiveness," she says. "Forgiving myself and ...

Meta-analyses are great research tools, because they allow researchers to look at data across large sets of data published by multiple studies, and see if there are more powerful (or less powerful) effects that no ...

People and professionals often divide up depression into different types, such as "clinical" depression versus "non-clinical" depression, "biological" depression versus "situational" depression. The diagnostic manual professionals refer to, however, doesn't make any distinctions about theorizing ...

As I've banged the drum previously here and here about the lack of a significant relationship between violence and mental illness, I was happy to read an editorial published in today's Boston ...

Eating disorders are usually thought of a teen issue, but increasingly men, adult women and girls as young as seven also suffer. They don't fit into the usual treatment programs designed for adolescent girls. ...

I’ve been reading a lot of articles in the past couple of years supporting mental exercises to delay the onset of Alzheimer’s. However, today I came across a study which states that physical ...