University of East Anglia via EurekAlert: Research from the University of East Anglia (UEA) has found that people’s honesty varies significantly between countries. It also suggests that honesty is less important to…

“Bourgeois democracy, although a great historical advance in comparison with medievalism, always remains, and under capitalism is bound to remain, restricted, truncated, false and hypocritical, a paradise for the rich and a…

Therapy is more effective at managing schizophrenia than drugs. via Mad in America: Results of a large government-funded study call into question current drug-only approaches to treating people diagnosed with schizophrenia. The study,…

Paris Williams writes at CounterPunch: Over the years of my explorations into psychosis and human evolution, a very interesting irony became increasingly apparent. It is well known that people who fall into…

This article originally appeared on MindHacks.com. It has been published here under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. The Lancet Psychiatry has a fantastic article giving a much needed cultural retrospective…

This article originally appeared on Common Dreams. The two psychologists credited with creating the brutal, post-9/11 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) torture regime are being sued by three victims of their program on…

In a recent study, benzodiazepines (Valium, Ativan, Klonopin and Xanax) have been linked to an increase in Alzheimer’s. via PsyBlog: These drugs are often prescribed for anxiety and other mental health issues…