The Lethality of Loneliness

Sometime in the late ’50s, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann sat down to write an essay about a subject that had been mostly overlooked by other psychoanalysts up to that point. Even Freud had only touched on it in passing. She was not

Read more

Is Mental Illness Over-Diagnosed?

Prominent forces are criticizing the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, the newly revised cannon of the mental health community, to be released Wednesday. Dr. Thomas R. Insel, director of the U.S. National Institute of Mental

Read more

Antidepressants Cause Addiction

ausea, headache, fever, trembling, panic attacks and hallucinations. These are but a few of the symptoms that depression-struck patients risk facing when they discontinue their treatment with SSRI drugs, popularly — but falsely — dubbed “happy pills”. It sounds like

Read more

The Ayahuasca Worlds

The Native Tribes of the Amazon have a sacred healing medicine known as ayahuasca. I first read about it twenty years ago in Michael Harner’s book, the Way of the Shaman, but not having access to the exotic plants at the

Read more