“Life is pain, Princess. Anyone who tells you different is selling you something.” – Dread Pirate Roberts, in "The Princess Bride" Everywhere you turn, you…
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A new study published in PLoS scientifically validates what so many drum circle participants have already experienced first hand: group drumming produces significant changes in…
Today, one in eight American children is diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). In 1987, when ADHD made its debut in the American PsychiatricAssociation’s diagnostic manual (DSM-III-R), the authors…
The term "schizophrenia," with its connotation of hopeless chronic brain disease, should be dropped and replaced with something like "psychosis spectrum syndrome," argues a professor…
PARVATI MARKUS is a developmental editor and writer of spiritually oriented nonfiction books and memoirs. She has worked on books by various members of the…
In Swedish classrooms, religion is often associated with an obsolete time when people just didn't know better - as if religion used to serve a…
Nightmarish social control becomes a medical reality. My guest Michael Cornwall blows the whistle on probable FDA approval of a lobotomizing antipsychotic drug with a…
n her classic study On Death and Dying, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross proposed the famous scheme of the five stages of how we react upon learning that…
A federal advisory group said Monday that doctors should screen teens for depression, but the number of students that benefit from the directive might be…