Psychology Today

An African physician changed an effective perinatal HIV prevention program into an ineffective one based on misleading abstracts obtained from the Internet.

Disappointing review of interventions for cancer pain doesn't provide evidence where in treatment psychologists should go or what they should do.

Kirsch has been decrying the weak effects of antidepressants and dismissing critics for 15 years.

All of the studies were conducted by advocates of long-term psychodynamic therapy and that makes all the more surprising the uniformity of the negative results. After all, investigator allegiance is typically a stronger predictor of the outcome of a clinical trial evaluating a psychotherapy than the therapy being evaluated.

Has British Journal of Psychiatry sunk to being an international dumping ground for junk science?

Why didn’t British Journal of Psychiatry editor catch anti-abortionist author's blatant conflict of interest?

Should women be warned of the risk to their mental health from abortion?

Given the mental health risk they were supposedly facing, should people have turned off their televisions off on 9/11/2001, and immediately gone to see a professional?

Did Americans suffer prolonged negative mental and physical effects from viewing of the events of 9/11/201 on television?

Peer reviewers missed key details, but it didn't help that the authors failed to disclose suicides and incarcerations after release from the hospital.

"Jim is a tough critic. He circled my herd of ideas like a wolf and picked off the weaker ones. You know, sometimes that kind of thing strengthens the health of the remaining herd."

By publicly disclosing her borderline personality disorder, Dr. Linehan was keeping with a well-established tradition in Western culture of the wounded healer.

Is optimism a "powerful drug comparing favorably to highly effective medical therapies?"

Is behavioral counseling an effective way to prevent cardiac problems?