First, some preliminaries about your fascinating book, The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease (Beacon, 2010). How did you come to unearth such a trove of important documents ...

Combining motivational interviews with cognitive behavioral therapy improved negative symptoms of schizophrenia compared with mindfulness sessions, according to findings published in The American ...

In this book, Robert has achieved the goal of presenting the complex phenomenon of schizophrenia from multiple perspectives, and for that reason, I chose to interview him about his book and his ...

As the father of two sons with schizophrenia, author Ron Powers is familiar with the pain and frustration of dealing with a chronic, incurable disease of the brain. Powers' younger son, Kevin, was a ...

This post contains discussion of mental health issues. Regardless of your age, you probably know actor Jake Lloyd. Along with roles in films like Jingle All the Way, he starred as young Anakin ...

Trigger Warning: Graphic writing on general mental illness, suicide, and paranoid schizophrenia. I know one schizophrenic. He's my uncle and he makes me laugh a lot. But when I ask the question, Where ...

People with schizophrenia have much higher rates of substance use disorders – including alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, and cocaine – than the general population. One study found 47% of people with ...

Lizzie Duszynski-Goodman is a journalist living in the Midwest with her husband and two young children. Her work explores the intersection of mental health, wellness and parenting. She is the former ...

“The journey through these phases varies for each person and may cycle, depending on the response to treatment and external stressors,” says Michael Kane, MD, a psychiatrist and the chief medical ...

Schizophrenia is a mental illness that affects how you think and behave. The symptoms of schizophrenia include: Many of the symptoms of schizophrenia are also symptoms of other conditions. Because of ...