Knowledge Is Necessity

My final (for right now) Borderline Personality Disorder Awareness Month installment: Until just a very short time ago, psychiatry treated b...

May is Borderline Personality Disorder Awareness Month. Our story so far: In 1980, borderline personality disorder received formal recogniti...

In recognition of Borderline Personality Disorder Awareness Month, the second in a series: Psychiatry has had one hell of a time trying t...

Yes, the heading is real, and it's about time. In April, 2008, in response to public advocacy efforts, the US House of Representatives u...

Consider Mozart, who wrote his first symphony in utero and performed in his own rock opera at age five months, changing his own diapers (ad...

"How important is faith/spirituality in your recovery?" I asked readers here during the month of April. Of the 200 of you who resp...

A Knowledge is Necessity exclusive. In a surprise move expected to be announced shortly, the American Psychiatric Association's Task For...

I just got off the phone with Sue, a fellow journalist who is interested in what other journalists need to know about reporting on mental he...

A few days ago, Beyond Meds "reprinted" a 2000 tract by clinical psychologist and author Ty Colbert PhD, entitled, NAMI Parent’s ...

At age 11, it was evident that Nathaniel Ayers had a special gift. Beethoven was his idol. The cello was his passion. He attended Julliard ...