This Month
- Opinion
- Weekend Fin
The five types of stalker – a clinical psychologist explains
“Baby Reindeer” accurately portrays the relentless intrusion into another person’s life and the damage it causes to the victims and the people around them.
- Dr Alan Underwood
- Opinion
- Mental health
Is it time to stop talking about mental illness?
I believe many young people are being encouraged to frame normal experiences as psychiatric conditions. There are even financial motivations.
- Peter Quarry
October 2022
- Opinion
- Opinion
Time to pay attention to the attention deficit economy
ADHD is for real. But when information is unlimited and attention can’t keep up, too many people are demanding to be diagnosed.
- Tanveer Ahmed
March 2022
Bruce Willis to retire from acting because of cognitive disease
The star of the Die Hard franchise and dozens of other action movies has been diagnosed with aphasia.
- Updated
- Reuters
February 2022
Why psychiatry in Australia needs to take a good, hard look at itself
Psychiatrists in the UK are divided about the profession’s direction, but that’s not the case here.
- Theo Chapman
Are you mentally ill, or just very unhappy?
As rates of diagnosis rise, a fierce debate rages in psychiatry. Are you experiencing a parallel pandemic, or having a rational response to a traumatic world?
- Sophie McBain
April 2021
The science behind the voices in your head
Hearing voices in your head is not always a symptom of mental illness.
- Tanveer Ahmed
November 2020
More than a third of young people share distress prior to suicide
A new study uncovers the gaps in services which, if closed, could assist in preventing youth suicide.
- Jill Margo
September 2020
- Exclusive
- Mental health
Investors pile in on psychedelic drugs
After years on the outer, psychedelic drugs are making a comeback as a legitimate treatment for patients with mental illness - and investors are taking notice.
- Jill Margo
October 2019
Mental illness shortens life by 10 years for men
Mental disorders can lead to cutting a decade off a man's life and reducing a woman's life expectancy by seven years, a new study shows.
- Jill Margo
Banker's magic mushroom experiment pays off
Peter Hunt, the former chairman of Greenhill, flew to the Netherlands to take psilocybin. He says "it was like pushing a reset button" on his brain. With partner Tania de Jong, they are funding the use of psychedelics to treat mental illness.
- Updated
- Jill Margo
July 2019
Lessons from Britain's king of spin
Tony Blair's chief spin doctor Alastair Campbell is coming to Australia to pull back the blinds on mental health.
- Hans van Leeuwen
