The World Health Organization (WHO) will no longer categorize being transgender as a “mental disorder”, after a major resolution to amend its health guidelines was approved May 25.

If anyone is in a position to assess the problems of U.S. psychiatry today, it is Kansas’ Karl Augustus Menninger. He was a co-founder and has long been chief of staff of the Menninger Clinic, the ...

In the 1950s and 1960s, many therapists offered aversion therapy of the kind featured in A Clockwork Orange to "cure" male homosexuality. This typically involved showing patients pictures of naked men ...

A Swedish study of over two million individuals introduced “genetic specificity,” quantifying how much psychiatric genetic ...

Our current approach to mental health labelling and diagnosis has brought benefits. But as a practising doctor, I am concerned that it may be doing more harm than good Someone is shot, and almost dies ...

Mental disorders like depression and anxiety are characterized by a variety of different symptoms, and individuals receiving the same diagnosis may experience different combinations of those symptoms.

Neuroimaging technology has been shown to hold great promise in helping clinicians link specific symptoms of mental health disorders to abnormal patterns of brain activity. But a new Yale-led study ...

Brain age reveals measurable psychiatric differences, offering clinicians a promising biomarker to improve personalised mental health care.