mental health

Newsom’s reactionary approach to mental illness

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a wannabe reformer for mental health, is proposing to expand the ability of the state and…

January 5, 2024

Treatment of severe mental illness in the U.S. and Cuba – a comparison

Sue Harris is a psychologist who has worked in psychiatric hospitals and group homes and has been in private practice…

September 26, 2023

For-profit health care and the mental health crisis

As current living conditions get tougher for people, driving them into depression and despair, health-care CEOs are licking their chops…

July 7, 2023

A comparison of mental health care: the United States and Cuba

The writer is co-author of “Interpersonal Psychoanalytic Theory for the 21st Century: Evolving Self,” published by Lexington Books. She has…

April 20, 2023

Prisoners and family members demand care not jails

Dublin, California In what was an incredibly moving ceremony and protest, former prisoners, family members, clergy, prison abolitionists and community…

April 6, 2023

Therapists protest ‘dangerous delays in mental health care’

Oakland, California A hundred striking mental health workers picketed Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Oakland, Aug. 26, denouncing “dangerous understaffing”…

September 1, 2022

The case of Britney Spears: Lessons on the patriarchy, mental health and art as a commodity

It is shocking to me that a 39-year-old woman cannot take out her own IUD if she so wishes. Or…

July 20, 2021

In solidarity with Naomi Osaka – Statement from Disability Justice and Rights Caucus of Workers World Party 

The Disability Justice and Rights Caucus of Workers World Party expresses its unwavering solidarity with tennis player Naomi Osaka. Once…

June 3, 2021