Beyond the diagnosis: Holistic support eases the cancer journey

Nearly everyone can benefit from exploring their feelings and emotions. Yet the American Journal of Public Health found the majority of those facing mental health challenges do not seek treatment, ...
Mad in America

With AI Chatbots As Therapists, We Can All Be Patients

Chatbots, with constant availability and user-centric conversation style, are widening the reach of “therapeutic culture.” ...
Mad in America

Weekly Research Digest: Art Therapy Shows Promise in Clinical Trials and Lived Experience

This week Mad in America examines three studies around art therapy and art-based interventions for mental health issues. Two studies reported on the lived Studies find art-based interventions can be ...
Women's Health

'I thought therapy was private. Then hackers exposed my trauma to the world'

I’ve spent most of my life caring for others. By 25, I had three children, including premature twins. One was born with severe cerebral palsy – she needed feeding for 12 hours daily in her first year, ...
The Guardian

He called himself an ‘untouchable hacker god’. But who was behind the biggest crime Finland has ever known?

How would you feel if your therapist’s notes – your darkest thoughts and deepest feelings – were exposed to the world? For 33,000 Finnish people, that became a terrifying reality, with deadly ...
BBC

Jenny Kleeman hosts Ransom Man, a new series from BBC Radio 4's investigative feed

Intrigue: Ransom Man explores the shocking true story behind thousands of private therapy notes that were leaked online What if your deepest secrets were held to ransom? Author and presenter Jenny ...
BBC

A faceless hacker stole my therapy notes – now my deepest secrets are online forever

As soon as Meri-Tuuli Auer saw the subject line in her junk folder, she knew it was no ordinary spam email. It contained her full name and her social security number - the unique code Finnish people ...
Psychology Today

AI-Generated Psychotherapy Notes and Assessment

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being used to improve work efficiency, saving time and money. Use of AI by mental health professionals (MHPs) is no exception. One common approach involves ...
FierceBiotech

uniQure's ballyhooed gene therapy for Huntington's hits FDA roadblock

The FDA is said to be making a U-turn on uniQure’s one-time gene therapy candidate for Huntington’s disease despite the treatment being hailed as a game changer. The FDA no longer agrees that data ...
New Atlas

Singing therapy hits the right note for chronically breathless patients

When breathing becomes a daily battle, even the simplest acts can feel exhausting. Now, a new study has found the key to easing chronic breathlessness caused by lung disease: singing. Chronic ...
Medical Xpress

Hitting the right note: The healing power of music therapy in the cardiac ICU

Music therapy could significantly reduce heart rate, blood pressure and patient–ventilator asynchronies for patients admitted to the cardiac intensive care unit (ICU), according to research being ...