RESEARCHGroup Schema Therapy Equals Group CBT for Social Anxiety with Avoidant PD — and Patient Profile Doesn't Tell You Which to Pick
When two evidence-based therapies look identical in outcome, identical in attrition, and identical in mediation pathways, the clinical question stops being "which therapy" and starts being "which therapist this patient can actually access and stay with."
Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy · 2025-10-13Read → RESEARCHACT for ASD Parents: 8 Weeks That Outlasted the Group
Parental stress in ASD does not regress to baseline on its own — and an 8-week ACT block holds for at least six months, while the mood lift fades.
JAMA Network Open · 2026-01-23Read → RESEARCHGroup Grief-Focused CBT Matches Individual Format in Older Adults
Grief-focused CBT in groups produces the same six-month outcomes as individual sessions in older bereaved adults — including for PTSD, depression, and anxiety symptoms — which means the question is no longer whether to offer groups, but how to staff them.
JAMA Psychiatry · 2026-03-01Read → RESEARCHSynthetic Cannabinoids in Russia: A Group-Belonging Rehabilitation Model from Tomsk
In synthetic-cannabinoid dependence with paranoid schizophrenia, the addictive peer group is doing psychic work the patient cannot do alone — rehabilitation has to replace that work, not merely remove the group.
Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse · 2026-05-04Read → RESEARCHYoga halves opioid withdrawal time in NIMHANS inpatient trial — what JAMA Psychiatry actually published
Buprenorphine treats the receptor; yoga, in this trial, treated the autonomic nervous system the receptor cannot reach.
JAMA Psychiatry · 2026-03-01Read → RESEARCHDomain-specific beats domain-general: anxiety in N≈800 high-achieving Russian adolescents
A normal GAD-7 in a high-achieving adolescent does not mean the anxiety is not there — it means you measured the wrong domain.
PsyCh Journal (Wiley) · 2026-04-01Read → RESEARCHACT and Multidisciplinary ACT for Women on Long-Term Sick Leave: 8-Year Outcomes from a Swedish RCT
Symptom relief in two years and work re-engagement in eight years are different outcomes — choose the intervention package against the time horizon you are actually being asked to influence.
BMC Public Health · 2026-05-06Read → RESEARCHBipolar II maintenance: the evidence base for lithium and lamotrigine is thinner than the guidelines suggest
Bipolar II is treated, in many practices, as if it were "BD-I lite" — but the maintenance evidence base for it has barely a tenth of BD-I's statistical mass, and our prescribing confidence should reflect that gap.
Journal of Affective Disorders · 2025-04-25Read → RESEARCHFamily-Based CBT Beats Active Control in Paediatric OCD — But the Margin Is Smaller Than We Like to Say
ERP beats a credible psychological placebo in paediatric OCD — but by less than a Y-BOCS notch, and the families with the worst access to it should hear that honestly.
European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry · 2025-07-31Read → RESEARCHOne Dose of LSD for Generalised Anxiety: What the JAMA Phase 2b Actually Showed
Two doses worked, two did not — and the 92.5% rate of visual perceptual changes is not a side effect of the treatment, it is the treatment, which is exactly why outpatient pharmacotherapy framing does not apply.
RESEARCHOne Question About Suicidality, 9.5 Years of Mortality: What a Korean National Cohort Tells Us
A self-reported "yes" to seriously considering suicide is not an event — it is a trait that predicts how a person dies for at least a decade.
Journal of Affective Disorders · 2025-10-14Read →