Lisa Cosgrove
Biographic Data
| ID | 3603785 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Cosgrove |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Cosgrove |
| SIGNATURE | COSGROVE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3101-5726 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Response to Leboyer et al., 2026
International audience
Commercial-Friendly Mental Health Narratives Undermine Community Mental Health
Advocacy by nonprofit scientific institutions needs to be evidence-based
Scientific institutions, including universities and research centers, occasionally engage in advocacy to gain financial support. However, this can be problematic if they selectively present scientific evidence. We describe a case involving a French semi-public foundation dedicated to clinical research on four adult psychiatric disorders: autism without intellectual disability, treatment-resistant depression, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder. T…
The Iatrogenic Consequences of Medicalising Grief
When the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) was published in 2013, there was a firestorm of controversy about the elimination of the bereavement exclusion. Proponents of this change and of the proposed 'complicated grief' designation believed that this change would help clinicians recognise major depression in the context of recent bereavement. Other researchers and clinicians have raised concerns a…
Global Burden Disease Estimates for Major Depressive Disorders (MDD)
Institutional corruption in psychiatric research and practice
Examining the resettlement experiences of Muslim women
In recent years there has been increased attention to the impact of migration on mental health. However, existing research uses an intra-individual lens, focuses on the poor mental health of refugees and asylum seekers, and fails to address the limits of traditional therapy. The aim of the present study was to address a gap in the literature on migration by focusing on the following question: how might a human rights approach help us to identify …
Harm Reduction, Humanistic Psychology, and the CRPD
Harm reduction, which was initially developed as a public health response to illicit drug use, has relevance to the prescription of psychotropic medication. Indeed, focusing on the agency of people who use drugs—licit or illicit—facilitates a more authentic engagement with treatment. In this paper, we show how the framework of harm reduction is congruent with the guiding principles of both humanistic psychology and the Convention on the Rights of…
Beware of equating increased access to mental health services with health equity
As the coronavirus public health crisis continues affect countries around the world, it has become increasingly evident that the burdens that are imposed by the pandemic are not shared equally Those with fewer resources, immigrants, and members of marginalized and racialized groups are at a disproportionate risk of physical harm and emotional distress from coronavirus 2019 However, when responses discrimination, social disadvantage, and racism ar…
Conflicts of Interest in Psychopharmacology Textbooks
Digital aripiprazole as a human technology
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved the first ever ‘digital’ drug, an antipsychotic (aripiprazole) embedded with a sensor (Abilify MyCite) that tracks data about drug ingestion as well as activity level and mood patterns. In this paper, we identify the financial and sociopolitical drivers that have facilitated the development and regulatory approval of a digital drug marketed for people with psychotic disorders. We explore th…
“Do antidepressants work?” A humanistic perspective on a long-standing and contentious debate
Drivers of and Solutions for the Overuse of Antidepressant Medication in Pediatric Populations
Children in the United States and internationally are increasingly being diagnosed with depression and related psychiatric conditions and a recent study found that antidepressant (ADM) use in children and adolescents rose substantially in youth cohorts in five Western countries from 2005 to 2012. However, there has been ongoing controversy over the effectiveness and safety of ADM use in children, including concerns about ADM increasing suicidalit…
Psychology and Surveillance Capitalism
During the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth technologies and mental health apps have been promoted to manage distress in the public and to augment existing mental health services. From a humanistic perspective, the promotion and use of mobile apps raises ethical concerns regarding the autonomy of the person using the app. However, there are other dangers that arise when technological fixes are embraced at a time of crisis. Naomi Klein and Shoshanna …
The Cultural Politics of Mental Illness
The poison in the cure
Neoliberalism reaches beyond economic policy and material conditions and reformulates the subject and psychological life and therefore is best understood as an attitude toward science, knowledge making, and subjectivity. In a neoliberal climate, markets give us truth and individuals are encouraged to be self-concerned agents rather than members of a polis. Thus, at the very moment that neoliberal policies transfer responsibility to individuals, t…
Standards and Guidelines for the Development of Diagnostic Nomenclatures and Alternatives in Mental Health Research and Practice
Diagnostic nomenclatures have been central to mental health research and practice since the turn of the 20th century. In recent years, an increasing number of mental health professionals have proposed that a paradigm shift in diagnosis is inevitable. The Standards and Guidelines for the Development of Diagnostic Nomenclatures and Alternatives in Mental Health Research and Practice are intended to serve as a reference for the development of scient…
Industry’s colonization of psychiatry
The revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), scheduled for publication in May 2013 by the American Psychiatric Association (APA), has created a firestorm of controversy because of questions about undue industry influence. Specifically, concerns have been raised about financial conflicts of interest between DSM-5 panel members and the pharmaceutical industry. The authors argue that current approaches to the mana…
The DSM , big pharma, and clinical practice guidelines
The author of this paper discusses why the issue of financial conflicts of interest (FCOI) in psychiatry has important public health implications for women and why FCOI complicate the informed consent process. For example, when psychiatric diagnostic and treatment guidelines are unduly influenced by industry, informed consent becomes a critical issue, because women may be assigned diagnostic labels that are not valid and may also be receiving imb…
Toward a New Paradigm for Psychiatric Diagnoses and Clinical Research in Sexology
The growing acceptance of a biopsychiatric model for women's sexual health issues and the dramatic increase of pharmaceutical industry research funding over the last decade have both contributed to ethical and professional crises in sexology and psychiatry. Although conflict of interest (COI) policies deal with some of these issues, public trust is compromised in such an industry-dominated climate. This article describes why the lack of transpare…
Humanistic psychology and the contemporary crisis of reason
Humanistic psychology has a long-standing tradition of challenging implicit assumptions about the nature of subjectivity. These challenges and critiques have exposed psychology's “natural attitude” and in so doing, have led it in a more liberatory direction. However, the role of the rational, especially as it has been used to sustain an oppressive status quo, remains an undertheorized topic within humanistic psychology. For example, privileging t…
Humanistic Psychology and the Contemporary Crisis of Reason
The Aftermath of Pregnancy Loss
Although 15%-20% of pregnancies end in miscarriage (Borg & Lasker, 1989; Swanson, 1999), many health care professionals do not recognize miscarriage as a psychologically taxing event, and thus women are not routinely provided with follow-up care (Lee, Slade, & Lygo, 1996; Reinharz, 1988). The purpose of this article is to explore some of the issues that arise for women who experience pregnancy loss and to offer some suggestions for therapists wor…
Feminism, Postmodernism, and Psychological Research
Drawing primarily from the work of Julia Kristeva and Judith Butler, the author suggests that a postmodern approach to identity can be used to challenge the essentialism that pervades both feminist empiricism and standpoint theory, and thus move feminist psychology in a more emancipatory direction. A major premise of this paper is that an engagement with postmodernism redirects our attention to symbolic constructions of femininity and to the soci…
Feminism, Postmodernism, and Psychological Research
Drawing primarily from the work of Julia Kristeva and Judith Butler, the author suggests that a postmodern approach to identity can be used to challenge the essentialism that pervades both feminist empiricism and standpoint theory, and thus move feminist psychology in a more emancipatory direction. A major premise of this paper is that an engagement with postmodernism redirects our attention to symbolic constructions of femininity and to the soci…
Speaking for Ourselves
Although feminist and community psychology share a number of epistemological and methodological perspectives that guide their respective theories and research practices, it has been argued that community psychology has not fully integrated a feminist perspective into the discipline. This paper examines how community psychology and feminist research methods might combine to help us better understand women's experiences without essentializing or un…
Crying Out Loud
This article examines some of the issues involved in developing research strategies that are robust enough to attend to the complex relationship between gender and emotional distress. Social constructionism may be helpful because it highlights the discursive production of power, femininity and psychopathology. The strength of a phenomenological approach is that it emphasizes the richness and complexity of an individual’s lived experience and priv…
Psychology and Surveillance Capitalism
During the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth technologies and mental health apps have been promoted to manage distress in the public and to augment existing mental health services. From a humanistic perspective, the promotion and use of mobile apps raises ethical concerns regarding the autonomy of the person using the app. However, there are other dangers that arise when technological fixes are embraced at a time of crisis. Naomi Klein and Shoshanna …
Industry’s colonization of psychiatry
The revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), scheduled for publication in May 2013 by the American Psychiatric Association (APA), has created a firestorm of controversy because of questions about undue industry influence. Specifically, concerns have been raised about financial conflicts of interest between DSM-5 panel members and the pharmaceutical industry. The authors argue that current approaches to the mana…
The Aftermath of Pregnancy Loss
Although 15%-20% of pregnancies end in miscarriage (Borg & Lasker, 1989; Swanson, 1999), many health care professionals do not recognize miscarriage as a psychologically taxing event, and thus women are not routinely provided with follow-up care (Lee, Slade, & Lygo, 1996; Reinharz, 1988). The purpose of this article is to explore some of the issues that arise for women who experience pregnancy loss and to offer some suggestions for therapists wor…
Feminism, Postmodernism, and Psychological Research
Drawing primarily from the work of Julia Kristeva and Judith Butler, the author suggests that a postmodern approach to identity can be used to challenge the essentialism that pervades both feminist empiricism and standpoint theory, and thus move feminist psychology in a more emancipatory direction. A major premise of this paper is that an engagement with postmodernism redirects our attention to symbolic constructions of femininity and to the soci…
Resisting Essentialism in Feminist Therapy Theory
This article identifies essentialist tendencies in contemporary feminist therapy theory. It is argued that an epistemological shift that moves us away from totalizing categories and toward greater reflexivity is needed. The author provides an outline of this epistemological shift by addressing two main questions: (1) In what ways do some of our feminist criticisms of mainstream psychology inadvertently succumb to unhelpful positivist assumptions?…
The Cultural Politics of Mental Illness
Toward a New Paradigm for Psychiatric Diagnoses and Clinical Research in Sexology
The growing acceptance of a biopsychiatric model for women's sexual health issues and the dramatic increase of pharmaceutical industry research funding over the last decade have both contributed to ethical and professional crises in sexology and psychiatry. Although conflict of interest (COI) policies deal with some of these issues, public trust is compromised in such an industry-dominated climate. This article describes why the lack of transpare…
The Iatrogenic Consequences of Medicalising Grief
When the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) was published in 2013, there was a firestorm of controversy about the elimination of the bereavement exclusion. Proponents of this change and of the proposed 'complicated grief' designation believed that this change would help clinicians recognise major depression in the context of recent bereavement. Other researchers and clinicians have raised concerns a…
Harm Reduction, Humanistic Psychology, and the CRPD
Harm reduction, which was initially developed as a public health response to illicit drug use, has relevance to the prescription of psychotropic medication. Indeed, focusing on the agency of people who use drugs—licit or illicit—facilitates a more authentic engagement with treatment. In this paper, we show how the framework of harm reduction is congruent with the guiding principles of both humanistic psychology and the Convention on the Rights of…
Standards and Guidelines for the Development of Diagnostic Nomenclatures and Alternatives in Mental Health Research and Practice
Diagnostic nomenclatures have been central to mental health research and practice since the turn of the 20th century. In recent years, an increasing number of mental health professionals have proposed that a paradigm shift in diagnosis is inevitable. The Standards and Guidelines for the Development of Diagnostic Nomenclatures and Alternatives in Mental Health Research and Practice are intended to serve as a reference for the development of scient…
I Never Called It Rape
Crying Out Loud
This article examines some of the issues involved in developing research strategies that are robust enough to attend to the complex relationship between gender and emotional distress. Social constructionism may be helpful because it highlights the discursive production of power, femininity and psychopathology. The strength of a phenomenological approach is that it emphasizes the richness and complexity of an individual’s lived experience and priv…
Speaking for Ourselves
Although feminist and community psychology share a number of epistemological and methodological perspectives that guide their respective theories and research practices, it has been argued that community psychology has not fully integrated a feminist perspective into the discipline. This paper examines how community psychology and feminist research methods might combine to help us better understand women's experiences without essentializing or un…
Resisting Essentialism in Feminist Therapy Theory
This article identifies essentialist tendencies in contemporary feminist therapy theory. It is argued that an epistemological shift that moves us away from totalizing categories and toward greater reflexivity is needed. The author provides an outline of this epistemological shift by addressing two main questions: (1) In what ways do some of our feminist criticisms of mainstream psychology inadvertently succumb to unhelpful positivist assumptions?…
Feminism, Postmodernism, and Psychological Research
Drawing primarily from the work of Julia Kristeva and Judith Butler, the author suggests that a postmodern approach to identity can be used to challenge the essentialism that pervades both feminist empiricism and standpoint theory, and thus move feminist psychology in a more emancipatory direction. A major premise of this paper is that an engagement with postmodernism redirects our attention to symbolic constructions of femininity and to the soci…
Feminism, Postmodernism, and Psychological Research
Drawing primarily from the work of Julia Kristeva and Judith Butler, the author suggests that a postmodern approach to identity can be used to challenge the essentialism that pervades both feminist empiricism and standpoint theory, and thus move feminist psychology in a more emancipatory direction. A major premise of this paper is that an engagement with postmodernism redirects our attention to symbolic constructions of femininity and to the soci…
The Aftermath of Pregnancy Loss
Although 15%-20% of pregnancies end in miscarriage (Borg & Lasker, 1989; Swanson, 1999), many health care professionals do not recognize miscarriage as a psychologically taxing event, and thus women are not routinely provided with follow-up care (Lee, Slade, & Lygo, 1996; Reinharz, 1988). The purpose of this article is to explore some of the issues that arise for women who experience pregnancy loss and to offer some suggestions for therapists wor…
Humanistic psychology and the contemporary crisis of reason
Humanistic psychology has a long-standing tradition of challenging implicit assumptions about the nature of subjectivity. These challenges and critiques have exposed psychology's “natural attitude” and in so doing, have led it in a more liberatory direction. However, the role of the rational, especially as it has been used to sustain an oppressive status quo, remains an undertheorized topic within humanistic psychology. For example, privileging t…
Humanistic Psychology and the Contemporary Crisis of Reason
Toward a New Paradigm for Psychiatric Diagnoses and Clinical Research in Sexology
The growing acceptance of a biopsychiatric model for women's sexual health issues and the dramatic increase of pharmaceutical industry research funding over the last decade have both contributed to ethical and professional crises in sexology and psychiatry. Although conflict of interest (COI) policies deal with some of these issues, public trust is compromised in such an industry-dominated climate. This article describes why the lack of transpare…
The DSM , big pharma, and clinical practice guidelines
The author of this paper discusses why the issue of financial conflicts of interest (FCOI) in psychiatry has important public health implications for women and why FCOI complicate the informed consent process. For example, when psychiatric diagnostic and treatment guidelines are unduly influenced by industry, informed consent becomes a critical issue, because women may be assigned diagnostic labels that are not valid and may also be receiving imb…
Industry’s colonization of psychiatry
The revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), scheduled for publication in May 2013 by the American Psychiatric Association (APA), has created a firestorm of controversy because of questions about undue industry influence. Specifically, concerns have been raised about financial conflicts of interest between DSM-5 panel members and the pharmaceutical industry. The authors argue that current approaches to the mana…
The poison in the cure
Neoliberalism reaches beyond economic policy and material conditions and reformulates the subject and psychological life and therefore is best understood as an attitude toward science, knowledge making, and subjectivity. In a neoliberal climate, markets give us truth and individuals are encouraged to be self-concerned agents rather than members of a polis. Thus, at the very moment that neoliberal policies transfer responsibility to individuals, t…
Standards and Guidelines for the Development of Diagnostic Nomenclatures and Alternatives in Mental Health Research and Practice
Diagnostic nomenclatures have been central to mental health research and practice since the turn of the 20th century. In recent years, an increasing number of mental health professionals have proposed that a paradigm shift in diagnosis is inevitable. The Standards and Guidelines for the Development of Diagnostic Nomenclatures and Alternatives in Mental Health Research and Practice are intended to serve as a reference for the development of scient…
“Do antidepressants work?” A humanistic perspective on a long-standing and contentious debate
Drivers of and Solutions for the Overuse of Antidepressant Medication in Pediatric Populations
Children in the United States and internationally are increasingly being diagnosed with depression and related psychiatric conditions and a recent study found that antidepressant (ADM) use in children and adolescents rose substantially in youth cohorts in five Western countries from 2005 to 2012. However, there has been ongoing controversy over the effectiveness and safety of ADM use in children, including concerns about ADM increasing suicidalit…
Psychology and Surveillance Capitalism
During the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth technologies and mental health apps have been promoted to manage distress in the public and to augment existing mental health services. From a humanistic perspective, the promotion and use of mobile apps raises ethical concerns regarding the autonomy of the person using the app. However, there are other dangers that arise when technological fixes are embraced at a time of crisis. Naomi Klein and Shoshanna …
The Cultural Politics of Mental Illness
Beware of equating increased access to mental health services with health equity
As the coronavirus public health crisis continues affect countries around the world, it has become increasingly evident that the burdens that are imposed by the pandemic are not shared equally Those with fewer resources, immigrants, and members of marginalized and racialized groups are at a disproportionate risk of physical harm and emotional distress from coronavirus 2019 However, when responses discrimination, social disadvantage, and racism ar…
Conflicts of Interest in Psychopharmacology Textbooks
Digital aripiprazole as a human technology
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved the first ever ‘digital’ drug, an antipsychotic (aripiprazole) embedded with a sensor (Abilify MyCite) that tracks data about drug ingestion as well as activity level and mood patterns. In this paper, we identify the financial and sociopolitical drivers that have facilitated the development and regulatory approval of a digital drug marketed for people with psychotic disorders. We explore th…
Harm Reduction, Humanistic Psychology, and the CRPD
Harm reduction, which was initially developed as a public health response to illicit drug use, has relevance to the prescription of psychotropic medication. Indeed, focusing on the agency of people who use drugs—licit or illicit—facilitates a more authentic engagement with treatment. In this paper, we show how the framework of harm reduction is congruent with the guiding principles of both humanistic psychology and the Convention on the Rights of…
Institutional corruption in psychiatric research and practice
Examining the resettlement experiences of Muslim women
In recent years there has been increased attention to the impact of migration on mental health. However, existing research uses an intra-individual lens, focuses on the poor mental health of refugees and asylum seekers, and fails to address the limits of traditional therapy. The aim of the present study was to address a gap in the literature on migration by focusing on the following question: how might a human rights approach help us to identify …
Global Burden Disease Estimates for Major Depressive Disorders (MDD)
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