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The Real Zombie Apocalypse by Jenny Mounfield
The Psychological Totalization of Experience: Objectification and Subjectivity
I must be a mechanistic, predictable unit, in order for a psychiatric label or a psychological variable to be implemented on me smoothly.
ECT: New Studies Detail Harms, Lack of Efficacy, Lack of Informed Consent
What people who have received ECT really think about what they were told, and about how ECT affected them.
Community, Ethics, and Healing Amidst the Great Unraveling
If our treatment is only aligned with the individualist reductionist model, we are unwittingly contributing to destruction.
Narrative Reclamation: Who’s Allowed to Tell Their Story?
Narratives have the power to lock us up—sometimes literally. But they also have the power to set us free.
Reflections on My Mistrust for Other Mental Health Workers
I learned to hold my tongue around mental health workers. I dealt with their slurs by working harder and longer than them.
Veteran Suicide Prevention Legislation Introduced That Will Save Lives
The bill will require prescribers to obtain written informed consent including the risks of psychiatric drugs.
RESEARCH STUDIES
Emma Burris from Barnard College is seeking participants for a survey on the direct lived experience of former adolescent psychiatric inpatients, with the goal of improving mental healthcare in a way that’s sensitive to service users’ experiences. Find out more about the project and complete the survey here.
Join us for a webinar on Navigating Complex Choices in Antipsychotic Reduction with Dr. Helene Speyer, hosted by Ron Unger, on Thursday, September 25, at 9am PDT, 12pm EDT, 5pm BST, 7pm CEST.
- September 19, 2025, N/A: Psychology & the Other 2025 Conference
How to be a Critical Psychologist Without Losing Your Soul: A Conversation With Zenobia...
On the Mad in America podcast, Zenobia Morrill, José Giovanni Luiggi-Hernández and Justin Karter join us to explore the need to raise awareness of psychological approaches that challenge mainstream perspectives.
Confessions of an Ad Writer: How I Helped Turn Atypical Antipsychotics into a Billion-Dollar...
How we redefined schizophrenia, rewrote the safety narrative of antipsychotics, and helped drive one of the most successful (and concerning) pharmaceutical launches in history.
The Deceptive Politics of Civil Commitment in Oregon
A workgroup in Oregon unanimously recommended rights-based mental health care. Then the politicians and those invested in forced treatment splintered off and implemented the exact opposite.
Is Dialogue the Best Medicine? A Conversation With Jaakko Seikkula
Jaakko Seikkula joins us on the MIA podcast to discuss how Open Dialogue came to be, the research that shows its positive outcomes, how psychiatry has failed to learn from Open Dialogue practice and more.
America is Legislating a Return to the Asylum, One Policy at a Time
Federal and state policymakers across the partisan divide are defunding vital programs and rolling back policies and rights protections.
Psychiatry Criticism Politics: When the Enemy of Your Enemy Is Not Your Friend
Those who would like to abolish psychiatry in order to replace it with their own coercive, authoritarian policies are not friends.
Counter archiving “mental health records”
Standing in front of the mirror, i wonder, “what outfit should i wear for scanning my
psychiatric records at the local library?” the choice is obvious. i reach for my Sinead
O’Connor t-shirt. a sense of pride and gratitude washes over me.
The Imprisoning Cure – Luca’s Testimony and Reflections on Psychotropic Drugs
When inner needs aren't adequately addressed with listening, empathy, and appropriate professional help, but states of suffering are stifled with psychotropic drugs, further suffering and chronic symptoms result.
