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Floodgates by Miles Harrop
Cochrane Recommends Antidepressants for Anxiety in a Garbage In, Garbage Out Review
Cochrane's review of antidepressants for anxiety is misleading and harmful.
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Society’s practice of physically segregating privileged people from those they deem to be “less than” has deep roots beginning with the treatment of madness.
They Called It Psychiatry – I Call It Punishment
I was fighting something far more dangerous than madness — I was fighting a culture of fear and suppression masquerading as mental health care.
Where Did All the People Go?
The question that this history will try to answer is how Oregonian lives were affected by deinstitutionalization, in three phases.
An Approach to Making Sense of Psychiatric Research
I don’t consider myself a scientist in the usual sense, but I know a lot about what makes scientific findings more valid and useful.
Subpatterns: A Deeper Dive into Attachment Theory
Psychological issues have their roots in childhood and are linked to the attachment patterns we develop early in life.
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.
- July 31, 2025, N/A: Mad Camp California
- August 10, 2025, 1:00 pm: Polyphonic Voices: Exploring Contexts, Listening to Lived Experiences, and Holding Collective Faith in One Another
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.
“I Made it Through the Horrors of Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal” A Conversation with Comedian...
Dex Carrington, AKA Jørgen Kjønø, is a Norwegian-American stand-up comedian and actor. He joins us on the Mad In America podcast to talk about his experience with Lyrica and Zyprexa, including a five-and-a-half-year taper after 10 years on the drugs.
ChatGPT Weakens Your Ability to Think, MIT Study Finds
“This cognitive offloading phenomenon raises concerns about the long-term implications for human intellectual development and autonomy,” the researchers write.
Why Psychosis Is Not So Crazy: A Conversation with Stijn Vanheule
Vanheule urges clinicians to listen for the structure in psychotic thought. He offers clinical examples that reframe hallucinations as a form of creative response to unspeakable dilemmas.
The silent burden of emotional poverty in families with autism
In families where a parent has autism (even if it's unnoticed), there's often an invisible tension. A tension that's barely seen, yet deeply felt. I call it "emotional poverty": a lack of genuine connection that deeply affects the lives of Co-drivers—the children and loved ones of someone with autism. This is my invitation to recognize this dynamic and find a language that makes it a topic of discussion.
When care becomes violence – psychiatry’s repressed responsibility
In Swedish psychiatry, the blame for failures in care is often placed on the patients themselves - not on the system's own shortcomings. Diagnoses such as borderline are used to explain away abuse, neglect and violations in the name of care. In this opinion piece, psychiatric survivor Cat W highlights the need for a real shift in perspective: from symptoms of illness to an understanding of society and trauma. See the article here:
Clarifying and useful: About Divergence
Both divergent and everyone else may need help understanding human play and life, writes Mad in Norway's book reviews. She praises Jonas Vennike Ditlevsen (pictured) for providing insight into the unspoken patterns of social interaction and communication.
