The Mind Electric by ミラクルミュージカル (Miracle Musical)
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Is Psychiatry Making Us Sick?
Concept creep describes how some concepts expand their meanings over time. In psychiatry, this can result in less severe symptoms being increasingly interpreted as...
From Eradicating Psychosis to Being With Voices: A Psychiatrist’s Journey from Biomedical Nihilism to Experiences of Humanity
I had compassion for the people on the other side of the fishbowl; I could see myself in them. My colleagues thought this was a problem.
The Psychotherapist as a Paid “Fantasy-Friend”: The Taboo of Money and Payment in Therapy
Money is positioned as both a cancer and a treasure, and the act of payment as a gesture of both immorality and necessity.
Four Studies Raise Concerns About the Wide-Ranging Harmful Effects of Antipsychotics
This week, Mad in America examines four studies around the harmful effects linked to antipsychotics. The first finds that off-label, long-term antipsychotic use is...
I’m Done With Mental Health Providers
When people ask me why I didn’t kick or punch the nurse administering the shots, I don’t have a good answer. I’m just not good at violence. The psychiatrists are, though.
Overcoming Schizophrenia and Transforming Psychiatry: An Interview with Dr. Daniel Fisher
Editor's Note: This Mad in the World report features an interview with eCPR founder Dr. Daniel Fisher, interviewed by Locura en Argentina founder Alan...
I’m Done With Mental Health Providers
When people ask me why I didn’t kick or punch the nurse administering the shots, I don’t have a good answer. I’m just not good at violence. The psychiatrists are, though.
The Illusion of Patient Rights in Psychiatric Units
Reviewing the rights board in the hallway, I vocally indicated to the staff where their policy deviated from state law, and I was met with disregard that devolved to disdain.
I Refuse to Die; I Am Not Leaving
Few experiences carry as much stigma as experiencing psychosis, and the shame doesn't fade when the psychosis does.
From Eradicating Psychosis to Being With Voices: A Psychiatrist’s Journey from Biomedical Nihilism to Experiences of Humanity
I had compassion for the people on the other side of the fishbowl; I could see myself in them. My colleagues thought this was a problem.
Overcoming Schizophrenia and Transforming Psychiatry: An Interview with Dr. Daniel Fisher
Editor's Note: This Mad in the World report features an interview with eCPR founder Dr. Daniel Fisher, interviewed by Locura en Argentina founder Alan...
A Biological Psychiatrist Wins the Nobel
Optogenetics won the Nobel Prize. How excited—or worried—should we be? The experts’ own words tell the story.
Being Mindful of Agony: How to Incorporate the Sublime in Our Daily Life—An Interview with Will Adams
MIA’s Ayurdhi Dhar talks to Will Adams about trauma and contemplative practice, the delusion of separation that plagues humanity, the punitive infantilization of psychiatric patients, and how mindfulness must not be restricted to a meditation cushion.
The Person They Never Asked About
The modern mental health system has constructed an elaborate apparatus for observing, classifying, medicating, documenting, and containing people while steadily losing the institutional capacity to know them.
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It Is a Strength To Ask for Help by Dawn Allen
New in Poetry
Remembering That Day (Revised) by TJ Hamilton
Pale days had long begun to stretch out
Until an effigy in motion forgot
About weeks and hours and better days
Without the tedious dinners for one.
The...
Research Studies
Participants Needed for Research Study: Recently Discharged from a Psychiatric Hospital? A doctoral research study is seeking adults who have been discharged from an inpatient psychiatric facility within the past 90 days to participate in a confidential study about their experiences with mental health support after discharge. Email Sidney Hale at [email protected] if you’re interested in participating.
Research Participants Needed: Are You Reducing or Stopping a Psychiatric Medication? We are a research team at the University of Washington studying how people taper or stop psychiatric medications such as antidepressants, anti-anxiety meds, mood stabilizers, antipsychotics, and stimulants. If you are over 18 years old and currently reducing or stopping (tapering) a psychiatric medication, we would love to hear about your experiences. Click here to take the eligibility survey.
AD4E ONLINE FESTIVAL – Friday 6th November. a day that challenges the culture of diagnosis and disorder, questions the pathologising of human distress, and lifts up voices calling for real change.
