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Anhedonia by M. U.
The Quiet Crisis in Mental Health: The Medicalization and Deskilling of Psychotherapy
The focus on the "worried well" and the exclusion of the "mad" serves to legitimize psychiatric control and surveillance.
Jo Watson Interviews Cathy Wield, Author of “Unshackled Mind”
It’s never too late to seek another explanation for the problems you’re facing, to change your mind and get your life back.
The Garden of the Mind: Fictions Weeded Out by Psychiatry
Delusions are more than fleeting mental turmoil; they reveal the unconscious mind’s storytelling power.
America’s Unhealthy Relationship with Antidepressants
Exhaustive research topples the conceptual house of cards in which the antidepressant hegemony resides.
The Moral World of Personality Disorder Assessment
Professionals in the field must recognize psychiatry's connection to social norms rather than portraying it as a neutral branch of medicine.
Unmedicated Clarity: How I Reclaimed My Voice After Psychiatry Silenced It
My healing didn’t begin with that pill. It began the moment I stopped handing over my truth for someone else to interpret.
Voices by Russ Ballard
Rebecca Williams from University of Manchester is seeking participants for research on what potential participants want to know about psychedelic-assisted therapies. If you are interested in taking part, please contact [email protected].
Dr. Morgan Shields of Washington University in St. Louis is conducting research on the experience of people utilizing behavioral health crisis services. They are recruiting people who have direct lived experience as patients/
Please join us on Saturday, May 10 at 10AM PST, 1PM EST, 5PM GMT, 7PM CET, for a private screening of the film Cover Me: The Path to Purpose, followed by a Q&A with Alison Perry Sower, producer and founder of the ranch featured in the film.
- May 5, 2025, 6:00 pm: Decarcerating Care: Strategy, Struggle & Sustained Commitment
- May 7, 2025, 6:00 am: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and Uniting 4 Rights
- May 10, 2025, 1:00 pm: Private Film Screening & Q&A: Cover Me: The Path to Purpose
Chemically Imbalanced: Joanna Moncrieff on the Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth
Joanna Moncrieff joins Robert Whitaker to talk about her latest book, titled Chemically Imbalanced: The Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth. They discuss the serotonin story and the fact that there is no good evidence that a serotonergic deficiency is a primary cause of depression.
The Fight Against Involuntary Commitment: Are Protection & Advocacy Organizations Fulfilling Their Mission?
Protection and Advocacy organizations were designed as ground-breaking tools for fighting involuntary commitment and protecting patients’ rights. Are they fulfilling their promise? And will they survive Trump?
Interview with German activist Peter Lehmann: “I Lost My Fear and Gained Everything.”
Peter Lehmann is a central figure in the struggle for emancipation and dignity of people with lived experience of psychiatric treatment.
The Failure of “Spit For Science”: No Genetic or Neurological Pathways for Substance Abuse
Despite finding no meaningful correlation between genes and substance use, high-profile geneticists misleadingly conveyed optimistic results.
Teralyn Sell and Jenn Schmitz: Breaking Out of the Prison of Prescribing and Finding...
On the Mad in America podcast, Brooke Siem talks with Teralyn Sell and Jenn Schmitz about their journey from working in the prison system to challenging conventional psychiatric narratives in their therapy practice and podcast, The Gaslit Truth.
New WHO Guidance Calls for Paradigm Shift in Mental Health Policy
The guidance emphasizes shifting away from institutional mindsets and practices, the biomedical approach, and the use of psychotropic drugs.
Murder in Daphni
If the dominant psychiatric paradigm does not radically change, which unfortunately has been embraced by Psychologists, Social Workers, Nurses and other professionals involved in the provision of mental health services (without this meaning that I question their humanity), the tragedy of the way we approach and treat/care for people who experience mental suffering will continue and be reproduced, and even worse, as a non-tragedy.
Are Patients Being Paid to Provide Industry Endorsements?
My study investigates the data available in all three sources and finds that they are incomplete and inconsistent, making any conclusions about patient groups’ conflict-of-interest and funding unreliable.
Insecure Attachment: What Can the Polyvagal Theory Add to Your Life?
What is the effect of experiencing safety and why can it be transformative for you as Dr. Stephen Porges describes? I hope to be able to take you along in this, for many, complex matter.
This science is nice, but what can you do with this knowledge?
