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Labeled, Medicated, Misdiagnosed — Until I Rewired My Own Brain
I’m not a doctor. I’m a patient. But I solved what six psychiatrists could not.
Like a Refuge and Like a Prison
From Mad in Puerto Rico: Laura López-Aybar interviews Francisco about psychiatric hospitalization.
When Validation Becomes Avoidance: The Hidden Costs of Comfort in Modern Therapy
Each week, her therapist offered affirmations and reassurance. Her eating disorder remained comfortable and unchallenged.
Locura en Argentina
Editor Alan Robinson aims to provide readers with a magazine that represents them and the “mad cultures” found in Argentina.
Why I Kept Going Back: Breaking Free From Trauma Bonds
Breaking free from trauma bonds is a process of doubt, pain, and courage. It’s learning to trust yourself again after years of confusion.
Welcome to the Psychiatry Casino
Modern psychiatry is still, in many ways, closer to educated gambling than science. And patients deserve to know that.
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
- September 25, 2025, 12:00 pm: Navigating Complex Choices in Antipsychotic Reduction
- September 27, 2025, 8:30 am: Rethinking Psychiatric Medications: A Critical Conversation on Healing, Withdrawal, & Deprescribing
- October 4, 2025, 1:00 pm: Skills and Pills for Depression: What Works and What Hurts, and How to Talk About It
- October 10, 2025, 12:00 pm: Intentional Peer Support Overview
Science Under Pressure, Humanity at Stake: An Interview with John Ioannidis
The Stanford professor behind the most famous paper in modern medicine warns that much of today’s research is unreliable, yet insists the project is worth defending.
Confessions of an Advertising Writer: What I Learned From Your Stories—And Mine
Apologies won’t undo the harm. What I’ve learned might. The current system will not change unless we organize.
Therapy in the Age of Self Management and Public Abandonment: A Conversation with Psychological...
Talia Weiner discusses how conservative politics and market logic reshape mental health care.
The 110-Year “Schizophrenia Genetic Research” Train Wreck
The “genetics of schizophrenia” area of research is currently in disaster mode and awaits its endpoint.
Not Even the Unborn Are Safe from Psychiatric Harm
Medical organizations and the media dismiss the experts and the large body of research telling of fetal harm from exposure to SSRIs during pregnancy.
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.
How Not to Diagnose Your Child
The reflections of a mental health professional on saving her own son from labelling. The context of this piece is the author’s experience of their early childhood visits to the large psychiatric hospital where their father worked.
“Like a Refuge and Like a Prison”
Interview with Francisco by Laura López-Aybar. "You arrive with some issues and leave with others. That's the deal, looking for help, but at times you can feel like a prisoner, a criminal, a person who is a problem, a person who is a burden."
“Mad Thoughts” launches a seminar program
This six-webinar program brings together activists with and without disabilities to share tools, strategies, and insights on organizing under authoritarian political conditions. The discussions will be conducted with interpretation from English to Spanish.
