Art, Poetry, and Humor Galleries
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Eating Disorders: Where Madness Meets Medicalization
The first thing I’ll say about my experiences with healthcare while having an eating disorder is the fact that my eating disorder went undiagnosed...
The Unspoken Lexicon of Healing: When My Symptoms Became Stories
Longing is not something to medicate; it’s proof of what we’ve loved.
Interview with Jessica Fairfax Hirst: The Withdrawal First Aid Kit
A conversation with artist Jessica Fairfax Hirst about the process behind her "Withdrawal First Aid Kit" art installation.
The Healing Powers of Nature
For folks who struggle to fully trust, or attach, to a therapist, forming an attachment with nature can be revelatory.
Reclaiming Myself After Lexapro
For far too many people, psychiatric drugs have become the casual default answer rather than the last resort.
Lemmings Don’t; Humans Do
Being depressed is not your fault, but part of buying into an insane society. You do not have a “chemical imbalance” but are responding to your world.
RESEARCH STUDIES
A research group at the University of Pittsburgh, led by Dr. Nev Jones, is conducting research to better understand experiences of initiation and entry into outpatient civil commitment in Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York. They’re looking for participants to interview who’ve been or currently are on an Assisted Outpatient Treatment order or outpatient involuntary commitment order in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland or New Jersey, as well as family members, providers, attorneys or government administrators who have worked with individuals on AOT. All participants will be compensated $60. More information can be found here.
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.
- October 24, 2025, N/A: International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry Annual Conference 2025 - Washington, DC
- November 21, 2025, 10:00 am: (Anti)-Psychiatry and Democracy
How Radical Activism Transformed Mental Health in Brazil
Anti-asylum movement in Brazil led to creation of a national network of community centers, which stands in contrast to the failed mental health system in the United States.
Medical Organizations Turn Blind Eye to Harms of Maternal Antidepressant Use: A Conversation With...
Adam Urato and Joanna Moncrieff join Robert Whitaker on the Mad in America podcast to discuss the risks posed by maternal use of antidepressants.
A Call for Evidence-Based, Fear-Free Practice
It is right to criticize MAHA, but poorly researched, fear-based responses by mainstream psychiatry only further mislead the public.
Fifty Years of Grief
September 27, 2025, is the fiftieth anniversary of the ignominious death in prison of my sorely regretted and dearly beloved friend Mark Frechette.
Psychotherapy, Spirituality, and Democratic Socialism: A Conversation with Frank Gruba-McCallister
Frank Gruba-McCallister argues that healing must confront capitalism, reclaim spirituality, and advance justice.
How “Garbage-In-Garbage-Out” Academic Psychiatry Research Has Become Even More Ridiculous, and How Taking It...
An interview with a leading academic psychiatrist reveals that psychiatric researchers are clueless about the scientific method.
Decolonial Futures on Display: “Antillean Continent”
In this interview, we delve into the community-based collage workshops where people are invited to imagine decolonial futures. In this final part, they talk about their first exhibition, Continente Antillano (Antillean Continent), which opens on October 29th at the Oller Gallery, located at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, and will be open to the public until December 17th.
“In the face of so much cruelty one becomes more mystical”...
"Poetry of the self for gullible" published by Capuchas Ediciones, is the new book by Bernabé De Vincensi, poet and writer who in this interview tells us how he sees the growth of his work.
Not Your Usual Resilience: Tagore, Arts, and Communal Restoration in an...
How do you reach out with mental health support to a group of older adults in an old age home who have no experience of it? Who have no living family member to fall back on; who would have had to spend their lives on the streets if not for a charitable old age home that took them in.
