Depsychiatrization: Dispelling Harmful, Diagnostical Self-Concepts in Therapy and Community Health Work
Depsychiatrization is a way of reclaiming the right to be understood through a nonpathologizing, rehumanized lens.
Screen Time for Children Under Three: A Trigger for Virtual Autism?
"A Stone Unturned" weaves together the research and stories of autism symptoms reversed by removing screens and adding more parent engagement.
Depression: Biological or Psychological?
Scientific evidence tells us that depression is psychological and should be treated by behavior therapy, not by antidepressant drugs.
“Life Unworthy of Life”: Historical Amnesia, Ausmerzen and the Rhetoric Surrounding Autism
The idea that human value can be reduced to economic contribution is not merely reductive—it is deeply dangerous.
Life in the Hospital Before Deinstitutionalization
Accounts of deinstitutionalization fail to describe recovery, peer support, or what it was actually like to be in the state hospitals.
Fighting Forced Treatment in Court: A Victory to Be Celebrated
It is very difficult to get off a mental health commitment. The counties fight tooth and nail to keep people in the system.
Family Traditions and the Inheritance of “Madness”
Families are not merely a source of comfort and support but also a breeding ground for dysfunction, unhealed trauma, and emotional neglect.
What Does Consent Mean in Practice? A Lived Experience Perspective
Every time I agreed to 'treatment’, I was told that it was necessary to save my life. I was sold a bunch of lies.
Mad in Portugal
Mad in Portugal's readers can find blogs, book reviews, and first-person testimonials from voices less present in mainstream narratives.
Usage of Depression Pills in Children and Young People Must Stop
Our citizens would be far better off if we removed all the psychotropic drugs from the market, as doctors are unable to handle them.
We Can’t Help People With Trauma If We Can’t Say Trauma
Although the medical care Cary received was excellent, no one mentioned “trauma” or counseled us on how it might manifest emotionally.
Beyond the Pill Paradigm: Reclaiming Humanity in Mental Health Care
By tackling social causes of distress along with personal support, we prevent suffering rather than just reacting to emergencies.
Power, Privilege & Controlling the Narrative: Vested Interests in ‘Mental Health’
Alienating someone from their own meaning-making is a violent action, but that's what happens when professionals use unscientific, decontextualised diagnoses.
The Roots of Emotional Illness: Emotional Conditioning
Psychodynamic psychotherapy gets at the root cause of the emotional distress—a person’s emotional conditioning in childhood.
Are Psychiatrists More Mad Than Their Patients?
Misconceptions among psychiatric leaders are at variance with the scientific evidence. They suffer from a serious, collective delusion.
And You Thought They Were Side Effects: How Psychiatry Turned Chemical Disruption Into Medical...
There’s no cure beneath the disruption, just a chemical hit that alters perception or behavior.
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.
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.
Dreaming with Purpose: How the Mind’s Hidden GPS Can Guide Us Toward Personal and...
By honouring dreams, we honour our innate creativity, our shared humanity, our capacity to reimagine reality.
Behind the Smiles: Mental Health in South Korea’s High-Pressure Society
South Korea ranks among the highest in the world for suicide, and its people are turning to psychiatric drugs in record numbers.
The Mental Health System in the UK Failed Us
The whole system is broken and I pray for my friends in Great Britain. They need a reform, not cuts or euthanasia.
Lost in Psychobabble? Cut Through the Jargon for Real Mental Clarity
The key to healing is to recognize that you are not dealing with a broken brain, but unlearning survival habits that no longer serve you.
A Reflection on “Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance”
The act of diagnosis is so influential on a person’s sense of self that its limitations need to be repeated again and again and again.
