Where Psychedelics Meet Madness: Intersections, Lessons and a Call for Transformative Research Agendas
If I had been supported to integrate my altered-state experiences 36 years ago, how much suffering could have been alleviated?
On Alienation and the Chimeric Promise of Neuro-Identitarianism
As provision of basic needs continues to atrophy, resistance increasingly takes an individualised, myopic form.
The Mental Health Crisis We’re Not Naming
Despite the profoundly social and political nature of distress, the dominant response continues to individualize the problem.
Economists Conclude Reimbursing Tapering Strips Could Save Billions
Economists conclude Dutch government could save billions by reimbursing tapering strips to help patients safely discontinue psychiatric drugs.
Beyond Medication: What England’s Experience Can Teach Us About Psychosis Care
For over twenty years, NICE in England has recommended that people experiencing psychosis should be offered psychological therapy.
A Tribute to Diana Rose
I remember her for her brutal honesty, her path-breaking work in service-user led research, and sadly, her pain.
Despite What You’ve Heard, “Schizophrenia” Is Not “80% Heritable”
Schizophrenia genetics researchers begin with false assumptions and then present and interpret data in ways that confirm these strong beliefs.
On My Way to Norway with Julia Greenberg and Dory Previn
Dory’s eloquent reflections on her relationship with the voices she heard anticipated the burgeoning Hearing Voices and Mad Pride movements.
Mad in Slovenia
Mad in Slovenia joins the Mad in the World Network
Psychiatry’s Attack Dog Is at It Again
Robert Whitaker responds to Awais Aftab's inaccurate smear campaign toward Mad in America and other critics.
Rearranging Deck Chairs While the Titanic Goes Down—The American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology Issues...
Clinicians seeking practical guidance about how to deprescribe in a safe, pharmacologically rational manner will find little here to assist them.
When Autism Becomes the Default: What Happens When Diagnostic Ambiguity Only Resolves One Way
These conditions overlap in ways that require careful differentiation, but it's currently being resolved in only one direction.
Four Thousand Years of Trauma, 45 Years of Diagnosis—Why Call a Fully Human Reaction...
What was gained and what was lost in the translation of something ancient and human into the language of biomedical psychiatry?
Remembering Brent Dean Robbins
Brent was one of humanistic psychology's clearest voices against the DSM’s narrowing of human suffering and the over-medication of distress.
From Hyde Park, London, to a Global Movement: Marking Stolen Lives on Prescribed Harm...
On 29 July, Prescribed Harm Day, we are inviting individuals and communities around the world to host their own Stolen Lives gatherings.
What I’ve Learned from My Son’s Unusual Mental States
Distress can take many forms, and most people with mental health challenges or substance use challenges carry deep unaddressed wounds.
Which Would You Prefer: Electroshock or a Safe Taper?
Imagine you’ve spent your entire life as a healthy person, seven decades in fact, and suddenly being recommended ECT by the psychiatry department of a prestigious university.
What If the Problem Is the Lens?
The very phrase "mental health" implies that our emotional life is organised along a continuum of health and illness, like physical disease.
Are We Overlooking Homicidal Ideation in Psychiatry?
If patients are willing to bring these thoughts into treatment, psychiatry should be better prepared to receive them.
Alfred Adler: Psychoanalysis for the People
Adler provides a starting point to end the apartheid within psychoanalysis that means psychology for the rich and psychics for the poor.
Therapy Treats the Individual, but the Problem Is the Self We Were Taught to...
If human regulation is fundamentally relational, then well-being cannot be reduced to insight, learning, growth, or individual coping strategies alone.
Wouter Kusters and God
God may not exist, but man’s relationship with God certainly does exist, and that is what mysticism is all about.
From Silence to Accountability: How Massachusetts’ Special Commission on State Institutions Changed the Law
This is the beginning of an effort to restore dignity to those whose lives were forgotten for far too long.
What Frontline Addiction Nurses See That Policy Debates About Medication Miss
Medication stabilizes the body and reduces risk, but the deeper work of recovery unfolds gradually through therapy, support, and daily effort.
Mental Health and the Assault on Autonomy in the New America
These myths lead to seeing the homeless as mentally ill and the mentally ill as irredeemable and “other,” impeding effective care.
