A Story of Bad Science: How Defenders of Antidepressant Efficacy Make Their Case
Psychiatric leaders should be in jail because they knowingly spread falsehoods about psychiatric drugs that kill.
In the Lindsay Clancy Case, Polypharmacy Will Be on Trial
Lindsay Clancy worsened while under the influence of psychiatric drugs, and at each step she desperately sought medical help.
What Medicine Does Not Yet Recognize in Psychiatric Tapering
Together, we can create a new way to support patients tapering psychiatric medications and the medically orphaned will finally feel welcomed.
How Can Soccer Coaching Help People Who Hear Voices?
Voice hearing might be conceptualised as reflecting disowned or dissociated aspects of self, often occurring as a result of life events.
Therapy as a Rite of Passage
If we turn toward ourselves with enough sincerity and curiosity, we will see that there is always something wanting to happen next.
Saving the Lone Pelican Soiled in Oil and Psychiatric Patients Soiled in Drugs
We should hold leading psychiatrists and their organisations accountable for the disaster they have created, just like BP was held accountable.
Unshrunk and Beyond—Important Lessons/Bigger Questions
It's hard to be an activist when you’re concerned you are permanently defective and sedated with a cocktail of mind-numbing psych drugs.
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.
