The Political Systems Driving Abuse in Psychiatry: An Interview with Human Rights Lawyer Alicia...
Alicia Ely Yamin is the Director of the Global Health and Rights Project and a lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. She's also...
Undisclosed Industry Payments Found in Top Psychiatry Journals
Research has shown that financial conflicts of interest (COIs) are a common issue in medicine and psychiatry, with a 2020 paper finding that 55.7%...
Belief in a Fair Economy Linked to Greater Mental Health Stigma, Study Finds
Recent research from across the world has found that stigma towards people with mental health diagnoses is either increasing or stagnant. While studies from...
Mourning on Schedule: How Grieving Became a ‘Mental Illness’
My wife died ten months ago. In another two months, I will have a new mental disorder: “Prolonged Grief Disorder.”
History, Eugenics, and an Inquiry into Mad Consciousness: A Conversation With Susanne Paola Antonetta
Suzanne Paola Antonetta is an accomplished writer and poet, She joins us to discuss her latest book: The Devil's Castle, Nazi Eugenics, Euthanasia, and How Psychiatry's Troubled History Reverberates Today.
With AI Chatbots As Therapists, We Can All Be Patients
Chatbots, with constant availability and user-centric conversation style, are widening the reach of “therapeutic culture.”
Farewell to Suicide
The conditions that create suicide are the same as those required for toxic leadership, toxic environments, and dysfunctional policies.
As a Doctor, I Felt Compelled to Agree to ECT—It Nearly Ruined My Life
Apparently, I signed consent forms, but what was I consenting to? I certainly cannot remember being told about the adverse effects.
Is Focusing on Screen Time Diverting Us From the Real Drivers of Youth Distress?
Instead of focusing on screen time, we must consider the root causes: the concentration of wealth in the tech sector.
Psychobabble of the Month: Think of Jealousy as a Mental Disorder
Convincing a jealous partner that they have a mental illness sounds like gaslighting, but to JAMA Psychiatry, it's science.
There Is No Over- or Under-diagnosis of ADHD or Autism, Just a Confused Cacophony...
The public narrative on ADHD, autism, and neurodivergence is infused with scientism, meaning faith-based claims masquerading as scientific ones.
What Isn’t Broken, Part 3: Spiritual Rebirth
My suicidality was right about one thing: Something had to die. It just didn’t have to be me.
What Isn’t Broken, Part 2: The Descent
My method had to involve some kind of loophole so that my death wasn’t technically by my own hand. Then it came to me: my eating disorder.
Service Users Face Abuse From Mental Health Professionals
People with mental health diagnoses are often the victims of violence and abuse, both within and beyond mental healthcare systems. Media reports of sexual...
Is Psychiatry’s Myth of Mental Health as Damaging as Its Myth of Mental Illness?
Does "mental health" mean more than to be well-adjusted to a dehumanizing, irrational, and homicidal world?
What Isn’t Broken, Part 1: A Temporary Fix
I didn't want a diagnosis to be put on meds, I wanted a diagnosis in order to validate the pain I was in and to be taken seriously by the adults around me.
Facing Existential Challenges, WHO Shuts Down its Policy, Law, and Human Rights Unit
Global activists react to the news and vow to keep up the fight for human rights in mental health.
Are We Allowed to Criticise Mental Health Professionals?
When I started recording the worrying incidents I was witnessing as a student nurse, I was advised that my complaints would go nowhere and make it difficult for me to pass the course.
Patriarchy Leads To Insanity
I am hopeful that for me and others, DSM-driven diagnoses like “bipolar” can be seen as more transient states, as part of a greater journey of the soul.
UberTherapy and the Enshittification of our Relational Lives: Part 1 of our Interview with...
With UberTherapy, Elizabeth Cotton follows the gig-economy playbook into psychotherapy, where platforms lower costs by depressing wages and standardizing treatment.
What 776 ECT Recipients Want You to Know
What stands out is the consistency between individuals’ experiences. Most of the costs were lasting, life-altering consequences.
Visual Snow Syndrome: Can SSRIs Literally Change How You See the World?
SSRI antidepressants have been linked to a number of adverse effects. A recent study presents evidence that a new condition may need to be...
Winning Mad Liberation with a New Strategy: Solidarity
The mad movement must build connections with everyone challenging the roots of our cruel gangster capitalism imperialist system.
None of the 22 FDA Approvals for Psychiatric Drugs in the Last Decade Were...
Established drugs were repurposed, “me-too” drugs were approved, and even the few new biological approaches lacked clinical utility.
Psychobabble of the Month: ECT Hailed as Method to Gain Consent for Forced Drug...
Refusal to take clozapine was considered evidence of mental illness, and forced ECT changed her mind; the researchers call this "consent."
