Be More Human: Why Mental Health Care is Broken and What We Can Do...
Mental health campaigner and UK MP Sir Norman Lamb joins us to explain how personal accounts of mistreatment and abuse motivated him to think differently about the human element so often missing from mental healthcare.
A Decade of the Rise and Rise of “Functional Neurological Disorder” (FND)
I have now come to think that the diagnosis of FND is essentially a way to dismiss adverse effects and withdrawal symptoms.
Seeing BPD in a Positive Light: An Interview with Dr. Shay Welch
Those diagnosed with borderline personality disorder are told that their very personalities are disordered, pathological or just intolerable.
Winning Norwegian Lawsuits about Forced Drugging with Antipsychotics
I am proud of the four brave Norwegian women who challenged a deeply unjust and inhumane system with tremendous power at its disposal and won.
How My Body Rejected Lithium After 25 Years
I was promised mood stability and less suicidal ideation. It was supposedly the leading option, my best line of defense. That is what I was told for the next 25 years, but I was never told about lithium toxicity.
Dangerous Gifts: Rethinking Madness, Healing, and Human Connection – A Conversation With Sascha DuBrul
Sascha du Brul's interests lie at the intersection of the public mental health system and the mad underground movement. He joins us to discuss his two decades of activism in psychiatric circles.
She Was Here: Finding My Grandmother After Willard
I often mention that I was the only one of Catherine Smoral's grandchildren to see her alive. I was six years old.
The Process: Helen Wesnes Fights for Her Rights
The health care system cost her 15 years, followed by a 12-year legal process. She has already won in court and is ready for the next round.
Is Psychiatry Making Us Sick?
Concept creep describes how some concepts expand their meanings over time. In psychiatry, this can result in less severe symptoms being increasingly interpreted as...
From Eradicating Psychosis to Being With Voices: A Psychiatristās Journey from Biomedical Nihilism to...
I had compassion for the people on the other side of the fishbowl; I could see myself in them. My colleagues thought this was a problem.
The Psychotherapist as a Paid āFantasy-Friendā: The Taboo of Money and Payment in Therapy
Money is positioned as both a cancer and a treasure, and the act of payment as a gesture of both immorality and necessity.
I’m Done With Mental Health Providers
When people ask me why I didnāt kick or punch the nurse administering the shots, I donāt have a good answer. Iām just not good at violence. The psychiatrists are, though.
Overcoming Schizophrenia and Transforming Psychiatry: An Interview with Dr. Daniel Fisher
Editor's Note: This Mad in the World report features an interview with eCPR founder Dr. Daniel Fisher, interviewed by Locura en Argentina founder Alan...
The Fonagy Report: A Missed Opportunity to Challenge the Neurodevelopmental Narrative
The review is riddled with contradictions and confusion and nothing it suggests is likely to make any difference to the current situation.
ADHD, a Unicorn in the Psychiatric (Be)wilderness
I do not dispute that some people suffer from their symptoms, but if you examine ADHD scientifically, the diagnosis falls apart.
A Biological Psychiatrist Wins the Nobel
Optogenetics won the Nobel Prize. How excitedāor worriedāshould we be? The expertsā own words tell the story.
The Illusion of Patient Rights in Psychiatric Units
Reviewing the rights board in the hallway, I vocally indicated to the staff where their policy deviated from state law, and I was met with disregard that devolved to disdain.
Being Mindful of Agony: How to Incorporate the Sublime in Our Daily LifeāAn Interview...
MIAās Ayurdhi Dhar talks to Will Adams about trauma and contemplative practice, the delusion of separation that plagues humanity, the punitive infantilization of psychiatric patients, and how mindfulness must not be restricted to a meditation cushion.
I Refuse to Die; I Am Not Leaving
Few experiences carry as much stigma as experiencing psychosis, and the shame doesn't fade when the psychosis does.
The Person They Never Asked About
The modern mental health system has constructed an elaborate apparatus for observing, classifying, medicating, documenting, and containing people while steadily losing the institutional capacity to know them.
The Hidden Psychotherapy Drop-Out Crisis
There is a discrepancy between what most people embarking on psychotherapy seek and what practitioners are trained to provide.
What Psychiatry Missed: My Ferritin Level Was 6
No one told me that anemia could be contributing to the mental health issues that would not resolve. The providers put me on antipsychotics; meanwhile, my underlying iron stores remained depleted.
What We Seek in Therapy May be Lost to Time
Progress removes the conditions that made skills, relationships, meaning, and purpose necessary. A part of life ceases to be required.
Let There Be Light: Before Psychiatry Writes Its Next DSM
Very high prevalence raises a more fundamental question: Where exactly does the medical disorder end and ordinary human variation begin?
Marketing GLP-1 Drugs for Addiction: Why Critics Are Skeptical
The question surrounding GLP-1RAs is not simply whether they can change the brain, but whether that is enough to change the life around it.
