Why Psychotherapy Should Busy Itself with Building Character Strengths, Not Reducing Symptoms
Clients want outcomes like self-understanding, self-agency, and social engagement from therapy.
ChatGPT Weakens Your Ability to Think, MIT Study Finds
“This cognitive offloading phenomenon raises concerns about the long-term implications for human intellectual development and autonomy,” the researchers write.
Goodbye, Brian Wilson
I propose to call any psychiatrist-patient bond “Landy syndrome” after psychiatrist Eugene Landy, the captor, abuser and oppressor of Brian Wilson.
Protecting the False Narrative About Antidepressants
We have a mental health crisis because the existing depression drug-focused approaches are not working.
It’s a No-Brainer: Living Proof We Are More Than Our Parts
Terms like “reward systems,” “emotion centers,” and “decision circuits” suggest precision. But these aren’t discoveries—they’re metaphors.
Why Psychosis Is Not So Crazy: A Conversation with Stijn Vanheule
Vanheule urges clinicians to listen for the structure in psychotic thought. He offers clinical examples that reframe hallucinations as a form of creative response to unspeakable dilemmas.
Madness Is a Human Phenomenon
We can see how complicated it is to be human and how much human suffering (called psychopathology) is a complex and unique human phenomena.
“I Made it Through the Horrors of Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal” A Conversation with Comedian...
Dex Carrington, AKA Jørgen Kjønø, is a Norwegian-American stand-up comedian and actor. He joins us on the Mad In America podcast to talk about his experience with Lyrica and Zyprexa, including a five-and-a-half-year taper after 10 years on the drugs.
The Whispered Rules of Belonging: How Counseling Education Tried to Silence Me
I started to understand that I wasn’t just being trained in therapeutic skills. I was being trained to conform.
A Mad Perspective on IFS Training
I became concerned that the reason I was unable to hear from my parts was because I take antipsychotic medication.
Mad in (S)pain
A Q&A with the team members who edit and run Mad in (S)pain: "There must be a radical change in the way mental suffering is understood and cared for."
Mad in Finland
The people who run Mad in Finland have experienced profound awakenings in the course of their lives, moments of awareness when they understood the failures of the psychiatric disease model and saw its harms.
Waking Up to Your Emotions 101: The Other Side of Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal
Many people find themselves stuck: withdrawal symptoms might have passed, but emotionally, life feels overwhelming.
Conceptual Synaesthesia as Cognitive Literacy
I don’t just feel things; I translate them. For those of us who experience it, it is not a novelty. It is a structure for thinking.
Therapists, Neutrality Is No Longer an Option — Politics Is Tearing Us Apart
To my fellow therapists: stop playing neutral. Stop minimizing systemic trauma to keep your comfort intact.
The Cat Is Out of the Bag
I’ve healed; not overnight and not without effort, but today I feel the vitality that I had before my psychiatrization began as a teen.
Too Good to Be True: How TMS Damaged My Brain
TMS not only has not improved my mental health, but also has robbed me of some of the most important things in life. There has been little to no research on or awareness around the negative side effects that TMS can inflict. This must change.
Two Years Later: My TMS Story, From Gaslighting to Finding My Voice
This didn’t feel like a temporary adjustment phase. It felt like my brain was glitching.
Antipsychotics Do Not Provide a Clinically Meaningful Benefit Over the Short-Term: A Review of...
70 years of RCTs fail to provide evidence that antipsychotics provide a clinically meaningful benefit for treating acute psychotic episodes.
The Mad in the World Network: A Global Voice for Change
Mad in Ireland is the newest Mad in America affiliate. The network of affiliate sites is becoming a global voice for change.
Blindsided by Benzos: Had I Known
Doctors are not disclosing the harrowing truth that discontinuing these medications can plunge patients into relentless mental and physical torment.
Interview with German activist Peter Lehmann: “I Lost My Fear and Gained Everything.”
Peter Lehmann is a central figure in the struggle for emancipation and dignity of people with lived experience of psychiatric treatment.
Psychiatry Criticism Politics: When the Enemy of Your Enemy Is Not Your Friend
Those who would like to abolish psychiatry in order to replace it with their own coercive, authoritarian policies are not friends.
Soteria—A Human Response to a Human Problem
The Soteria model has gained recognition in Israel, with more than 35 such "stabilizing houses" now operating, most publicly funded.
From Wounds to Labels to “Mental Illness”
We don’t need to understand someone’s entire past to exercise a little emotional humility—to see behavior as adaptation, not brokenness.
