DSM: Improve, Trash, Replace, or None of the Above?
Most clinicians are well aware that many diagnoses are vague, not specific, and don’t point to a treatment that works.
Medical Organizations Turn Blind Eye to Harms of Maternal Antidepressant Use: A Conversation With...
Adam Urato and Joanna Moncrieff join Robert Whitaker on the Mad in America podcast to discuss the risks posed by maternal use of antidepressants.
An Open Letter to Those I Love Whose Neurotypical Privilege Keeps Them from Seeing...
The next time you see someone who is unhoused, have some compassion.
A Call for Evidence-Based, Fear-Free Practice
It is right to criticize MAHA, but poorly researched, fear-based responses by mainstream psychiatry only further mislead the public.
Sweltering in My Own Sour Breath
All I could feel was nightmares budding and leafing darkly from my nerve endings, swinging and rustling in the black air of my grief.
“How Are You?” The Strangest Question to ask in a Psychiatric Hospital
Inside a psychiatric hospital, the social script doesn’t fit the situation. The location itself undermines the premise.
Peer Advocates Who Made Things Happen in Oregon
We must keep the histories of peer advocates alive, lest they be forgotten for their part in making the recovery model a vision for system change.
Counter Archiving “Mental Health Records”
Standing in front of the mirror, i wonder, “what outfit should i wear for scanning my psychiatric records at the local library?”
Fifty Years of Grief
September 27, 2025, is the fiftieth anniversary of the ignominious death in prison of my sorely regretted and dearly beloved friend Mark Frechette.
Beyond Medication: Meeting People in Their Worlds
Dementia strips away memory and function, but it does not erase the longing for meaning. If anything, it exposes it more starkly.
The Vanity Fair of Magic Potions
When someone is searching for medicine, there will always be someone else ready to sell them the “cure."
Psychotherapy, Spirituality, and Democratic Socialism: A Conversation with Frank Gruba-McCallister
Frank Gruba-McCallister argues that healing must confront capitalism, reclaim spirituality, and advance justice.
“I Can’t Remember a Single Day”: New Survey Shows Disastrous Memory Effects of ECT
114 people told us they lost vital memories like getting married, birthdays, and family events.
“Medicine Is Awesome” Mentality Fueling Harmful Antidepressant Use, Say Experts
The authors call for a paradigm shift in mental health care that emphasizes empathy, context, and alternatives to medication as first-line treatments for depression.
German GPs Say They Need More Support to Help Patients Stop Antidepressants
New research from Germany shows how guidelines, system pressures, and lack of collaboration limit deprescribing.
How “Garbage-In-Garbage-Out” Academic Psychiatry Research Has Become Even More Ridiculous, and How Taking It...
An interview with a leading academic psychiatrist reveals that psychiatric researchers are clueless about the scientific method.
The Prescription Pad of Spirit
My boldest "treatment measures" by far did not involve clinicians or doctors or insurance at all.
The Importance of Grief—in the Psychological Process and in Our Lives
In order to mature and to process our pain—things that are unavoidable in our lives—it is necessary to confront this grief.
Individualized Understandings of Mental Health Mislead Us
Diagnosis separates the person from their world and detaches their pain from their circumstances.
How Not to Diagnose Your Child
The reflections of a mental health professional on saving her own son from invalid and harmful labels.
No Subgroup of Patients for Whom Antidepressants Are Effective
A reanalysis of STAR*D finds no support for the theorized subgroup of patients who do well on antidepressants.
The Case for Retraction: Psychedelic Therapy Study Omitted Interviews that Told of Sexual Abuse
The concealing of relevant data from a research project is a form of fraud and the grounds for retraction of the JHP study.
Labeled, Medicated, Misdiagnosed — Until I Rewired My Own Brain
I’m not a doctor. I’m a patient. But I solved what six psychiatrists could not.
Like a Refuge and Like a Prison
From Mad in Puerto Rico: Laura López-Aybar interviews Francisco about psychiatric hospitalization.
Science Under Pressure, Humanity at Stake: An Interview with John Ioannidis
The Stanford professor behind the most famous paper in modern medicine warns that much of today’s research is unreliable, yet insists the project is worth defending.
