Psychiatry: Medical Science of Mind or Moral Ideology?
Psychiatry is a moral ideology, making and enforcing judgments about the appropriateness of people's experiences.
Psychology, Personhood, and the Crisis of Neoliberalism: Jeff Sugarman on Theoretical and Critical Psychology
Tim Beck interviews Jeff Sugarman on the psychology of personhood, the influence of neoliberalism on mental health, and the need for a more philosophically informed psychology.
What I Have Learned in Working With 300+ People in Their Journey of Tapering
Tapering is stepping into each individual’s complex world of biology, history, psyche, circumstance, and tolerance for discomfort.
Antidepressants in Dementia Patients Increase Risk of Death and Fractures
A large-scale study reveals that antidepressant use is linked to faster cognitive decline in dementia patients, raising concerns about their widespread prescription.
Do Critics of Biological Psychiatry Have an Alternative to a Life of “Whack-A-Mole”?
Psychiatry has simultaneously offered multiple biological theories of depression and its other disorders, but the theories that stick are those that are effective marketing devices for money-making drugs.
Tortured by the Mental Health System Due to Misdiagnosis of Schizophrenia
The police think my non-existent "schizophrenia" makes me a danger to the community. If I don't show up for my injections I'm subject to police arrest and kidnapping from my home.
Mad Camp Europe: My Journey from Ward Violence to Healing and Community
If we want to advocate for a better mental health system, we have to integrate our own shame. And that is what happened to me at Mad Camp.
From Public Service to Private Practice: The Collapse of the Social Work Profession
Can we resist turning to private practices masked in social justice rhetoric as a substitute for genuine movement building and advocacy?
Exploding Myths About Schizophrenia: An Interview with Courtenay Harding
The Vermont Longitudinal Study, led by Courtenay Harding, belied conventional beliefs about schizophrenia by showing remarkably good outcomes for patients discharged in the 1950s and '60s.
Everything About Us Without Us
Between 1883-1955, there was little attention given to the value and contributions of those who were “patients” at the Oregon State Insane Asylum.
“Dad, Something’s Not Right. I Need Help”: Richard Fee on the Dangers of Adderall
In appointments that last five to seven minutes, all doctors do is push drugs—psychiatric drugs, ADHD meds, everything.
Sexual Sanism: Why Anti-Queer Rhetoric Is a Threat to the Mad, Too
Our response to this moment should be understanding our shared queer/Mad history and solidarity across lines of oppression.
New Study Links Antidepressants to Increased Risk of Diabetes
Using genetic analysis, a new study finds that antidepressants—not depression—are responsible for a significant rise in type 2 diabetes risk.
Dear Psychiatrist: I Almost Died Under Your Care
Dear Psychiatrist: What were you thinking when you prescribed me nearly 800 pills of Xanax in under seven months?
The Ethics of Long-Term Psychiatric Drug Use and Why We Need a Better Way
Many of these so-called “treatment-resistant” conditions aren't underlying illnesses—they're caused by the drugs themselves.
Jo Watson Chats With Rob Wipond About His Work and His Book
Wipond exposes abuses in mental health systems, including forced treatment, psychiatric detentions, and surveillance.
Managing Nonconformity: Lessons from Quality
Psychiatry is akin to the outdated and unhelpful way that industry used to understand the assembly line.
Lithium Doubles Risk of Thyroid and Kidney Dysfunction
Serum lithium levels lower than those considered therapeutic still conveyed increased risk.
Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: Harm Reduction, Not Judgment
Good advocacy does not rely on fear or shame. No one can predict the future for any individual.
Elizabeth Loftus, False Memories and the Search for My True Self
A cautionary tale about the largely unconscious need for power and dominance that mental health clinicians have over patients’ narratives, especially for children and adolescents.
Suicides Increase After National Suicide Prevention Introduced
Researchers have consistently found increasing psychiatric services associated with higher suicide rates.
Psychotherapy and Social Change: Mick Cooper on Counseling, Pluralism, and Progressive Politics
Javier Rizo interviews Mick Cooper on the intersection of psychotherapy and social transformation, the pluralistic approach to counseling, and the role of psychology in building a more just society.
Psychiatric Butchery: What I’ve Seen at a Homeless Shelter for Women with Children
Children are being given psychiatric drugs, “treated” for the abuse they receive in the harsh world of the homeless.
A Victim Re-Victimised
I had just been physically abused, deprived of my liberty and had my property stolen. Yet, I was the one who was being arrested.
RFK Jr. May Be Wrong on Many Medical Issues, But He’s Right About Antidepressants
Documented cases show a link between SSRIs and school violence, but pharma has suppressed the data that could prove this link.
