Becoming Whole: How a Change in Me Became a Change in My Practice
It feels challenging to commit to a lifetime process of self-reflection and self-improvement when someone is offering you an easy way out.
Thomas Jobe: The Legacy of Research He Leaves Behind
Thomas Jobe was a collaborator in a longitudinal study that upended conventional thinking about antipsychotics. He died March 16.
Former NIMH Directorâs New Book: Why, With More Treatment, Have Suicides and Mental Distress...
Psychiatryâs worsening outcomes despite increased treatment should provoke the consideration that a paradigm shift is necessary.
Antipsychotics Often Prescribed Without Informed Consent
New research reveals that patients are often not given fully informed consent before being prescribed antipsychotics.
Mad in Sweden
Lasse Mattila, founder of Mad in Sweden: "You only ask the question, âWhatâs wrong with you? What symptoms do you have?â But you donât ask: âWhat happened to you? What tragedies did you have?ââ
Why Do We Lock People Up?
Every day, people who have not broken any laws have their human rights suspended indefinitely, without a formal judicial hearing, all on unsworn hearsay evidence and with practically no right of appeal.
Parenting Changed My Perspective on âADHDâ
My experience of raising a son who was bright and creative but didnât fit the mold helped me to approach my restless, impulsive students more compassionately and creatively.
Why Do People Self-Harm, and How Can We Stop It?
The psychiatric treatments I underwent did nothing to help me come to terms with my troubled past. Self-harm did not serve me well either. We must re-learn what to expect from ourselves.
The ENIGMA-MDD Project: Searching for the Neuropathology of “Major Depressive Disorder”
There's an old saying in research: "garbage in; garbage out". Research based on invalid concepts or false assumptions will produce invalid conclusions.
Fifty-Eight Years Beyond the Community Mental Health Act, 1963
Do not focus on "getting more beds" or "providing better treatment." Focus on homes with windows and giant gardens where survivors can be coached to rebel and dance with wild abandon.
Mad in Canada
Mad in Canada aims to bridge the âknowledge gapâ between practice and science, pushing patient care further up the list of priorities.
Antipsychotics Worsen Cognitive Functioning in First-Episode Psychosis
Withholding antipsychotics may be beneficial for memory, the researchers write.
Desperate Remedies
History shows us that the mentally ill are extraordinarily vulnerable to therapeutic experimentation, some particularly brutal and extreme, which continues to the present day.
The Looting of “Outsider Art” by Psychiatry Continues Today
The German museum of the Prinzhorn Collection, which opened in 2001, exhibits the stolen art of those considered by the Nazis to be "degenerates."
The Social Unconscious and Character Formation in Neoliberal Culture: An Interview with Lynne Layton
MIAâs Javier Rizo interviews Lynne Layton about social psychoanalysis and how normative unconscious processes can help illuminate how oppressive systems get internalized and reproduced.
Anti-Psychiatry, Szasz, Torrey, Biederman & the Death of Freethinking
Americans appear to be increasingly terrified by the possibility of ostracism, including for failing to conform to psychiatry dogma. This prevents critical thinking.
Mad in MĂ©xico
Mad in MĂ©xico, which launched in September of last year, exists to make âlos abandonadosâ heard. It aims to amplify those voices, empower them, embolden them.
Inside a Forensic Psychiatry Unit: Access to the CourtsâA Right and Survival Tool
Being stuck in the custody of a malicious treatment team could mean death. I had to resort to the Mother of All Tactics Hegemony (a lawsuit).
Psychiatry Upgraded the Declaration of Independence
According to psychiatry, unhappiness is a medically treatable disease. No need to "pursue" happiness other than by swallowing pills called âantidepressants.â
Dying to Stay Alive: A Ketamine Disaster
Ketamine treatment, which was being hailed as a âmiracle cureâ, backfired so spectacularly that it very nearly cost me my life.
For the Love and Care of the People: An Interview with Vanessa Green on...
An interview with Vanessa Green, executive director of Call BlackLine a nationally recognized hotline serving BIPOC and LGBTQI communities.
The Censors Are Coming for Mental Health
To a profession that regularly uses coercion and force to keep clients medicated, any information that might dissuade from treatment is hazardous.
Mad in the Netherlands
âWe had a goal of being a gateway that provides access to international knowledge and information about psychiatry,â said founder and editor Monique Timmermans.
Official Guidelines on Antidepressant Discontinuation Fail Practitioners and Patients
A review of clinical practice guidelines for antidepressant discontinuation from across the English-speaking world reveals major pitfalls.
Robert Spitzer on DSM-III: A Recently Recovered Interview
Robert Spitzer, chair of the Task Force for DSM-III, discusses his decisions on inclusion, exclusion, expansion, and renaming disorders in the manual.
