Inside a Forensic Psychiatry Unit: Access to the CourtsāA 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 āantidepressants.ā
Dying to Stay Alive: A Ketamine Disaster
Ketamine treatment, which was being hailed as a āmiracle cureā, 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
āWe had a goal of being a gateway that provides access to international knowledge and information about psychiatry,ā 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.
The Unveiling of the Truth: A Journey Into the Invisible World
It is through the experience of suffering that God educates us with the knowledge of the heart that He alone holds the key to.
Collateral Damage: The Negative Impact of Antidepressants on New Zealand Youth
Health and wellbeing in young people are trending down in New Zealand. Are antidepressants to blame?
MIA’s Suicide Hotline Transparency Project
This project aims to provide people in suicidal distress with the resources and information they need to make an informed choice about hotlines to call, particularly since call tracing, for some, can lead to traumatizing, or even lethal, interventions.
Toxic Marketing: The Business of Selling TMS
Ads pushing transcranial magnetic stimulation are everywhere. As someone harmed by the treatment, I believe they are misleading and unethical.
Mad in Italy
Mad in Italy's main focus is research, publishing articles on failures of the disease model and the effectiveness of alternate, humanistic approaches. The goal is policy change; the means is data.
I Made It Out Alive
There is no replacing the near 30 years that psychiatry took from me and my family. I am now 70 years old and in failing health which I attribute to those damn drugs.
Malignant Do-Gooderism: The Tragedies of Allopathic Psychiatry
My personal struggle to stop my friendās court-ordered psychiatric deterioration has reached the US Supreme Court.
The Medicalization of Women’s Suffering: An Interview with Dana Becker
MIAās Ayurdhi Dhar interviews Dana Becker about how therapeutic culture fails to adequately address womenās suffering.
Fear and Loathing in the ECT Debate
Proponents of ECT have resorted to ad hominem attacks and rude language in addition to reiterating the same tired points over and over. John Read responds.
How Providers Can Support Psychiatric Drug Discontinuation
Supportive patient-practitioner relationships are crucial to the successful discontinuation of psychiatric medication.
Mad in Norway
"People are getting some faith back. People are getting some hope, and they are finding each other, and we are building this community of people who want a change."
Susan Inman Is at It Again
Veterans of our mental health system know that seeking voluntary care is dangerous. We will organize and find our voice. People like Ms. Inman need to get out of our way.
The Danger of Marginalizing People
Instead of increasing understanding of our differences, the mental health system contributes to the marginalization of people it classifies as mentally ill.
Why Is Psychiatry So Defensive About Criticism? Part 2
The definition of "mental illness" is not elusive. The "philosophical difficulties" in the notion of "mental illness" are obfuscations by psychiatrists.
Consternation of the Bees
How do we get back to the place where bees know how to hive, where unstressed mothers teach each other to breast feed, stop and rock and to discipline gently? Where artists are heard?
Mad in Brasil
As is true of all Mad in America affiliates, Mad in Brasil want to see a transformation of the current drug-based paradigm of care, says Fernando de Freitas, psychologist and co-creator of the site.
Inside a Forensic Psychiatry Unit: Earning the Right to Sleep on the Floor
Life in the DC was far too complicated for me to be able to just listen to my body and sleep on a thick yoga mat placed on the floor to alleviate my severe back pain.
