Forty-two Days on a Finnish Psychiatric Ward
I can not say for sure at what point I finally realised that I was a patient in a mental hospital.
Kindling Our Inner Fire: A Residential Program Where Drug Tapering is the Norm
Robert Whitaker interviews Beatrice Birch, Founder and Director of Inner Fire, a residential program in rural Vermont.
Four Thousand Years of Trauma, 45 Years of DiagnosisāWhy Call a Fully Human Reaction...
What was gained and what was lost in the translation of something ancient and human into the language of biomedical psychiatry?
With Veterans Demanding Action, Bipartisan Support Emerges for Written Informed Consent Bill
On the morning of April 29, representatives of 35 veteransā service organizations (VSOs) gathered under cloudy skies on Capitol Hill for a press conference...
Candidate Chris Bennett Supports Abolishing Forced Psychiatry: A Breakthrough for Mad Liberation?
What if the upcoming midterm election for the first time sends a politician to Washington who is publicly on record against forced psychiatry?
Not Serotonin Deficiency: A Veteranās Story of Misdiagnosis and Medication Harm
When my experience did not match what I had been told to expect, it was minimized and dismissed.
The Madness Pill: How Psychedelics and Stimulants Shaped Biological Psychiatry ā An Interview with...
Justin Garson joins us to talk about the work of Solomon Snyder, whose discoveries ushered in the era of biological psychiatry.
āIt Was Like They Crushed a Beautiful Flowerā: Families Speak Out on the Harms...
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a controversial practice, with recent research finding harm, as well as a lack of efficacy and informed consent. A new...
From Hyde Park, London, to a Global Movement: Marking Stolen Lives on Prescribed Harm...
On 29 July, Prescribed Harm Day, we are inviting individuals and communities around the world to host their own Stolen Lives gatherings.
The Madness Pill: One Doctorās Quest to Understand Schizophrenia
Sol Snyder burned this medical vision so deeply into our collective consciousness that itās almost impossible to see outside of it.
Desperate Cries for Help and the Copper Toxicity Doctors Missed
Although there is a known correlation between estrogen and copper, mainstream doctors donāt test copper levels or estrogen-dominance.
Finding God and Leaving Psychiatry: An Interview With Kelsey Osgood
Kelsey Osgood joins us to talk about her new book Godstruck: Seven Women's Unexpected Journeys to Religious Conversion and her experiences with anorexia and psychiatric drugs.
Which Would You Prefer: Electroshock or a Safe Taper?
Imagine youāve spent your entire life as a healthy person, seven decades in fact, and suddenly being recommended ECT by the psychiatry department of a prestigious university.
Human Rights Violations in Psychiatry
Society turns a blind eye to these human rights violations due to the misinformation and public stigma around psychiatrized people.
New Research Links Psychotropic Drugs to Heart and Pancreatic Risks While Keto Diet Shows...
This week Mad in America examines three studies related to the adverse effects of psychotropic drugs and one that investigates the effect of keto...
Initiation or Psychosis? My Descent Into the Underworld
If my nervous system opens wide, if I descend into underworld states, it is not to glorify them. It is to return with language.
Fighting Psychiatric Subjectivation and Helping Others Along the Way: An Interview with Prateeksha Sharma
Prateeksha Sharma reflects on her own experience of recovery from psychosis with the help of music, family, and dogs, sheds lights on the treatment harms that often go unnamed and thus unnoticed, and discusses how to claim narrative, dignity, and voice.
Research Reveals Pharma Profits Outweigh Anti-Kickback Penalties
The pharmaceutical industry has a well documented history of corruption and placing profit above public health. A new research letter published in JAMA Open...
What If the Problem Is the Lens?
The very phrase "mental health" implies that our emotional life is organised along a continuum of health and illness, like physical disease.
Questioning the Prescription: Antidepressants and the Medicalization of Childhood
This week Mad in America explores four recently published articles related to antidepressant use in children and adolescents. The first reports that although clinical...
Finding Support Outside āThe Systemā
How a friend who wasnāt a mental health professional saved me from suicide by supporting me in a way my parents and the professionals hadnāt.
The Fight for the Soul of Psychotherapy: An Interview with Linda Michaels
Linda Michaels is a psychologist in private practice in Chicago and a co-founder of the Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAN).
She trained at the Illinois...
Are We Overlooking Homicidal Ideation in Psychiatry?
If patients are willing to bring these thoughts into treatment, psychiatry should be better prepared to receive them.
All Major Pharma Companies Implicated in Bribery Schemes, New Report Says
Pfizer, J&J, Eli Lilly, BMS, AstraZeneca, GSK, and more all engaged in systematic bribery schemes, according to decades of OECD reports. That's the finding...
Alfred Adler: Psychoanalysis for the People
Adler provides a starting point to end the apartheid within psychoanalysis that means psychology for the rich and psychics for the poor.
