Inside A Forensic Psychiatry Unit: Rolled Ankles, RATs, and Invisible AbuseâThe Final Obstacles Toward...
Sexual abuse is inevitable, an unspoken and largely invisible tragedy that affects most, if not all, inmates who enter into any detention center, especially a so-called âmental hospital.â
America’s Psychiatric Facilities Are ‘Incubators’ for COVID-19
As the novel coronavirus continues to wreak havoc around the globe, whistleblowers at American psychiatric facilities paint a picture of mismanaged COVID-19 responses and lax safety protocols, putting patients, workers, and the surrounding communities in harmâs way. Some even allege coverups of deaths.
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.
Narrating Asylum History Through an Anti-Racist Lens: An Interview with Author Mab Segrest
Mab segrest is Professor Emeritus of Gender and Women's Studies at Connecticut College and the author of Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting...
The Impact the DSM Has Had On All of Us: An interview with Sarah...
"You're not going to sell many drugs by saying your problem is your life experiences. It's far more effective to say your problem is in the brain. It's an imbalance, we can correct that imbalance, just take our product."
Veterans Take Their “War Cry For Change” to Capitol Hill
Despite VHAâs $571 million suicide prevention budget, veterans are dying by suicide at alarmingly high rates. Advocates want answers and accountability.
Heritability Explains Less About Mental Disorders Than You Think
The focus on diseased brains and genes obscures the significance of social and environmental influences.
Fireside Project: Peer Support for Psychedelic Experiences
A new nonprofit support line takes a harm-reduction approach and helps people process their psychedelic experiences.
Thomas Szasz Versus the Mental Health Movement
Unbiased experts must examine the claims and research of psychiatry and issue a report as to whether psychiatry not only has a valid medical basis, but whether this basis justifies the widespread violation of medical ethics and the routine use of imprisonment and torture.
Britney Speaks: Are We Ready to Listen?
Comparing her circumstances to sex trafficking, Britney Spears told the judge she wished to sue her conservators and be allowed to tell reporters âwhat they did to me.â
Psychiatry’s Cycle of Ignorance and Reinvention: An Interview with Owen Whooley
Ayurdhi Dhar interviews sociologist Owen Whooley about psychiatry's stubborn perseverance in the face of recent DSM embarrassments and the failures of the biomedical model.
âProgress Only Occurs when People Make Demandsâ: Paolo del Vecchio Reflects on a Life...
Paolo del Vecchio speaks with Leah Harris about his decades of public service at SAMHSA, what worries him most about mental health in todayâs America, and where he sees hope in the recovery movement that he helped create.
Unheard Voices: Carlton Brown
In the first installment of MIA's Unheard Voices series, Carlton Brown talks about his life, living on the streets, the psychiatric system, and survival.
MIA Survey: Ex-patients Tell of Force, Trauma and Sexual Abuse in America’s Mental Hospitals
In a MIA survey of people who had been patients in mental hospitals, nearly 500 respondents told of an experience that was often traumatic, and frequently characterized by a violation of their legal rights, forced treatment with drugs, and physical or sexual abuse. Only 17% said they were âsatisfiedâ with the âquality of the psychiatric treatmentâ they received.
Giving Caregivers a Platform: Meagan, Mother of Matt
A mom describes her son's descent into the harms of psychiatryâand his way out. "It was really difficult to watch Matt decline. He had given up hope that he could get well."
The Nurtured Heart Approach Goes Mainstream: Research and Experience Support âCelebrating Greatness in Every...
The Nurtured Heart Approach represents a massive shift in thinkingâabout schooling, about children and how to raise them, about how we regard those with intensity, and about the medical model pathologizing them.
The TikTokification of Mental Health on Campus
Many people view their social media feeds as reflections of their identitiesâand when posts center on a specific diagnosis, it can feel like the platform is diagnosing them.
Martin Harrow: The Galileo of Modern Psychiatry (1933 – 2023)
Harrow's research over the years told of how long-term antipsychotic use is associated with worse outcomes, even after controlling for psychosis severity.
From Compliance to Activism: A Mother’s Journey
Through years of turmoil and confusion, Cindi Fisherâs enduring love for her involuntarily committed son gradually changed her from compliant mom to mental health civil rights activist. Thatâs when authorities banned her from even contacting her son. But could she be a bellwether of a coming nation-wide wave of protestors?
The Serotonin Zombie: Authors of New Study Try to Breathe New Life into the...
Despite new claims that their study provides "clear evidence" linking serotonin and depression, their data actually supports the opposite conclusion: serotonin levels did not correlate with depression.
Popular Obesity Drugs Monitored for Suicidal Thinking
Concerns rise about the adverse effects and longer-term harms of GLP-1 injections like Ozempic and Wegovy.
âA Dangerous Substanceâ: The Impact of Social Media on Youth Mental Health
This is what social media does, she says. It draws people in. It hurts people. In the worst cases, it kills people.
âDad, Something’s Not Right. I Need Helpâ: Richard Fee on the Dangers of Adderall
In appointments that last five to seven minutes, all doctors do is push drugsâpsychiatric drugs, ADHD meds, everything.
John Read and Jeffrey Masson – Biological Psychiatry and the Mass Murder of âSchizophrenicsâ
On the Mad in America podcast this week, we hear from the co-authors of a paper published in the journal Ethical Human Psychology and...
Busting the Deinstitutionalization Myth: We Actually Have More Beds Than Ever Before
New data upends common beliefs about asylum closures, deinstitutionalization, and rates of psychiatric coercion.
