Therapists, Neutrality Is No Longer an Option — Politics Is Tearing Us Apart
To my fellow therapists: stop playing neutral. Stop minimizing systemic trauma to keep your comfort intact.
Waking Up to Your Emotions 101: The Other Side of Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal
Many people find themselves stuck: withdrawal symptoms might have passed, but emotionally, life feels overwhelming.
Antipsychotics Do Not Provide a Clinically Meaningful Benefit Over the Short-Term: A Review of...
70 years of RCTs fail to provide evidence that antipsychotics provide a clinically meaningful benefit for treating acute psychotic episodes.
The Pill That Stays After the Panic Ends
We need to stop expecting pills to do the work that only truth, connection, and expression can do. Relief is not the same as recovery.
Beyond Medicalization: Psychedelic Therapy and the Promise of Community-Based Healing
Will psychedelics represent something different, or will we recreate the same problematic paradigms?
Where Is God When I Cut Myself? Soul Care and the Voices of Self-Injury...
Care, as I’ve come to see it, is about sitting beside someone when the pain is too loud for words and not leaving.
Inertia as Neuroceptive State Beyond the Pathologizing Lens
Reframing inertia as an adaptive, biologically based survival response offers a powerful alternative to traditional deficit-oriented models.
Mad in (S)pain
A Q&A with the team members who edit and run Mad in (S)pain: "There must be a radical change in the way mental suffering is understood and cared for."
A Relationship Imbalance, Not A Chemical Imbalance
With DSM-III, everything we knew about relationship dynamics was buried under the tidal wave of the pharmaceutical industrial complex.
May Cause Side Effects–Radical Acceptance and Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: An Interview with Brooke Siem
Brooke Siem discusses her experiences of being medicated with antidepressants as a teenager, her withdrawal from a cocktail of psychiatric drugs and her debut memoir, May Cause Side Effects.
Mad in Portugal
Mad in Portugal's readers can find blogs, book reviews, and first-person testimonials from voices less present in mainstream narratives.
Between Diagnoses and Dialogue: The Silent Conflict Between Psychiatry and Psychology
In contrast to psychiatry's biomedical model, for many psychologists, care begins with listening rather than labelling.
Mad in Ireland
Although Jennifer Hough’s older sister, Valerie, was diagnosed with bipolar disorder when she was fifteen, Hough never saw her sister as mentally ill. “To...
W.H.O. and U.N. Join Calls to Transcend the Medical Model
From Psychology Today: It will be harder for die-hard defenders of the medical model to dismiss such organizations as the UN and the WHO as extremist, anti-psychiatry radicals.
Mad in Finland
The people who run Mad in Finland have experienced profound awakenings in the course of their lives, moments of awareness when they understood the failures of the psychiatric disease model and saw its harms.
Veterans Take Their “War Cry For Change” to Capitol Hill
Despite VHA’s $571 million suicide prevention budget, veterans are dying by suicide at alarmingly high rates. Advocates want answers and accountability.
The New Opium of the People: Why Our Mental Health Sector Has Failed
From iai News: By sweeping the social causes of distress into the private corners of self, our mental health sector has helped stifle collective and community action.
A Therapist Navigating Antidepressant Withdrawal: Nelson Lee on the Power of the Present Moment
Therapist and coach Nelson Lee joins us on the podcast to discuss how he approaches helping clients while navigating the complexities of antidepressant withdrawal.
Seclusion, Restraint and Coercion: Abuse ‘Far Too Common’ in Mental Health Services Across the...
From The Telegraph: The WHO has called for 'considerable' changes in countries of all income levels, citing widespread use of forced admission and treatment; manual, physical and chemical restraint; physical, verbal, psychological and sexual abuse; and unsanitary living conditions.
Chemically Imbalanced: Joanna Moncrieff on the Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth
Joanna Moncrieff joins Robert Whitaker to talk about her latest book, titled Chemically Imbalanced: The Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth. They discuss the serotonin story and the fact that there is no good evidence that a serotonergic deficiency is a primary cause of depression.
The Poetics and Politics of Our Mental Health Metaphors: An Interview with Laurence Kirmayer
Ayurdhi Dhar interviews influential cultural psychiatrist Laurence Kirmayer on how metaphors, histories, and social structures contour our experiences of suffering and healing.
Blindsided by Benzos: Had I Known
Doctors are not disclosing the harrowing truth that discontinuing these medications can plunge patients into relentless mental and physical torment.
Depression Caused by Kissing? Psychiatry Hits New Low with Clickbait Fear-Mongering
Instead of being laughed at, this study is being promoted across outlets like Vice and The Colbert Report.
‘Prescripticide’: Short Film by ISEPP
From ISEPP: The International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry looks at the devastating consequences of the unchallenged use of psychiatric drugs.
From Wounds to Labels to “Mental Illness”
We don’t need to understand someone’s entire past to exercise a little emotional humility—to see behavior as adaptation, not brokenness.
