Pills, Profits & the Untold Story: A Conversation With Robert Whitaker
Katinka Newman interviews Robert Whitaker for the Med Free Mental Fitness podcast.
Becoming Stewards of Shadow: Beyond Great Men and Myths of Invention
Before the psyche was carved into parts with elegant diagrams and marketed methods, cultures walked with shadow.
The Degrees on the Wall
The therapists who helped me most weren’t the ones who dazzled with their knowledge. They were the ones who made me feel less alone.
Court-ordered Treatment for Serious Mental Illness is ‘Inconclusive,’ Says Federal Report
From STAT (paid subscription required): "In the last decade, the federal government has provided $146 million to organizations that provide outpatient care to people...
Mad in Puerto Rico
Since Puerto Rico is, in essence, a colony of the United States, colonialism has a heavy impact on mental health and the healthcare system.
Response Rates in Psychiatric Drug Trials are Statistical Hocus Pocus
Peter Gøtzsche writes for the Brownstone Institute: "The outcomes used in psychiatric drug trials are not meaningful, and psychiatric diagnoses and names of drug...
Psychiatry Criticism Politics: When the Enemy of Your Enemy Is Not Your Friend
Those who would like to abolish psychiatry in order to replace it with their own coercive, authoritarian policies are not friends.
The Cat Is Out of the Bag
I’ve healed; not overnight and not without effort, but today I feel the vitality that I had before my psychiatrization began as a teen.
A Mad Perspective on IFS Training
I became concerned that the reason I was unable to hear from my parts was because I take antipsychotic medication.
Protecting the False Narrative About Antidepressants
We have a mental health crisis because the existing depression drug-focused approaches are not working.
ChatGPT Weakens Your Ability to Think, MIT Study Finds
“This cognitive offloading phenomenon raises concerns about the long-term implications for human intellectual development and autonomy,” the researchers write.
Goodbye, Brian Wilson
I propose to call any psychiatrist-patient bond “Landy syndrome” after psychiatrist Eugene Landy, the captor, abuser and oppressor of Brian Wilson.
Madness Is a Human Phenomenon
We can see how complicated it is to be human and how much human suffering (called psychopathology) is a complex and unique human phenomena.
Why Psychotherapy Should Busy Itself with Building Character Strengths, Not Reducing Symptoms
Clients want outcomes like self-understanding, self-agency, and social engagement from therapy.
It’s a No-Brainer: Living Proof We Are More Than Our Parts
Terms like “reward systems,” “emotion centers,” and “decision circuits” suggest precision. But these aren’t discoveries—they’re metaphors.
People Are Being Involuntarily Committed After Spiraling Into “ChatGPT Psychosis”
From Futurism: "Many ChatGPT users are developing all-consuming obsessions with the chatbot, spiraling into severe mental health crises characterized by paranoia, delusions, and breaks...
People Say They’ve Faced Withdrawals from SSRIs. They Want Recognition and Research
A mere 13 years after being written about by Mad in America and others, NPR realises that SSRI antidepressants might be difficult to get...
Soteria—A Human Response to a Human Problem
The Soteria model has gained recognition in Israel, with more than 35 such "stabilizing houses" now operating, most publicly funded.
Conceptual Synaesthesia as Cognitive Literacy
I don’t just feel things; I translate them. For those of us who experience it, it is not a novelty. It is a structure for thinking.
Why Psychosis Is Not So Crazy: A Conversation with Stijn Vanheule
Vanheule urges clinicians to listen for the structure in psychotic thought. He offers clinical examples that reframe hallucinations as a form of creative response to unspeakable dilemmas.
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.
Man Developed Psychosis After Being Jailed for 13 years on Indefinite Sentence
From The Guardian: "A prisoner driven to psychosis after being jailed for more than a decade under an indeterminate sentence has finally been moved...
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.
MIA Writer Peter Sterling’s Memoir of Global Engagement
In a publication titled Memoirs of Global Engagement, MIA writer Peter Sterling tells of his path to a life of "global engagement."
