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How persistent, unbearable suffering, due to prolonged withdrawal from antipsychotics prescribed as a sleeping medication, led to euthanasia.

Author Deborah Kasdan discusses her memoir of her late sister, "Roll Back The World."

An analysis of the huge increase in drugs for children, the role of Big Pharma, and a look at the impact on families and communities.

To heal from unattached burdens requires an understanding of the mind that psychiatry lacks.

From Mental Health Film Comment: MIA Staff Writer Miranda Spencer discusses Britney Spears' conservatorship and media portrayal of the star's emotional struggles.

Psychology has greatly broadened its scope since Nietzsche’s day and yet his implied criticism is one the discipline is still wrestling with.

Our guest today is Diane Dimond, a longtime, award-winning investigative journalist specializing in crime and justice issues. As a freelance journalist, syndicated columnist, and...

All the new hype about miracle psychedelic treatments as the next wave of cures for mental disorders leaves out the risk of therapy abuse.

Critiquing the wildly popular 1994 eugenicist book, which purported to link IQ and race, by reviewing the supposed genetic evidence.

Researchers can’t predict the 15% who benefit from antidepressants, and the other 85% are unnecessarily exposed to the harms of the drugs.

Just as it risks transmitting harmful narratives about pain and distress, psychotherapy might also subvert these very harms in pursuit of genuine healing and transformation.

In Part 2 of our reader Q&A podcast, MIA founder Robert Whitaker answers questions on pharmaceutical marketing and issues with psychiatric treatments including psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy.

New research finds the negative drug effects most commonly associated with initiating antidepressant discontinuation are anxiety, suicidal thoughts, vomiting, and rashes.

On the Mad in America podcast this week we have Robert Whitaker with us to answer questions sent in by readers and listeners.

MIA’s Ayurdhi Dhar interviews Ray Moynihan about the marketing of disorders, broadening of diagnoses, and harmful treatments.

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.

The STAR*D Study has been cited as real-world evidence of the efficacy of antidepressants. In truth, it told of a failed paradigm of care.

Heather Armstrong’s life was taken by psychiatry, and our unwillingness to scrutinize their methods of madness.

New research by Jim van Os and Peter Groot finds that using hyperbolic tapering to discontinue antidepressants reduces withdrawal effects.

Despite living in Israel for five years, I had no idea that one of the few Soteria houses in the world was only a short train ride away.

The suffering caused by physical, sexual or psychological violence, common in women's lives, is pathologized by psychiatry.

From MedPage Today: From this vantage, the FDA looks like an agency whose goal is to preserve pharmaceutical profits.

In this interview with MIA's Justin Karter, psychiatrist Bradley Lewis discusses the value of art, the humanities, and mad studies in shaping a richer understanding of psychological experiences.

The mental health system needs to adopt the principle of holistic care, promoting fundamental rights and the relevance of family support.

By setting standards of equality, competence, and accountability, Szasz worked for the liberation of the "mental patient.”