Faith in Oneself: How Adversity Made Me Anti-fragile
Post-traumatic growth doesn’t look like Superwoman. It’s simply the strength to endure.
Antidepressant Withdrawal: Finding an Astronomical Perspective – A Conversation with Safa Askeri
Maybe you have this interpretation that you're not going to recover and you have permanent damage, but it's not like that. I'm very hopeful.
Remembering Steven Morgan
Steven Morgan, who was well known for his activist efforts in challenging conventional psychiatry, which included writing for Mad in America, recently passed away,...
Special Issue: Class and Psychoanalysis
A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary exploration of class and labor in psychoanalytic thinking and the psychoanalytic professional field.
False Profits, or, Thera-nos
On predatory private group practices and the Lower Ed enshittification of social work training.
“You Need to Know Your Value”: Shame and the Fee in Psychoanalytic Socialization
My focus on the fee makes tangible the powerful role of shame in shaping clinicians' attitudes toward the practical business of psychotherapy.
Psychodynamics in the Red (or How I Went Broke in Therapy)
Frankly, I was hoping therapy would cost me less. In the end, it would cost me almost everything I had.
Use of the Self: Class Politics and Liberatory Potentials of Containment and Enactment...
Enactments, we learned, were bound to occasionally occur and typically required processing and remedy.
Class Notes from the Consulting Room
Capitalist realism: whatever the downsides, we’re trained to believe this is the best system we’ve got.
What Psychoanalytic Clinicians Can Learn From John Womack’s “Grubbing Analysis”
Finding the place to make an intervention that builds towards a change in the balance of power in the sector we work in.
The Rate of Exchange
We value what we pay for, you reason, but you will slide your scale for me. And so, we begin our work together. The talking cure.
There’s No Escape From the World
There’s always an economic transaction underneath. When the business stops working out, the therapy is apt to end.
Evoking Discomfort: Expressive Writing on Money, Class, and Psychoanalysis
Therapists seem to be doing a massive amount of mental gymnastics to rationalize professional practices that are financially motivated.
The Healing Powers of Nature
For folks who struggle to fully trust, or attach, to a therapist, forming an attachment with nature can be revelatory.
This Impossible Fantasy by Nicholas Cook
It’s a sunny Tuesday, and from the outside my life seems
normal.
But life has gotten busy, and I am having difficulty responding to the stress.
The...
On Love in America
After I nearly died during open-heart surgery, I realized that there is no room in this second life for anything but gratitude — and love.
Not Even the Unborn Are Safe from Psychiatric Harm
Medical organizations and the media dismiss the experts and the large body of research telling of fetal harm from exposure to SSRIs during pregnancy.
How to be a Critical Psychologist Without Losing Your Soul: A Conversation With Zenobia...
On the Mad in America podcast, Zenobia Morrill, José Giovanni Luiggi-Hernández and Justin Karter join us to explore the need to raise awareness of psychological approaches that challenge mainstream perspectives.
Veteran Suicide Prevention Legislation Introduced That Will Save Lives
The bill will require prescribers to obtain written informed consent including the risks of psychiatric drugs.
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.
“I Made it Through the Horrors of Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal” A Conversation with Comedian...
Dex Carrington, AKA Jørgen Kjønø, is a Norwegian-American stand-up comedian and actor. He joins us on the Mad In America podcast to talk about his experience with Lyrica and Zyprexa, including a five-and-a-half-year taper after 10 years on the drugs.
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."
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.
The AI Who Helped Me Leave
In quiet desperation, I opened ChatGPT. I didn’t know then that I was about to build the most consistent, emotionally attuned dialogue I’d ever had.
Screen Time for Children Under Three: A Trigger for Virtual Autism?
"A Stone Unturned" weaves together the research and stories of autism symptoms reversed by removing screens and adding more parent engagement.
