Ten Years of Rocking the Boat: Reflecting on Mad in Americaâs Mission and Work
Continuing our 200th podcast, staff members join us to discuss reinvigorating MIA continuing education, science writing and blogs, personal stories, community commenting and family resources.
Art and Transformation: Creating Justice in Mental Health
An upcoming conference focuses on the perspective of artists and activists in answering what it means to have a just mental health care system: Who decides who is labelled as mad?
Interview With Award-Winning Mental Health Advocate Eugene LeBlanc
From Re-Threading Madness Radio: LeBlanc was awarded the New Brunswick Human Rights Award for his work as director of the Groupe de Support Emotionnel Inc. and as publisher and editor of Our Voice/Notre Voix.
David Healy â Polluting Our Internal Environments: The Perils of Polypharmacy
On the MIA Podcast, Dr David Healy discusses World Tapering Day, antidepressant treatment and sensory neuropathy and the difficulties that can be encountered when trying to deprescribe.
Anders SĂžrensen â Tackling Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal Through Research and in Practice
Anders SĂžrenson is a Danish clinical psychologist with a special interest in psychiatric drug withdrawal. He has undertaken research which assesses the state of guidance on psychiatric drug withdrawal and paid close attention to tapering methods with the aim of identifying approaches which might make withdrawal more tolerable for people.
Dear Psychiatry
Dear Psychiatry: We are done with your juvenile black-and-white bullying tactics that argue that because you cannot neatly contain Us in a box of your design that We are somehow the problem.
A New-Old Way of Coping with Grief
"How to Grieve" is a Renaissance recreation of a lost text from ancient Rome by Cicero, and itâs meant for a wide audience. It's packed with talk-therapy strategies for coping with grief.
Can You Punish a Child’s Mental Health Problems Away?
From The New York Times: Future generations will look back on the tactics used in the troubled teen industry and ask: How did we allow these practices to pass off as mental health treatment for so long?
Jim Flannery: Sorry Itâs Not Funny – Comedy, Hip-Hop and Activism
Born and raised in suburban Weathersfield, Connecticut, Jim Flannery was committed at four mental hospitals across the United States. There he received the best care available in the modern worldâŠtorture.
Routine Anxiety Screenings Will Cause Overdiagnosis, Overprescription, Psychologist Warns
From Fox News: "You canât just carve the world into 'disorders' and think youâre doing an adequate job of determining someoneâs mental health needs," said UCSF professor Dr. Jonathan Shedler.
Understanding the Limits of the Beneficial Effect of Antidepressants Reported in the Meta-analysis by...
Stone, M. B., Yaseen, Z. S., Miller, B. J., Richardville, K., Kalaria, S. N., & Kirsch, I. (2022). Response to acute monotherapy for major...
Jon JureidiniâEvidence-Based Medicine in a Post-Truth World
In this interview, Jon Jureidini talks about the issues with evidence-based medicine and describes what led to the debasement of a system originally conceived to challenge extravagant claims and poor science.
Brainwashing in the Medical Training | Two Letters to Alice Miller
From alice-miller.com: Just as children are often blamed for anything that happens to them, patients are often blamed, and thus denied adequate care, for their afflictions.
The Mad in the World Network: A Global Voice for Change
Mad in Ireland is the newest Mad in America affiliate. The network of affiliate sites is becoming a global voice for change.
“Holy Shit!” Psychiatryâs Cognitive Dissonance on Display
Even those who would seek to reform the profession of psychiatry cannot confront the reality that exists in the research literature
âThe Medical Model Has Presided Over Four Decades of Flat-Lining Outcomesâ
From The BPS: Our services, as they are currently configured, make the medicalisation of our suffering the core precondition for receiving any care or support at all. That is wrong and must change. Dr. James Davies
âWe Are Engaged in Something Much More Complex Than a Debate About the Evidenceâ
From The BPS: The current debate in mental health poses a challenge to power, and as we know, few people or institutions will give up power voluntarily. Dr. Lucy Johnstone
New Narrative Game Raises Awareness of ACEs & Their Impact on Youth Mental Health
From iThrive Games: Children of the Flame was created by youth designers at the SEED (System-Educated Expert Disrupters) Institute to raise awareness of trauma and trauma-informed practices.
Psychiatry, Fraud, and the Case for a Class-Action Lawsuit
For decades, psychiatry committed medical fraud when it told the public that antidepressants fixed a chemical imbalance in the brain.
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...
No Link Between Serotonin and Depression: What Does That Mean for Antidepressants?
Peter Simons covers in detail a new systematic review that debunks the widely popularized myth of low serotonin in depression, the âchemical imbalance theory.â
Psychiatryâs Failure Crisis: Are You Moderately or Radically Enlightened?
The moderately enlightened acknowledge some of psychiatryâs failures but, in common with the unenlightened, desperately attempt to preserve the institution of psychiatry.
Depression Likely Not Caused by a Chemical Imbalance in the Brain â New Study
From The Conversation: Until now, there has been no comprehensive review of the research on serotonin and depression that could enable firm conclusions about the chemical imbalance theory.
Andrew ScullâDesperate Remedies: Psychiatryâs Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness
Sociologist and author Andrew Scull discusses the history of psychiatry's "Desperate Remedies," from lobotomy and the asylum to the failures of today's drugs and the fads of ketamine and deep brain stimulation.
Laura Van Tosh: The Life of a Psychiatric Survivor Activist
Laura Van Tosh has been a leader in psychiatric survivor circles for 40 years, working at local, state and national levels.
