Not Serotonin Deficiency: A Veteran’s Story of Misdiagnosis and Medication Harm
When my experience did not match what I had been told to expect, it was minimized and dismissed.
The Madness Pill: How Psychedelics and Stimulants Shaped Biological Psychiatry — An Interview with...
Justin Garson joins us to talk about the work of Solomon Snyder, whose discoveries ushered in the era of biological psychiatry.
“It Was Like They Crushed a Beautiful Flower”: Families Speak Out on the Harms...
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a controversial practice, with recent research finding harm, as well as a lack of efficacy and informed consent. A new...
From Hyde Park, London, to a Global Movement: Marking Stolen Lives on Prescribed Harm...
On 29 July, Prescribed Harm Day, we are inviting individuals and communities around the world to host their own Stolen Lives gatherings.
What I’ve Learned from My Son’s Unusual Mental States
Distress can take many forms, and most people with mental health challenges or substance use challenges carry deep unaddressed wounds.
The Madness Pill: One Doctor’s Quest to Understand Schizophrenia
Sol Snyder burned this medical vision so deeply into our collective consciousness that it’s almost impossible to see outside of it.
Desperate Cries for Help and the Copper Toxicity Doctors Missed
Although there is a known correlation between estrogen and copper, mainstream doctors don’t test copper levels or estrogen-dominance.
Finding God and Leaving Psychiatry: An Interview With Kelsey Osgood
Kelsey Osgood joins us to talk about her new book Godstruck: Seven Women's Unexpected Journeys to Religious Conversion and her experiences with anorexia and psychiatric drugs.
Which Would You Prefer: Electroshock or a Safe Taper?
Imagine you’ve spent your entire life as a healthy person, seven decades in fact, and suddenly being recommended ECT by the psychiatry department of a prestigious university.
New Research Links Psychotropic Drugs to Heart and Pancreatic Risks While Keto Diet Shows...
This week Mad in America examines three studies related to the adverse effects of psychotropic drugs and one that investigates the effect of keto...
Initiation or Psychosis? My Descent Into the Underworld
If my nervous system opens wide, if I descend into underworld states, it is not to glorify them. It is to return with language.
Fighting Psychiatric Subjectivation and Helping Others Along the Way: An Interview with Prateeksha Sharma
Prateeksha Sharma reflects on her own experience of recovery from psychosis with the help of music, family, and dogs, sheds lights on the treatment harms that often go unnamed and thus unnoticed, and discusses how to claim narrative, dignity, and voice.
Research Reveals Pharma Profits Outweigh Anti-Kickback Penalties
The pharmaceutical industry has a well documented history of corruption and placing profit above public health. A new research letter published in JAMA Open...
What If the Problem Is the Lens?
The very phrase "mental health" implies that our emotional life is organised along a continuum of health and illness, like physical disease.
Questioning the Prescription: Antidepressants and the Medicalization of Childhood
This week Mad in America explores four recently published articles related to antidepressant use in children and adolescents. The first reports that although clinical...
Finding Support Outside ‘The System’
How a friend who wasn’t a mental health professional saved me from suicide by supporting me in a way my parents and the professionals hadn’t.
The Fight for the Soul of Psychotherapy: An Interview with Linda Michaels
Linda Michaels is a psychologist in private practice in Chicago and a co-founder of the Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAN).
She trained at the Illinois...
Are We Overlooking Homicidal Ideation in Psychiatry?
If patients are willing to bring these thoughts into treatment, psychiatry should be better prepared to receive them.
All Major Pharma Companies Implicated in Bribery Schemes, New Report Says
Pfizer, J&J, Eli Lilly, BMS, AstraZeneca, GSK, and more all engaged in systematic bribery schemes, according to decades of OECD reports. That's the finding...
Alfred Adler: Psychoanalysis for the People
Adler provides a starting point to end the apartheid within psychoanalysis that means psychology for the rich and psychics for the poor.
Therapy Treats the Individual, but the Problem Is the Self We Were Taught to...
If human regulation is fundamentally relational, then well-being cannot be reduced to insight, learning, growth, or individual coping strategies alone.
Coercive Measures in Psychiatry are Increasing, Traumatic, and Linked to Systemic Failings
This week, Mad in America explores three studies related to the use of coercive psychiatric measures. The first finds that rates of coercive measures...
Undoing Thirteen Years of Iatrogenic Illness
No one was ever going to tell me that I was never mentally ill. It would mean that everything The System did to me was a lie.
Examining Psychiatric Medication Tapering and Withdrawal: The Evolving Role of Pharmacists — A Conversation...
Agnes Higgins and Cathal Cadogan join us to discuss their work on understanding the experiences of people tapering from psychiatric medication and the role that pharmacists could potentially play when people are considering stopping their psychiatric drugs.
Wouter Kusters and God
God may not exist, but man’s relationship with God certainly does exist, and that is what mysticism is all about.
