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Psychiatry’s Failure to Learn: How Institutional Defensiveness Allows Patient Harm to...

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Psychiatric institutions exert considerable power over patients and service users, including whether or not their account’s are considered credible and what harms are measured...

Four New Studies Raise Concerns About Benzodiazepine-Related Harms

Is It Time to Rethink Psychiatry’s Diagnostic Bible?

Four Studies Find Psychiatric Drug Use Is Associated With Serious Health...

Beyond “What’s Wrong With You?”: Rethinking Psychiatric Diagnosis Through Personal Narrative

Fear, Mistrust, and Harm in Police-Involved Mental Health Crises

Patients Warn That Mental Health Surveillance Could Undermine Care

Overmedication, Ambivalence, and Self-Blame: New Research on Psychiatric Drugs and Personality...

Soteria Model Linked to Lower Psychiatric Readmission Rates, Study Finds

Dance and Exercise Show Promise as Alternative Approaches to Depression

Pharmaceutical Industry Corruption Is Structural, Systemic, and Profitable, New Review Finds

“Sticky Labels” and Overlooking Physical Illness—Researchers Highlight Risks of Psychiatric Diagnosis

Coercive Practices in Psychiatry Are Being Systematically Underreported, Study Suggests

Antidepressants: Limited Evidence, Inadequate Information, and Little Support to Stop

“It’s Devastated Me That I’m Not Being Listened To:” Patients Prescribed...

Psychiatric Detention Isn’t Just About Clinical Need, Four Studies Suggest

When Financial Stress Becomes a Mental Health Problem

Independent Evaluation Finds No Benefit to Coercion Under New York’s Kendra’s...

Childhood Adversity May Shape Mental Health Across Generations, but Positive Experiences...

Benzodiazepine Use Tied to Increased Risk of Death, Especially at Higher...

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Essays

The Person They Never Asked About

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The modern mental health system has constructed an elaborate apparatus for observing, classifying, medicating, documenting, and containing people while steadily losing the institutional capacity to know them.

Marketing GLP-1 Drugs for Addiction: Why Critics Are Skeptical

Psychiatric Drugs and Violence: What Can Genetics Tell Us? A Conversation...

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Getting Rid of the Pain Before Answering Its Questions: Psychiatry’s Damage...

When Stopping Prescription Drugs Is Hard: Alicia Martin and the TaperMate...

Remembering Dory Previn: An Interview by Peter Sterling in 1974

First-Person Knowledge and the Meanings of Madness: An Interview with Gail...

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When Medical Science Refuses to Correct Itself

Mad Studies Is More Than Lived Experience: An Interview with Merrick...

The West Doesn’t Have All the Answers: An Interview with Dinesh...

Unlearning Restraints: A Psychiatrist’s Journey from Patient to Practitioner

Go/No-Go—How Mental Health Research Took a Wrong Turn: An Interview with...

How the Moral Panic on Psychiatric Bed Shortages is Fueling a...

Yet Another Claim About the Benefits of Antidepressants Bites The Dust

Psychedelic Therapy Paper Linked to Sexual Abuse Faces Possible Retraction

Unlearn Your Pain: Harnessing the Power of Neuroplasticity – A Conversation...

Inside the Hot Flush Gold Rush: The Medicalization of Menopause Spreads...

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Depression Drug Approved by FDA Had 11 Failed Trials and an...

How Psychiatry Launders Our Debts: An Interview with Khameer Kidia

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What’s Been Lost in Medicine Is Shameful in Psychiatry: Reflections on...

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Abolish Forced Treatment Now – Rob Wipond

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Rob Wipond appears on the Psychophobia* podcast, hosted by Dr. Michael R. Montgomery.

Robert Whitaker Discusses Rise in Suicides Among Active Military

Forced Psychiatric Care Can Feel Like a “Forever Sentence,” Victims Say

Adults With Severe Mental Illness die 15 to 20 Years Earlier...

Plan to Limit NHS Diagnoses of ADHD Attacked as ‘Rationing’ Healthcare

Kill Pill Story Podcast – Roxanne Stewart-Johnson: A Psychiatric Refugee

Psychotherapy Is Not a Product: What the Substitutes Leave Out

Controversial Treatment Still Used on 2,500 Brits a Year as Survivor...

The Great ADHD Myth: What you Need to Know About Channel...

Treatment Involving Patient’s Family Cuts Mental Health Hospital Admissions, Study Finds

The Disease Model Has Failed – Now What?

SSRIs & Psychedelics: Another Psychiatric Drug? | Robert Whitaker

Is ADHD Really a Brain Condition? Five Experts Debate the Evidence

A Psychedelic-Therapy Paper Has Sat Under an Expression of Concern Since...

Rising Number of People Seeking ADHD Diagnosis Without Treatment, say Experts

‘Blanket’ Forced Treatment of Involuntary Psychiatric Patients Unconstitutional, B.C. Court Rules

A Message from the MadFreedom Advocates Board of Directors: DMH...

A Point-by-Point Criticism of “The Top 10 Misleading Claims About Antidepressants”

The Americans Trump Would Rather Not See

When Treatment Becomes the Problem Part 2 – Robert Whitaker on...