Mad In America

Psychedelic Therapy Paper Linked to Sexual Abuse Faces Possible Retraction
“Every Time I Took a Pill, I Felt I Was No Longer Myself”: Young Adults Describe Antipsychotic Use After First-Episode Psychosis
Inside the Hot Flush Gold Rush: The Medicalization of Menopause Spreads to Perimenopause
Antidepressants Linked to Suicide Risk, Irregular Heartbeat, and Sudden Death
Depression Drug Approved by FDA Had 11 Failed Trials and an Advisory Committee Vote Against Approval
How Psychiatry Launders Our Debts: An Interview with Khameer Kidia
A Mother’s Journey Through Psychiatric Drug Harm and Healing
The Tragedy of Morton the Sixth
Using Lived Experience to Challenge Systemic Prescriber Inexperience of Antidepressant Withdrawal
Where Psychedelics Meet Madness: Intersections, Lessons and a Call for Transformative Research Agendas
When Treatment Becomes the Problem Part 2 – Robert Whitaker on the Psychophobia Podcast
An Attorney Goes Public—My Experience of Misdiagnosis, Damaging Drugs, and Lack of Informed Consent
On Psychological Abuse: How The System Twisted My Pleas For Help
The Mental Health Crisis We’re Not Naming
New Device for PTSD Being Sold to Veterans—No Evidence Provided to the Public
Surviving Psychiatry’s ‘Help’
Mercy, Magic, and the Medical Humanities: An Interview with Jussi Valtonen
When Treatment Becomes the Problem – Robert Whitaker on the Psychophobia Podcast
Beyond Medication: What England’s Experience Can Teach Us About Psychosis Care
Approving a Drug for Children and Adolescents That Is More Likely to Induce Suicidality Than Relieve Anxiety Is Concerning
Who Gets to Define Human Suffering?
Reconstructing 20+ Years of Psychiatric Treatment Through Medical Records
Anthropology, Arctic Iceland and Antidepressant Withdrawal: A Conversation With Fiona Frenzen
Despite What You’ve Heard, “Schizophrenia” Is Not “80% Heritable”
Genotype-Guided Antidepressant Selection: Has Precision Psychiatry Arrived?
Study Finds the Majority of Increases in Symptoms During Antidepressant Tapering are Related to Withdrawal, Not Relapse
On My Way to Norway with Julia Greenberg and Dory Previn
Open Dialogue Studies Highlight Collaboration, Clinician Support, and Stable Costs
Leonora Carrington Work Painted During Psychiatric Confinement to go on Show for First Time
When I Lost the Plot: A PTSD Implosion
Meeting Life Unmedicated: Aging, Protracted Withdrawal and Healing—A Conversation With Marsha Zaritsky
Mad in Slovenia
The APA Gave Him A Human Rights Award. Then They Cut His Microphone For Talking About Gaza
Your Vagus Nerve Is Not in Control: The Problem with Polyvagal Theory
Psychiatry’s Attack Dog Is at It Again
Autism and Psychiatry: A Dangerous Mix
Faith, Culture, and Coercion: An Interview with Cultural Psychiatrist G. Eric Jarvis
Rearranging Deck Chairs While the Titanic Goes Down—The American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology Issues Deprescribing Recommendations
“A System Built on Medication:” How Psychiatric Institutions Undermine Drug-Free Care
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