Ayurdhi Dhar interviews survivor-researcher Diana Rose on her long-term adverse experiences from psychiatric drugs, survivor knowledge, and the humiliations built into the system. Diana Rose is an ...
After this happened to me, I know that I can handle anything in life, no matter how hard it is. Welcome to the Mad in America podcast. My name is Brooke Siem, and I am the author of a memoir on ...
A new study shows ECT can cause disastrous health and cognitive problems, and chronic impairments across many day-to-day activities. It turns out that wider adverse events are not rare; in fact, each ...
From Olga Runciman’s YouTube channel: “This talk was originally prepared for the WAPR 2025 conference in Vancouver. In it, I explore the role of peers in psychiatry — and the challenges many of us ...
It has now been 11 years, two months, and five days since I took my last psychotropic medications, Prozac and Ativan. And I must confess that after all this time, recovery still feels impossibly out ...
Steven Morgan, who was well known for his activist efforts in challenging conventional psychiatry, which included writing for Mad in America, recently passed away, at age 45. We would like to share ...
I recently got a chance to read Laura Delano’s memoir “Unshrunk” which tells the moving story of one young women’s mental suffering, her eventual recovery, and her relationship to the psychiatric ...
A new systematic review of 140 studies finds that when people with mental health conditions are supported to take part in decisions about their care, outcomes often improve. At the same time, without ...
When India Court MacWeeney and Talia Rose Weiner approached us with this idea—a full-length special issue on class and psychoanalysis, curated by them but featuring the contributions of diverse ...
Although screening for depression in primary care is recommended by US guidelines, there is no direct evidence that it improves outcomes. For that reason, guidelines in other countries, such as Canada ...
A new article published in Public Humanities argues that while the humanities are widely dismissed, other fields explicitly rely on the very skills that humanities education cultivates. Philosopher ...
Joining us for a roundtable discussion are Brooke Siem, David Antonuccio, Kim Witzak, Angie Peacock and David Healy. They discuss the challenges of openly discussing psychiatric drug withdrawal, the ...
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