It all started in October 2018 in the quiet, academic atmosphere of Leipzig. I was there to do my doctorate – a dream I had ...
Robert Whitaker appears on the Psychophobia podcast hosted by Dr. Michael Montgomery. Watch the interview here. "The former ...
For over twenty years, NICE in England has recommended that people experiencing psychosis should be offered psychological ...
From Mad in the UK, a remembrance of Marius Romme, who recently passed away. He was a founder of the Hearing Voices network. ...
They pulled and tore at the flimsy nightgown she wore ...
This week, Mad in America examines four studies related to the use of language around disabilities and mental health ...
From Psychology Today. “In a recent essay, “The Ground Beneath the Clinic,” influential psychiatrist and philosopher Awais Aftab explicitly concedes that the attempt to ground psychiatric authority in ...
The mainstream psychiatry literature contains the common and mostly unchallenged claim that schizophrenia is roughly 80% heritable. This figure is reported largely uncritically in the media, on ...
“There used to be a joke about me that I was unkillable because I had been face-to-face with death so often and come through it.” —Diana Rose A few months ago when I interviewed Diana Rose, she said ...
Psychosis and conditions like Schizophrenia have been tainted with pessimism right from the beginning. Doctors often don’t know that recovery is possible and can convey this fatalism to their patients ...
An FDA-cleared brain stimulation device for ADHD doesn’t work, according to new evidence. But it will likely remain on the market and even provide a pathway for future approvals of similar ineffective ...