Former FDA officials write that claims that the black warning led to an increase in youth suicides are "factually inaccurate.

This week, Mad in America examines three articles related to negative effects of psychotherapy. The first reviews the ...

When someone seeks therapy, they are often already carrying more than they can comfortably manage. They may be distressed, ...

Why psychiatry's favored idioms may do harm—and how poetic attentiveness can open new paths to care. His forthcoming book, Healing and the Invention of Metaphor: Toward a Poetics of Illness Experience ...

Cult dynamics operate on a precise psychological blueprint: the monopolization of power and control. By deliberately isolating the individual, enforcing rigid binaries, and pathologizing any form of ...

Direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising of pharmaceuticals is a controversial topic within healthcare and psychiatry, with only two countries (US and New Zealand) allowing this practice. Proponents argue ...

The author and backpacking guide discusses his hospitalization and maltreatment as a teen, and the lessons learned as a guide in Yosemite. Based in California’s bay area, Lyon is an outdoor educator ...

Tangible Intangibilities: Sera writes here to share her thoughts on how the language we choose and our apparent need to concretize the inherently complex is leading to violations of rights and ...

“It’s hard to get off narcotics because you love them so much—but it’s hard to get off psychiatric drugs because you fear them so much.” Today, he joins us on the Mad In America podcast to talk about ...

From Mad in Norway: When Mad in Norway brings together professionals and user experience experts for a seminar on December 5, it takes place in the midst of an escalating debate about the validity of ...

On January 24, 2023, Lindsay Clancy from Duxbury, Massachusetts took the lives of her three young children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and eight-month-old Callan, and was charged with three counts of ...