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

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

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

Commonsense Rebellion: Bruce E. Levine, a practicing clinical psychologist often at odds with the mainstream of his profession, writes and speaks about how society, culture, politics and psychology ...

Leah Harris' writing and independent journalism appear in Passengers Journal, The Huffington Post, the Disability Visibility Project, Mad in America, Truthout, Filter and others; and in anthologies ...

Mad Law and Human Rights: An attorney and psychiatric survivor, Tina Minkowitz writes on the new perspectives in human rights law that emerged in the work done by users and survivors of psychiatry on ...

Last March, a group of beaming politicians with shovels posed for a photo-op at a ground breaking ceremony on the 110-year-old campus of Metropolitan State Hospital in Norwalk, California. Governor ...

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 ...

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 ...

New analysis suggests logotherapy can ease depression and anxiety while helping people reclaim a sense of purpose, but gaps in evidence and equity remain. A narrative review of 132 studies finds that ...

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 ...