Mad in America

Beyond Police and Psychiatrists: Chicago’s Plan to Transform Community Mental Health

“From Jacobin: ‘Police violence and lack of access to essential care services have emerged as twinned hallmarks of American life. In a nation in which people with unmet mental health needs are 16 times more likely to be killed by police,…
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The New WHO and UN Guidance: Psychiatry Must Entirely Change

“A fundamental shift is required within the field of mental health … There is an overreliance on biomedical approaches to treatment options, inpatient services and care, and little attention given to social determinants and community-based, person-centred interventions…” The new World…
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Madness and Method: Exploring the Realm of Unconventional Reasoning

This article by Justin Garson has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “What is madness? Is it merely a colloquial term for ‘mental illness,’ one that is alternatively reviled and reclaimed? Is it merely the lack of reason? Or…
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Depression Not So “Treatment-Resistant” After Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

“Researcher finds Intensive Short-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy reduced depressive symptoms in patients who did not improve with pharmacological treatment.“ This report by Dr. José Giovanni Luiggi-Hernández has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “A recent study published in Psychotherapy suggests that Intensive…
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Branding Diseases—How Drug Companies Market Psychiatric Conditions: An Interview with Ray Moynihan

In this podcast (with accompanying transcript) from Mad in America, Ayurdhi Dhar interviews Ray Moynihan. The podcast producers say: “Ray Moynihan is an accomplished health journalist and author who has won several awards for his work. He is also an academic…
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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

“By embracing the technology-worship “religion,” psychiatry is permitted to ignore the reality of its repeated failures.“ This article by Dr. Bruce Levine has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “How can psychiatry maintain its authority and influence despite its…
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Global Psychiatry’s Attempt to Excommunicate the Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health

This article by Susan McPherson and Jeppe Oute has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “Between 2014 and 2020, the UN published three reports on mental health, prepared by the special rapporteur on the right to health (Dainius Puras)….
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