In this piece, writer Bernabé De Vinsenci challenges the notion of contemporary normality as a legitimate attitude within an ...

Welcome to MIA’s Drug Withdrawal Resource page. You can find here a directory of providers who help people taper from psychiatric medications, and information about withdrawal guides, educational ...

What is striking about The Lost Art of Healing (1996) is that its author Bernard Lown (1921-2021), the renowned cardiologist who pioneered life-saving technological advances, makes clear that vital to ...

MIA affiliate, Mad in Norway, is hosting an international film festival from September 24-26 in Lillehammer, Norway. Each week, we will feature a film. This week is Emotional CPR Awakens Our Hearts ...

Voice hearing might be conceptualised as reflecting disowned or dissociated aspects of self, often occurring as a result of life events.

Iam a healthy person, but the mental health system made me sick. From the age of 30 to 36—a time when one is still young but is maturing and developing as an adult—I fell prey to a network that seemed ...

Chelsea McVeigh joins us to discuss her journey through antidepressant withdrawal. At 31, during a new pregnancy, she ...

A systematic review links stigma, stereotypes, and healthcare system pressures to missed physical diagnoses, while raising questions about the overlooked role of psychiatric drug-related harms.

One of the largest environmental disasters in history was the BP oil spill in 2010. An oil rig exploded off the Louisiana coast. Eleven workers were killed, and oil flowed for 87 days until the well ...

This article summarizes and expands on the original narrative published at the link above, adapting it to the Italian context ...

Before I was a psychiatrist, I was a psychiatric patient. I remember sitting in waiting rooms, waiting to see the next psychiatrist with a pit in my stomach, not knowing whether my suffering would be ...