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

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

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

The following is Irit’s Mad Pasts, Mad Prescence conference talk, as she wrote it: In 1978, when I was 20 years old, I had ...

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

Derek Blumke is an advocate and writer with a focus on mental health policy. Derek is an Air Force Afghanistan War veteran. Previously, Derek co-founded and served as the President of Student Veterans ...

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 ...

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 ...

And so long as you haven’t experienced this: to die and so to grow, you are only a troubled guest on the dark earth. —Goethe When I took my first shame-filled walk to the campus therapist’s office on ...

This week Mad in America examines three studies around racial bias in hospital and mental health settings. The first study finds that people with limited English proficiency are more likely to be ...

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 ...

From The Bulwark. “The Trump administration has made clear that it wishes to purge America of some of its undesirables. That includes, for instance, deporting 100 million people (a third of the ...