Mad in America

MAY 12, 2025

Editor’s Note: This story was originally published on our affiliate site, Mad in the UK. It was written by David Hansen, a crisis worker at a person-centred, survivor-led mental health crisis service. I have tasked myself with mapping out my understanding of how therapy and mental health relate to politics. Is therapy political?

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Trauma and the brain Poverty and mental health Pharmaceuticals Genetics and mental health 108

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

P sychiatry’s serotonin-imbalance theory of depression, long discarded by researchers, was finally flushed down the toilet by psychiatry and the mainstream media in 2022. And psychiatrists’ primary treatments for depression—their so-called “antidepressants”—are now circling the drain. 2) What approach to depression makes sense? Genes and depression?

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Poverty and mental health Childhood trauma Neurotransmitters and mental health Trauma and the brain 145

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

MAY 15, 2025

What happens in the brain when impulsive decisions take over? Why do some brains lose control under high arousal, while others stay composed? Why do some brains lose control under high arousal while others stay composed? Why do some people struggle to control their actions when emotions run high? This is Under the Cortex.

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Trauma and the brain Neurotransmitters and mental health Genetics and mental health Dialectical Behavior Therapy 84

Mad in America

APRIL 28, 2025

Jo: Hi Cathy, thanks for joining me to talk about your new book Unshackled Mind: A Doctors Story of Trauma, Liberation and Healing. At the end of 2001, I had a temporary reprieve. Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on our affiliate site, Mad in the UK. Jo Watson, psychotherapist and founder of Drop the Disorder!

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Trauma and the brain Childhood trauma Self-awareness Hospitality 82

Mad in America

DECEMBER 1, 2023

As a last resort, I underwent experimental psychosurgery in September 2001 (bilateral anterior cingulotomy). “T he only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,” said Edmund Burke. It is how and why the tyrants prevail. So what, you may ask, has this to do with the psychiatric paradigm of today?

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Hospitality Trauma and the brain Personality disorders Pharmaceuticals 145

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

‘C hairman Mao’ greeted me gently from the back of a small Chinese ‘bread van’, a simple but practical vehicle found all over China in June 2001. I presume some events are just too traumatising for a human being to retain in memory and that day had not been a good one. Perhaps broken open a bit, but in a good way.

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Trauma and the brain Hospitality Education 110

Clear Behavioral Health

MARCH 7, 2025

Your entire body and brain are changing. Normally, when you excessively drink alcohol, your brain chemistry becomes unbalanced. Normally, when you excessively drink alcohol, your brain chemistry becomes unbalanced. When feeling more confident about the detox process, you make the right choice for your health and future.

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Trauma and the brain Sleep and mental health Group therapy Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 98