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Beyond Medicalization: Psychedelic Therapy and the Promise of Community-Based Healing

Mad in America

In November 2022, Colorado voters passed Proposition 122, the Natural Medicine Health Act, creating a first-of-its-kind framework for accessing certain psychedelic fungi and plants for healing purposes. Taking all of this into consideration, the question for me has become: Do psychedelics represent something meaningfully different here?

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Horses 'mane' inspiration for new generation of social robots

Psychiatry News -- Science Daily

Equine-assisted interventions (EAIs) offer a powerful alternative to traditional talking therapies for patients with PTSD, trauma and autism, who struggle to express and regulate emotions through words alone. Skip to main content Your source for the latest research news Follow: Facebook X/Twitter Subscribe: RSS Feeds Newsletter New!

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Beyond the ADHD Headlines: A Nuanced Look at Diagnosis, Drugs, and Daily Life

Child Mind Intitute

As with many clinical conditions, each childs genetic, brain-based, and environmental influences blend into a distinct profile. We need to rule out other causes of inattention (like anxiety or trauma) and ensure were capturing the childs full spectrum of strengths and needs. And ADHD is not only a disorder of childhood.

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Depression: Psychiatry’s Discredited Theories and Drugs Versus a Sane Model and Approach

Mad in America

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. Less publicized in 2022 was another powerful discrediting of psychiatry’s neurobiological disease model. 2) What approach to depression makes sense?

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My Red October – An Army Veteran’s Crucible to Recovery

Mad in America

Diana Rodriguez in Bagram, Afghanistan, 2012 The scene above played out in October 2022 at my family’s home just outside of Fort Liberty, North Carolina where I’d been stationed in the Army years earlier. M y brother Jesse sat next to me on the couch in my living room. Two police officers stood inside my entryway, watching us. My mind raced.

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My Story of Surviving Psychiatry

Mad in America

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Mad in the UK. The author, Catherine Heseltine, is a psychiatric survivor, a mum to three wonderful children and a political activist in London. I want to start my story at the end. This holiday has been amazing. How heaven could possibly be more beautiful than this island I can’t imagine!

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Part 4: Neurodiversity: New Paradigm, or Trojan Horse?

Mad in America

Editor’s Note: Mad in the UK and Mad in America are jointly publishing this four-part series on neurodiversity. The series was edited by Mad in the UK editors, and authored by John Cromby and Lucy Johnstone (with part three written by an anonymous contributor). The series is being archived here.