Mad in America
JULY 14, 2025
Throughout her teenage years, everything Lopez-Aybar did was treated as a sign of her mental illness. These early experiences inspired Lopez-Aybar to get her PhD in clinical psychology and focus her research on psychiatric violence and social determinants of health. “I Her clinical training only reinforced her existing concerns. “I
Mad in America
MAY 17, 2025
However, mental disorders are not concrete things that can be found with a brain scanner or treated with medication like a bacterial infection with antibiotics. Much has already been written about these points, for example in my book on mental health and substance use (open access).
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Mad in America
MARCH 11, 2025
T he social work profession was historically rooted in a mission of improving the lives of the vulnerable, the oppressed, and those living in poverty. Social work originated with the Settlement House movement as a response to the increasing poverty brought about by industrialization. They seem to have been onto something.
Bullet Psych
JULY 28, 2025
Epidemiology & Pathogenesis 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 Genetics , environmental influences, and mental health comorbidities contribute to vulnerability. Environmental Influences : Areas with high unemployment and poverty , individuals with traumatic experiences , and peer/social influences increase risk (e.g.,
Mad in America
MARCH 19, 2025
Sugarman has spent decades critically interrogating the ways mainstream psychology reflects and reinforces the ideologies of neoliberalism , shaping how we understand identity, mental health, and human development. The transcript below has been edited for length and clarity. Listen to the audio of the interview here. They havent.
Mad in America
JULY 17, 2025
Books such as The Myth of Mental Illness by Thomas Szasz and The Death of Psychiatry by E. Fuller Torrey argued that the very concept of mental illness was meaningless. Other somatic interventions for mental illness, such as lobotomy and insulin coma, were as discredited as bloodletting. A bad metaphor. An excuse.
Mad in America
JANUARY 25, 2025
R esearch has found South Africa consistently ranks in the bottom three performing countries in terms of global mental health. Photo by tuxone The Mental State of the World Report measures the mental health of internet users only, making it limited in the South African context where close to one-third of the population isnt online.
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