Mad in America

OCTOBER 21, 2023

H ow can psychiatry maintain its authority and influence despite its repeated scientific failures and lack of progress—now even acknowledged by key members of the psychiatric establishment and the mainstream media? In 2023, Time reported , “About one in eight U.S. As of late 2022, just 31% of U.S.

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Mad in America

MARCH 30, 2024

By late November, 2018, Matt found a psychiatrist who diagnosed him with Bipolar 1 disorder after one visit, prescribed Latuda, tapered him off Prozac, and practically sentenced him to be medicated for life with an overall “fair” prognosis. The ER physician had given him Prozac. I could see his lifeless eyes.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Although Jennifer Houghs older sister, Valerie, was diagnosed with bipolar disorder when she was fifteen, Hough never saw her sister as mentally ill. I knew she didn’t have a brain disease. To me, she was just my sister, Hough explains. Once you get a label in psychiatry, that’s the answer to everything, says Hough.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

W hen I had my first schizophrenic hallucination 61 years ago, I told myself that I was in the privileged position of having the terrifying knowledge of what such a hallucination actually is. I had seen the Light and it was divine. I told myself that this was surely a Beatific Vision. I told myself that this was surely a Beatific Vision.

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International Society for Interpersonal Psychother

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

The ability to mentalize is a fundamental capacity required in our social environment and impairments may utilise a risk for clinical psychiatric disorders (A. Individuals on the autism spectrum often experience comorbid depression, social stress, and difficulties in relating to themselves and others. Bateman & Fonagy, 2008).

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Mad in America

JANUARY 14, 2025

I am referring to the idea, first popularized by Sigmund Freud, that a frequent cause of schizophrenia is the repression of homosexuality. By homosexual repression I refer to the conscious or unconscious choice of a homosexual not to engage in homosexual relations. Most people grow up in religions that condemn homosexuality.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 17, 2024

If I am correct in saying that exile can cure someone of schizophrenia, then I have proven that psychiatrists are wrong in claiming that mental illness results from a chemical imbalance in the brain. I know very well that my psychosis was a consequence of numerous traumas that had nothing to do with the chemicals in my brain.

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