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Mad in America
APRIL 5, 2025
We both ended up writing to Robert Whitaker and posting blogs on Mad in America. Whereas there was a time in my life when blogs just seemed to flow out of me, I have experienced much greater difficulty writing in recent years. Years later, we both happened upon Anatomy of an Epidemic shortly after its publication.
Mad in America
MARCH 21, 2025
Laura contacted me via email, we met in a caf, and she became the first person to tell her personal story on what was, at that time, my personal blogging site (madinamerica.com). The New York Times review is favorable, and I would say, fair.
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Critical Psychiatry
MAY 7, 2025
Peter Gtzsche is not joking when he asks if psychiatrists are more mad than their patients (see his Mad in America blog post ). I understand what he means about the wishful thinking of biomedical psychiatrists (see eg. previous post ). Its important not to distance ourselves from people with whom we disagree by labelling them insane (see eg.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 4, 2023
I t was about 10 years ago I wrote in a MIA blog post that if I thought that it was possible, I would have opened a string of clinics all over the country to help get people off of antidepressants. My blog post goes on to explain this in more detail.
Mad in America
MAY 29, 2025
From Dr. David Healy’s blog: “Samizdat has just been graced with Gene Larkins Seeking Soteria accompanied by Bill James fabulous artwork (graced is the best word). For reasons that will become clear, the title of this post picks up on the last post Unsafe Safety.
The Mental Elf
MARCH 25, 2025
Dan Warrender publishes his debut elf blog on a recent systematic review, which suggests that brief admission as a crisis management tool is acceptable and can be effective for people with 'borderline personality disorder'.
Mad in America
MAY 18, 2025
On the site, Mad in Portugals readers can find blog articles, book reviews, and first-person testimonials from voices less present in mainstream narratives around mental distress. The goal, as stated on their website, is to foster critical thinking while welcoming a plurality of perspectives on distress.
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