Mad in America
OCTOBER 5, 2023
As I write in the book Human Development and Trauma: How Childhood Shapes Us into Who We Are as Adults : Meanwhile, infants and small children are exceptionally authentic beings because their emotional reactions and their thoughts are raw and honest. Punished for telling the truth 2. Contradictory standards 3.
Mad in America
APRIL 8, 2025
Clinically speaking, early childhood trauma often leads to insecure attachment styles and maladaptive survival strategies. This was revealed in the book Mad in America by Robert Whitaker. While some neurological and genetic conditions may exist, they are less common than often assumed.
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Mad in America
MAY 29, 2025
Follow-up data show that rather than alleviating depression, psychiatrys medicalization of depression is contributing to it (see Robert Whitakers book, Anatomy of an Epidemic , and Laura Delanos book, Unshrunk ). His treatment alarmed the psychoanalysts, who were the dominant mental health practitioners at that time.
Mad in America
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Or, my childhood trauma of feeling like at any moment, if I didn’t do what I was supposed to do, I could be shamed or punished according to the rules of obedience training my parents learned from Dr. Rather than the therapist innately trusting the initial impulse of the client for the change in music, there is an element of mistrust.
Mad in America
APRIL 5, 2024
The following is the fourth excerpt adapted from Healing Companions , a book by the MIA author Sam Ruck (his pen name) that describes his life with, and love for, his wife and her “alters.” And then I bought an oversized coloring book, and I would let K.A.—another So, again, how do you communicate with someone who is mute?
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
Childhood trauma and further adverse events in adulthood such as bullying, social discrimination or exclusion, migration or visibly marginalized status may, for example, increase risk of developing what is then labeled as psychotic disorder. This is why it is sometimes important to also listen to what they are pointing towards.
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
In her new book The Maps We Carry , she writes about the dawning realization that the “illness” story she had believed in and publicly advocated for, was wretchedly incomplete and often dangerous. She talks about understanding the place of her own childhood trauma and also the limitations of simplistic trauma narratives.
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