Mad in America

AUGUST 10, 2024

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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The Art of Healing Trauma

JUNE 25, 2020

I’m planning to write at least 10 minutes a day, stream of consciousness, censorship and judgment-free, incorporating body awareness at times to improve groundedness. This list includes the 7 benefits from the last article and 23 additional benefits. This process may shift how we typically respond to the memory in the future.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 20, 2023

There appears to be more dopamine uptake due to the antipsychotic-induced brain compensatory mechanism as a response to the suppressed blockade state in an effort to achieve energy equilibrium. A fter 22 years and many attempts I finally stopped taking antipsychotics.

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The Art of Healing Trauma

JULY 22, 2021

Self-tracking I talked about how I was tracking my PTSD symptoms. (9.) Summary: In this article, I go over a number of cognitive difficulties I experienced after getting PTSD. In the Snapshot (story) part, I describe an experience of riding in the car after my third Somatic Experiencing Session. Terrible Short Term Memory (2.)

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The Anxiety Guy

JULY 19, 2024

Deep Quality Sleep (6-8 Hours) Quality sleep is crucial for repairing the body and brain. Aromatherapy Scents like lavender, coffee beans, and essential oils can reduce stress markers in the brain, providing a quick and effective way to calm your nervous system. Consider exploring the Wim Hof Method for more on cold therapy.

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Mad in America

APRIL 28, 2025

and A Disorder 4 Everyone (AD4E), interviews Cathy Wield about her new book, Unshackled Mind. Jo: Hi Cathy, thanks for joining me to talk about your new book Unshackled Mind: A Doctors Story of Trauma, Liberation and Healing. Cathy: Initially I wasnt keen on writing another book.

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Mad in America

MAY 21, 2025

Kirmayers scholarship on narrative, metaphor, and cultural psychiatry aligns with ongoing efforts by Indigenous psychologists and anthropologists to reframe trauma and healing through culturally grounded practices, as reflected in recent collaborative work calling for a decolonial turn in psychology.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

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.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

I said, “On paper everything’s great, but I’m struggling with this existential feeling of being 38, single, childless, increasingly aware of mortality.” You mention early in your book The Anatomy of Anxiety , that there’s true anxiety and false anxiety, and that true anxiety pushes us to face these big questions.

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Mad in America

MARCH 6, 2025

T his historical record of Oregons first state hospital, the Oregon State Insane Asylum, from its opening in 1883 until the mid-1950s, will focus on the experiences of patients there. This is in contrast with the typical chronological history of who served as superintendent, for how long, the date new buildings were opened and other such changes.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 11, 2023

His books include Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry: The Birth of Postpsychiatry , Narrative Psychiatry: How Stories Shape Clinical Practice, and Depression: Integrating Science, Culture, and Humanities. He has two books forthcoming: Experiencing Epiphanies in Literature and Cinema and a co-edited Mad Studies Reader.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 28, 2024

Her work is deeply informed by her lived experiences surviving complex trauma, psychosis, and an autoimmune disease. Her work is deeply informed by her lived experiences surviving complex trauma, psychosis, and an autoimmune disease. This has led her to bridge critical neuroscience communities with the mad movement.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In 2018, he was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship to research PTSD treatment in military veterans and continues to teach workshops for people with trauma-affected sleep. These teachings form the core of his latest book Wake Up to Sleep. Charlie became a Buddhist at the age of 19 and has been lucid dreaming for over 20 years.

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Psychiatric Times

JUNE 6, 2025

Higgins, MD Explore transformative memoirs and insights on estrangement in these 2 brief book reviews. BRIEF BOOK REVIEWS Popular Books Relevant to Mental Health Educated: A Memoir Tara Westover; Random House, 2018 352 pages; $12 (hardcover) Reviewed by Edmund S.

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Mad in America

MARCH 30, 2024

But the combined intelligence and cognitive awareness of Matt and his mother’s tenacity for answers undoubtedly gave him a second chance on life. But the combined intelligence and cognitive awareness of Matt and his mother’s tenacity for answers undoubtedly gave him a second chance on life. The ER physician had given him Prozac.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The following is the second 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.” His earlier installment addressed the problems with “psychosis.” I’ve repeatedly seen this with my wife. For instance, what are “delusions”?

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The Art of Healing Trauma

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

This short story about a train trip shows how the many symptoms of PTSD combine to have a devastating impact to one’s Sense of Self. Losing a large percent of memory of one’s past is the equivalent of losing a large percent of one’s Sense of Self, identity, personality, etc. April 2009 – I had Severe PTSD.

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Mad in America

MAY 7, 2025

I met Kermit shortly after I published my book Mad in America in 2002. H ello, my name is Bob Whitaker, and today I have the pleasure of speaking with Kermit Cole. We’ll be speaking about a philosophical enterprise that Kermit is now deeply engaged in. After dropping out of Oberlin College, he joined a mime troupe that toured the U.S.

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How Psychiatry Works

JANUARY 14, 2025

Writing a book is not just putting down what one knows, it’s a journey of discovery. The clarity I want to share here is about how we relate simultaneously to our conscious client and to a nonconscious, inner self. Let’s start with Fido, whose social responses are products of a brain closely analogous to our own inner one.

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Lawyers with Depression

DECEMBER 3, 2023

She is the author of six books on the treatment of anxiety and depression published by W.W. Norton, including, The Ten Best-Ever Depression Management Techniques: Understanding How Your Brain Makes You Depressed and What You Can Do to Change It and Anxiety + Depression: Effective Treatment of the Big Two Co-Occurring Disorders.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

His book, The Medicalized Body and Anesthetic Culture , is a stunning critique of how modern medicines mechanistic view of the body has dulled our sense of what it means to be alive. Hes a professor of psychology and the director of the Psy.D. He earned his Ph.D. He earned his Ph.D.

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