Mad in America

MAY 12, 2025

Editor’s Note: This story was originally published on our affiliate site, Mad in the UK. It was written by David Hansen, a crisis worker at a person-centred, survivor-led mental health crisis service. I have tasked myself with mapping out my understanding of how therapy and mental health relate to politics. Is therapy political?

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

She published a number of books such as Myth of the Chemical Cure: A Critique of Psychiatric Drug Treatment and The Bitterest Pills: The Troubling Story of Antipsychotic Drugs. C urrently, antidepressants are among the most commonly prescribed drugs for a wide range of diagnoses, not just depression and anxiety.

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Mad in America

JULY 29, 2024

Mad in America and Mad in the UK are jointly publishing this four-part series on neurodiversity. This third part of this series on Neurodiversity consists of an essay by a therapist who has asked to remain anonymous for fear of the consequences for their job. The series is being archived here. In Part 1 and Part 2 , we—e.g.

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Zencare

JANUARY 23, 2025

We've pulled together some of our favorite mental health books we've read or been recommended in 2024. You might find that not every book on this list will be a good fit or good help to you, and you might find that even your own therapist doesn't recommend it and that's totally fine! Unf*ck Your Brain by Faith G. I loved it.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 21, 2023

“We need to describe how human beings unfold and become very beautiful when listened to. Listening shows that the nature of human beings is nothing like socialized content. If this is true, what are we doing sending people off into the eyeshades on their psychedelic journeys? Cloud Shadow With Red Diffusion Light During the Disturbance Period.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

I had headaches, brain fog, and fatigue. Being a brain doctor, he focused on the headaches. “Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything. Maybe it’s about unbecoming everything that really isn’t you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.”

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Mad in America

JANUARY 31, 2025

I told her I had a PhD in the field and my new book had recently been released. E very time I put pen to paper about my story I shiver for I do not know what my pen will blacken the paper with. But I let it blacken, for maybe some part of the narrative will give further courage to another. She took me to three in the city, big ones.

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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 sure many of the following sentiments about writing practice have been expressed before, for example in books like The Artists Way , but I’ll just go ahead and say it again. This list includes the 7 benefits from the last article and 23 additional benefits.

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Mad in America

MARCH 13, 2024

Mandeville, LMFT – Scapegoat Recovery : “What is traumatic invalidation, and why is it important that adult survivors of family scapegoating know about this form of trauma? Questions to ask yourself As a scapegoat child, you may have had a lifetime of being invalidated, and you can’t help but carry that in to other systems.

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Psychiatric Times

JUNE 12, 2025

Author(s): Joseph F. Goldberg, MD , Stephen M. Stahl, MD, PhD, DSc (Hon) Now more than ever, capturing and scaling the ingredients that make for compelling and impactful teaching for trainees is vital to our future. andrey_orlov/AdobeStock CLINICAL REFLECTIONS Medical education has traversed an evolving path over the past few decades.

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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

Now its marigold silk and uranium, fast fading into the streaked greenish yellow of turning ginkgo leaves, and as we merge into 880, the sky is yellowed pages of old books behind purple cranes, and then it pales to the tone of a childs orange plastic toy that has been lost in the yard for 20 years. Terrible Short Term Memory (2.)

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Center for Integrative Psychiatry

MAY 22, 2025

The emerging field of integrative psychiatry and gut health highlights how closely the digestive system and brain are connected. In a world where mental health care is evolving rapidly, integrative psychiatry has emerged as a thoughtful and comprehensive approach that looks beyond symptoms and medications. Lets break it down.

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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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Bullet Psych

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Alcohol is reinforcing because it increases dopamine release in the brain's reward system, particularly in the mesolimbic pathway, leading to feelings of pleasure, relaxation, and euphoria. Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is the most common substance use disorder , affecting millions worldwide. Highest rates in ages 1829.

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The London Psychiatry Centre

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Neuroscience has demonstrated that outrage can arouse the brains reward centres. Or maybe youve been feeling flat but you suspect that underneath that sensation is ongoing frustration, anger and irritability. If youre concerned about anger and mental health, youre not the only one. But what happens when you get angry too much?

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Mad in America

APRIL 16, 2025

Dr. Teralyn Sell is a distinguished expert in Psychology and Brain Health, holding a PhD in Psychology and an MS in Counseling Psychology. Teralyn Sell is a distinguished expert in Psychology and Brain Health, holding a PhD in Psychology and an MS in Counseling Psychology. The transcript below has been edited for length and clarity.

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Mad in America

MAY 3, 2025

Thus, establishment psychiatry is unthreatened by the idea that trauma and adverse childhood experiences are a cause of emotional suffering and behavioral disturbancesas long as these conditions are medicalized. F or the institutions comprising establishment psychiatry, self-preservation means maintaining legitimacy as a branch of medicine.

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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

DECEMBER 3, 2024

What if smoking isn’t just about addiction or comfort, but about something deeper—something rooted in how trauma reshapes the brain? Research into Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) has uncovered startling connections between trauma and long-term health behaviors. Trauma seems to have a way of impacting brain function.

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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. I thought I had recovered.

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Department of Psychiatry News

JUNE 12, 2025

Cookies on this website We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you click Accept all cookies well assume that you are happy to receive all cookies and you wont see this message again. Daria Bukhman is an educator, health coach and wellbeing expert.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Her first book, The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt , tells the story of a 1930s millionairess whose mother secretly sterilized her to deprive her of the family fortune, sparking a sensational case and forcing a debate of eugenics. She now teaches a course on U.S. history at Mount St.

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Mad in America

APRIL 25, 2025

Together in a dorm room, a group of us dropped the mushrooms. Multicolored chewable candy masked the earthy aftertaste. Post-shrooming, we roamed along the trail by the campus creek. A thick blanket of snow obscured the land. The brisk air, coupled with a pressing need to pee, spurred my withdrawal from the group. I received a mission from beyond.

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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

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). I assume that our mind is embodied, yes.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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. She’s the author of The Anatomy of Anxiety and takes a functional medicine approach to mental health. She considers the whole person and addresses imbalance at the root.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Furthermore, key members of establishment psychiatry have also acknowledged the scientific invalidity of psychiatry’s DSM diagnostic manual, with Insel in his 2022 book Healing stating: “The DSM had created a common language, but much of that language had not been validated by science.” In 2023, Time reported , “About one in eight U.S.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

My family life growing up was a good period for me, and I have no complaints, yet there seemed to be something in the way my nervous system was wired, a leftover of birth trauma perhaps, that meant that relaxation and physical comfort weren’t part of my being. I read science fiction and fantasy books continuously.

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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

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Astor’s commercial goal was composed of two parts: an ill-fated seagoing venture which sent a crew around the tip of South America, and the Overland Party, the one with which Pelton and Day were connected—each in different ways, but with similar experiences of trauma. There are lessons in the accounts of both men.

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Critical Psychiatry

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Terry Lynch , who wrote a chapter for my Critical Psychiatry edited book, has posted a video asking why doctors pay so little attention to trauma in the lives of people with psychiatric diagnosis. The belief that primary mental illness is brain disease clothes psychiatry with an aura of factuality, even though that belief is incorrect.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 1, 2023

“T he only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,” said Edmund Burke. This is as true on a world stage as in a playground setting, where the bully holds sway over numerous kids who are too afraid to challenge their behaviour. It is how and why the tyrants prevail.

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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

DECEMBER 30, 2023

New Study Finds Connection Between Childhood Trauma and Psychosis In December, Ashley Bobak wrote about a new study which sheds new light on the profound impact of childhood trauma in the development of psychotic symptoms, particularly in treatment-resistant cases of schizophrenia.

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