Mad in America

JUNE 9, 2025

I n recent decades, mental health has become one of the most widely discussed issues in public discourse, health policies, and clinical practice. Although both fields claim a commitment to mental health care, psychiatry and psychology are grounded in very different epistemological frameworks.

Poverty and mental health 122

Poverty and mental health Genetics and mental health Global mental health Healthcare 122

Mad in America

JANUARY 24, 2024

Hailed as the future of mental health care, it conjures images of medical interventions as carefully planned and executed military operations, striking with lethal accuracy at the heart of mental suffering while minimising collateral damage.

Genetics and mental health 132

Genetics and mental health Poverty and mental health Resilience and coping Healthcare 132

Mad in America

MAY 12, 2025

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. Mental health is also political. Is therapy political? Is therapy political?

Trauma and the brain 110

Trauma and the brain Pharmaceuticals Poverty and mental health Genetics and mental health 110

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

This naturally disposes us to attribute poverty , misbehavior, and low academic performance not to bad people (to lazy or incompetent dispositions) but to harmful environments. Nor is our reporting on mental health disorders and their treatment, how nature and nurture weave the human fabric, or how language develops.

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Poverty and mental health Sleep and mental health Construction Education 116

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Published in 2006 was the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) study, “ The Naturalistic Course of Major Depression in the Absence of Somatic Therapy ,” which examined depressed patients who had recovered from an initial episode of depression, then relapsed but did not take any medication following their relapse.

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Poverty and mental health Childhood trauma Neurotransmitters and mental health Trauma and the brain 145

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

It was written by the MISA news team to provide insight into community mental health initiatives in India. A 2020 study published in Medical Anthropology investigates the realities of community mental health initiatives like task-shifting in India. Kerala is uniquely positioned in the Indian mental health system.

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Poverty and mental health Sleep and mental health Construction 52

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

M any people are traumatised rather than healed by their interaction with mainstream mental health services, especially their admission to a psychiatric inpatient unit. Concurrently, many mental health professionals carry a burden of their own trauma and are not healthy individuals.

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Hospitality Trauma and the brain Poverty and mental health Construction 94