Mad in America

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

T he way psychiatry treats those who deviate from the norm is akin to the outdated and unhelpful way that industry used to understand the assembly linesomething that manufacturing started moving away from by the mid-20 th century. Good product was shipped. At the time, it was common for management to blame the operators. Or the machines.

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The London Psychiatry Centre

DECEMBER 5, 2024

People with a healthy relationship to anger learn to deal with it constructively so that it doesnt harm others or themselves. 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.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Coed Hills is an off-grid sustainable arts community where members grow food using permaculture techniques, run a pottery studio, construct their own yurts and cabins, and host eclectic events such as this retreat. S everal weeks after being committed under the Mental Health Act, still dopey from mandated antipsychotics, I had a dream.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

She earned a PhD in English literature at the University of Maryland, College Park. She now teaches a course on U.S. history at Mount St. Mary’s University. It was named a New York Times Editors’ Pick and will be the focus of our conversation today. She lives in Hanover, Pennsylvania. The transcript below has been edited for length and clarity.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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. Dr. Vora received her BA from Yale University and her MD from Columbia University. The transcript below has been edited for length and clarity.

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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

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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Mad in America

OCTOBER 21, 2023

H ow can psychiatry maintain its authority and influence despite its repeated scientific failures and lack of progress—now even acknowledged by key members of the psychiatric establishment and the mainstream media? In 2023, Time reported , “About one in eight U.S. As of late 2022, just 31% of U.S.

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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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How Psychiatry Works

APRIL 8, 2025

First the inner mind (subcortical, evolutionarily older parts of the brain dedicated to survival), is tasked with gathering a wide range of current information, comparing it with past experience, and calculating the odds of a disaster happening. How might we reach into the subconscious mind to activate an alarm signal?

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Association for Psychological Science (APS)

MARCH 20, 2025

Participants ( N = 122) who reported poorer belonging at baseline experienced greater depressive symptoms, greater worry, and worse psychological well-being over the 14-month follow-up period. Motivation and Pleasure Deficits Undermine the Benefits of Social Affiliation in Psychosis Jack J. Blanchard, Jason F. Smith, Melanie E. Bennett, et al.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

A dozen years ago I created a website, now extinct, called ‘Five Years’ From the David Bowie song of the same name (“We had five years left to cry in”). The idea was to see how my attitudes evolved over the coming five years: toward optimism, toward pessimism, or same-same. I was told, and believed, that I would be on this drug for life.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Our brain is not a computer, and our heart is not a pump, though the materialistic world view is pretty good at convincing us to believe we are devoid of Spirit, the divine creative part of us which is never wounded and if not eclipsed by legal or illegal substances, is able to always make a choice. People don’t feel heard or seen.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 16, 2024

S ince the onset of the pandemic, misery and mental disorder have increased, raising considerable concern about mental health. It has become obvious that we need to be better at addressing issues related to our psychological well-being. In short, ten years ago the WHO called for a paradigm shift in mental health care. That has not happened.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Robbins is one of those rare thinkers who makes psychology feel alivenot just a collection of theories and data, but a field full of urgent, deeply human questions. Hes a professor of psychology and the director of the Psy.D. He earned his Ph.D. He earned his Ph.D. On a personal note, Brent has played a foundational role in my own journey.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Individuals on the autism spectrum often experience comorbid depression, social stress, and difficulties in relating to themselves and others. While IPT has not been extensively studied for autism spectrum conditions, many clinicians report its usefulness in practice. Bateman & Fonagy, 2008).

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