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Mad in America
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
From The Guardian : “Fewer people with ‘mental illnesses’ would endure the trauma of being sectioned if advance choice documents – setting out a treatment plan while they are well – were included in Mental Health Act reforms, a leading psychiatrist has said.
Mad in America
MAY 9, 2024
I couldn’t help but reflect that my interview with him could have been more helpful in at least one concrete sense—that I could have paid closer attention to the emotional dimension of his predicament—had I not had the completion of this unwieldy document in mind. This scenario in public psychiatry settings is, unfortunately, a familiar one.
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Mad in America
APRIL 2, 2025
They’re too exhausted from seeing patients, documenting notes in electronic health records, and dealing with the frustrations of our mechanized healthcare system. But here’s the reality: your doctor isn’t spending their spare time combing through medical journals and textbooks at night and independently verifying research.
The New York Times -- Mental Health
APRIL 2, 2025
A reporter and photographer documented the lives of residents and staff at the Lenniger, a permanent supportive housing complex in New York City.
Mad in America
APRIL 5, 2025
We observe this in Lauras story where, in retrospect, some of the psychiatrists claimed (and even documented at the time) their diagnostic uncertainty. In my experience, the act of providing a diagnosis is so influential on a persons sense of self that its limitations need to be repeated again and again and again.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 16, 2024
In 2019, we published a Call to Action in the British Medical Journal documenting our concerns regarding protocol violations, 7 gave the STAR*D PIs fair warning of our intentions, and asked whether they would undertake the reanalysis themselves. The reanalysis was funded by the Restoring Invisible and Abandoned Trials (RIAT) initiative.
Mad in America
MARCH 25, 2025
Critically, while recovery-oriented language has permeated Irish policy documents, the lived experience of service users frequently suggests a continued emphasis on biomedical interventions over holistic, person-centred care. The result?
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