Mad in America

JUNE 17, 2024

I was grappling with the pressures of balancing the needs of my teenagers, who were struggling in different ways, and my two preschoolers with developmental delays that no professional could explain — all while attempting to manage and overcome my own trauma from military service. Two police officers stood inside my entryway, watching us.

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The Art of Healing Trauma

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Healing Trauma with Guided Drawing, A Sensorimotor Art Therapy Approach to Bilateral Body Mapping, by Cornelia Elbrecht, is an in-depth instructional textbook for the somatic therapeutic approach Guided Drawing. Based on leading edge understandings about trauma healing and the body (sensorimotor psychotherapy, somatic experiencing, etc.),

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Lightwork

APRIL 3, 2025

This simple act of writing helps your brain make sense of difficult experiences. This documentation becomes invaluable for both personal development and therapeutic progress, providing concrete evidence of one’s mental health journey.

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Mad in America

APRIL 25, 2025

Along the way, in a valley facing the railway, I wrote an impromptu story on the blank pages of my passporta document now obsolete in the scenario I had newly conceived. Together in a dorm room, a group of us dropped the mushrooms. Multicolored chewable candy masked the earthy aftertaste. A thick blanket of snow obscured the land.

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Mad in America

MAY 28, 2025

When they stopped taking these pills, they found themselves blindsidedplunged into the horrors of a chemical brain injury that impacts the mind and body. Blood tests, an upper endoscopy, brain MRIs, and CT scansall failed to reveal the source of my mysterious symptoms. Recovery time is uncertain. I trusted my psychiatrist completely.

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Mad in America

MAY 30, 2025

Date: 13.4.1972 From documents obtained via F.O.I. REQUEST FOR RECEPTION OF PATIENT INTO A PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL Please receive Sylvie Raymonde Leber for observation and treatment into the psychiatric hospital of which you are Superintendent for a period of 21 days subject to the provision of the Mental Health Act 1959.

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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

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

As I documented in CounterPunch earlier this year, it is now mainstream to acknowledge that: (1) psychiatry’s treatment outcomes are “abysmal” and “not getting any better”; (2) the serotonin imbalance theory of depression is untrue; and (3) psychiatry’s diagnostic manual, the DSM , is scientifically invalid. 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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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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How Psychiatry Works

JANUARY 14, 2025

Let’s start with Fido, whose social responses are products of a brain closely analogous to our own inner one. His brain sizes up the situation and immediately issues a response that sets things right. Writing a book is not just putting down what one knows, it’s a journey of discovery. They are very different.

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Mad in America

MAY 7, 2025

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. That is, broadly speaking, how humor can help in creating a shared experience that is helpful to the healing process. Listen to the audio of the interview here.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

As a freelance journalist, syndicated columnist, and former television correspondent, her reporting and commentary have been featured in newspapers, magazines, and TV news outlets across the country. The transcript below has been edited for length and clarity. The transcript below has been edited for length and clarity. I appreciate your time.

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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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Mad in America

JANUARY 13, 2024

It is also a rarity: documentation of psychiatric abuse on a prominent, mainstream platform. Her story confirms the pernicious and long-term effects of intergenerational trauma, alcoholism, and divorce on everyone in a family, especially “the identified patient.” And it isn’t pretty. But the impact of the book goes beyond that.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 17, 2024

If I am correct in saying that exile can cure someone of schizophrenia, then I have proven that psychiatrists are wrong in claiming that mental illness results from a chemical imbalance in the brain. I know very well that my psychosis was a consequence of numerous traumas that had nothing to do with the chemicals in my brain.

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