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Multiplicity and Mad Studies: An Interview with Jazmine Russell

Mad in America

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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Borderline Personality Disorder: Overview by a Psychiatrist

Now Psych

Brief overview of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a mental health condition that causes significant instability in emotions, behavior, relationships, and self-image. These parts of the brain are related to emotional regulation and impulse control. What is Borderline Personality Disorder?

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Depsychiatrization: Dispelling Harmful, Diagnostical Self-Concepts in Therapy and Community Health Work

Mad in America

Depsychiatrization describes the processes by which a diagnosed individual learns to expel psychiatrically induced self-concepts and substitute them for more empowering and nurturing understandings. Yet we too rarely discuss the harm that psychiatric treatment does to a persons self-concept and self-narrative.