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?

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

You’re also an author, and you’ve written on topics such as aging, genetics, mental representation, biological functions, mechanisms in science, and the concept of information in neuroscience. So why do we call schizophrenia a mental disorder, but not believing in conspiracy theories?

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

They advised me that if I followed their recommended protocols of therapy and pharmacology, I would inevitably be led, like an obedient Kool-Aid sheep, to better emotional, psychological, and physical health. I was considered ‘mentally unstable’ because an unqualified crisis line volunteer disclosed false information to the police.

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Mad in America

MARCH 19, 2025

Sugarman has spent decades critically interrogating the ways mainstream psychology reflects and reinforces the ideologies of neoliberalism , shaping how we understand identity, mental health, and human development. Take multiple personality disorder , for example. Listen to the audio of the interview here.

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