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. The transcript below has been edited for length and clarity. Listen to the audio of the interview here. They havent.

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Mad in America

JULY 17, 2025

Books such as The Myth of Mental Illness by Thomas Szasz and The Death of Psychiatry by E. Fuller Torrey argued that the very concept of mental illness was meaningless. Other somatic interventions for mental illness, such as lobotomy and insulin coma, were as discredited as bloodletting. A bad metaphor. An excuse.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 8, 2025

B ecky Brasfield has emerged as a formidable advocate for change in the complex landscape of mental health care.A She has been a fellow with both the IL Care and HSRI Behavioral Health Policy programs and was appointed Commissioner of the Southeast Expanded Mental Health Services Program.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Moreover, in stark contrast to the discoveries by medical researchers of biological causation for many physical illnesses, psychiatric researchers have failed to find physiological or genetic causation for the most diagnosed mental disorders—the anxiety disorders and depression—negating the rationale for the prescription of these drugs.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 24, 2024

Hailed as the future of mental health care, it conjures images of medical interventions as carefully planned and executed military operations, striking with lethal accuracy at the heart of mental suffering while minimising collateral damage.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 25, 2025

R esearch has found South Africa consistently ranks in the bottom three performing countries in terms of global mental health. Photo by tuxone The Mental State of the World Report measures the mental health of internet users only, making it limited in the South African context where close to one-third of the population isnt online.

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Mad in America

MAY 13, 2025

I n the clean hallways of today’s mental health centers, a quiet change is taking shape. You won’t see big protests or new laws, but more people are starting to see that the main way we treat mental healthfocusing on chemical imbalances and managing medshasn’t helped many folks who need real healing.

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Mad in America

MAY 9, 2024

The topic of mental health is on the public’s mind, whether it’s the popularizing of therapy speak, the increased attention paid to severe mental illness and homelessness, or pop psychology advice on TikTok. This scenario in public psychiatry settings is, unfortunately, a familiar one.

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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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The Mental Elf

MARCH 13, 2025

Tessa Roberts and Laura Hemming critique a large umbrella review which explores the effectiveness of interventions on social determinants of mental health. The post Rethinking how we evaluate interventions that target the social determinants of mental health appeared first on National Elf Service.

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Kids Mental Health Info

MAY 13, 2015

The National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) collects and analyzes data and publishes a range of reports and tools on child poverty, early childhood mental health, and related issues. Low-income is defined as having income below twice the federal poverty level.

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Kids Mental Health Info

DECEMBER 9, 2014

The National Center for Children in Poverty at the Bank Street Graduate School of Education is the national leading public policy center dedicated to promoting the economic security, health, and well-being of Americas low-income families and children. Offers research and data on topics related to child and family poverty.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

For many years, I received mental health services and accepted the “mental illness” diagnoses, which I now call labels. I didn’t realize that others were actively fighting against what they call the mental health system or psychiatry. The mental health system is deeply ingrained in our culture.

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Centre for Mental Health

APRIL 14, 2025

Our social security system is one of the foundations of the UK welfare state alongside education, health and social care. But their effects on the nations mental health will be just as profound and dangerous. History tells us that reducing benefits leads to higher levels of mental ill health.

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Centre for Mental Health

JANUARY 15, 2025

As we enter the second quarter of the 21 st century, its worth reflecting on what a challenging period this has been for mental health and local government. We provide Network members with free resources (like our guide to conducting an effective mental health needs assessment ) and other training and networking opportunities.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 9, 2023

M ost people in this room will have experienced, at some point in their life, poor or very poor mental health. And around half of those who’ve suffered a mental health problem will, have at some point, consulted the NHS for support. So, what kind of support do they invariably get? They can’t bring a loved one back.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines on depression treatment are even more firm: “Antidepressant medications are not needed for mild depression,” according to the WHO. They can’t solve poverty or poor housing, or right the wrongs of inequality or discrimination, or resolve any other well-evidenced social determinant of poor health.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

It was written by the MISA news team to provide insight into community mental health initiatives in India. A 2020 study published in Medical Anthropology investigates the realities of community mental health initiatives like task-shifting in India. Kerala is uniquely positioned in the Indian mental health system.

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Association for Psychological Science (APS)

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

This naturally disposes us to attribute poverty , misbehavior, and low academic performance not to bad people (to lazy or incompetent dispositions) but to harmful environments. Nor is our reporting on mental health disorders and their treatment, how nature and nurture weave the human fabric, or how language develops.

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Child Mind Intitute

AUGUST 29, 2024

The Child Mind Institute is proud to have founded several programs that increase mental health equity worldwide by fostering the next generation of mental healthcare professionals. It also aims to cultivate a future generation of diverse and culturally sensitive mental health care providers.

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Child Mind Intitute

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The Current Landscape: A Need for Cultural Sensitivity Children and adolescents in LMICs face severe challenges that greatly affect their mental health, including high levels of poverty, exposure to child labor, violence, conflict, and limited access to education. Yet data on their mental health needs are severely lacking.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Published in 2006 was the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) study, “ The Naturalistic Course of Major Depression in the Absence of Somatic Therapy ,” which examined depressed patients who had recovered from an initial episode of depression, then relapsed but did not take any medication following their relapse.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Pure portrayed Rose’s autobiographical account of finding that she had OCD, a “mental illness”, and the breakthrough that this medical framework provided her. In this interview, Cartwright charts her journey of painful and lonely disillusionment with the “mental illness” framework. This was short-lived. My OCD had relapsed.

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Child Mind Intitute

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Ndayiziga will take part in the Carter Centers Climate Change Mental Health Fellowship thanks to the support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) as part of its Global Health Initiative (GHI). We are delighted to announce Mr. Avit Ndayiziga as our inaugural SNF Global Center Communicator Fellow.

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Mad in America

JUNE 7, 2025

Oral Microbiota Your saliva directly indicates the state of your digestive and oral health. This isn’t too surprising nor controversial, but it has never been enough of a clear difference to actually use as a biomarker to diagnose any mental health condition. They also can very easily be manipulated.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

M any people are traumatised rather than healed by their interaction with mainstream mental health services, especially their admission to a psychiatric inpatient unit. Concurrently, many mental health professionals carry a burden of their own trauma and are not healthy individuals.

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Centre for Mental Health

MARCH 4, 2025

Forty years ago, on 1 March 1985, Centre for Mental Health was established as a charity, as the National Unit for Psychiatric Research and Development. What drives us most deeply is a relentless determination to tackle (and reduce) mental health inequality. Mental health inequalities are social and economic inequalities.

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Centre for Mental Health

MAY 12, 2025

Mental health in made in communities. This years Mental Health Awareness Week, facilitated by the Mental Health Foundation, centres on the theme of community, and its importance to our mental health. Community can be a major protective factor for our mental health.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 9, 2023

To understand mental illness, we first need to understand what a person really is. Mental illness is usually caused by something happening. There are as many causes of mental illness as there are people, because each person has their own unique biology and unique destiny and way of dealing with life. W hat is a human being?

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World Psychiatric Association (WPA)

DECEMBER 14, 2023

WPA President Professor Danuta Wasserman intends for her Action Plan to boost the mental health of patients, psychiatric staff, and the general public through encouraging and enabling psychiatrists and the field of psychiatry to embrace communication, prevention, international collaboration, and a new leadership role in society.

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Child Mind Intitute

MARCH 25, 2025

If you follow Child Mind Institute news, you already know that in January we launched a free, intuitive mental health journaling app. Creating digital apps is one of the ways Child Mind Institute is demonstrating a commitment to making science-driven mental health information, resources, and care more accessible worldwide.

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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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Kids Mental Health Info

MAY 13, 2015

.” Adolescent Depression & COVID-19 In OctoberDecember 2020, almost 1 in 5 adolescents (18%) perceived that the COVID-19 pandemic negatively affected their mental health “quite a bit or a lot,” and an additional 51% perceived “a little or some” negative effect on their mental health.

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Kids Mental Health Info

JUNE 9, 2023

The National Center for Children in Poverty commissioned a study, “Racial Gaps in Early Childhood: Socio-emotional Health, Developmental, and Educational Outcomes Among African-American Boys” in 2011. The post Racial Gaps in Early Childhood appeared first on Kids Mental Health Info.

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Kids Mental Health Info

MAY 13, 2015

Topics include behavioral health, demographics, schools, early childhood, poverty, equity issues, and more. appeared first on Kids Mental Health Info. A nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization that studies children, youth, and families through research, data collection, and analysis. The post Child Trends, Inc.

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Kids Mental Health Info

MAY 13, 2015

National nonprofit advocating for policies that will help all children reach their potential, on areas including child welfare, poverty, health, education, youth justice, gun violence, and racial justice. The post Childrens Defense Fund (CDF) appeared first on Kids Mental Health Info.

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Solara Mental Health

APRIL 22, 2022

Veterans are at an increased risk of homelessness due to war activity and an increased likelihood of developing mental health disorders. Other cases where veterans suffer from mental health issues that become exacerbated during the service. Many homeless veterans struggle with an addiction or a mental health disorder.

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