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. You have a self-esteem scaleif I score a 10 and you score an 8, does that mean I have more self-esteem than you?
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
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.
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.
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. The goal is to help teens process emotions and build self-awareness through mood tracking, guided prompts, and private self-expression.
Mad in America
MAY 21, 2025
His critiques extend to how psychiatric categories reflect colonial histories and obscure social causes , as well as how attempts to localize mental health interventions may still impose Western norms. Most of what we do depends on our more complex mental faculties, and those faculties are, at their core, social.
Mad in America
MAY 4, 2024
I n 1999, New York State passed the first Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) law, which creates a regime of civil courts to force psychiatric interventions on those found to have “serious and persistent mental illness” who “struggle to engage voluntarily” with care. What made this year different?
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