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.
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 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.
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.
Child Mind Intitute
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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.
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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