This week, Mad in America examines three articles around discrimination and psychosis. The first explores human rights violations, coercion, structural discrimination, and social exclusion against ...

Cult dynamics operate on a precise psychological blueprint: the monopolization of power and control. By deliberately isolating the individual, enforcing rigid binaries, and pathologizing any form of ...

From Mad in Norway: When Mad in Norway brings together professionals and user experience experts for a seminar on December 5, it takes place in the midst of an escalating debate about the validity of ...

Former FDA officials write that claims that the black warning led to an increase in youth suicides are "factually inaccurate.

Mad in Mexico: This essay addresses several debates surrounding “borderline personality disorder (BPD),” a highly stigmatized and gendered psychiatric label disproportionately applied to cisgender ...

When someone seeks therapy, they are often already carrying more than they can comfortably manage. They may be distressed, ...

This week, Mad in America examines three articles related to negative effects of psychotherapy. The first reviews the ...

On January 24, 2023, Lindsay Clancy from Duxbury, Massachusetts took the lives of her three young children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and eight-month-old Callan, and was charged with three counts of ...

MIA Research News Team: Ayurdhi Dhar is a spotlight interviewer for Mad in America. She does some professoring (at the University of West Georgia) and academic writing, but mostly likes to be known ...

Direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising of pharmaceuticals is a controversial topic within healthcare and psychiatry, with only two countries (US and New Zealand) allowing this practice. Proponents argue ...