A preprint argues that symptom scores in psychology are not neutral data but active interventions that shape care.

Recently, I was at a forum hosted by the Alliance for Rights and Recovery, which led me to assess my satisfaction or dissatisfaction with the mental health system. It was not very positive. For the ...

An international set of case studies suggests that ignoring people’s spiritual worlds blinds clinicians to key sources of ...

Earlier this year, a bill was proposed in the U.S. state of Connecticut to end forced shock treatment. To put it mildly, the bill restored my hope. Electroshock treatment, eventually re-branded as ...

After this happened to me, I know that I can handle anything in life, no matter how hard it is. Welcome to the Mad in America podcast. My name is Brooke Siem, and I am the author of a memoir on ...

As family therapist I often have families referred to me with an “identified patient”, a person who has troubled behavior, or is troubling to the family in some way. This person may be the object of ...

"When neuroleptic medication was used, the team became much more passive. They started to wait for the effect of the medication, and no longer had an active role with the families." Welcome to MIA ...

After a long battle that finally succeeded in getting the UK’s medical policymakers to acknowledge these risks, pharma-funded researchers are endangering patient safety by minimising the incidence and ...

For almost half a century, psychiatry’s narrative has been that we have effective and safe drugs for depression that fix a chemical imbalance. Even though none of this is correct, and even though the ...

Why psychiatry's favored idioms may do harm—and how poetic attentiveness can open new paths to care. His forthcoming book, Healing and the Invention of Metaphor: Toward a Poetics of Illness Experience ...

For nearly two decades, I have suffered from a debilitating condition known as PSSD, short for “post-SSRI sexual dysfunction”. Contrary to what the name suggests, the condition often encompasses a ...

"What universe do we live in where a debunked theory from the ’90s is still being used to guide treatment? That doesn’t happen in any other field." Teralyn Sell: We first came across each other in the ...