The ODDESSI trial found that people’s reported recovery, quality of life and satisfaction with services improved with Open ...

This week's Song of the Week was shared by Jasmine Marshall: "'Invisible' is an original song about my experiences with the mental health system and ...

The research findings encourage us to pay attention to our own well-being and our relationship with digital tools when using ...

This week, Mad in America explores four articles around problems with psychiatric diagnoses. The first study finds that ...

Writing in response to Daniel Duane’s August 9 guest essay, Michaels draws the line. Therapy has imitators: platforms that ...

Sangji uses one woman's story to show that emotional distress in Pakistan is shaped by patriarchy, poverty, trauma, and ...

She begged for help, took the drugs, admitted herself to a psych hospital, worked with a psychiatrist. Her doctor treated ...

This week's Song of the Week is suggested by Ivy Wilson: "Ren Gill has lots of songs that would be great for Mad in America's ...

Electroshock therapy peaked in the 1940s and 1950s. But the controversial practice - with patients sometimes shocked while ...

The extensive critique of the biomedical account of ADHD and its treatment with stimulant medication has persisted for decades.

After a tremendous emotional toll of navigating bureaucratic hurdles, I finally obtained a summary of my medical record from my first involuntary psychiatric hospitalization.

I hold to a form of feminism which fundamentally opposes the pathologisation of women; presuming that however unusual or uncommon a woman’s actions or behaviours, there will be an internal logic to ...