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

“This scoping review synthesises findings from 21 qualitative studies to explore individuals’ experiences of forced medication. The review identifies recurring themes of violence and dehumanisation, ...

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

In publishing the Brennan paper, JHP appeared to be vouching for the authors’ “psychedelic exceptionalism.” The paper positioned psychedelics as having extraordinary healing properties, properties ...

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 ...

I remember he was a very tall man, yet he seemed so small to me at that moment. We were in the nurse’s office, which I couldn’t stand. I’ve never believed fluorescent lights to do anything to calm the ...

Sarah White, Chief Executive Officer of Jean Hailes for Women’s Health, is concerned by how many younger women at the organization’s health clinics come in attributing their symptoms to perimenopause, ...

"That was always my worst symptom with everything that had to do with withdrawal: the fear, the terror. It's something unimaginable." Welcome to the Mad in America ...

And so long as you haven’t experienced this: to die and so to grow, you are only a troubled guest on the dark earth. —Goethe When I took my first shame-filled walk to the campus therapist’s office on ...

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 ...

A new commentary argues that effective mental health care must move beyond one-size-fits-all psychiatric models and embrace local healing traditions, cultural context, and community leadership. “The ...