What if the upcoming midterm election for the first time sends a politician to Washington who is on record against forced ...

Serotonin is a signaling molecule (neurotransmitter) that plays an important role in the brain in regulating mood, sleep, ...

Brent was one of humanistic psychology's clearest voices against the DSM’s narrowing of human suffering and the ...

Instead of being evaluated for ADHD, they refused due to a lack of documented failure or childhood diagnosis, and my symptoms ...

This week, Mad in America examines three studies around technology and mental health. The first finds that preoccupation with ...

Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD has published more than 100 papers in the top five general medical journals and his scientific works have been cited over 150,000 times. He has published several books relevant ...

Dr. Steingard is editor of Critical Psychiatry: Controversies and Clinical Implications, published by Springer in 2019. She worked for over thirty years in public psychiatry.

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a controversial practice, with recent research finding harm, as well as a lack of efficacy and informed consent. A new ...

Jock McLaren is an Australian psychiatrist who worked 25yrs in the remote north of the country. He occupies himself delving into the philosophical basis of psychiatry, only to find there isn't one.

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 ...

Robert Whitaker is a journalist and author of two books about the history of psychiatry, Mad in America and Anatomy of an Epidemic, and the co-author, with Lisa Cosgrove, of Psychiatry Under the ...

Journeying Back To Self: Laura Delano is an ex-mental patient who writes about her thirteen years of psychiatric indoctrination, how she woke up in 2010, and what it's been like to come off ...