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Jock McLaren – The Biopsychosocial Model is a Mirage, Time for a Biocognitive Model?
Jock explains why the models that purport to guide psychiatric diagnosis and treatment are not what they seem. Read more -
Tara Thiagarajan – Mental Wellbeing Among Internet – enabled Populations of the World
The 2021 report has considerable implications regarding mental health and the factors that contribute to it. Read more -
Bruce Cohen – The failings of mental health : How a seemingly benign concept might be dangerous
Psychiatric discourse “doesn’t work for us” but instead greases the wheels of a neoliberal capitalist society. Read more -
Jennifer Barkin – New tools to support new moms
Childbirth and new parenthood are major life transitions that involve many physical, psychological, and practical changes. Read more -
Alice and Kenneth Thompson – Bringing Integrative Community Therapy to Pittsburgh
How they both came to Integrative Community Therapy and what they've learned in adapting it to their context in the Visible Hands Collaborative in Pittsburgh. Read more -
Nicholas Haslam – Psych Concepts Creep Into Our Everyday Experiences
Haslam discusses inflating concepts around harm and their effects on ourselves, our experience, and society at large. Read more -
The Impact the DSM Has Had On All of Us
About the DSM and its impact on our society and our personal lives. A new episode of Mad in America, the podcast. Read more -
How Culture Influences Voice Hearing
Luhrmann talks about the damaging effects of a diagnostic identity and the often-unseen challenges that peer counselors can face. Read more -
Trusting People as Experts of Themselves
Sera has faced many challenges throughout her own healing process, including many ups and downs with suicidal thoughts, and self-injury. Read more -
The Social Unconscious and Character Formation in Neoliberal Culture
In this interview, Layton discusses social psychoanalysis. A new episode of the podcast series Mad in America. Read more -
The Medicalization of Woman’s Suffering
Becker has been an equal-opportunity critic of both fields in her work on the effects of therapeutic culture on women in the US. Read more -
Evidence – biased Antidepressant Prescription
The book addresses the overprescribing of antidepressants and it critically examines the current scientific evidence regarding the drugs. Read more -
Critical Psychology for a Better Society
Grant has written on transhumanism from Buddhist and existential perspectives, as well as the tensions of social justice under neoliberalism. Read more -
The Crisis in Psychiatry and The Slow Way Back
Di Nicola’s most recent book Psychiatry in Crisis offers a critical analysis and points to the glaring gaps that must be addressed. Read more -
Emotional CPR – Heart-Centered Peer Support
In this podcast we discuss Emotional CPR (eCPR), a form of peer support anyone can use to assist youth (or adults) in emotional crisis. Read more -
How Western Psychology Can Rip Indigenous Families Apart
There exist different ideas of self. Our ignorance about these differences harms people we say we are healing. Read more -
A Different Psychiatry is Possible
We discuss Fava's book, approaches to antidepressant cessation and more. A new episode of Mad in America, podcast. Read more -
Psychiatrized – Waking up After a Decade of Bad Medicine
The book is a beautifully written account of Renee's experiences being prescribed the benzodiazepine clonazepam (Klonopin) for seven years. Read more -
Can Critique of Psychiatry Help Us Imagine a Post-Capitalist Future?
How we might be different types of people if we didn't live in a capitalist society. The book draws on Marxist and post-Marxist theory. Read more -
Combatting Structural Racism and Classism in Psychiatry
Hansen discusses how race and class affect psychiatric diagnoses and subsequent treatment and more. Mad in America podcast. Read more -
Why Some Experts and Patients Want to Rename Schizophrenia
How can this psychiatric diagnosis impact the therapeutic alliance necessary for effective treatment. The podcast Mad in America. Read more -
When Assessing Antidepressant Withdrawal Methods, RCT’s Fall Short
About the development and study of tapering strips which are pre-packaged, gradually reducing dosage tablets that facilitate withdrawal. Read more -
Rights Based Global Mental Health and Social Exclusion
How those in the high-income countries can overlook what rights-based approaches to mental health care may actually look like. Read more -
Getting to the Root Causes of Suffering
About a new and more integrated way to understand and treat physical and mental ailments in people of all ages. Read more -
Looking Beyond Self-Help to Understand Resilience
Ungar implicates the role of context, circumstances, and ill-suited services in contributing to people’s psychological suffering. Read more -
MDMA Assisted Psychotherapy and Therapeutic Humility
We discuss her research into MDMA-assisted psychotherapy and how the use of MDMA differs from more traditional substances. Read more -
Discourse, Drug Use and Psychiatry
Mountian discusses oa intersectionality and drug use, the disease model of addiction, psychiatric labels. Mad in America podcast. Read more -
Responsibility without Blame in Therapeutic Communities
Pickard's model for understanding addiction, the numerous shortcomings of the neurobiological model and more. Read more -
Psychedelics, Transformative Experiences and Healing
Michelle was drawn to transpersonal psychology after her own spontaneous spiritually transformative experience. Read more -
Psychiatric Drug Withdrawel – Post Withdrawal Experiences
What do we know and not know about responding to long- term health problems after coming off psychiatric drugs? Read more -
Questioning the Moral Panic around Teletherapy
Zeavin discusses her upcoming books and all things mediated communication, teletherapy, and technology. Mad in America. Read more -
Nutrition and Mental Health
Julia's interest in nutrition grew out of her own research showing poor outcomes for children with psychiatric illness. Read more -
How Therapists can Help with Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal
While withdrawal can be difficult, not everyone will experience it as severely as described. With Anne Guy on Mad in America. Read more -
Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal – Exploring the Science
For this discussion, we asked what science and research can tell us about the experience of withdrawal. Mad in America Podcast. Read more -
What Does Our Species Require for a Healthy Life?
What does our species require for a healthy life? And can we achieve this with drugs? A new episode of Mad in America. Read more -
Feminism, Psychoanalysis and Critical Psychology
Bethany Morris is thinking critically about issues of women’s stigmatization and oppression. A new episode of Mad in America. Read more -
Online Support Groups for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal
We discuss a recent paper that considers the support provided by online support groups when people seek help for psychiatric drug withdrawal. Read more -
Uncomfortable Truths in Survivor Narratives
Spandler argues that understanding truly listening to psychiatric survivors requires us to get accustomed to uncomfortable truths. Read more -
Combining Peer Support and Open Dialogue
Speight is a person with lived experience and co-facilitator in an innovative approach called Peer Supported (Partnered) Open Dialogue (POD). Read more -
Embrace the Messiness!
This episode of the “Mad in the Family” podcast discusses the role of human interaction in child development. Read more -
Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
It’s fair to say that ECT remains a controversial subject with proponents and detractors regularly disagreeing on its safety and efficacy. Read more -
Where Western Medicine Meets Indigenous Healing
Puppe explores how Western approaches to mental health impacts Indigenous peoples. Podcast by Mad in America. Read more -
Medication Free Treatment in Norway
Ole Andreas Underland provided “medication-free” care or who wanted to taper from their psychiatric drugs. Read more