A growing number of voices within psychiatry are questioning today's focus on diagnoses – and there is now even discussion of ...

This week, Mad in America explores four new articles around the negative effects of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). The first article finds that... Psychiatric institutions exert ...

No Feeling Is Final with Honor Eastly – a show for anyone who’s ever wondered if life is worth living. And for anyone trying to better understand their friend, partner, or kid who’s wrestled with ...

Reviewing the rights board in the hallway, I vocally indicated to the staff where their policy deviated from state law, and I ...

At the monthly Mad in The World (MitW) meeting in late autumn 2025, the Norwegian editorial team took up the call from the ...

Rob Wipond appears on the Psychophobia* podcast, hosted by Dr. Michael R. Montgomery.

Psychosis is treated like a crime, and the sentence is social death. There is no place in society for people like me. I’ve known it deep down for a long time, but I was ashamed to say it out loud.

When people protest too much, their over-explaining usually comes from insecurity, low self-esteem, or a threat to their ...

For all the years I have spent studying the DSM, the diagnostic manual so often called “the bible of psychiatry,” I never really stopped to think about that nickname. I assumed it referred to ...