Earlier this year, a bill was proposed in the U.S. state of Connecticut to end forced shock treatment. To put it mildly, the bill restored my hope. Electroshock treatment, eventually re-branded as ...

Faith in oneself, tempered by adversity, creates an anti-fragile personality. I am living proof of that concept. I grew up in Monona, Wisconsin, in an enriched environment of beautiful parks and ...

A Swedish survey of 700 providers shows that biological and cognitive-behavioral models correlate with higher stigma, while social explanations appear protective. A new article published in the ...

Mad Law and Human Rights: An attorney and psychiatric survivor, Tina Minkowitz writes on the new perspectives in human rights law that emerged in the work done by users and survivors of psychiatry on ...

James has personal experience of psychiatric drug withdrawal and is a keen advocate for greater awareness of the need to taper safely. He hosts and produces the Let's Talk Withdrawal and Mad in ...

Kelly Brogan, MD is a holistic women’s health psychiatrist, author of the newly released book Own Your Self, the NY Times Bestselling book A Mind of Your Own, the children’s book A Time For Rain, ...

Tangible Intangibilities: Sera writes here to share her thoughts on how the language we choose and our apparent need to concretize the inherently complex is leading to violations of rights and ...

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 ...

Behaviorism and Mental Health: Philip Hickey is a retired psychologist. He has worked in prisons (UK and US), addiction units, community mental health centers, nursing homes, and in private practice.

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 ...

Commonsense Rebellion: Bruce E. Levine, a practicing clinical psychologist often at odds with the mainstream of his profession, writes and speaks about how society, culture, politics and psychology ...

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 ...