Without complete transparency, consent cannot be considered truly informed. While silence may feel safe, it keeps us ...

This week, Mad in America examines three articles related to AI chatbots and mental health. The first argues that AI chatbot ...

I don't think I can describe or understand what a paradigm shift in psychiatry should be like and what the reality of a new ...

From approximately age 35, women's sex hormone levels decline, specifically estrogen and progesterone (Mosconi, 2024 – The ...

This article summarizes and expands on the original narrative published at the link above, adapting it to the Italian context ...

As provision of basic needs continues to atrophy, resistance increasingly takes an individualised, myopic form.

The following is Irit’s Mad Pasts, Mad Prescence conference talk, as she wrote it: In 1978, when I was 20 years old, I had ...

Before I was a psychiatrist, I was a psychiatric patient. I remember sitting in waiting rooms, waiting to see the next psychiatrist with a pit in my stomach, not knowing whether my suffering would be ...

Why are psychiatry and its medical model now stronger than ever, with zero signs of weakening or collapse? In fact, arguments could be made that the medical model is not only getting stronger, but ...

For some time I have been trying to construct a coherent narrative of who my father was from the few memory fragments I have of him from childhood. Starting out with what were called “nervous ...

My heart breaks as I look back on little Natalie, lying in a rickety hospital bed, hallucinating, convulsing, and screaming from the torment inflicted on her by high school bullies. The nurses ...

Emerging from the crisis that transformed my life in 1990 was the hardest thing I’ve ever done. The brutal re-entry into consensus reality involved a sacrifice I couldn’t articulate, and the loss ...