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 ...

From The Bulwark. “The Trump administration has made clear that it wishes to purge America of some of its undesirables. That includes, for instance, deporting 100 million people (a third of the ...

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 ...

From Mad in Greece: Jordan Reyne rose to prominence through her distinctly atmospheric and often dark music, which develops through the motifs and themes of Steampunk — an aesthetic and artistic ...

This week Mad in America examines three studies around racial bias in hospital and mental health settings. The first study finds that people with limited English proficiency are more likely to be ...

A young man’s struggle with ADHD; his portal to drug use, experiences a metamorphic coming of age through the creative energy of rap music. “Why do I judge myself, when the whole world is already ...

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 ...

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 ...