An international set of case studies suggests that ignoring people’s spiritual worlds blinds clinicians to key sources of ...

The American Psychiatric Association, VA and other prominent medical associations are lining up in opposition to proposed legislation that would require prescribers of psychiatric medication to obtain ...

Mental-health “epidemics” now dominate public discourse, with soaring rates of anxiety, depression, autism, bipolar disorder and ADHD diagnoses, to name a few. At the same time, the Western world ...

A new study links psychiatric drugs, particularly antidepressants, with increased risk of developing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease), a rare, incurable neurological ...

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 ...

After this happened to me, I know that I can handle anything in life, no matter how hard it is. Welcome to the Mad in America podcast. My name is Brooke Siem, and I am the author of a memoir on ...

John Ioannidis is a Stanford professor, a physician, and one of the most eminent scholars in the world in the field of evidence-based medicine. He is a tenured professor at Stanford and has an ...

"When neuroleptic medication was used, the team became much more passive. They started to wait for the effect of the medication, and no longer had an active role with the families." Welcome to MIA ...

Stijn Vanheule is a clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, and professor of psychology at Ghent University. Trained in the Lacanian tradition, he has written widely on the structure of psychosis, the ...

Why psychiatry's favored idioms may do harm—and how poetic attentiveness can open new paths to care. His forthcoming book, Healing and the Invention of Metaphor: Toward a Poetics of Illness Experience ...

For nearly two decades, I have suffered from a debilitating condition known as PSSD, short for “post-SSRI sexual dysfunction”. Contrary to what the name suggests, the condition often encompasses a ...

Spurred on by narratives that street problems are caused by mental health issues rather than by worsening economic inequities, new bills expanding powers to involuntarily commit people have been ...