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"I never set out to become the face or voice for long-term psych med injury. This isn’t how anyone would want their life to end up, but as the years passed and life continued without me, I realised I could no longer hide in silence."
November 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
"I never set out to become the face or voice for long-term psych med injury. This isn’t how anyone would want their life to end up, but as the years passed and life continued without me, I realised I could no longer hide in silence."
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Like to know more about Mad in America or rethinking psychiatry more broadly? On our #podcast, Robert Whitaker will answer your questions. Email questions to info@madinamerica.com by November 30 and we’ll pick a selection. #mentalhealth #QandA
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Like to know more about Mad in America or rethinking psychiatry more broadly? On our #podcast, Robert Whitaker will answer your questions. Email questions to info@madinamerica.com by November 30 and we’ll pick a selection. #mentalhealth #QandA
In many ways, the reality of our world interferes with and undermines the implementation of psychoanalytic ideals, but can the reverse also be true? May psychoanalysis offer us a way to subvert this social structure and give voice to our dissent?
November 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
In many ways, the reality of our world interferes with and undermines the implementation of psychoanalytic ideals, but can the reverse also be true? May psychoanalysis offer us a way to subvert this social structure and give voice to our dissent?
Like to know more about Mad in America or rethinking psychiatry more broadly? On our #podcast, Robert Whitaker will answer your questions. Email questions to info@madinamerica.com by November 30 and we’ll pick a selection. #mentalhealth #QandA
November 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Like to know more about Mad in America or rethinking psychiatry more broadly? On our #podcast, Robert Whitaker will answer your questions. Email questions to info@madinamerica.com by November 30 and we’ll pick a selection. #mentalhealth #QandA
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Poem of the Week: This Impossible Fantasy by Nicholas Cook
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October 27, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Poem of the Week: This Impossible Fantasy by Nicholas Cook
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Featured Artist: Anna Crabtree with "Sun Song"
"In this painting I attempt to create a safe, yet wild nook in which vibrance and rest simultaneously exist; in which luminosity and darkness act as healing substances, drenching the land, animals and women."
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"In this painting I attempt to create a safe, yet wild nook in which vibrance and rest simultaneously exist; in which luminosity and darkness act as healing substances, drenching the land, animals and women."
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October 19, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Featured Artist: Anna Crabtree with "Sun Song"
"In this painting I attempt to create a safe, yet wild nook in which vibrance and rest simultaneously exist; in which luminosity and darkness act as healing substances, drenching the land, animals and women."
annacrabtree.net
"In this painting I attempt to create a safe, yet wild nook in which vibrance and rest simultaneously exist; in which luminosity and darkness act as healing substances, drenching the land, animals and women."
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Joining us on our #podcast are Adam Urato and Joanna Moncrieff to discuss a recent FDA panel on potential harms caused by #antidepressant use during pregnancy. #mentalhealth #psychology #psychiatry
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October 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Joining us on our #podcast are Adam Urato and Joanna Moncrieff to discuss a recent FDA panel on potential harms caused by #antidepressant use during pregnancy. #mentalhealth #psychology #psychiatry
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Joining us on our #podcast are Adam Urato and Joanna Moncrieff to discuss a recent FDA panel on potential harms caused by #antidepressant use during pregnancy. #mentalhealth #psychology #psychiatry
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October 8, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Joining us on our #podcast are Adam Urato and Joanna Moncrieff to discuss a recent FDA panel on potential harms caused by #antidepressant use during pregnancy. #mentalhealth #psychology #psychiatry
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Poem of the Week: "Beauty Remains" by Diana Spore
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October 6, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Poem of the Week: "Beauty Remains" by Diana Spore
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"An interview with a leading academic psychiatrist reveals that academic psychiatrists are clueless about the scientific method, and this ignorance allows them to convince themselves that they are conducting scientific research when they are obviously not."
September 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
"An interview with a leading academic psychiatrist reveals that academic psychiatrists are clueless about the scientific method, and this ignorance allows them to convince themselves that they are conducting scientific research when they are obviously not."
"A huge portion of my life was sacrificed to the mental health conglomerate, whose 'medicines' did not make the delusions go away but merely dampened the experience of reality. I missed the best years of my children’s lives and ruined my marriage in the struggle."
September 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
"A huge portion of my life was sacrificed to the mental health conglomerate, whose 'medicines' did not make the delusions go away but merely dampened the experience of reality. I missed the best years of my children’s lives and ruined my marriage in the struggle."
"A huge portion of my life was sacrificed to the mental health conglomerate, whose 'medicines' did not make the delusions go away but merely dampened the experience of reality. I missed the best years of my children’s lives and ruined my marriage in the struggle."
September 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
"A huge portion of my life was sacrificed to the mental health conglomerate, whose 'medicines' did not make the delusions go away but merely dampened the experience of reality. I missed the best years of my children’s lives and ruined my marriage in the struggle."
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. In this #podcast interview, he discusses the extensive bias that pervades scientific research.
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September 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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. In this #podcast interview, he discusses the extensive bias that pervades scientific research.
#Science #Research #STEM #ScienceNews
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On the Mad in America #podcast we are joined by John Ioannidis the Stanford professor behind the most famous paper in modern medicine warning that much of today’s research is unreliable. #Science #Research #STEM #ScienceMatters #ScienceEducation #ScienceNews #AI #Antidepressants
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September 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
On the Mad in America #podcast we are joined by John Ioannidis the Stanford professor behind the most famous paper in modern medicine warning that much of today’s research is unreliable. #Science #Research #STEM #ScienceMatters #ScienceEducation #ScienceNews #AI #Antidepressants
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"Her experience captures something many quietly endure: therapy that soothes but never strengthens, therapy that validates but does not guide clients through the discomfort necessary for transformation."
September 9, 2025 at 7:47 PM
"Her experience captures something many quietly endure: therapy that soothes but never strengthens, therapy that validates but does not guide clients through the discomfort necessary for transformation."
The competing interests we explore in these pages are all variations of ideas on how to love; our challenge is to make sense out of the harder road that ignores fast and easy answers in favor of the hard work of opening our hearts even when we are angry and afraid.
August 29, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The competing interests we explore in these pages are all variations of ideas on how to love; our challenge is to make sense out of the harder road that ignores fast and easy answers in favor of the hard work of opening our hearts even when we are angry and afraid.
"The medical establishment backlash to the recent FDA panel hearing has been extraordinary. The panel, convened by the new FDA chair, respected surgeon, Marty Makary, was set up to hear evidence on the potential risks of antidepressants during pregnancy and childbirth."
August 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
"The medical establishment backlash to the recent FDA panel hearing has been extraordinary. The panel, convened by the new FDA chair, respected surgeon, Marty Makary, was set up to hear evidence on the potential risks of antidepressants during pregnancy and childbirth."
The dominant psychological discourse seeks to find or insert these objects into everyone. Everything is placed in order, everything is reified, nothing is hidden, the person herself is a token of psychological universals and statistical aggregates, the person herself is an object.
August 19, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The dominant psychological discourse seeks to find or insert these objects into everyone. Everything is placed in order, everything is reified, nothing is hidden, the person herself is a token of psychological universals and statistical aggregates, the person herself is an object.
At a time when trust in the healthcare industry is wavering, should doctors add yet another reason to distrust them, or listen to their patients when they state what they don’t want to see?
August 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
At a time when trust in the healthcare industry is wavering, should doctors add yet another reason to distrust them, or listen to their patients when they state what they don’t want to see?