Mental health professionals are trained to be technicians rather than provided with the opportunity to discover the craft of healing.

The demedicalization and depathologization of care and life are favored by the expansion of collective autonomy and care ...

In this piece, writer Bernabé De Vinsenci challenges the notion of contemporary normality as a legitimate attitude within an ...

Voice hearing might be conceptualised as reflecting disowned or dissociated aspects of self, often occurring as a result of life events.

From the MadFreedom Advocates website: On Wednesday, July 8, 2026, the Department of Mental Health terminated our grant, with no notice, with almost two months left in the contract. This grant funded ...

I remember he was a very tall man, yet he seemed so small to me at that moment. We were in the nurse’s office, which I couldn’t stand. I’ve never believed fluorescent lights to do anything to calm the ...

Editor’s Note: This piece originally appeared on the Mad in America Substack. Two positive studies out of 13 conducted. Rejected by the FDA four times. An FDA advisory committee vote against approval.

Sarah White, Chief Executive Officer of Jean Hailes for Women’s Health, is concerned by how many younger women at the organization’s health clinics come in attributing their symptoms to perimenopause, ...

During 2025, we published 141 blogs, 243 reviews of scientific findings, 60 personal stories and 59 MIA reports, of which 25 were podcast interviews. This year’s webinars have included discussions on ...

From Mad in Slovenia: Modern positive psychology offers an interesting answer: well-being is not something we achieve once and for all, but something we build every day. Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar developed ...

From Mad in Puerto Rico: Despite being given this cocktail of medications supposedly treating the symptoms of emotional distress they are experiencing, suicide rates among veterans are extremely high.

Three new papers outline a revolutionary drug trial design, critique how the DSM pathologizes normal emotions, and share a harrowing first-person account of surviving standard psychiatric care. A new ...