Art, Poetry, and Humor Galleries
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The Real Zombie Apocalypse by Jenny Mounfield
Beliefs that Create Madness
We know that it is not simply a chemical imbalance or a broken brain. We know how the context plays a large role.
Antidepressants in Pregnancy—Turning a Blind Eye, Again
You might think that telling women about the potential risks of taking antidepressants during pregnancy would be uncontroversial.
A Manner of Speaking
A cinematic prose poem that uses metaphor and symbol to capture the essence of experiences for which there are no words.
Sober Living: Why Less Clinical Sometimes Means More Recovery
Real independence is where most people stumble. Treatment can’t replicate what it’s like to live sober in the chaos of everyday life.
The Psychological Totalization of Experience: Objectification and Subjectivity
I must be a mechanistic, predictable unit, in order for a psychiatric label or a psychological variable to be implemented on me smoothly.
ECT: New Studies Detail Harms, Lack of Efficacy, Lack of Informed Consent
What people who have received ECT really think about what they were told, and about how ECT affected them.
RESEARCH STUDIES
Emma Burris from Barnard College is seeking participants for a survey on the direct lived experience of former adolescent psychiatric inpatients, with the goal of improving mental healthcare in a way that’s sensitive to service users’ experiences. Find out more about the project and complete the survey here.
Join us for a webinar on Navigating Complex Choices in Antipsychotic Reduction with Dr. Helene Speyer, hosted by Ron Unger, on Thursday, September 25, at 9am PDT, 12pm EDT, 5pm BST, 7pm CEST.
- September 10, 2025, 1:00 pm: How consultant pharmacist Dr. DeLon Canterbury helps patients safely go off psychotropic drugs
- September 19, 2025, N/A: Psychology & the Other 2025 Conference
- September 25, 2025, 12:00 pm: Navigating Complex Choices in Antipsychotic Reduction
Not Even the Unborn Are Safe from Psychiatric Harm
Medical organizations and the media dismiss the experts and the large body of research telling of fetal harm from exposure to SSRIs during pregnancy.
How to be a Critical Psychologist Without Losing Your Soul: A Conversation With Zenobia...
On the Mad in America podcast, Zenobia Morrill, José Giovanni Luiggi-Hernández and Justin Karter join us to explore the need to raise awareness of psychological approaches that challenge mainstream perspectives.
Confessions of an Ad Writer: How I Helped Turn Atypical Antipsychotics into a Billion-Dollar...
How we redefined schizophrenia, rewrote the safety narrative of antipsychotics, and helped drive one of the most successful (and concerning) pharmaceutical launches in history.
The Deceptive Politics of Civil Commitment in Oregon
A workgroup in Oregon unanimously recommended rights-based mental health care. Then the politicians and those invested in forced treatment splintered off and implemented the exact opposite.
Is Dialogue the Best Medicine? A Conversation With Jaakko Seikkula
Jaakko Seikkula joins us on the MIA podcast to discuss how Open Dialogue came to be, the research that shows its positive outcomes, how psychiatry has failed to learn from Open Dialogue practice and more.
America is Legislating a Return to the Asylum, One Policy at a Time
Federal and state policymakers across the partisan divide are defunding vital programs and rolling back policies and rights protections.
What Diagnosis Left Behind: Towards a Situated, Humane Psychology
Neil Nallan Chakravartulla questions the shortcoming of diagnosis as it separates the person from their world and detaches their pain from their circumstances. He reflects on the troubling consequences of this in South Asia.
Counter archiving “mental health records”
Standing in front of the mirror, i wonder, “what outfit should i wear for scanning my
psychiatric records at the local library?” the choice is obvious. i reach for my Sinead
O’Connor t-shirt. a sense of pride and gratitude washes over me.
