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

Chelsea McVeigh joins us to discuss her journey through antidepressant withdrawal. At 31, during a new pregnancy, she ...

Lawrence Kelmenson has practiced psychiatry for 32 years, working with children, adults, and families. He graduated medical school from State University of New York, and completed psychiatric ...

Justin M. Karter, PhD, leads research news coverage and editorial strategy at Mad in America. He is the Acting Program Director of the PsyD in Clinical Psychology & Psychological Humanities at Boston ...

Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD has published more than 100 papers in the top five general medical journals and his scientific works have been cited over 150,000 times. He has published several books relevant ...

Jock McLaren is an Australian psychiatrist who worked 25yrs in the remote north of the country. He occupies himself delving into the philosophical basis of psychiatry, only to find there isn't one.

What is striking about The Lost Art of Healing (1996) is that its author Bernard Lown (1921-2021), the renowned cardiologist who pioneered life-saving technological advances, makes clear that vital to ...

And so long as you haven’t experienced this: to die and so to grow, you are only a troubled guest on the dark earth. —Goethe When I took my first shame-filled walk to the campus therapist’s office on ...

A good soccer team coach makes all the members of the squad feel valued and that they have an important contribution to the team’s efforts. A less confident coach may have favorites and neglect other ...

Iam a healthy person, but the mental health system made me sick. From the age of 30 to 36—a time when one is still young but is maturing and developing as an adult—I fell prey to a network that seemed ...

Peter Simons was an academic researcher in psychology. Now, as a science writer, he tries to provide the layperson with a view into the sometimes inscrutable world of psychiatric research. As an ...