Modern studies find that fluoxetine has lost its efficacy for children and can now be considered clinically equivalent to placebo.

A 2024 study found that the use of surveillance-based technology in inpatient and acute mental health settings is rising despite little evidence that New research finds patients and nurses fear video…

Overmedication, Ambivalence, and Self-Blame: New Research on Psychiatric Drugs and Personality Disorders Studies from France, the UK, and Sweden explore prescribing patterns and how people diagnosed…

Journal editors should change their practices profoundly. They should welcome academic debate instead of censoring it.

The Soteria care model is an alternative to restrictive inpatient psychiatric care for people experiencing psychosis in which patients and service users A new study from Israel shows non-coercive,…

DESSI trial results provide a beginning for rethinking psychiatric care ODESSI trial results provide a beginning for rethinking psychiatric care

I found Open Dialogue to be a compelling and deeply humane way of working but I also learned how hard it is to implement and sustain.

This week, Mad in America examines three studies around alternative treatments for depression. The first finds that salsa dancing in linked to Three studies explore how dance and exercise may improve…

The ODDESSI trial found that people’s reported recovery, quality of life and satisfaction with services improved with Open Dialogue.

Dory Previn was an American lyricist, singer-songwriter, and poet whose deeply personal work explored her struggles with mental health, including experiences of psychosis. In October 1974, she met…

New study “raises doubts about the true clinical utility of these drugs” and “questions whether brain amyloid reduction can meaningfully alter the long-term clinical trajectories.”

The extensive critique of the biomedical account of ADHD and its treatment with stimulant medication has persisted for decades.

This week, Mad in America explores three articles around antidepressant use and discontinuation. The first article questions the evidence base supporting Three new papers challenge the evidence for…

The US vice-president recently mused with a Christian podcast host on whether the end of the world was nigh.

As more companies turn to AI, they’re hiring freelancers to cleanup its mistakes rather than create original work

In contrast to the paternalistic approach of days past, Western medicine has almost universally adopted an aspirational philosophy of person-centered Participants report inadequate information,…

Science is supposed to be self-correcting. But what happens when the journals entrusted to uphold this principle become its gatekeepers?

The approach focuses on the patient priorities, seeing the same clinicians, and involving people close to them.

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Pilling explains how Mad Studies moves from first-person knowledge to questions of sanism, psychiatric authority, mutual aid, and collective resistance.

Many people feel that antidepressants block their true emotions, but they don’t have guidance about how to get off these drugs.

From poverty and migration to psychosis and spiritual experience, Bhugra argues for a psychiatry humble enough to recognize that suffering takes different forms in different worlds.

Apostolides discusses brain implants, predictive algorithms, cruel experiments, and the metaphors that allow psychiatric researchers to lose sight of the people they hope to help.

We spoke to American filmmaker Adam McKay.

The number of people referred to state hospitals as ‘Incompetent to stand trial’ (IST) has surged over the last decade. In response, states are refurbishing or rebuilding their state hospitals— even…

Their microtonal rock has been a huge viral hit – but are they really 333-year-old aliens inspired by Borneo monkeys? The Quebecois duo tell all

What if depression, anxiety, and psychosis aren’t signs of a broken brain, but survival strategies?

Dr. Howard Schubiner joins us on the MIA podcast to discuss his work and the power of neuroplasticity to address psychological or physiological pain.

Khameer Kidia draws on Zimbabwean idioms of distress, queer mutual aid, medical debt and cognitive liberty to explain why he believes psychiatry, in its current form, should come to an end.

Chelsea McVeigh joins us to discuss her journey through antidepressant withdrawal. At 31, during a new pregnancy, she suffered a severe adverse reaction that turned her world upside down.

Carla Delgado joins us to discuss her experience of antidepressant withdrawal and the hurdles created by dealing with a system that is largely ignorant of withdrawal and tapering.