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SAFE: Survivors And Families Empowered—An Update

Mad in America

Whether the anger is turned inward on the self or outward toward others, dreadful destruction results.” We hope to learn together from this pilot project and use what we have learned to keep constructing more multifamily groups to counter the confusion, blame, shame and loneliness that interferes with the healing power of hope.

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Depression: Psychiatry’s Discredited Theories and Drugs Versus a Sane Model and Approach

Mad in America

A 2022 large study , lead-authored by Marc Stone at the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, examined 232 drug-company trials on antidepressants submitted to the FDA between 1979 and 2016. Several classic studies indicate that depressed people actually deceive themselves less than nondepressed people.

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Could IPT Be a Treatment Option for Autism?

International Society for Interpersonal Psychother

Individuals with ASD possess difficulties in self-understanding or theory of own mind as well as theory of mind about others (Robinson, 2018). Not caring for or being aware of basic attachment needs in the interaction with others is probably a high risk factor for depression and other mental illnesses.