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Mad in America
MARCH 6, 2025
And therein is a critical lesson for todays mental health system, and how it should strive to ensure that everything about us is with us, not without us. T his historical record of Oregons first state hospital, the Oregon State Insane Asylum, from its opening in 1883 until the mid-1950s, will focus on the experiences of patients there.
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
Her second book, which we will be discussing today, Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America , explores the lives of the four women behind the National Institute of Mental Health’s famous case study of schizophrenia. She now teaches a course on U.S. history at Mount St. Mary’s University.
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Mad in America
JUNE 17, 2024
My middle school-aged daughter had a suicide attempt, the result of relentless bullying. M y brother Jesse sat next to me on the couch in my living room. Two police officers stood inside my entryway, watching us. My mind raced. I believed my brother’s life was in danger. I believed I was the only person who knew it and only I could save him.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
His work spans everything from the cultural history of mental illness to mindfulness, death anxiety, and resiliencenot the hollow kind that comes from pretending everythings fine, but the kind that comes from staring into the void and refusing to flinch. Hes a professor of psychology and the director of the Psy.D. He earned his Ph.D.
Mad in America
JANUARY 13, 2024
Since she was once deemed too “mentally ill” to run her own life, it’s a civil- and disability-rights landmark that the Grammy-winning performer is finally willing and able to share her side of the story. It is also a rarity: documentation of psychiatric abuse on a prominent, mainstream platform. And it isn’t pretty. Spoilers ahead.)
Mad in America
OCTOBER 21, 2023
As I documented in CounterPunch earlier this year, it is now mainstream to acknowledge that: (1) psychiatry’s treatment outcomes are “abysmal” and “not getting any better”; (2) the serotonin imbalance theory of depression is untrue; and (3) psychiatry’s diagnostic manual, the DSM , is scientifically invalid. As of late 2022, just 31% of U.S.
Mad in America
DECEMBER 17, 2024
They had tortured me for four years, between the ages of sixteen and twenty, first because they suffered under the delusion that my homosexuality was a mental illness, and then by their certainty that my schizophrenia, which they had created, was incurable. I felt better about myself, about life and about the world.
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