Article Education Poverty and mental health 
Mad in America
DECEMBER 31, 2024
Searching for the Psychiatric Yeti: Schizophrenia Is Not Genetic In January, Peter Simons wrote that the decades-long attempt to locate the gene or genes for schizophrenia has failed, according to a new article in Psychiatric Research by prominent schizophrenia researcher E. Fuller Torrey. A groundbreaking study led by Rachel E.
Association for Psychological Science (APS)
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
This naturally disposes us to attribute poverty , misbehavior, and low academic performance not to bad people (to lazy or incompetent dispositions) but to harmful environments. Nor is our reporting on mental health disorders and their treatment, how nature and nurture weave the human fabric, or how language develops.
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Mad in America
JANUARY 25, 2025
R esearch has found South Africa consistently ranks in the bottom three performing countries in terms of global mental health. Photo by tuxone The Mental State of the World Report measures the mental health of internet users only, making it limited in the South African context where close to one-third of the population isnt online.
Mad in America
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Editor’s Note: This article is being simultaneously published on Mad in America and on our affiliate site, Mad in the UK. For many years, I received mental health services and accepted the “mental illness” diagnoses, which I now call labels. The mental health system is deeply ingrained in our culture.
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
Pure portrayed Rose’s autobiographical account of finding that she had OCD, a “mental illness”, and the breakthrough that this medical framework provided her. In this interview, Cartwright charts her journey of painful and lonely disillusionment with the “mental illness” framework. This was short-lived. My OCD had relapsed.
Mad in America
DECEMBER 9, 2023
Editor’s Note: This article, written by Julia X, was first published on our affiliate site, Mad in Sweden. To understand mental illness, we first need to understand what a person really is. Mental illness is usually caused by something happening. W hat is a human being? But we do, you might be thinking now.
Mad in America
APRIL 24, 2024
As a Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard University’s Department of Global Health and Social Medicine and a Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Kleinman has profoundly influenced how medical professionals understand the interplay between culture, illness, and healing. Listen to the audio of the interview here.
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