Article Education Trauma and the brain 
Mad in America
MARCH 6, 2025
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. This is in contrast with the typical chronological history of who served as superintendent, for how long, the date new buildings were opened and other such changes.
Mad in America
JULY 29, 2024
Mad in America and Mad in the UK are jointly publishing this four-part series on neurodiversity. This third part of this series on Neurodiversity consists of an essay by a therapist who has asked to remain anonymous for fear of the consequences for their job. The series is being archived here. In Part 1 and Part 2 , we—e.g.
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Mad in America
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
She talks about understanding the place of her own childhood trauma and also the limitations of simplistic trauma narratives. She talks about understanding the place of her own childhood trauma and also the limitations of simplistic trauma narratives. She is also a writer and producer on Netflix’s 3 Body Problem.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
A new review published in CNS Drugs analyzes the current available treatment guidelines for monitoring the potential negative side effects of clozapine. Shockingly, based on their inclusion criteria, the authors only found one existing guideline.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Well-meaning child practitioners who take the current DSM autism criteria at face value likely assume that the widely-used ASD diagnosis provides them with understanding of and insight into children’s developmental difficulties and a reliable basis for making educational placement and treatment recommendations.
Mad in America
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
In November 2022 I was given an article about the discredited ‘chemical imbalance’ theory supporting SSRI prescription by a neuroscientist colleague I was collaborating with and who contributed to Mad in America, about which I knew nothing. OCD has a strong genetic component and was thought to be incurable.
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
I sat down to write this article with the experience of severe akathisia fresh in my mind. Recalling the river metaphor from my last article, I leaned back and pointed my feet downstream. For the first time in over a year, I awoke to it coursing through my body: a familiar, paralyzing anxiety accompanied by feelings of terror.
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