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.
Mad in America
JULY 19, 2024
D uring my first psychiatric hospitalization in 1998, I was strapped down, placed in 4-point restraints, and administered a painful catheter—apparently because I had peed on the floor during the course of my psychotic episode. Captivity By my count (with an assist from my mother) I’ve had 12 psychiatric hospitalizations in my life.
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Mad in America
DECEMBER 30, 2023
TikTok’s “sick-role subculture” leads to children taking on the characteristics of rare psychiatric diagnoses, according to an article in Comprehensive Psychiatry. Gutierrez, and Saudi Garcia opened their recent article, “Rethinking Psychiatry: Solutions for a Sociogenic Crisis,” recently published in the journal Daedalus.
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. The guiding principle for the hospital during these seven decades, whether recognized or not, was Everything About Us Was Without Us.
Mad in America
MARCH 5, 2025
Eventually, he was placed in a psychiatric hospital and deemed suicidal. Siem: The New York Times published a major article on February 2, 2013, detailing Richards story. Based on the article, it doesnt seem like any of them ever questioned what was happening. Do you think The New York Times would write that same article now?
Mad in America
OCTOBER 20, 2023
From the Los Angeles Times : “When he came home from the hospital, Marcelus Laidler began to wet the bed. ‘That hospital is like one bad dream after another.’ ’ Hospitals are forbidden under federal law from restraining psychiatric patients except to prevent them from harming themselves or others. .
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 23, 2023
I n preparation for a course on clinical community psychology at my home university in Caracas, Venezuela, I stumbled upon a tweet from an anonymous student complaining about a family of pigs that had occupied the psychiatric hospitalization ward where he was supposed to develop his clinical training. His explanation left me distraught.
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