Mad in America

MAY 2, 2024

A recent Neuroscience News article is titled “ Bipolar disorder can be detected with blood test. ” 1 This is one of many recent, oversimplified headlines that encourage us to think we are on the brink of discovering the next biomarker that will scientifically validate biomedical psychiatric disorders.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In Part 1 , we discussed Mad in America, the biopsychosocial model and the history of psychiatry. Then we got juvenile bipolar disorder. O n the Mad in America podcast this week, we continue our reader Q&A with Mad in America founder Robert Whitaker.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Although Jennifer Houghs older sister, Valerie, was diagnosed with bipolar disorder when she was fifteen, Hough never saw her sister as mentally ill. To me, she was just my sister, Hough explains. I knew she didn’t have a brain disease. In Ireland, we’re very good at paying lip service to these things, she explains.

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