Critical Psychiatry

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

For example, Awais recent blog post criticises Jo for her methods rather than necessarily actually what she says. I worry that the clash between Joanna Moncrieff and Awais Aftab about her new book Chemically imbalanced has become too personal (see eg. last post ). In many ways, how Jo expresses her critique is irrelevant.

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JANUARY 14, 2025

Awais Aftab has responded (see his blog post ) to the Sunday Times magazine article about Joanna Moncrieff (see eg. previous post ). He raises various useful questions about Jo's position but tends to be very critical of her perspective.

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Sanity Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

In this blog, I will share 21 ways to help you find your life purpose as a woman and start living your life as an empowered one. A woman who is looking for useful ways to take charge of her married life or a woman who loves to explore her life, this blog might help you Find your life purpose through his simple exercise Get a pen and paper.

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Critical Psychiatry

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This blog is called Thinking differently about mental health. As I keep saying, too many people are being misled by psychiatry that their mental health problems are due to their brain (see eg. previous post ). This includes misleading children who are being given a neurodivergent diagnosis to justify their sense of difference from others.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 21, 2023

A Recap of Our Operations in 2023 In 2023, we have published: 241 reports on scientific publications 182 blogs 62 MIA Reports 44 personal stories 28 podcasts & more: we host an online support group for parents, an online meeting space for artists, art galleries, and reader-nominated “songs of the week.”

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

At that time, I already had a personal blog based on my first book, Mad in America, and I began running other blogs. It became evident that it would be useful to have a website that provided those three things, a forum for personal experiences, a place for blogs, and research news. Moore: Another anonymous question.

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Critical Psychiatry

OCTOBER 27, 2024

previous post ), writes on Mad in America (see blog post ) about the claim on Danish national TV that patients with an ADHD diagnosis die 5 years earlier if they are not treated with drugs. These speculations can be repeated in the media misleading the public about the evidence. Peter Gtzsche, who I've mentioned before (see eg.

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Real Psychiatry

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Supplementary 2: The book cover images and quotes are all property of their copyright owners and do not imply any connection to this blog. I encourage any readers of this blog to do their own research by reading the reference materials. They are used here for illustrative and educational purposes.

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Critical Psychiatry

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

blog post from DHSC Media Centre and version of amended Mental Health Act (MHA) 1983 as if amended by the Bill prepared by Alex Ruck Keane). This would have also given an opportunity to produce a new Bill taking into account the recent WHO/OHCHR guidance to countries on mental health legislation (see previous post ).

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 15, 2024

We’ll save the analysis of the construct validity of ADHD for another blog post, but let’s just take one jab at it for now by pointing out a criterion that allegedly describes the hyperactive, impulse feature of ADHD. But are we defining this condition clearly enough and are we thinking about the nature of it in the right way?

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NAMI

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

However, some of the most valuable insights came from blogs and communities dedicated to people of color with ADHD, as medical research on those within the Black/African Ancestry community remained limited. Since then, Ive focused on researching ADHD and connecting with various groups to better understand how it shaped my experiences.

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Critical Psychiatry

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The difficulty in changing psychiatry is real and I have often commented in this blog about how hard it is to get the message of critical/relational psychiatry accepted (see eg. As I wrote in my book chapter 'Historical perspectives on anti-psychiatry', this retreat could be said to have symbolised a lack of commitment to changing psychiatry.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Eight co-researchers (see Table 1 below) were selected via the Emerging Proud blog and social media. Participants were people who had been labelled with psychosis, but found alternative ways to understand their experiences.

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Mad in America

APRIL 2, 2024

This blog post seeks to illuminate semiotics’ untapped power in social work and advocate for its integration as a novel approach to fostering more nuanced, empathetic, and compelling client relationships.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I have written academic/scholarly articles published in scientific peer-reviewed journals, position papers, blogs, newspaper articles, and workbooks. I experienced the good and the worst in terms of the mental health care I received.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Eugene Gendlin In a previous blog, I wrote about my experiences in psychedelic therapy, and the ways that the psychedelic-assisted therapy model by design perpetuates one of our cultures deepest wounds: feeling alone.

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Sanity Daily

JANUARY 30, 2025

My blog Sanity Daily was attacked and targeted by some digital marketer whom I trusted to the core. She not only left my blog to doom but also made sure I didn’t spread the word about her unprofessionalism, so she reached out to our few common contacts and manipulated them. Fight all the fears and conquer them, one at a time.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 30, 2023

H ere we highlight the top ten of Mad in America’s most read blogs and personal stories of 2023. Universal DBT in Schools Increases Anxiety, Depression, Family Conflict In October, Peter Simons wrote about research asking if dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) can actually make kids’ mental health worse.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 14, 2023

Moncrieff has discussed the findings in a blog post. RADAR Study RADAR replicates earlier studies in which, over a two-year period, individuals who reduce their doses are at higher risk of relapse than those who do not reduce.

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Mad in America

JULY 19, 2024

This blog is not about the cruelty of psychiatric institutions, although they can be cruel. Instead, what this blog is about is earning the right to be freed from such societal constraints. I was terribly uncomfortable, and over and over I begged her to release me. Finally, after a considerable time, I was released.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Power was consistently decentralised (hence, for example, my writing this blog—I’m one co-author amongst many; we have all stepped up at various points). Simon added two Reference Group Facilitators (one consumer, one carer) to increase safety for group members.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In addition to Andre’s activism, she also wrote a blog from 2005-2010 called Grandma’s Gone Surfing , which detailed her experiences as a forty-something learning to surf in the Rockaways and which seemed to bring her joy, recalled Susan Rogers, fellow activist who’d organized, written, and protested with her. .”

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Mad in America

JULY 29, 2024

In this blog, a therapist who works with children and young people expands on some of these worrying consequences, including the imposition of identities, the co-option of the neurodiversity movement for personal and professional gain, the restrictions on therapeutic work, and the silencing of dissenting views.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

I am currently sharing my documented work on Substack, called Just Doing the Little Things, and on my blog at www.mitzysky.com. It turned out to be a spiritual journey, which I now call soul work. Every experience brings new insights.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In this blog, he discusses the delusions of psychiatry. Editor’s Note: Over the next several months, Mad in America is publishing a serialized version of Peter Gøtzsche’s book, Critical Psychiatry Textbook. Each Monday, a new section of the book is published, and all chapters are archived here.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In this last blog in the series, he presents his concluding thoughts and suggestions for the future of psychiatry. Editor’s Note: Over the past several months, Mad in America has published a serialized version of Peter Gøtzsche’s book, Critical Psychiatry Textbook. All chapters have been archived here.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 1, 2023

To clarify: Throughout this blog, I use the terms “mental illness,” “mental health problems,” and “psychiatric diagnosis” interchangeably. I soon realized that the nastiness towards those who were labeled with psychiatric diagnoses was ubiquitous within every branch of medicine, and that the job of changing hearts and minds was huge. (To

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Editor’s Note: This blog is also being published on our affiliate site, Mad in the UK. T he one-size-fits-all autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis, as configured in the Revised Fifth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM- 5-TR), is a clinical catastrophe.

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Mad in America

JULY 6, 2024

Studies and Research (2018) healthrising.org/blog/2014/05/17/limbic-kindling-hard-wiring-brain-hypersensitives-chronic-fatigue-syndrome/ The post Iatrogenic Practices in Psychiatry: Kindling appeared first on Mad In America. Kindling/Limbic Ignition: Hard Wiring/The brain’s wiring for hypersensitivity and chronic fatigue syndrome.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In this blog, he discusses the failures of the publicly funded long-term studies, CATIE and STAR*D, and psychiatry’s fraudulent reporting of these results. Editor’s Note: Over the next several months, Mad in America is publishing a serialized version of Peter Gøtzsche’s book, Critical Psychiatry Textbook.

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Centre for Mental Health

DECEMBER 12, 2024

We reviewed words and phrases (too many to fit into this blog) used in service delivery, policy and academic papers. This blog was written in collaboration with the Hepatitis C Trust Peer Researchers The post Hepatitis C and mental health: Using peer support to fight stigma appeared first on Centre for Mental Health.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

While still gaining traction, hashtags like #Humiliation, #HumiliationTrauma, and #HumiliationWound have accumulated around 42,000 posts on TikTok, with similar content appearing on YouTube Reels , alongside research and blogs advocating greater recognition.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In my next blog, I want to explore how vital connection, love, belonging, and having the space to be our true selves in relationships with other people is to our healing and becoming truly human. That quiet voice within me, beneath the outwardly big experiences that seemed healing, longed to just feel loved by another person for who I am.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 29, 2024

In this blog, he addresses the research showing that psychiatric hospitalization increases suicidality as well as further dangers of psychiatric drugs, including tardive dyskinesia. Editor’s Note: Over the next several months, Mad in America is publishing a serialized version of Les Ruthven’s book, Much of U.S.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 3, 2024

Indeed, the BMJ information page for Pigott’s article states there have been eight “blogs” written about the RIAT reanalysis. Four of the eight are BMJ blogs reporting on the “most read” BMJ articles, and not per se about the scandal. The major media has remained silent.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In this blog, he addresses healthcare’s focus on back end treatment rather than front end treatment: treating the symptoms rather than the causes of the health condition. Editor’s Note: Over the next several months, Mad in America is publishing a serialized version of Les Ruthven’s book, Much of U.S.

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Roland Bal - Resolving Trauma and PTSD

DECEMBER 3, 2024

If youre on a tight budget, the blog section on my website offers a wealth of free material that you can revisit as often as needed. Engaging with the right material that help shine light onto your PTSD and Complex Trauma patterns can further hep you to move out of them and prep you for next stages of healing.

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