Mad in America

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Editor’s Note: This blog is also being published on our affiliate site, Mad in the UK. The exceptional philosophy and methods of the late, courageous educational psychologist Reuven Feuerstein have provided inspiration, vision, alternative methodology and terminology. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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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. If we lose the leading psychologists, there is little hope for the patients who would then need to consult therapists with lesser educations. Psychiatrists should be re-educated so that they can function as psychologists.

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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

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Consensus reality would have us believe that increased compulsory schooling equals increased education, however, a critical thinker questions this certainty. If a major part of true education is inspiring and energizing us to be curious and enjoy reading, there is empirical evidence of standard schooling’s anti-educational effects.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

When I hear the words “serious mental illness,” I’ve trained my mind to think of the ongoing violence and people struggling to live or sometimes giving up—in poverty, bullying, abandonment, domestic violence, workplaces, and poor education in inadequate schools—because the burden of exploitation becomes too great.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In this blog, he discusses the delusions of psychiatry. 639 Psychiatrists are also “educated” with industry’s hospitality more often than any other specialty. 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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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

However, careless, discouraging drive-by comments on a social media platform may have unintended consequences, even if meant to be educational. Regardless, those posting their pills attracted many dire warnings from activists trying to educate them about drug dangers. What about the basis for informed consent?

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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. This song is sung by the people to the child throughout their lifespan and again, at this one’s deathbed.

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Trauma and the brain Psychedelic therapy Aging and mental health Education 117

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

JANUARY 3, 2024

However, the creation of a “Prozac Nation” might not have been successful without the help of the NIMH, which launched an “educational campaign” at that time designed to change the public’s understanding of depression. Four of the eight are BMJ blogs reporting on the “most read” BMJ articles, and not per se about the scandal.

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Neurotransmitters and mental health Hospitality Education Self-awareness 144

Now Psych

MAY 14, 2024

Family support and education can also play a significant role in helping individuals with psychosis manage their symptoms and improve their quality of life. Rehabilitation programs can assist with job performance and education, as well as coping skills and self-care. By using this blog, you signify your agreement to this disclaimer.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Financial disadvantage, unemployment, low income, low education or low material standard of living directly impacts mental health. It is important to educate people on how to process the pain in a constructive manner, how to give oneself more options or how to find more options in scarce circumstances.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Contemporary education readily acknowledges this fact. Mr. Blue is highly educated. His undergrad is in Biology, he has a master’s in education and was trained as a lawyer. A 504 is a student education plan guaranteed to students with disabilities according to the 1973 Rehabilitation Act, section 504.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Of course it wouldn’t be such a secret if there was education in schools!! If they had been sufficiently prepared or helped by education on how to handle their “schizophrenia”, would it still have happened? But when I first ran into spiritual difficulties myself, I had never met anyone with this supposed “schizophrenia.”

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Foucault believed this concept is faulty because it ignores its cultural background—namely, the construction of an institutionalized education system. “If The education system has become an artificial incubation chamber in which a child is sequestered from outside life. Medicine harms us physically by promoting dangerous treatments.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In this blog, he addresses antidepressants versus CBT, the buzz around ketamine and esketamine, and the new frontier of drugs for postpartum depression. I have seen this occur in all walks of life and the phenomena has no respect for intelligence, education or economic position in society. Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It.

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Healthcare Sleep and mental health Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Pharmaceuticals 97

Mad in America

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In this blog, he addresses the difference between basing a medical system on clinical belief versus one based on scientific evidence. We will see that this wanting to believe exists throughout society (including modern healthcare) and is no respecter of age, gender, intelligence, education or profession.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The Proliferation of Trauma Types and Trauma Culture In recent years, hashtags featuring trauma trend regularly on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube as influencers and mental health advocates spread bite-sized educational content that resonates with a broad and increasingly younger audience.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Breaking a person’s bones continuously to see how long it would take before they would never heal again, for example, but Whitaker describesmany other unthinkable experimentsthat would make anyone with a conscience squirmat the depths of cruelty an educated person can inflict on another human being.

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Pharmaceuticals Hospitality Education Personality disorders 112

Mad in America

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Mandatory reporting policies force administrators and educators to report suicidal risk factors to the school’s crisis response staff , many of whom are School Resource Officers (commissioned law enforcement officers placed in schools with sworn authority to make arrests). But interventions for students like me frequently backfire.

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Aging and mental health Technology Legal Education 105

Mad in America

APRIL 30, 2024

When I explain such simple things to lay people, some of them having no education at all, they always understand me. Tea said she wanted to interview me, but I shall decline. It can only go wrong. But journalists? They must be among those with the lowest intelligence of all trades.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 6, 2023

For the most part, parents put pressure on their children to succeed academically because they understand that education equals opportunity, and they want their children to have a better life. It seemed like she was more concerned about Patrick’s being able to focus in order to get good grades than his emotional well-being.

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Parenting styles Eating disorders Education Adolescent mental health 115

Center for Integrative Psychiatry

MARCH 2, 2025

In 2025, as mental health awareness continues to grow, counseling is playing a more prominent role in education. This blog explores the top 10 benefits of counseling for students, highlighting how it enhances mental well-being, academic success, and overall personal growth. Why is mental health important for college students?

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 12, 2023

I was also his case manager—which meant that because Liam was designated with special education needs, I kept track of all his academic progress, helped his teachers work effectively with him to meet the goals in his Individualized Education Program (IEP), and checked in with him on a regular basis. Instant Help Books, Oakland.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 2, 2023

In this blog, he discusses withdrawal and how to taper off psychiatric drugs. What we need more than anything else in psychiatry are withdrawal clinics, with easy and quick access free of charge, and education about the harmful effects of psychiatric drugs, how to stop them, and above all: How to avoid starting them.

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Sleep and mental health Legal Pharmaceuticals Hospitality 140

Mad in America

AUGUST 1, 2024

They are willing to entertain my conjecture and have meaningful conversations where they have both educated me as well as seriously considered the observational and logical statements I present. Neuroscientists, on the other hand, seem to truly want to advance the field and do what is best for humanity.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 12, 2024

While the researcher had just completed his academic training to become a psychiatrist, he received no education at all on the withdrawal issues facing him, as well as more than 1 in 6 patients prescribed antidepressants.

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Mad in America

MAY 18, 2024

There is a group for collaborative practice and self-education for mental health professionals and trainees. Those groups are not in themselves a form of therapy; rather they offer therapeutic support and education. There are two self-help groups for family and friends in Athens with potentially a third one to come.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 10, 2024

I am typing this blog in the back of a taxi wending its way to the airport through the hilly landscape of Sardinia, my beautiful daughter sleeping in the seat beside me. And they also despaired that I wasn’t making an effort with “self-care” or engaging with ”psycho-education” like mental health services advised.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Recovery education: NHS-funded Recovery Colleges in the UK and similar programs in the US take an education-based approach to mental health challenges that is loosely based on a recovery model. These typically involve some significant degree of peer leadership.

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Mad in America

MARCH 6, 2025

Other deficiencies included underfunding, overcrowding, a need for unspecified changes to civil commitment and sterilization laws, improved education with a closer relationship to the medical school, and better treatment for the mentally ill in other hospitals and almshouses.

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Hospitality Trauma and the brain Aging and mental health Self-awareness 78

Mad in America

JUNE 13, 2024

In the last few years, I have met two educators in different parts of the country. Neither of them were medical themselves but both qualified teachers and had the academic credentials to be recognised as experts in education. Both were involved in teaching medical students and/or doctors.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Being adequately educated about psychiatric drugs means knowing enough about what they’re prescribing to give patients the opportunity to provide informed consent to treatment. But why would prescribers knowingly push users into harm’s way by overprescribing drugs known to have dangerous side effects, including dependence?

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 21, 2024

Without this knowledge, any diagnosis is merely an educated guess, and any treatment risks being misguided. If psychiatry is to truly help people, it needs to move beyond its current framework. Comprehensive understanding of a persons lifeincluding their biology, environment, and experiencesis essential.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

In particular, patients with lower educational backgrounds or limited language skills have trouble deciphering the often overly intellectualized questions—unsurprising given that the vast majority of measures are written and developed by highly educated, middle-class, and often white academics.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 17, 2024

As these institutions have little incentive for change, it is time governments step up and start investing in more research into the medicalized narrative and push for more market control and guidelines on psycho-education. S.te.meerman@rug.nl

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Child Mind Intitute

AUGUST 23, 2024

Watch the Recording On August 20, over 950 viewers tuned in as Dave Anderson, PhD , vice president of public engagement and education at the Child Mind Institute, moderated a roundtable discussion on what the research says about the perils and promise of social media for our kids.

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