Mad in America
MAY 30, 2024
The author, Erik Rudi, voluntarily relinquishes the authority of being a “psychologist” and “healthcare professional.” I cure nothing It is not particularly controversial to say that I personally am not your doctor or healthcare provider. Editor’s Note: This article first appeared on Mad in Norway.
Santa Barbara Sanctuary Centers
DECEMBER 5, 2023
An innovative mixed-use project that will bring 34 units of affordable housing along with on-site health-care services to downtown Santa Barbara is set to begin construction after several years in the planning stages.
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Mad in America
OCTOBER 17, 2024
A vivid example is that healthcare professionals tend do classify the youngest in a classroom as having ADHD up to twice as often as their older classmates—due to their normal age-appropriate behavior: a stunning but long-known research finding that has insufficiently found its way to a broader audience.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
Economic systems are portrayed as immutable laws of nature, obscuring the fact that they are human constructs. Healthcare becomes a commodity, as do the patients themselves. This commodification extends beyond the workplace, infiltrating education, healthcare, and even personal relationships.
Mad in America
JANUARY 24, 2024
By blurring the lines between the literal and figurative, battlefield metaphors do more than explain similarities, they also construct them. As Dhruv Khullar observes, terms like ‘fighting’ or ‘battling’ tend to create a perception of health as adversarial, setting a confrontational tone.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 5, 2023
(European Brain Council) The biopsychosocial model is instead held up in these letters as an overarching solution to disagreements in psychiatry; depicted as a model which can unify all forms of mental healthcare under one church without the need for dissent or conflict between different schools of psychiatry.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 24, 2024
Vital for helping depressed people are therapist “personal characteristics” that produce a collaborative “relationship alliance,” which facilitates healing and energizes and motivates patients to take constructive actions. Seriously depressed people routinely lack the energy for constructive behaviors such as physical exercise.
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