Mad in America

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Moreover, in stark contrast to the discoveries by medical researchers of biological causation for many physical illnesses, psychiatric researchers have failed to find physiological or genetic causation for the most diagnosed mental disorders—the anxiety disorders and depression—negating the rationale for the prescription of these drugs.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

For many years, I received mental health services and accepted the “mental illness” diagnoses, which I now call labels. I didn’t realize that others were actively fighting against what they call the mental health system or psychiatry. The mental health system is deeply ingrained in our culture.

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Child Mind Intitute

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The Current Landscape: A Need for Cultural Sensitivity Children and adolescents in LMICs face severe challenges that greatly affect their mental health, including high levels of poverty, exposure to child labor, violence, conflict, and limited access to education. Yet data on their mental health needs are severely lacking.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 20, 2024

And the World Health Organization has called for a transformation of mental health services to focus on person-centered and rights-based approaches. Yet laypeople, and many mental health professionals, still believe that schizophrenia is a genetic disorder. But the promised gains never materialized.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

You’re also an author, and you’ve written on topics such as aging, genetics, mental representation, biological functions, mechanisms in science, and the concept of information in neuroscience. So why do we call schizophrenia a mental disorder, but not believing in conspiracy theories?

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Peruvian reform is especially good regarding legal capacity, but it has not included the issue of healthcare and it has not addressed the short-term involuntary measures in the mental health system that are still in place.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

R ob Wipond is known for his critical work on mental health, psychiatry, and civil rights. The legal criteria to detain and forcibly drug people under mental health laws have broadened a lot, and the best data we have shows that rates of psychiatric incarcerations have been rising for decades.

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