Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Published in 2006 was the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) study, “ The Naturalistic Course of Major Depression in the Absence of Somatic Therapy ,” which examined depressed patients who had recovered from an initial episode of depression, then relapsed but did not take any medication following their relapse.

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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. I think that the stress of that triggered a series of psychotic episodes and he was hospitalized. I was also put on Prozac.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Pure portrayed Rose’s autobiographical account of finding that she had OCD, a “mental illness”, and the breakthrough that this medical framework provided her. In this interview, Cartwright charts her journey of painful and lonely disillusionment with the “mental illness” framework. This was short-lived. My OCD had relapsed.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Little did it know that this incident would alter the course of the nation’s approach to mental health care. For centuries, this dargah had attracted pilgrims from diverse faiths, all drawn by the belief in the shrine’s miraculous powers to cure mental ailments brought on by evil spirits, djinns , and black magic.

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College of Psychiatrists of Ireland

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

‘Like everyone who comes into contact with the criminal justice system, people with mental illness have rights and responsibilities. In reality, however, people with mental illness are more likely to be imprisoned’ ‘We are all potential victims of crime and we can all develop mental illness. ’ False.

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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

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

M any people are traumatised rather than healed by their interaction with mainstream mental health services, especially their admission to a psychiatric inpatient unit. Concurrently, many mental health professionals carry a burden of their own trauma and are not healthy individuals. What do we mean by healing?

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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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Mad in America

JULY 17, 2024

Neil’s new book, “Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics: Mental Illness and Homelessness in Los Angeles,” published by the University of Chicago Press, offers a detailed look into the starkly different worlds of mental health care in Los Angeles. How do these disparate systems reflect our societal values?

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Mad in America

MAY 4, 2024

I n 1999, New York State passed the first Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) law, which creates a regime of civil courts to force psychiatric interventions on those found to have “serious and persistent mental illness” who “struggle to engage voluntarily” with care. What made this year different?

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Mad in America

JUNE 29, 2024

The theme of the conference was public mental health. Elites of the global mental health movement such as Vikram Patel were also present and so were eminent Indian psychiatrists, especially from public sector teaching hospitals. This is known as the Movement for Global Mental Health.

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