Mad in America

JANUARY 6, 2024

Ads for the for-profit therapy company BetterHelp are everywhere: on television, public radio, podcasts, social media, and in magazines. Without insurance, patients can choose to be seen for whatever they want, and therapists don’t need to shoehorn them into a diagnostic category, which can be stigmatizing.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The authors refused to withdraw the article, which resulted in a five-month battle where they needed legal assistance from their university and from Germany where the publisher is located. What saved her was that her private insurance ran out. There was nothing defamatory in the content.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

As a freelance journalist, syndicated columnist, and former television correspondent, her reporting and commentary have been featured in newspapers, magazines, and TV news outlets across the country. But somewhere along the line, they thought, well, we should get this legalized. The whole big family did. The judge said no.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

One lawsuit from about 5-6 years ago was by a man forced to undergo ECT in Connecticut and the case was featured in Reason magazine (Simonson, 2020). MECTA Electroshock Device Manufacturer Files for Bankruptcy as its Shock Box Loses Liability Insurance. We Must Not Remove Legal Protections for People at Risk of Forced ECT.

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