The conditions that create suicide are the same as those required for toxic leadership, toxic environments, and dysfunctional policies.

This week, Mad in America examines three studies related to racial discrimination, mental health, and psychiatric detention. The first links racial From hiring discrimination to involuntary ...

The Western mind fights for justice, while the Eastern soul accepts imperfection. Perhaps when we can hold both, we can ...

Portugal is the most depressed country in the European Union. Outside of it, only Iceland takes more antidepressants. It is ...

Dr. Bhui challenges the myth of clinical neutrality, arguing that culture informs not only patients’ experiences of distress ...

Robert Whitaker is a journalist and author of two books about the history of psychiatry, Mad in America and Anatomy of an Epidemic, and the co-author, with Lisa Cosgrove, of Psychiatry Under the ...

It’s only okay to talk about mental health/mental illness if you’re actively in recovery. Otherwise you’re seen as just ...

My method had to involve some kind of loophole so that my death wasn’t technically by my own hand. Then it came to me: my ...

Kermit Cole, MFT, founding editor of Mad in America, works in Santa Fe, New Mexico as a couples and family therapist. Inspired by Open Dialogue, he works as part of a team and consults with couples ...

The public narrative on ADHD, autism, and neurodivergence is infused with scientism—faith-based claims masquerading as scientific ones.

Justin M. Karter, PhD, leads research news coverage and editorial strategy at Mad in America. He is the Acting Program Director of the PsyD in Clinical Psychology & Psychological Humanities at Boston ...

Dispatches From the Road: A filmmaker and former psychotherapist tells about making his three documentaries about recovery from "madness," and about meeting with peer groups and directors of ...