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It is not possible to diagnose anosognosia in schizophrenic patients on brain...
by Critical Psychiatry As I mentioned in my previous post there has been a clash between Sandra Steingard and E Fuller Torrey about anosognosia in schizophrenia. Where they are both agreed is that it...
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Szasz and Beyond: The Spiritual Promise of the Mad Pride Movement
by MadinAmerica Dedicated to the memory of Thomas Szasz In 1961 The Myth of Mental Illness by psychiatrist Thomas Szasz was published. No one knew it then but it would turn out to be one of the most...
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Exporting Depression
When people ask me how I began working on my last book, Crazy Like Us, I tell them about meeting Dr. Laurence Kirmayer at McGill University back in 2005. He took time one afternoon to tell me a...
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The Problem with PTSD
The Invention of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder When PTSD entered the psychiatric nomenclature in 1980, it did so at a time when psychiatry had been remedicalized, all remnants of its former...
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The Intersection Between “Race” and “Mental Illness”
The words “race” and “mental illness” appear in quotations here because these words signify constructs that inform us that physical features make us different and that some differences are diseases. I...
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What is Critical Psychiatry?
Over the last twenty years there has emerged a body of work that questions the assumptions that lie beneath psychiatric knowledge and practice. This work, appearing as academic papers, magazine...
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Pinball Wizards and the Doomed Project of Psychiatric Diagnosis
The imminent publication of DSM-5 (due to appear in May) is a call to action for those concerned about the role of diagnosis in psychiatry. A number of campaigns are afoot, including the Committee to...
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Components for a Good Neuroleptic Withdrawal Program
The United States desperately needs good programs to help people withdraw from neuroleptics, that is, antipsychotic drugs. From all I have seen and heard, there aren’t any — none at least that can...
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The Trouble with Twin Studies
As most readers are aware, it is widely believed that both within and without of psychiatry genetic factors play an important role in causing major psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar...
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Do Antipsychotics Worsen Long-term Schizophrenia Outcomes? Martin Harrow...
Martin Harrow and Thomas Jobe have a new article coming out in Schizophrenia Bulletin that I wish would be read by everyone in our society with an interest in mental health. Harrow and Jobe, who...
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The Empire of Humbug: Bad Pharma
Note: This is the fourth in the Lasagna series of posts – Not So Bad Pharma, April Fool and Tragedy. It will be followed by The Empire of Humbug: Not so Bad Pharma, Brand Fascism & Witty A:...
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The World According to Top Dog
What if we lived in a world where people who heard voices were respected? What if we lived in a world where if you said you heard voices people would be intrigued and asked if you did not mind sharing...
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Anti-Psychiatry and its Legacies
Panel discussion, with contributions from John Foot, Professor of Modern Italian History, UCL. Foot is currently leading a project focused on Basaglia and the closure of mental asylums in Italy. David...
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Adrian Laing: ‘I feel bitter and sweet about Dad’
The son of RD Laing has written a novel poking fun at his radical therapies ‘At university, I used to play hooker in the rugby team. Being ‘rebirthed’ by my dad was a bit like being back in the scrum,...
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Could a Different Approach to “Mental Health” Be Part of Solving the Climate...
Earth Day 2013 is a good time to reflect on how problems in our mental health system reflect deep flaws in “normal” conceptions of what it means to be a human being. These flawed conceptions then...
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Finding the Meaning in Suffering: My Experience with Coming off Psychiatric...
For the last month or so, Mad in America has been hard at work building a directory of “mental health” providers across North America (and eventually, we hope, the world) who will work with people...
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The Empire of Humbug: Not So Bad Pharma
(Editorial Note: This is the fifth in the Lasagna series of posts that began with Not So Bad Pharma, April Fool, Tragedy of Lou Lasagna, Empire of Humbug: Bad Pharma and will continue through to Brand...
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Time for a new Understanding of Suicidal Feelings
Is it really best to force someone into the hospital when they are suicidal? Do suicidal feelings plus “risk factors” really mean professionals can predict whether someone might try to kill...
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Psychology and Neuroscience Are a Misfit
Here’s the question: To what extent are the findings of neuroscience useful to psychology? Here are some of thoughts about that, triggered by the report of research that found an association between...
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Live From Sweden: the Care Homes Conference
This week Carina Håkansson’s Family Care Foundation in Sweden hosts an international conference titled “Presence and Participation: Arguments for the Humanistic and Sustainable Work We Do.” In...
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