A new international survey of 858 electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) recipients has delivered stark findings relating to women’s experiences of this controversial procedure. The paper explicitly ...

It has now been 11 years, two months, and five days since I took my last psychotropic medications, Prozac and Ativan. And I must confess that after all this time, recovery still feels impossibly out ...

After this happened to me, I know that I can handle anything in life, no matter how hard it is. Welcome to the Mad in America podcast. My name is Brooke Siem, and I am the author of a memoir on ...

Treatment guidelines generally support trying to discontinue antipsychotics in patients diagnosed with “first-episode psychosis” after one or two years of initial use, but these guidelines also ...

John Ioannidis is a Stanford professor, a physician, and one of the most eminent scholars in the world in the field of evidence-based medicine. He is a tenured professor at Stanford and has an ...

“It’s hard to get off narcotics because you love them so much—but it’s hard to get off psychiatric drugs because you fear them so much.” Today, he joins us on the Mad In America podcast to talk about ...

Why psychiatry's favored idioms may do harm—and how poetic attentiveness can open new paths to care. His forthcoming book, Healing and the Invention of Metaphor: Toward a Poetics of Illness Experience ...

For nearly two decades, I have suffered from a debilitating condition known as PSSD, short for “post-SSRI sexual dysfunction”. Contrary to what the name suggests, the condition often encompasses a ...

Spurred on by narratives that street problems are caused by mental health issues rather than by worsening economic inequities, new bills expanding powers to involuntarily commit people have been ...

The Vermont Longitudinal Study, which was led by Courtenay Harding, reported on the long-term outcomes of patients discharged from Vermont State Hospital in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Her ...

I once worked in a psychiatric outpatient clinic in the city of Zürich, Switzerland. In a list of patients brimming with troubled young women, it became quite apparent how much the psychiatric field ...

"We're taking people with brains that are working normally, and for the most part, pushing them to use antidepressant drugs which actually interfere with the normal working of the brain." The ...