A new international online survey published in the Journal of Affective Disorders gives voice to the lived experiences of ...

A roundup of Mad in America's most read blogs and personal stories of 2025 as chosen by our readers.

Limiting someone’s dreams based on a professional opinion of what is possible for people with serious mental illnesses is ...

A new brief report published in JAMA Psychiatry finds that the instructions for the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ), a ...

A new systematic historical and meta-analytic review published in the Journal of Affective Disorders found inconsistent and ...

As a certified paranoid schizophrenic who inadvertently took my own mother’s life while going through my first major ...

It seems fitting that this history of mental health ends with Oregon’s attempt to grapple with the needs of children and ...

Response and remission rates failed to beat placebo in a new Harvard meta-analysis, throwing the inflammation hypothesis into ...

The focus on crisis work displaces our attention and resources onto the symptomatic rather than the essential issues.

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 ...

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 ...

Mental health services force electroshock, rarely asking about causes like childhood adversities and recent stressors; few ...