A Relationship Imbalance, Not A Chemical Imbalance
This blog was first published on Mad in America on June 10th 2025
As a family therapist, well-trained in the 1980s, I came of age...
The Wound That Speaks
This post was first published on Mad in America on 14th May 2025
Writing was the beginning of healing. It pulled me out of the...
The Certainties of Therapy-Speak Are Contributing to Our Social Collapse
First published by Mad in America on 21/4/25
A provocative new paper argues that therapeutic culture may be entrenching, not healing, our collective wounds.
We are...
Criticisms That Establishment Psychiatry Can and Cannot Tolerate
First published on Mad in America on 3rd May 2025
For the institutions comprising establishment psychiatry, self-preservation means maintaining legitimacy as a branch of medicine....
A Reflection on “Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance
First published on Mad in America on April 5th 2025
Laura Delano and I met sometime around 2012 at a Mad in America film festival....