Part 1: Neurodiversity—What Exactly Does It Mean?
Editor’s Note: Mad in the UK and Mad in America jointly published this four-part series on neurodiversity earlier in the year. It proved extremely...
A Hospital Surgeon Falls Victim to Psychiatry
The author wishes to remain anonymous.
In 2010, I had been a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist for 22 years at a teaching hospital in England....
Finding Humanity in the Midst of Chaos – a student mental health nurse’s experience
I wrote this book mainly to promote counselling which essentially enables people to open up about what’s happened to them, rather than undergo psychiatric...
What does it mean to be an addict in Egypt? A reflection on medical...
I wrote this piece from Egypt, where the language of “mental health” still arrives through the lens of medical imperialism. Here, psychiatry does not...
How do novelists write about characters who are experiencing emotional distress?
I have just finished working on a novel called ‘The Matchbox Girl’ which is a fictional account of the life of the real Dr...