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...
Facing the truth about World Mental Health Day
Eight years ago, on World Mental Health Day 2017, I wrote a piece for Mad in America called World Mental Health Day - Challenging...
Trauma-Informed Care and the PTMF: How Does It Work in Practice?
First published on Mad in America on 29th September 2025
The program reduced self-harm, seclusion, and restraint. Now we have a better idea of how...
“Something Always Felt Off” – Stripping Suffering from Context in Clinical Work
Discover how mainstream psychology individualizes pain while ignoring caste, class, gender, and cultural realities in South Asian contexts.
Editor's note: this blog was first published...
Frozen in an eternal now – the agony of being a carer
Filing papers, picking apples.
There were two things – one big and one small – that I’d never managed to get done in all the...