Escaping the Hell of Protracted Withdrawal Syndrome
Editor's note: first published on Mad in America 2nd August 2024
During my university studies in cognitive science and neurobiology, during psychiatry classes when SSRIs...
Review of “Beyond Reason. Chronicle of a personal experience of madness”
This book review is reprinted from Mad in Argentina. 'Beyond reason', with a foreword by RD Laing, was published in 1964 and describes the...
The Dying of the Light: Norway’s “Medication-Free” Services for Psychotic Patients Are Fading Away
Editor's note: this was first published by Mad in America on 27th July
In 2015, when Norway’s Minister of Health, Brent Høie, ordered the country’s...
Rethinking ‘Schizophrenia’
Why recovery & open dialogue work
This article explores the work of David Cooper (1931-1986), a South African-born psychiatrist who made significant contributions to the...
The Clinical, Social, and Cultural Harm of an Iatrogenic Psychiatry
Editor's note: this post was first published on Mad In America on August 3rd 2024
The harm caused by the medical profession is called iatrogenesis, and...