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Blogs

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What the RADAR Trial Tells Us About Antipsychotic Reduction and Discontinuation

Although the trial showed that relapse is more likely if you reduce antipsychotic medication, it did not show that relapse is inevitable.

A Psychoanalysis Lesson? Or how not to treat a mother.

In my hometown, amidst a lovely garden, sits a psychoanalysis institute. One day, while volunteering at...

Moving in and out of Psychiatric Institutions: Indian Women’s Distressing Experiences

First posted on Mad In South Asia on 8th January 2025 For Indian women, absent support...

The Guitars

Sally Paul is a psychiatric survivor who was labelled as having borderline personality disorder before...

Mental Health – An Umbrella Term with Holes Under Which We Don’t All Fit

Matthew Morris has written this blog for MITUK. He is an Emotional First Aid Trainer...

‘What’s the Matter With Tony Slattery?

MITUK is reposting this to mark the sad loss of Tony Slattery. The blog describes...

Challenging the status quo around eating disorder treatment

This article was first published by Mad in Ireland on 4/1/25 This post might be considered...

PODCASTS

One Person’s Journey from Celebrity Medical Model Advocate to Skeptic: An Interview with Rose Cartwright

This podcast and transcript was first published on Mad in America on November 6th 2024 Rose...

Why Does a Parent Medicate a Child? An Interview with My Mother

This report was first published on Mad in America on October 9th 2024 When Brooke Siem...

The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines: An Interview with David Taylor and Mark Horowitz

This report was first published in Mad In America on 21st August 2024 In this interview...

Is Madness an Evolved Signal? Justin Garson on Strategy Versus Dysfunction

Justin Garson is a Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City...

Robert Whitaker answers reader questions on pharma marketing and psychiatric drugs

On the Mad in America podcast this week, we continue our reader Q&A with Mad...

May Cause Side Effects–Radical Acceptance and Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: An Interview with Brooke Siem

Brooke Siem is a writer, speaker, and advocate for the safe de-prescribing of psychiatric drugs....