From Olga Runciman’s YouTube channel: “This talk was originally prepared for the WAPR 2025 conference in Vancouver. In it, I explore the role of peers in psychiatry — and the challenges many of us ...

A new international survey of 858 electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) recipients has delivered stark findings relating to women’s experiences of this controversial procedure. The paper explicitly ...

A new study shows ECT can cause disastrous health and cognitive problems, and chronic impairments across many day-to-day activities. It turns out that wider adverse events are not rare; in fact, each ...

America is in a mental health crisis; but not the crisis you might think. The real problem isn’t in our minds, it’s in our medicine cabinets. As a junior in high school, I fell into what many would ...

Coordinated Specialty Care (CSC) programs for young people experiencing early psychosis often promise to help them get back into life through work, school, and social connections. A new qualitative ...

From Mad in Ireland: The IEPA15 is the 15th year of the Early Intervention in Psychosis and Mental Health Association annual conference, and the third year with living experience input. In Psi-Star (a ...

Dispatches From the Road: A filmmaker and former psychotherapist tells about making his three documentaries about recovery from "madness," and about meeting with peer groups and directors of ...

Enrico Gnaulati, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and nationally recognized reformer of mental health practice and policy. His latest books are Flourishing Love: A Secular Guide to Lasting Intimate ...

MIA Research News Team: Bernalyn Ruiz-Yu is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles. She completed her Ph.D. in ...

Law, Alternatives and Change: Law, Alternatives and Change: A Harvard-educated lawyer and long time activist for change in the mental health system writes about law as it relates to psychiatric rights ...

Just Thinking: Jim Schroeder's writings focus on natural, readily accessible interventions for parents and professionals. Most recently, he has published the book Wholiness: The Unified Pursuit of ...

James has personal experience of psychiatric drug withdrawal and is a keen advocate for greater awareness of the need to taper safely. He hosts and produces the Let's Talk Withdrawal and Mad in ...