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 ...
Medical organizations and the media dismiss the experts and the large body of research telling of fetal harm from exposure to SSRIs during pregnancy. Augmenting with antipsychotics was no better at ...
Steven Morgan, who was well known for his activist efforts in challenging conventional psychiatry, which included writing for Mad in America, recently passed away, at age 45. We would like to share ...
A new article published in Health Expectations finds that people withdrawing from psychiatric drugs often experience difficult withdrawal symptoms, a lack of support, trouble finding tapering ...
“Just write a list. It’s easy for somebody of your calibre. You could write a list right now.” The last words she heard from the psychiatrist’s mouth as she tried to stand and gather her belongings ...
I recently got a chance to read Laura Delano’s memoir “Unshrunk” which tells the moving story of one young women’s mental suffering, her eventual recovery, and her relationship to the psychiatric ...
New study in Brazil, China, and Turkey finds higher trauma among people at clinical high risk, with patterns that differ by country. A new article set to appear in the Asian Journal of Psychiatry ...
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