From CBC News. "Elements of British Columbia's involuntary care regime that allow forced psychiatric treatment, regardless of a person's capacity to make ...

I never made the direct connection between my gut and how anxiety created physical problems! Why did not one single medical ...

This week Mad in America explores three new studies related to increasing psychiatric stimulant use. The first finds that psychiatric drug use among US Evidence from Canada, Australia, and the United ...

Former FDA officials write that claims that the black warning led to an increase in youth suicides are "factually inaccurate.

Last March, a group of beaming politicians with shovels posed for a photo-op at a ground breaking ceremony on the 110-year-old campus of Metropolitan State Hospital in Norwalk, California. Governor ...

From Mad in Finland: A memory from the 1990s. The back seat of a car, maybe some sun on the velvet upholstery, ice cream stains, strawberry-flavored lip balm, and a song on the radio, the lyrics of ...

Cult dynamics operate on a precise psychological blueprint: the monopolization of power and control. By deliberately isolating the individual, enforcing rigid binaries, and pathologizing any form of ...

Mad in the Netherlands: When I (Sara) was six, my father died. My mother could no longer take care of us after that, and I ended up in special youth care (Belgium). For more than ten years, I went ...

From Mad in Sweden: In a personal and reflective essay, Christoffer Kalfjäll describes how a deep existential crisis led him from self-blame to questions about the systems that shape people’s lives.

From Mad in Norway: When Mad in Norway brings together professionals and user experience experts for a seminar on December 5, it takes place in the midst of an escalating debate about the validity of ...

Justin M. Karter, PhD, leads research news coverage and editorial strategy at Mad in America. He is the Acting Program Director of the PsyD in Clinical Psychology & Psychological Humanities at Boston ...

Micah is part-time faculty in psychology at Point Park University. He holds a Ph.D. in Psychology: Consciousness and Society from the University of West Georgia. His interests include humanistic, ...