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Many of those who experience AI psychosis have no psychiatric diagnosis, but were experiencing stressors, isolation, and lack ...

From The Minnesota Star Tribune by Carl Elliot. "For over six years, I and a group of colleagues tried to get an ...

Whether in Nazi fascism, Soviet totalitarian communism, or U.S. corporate capitalism, psychiatry has been an enabler of the ...

Tangible Intangibilities: Sera writes here to share her thoughts on how the language we choose and our apparent need to concretize the inherently complex is leading to violations of rights and ...

MIA Research News Team: Ayurdhi Dhar is a spotlight interviewer for Mad in America. She does some professoring (at the University of West Georgia) and academic writing, but mostly likes to be known ...

Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD has published more than 100 papers in the top five general medical journals and his scientific works have been cited over 150,000 times. He has published several books relevant ...

Limiting someone’s dreams based on a professional opinion of what is possible for people with serious mental illnesses is ...

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A new brief report published in JAMA Psychiatry finds that the instructions for the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ), a ...

Today is my birthday. My first birthday, which takes place after the huge break that has been going through my life since ...

The focus on crisis work displaces our attention and resources onto the symptomatic rather than the essential issues.