7+ hour, 30+ min ago  (878+ words) Welcome to the Mad in America podcast. My name is Brooke Siem, and I am the author of the award-winning memoir on antidepressant withdrawal, May Cause Side Effects. She's happy to be there and very proud that she made it…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (946+ words) Justin Garson is a philosopher and historian of science at the City University of New York. He has published several books and articles on biology, the mind, and madness, including Madness: A Philosophical Exploration in 2022. He also contributes to Psychology…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1101+ words) Recently, podcaster Mikhaila Peterson released a video updating viewers on her father, Dr Jordan Peterson, who she says suffered a severe medication-related injury. In 2020, Dr Peterson was prescribed the benzodiazepine "clonazepam" during a period of intense personal stress. According to…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (171+ words) In Freud's model, before the social or the communal comes the sexual, specifically the sexual inside the family. Work life and wider society are only addressed after this first world of libido. For Adler, human experience is always primarily social....

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (76+ words) What is Mental Health? Toward an Empathic and Efficacious Psychiatry'publichealthpolicyjournal. com A Grand Rounds psychiatry talk at UC Berkeley by neuroscientist Peter Stirling. [Click the image below to play the video] The post What is Mental Health? Toward an Empathic…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago  (1176+ words) The mental health system is failing children by treating everyday struggles as "chronic illness requiring lifelong pharmaceutical treatment," former psychiatric patient Laura Delano told lawmakers this week. "What we are calling a mental health crisis is, in large part, a…...