This week, Mad in America explores four new studies around financial stress and mental health. The first links financial ...

On hospice, a psychiatrist finally said yes to deprescribing. Once someone is on hospice, taking medications away becomes the ...

A 2021 paper on the ethics of psychedelic-assisted therapy has carried a publisher-issued Expression of Concern since 12 ...

L eaving my weekly session with an existential therapist, I find myself reflecting on the interaction. I notice a modest ...

As a mother my involuntary psychiatric treatment profoundly impacted my young children, and it was also an even more ...

The Restigouche Hospital Centre is under investigation for human rights violations against patients, reports Savannah Sawde ...

Alain Vigneau ran away from a boarding school for boys to the high mountains of France, where he became a shepherd, then a ...

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 Simons was an academic researcher in psychology. Now, as a science writer, he tries to provide the layperson with a view into the sometimes inscrutable world of psychiatric research. As an ...

David Healy is a founder of Data Based Medicine and RxISK.org and has authored of over 240 peer reviewed articles, 300 other pieces, and 25 books. His main areas of research are adverse effects of ...

Kelly Brogan, MD is a holistic women’s health psychiatrist, author of the newly released book Own Your Self, the NY Times Bestselling book A Mind of Your Own, the children’s book A Time For Rain, ...

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 ...