Kamaldeep Bhui joins us to challenge the myth of clinical neutrality, arguing that culture informs not only patients’ experiences of distress but also clinicians’ judgments about what counts as ...

It’s only okay to talk about mental health/mental illness if you’re actively in recovery. Otherwise you’re seen as just ...

The public narrative on ADHD, autism, and neurodivergence is infused with scientism—faith-based claims masquerading as scientific ones.

My method had to involve some kind of loophole so that my death wasn’t technically by my own hand. Then it came to me: my ...

From Aeon: "Virtually everything you think you know about psychopathy has been thoroughly debunked. Why does this zombie idea live on? In modern science, ...

This week Mad in America examines three studies around art therapy and art-based interventions for mental health issues. Two studies reported on the lived Studies find art-based interventions can be ...

This week, Mad in America examines three articles around peer support in mental healthcare settings, including the creation ...

Although there are compassion-based alternatives, they often rely on community or private funding to sustain themselves. In addition, in my experience, many providers seem to be unaware of these ...

Convincing a jealous partner that they have a mental illness sounds like gaslighting, but to JAMA Psychiatry, it's science.

I didn't want a diagnosis to be put on meds, I wanted a diagnosis in order to validate the pain I was in and to be taken seriously by the adults around me.

Those of us who agree with Szasz that “mental illness” is a myth will often put quotes around the term to bring attention to its problematic nature. Should we also be bringing attention to the ...

Mental health "epidemics" dominate public discourse, with increasing rates of diagnoses of anxiety, depression, autism, bipolar disorder and ADHD, to name a few examples. At the same time, the Western ...