Mad in the World News

<p><img class="post_thumbnail" src="https://www.madinamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Depositphotos_153280994_L-sized-300x204.jpg" alt="The Person They Never Asked About" /></p> <p>The modern mental health system has constructed an elaborate apparatus for observing, classifying, medicating, documenting, [...]

<p><img class="post_thumbnail" src="https://www.madinamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Depositphotos_911792030_XL-sized-300x200.jpg" alt="The Hidden Psychotherapy Drop-Out Crisis" /></p> <p>There is a discrepancy between what most people embarking on psychotherapy seek and what practitioners are [...]

<p><img class="post_thumbnail" src="https://www.madinamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/WRD-300x200.jpg" alt="Four New Studies Raise Concerns About Benzodiazepine-Related Harms" /></p> <p>This week, Mad in America examines four new studies around harms linked to [...]

<p><img class="post_thumbnail" src="https://www.madinamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/shutterstock_2757120339-300x200.jpg" alt="What Psychiatry Missed: My Ferritin Level Was 6" /></p> <p>No one told me that anemia could be contributing to the mental health [...]

<p><img class="post_thumbnail" src="https://www.madinamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Depositphotos_911781738_XL-sized-300x200.jpg" alt="What We Seek in Therapy May be Lost to Time" /></p> <p>Progress removes the conditions that made skills, relationships, meaning, and purpose [...]

<p><img class="post_thumbnail" src="https://www.madinamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/shutterstock_2852406401-fix-300x173.jpg" alt="Let There Be Light: Before Psychiatry Writes Its Next DSM" /></p> <p>Very high prevalence raises a more fundamental question: Where exactly does [...]

<p><img class="post_thumbnail" src="https://www.madinamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/featuredimage-300x202.jpg" alt="Robert Whitaker Discusses Rise in Suicides Among Active Military" /></p> <p>Robert Whitaker appears on the From Trauma to Joy podcast hosted by [...]

<p><img class="post_thumbnail" src="https://www.madinamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/arrogance-of-man-300x298.jpg" alt="The Arrogance of Man by Julia Caitlin Miller" /></p> <p>Trigger warning: Brief mention of rape and suicide. Thighs soaked in period blood [...]

<p><img class="post_thumbnail" src="https://www.madinamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/feature-image2-300x170.jpg" alt="Marketing GLP-1 Drugs for Addiction: Why Critics Are Skeptical" /></p> <p>The question surrounding GLP-1RAs is not simply whether they can change the [...]

<p><img class="post_thumbnail" src="https://www.madinamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/0F704491-1CEC-4936-9CFA-6892581821CF-300x169.jpg" alt="Mad in the World at the Mad in Norway International Film Festival" /></p> <p>Mad in the World Liaison Karin Jervert reflects on [...]

<p><img class="post_thumbnail" src="https://www.madinamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/photomania-4cd105d9611f6a87263df758bedeabf1-300x195.jpg" alt="Don’t Let Barbie Out of the Glovebox – An OCD Account" /></p> <p>It’s easy to cling to my diagnosis for comfort. In [...]

<p><img class="post_thumbnail" src="https://www.madinamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/selma-300x225.jpg" alt="Psychiatric Drugs and Violence: What Can Genetics Tell Us? A Conversation With Selma Eikelenboom" /></p> <p>Brooke Siem speaks with Selma Eikelenboom, together [...]

<p><img class="post_thumbnail" src="https://www.madinamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/IMG_9379-sized-300x170.jpg" alt="Lillehammer’s “Other” Olympics: The Mad in Norway International Film Festival" /></p> <p>This was a weekend of movies, art, conversation, and camaraderie. But [...]

<p><img class="post_thumbnail" src="https://www.madinamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/IMG_9324-sized-300x184.jpg" alt="Didn’t Anyone Tell You It Is Okay to Be Different?" /></p> <p>At the Mad in Norway film festival, it struck me that [...]

<p><img class="post_thumbnail" src="https://www.madinamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/vets-with-no-informed-consent-300x170.jpeg" alt="The New York Times Fails Our Veterans" /></p> <p>Yet another New York Times article on psychiatry misses the mark</p> <p>The post <a [...]

<p><img class="post_thumbnail" src="https://www.madinamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/photomania-22ea5c50d42d4371598adf92a7a2a88b-300x298.jpg" alt="A War Song to the Person Who Told Me to Die by Raine Ajani" /></p> <p>I just thought you should know I’m [...]

<p><img class="post_thumbnail" src="https://www.madinamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Depositphotos_575407770_L-sized2-300x218.jpg" alt="Getting Rid of the Pain Before Answering Its Questions: Psychiatry’s Damage to Self and Culture" /></p> <p>By answering questions that pain asks, [...]

<p><img class="post_thumbnail" src="https://www.madinamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/shutterstock_2852279243-300x172.jpg" alt="Meeting Persephone: A Katabasis of Bipolar Night" /></p> <p>One doctor advised, “Do not listen to the voices!” Yet I yearned for them—the [...]