God may not exist, but man’s relationship with God certainly does exist, and that is what mysticism is all about.

Robert Whitaker is a journalist and author of two books about the history of psychiatry, Mad in America and Anatomy of an Epidemic, and the co-author, with Lisa Cosgrove, of Psychiatry Under the ...

Kermit Cole, MFT, founding editor of Mad in America, works in Santa Fe, New Mexico as a couples and family therapist. Inspired by Open Dialogue, he works as part of a team and consults with couples ...

Nervous systems do not calm because a policy is clarified. They calm when impact is honored. When someone stays.

Justin M. Karter, PhD, leads research news coverage and editorial strategy at Mad in America. He is the Acting Program Director of the PsyD in Clinical Psychology & Psychological Humanities at Boston ...

From MedPage Today. Dementia patients are given antipsychotics, which FDA warns may increase the risk for death. "Nursing ...

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 ...

I want more for myself than just being a sweet, docile, compliant mental patient. I want a voice and a seat at the table.

Instead of creating a sustainable environment for recovery, traditional practices often create more distress and reluctance.

Jock McLaren is an Australian psychiatrist who worked 25yrs in the remote north of the country. He occupies himself delving into the philosophical basis of psychiatry, only to find there isn't one.

Many people who know almost nothing else about the mental health system can nevertheless recount the story of the “failure” of “deinstitutionalization” in America. The story is repeated so often that ...

Deconstructing the Institution: Dr. Burstow is a faculty member at University of Toronto, and an antipsychiatry activist. She writes about language, institutional ruling, resistance, and social change ...