Mad in America
Robert Whitaker, Karin Jervert, Peter SimonsMad in America is a media forum for rethinking psychiatry. On Substack, we publish blogs by Robert Whitaker and Mad in America editors.
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Mad in Norway International Film Festival Film Review: Life After You
Synopsis
In this documentary, we meet four of the approximately 6,500 people who become bereaved by suicide every single year in Norway. The impact of a loved one’s suicide changes lives and also significantly increases the risk that the b...
Mad in Norway International Film Festival Film Review: Love and Mercy
Short synopsis from IMDb
In the 60s, Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson struggles with emerging psychosis as he attempts to craft his avant-garde pop masterpiece. In the 80s, he’s a broken, confused man under the 24-hour watch of shady t...
New Device for PTSD Being Sold to Veterans—No Evidence Provided to the Public
The FDA has granted marketing authorization for a new device, Modius Spero, for treating PTSD in adults. Yet the FDA didn’t provide the public with the data from the study that is said to prove its effectiveness, and media coverage of the F...
The Psychiatric Fraud That is a Plague on Us All
On May 24, The New York Times published an article by Ellen Barry that told of how Robert Kennedy Jr.’s effort to rein in the prescribing of antidepressants had “shaken psychiatry.” However, the HHS initiative is being framed as arising fro...
Mad in Norway International Film Festival Film Review: Medicating Normal
Short synopsis from the films website
Millions of people worldwide are physically dependent on common psychiatric drugs. Although these may help some people in the short term, they also cause dangerous side effects and damage with long-ter...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Robert Whitaker is the publisher of the Mad in America webzine, and the author of two books about the history of psychiatry, Mad in America and Anatomy of an Epidemic, and the coauthor of Psychiatry Under the Influence.
Artist, poet & psychiatric survivor exploring the power of art to transform our lives.
Mad in America Editor/Science Writer. Peter comes from a background in the humanities. Before earning a graduate degree in psychology, he studied English, philosophy, and art.
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