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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Less than a Week Until the Mad in Norway Film Festival!
Photo: Veslemöy Furuseth
Each week, for several months leading up to the highly anticipated film festival, Mad in America has highlighted each of the films that are being shown. There are also some exciting last-minute additions that you c...
Mad in Norway International Film Festival Film Review: 10 Days In a Madhouse
Short synopsis from IMDb
In 1887, 23-year-old reporter Nellie Bly, working for Joseph Pulitzer, feigns mental illness to go undercover in notorious Blackwell’s Island, a mental institution for women, to expose corruption, abuse, and murder...
More Evidence That Anti-Amyloid Alzheimer’s Drugs Are a Bust
Alzheimer’s disease is a terrible burden. Having to see your loved ones suffer cognitive decline is among the worst things I can imagine. And so I, like everyone else, would be incredibly happy to see a treatment that could stop this diseas...
Mad in Norway International Film Festival Film Review: A Drop of Sunshine
Short synopsis from the producers website
The story of Reshma Valliappan and her journey of eventual triumph over schizophrenia. Embodying a controversial and contrarian view towards recovery, it proposes that the only treatment that can w...
The STAR*D Scandal Rolls On
Ed Pigott and colleagues have doggedly deconstructed the STAR*D results over the past two decades, and by doing so, they have provided evidence of an extraordinary instance of scientific misconduct. In this NIMH-funded trial, depressed pati...
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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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