Mad in America
Robert Whitaker, Peter Simons, Karin JervertMad 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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Ultrasound for Schizophrenia: Evidence as Firm as Wet Paper
Every once in a while, I read a study in some third-rate journal about a new psychiatric treatment that, if it were actually real, would revolutionize the whole way we approach mental healthcare. Of course, you can infer that the study in q...
Mad in the World at the Mad in Norway International Film Festival
As a ‘voices and visions gal’, as I call myself, who recently reclaimed her life from psychiatric abuse and over-medication, every little life thing I do is so big and impactful that one of my friends at home has a running joke about me. Sh...
The New York Times Fails Our Veterans
On September 28, the NY Times published a short article titled “VA Institutes New Consent Requirements for Some Psychiatric Drugs.” While the article is of little lasting import, reviewing it does provide an opportunity to reveal how the ne...
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
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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...
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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.
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.
Artist, poet & psychiatric survivor exploring the power of art to transform our lives.
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