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Innovative mental health service shut down – despite expert report stating it should be...
A pioneering community mental health service in West Cork has been shut down - even though a report obtained by Mad in Ireland found it should be upscaled across the Health Service Executive (HSE)...
Music, the rhythm of the soul
Welcome once again to Mad in Irelands podcast series ‘Fields of Healing’. This time around we visit the world of music and rhythm as a field or landscape of and for healing. Music is...
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Call for research participants for international online survey on electroconvulsive therapy
If you are at least 18 years old and have had ECT, other than the...
Researchers: Depression is “a normal brain responding to stress or adversity”
Moncrieff et al. write, “There is abundant evidence that it is the context of our...
Bob Whitaker on Bressie podcast: “I’m saying to the Irish people, please lead us out of this wilderness”
Mad in America founder Bob Whitaker featured on a top podcast this week- Niall Breslin's...
Innovative mental health service shut down – despite expert report stating it should be scaled up
A pioneering community mental health service in West Cork has been shut down - even...
Legitimacy and ethics of coercion in mental health questioned in new paper
Mad in Ireland recently wrote about the need for a real change in our mental...
From Mad in America
Adverse Childhood Experiences Dramatically Increase Depression Risk
Mood Disorder Handbooks Perpetuate Psychiatric Myths, Present Barriers to Systemic Thinking
Is Madness an Evolved Signal? Justin Garson on Strategy Versus Dysfunction
Open-Door Psychiatric Wards Do Not Increase Coercive Practices or Violence
For Teen Girls, Rare Psychiatric Disorders Spread Like Viruses on Social Media
Focusing on Trauma and Involving Families in Care Could Help Prevent Early Death
Antidepressants No Better Than Placebo for About 85% of People
RESEARCH
Led by researchers in Trinity College Dublin, the PROTECT Study, seeks to identify priorities for future research on reducing and stopping psychiatric medications. Interested parties take a survey on questions that users would like to see addressed. Take the survey here.