Irish psychiatry says chemical imbalance is ‘a figure of speech,’ so – what now?
The chemical imbalance theory of depression - what was once considered the gold standard reason for why people take antidepressants, was, apparently, ‘a figure...
Arguably the worst—and most harmful—scandal in American medical history?
For the longest time, the field of psychiatry remained silent about the STAR*D scandal. Ed Pigott and colleagues first published a deconstruction of the...
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...
Self-labelling with psychiatric terminology may be harmful for youth
Despite the biomedical model’s claim that self-labeling is critical to the mental health treatment process, a new study shows that self-labeling can be harmful...
Mad in Ireland – a new affiliate of Mad in America
By Robert Whitaker
When the first Mad in America affiliate, Mad in America, started up in 2016, we had no thought that this affiliate would...