3+ hour, 40+ min ago  (165+ words) Mad In America From Mad in Norway: The extensive use of forced medication in Norway should worry everyone, as long as we do not know for sure whether we are doing more harm than good. This article was first published…...

3+ hour, 40+ min ago  (174+ words) Mad In America From Mad in Norway: The Court of Appeal concluded: Inger-Mari Eidsvik's human rights were violated while she was subjected to compulsory treatment in psychiatric care. The historic ruling was delivered on January 30, 2026, when it was acknowledged that…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago  (1258+ words) If patients are willing to bring these thoughts into treatment, psychiatry should be better prepared to receive them. Violence is not simply a mental health issue. It is, and has always been, a societal one shaped by culture, institutions, access,…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago  (291+ words) Study examines more than two decades of OECD reports to map "the systemic nature of bribery in the pharmaceutical sector." "Across cases, company employees at every level from frontline sales and distributor personnel to middle managers, local executives, and even…...

11+ mon, 1+ week ago  (244+ words) A new Lancet Psychiatry article argues that the brain-disease model of addiction lacks empirical support and obscures the social causes of substance use. Substance addiction is commonly described as a "chronic, relapsing brain disease," both in scientific and public discourse,…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago  (66+ words) Mad In America A Grand Rounds psychiatry talk at UC Berkeley by neuroscientist Peter Stirling. [Click the image below to play the video] LEAVE A REPLY Cancel reply Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago  (1499+ words) Adam J Sacks currently serves as a Lecturer for the School of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong. He has published two short books of cultural criticism, one on Parsifal (2021) and the other on the Passion Play of Oberammergau…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago  (792+ words) New studies reveal how hospital conditions drive coercion, while patients report lasting harm and human rights concerns. Germany saw the sharpest rise in involuntary psychiatric detention with a 36. 8%, followed by Swtizerland (26. 8%), and Norway (12. 4%). Involuntary detention fell slightly in England (1. 2%), Austria…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago  (865+ words) It would mean that everything The System did to me was a lie. It would mean that my thirteen years trapped there were important, formative years I could have spent living a "normal life" like the other kids did. It would…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (795+ words) Cathal is an Associate Professor in Practice of Pharmacy at Trinity College. His research focuses on developing supports to help people make informed decisions about starting and stopping psychiatric medication. He was recently involved in a priority setting partnership to…...