Mad in America

Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 2: Are Psychiatric Disorders Mainly Genetic or Environmental? (Part One)

This chapter from Peter Gøtzsche’s Critical Psychiatry Textbook has been reproduced by Mad in America. It begins. “Textbook authors are preoccupied with telling the students that psychiatric disorders are hereditary. Obviously, this gives the specialty prestige. It makes it look more scientific to claim…
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A Neuroscientist Evaluates the Standard Biological Model of Depression

This  research article  by Peter Sterling (Professor of Neuroscience) has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “Abstract Neuroscientists widely hypothesize that ‘depression’ arises from a brain disorder caused by some defect in a specific neural pathway. If so, we might identify…
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Causality in Mental Disturbance: A Review of the Neuroscience

“To be clear: there is no neuroscience to suggest that any mental function would be improved by ablating or stimulating a particular structure in the prefrontal cortex or its associated subcortical regions. To the contrary, what we know of the intrinsic organization…
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Framing Depression as a Functional Signal Rather than a Disease Promotes Hope and Reduces Stigma, Study Finds

This report from Julia Lejeune has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “New research reveals that individuals seeking depression treatment may benefit from an explanation of depression as serving an important human function, as opposed to a disease arising…
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Beyond Symptom Reduction: Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Gets Empirical Backing

This article by José Giovanni Luiggi-Hernández has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “Psychodynamic psychotherapy is a therapeutic approach that dives deep into a person’s unconscious thoughts and feelings. It doesn’t just aim to ease symptoms but also foster…
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Psychiatry Killed Tuva Andersson, Whose Problem Was Anxiety

This article by Dr. Peter Gøtzsche has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “Tuva Andersson was 37 years old when she committed suicide in 2019 in her apartment where she lived alone in Sweden. Her mother, Karina Hjelm, wanted…
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Response to Criticism of Our Serotonin Paper

This article by Joanna Moncrieff and Mark Horowitz has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “We recently published a  paper  finding that the serotonin hypothesis of depression (the idea that depression is caused by low serotonin or reduced serotonin activity)…
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One Flew Over the Scientific Consensus’ Nest—The Story of Dr. Ophir and ADHD

This article by Dr. Yaffa Shir-Raz has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “As a child, Jacob did everything right. He went to the best schools, had the best grades, and made it to the best universities. Soon enough…
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