Voice hearing might be conceptualised as reflecting disowned or dissociated aspects of self, often occurring as a result of life events.

I don't think I can describe or understand what a paradigm shift in psychiatry should be like and what the reality of a new ...

This article summarizes and expands on the original narrative published at the link above, adapting it to the Italian context ...

The following is Irit’s Mad Pasts, Mad Prescence conference talk, as she wrote it: In 1978, when I was 20 years old, I had ...

James Barnes is a psychotherapist, lecturer and writer, with a background in post-Freudian psychoanalysis and philosophy. His core interests are in relational, intersubjective models of psyche and the ...

Iam a healthy person, but the mental health system made me sick. From the age of 30 to 36—a time when one is still young but is maturing and developing as an adult—I fell prey to a network that seemed ...

From Mad in Ireland: A new MyUpLift public petition by Health Stores Ireland, “Save Our Supplements,” is calling on Irish public representatives to scrutinise proposed EU regulations that campaigners ...

And so long as you haven’t experienced this: to die and so to grow, you are only a troubled guest on the dark earth. —Goethe When I took my first shame-filled walk to the campus therapist’s office on ...

Before I was a psychiatrist, I was a psychiatric patient. I remember sitting in waiting rooms, waiting to see the next psychiatrist with a pit in my stomach, not knowing whether my suffering would be ...

From The Bulwark. “The Trump administration has made clear that it wishes to purge America of some of its undesirables. That includes, for instance, deporting 100 million people (a third of the ...

One of the largest environmental disasters in history was the BP oil spill in 2010. An oil rig exploded off the Louisiana coast. Eleven workers were killed, and oil flowed for 87 days until the well ...

From Mad in Denmark: This article is about Marius Romme, the importance of the voice-hearing network, and why this story remains important. When the news of Marius Romme’s death broke, I was reminded ...