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 ...

Mad Law and Human Rights: An attorney and psychiatric survivor, Tina Minkowitz writes on the new perspectives in human rights law that emerged in the work done by users and survivors of psychiatry on ...

"That was always my worst symptom with everything that had to do with withdrawal: the fear, the terror. It's something unimaginable." Welcome to the Mad in America ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As a child, the system failed me. I was mercilessly bullied in elementary school. I had almost no friends for many years, and it imprinted on me that I was not adequate. I tried very hard to conform ...

Emerging from the crisis that transformed my life in 1990 was the hardest thing I’ve ever done. The brutal re-entry into consensus reality involved a sacrifice I couldn’t articulate, and the loss ...

A systematic review links stigma, stereotypes, and healthcare system pressures to missed physical diagnoses, while raising questions about the overlooked role of psychiatric drug-related harms.