Mad in America hosts blogs by a diverse group of writers. These posts are designed to serve as a public forum for a discussion—broadly speaking—of psychiatry and its treatments. The opinions expressed are the writers’ own. By Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD -November 21, 2023 Stopping psychiatric drugs is often difficult. And in many cases, it is done… View Article

Mad in America hosts blogs by a diverse group of writers. These posts are designed to serve as a public forum for a discussion—broadly speaking—of psychiatry and its treatments. The opinions expressed are the writers’ own. By Lawrence Kelmenson, MD -November 21, 2023 Psychiatrists used to not put much effort into diagnosing. Instead, they focused on getting… View Article

Mad in America hosts blogs by a diverse group of writers. These posts are designed to serve as a public forum for a discussion—broadly speaking—of psychiatry and its treatments. The opinions expressed are the writers’ own. By Nancy Buck -November 15, 2022 Thought Provoker: How do you define good physical health? Do you know what to do… View Article

Mad in America hosts blogs by a diverse group of writers. These posts are designed to serve as a public forum for a discussion—broadly speaking—of psychiatry and its treatments. The opinions expressed are the writers’ own. By Ruth E. Dixon -November 4, 2022 When my daughter, Connie, was a toddler, I held her on my hip and… View Article

Mad in America hosts blogs by a diverse group of writers. These posts are designed to serve as a public forum for a discussion—broadly speaking—of psychiatry and its treatments. The opinions expressed are the writers’ own. By James Moore -November 5, 2022 “Coming off psychiatric drugs is more than withdrawal and chemistry, it involves other strategies.” n… View Article

Mad in America hosts blogs by a diverse group of writers. These posts are designed to serve as a public forum for a discussion—broadly speaking—of psychiatry and its treatments. The opinions expressed are the writers’ own. New theories recognize depression as part of a biological survival strategy. By Alison Escalante, M.D. – Psychology Today December… View Article

By Birgitta Alakare & JAEC Foundation (March 22, 2020) ******************************************************** “From ‘experts’ we have to become ‘dialogicians’, such that we can be more relaxed in our work, and find, together with the service-users, more perspectives on their life situations. The families of and the service-users themselves have been transformed from objects of our treatment methods… View Article

JAEC dedicates this Newsletter to Dr. Birgitta Alakare, who passed away on February 19, 2021. ******************************************************************* Spring: Rebirth. Since our last message, the image of the world has not changed much. It has now been a year since we learned to live with the pandemic, the effects of which are devastating for our physical health… View Article

Walking the Path Toward Christmas: Engaging, Supporting & Collaborating. Although Covid-19 hit us early this year, surprising the whole world and making humanity adapt to new ways of relating, connecting, and communicating, it has not stopped JAEC from going forward. For all of us, Covid has been life-changing.  And yet, amidst these extremely challenging times,… View Article

By Claudia Esteve Walking the Path: Engaging, Supporting, and Collaborating. The JAEC Foundation was launched in November 2019. Although Covid-19 hit us around March 2020, surprising the whole world and making humanity adapt to new ways of relating, connecting, and communicating, it has not stopped us from going forward and achieving many of our goals…. View Article

Mad in America hosts blogs by a diverse group of writers. These posts are designed to serve as a public forum for a discussion—broadly speaking—of psychiatry and its treatments. The opinions expressed are the writers’ own. By Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD -November 21, 2023 Stopping psychiatric drugs is often difficult. And in many cases, it is done… View Article

Mad in America hosts blogs by a diverse group of writers. These posts are designed to serve as a public forum for a discussion—broadly speaking—of psychiatry and its treatments. The opinions expressed are the writers’ own. By Lawrence Kelmenson, MD -November 21, 2023 Psychiatrists used to not put much effort into diagnosing. Instead, they focused on getting… View Article

Mad in America hosts blogs by a diverse group of writers. These posts are designed to serve as a public forum for a discussion—broadly speaking—of psychiatry and its treatments. The opinions expressed are the writers’ own. By Nancy Buck -November 15, 2022 Thought Provoker: How do you define good physical health? Do you know what to do… View Article

Mad in America hosts blogs by a diverse group of writers. These posts are designed to serve as a public forum for a discussion—broadly speaking—of psychiatry and its treatments. The opinions expressed are the writers’ own. By Meghan Caughey, MFA – June 21, 2022 ntil recently, I lived in Portland, Oregon, working as Senior Director for a… View Article

Mad in America hosts blogs by a diverse group of writers. These posts are designed to serve as a public forum for a discussion—broadly speaking—of psychiatry and its treatments. The opinions expressed are the writers’ own. By Tamara S. – May 13, 2022 At 21 I was happy. I had finished high school (in Switzerland this is… View Article

Mad in America hosts blogs by a diverse group of writers. These posts are designed to serve as a public forum for a discussion—broadly speaking—of psychiatry and its treatments. The opinions expressed are the writers’ own. By Ruth E. Dixon -November 4, 2022 When my daughter, Connie, was a toddler, I held her on my hip and… View Article

Mad in America hosts blogs by a diverse group of writers. These posts are designed to serve as a public forum for a discussion—broadly speaking—of psychiatry and its treatments. The opinions expressed are the writers’ own. By James Moore -November 5, 2022 “Coming off psychiatric drugs is more than withdrawal and chemistry, it involves other strategies.” n… View Article

By Natasa Arvova How can we remain anchored, aligned, and comfortable in our bodies?How can we stay sane in this time of “general madness”? Dear Friends, The pandemic is carrying us all through a period that is bewildering and very disturbing. For us, psychologically fragile people, this extremely anxiety-provoking global context can destabilize us even… View Article

Healing Homes: An Alternative, Swedish Model for Healing Psychosis. Healing Homes is a program that, in this era of multi-drug cocktails and psychiatric diagnoses-for-life, helps people recover from psychosis without medication. The organization, backed by over twenty years of experience, places people who have been failed by traditional psychiatry in host families — predominately farm… View Article

Inner Fire Healing Community. Inner Fire is a proactive healing community offering a choice for adults to recover from debilitating and traumatic life challenges without the use of psychotropic medications. We are not anti-medication but rather believe in the choice to find inner balance and healing without the challenging side effects of psychotropic medications. With… View Article