Tag: psychosocial disability
Pathogenic Societies and Collective Madness: A Critical Look at Normalcy
This post was originally published on Mad in the UK and can be accessed here.
Although experiences...
The Geopolitics of Indigenous Trauma
Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair. Yet they are the outcome of life in a culture where things...
Psychotherapy and Oppression: A Reflection
The word 'psychotherapy' conjures up the image of a benevolent-looking therapist, clutching a clipboard, explaining how your current concerns are linked...
Jade
One of my kindergarten classmates is a middle-aged woman whom I will call Jade. She presents a childlike quirkiness that goes...
Validating Psychosis: The Missing Narrative
This essay is written by Audrey Dimola and was originally published on Mad in America on August 13, 2020 and can be...
Supporting Children’s Well-Being in a Pandemic
In the early days of the lockdown, I took to going up to the terrace of the building I live in...
Searching for the Person in the Patient
"We had a TBI (traumatic brain injury) today in the morning and an F20 (ICD code for paranoid schizophrenia) in the noon."
In Conversation with Aanchal Narang
Trigger Warning: Abuse, suicide, self-harm
In this video interview, we bring to you a conversation between our lead...
Country Report – Malaysia
In December 2019, I attended a wonderful conference organised by Mental Illness Awareness and Support Association, MIASA. It is a Mental...
Recovery: Stressing the Social Basis of the Process – Topor, Larsen,...
This article is co-authored by Alain Topor, Inger Beate Larsen & Tore Dag Bøe and was originally published on Mad in America...