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Justin Karter discusses his journey to Mad in America, competing models of mental health, and how we navigate these stories in psychotherapy.

MIA interviews psychiatrist and anthropologist Helena Hansen about bringing structural competency to psychiatry while rebuilding communities.

We Need Clear Thinking About Biomarkers in Psychiatry to Avoid Bioreductionism Philosophical psychiatrists caution against simplified views of biomarkers that reify psychiatric diagnoses and promote bioreductionism. 167 Amid the push to identify biomarkers in psychiatry, psychiatrists Awais Aftab and Manu Sharma call for the field to pause and reflect on some of the problematic assumptions and contradictions that are often built into biomarker research. In their new paper, published in the Bio...